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

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:

React builds were failing in India only because the government blocked a website so it would make gradle fail to build. I often think about this, frameworks can be nice but as they have freedom to pull other packages when needed it can break for any sort of unrelated reasons
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/49115#issuecomment-2634609323

Love how cats be like “f yeah this tiny grass will make me invisible”

@sinbad @on_code yeah salaries in gamedev are bad, and there's tons of talent there, it's a very punishing field and most do out of love for it.

I dunno ... I guess maybe they optimized the code? or wrote smarter code?
Remembering that gamedev era of time when PCs could barely scroll a background and underdog id Software came around and "just" made 3D stuff by approaching things differently.

I like to pause code in TV shows, noticed this Youtube ID on Gilfoyle's computer in Silicon Valley, and yeah I don't know what I was expecting

wow so Tiktok was actually banned huh. Instead of asking for a revert I'd say just throw in Facebook and Twitter in there too, globally! But that would never happen.

@sinbad interesting, I wonder if it was one particular game or a couple of them that made that fun and now the ones you are playing don’t make it as enjoyable? Or even going back to the old ones?

@sinbad ohhh just in perfect time, my sculpt died last week and I'm using a temp kb which I don't like that much. thank you!!!

yikes, you can buy a bunch of 3dfx voodoo 2 with that money.

not as well know as Moore's Law, but Wirth's law states software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster. We might get new devices millions time faster than a decade ago but things are just as fast but using more resources and power. browsers always end up using all RAM.

@bbbscarter @idbrii @sinbad I've seen these recommended a couple times, but I need my function keys row xD

The itch thing keeps getting weirder, Funko reached to itch.io admin mom about the “accusatory statements on social media”, they are likely not happy with the bad publicity, but that’s on them.

so hum... Funko has caused itch.io to be taken down, wth