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IGF award-winning game developer. BJJ brown belt. Retired online community leader. Inline vert skater in a previous life. Gifted kid to adult ADD pipeline. Leftist, feminist, antiracist, anticolonialist South African. he/him

Danny Day

There's something incredible about an academic paper using the Turing-completeness of goats in Age of Empire 2 to prove that attributing humanity to LLM's requires attributing equal humanity to hordes of Age of Empires 2 goats walking around. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514

Cleaning up some space on my dev machine and found this banger that cheered me up when we launched Desktop Dungeons: Rewind. Plaguey01 might not be bilingual, but they're definitely a poet.

New first for me: Masking at the shops, as usual. See a dude wearing a surgical mask, give him the nod of "Hey, thanks for masking/We're not insane, they are" as we pass each other. Dude stops and asks if my (N95) mask is better, I say yep and where to get them. He took notes!

This has eaten a ton of my time over the past few months across different versions. Don't sleep on Combolands!

There's a level of AI usage in game development where, if you read between the lines, the developers are saying "we're only using it to placate the failson seagull so he'll get off our case and we can get back to work" but they can't say they're just jangling keys for a bloviating manager.

Duppy Detective Tashia is out now on Steam! Help Tashia crack the case - in this Short, Sweet, Spooky, Narrative Mystery game based on Caribbean Folklore! 🔍Gather Clues 👻Meet the Suspects 🎶Bop to the Music store.steampowered.com/app/1958800/...

Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant. "A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder

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We spilled the shrooms!🍾 Just made a huge announcement at PC Gaming Show! 🍄 Shroom and Gloom coming to Early Access Q3 2026! ✨ Brand new demo now live! 🔮 Feast your eyeballs on our new trailer! Shares mega appreciated! Thanks everyone!💖 #gamedev #indiedev #shroomandgloom

Announcing my 90s Fantasy Adventure Epic ⚔️ The Telwynium ⚔️ is coming to Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2818820/... 🧙 Go play the Demo (Book 1 - Winter's Dawn) right now!