Wait, that's actually good

#meme@GameDEV

Okay, hear me out...

#Ubisoft@GameDEV
#WH40K@GameDEV

Finally, HQ content!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PdMtwQQUmo

#PlayStation@GameDEV
#Hardware@GameDEV
#RetroGames@GameDEV

This is devastating: Amazon is giving up on Android!

There were startups with huge focus on Amazon publishing deals to support and maintain versions run by other teams for Google Play. It was somewhat a competition to prevent the monopoly of Google.

Amazon app store will be shut down on August 20, 2025. It was initially launched in spring of 2011.

#MobileGames@GameDEV
#Android@GameDEV
#Amazon@GameDEV

Yet another issue with RTX 50: some cards are missing ROPs and can perform about 5% worse than expected. You can't check it before buying and there are no visual differences.

It was proved by TechPowerUp

A ROP (Raster Operations Pipeline) unit in the GPU processes pixel data, handling tasks like blending, antialiasing, render-to-texture, and writing final pixel values to the frame buffer. In contrast, a shading unit, aka "GPU core" is responsible for computing the color, lighting, and material properties of pixels or vertices during the rendering process, without directly interacting with the frame buffer, so the performance hit of the eight missing ROPs depends on how ROP-intensive a game is.

In addition to poor performance, heating, burning, and lack of support for older games, we now have one more reason to skip RTX 50.

#NVIDIA@GameDEV
#Hardware@GameDEV

Okay, I have a new amazing pitch for you: so you're a cat working on a tram in the mountains!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3187700/Short_Trip/

#IndieGames@GameDEV
#Cats@GameDEV

It wasn't the most productive day as you may've noticed!

#meme@GameDEV
#Bugs@GameDEV

The time has come 🐧

#Linux@GameDEV

Another interesting update about Mobile Games!

#Infographics@GameDEV
#MobileGames@GameDEV

Technicolor Group that used to have 11000+ workers in 2021 and 4500+ right now, can be closed (some departments as soon as this Monday).

The map shows locations for MPC, The Mill, Mikros Animation, plus service provider Trace VFX, as of mid-2024. Technicolor Games employed around 330 additional people (not shown), almost all in India.

Before you conclude that MPC's dramatic reduction was part of a general trend across the VFX industry, none of the four other largest VFX studios in the world saw anything like this kind of reduction. Framestore, Industrial Light & Magic, and Wētā FX seem to have modestly increased their headcount between late 2022 and the end of 2024.

#LayOffs@GameDEV

DO NOT UPDATE NVIDIA DRIVERS ANYTIME SOON

Folks, I see more and more reports regarding NVIDIA cards (both online and among people I know). The recent NVIDIA driver that came out a couple of days ago makes some GPUs unresponsive (aka Black Screen).

The same was initially reported about RTX 50 a couple of weeks ago, but the most recent driver causes the same issue on RTX 30 and 40 series of cards.

More on Videocardz

#NVIDIA@GameDEV
#Hardware@GameDEV

Imagine your save file gets corrupted so you can't walk left or forward, only right. But keep in mind: THAT'S OKAY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg5K5HZPPLs

The company asked for a Cover Letter in 2025, so in the last paragraph I hid a request to send a “meow” in response if they really read those letters.

Finally, we have a really worthy 1 hour long essay!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Wi_5nMdd4

Finally, a worthy opponent 💪

#meme@GameDEV

Welcome to Monday

#meme@GameDEV
#SoulsLike@GameDEV

Well, that escalated quickly!

#IndieGames@GameDEV
#RetroGames@GameDEV

Bridges don't build themselves, unless you assembled a complex procedural tool for Godot Engine! (GitHub)

#GodotEngine@GameDEV
#Procedural@GameDEV