Matt Sayer
macka1080.itch.io
Matt Sayer
@macka1080.itch.io
Indie game dev
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December 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks
December 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.

It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.

www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
www.filemail.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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For no particular reason at all I want to share the brief story of how Talk A Good Game’s show art was crafted!

I communicated my concept (see: my sketch) to a real human artist. They said “that sounds rad!” So I sent them money.

Support artists.

Art by the magnificent @sonnyross.bsky.social 💙
December 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.

Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.

thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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It's that time of the year again
December 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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"placeholder text" "concept art" either the temporary thing you put in matters to the process, in which case you need to get a human to work on it, or it doesn't, in which case you can just as easily put a bright pink rectangle that says PLACEHOLDER in and save everyone time and effort
December 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Do Your Part t-shirt is $20 at The Yetee (today only) buff.ly/MPV1yjz #ad
December 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Fun reminder: Blow sucks.
Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness) teases announcement at The Game Awards

▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU0V...

#TheGameAwards
December 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 10 Steam codes for Simogo Legacy Collection from @simogo.com. Giveaway closes on December 6th at 6 PM PT

Game is available now for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and Steam simogo.com/work/simogol...
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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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!!!
ign.com IGN @ign.com · 27d
"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
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Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 4 codes for Tomb Raider Definitive Edition for Nintendo Switch 2 (NA eShop Code) courtesy of @aspyr.com. Giveaway closes on Nov 21st, 6 PM PT.

Game is out now on Nintendo Switch & Switch 2 (no upgrade paths)
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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we should do that
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Sure, every* game company** is using AI... but using it well? Is it actually helping with ANYthing? Or is it driven by a need to have AI deliver early on the promise of substituting for human labour because there's no other problem it solves?

* not every, not by a long shot
** as opposed to studio
November 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.

Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
@grubb.wtf Hey Jeff, you might want to check out store.steampowered.com/app/2897610/... - it's a Getting Over It/Only Up where you play a painfully unpredictable egg. Seems like your kind of challenging?
Save 15% on Egging On on Steam
This game is hard-boiled. Face the challenge of being a real, fragile egg. Escape the hen-house and jump, roll and climb your way through a farm shop, factory and other perilous environments. With som...
store.steampowered.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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“0% woke shit”

a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Everything about making video games is harder than you think.
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Elvira's Horror Bundle is $7.99 on GOG (preservation program) buff.ly/J8tRpFn
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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“FUCK AI” is turning into a movement.

After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”
November 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
@tolkoto.com I found your Mapples
October 31, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 5 Steam codes for Tales of Xillia Remastered courtesy of @gamesplanet.bsky.social. Giveaway closes on Nov 2nd, 6:30 PM PT

Game is $32.97 on Gamesplanet w/ code MILLA buff.ly/t0b4NED
October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
indivisible.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM