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YouCarryOats @youcarryoats.bsky.social · 17h

Add one more for me, this looks like a hella cool channel!

dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 17h

We've added 14k YouTube subs to noclip_2 in the past month, pretty much exclusively covering underground and indie games like this. Please come be part of what we're building over there.

/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · 17h

House of Necrosis by @warkus.bsky.social wears it's influences on it's sleeve. But it's roguelite loop and mystery dungeon gameplay presents a whole new challenge.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Wb...

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 1d

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...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

projects.propublica.org

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GameFromScratch @gamefromscratch.bsky.social · 1d

The awesome #GodotEngine powered, #opensource procedural 2D/3D texture creation software Material Maker just released v1.4 and it's a massive upgrade.

If you are looking for a free Substance Designer alt, look no further!

gamefromscratch.com/material-mak...

#gamedev #indiedev

Material Maker 1.4 Released – GameFromScratch.com

Material Maker 1.4 procedural texture creation software was just released, porting to Godot 4.x with a new shader system, tons of new nodes

gamefromscratch.com

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YouCarryOats @youcarryoats.bsky.social · 1d

JUST missed this one (game probs won't be ready for another month or two) - but excited to vote!

Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 2d

With over 300 entries submitted for the Godot Showreel 2025, it's time to vote. As a Development Fund member, you can help us choose the best of the best. Join the Fund and cast your votes!
🗳️ Vote: showreel.godotengine.org
💖 Join: fund.godotengine.org

Godot Showreel Voting

Godot's annual showreel voting platform.

showreel.godotengine.org

YouCarryOats @youcarryoats.bsky.social · 2d

So he's gonna do what he always does? Exploit labor in developing countries and say his shitty AI did it? Who would ever give a fuck what this sad sad man says or does?

Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 2d

Bit passé, isn’t it? I heard people were doing this 15 years ago.

www.dexerto.com/gaming/elon-...

Elon Musk reveals plan to create fully AI-generated video game - Dexerto

Elon Musk has announced xAI is developing a video game, promising that it will launch before the end of next year.

www.dexerto.com

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YouCarryOats @youcarryoats.bsky.social · 2d

Okay but here me out: what if 12 year olds outposted everyone over the past few years and chatbots were trained largely on those posts and now the internet is just at-scale models trained on 12 year old posters posing as people...

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

“everyone is twelve now” theory

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 2d

This is happening tomorrow!

Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 9d

On October 7th, learn how to communicate genetics topics to classrooms and informal settings with with @robomalley.bsky.social from @pged.bsky.social!

This is for teachers and all other kinds of educators.

RSVP for free here: givebutter.com/8TVNiA

DNA floats in the background of a texty event flyer that says "Personal genetics engagement in classrooms and communities, Learn about genetic advances and about how to bring conversations about ethical, legal, and social dimensions of genetics into classrooms and informal science learning. Tuesday October 7, 2025, 12pm EDT. brought to you by Skype a scientist and the personal genetics education and dialogue program. RSVP at linktr.ee/skypeascientist

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YouCarryOats @youcarryoats.bsky.social · 2d

Oh hell yeah I was using an old version the other day, this is great!

RodzLabs @rodzlabs.bsky.social · 4d

#MaterialMaker 1.4 (#GodotEngine based PBR material authoring and 3D model texturing tool) is now available on @itchio .
It is based on Godot 4, had a huge UI redesign and has quite a few new nodes.
rodzilla.itch.io/material-mak...

Material Maker 1.4

Material Maker 1.4 is now available for download... I would like to apologize for all the time it took, I seriously underestimated the effort needed to port everything to Godot 4 and the temptation to...

rodzilla.itch.io

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RonnieTheZombie @ronniethezombie.bsky.social · 2d

Another veryyyyy loooonnngg short. for my other pack. #indiedev #indie #indiegamedev #gamedev #freestuff www.youtube.com/shorts/4vB-C...

Scifi sound collection #freesounds #soundeffects #indiedev

YouTube video by RonnieTheZombie

www.youtube.com

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YouCarryOats @youcarryoats.bsky.social · 2d

so hype, you're the best

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YouCarryOats @youcarryoats.bsky.social · 3d

Ahhhh how did I let this slip past me?? I love doing the compo 😅 oh well, lots of progress on my attempt at a commercial game instead so that's good...

Ludum Dare @ludumdare.com · 5d

The Theme for Ludum Dare 58 is ...

