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Vic Franco is ✨looking for work✨

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Narrative Designer (Mika and the Witch's Mountain, Creatures of AVA) || Sci-Fi / Horror Writer || Producer 🌄🌿✨ Prev: @ chibigstudio

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Vic Franco is ✨looking for work✨ @vicfranco.xyz · Oct 24

Hi, I'm Vic!
I worked on Mika and the Witch's Mountain, Creatures of Ava, Afterlight and some others.
🌱 Currently looking for work
💫 Narrative Designer
🐐 Game Writer
⚡ Game Designer
✨ Producer
🌪️ Still finishing a lot of personal projects...
Portfolio: vicfranco.xyz
My projects: vic-franco.itch.io

Vic Franco

Narrative + Design Works

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ExaltadaLocaModerna™ @exaltada.bsky.social · 3h

HACE AÑOS NOS TUVIMOS QUE BANCAR EL BOMBARDEO CON ANUNCIOS DONDE COMPARABAN DESCARGARTE UN TORRENT CON ROBAR UN COCHE O UNA CASA Y AHORA LOS TECH BROS DE LA IA DE LOS COJONES QUIEREN CARTA BLANCA PARA USAR TODO EL TRABAJO DE CHORRIMIL ARTISTAS PARA LUCRARSE ELLOS A CAMBIO DE NADA

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 5h

I gotta hand it to whatever advertising firm Informa hired to make these, there really is something almost poetic about GDC's advertising being "an AI-looking depiction of an industry staple being destroyed with no clear elaboration of what comes after." Masterclass in unintentionally nailing it.

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 11h

A New Era Awaits!

bit.ly/3KKYUIq

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 8h

Press any button to continue

It's a controller with assorted cross buttons

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 7h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 10h

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

azhdarchid.com

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Galicia K. Mendez @srtagalicia.bsky.social · 10h

Me pregunto quién podrá derogar la Ley 15/1997, de 25 de abril y si eso, a lo mejor quizás sería la solución.

Mónica García @monicagarciag.bsky.social · 13h

Dimite la consejera de Andalucía por los fallos en el cribado de cáncer. Pero el problema sigue ahí: años de abandono, privatizaciones y falta de control que dejaron a 2.000 mujeres sin la revisión que necesitaban. Trabajamos para darle la vuelta al modelo fallido del PP.

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Galicia K. Mendez @srtagalicia.bsky.social · 10h

La solución a esto, por si no queda claro, es volver a prohibir la famosísima colaboración público-privada. Punto pelota.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 9h

I am fascinated by how ubi has welded the aesthetics of politics in its games and marketing for decades, but always been profoundly cowardly about engaging with them. Political aspartame.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 12h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Mariona Valls @marionshkav.bsky.social · 18h

Estoy un poco que no me creo ¡Que ya hemos podido anunciar el juego nuevo! Podeis bichear en la pagina de Steam de que va y como va luciendo... Yo creo que esta muy chulo, vaya.

Se agradecen wishlist, comentarios (sorpresa, no es una aventura grafica 😁), animos, etc. Ahora mismo acepto todo😂

Mango Protocol @mangoprotocol.bsky.social · 1d

🌟 ANGIE MAGICA, our next Psychotic Adventure, is in the making! 💗

Join Angie in this gourmet action adventure. Discover the power of the Wand of the Eternal Smile, fulfil the prophecy and become the ultimate magical girl!
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WISHLIST NOW ON STEAM 🔽
store.steampowered.com/app/3985430/...

Angie Magica on Steam

Unravel the secrets of Penuria by harnessing the powers of the Wand of the Eternal Smile with skill and wit while you learn delicious recipes in this gourmet adventure. Fulfill the prophecy and reclai...

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Galicia K. Mendez @srtagalicia.bsky.social · 19h

Uno de los mecanismos de maximización de los beneficios del capitalismo es la creación de escasez ARTIFICIAL. Da igual lo disponibles que estén estos recursos, serán tratados como escasos para poder aprovechar todo lo posible para enriquecerse.

elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 1d

❗ Illa promete convertir todo el suelo urbano de Catalunya en parcelas urbanizables para acabar con la crisis de la vivienda

Illa promete convertir todo el suelo urbano de Catalunya en parcelas urbanizables para acabar con la crisis de la vivienda

El Govern considera que poniendo nuevos solares en manos de los promotores conseguiría aumentar en 210.000 los inmuebles disponibles, una oferta que equilibraría el mercado

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Eva Cid @evcdmr.bsky.social · 20h

Hay tanto ruido tantos estímulos tanta inmediatez que creo que a veces somos físicamente incapaces de pensar. A veces mi cabeza es una maraña y me paralizo durante horas o incluso días. Transformar todo eso en palabras es MAGIA, es un hechizo reparador.

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Tom van den Boogaart @tom.sokpop.co · 4d

Exactly 1 year ago I released my normal gardening game ‘Grunn’

A big thanks to all of you who played it and supported me! I have received so many nice reactions since release.. it has far exceeded my expectations 🙏

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CSVI @csvi-cgt.bsky.social · 18h

CSVI NEWSLETTER: ¡Estrenamos nuevo volumen de nuestro fanzine! Siempre gratis. Edición física en eventos. Versión digital ya disponible en csvi.itch.io.

La portada del fanzine es una chica trans negra alzando el puño junto a un cocodrilo con gafas entre sus pies. Está rodeada por un aura digital de sindigotchis e interfaces de usuario.

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CarmenFFLV @carmenfflv.bsky.social · 21h

“Guys please could you stop using inhalers and die? I need to make this poster with AI..and also rich people not being able to use their private jet would make them weally sad! 🥺”

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 21h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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M.A.Serralvo #7291 @maserralvo.bsky.social · 1d

"No, gracias, yo fumo Camel"

Chuckiclampy @chuckiclampy.bsky.social · 1d

La ganadora del Premio Nobel de medicina viendo que le llamaban desde Suecia a las tantas de la madrugada, silenciando el móvil pensando que eso era spam, para que luego su marido le dijera algo así como "están aporreando la puerta, resulta que has ganado un Nobel o algo así", me representa bastante

Titular: La llamada que no era spam por la que la ganadora del Premio Nobel de Medicina Mary Brunkow casi se pierde el premio.

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Vic Franco is ✨looking for work✨ @vicfranco.xyz · 1d

en el loop 🥹💖

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Pedro Berruezo / John Tones @johntones.bsky.social · 1d

Qué resumen glorioso de la sociedad española en su conjunto.

Pablo Batalla @pablobatalla.bsky.social · 1d

Ayer en la librería. Una señora mayor pregunta por «el libro de Mario Conde». Le interesa mucho el estoicismo, dice. No tienen nada de Mario Conde. Está en el escaparate, dice. Van a mirar. El libro era de Pedro J. Ramírez. Se lo compra. «A este se lo quitaron del medio por decir la verdad», dice.

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🌟Falling Stars...🌟➡ BCN Game Fest! & Steam Next Fest! @fromthemoon.bsky.social · 1d

It’s #WishlistWednesday, and what better way to celebrate than with a brand new demo on Steam? 🎊

New levels, redesigned interface, a first look at the snowy world... and even more Falling Objects! ❄️

Falling Stars... and other celestial objects ✨

#IndieGame #GameDev #SteamNextFest

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Bukuku @bukuku.bsky.social · 1d

Pero cómo va a estar el PSOE en contra del toreo si el toreo es literalmente su especialidad, vamos a ver.

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Whatstheirface @whatstheirface.bsky.social · 1d

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 2d

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Matt the outlaw
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Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

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

lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 1d

"'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.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.

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Vic Franco is ✨looking for work✨ @vicfranco.xyz · 1d

Felicidades!! 🥳 🎉