Noatak
@noatak.gllama.games
he/him
🎻Music Teacher
🎮Game Developer
🐟Play Upstream on Steam now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3245890/Upstream/
🎻Music Teacher
🎮Game Developer
🐟Play Upstream on Steam now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3245890/Upstream/
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Noatak
@noatak.gllama.games
· Feb 16
Hello there! My name is Noatak! I'm an #indiegame #indiedev based in the Seattle area, and 1/2 of @gllama.games. We're working on Upstream, coming March 2025!
I work as a software engineer, and a music teacher when I have time, but hoping to one day turn this #gamedev thing into a full-time gig.
I work as a software engineer, and a music teacher when I have time, but hoping to one day turn this #gamedev thing into a full-time gig.
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And one other thing: we’re being told that AI is the only way to make games cheaper and faster, to pull us from this precipice of production nightmares the industry has found itself in. That it’s necessary.
We put out roughly 3 motherfucking games a year, not touching the stuff.
Skill issue.
We put out roughly 3 motherfucking games a year, not touching the stuff.
Skill issue.
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
And one other thing: we’re being told that AI is the only way to make games cheaper and faster, to pull us from this precipice of production nightmares the industry has found itself in. That it’s necessary.
We put out roughly 3 motherfucking games a year, not touching the stuff.
Skill issue.
We put out roughly 3 motherfucking games a year, not touching the stuff.
Skill issue.
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The Godot 2025 showreel is out! We're so grateful for every submission, vote, and support from our community 💙
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZwE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZwE...
Godot Engine – 2025 Showreel
YouTube video by Godot Engine
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The Godot 2025 showreel is out! We're so grateful for every submission, vote, and support from our community 💙
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZwE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZwE...
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It’s funny catching wind that my posts against generative ai have raised a few eyebrows and pissed a few people off. I’d love to be able to give a fuck, but first I’d need to steal a million fucks from other people, and have a machine randomly assemble small parts of those fucks together for me
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It’s funny catching wind that my posts against generative ai have raised a few eyebrows and pissed a few people off. I’d love to be able to give a fuck, but first I’d need to steal a million fucks from other people, and have a machine randomly assemble small parts of those fucks together for me
Big personal update! Yesterday was my last day in my cushy Big Tech job. On Monday I start my job as a Middle School Music Teacher! #MusicEducation is what I initially went to college for and it brings me so much joy to be doing it again.
November 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Big personal update! Yesterday was my last day in my cushy Big Tech job. On Monday I start my job as a Middle School Music Teacher! #MusicEducation is what I initially went to college for and it brings me so much joy to be doing it again.
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I wish I could write this well
Incredibly exchange where Leonard Boyarsky says Microsoft has never told Obsidian what to do right before a Microsoft rep tells him not to talk about Israeli apartheid
www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
The Outer Worlds 2’s satire has a Microsoft-shaped problem
The team at Obsidian talks about returning to the RPG series after becoming part of a giant corporation.
www.theverge.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I wish I could write this well
“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
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All the doofuses salivating about ChatGPT extruding video game shaped slop don't understand a thing about the true opportunities of procedurally generated game worlds that have nothing to do with GenAI, such as this
"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."
Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'
Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.
pcgamer.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
All the doofuses salivating about ChatGPT extruding video game shaped slop don't understand a thing about the true opportunities of procedurally generated game worlds that have nothing to do with GenAI, such as this
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
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new godot 4.6 editor theme PR is up! 🎉
Add a new editor theme by YeldhamDev · Pull Request #111118 · godotengine/godot
Is with great pleasure that I present you, Godot's soon-to-be new default theme!
This is a 1:1 port of @passivestar's Minimal Theme, with himself also helping us behind the curtains in orde...
github.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
new godot 4.6 editor theme PR is up! 🎉
Had me real worried there for a second.
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Had me real worried there for a second.
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gonna release a video game featuring copyrighted materials i don’t have a license for BUT the original license holders can opt out afterwards if they don’t wanna be chill about it
that would go fine, right
that would go fine, right
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
gonna release a video game featuring copyrighted materials i don’t have a license for BUT the original license holders can opt out afterwards if they don’t wanna be chill about it
that would go fine, right
that would go fine, right
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I don't care to explore LLMs in my workflow, or discuss how so-and-so studio is using gen AI ethically maybe actually.
Because at the end of the day, it is being pushed and weaponized by evil wealthy fascists.
It is not, within the lives of myself and those I care about, a neutral technology.
Because at the end of the day, it is being pushed and weaponized by evil wealthy fascists.
It is not, within the lives of myself and those I care about, a neutral technology.
September 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I don't care to explore LLMs in my workflow, or discuss how so-and-so studio is using gen AI ethically maybe actually.
Because at the end of the day, it is being pushed and weaponized by evil wealthy fascists.
It is not, within the lives of myself and those I care about, a neutral technology.
Because at the end of the day, it is being pushed and weaponized by evil wealthy fascists.
It is not, within the lives of myself and those I care about, a neutral technology.
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You know what? For every RT this gets, I'll add one additional day to my stream calendar. Go follow my twitch
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
twitch.tv/grahamoflegend
👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽
and you'll get to see this Jamaican guy 🇯🇲 stream some more Baby Steps and maybe even some game dev.
