Notices by David Amador (djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place)

I'll admit once in a while I think "what if I start using Twitter again?" (only Mastodon/bluesky atm), but the few times I've opened that site in last year I feel like I need to take a shower with bleach. Is the "but it's the best one for marketing games/work" even still valid in all that noise?

Helldivers 2 devs have reduced the install size from ~154GB to ~23GB. That is a MASSIVE gain! Kudos on taking the time to cleaning up this tech debt, which I guess was mostly "assets debt" xD https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/491583942944621371?l=english

finally!! the internet became worse since this poorly thought-of non-sense started. https://www.theverge.com/news/823788/europe-cookie-prompt-browser-changes-proposal

current overall state of software

Software development is in danger because nothing is given the proper time. https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse

CASIO is releasing a limited edition Back to the Future inspired watch and it looks pretty good https://hypebeast.com/2025/10/back-to-the-future-casio-ca-500webf-calculator-watch-collaboration-release-info

Nintendo is re-releasing the Virtual Boy, which can be used with the Switch 1 or 2 for a screen.

Limbo and INSIDE are getting delisted from GoG, no reason given. Since it's one of the few places (only one?) we can get it DRM-free, now's the best chance to get them. https://www.gamesradar.com/games/platformer/while-its-creators-are-in-a-very-public-legal-feud-legendary-puzzle-platformers-inside-and-limbo-are-being-removed-from-a-pc-storefront/

lmao. honestly I only opened this article because I wanted to see what he ditched YouTube for and I’m not sure what I was expecting.

Millions of books were destroyed in the process of scanning them to feed “AI” databases. You have no idea how upset this makes me. I love books, they kept me company during my childhood/teen years while figuring out myself (although still am) https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/

What the heck I didn’t know this was a thing!! https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/06/physical-collectors-should-plug-in-switch-3ds-and-vita-game-cards-every-5-10-years-to-avoid-data-loss

There was a time in Hollywood where all the movies would solve a problem with “let’s Nuke it”.
Earth core stopped? Bomb
Asteroid? Bomb
Sun dying? Bomb
Aliens? Bomb

So this looked like the plot of one of those movies tbh

Ohh I get it now

https://www.theverge.com/news/673938/gabe-newell-valve-founder-brain-computer-interface-first-chip-starfish

Rockstar confirmed GTA 6 is launching May 26 2026. So still a year out. https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/258aa538o412ok/grand-theft-auto-vi-is-now-coming-may-26-2026

wow exciting news, Apple engineering team is now contributing to Godot by adding native VisionOS support. https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/105628

SNES also had a mouse joycon. speaking of which, I hope they make a new Mario Paint

Ohhh nice they got Paul Rudd to do a new Nintendo commercial, addressing the old one right away was a nice touch

SNES 1991 commercial: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xYhGL5y4DPQ

Switch 2 2025 commercial: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3uGXvdbL1ys

Why does everything has to be a battle royale/moba/season pack/etc these days.

They could be making
a new Rayman, a new ZombieU, a new Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, Might and Magic, Driver, Red Steel. There’s more genres they could revisit/revitalize

https://www.pcgamesn.com/ubisoft/battle-royale-game-apex-legends-rival

8-9 years ago during a live round-table, I said that game devs had a social responsibility especially towards children, to not put gambling-money-related spending incentive in videogames; and it was dismissed. I was right, this kind of stuff isn't good.

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/almost-19-of-japanese-people-in-their-20s-have-spent-so-much-money-on-gacha-they-struggled-with-covering-living-expenses-survey-reveals/

needed to record a quick audio and didn't had anything at hand so I thought "good old windows voice recorder, that will do it"
The voice recorder: