Beck [they/them]
@beckspace.bsky.social
I like games and social justice. Producer & Office Manager at Jumpy Bit - formerly Mixtvision Games and Games/Bavaria. Nonbinary. They / them.
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I have many thoughts about this, one is I can't help but think this is all just shining a light on how games are still being held to wildly different standards than other media like film. I've played very few games like HORSES but watched so many films like it (as a connoisseur of arthouse horror).
Humble's now banned it too, post-launch:
www.ign.com/articles/hor...
www.ign.com/articles/hor...
Horses, the Upsetting Horror Game Previously Banned on Steam, Gets Last Minute Ban From Epic Games Store Too - IGN
Last week, we reported that disturbing horror game Horses had been banned from Steam. Now, at the last possible minute before the game was set to release widely across other PC store fronts, Epic Game...
www.ign.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I have many thoughts about this, one is I can't help but think this is all just shining a light on how games are still being held to wildly different standards than other media like film. I've played very few games like HORSES but watched so many films like it (as a connoisseur of arthouse horror).
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Game developers were here first. Not executives.
Game developers make games. Not executives.
Game developers have skills & knowledge important to the business. Not executives.
Game developers deserve to keep their jobs. Not executives.
Executives are replaceable. Not game developers.
Game developers make games. Not executives.
Game developers have skills & knowledge important to the business. Not executives.
Game developers deserve to keep their jobs. Not executives.
Executives are replaceable. Not game developers.
December 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Game developers were here first. Not executives.
Game developers make games. Not executives.
Game developers have skills & knowledge important to the business. Not executives.
Game developers deserve to keep their jobs. Not executives.
Executives are replaceable. Not game developers.
Game developers make games. Not executives.
Game developers have skills & knowledge important to the business. Not executives.
Game developers deserve to keep their jobs. Not executives.
Executives are replaceable. Not game developers.
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Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf
December 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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Hahaha, right?! Or what about mandatory disclosures for the discrepancy between the salaries of the CEO and their lowest paid worker? That would be so funny, right?! Let’s do it as a funny joke!!!
"Why stop at AI use? We could have mandatory disclosures for what shampoo brand the developer uses" — Epic boss Tim Sweeney says Steam should ditch its AI generated content disclosure. https://bit.ly/4a193vt
November 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Hahaha, right?! Or what about mandatory disclosures for the discrepancy between the salaries of the CEO and their lowest paid worker? That would be so funny, right?! Let’s do it as a funny joke!!!
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If I was dead set that all games should and inevitably will include a specific production feature I would absolutely want a label so I could point to how successful those games are.
Sween obviously wants to be able to claim that all games are now made with genAI without you being able to check.
Sween obviously wants to be able to claim that all games are now made with genAI without you being able to check.
Opposing Steam’s AI Disclosures, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney Says Game Stores Should Drop "the AI tag" Because "it makes no sense" When "AI will be involved in nearly all future production"
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
#ai #gamedev #steam #epicgames #videogames #gaming
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
#ai #gamedev #steam #epicgames #videogames #gaming
Opposing Steam's AI disclosures, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says game stores should drop "the AI tag" because "it makes no sense" when "AI will be involved in nearly all future production"
Steam has actually made AI disclosures even more prominent
www.gamesradar.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
If I was dead set that all games should and inevitably will include a specific production feature I would absolutely want a label so I could point to how successful those games are.
Sween obviously wants to be able to claim that all games are now made with genAI without you being able to check.
Sween obviously wants to be able to claim that all games are now made with genAI without you being able to check.
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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Eine Kundin weniger. So einfach ist es.
DM muss das in der Kasse merken, WAS wir von Demokrat*innen erwarten.
Danke an @parentsforfuture.de für das Zitat, das leider hinter der SZ-Paywall liegt.
www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/b...
DM muss das in der Kasse merken, WAS wir von Demokrat*innen erwarten.
Danke an @parentsforfuture.de für das Zitat, das leider hinter der SZ-Paywall liegt.
www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/b...
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Eine Kundin weniger. So einfach ist es.
DM muss das in der Kasse merken, WAS wir von Demokrat*innen erwarten.
Danke an @parentsforfuture.de für das Zitat, das leider hinter der SZ-Paywall liegt.
www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/b...
DM muss das in der Kasse merken, WAS wir von Demokrat*innen erwarten.
Danke an @parentsforfuture.de für das Zitat, das leider hinter der SZ-Paywall liegt.
www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/b...
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I think Demonschool is a good video game but I think Brandon’s approach to how staff worked together and were credited REALLY deserves a lot of attention. Video game crediting is a stupid black box and transparency will help average people understand these roles.
demonschool credits all 145 people who touched the game over the course of its multi-year dev cycle AND explains what exactly they contributed. the rest of the games industry, which commonly omits people from credits entirely, should be taking notes
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I think Demonschool is a good video game but I think Brandon’s approach to how staff worked together and were credited REALLY deserves a lot of attention. Video game crediting is a stupid black box and transparency will help average people understand these roles.
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Just to be 100% clear: do not *trust* your employers - that's super silly. The relationship is economical, not based in loyalty, trust, or kindness. There's no judgement in forming a union, just understanding that capitalism requires a risk of financial loss to get companies to do the right thing.
"Unionisation efforts just signal to employers you don’t trust them"
"Just profit share"
Have you been in the industry these past three years? Some ppl just wanna marry the boot
"Just profit share"
Have you been in the industry these past three years? Some ppl just wanna marry the boot
November 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Just to be 100% clear: do not *trust* your employers - that's super silly. The relationship is economical, not based in loyalty, trust, or kindness. There's no judgement in forming a union, just understanding that capitalism requires a risk of financial loss to get companies to do the right thing.
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Company that financially benefits from selling overpriced tickets for an event tries to guilt-trip people into buying overpriced tickets for said event.
How original.
How original.
GDC is insanely expensive
prohibitively expensive
It’s sending the message GDC is at best overpriced and at worst a scam
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/gdc-say...
prohibitively expensive
It’s sending the message GDC is at best overpriced and at worst a scam
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/gdc-say...
GDC says companies that don’t attend ‘send a message they don’t care about developers’ | VGC
GDC will undergo a revamp in 2026 as a ‘Festival of Gaming’…
www.videogameschronicle.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Company that financially benefits from selling overpriced tickets for an event tries to guilt-trip people into buying overpriced tickets for said event.
How original.
How original.
Good advice in thread for all protests.
Tl;dr:
Don’t register for a protest.
Cover identifiable features (hair, face, tattoos, piercings)
Leave your phone at home (get a burner)
You don't know anyone there!
No SM posts!
Look up a lawyer beforehand and write down their number in sharpie on your arm
Tl;dr:
Don’t register for a protest.
Cover identifiable features (hair, face, tattoos, piercings)
Leave your phone at home (get a burner)
You don't know anyone there!
No SM posts!
Look up a lawyer beforehand and write down their number in sharpie on your arm
WAIT
PLEASE DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS REGARDING NO KINGS PROTESTS RIGHT NOW
For real, this is not a joke
In keeping with my earlier post, IT IS NOT A COINCIDENCE that immediately after the government makes a bunch of official bsky accounts we suddenly have a huge influx of new --
PLEASE DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS REGARDING NO KINGS PROTESTS RIGHT NOW
For real, this is not a joke
In keeping with my earlier post, IT IS NOT A COINCIDENCE that immediately after the government makes a bunch of official bsky accounts we suddenly have a huge influx of new --
October 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Good advice in thread for all protests.
Tl;dr:
Don’t register for a protest.
Cover identifiable features (hair, face, tattoos, piercings)
Leave your phone at home (get a burner)
You don't know anyone there!
No SM posts!
Look up a lawyer beforehand and write down their number in sharpie on your arm
Tl;dr:
Don’t register for a protest.