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
twitch.tv/grahamoflegend
👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽
and you'll get to see this Jamaican guy 🇯🇲 stream some more Baby Steps and maybe even some game dev.
Baby Steps ain't shit for this lmao. This is the world's longest, slowest fall, and I'm just at the start of the game???
twitch.tv/grahamoflegend
twitch.tv/grahamoflegend
September 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
You know what? For every RT this gets, I'll add one additional day to my stream calendar. Go follow my twitch
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
twitch.tv/grahamoflegend
👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽
and you'll get to see this Jamaican guy 🇯🇲 stream some more Baby Steps and maybe even some game dev.
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
twitch.tv/grahamoflegend
👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽
and you'll get to see this Jamaican guy 🇯🇲 stream some more Baby Steps and maybe even some game dev.
Bluesky, meet Nod. He's 4 months old and loves to run circles around my apartment.
September 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Bluesky, meet Nod. He's 4 months old and loves to run circles around my apartment.
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consider: playing Sable
September 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
consider: playing Sable
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#GodotEngine 4.5 has finally arrived! 🎉
With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone!
godotengine.org/releases/4.5/
With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone!
godotengine.org/releases/4.5/
Godot 4.5, making dreams accessible – Godot Engine
From mind-blowing effects now made possible by the stencil buffer to accessible descriptions of your GUI elements that opens up the possibility for people with disabilities to play your game — we are ...
godotengine.org
September 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
#GodotEngine 4.5 has finally arrived! 🎉
With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone!
godotengine.org/releases/4.5/
With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone!
godotengine.org/releases/4.5/
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I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne:
hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...
Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length
hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...
Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length
September 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne:
hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...
Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length
hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...
Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length
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the only valid notepad setting is "word wrap"
everything else is fascist adjacent
everything else is fascist adjacent
August 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
the only valid notepad setting is "word wrap"
everything else is fascist adjacent
everything else is fascist adjacent
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Look at that beautiful blue sky! ⏰☠️ Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanksgiving in theaters, 12/12 on Netflix. More to come very soon…
September 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Look at that beautiful blue sky! ⏰☠️ Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanksgiving in theaters, 12/12 on Netflix. More to come very soon…
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Voyagers Deep Dive
🚀Corvette Ship Class
🏗️Assemble Ships
💪Multiplayer Crew
📡Mission Radar
🧑✈️Autopilot in Space
🛰️Space walking
🪐New missions
🎨StarShip Interiors
🧑🚀New Spacesuit
🪂Sky diving
😍Graphical Improvements
✈️Varied Cockpits
🔱New Expedition
A free update
🚀Corvette Ship Class
🏗️Assemble Ships
💪Multiplayer Crew
📡Mission Radar
🧑✈️Autopilot in Space
🛰️Space walking
🪐New missions
🎨StarShip Interiors
🧑🚀New Spacesuit
🪂Sky diving
😍Graphical Improvements
✈️Varied Cockpits
🔱New Expedition
A free update
August 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Voyagers Deep Dive
🚀Corvette Ship Class
🏗️Assemble Ships
💪Multiplayer Crew
📡Mission Radar
🧑✈️Autopilot in Space
🛰️Space walking
🪐New missions
🎨StarShip Interiors
🧑🚀New Spacesuit
🪂Sky diving
😍Graphical Improvements
✈️Varied Cockpits
🔱New Expedition
A free update
🚀Corvette Ship Class
🏗️Assemble Ships
💪Multiplayer Crew
📡Mission Radar
🧑✈️Autopilot in Space
🛰️Space walking
🪐New missions
🎨StarShip Interiors
🧑🚀New Spacesuit
🪂Sky diving
😍Graphical Improvements
✈️Varied Cockpits
🔱New Expedition
A free update
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No Man's Sky Voyagers
🚀Corvette Ship Class
🏗️Assemble Ships
💪Multiplayer Crew
📡Mission Radar
🧑✈️Autopilot in Space
🛰️Space walking
🪐New missions
🎨StarShip Interiors
🧑🚀New Spacesuit
🪂Sky diving
😍Graphical Improvements
✈️Varied Cockpits
🔱New Expedition
A free update
🚀Corvette Ship Class
🏗️Assemble Ships
💪Multiplayer Crew
📡Mission Radar
🧑✈️Autopilot in Space
🛰️Space walking
🪐New missions
🎨StarShip Interiors
🧑🚀New Spacesuit
🪂Sky diving
😍Graphical Improvements
✈️Varied Cockpits
🔱New Expedition
A free update
August 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
No Man's Sky Voyagers
🚀Corvette Ship Class
🏗️Assemble Ships
💪Multiplayer Crew
📡Mission Radar
🧑✈️Autopilot in Space
🛰️Space walking
🪐New missions
🎨StarShip Interiors
🧑🚀New Spacesuit
🪂Sky diving
😍Graphical Improvements
✈️Varied Cockpits
🔱New Expedition
A free update
🚀Corvette Ship Class
🏗️Assemble Ships
💪Multiplayer Crew
📡Mission Radar
🧑✈️Autopilot in Space
🛰️Space walking
🪐New missions
🎨StarShip Interiors
🧑🚀New Spacesuit
🪂Sky diving
😍Graphical Improvements
✈️Varied Cockpits
🔱New Expedition
A free update