Collector

ldjam.com #LDJam

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MrEliptik ⚡Hyperslice demo is out! @mreliptik.bsky.social · 3d

Streaming schedule for the week 41 👇

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YouCarryOats @youcarryoats.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely yes, unironically keep it in 😂

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YouCarryOats @youcarryoats.bsky.social · 4d

Oop I missed this! Looking forward to upgrading to 4.5 now that this is supported (unless I'm reading wrong lol)

GodotSteam @godotsteam.com · 16d

The time has finally come! Despite some data loss and other minor set-backs, we're finally rolling out #GodotSteam 4.16 for Godot 4.4.1, Godot 4.5, the new MultiplayerPeer, and GDExtension! And it is a big one with a bunch of changes plus MinGW support finally thanks to DanielSnd!

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Berrak @berrak.bsky.social · 4d

as a developer who is "main"ing Windows, this is cool as hell

scoop.sh

A command-line installer for Windows

scoop.sh

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YouCarryOats @youcarryoats.bsky.social · 5d

Probably unrelated: most of us left Twitter bc of poor company leadership leading to poor UX.

I honestly think folks are gonna get more and more fed up with leaders being publicly bad at leading and abandon their products and services. I'm sure you'll be fine though 😌

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 5d

You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works

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YouCarryOats @youcarryoats.bsky.social · 5d

Actually the most 2025+ thing I've seen all day by a long shot. love that.

Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 5d

Just got an email from Discord that their customer support system has been hacked with two case numbers that have ended up in the data accessed.

Looked up the case numbers and it's just me repeating the same question to an automated bot in eight different ways, concluding with "I was not helped".

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YouCarryOats @youcarryoats.bsky.social · 6d

reason one million I use Lingo Deer instead of the owl app... I haven't yet seen them do this shit or ship AI slop, so it's been nice so far!

Laura Sofia 🏳️‍⚧️ @taw.moe · 6d

#Duolingo stole a German cover of gnarly made by my dear friend @shisuka.bsky.social, not giving credit and even claiming it was made by them/one of their characters.

Man, I hate this company...

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RonnieTheZombie @ronniethezombie.bsky.social · May 1

Yoooooo game devs I got something for you. A nice cheap sample pack (or free if you get the... free... version) I spent a long time behind a microphone for this. #gamedev #indiegame #soundAssets ronniethezombie.itch.io/monstersound...

Monster Sound collection 01 by RonnieTheZombie

Collection of free and premium monster sounds

ronniethezombie.itch.io

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JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 7d

Hi yall
Full transparency, I talk about how I don’t tour internationally cause of all the cost of touring
Even when most of our cost are covered, unexpected shit like our plane detouring 12 hours to SFO makes us have to rebook trains and lodging
We threw shirts up, help if you can

JER giving a thumbs up on a mirror selfie wearing a mask. You can see the 30 hours of no sleep in their eyes

Picture of the tv screen on the plane. The flight map shows the plane flying from Chicago, turning around over Alaska, and going to San Francisco

Screen shot of the tune it out shirt on the skatune stor

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OpenAlternative @openalternative.co · 7d

🚀 Look who's climbing! Roo Code @roocode.bsky.social just crossed 20,000 GitHub stars! Props to the team 💫

AI dev team in your VS Code editor

Roo Code: Open Source Alternative to Cursor, Kiro and Claude Code

Open-source AI coding assistant with multi-file editing, agentic workflows, and model flexibility. Transform your VS Code into an intelligent development environment.

openalternative.co

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YouCarryOats @youcarryoats.bsky.social · 7d

Really thrilled that after screwing around and designing some light #GodotEngine systems in my free time while employed, I stitched em together in service of a prototype for a multiplayer game (via @godotsteam.com) and am seeing REALLY promising tests after just 3 weeks of more serious development!

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Tim?! from BlueKeyGames!🙃 @bluekeygames.bsky.social · 7d

wake up babe new func_godot tutorial just dropped

Very good "Getting Started with func_godot" walkthrough. Thanks for helping the community @stayathomedev.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WUI...

Trenchbroom + Godot Engine Setup - Godot FPS Series #4

YouTube video by StayAtHomeDev

www.youtube.com

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YouCarryOats @youcarryoats.bsky.social · 7d

👀👀👀👀

René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 7d

The A-Z Explainer Deep Dive took 70 hours to edit!
youtu.be/z8Y1e-TehoE

Scalable Vector Shapes 2D is in the godot asset library:
godotengine.org/asset-librar...

And on Gadget Godot:
www.gadgetgodot.com/u/svs-2d-mkr...

Find it on Github:
github.com/Teaching-mys...

#gamedev #godot #opensource

A to Z Explainer Deep Dive Edition - Tutorial for Scalable Vector Shapes 2D - a plugin for Godot 4

YouTube video by René van der Ark

youtu.be

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