Cover identifiable features (hair, face, tattoos, piercings)
Leave your phone at home (get a burner)
You don't know anyone there!
No SM posts!
Look up a lawyer beforehand and write down their number in sharpie on your arm
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If you show up with a friend who you know
YOU DO NOT KNOW THEM AND THEY DO NOT KNOW YOU
Cover your tattoos, remove your piercings, show as little skin as possible
you are just a medical mask, sunglasses, hoodie, hat, and jeans
you have no name, you have no affiliation other than "fuck monarchs"
YOU DO NOT KNOW THEM AND THEY DO NOT KNOW YOU
Cover your tattoos, remove your piercings, show as little skin as possible
you are just a medical mask, sunglasses, hoodie, hat, and jeans
you have no name, you have no affiliation other than "fuck monarchs"
October 18, 2025 at 6:42 AM
If you show up with a friend who you know
YOU DO NOT KNOW THEM AND THEY DO NOT KNOW YOU
Cover your tattoos, remove your piercings, show as little skin as possible
you are just a medical mask, sunglasses, hoodie, hat, and jeans
you have no name, you have no affiliation other than "fuck monarchs"
YOU DO NOT KNOW THEM AND THEY DO NOT KNOW YOU
Cover your tattoos, remove your piercings, show as little skin as possible
you are just a medical mask, sunglasses, hoodie, hat, and jeans
you have no name, you have no affiliation other than "fuck monarchs"
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You do not register for a protest!
You show up unannounced, unidentified, and physically put your body into the midst of the protest as one impossible to track and impossible to surveil (via human eye OR AI-assisted camera) cell in the greater organism that is a mass protest.
You show up unannounced, unidentified, and physically put your body into the midst of the protest as one impossible to track and impossible to surveil (via human eye OR AI-assisted camera) cell in the greater organism that is a mass protest.
October 18, 2025 at 6:42 AM
You do not register for a protest!
You show up unannounced, unidentified, and physically put your body into the midst of the protest as one impossible to track and impossible to surveil (via human eye OR AI-assisted camera) cell in the greater organism that is a mass protest.
You show up unannounced, unidentified, and physically put your body into the midst of the protest as one impossible to track and impossible to surveil (via human eye OR AI-assisted camera) cell in the greater organism that is a mass protest.
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This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.
Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop
Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop
Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games
www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...
www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...
October 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.
Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop
Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop
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Game developers fear for the future of games with LGBTQ themes, which is leading some to pursue alternate (and way cooler) forms of distribution
As Steam cracks down on adult games, one dev urges taking back control
Game developers fear for the future of games with LGBTQ themes, which is leading some to pursue alternate (and way cooler) forms of distribution
www.polygon.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Game developers fear for the future of games with LGBTQ themes, which is leading some to pursue alternate (and way cooler) forms of distribution
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JUST LAUNCHED!
TheGameClub.com - like a book club but for games!
Join or host group gatherings all over the world to discuss our your shared experience. The game is just the icebreaker, the goal is to forge friendships.
Use promo code HEYLOOKLISTEN for 50% off today!
TheGameClub.com - like a book club but for games!
Join or host group gatherings all over the world to discuss our your shared experience. The game is just the icebreaker, the goal is to forge friendships.
Use promo code HEYLOOKLISTEN for 50% off today!
Welcome to The Game Club
It's like a book club, but for games.
TheGameClub.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
JUST LAUNCHED!
TheGameClub.com - like a book club but for games!
Join or host group gatherings all over the world to discuss our your shared experience. The game is just the icebreaker, the goal is to forge friendships.
Use promo code HEYLOOKLISTEN for 50% off today!
TheGameClub.com - like a book club but for games!
Join or host group gatherings all over the world to discuss our your shared experience. The game is just the icebreaker, the goal is to forge friendships.
Use promo code HEYLOOKLISTEN for 50% off today!
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Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...
October 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...
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I eternally insist: image AI as we see even is DIRECTLY a response to them flipping the fuck up to artists rejecting to fuel their digital auction gallery daydream.
August 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I eternally insist: image AI as we see even is DIRECTLY a response to them flipping the fuck up to artists rejecting to fuel their digital auction gallery daydream.
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Procgen AI peddlers and NFT peddlers are the exact same planet-destroying, capitalist, amoral grifters. We can't keep saying we didn't know. "You're standing in the way of progress", "you're against small artists making a bag", all the same unserious arguments.
This tweet aged gracefully. In 2021 I was asked to do NFTs. 4 weeks of work for $1 million. I got harassed for months by cryptobros for saying no. The project went ahead without me and the offer was legit.
NFTs were and are a grift, peddled by the same techbros as AI
NFTs were and are a grift, peddled by the same techbros as AI
October 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Procgen AI peddlers and NFT peddlers are the exact same planet-destroying, capitalist, amoral grifters. We can't keep saying we didn't know. "You're standing in the way of progress", "you're against small artists making a bag", all the same unserious arguments.
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i want to stress: i firmly believe that we, just us normal people, can push back against this global wave of censorship.
we CAN do this.
there may be temporary setbacks, lost battles, but i do firmly believe that with sustained action, we can make our futures better for art and human expression.
we CAN do this.
there may be temporary setbacks, lost battles, but i do firmly believe that with sustained action, we can make our futures better for art and human expression.
September 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
i want to stress: i firmly believe that we, just us normal people, can push back against this global wave of censorship.
we CAN do this.
there may be temporary setbacks, lost battles, but i do firmly believe that with sustained action, we can make our futures better for art and human expression.
we CAN do this.
there may be temporary setbacks, lost battles, but i do firmly believe that with sustained action, we can make our futures better for art and human expression.
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cannot emphasize enough that thinking that the pro-censorship side has already won is how the pro-censorship side wins
i want to stress: i firmly believe that we, just us normal people, can push back against this global wave of censorship.
we CAN do this.
there may be temporary setbacks, lost battles, but i do firmly believe that with sustained action, we can make our futures better for art and human expression.
we CAN do this.
there may be temporary setbacks, lost battles, but i do firmly believe that with sustained action, we can make our futures better for art and human expression.
September 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
cannot emphasize enough that thinking that the pro-censorship side has already won is how the pro-censorship side wins
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incidentally adobe is now trying to convince people that acrobat's llm can read a legal contract for you and give you insights.
please don't trust a computer with a contract. imagine what the worst thing related to that contract could be, then ask if you want to spend less on a lawyer to avoid it.
please don't trust a computer with a contract. imagine what the worst thing related to that contract could be, then ask if you want to spend less on a lawyer to avoid it.
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
incidentally adobe is now trying to convince people that acrobat's llm can read a legal contract for you and give you insights.
please don't trust a computer with a contract. imagine what the worst thing related to that contract could be, then ask if you want to spend less on a lawyer to avoid it.
please don't trust a computer with a contract. imagine what the worst thing related to that contract could be, then ask if you want to spend less on a lawyer to avoid it.
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Der Artikel dröselt es gut auf: Chatbots sind so trainiert, dass sie den Nutzenden zustimmen und "nach dem Mund reden", das reduziert die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Disengagements.
Das eigentlich Nötige, u.a. Ermunterung zum Perspektivwechsel, Betrachten eigener blinder Flecken etc., passiert nicht.
Das eigentlich Nötige, u.a. Ermunterung zum Perspektivwechsel, Betrachten eigener blinder Flecken etc., passiert nicht.
September 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Der Artikel dröselt es gut auf: Chatbots sind so trainiert, dass sie den Nutzenden zustimmen und "nach dem Mund reden", das reduziert die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Disengagements.
Das eigentlich Nötige, u.a. Ermunterung zum Perspektivwechsel, Betrachten eigener blinder Flecken etc., passiert nicht.
Das eigentlich Nötige, u.a. Ermunterung zum Perspektivwechsel, Betrachten eigener blinder Flecken etc., passiert nicht.