Norwegian indie game studio. Made Envelope and Hex Bots. Free co-op horror: https://xitter.cf/t.co/kc092n517y
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Joined October 2022
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It's janky, it looks like shit - but man will it make your asshole clench with the power of a thousand suns.
You can play Hex Bots alone, but please, for the love of everything unholy, try it with someone else, like God himself intended. It's free, so you have no excuse.
Envelope is still making close to $200 almost every time I run a sale, over 2 years after release. I pretty much don't promote it anymore either.
We had bad luck getting big streamers to play it, but somehow it still worked out.
Tim Sweeney is speedrunning a bad reputation. Makes me wonder if his company is on fire and he is desperately trying to save the remaining ashes like he did manage before. His name is going to leave a bad taste in our mouths for years. Fun to witness his downfall from the outside
Vibe coders acting as if making a game without AI is literally impossible after decades of people making games without AI.
Some AI bros have said that if this is the case, we should also have to disclose other tools we use. Alright, why not? I don't mind listing the tools I use, I already try to do that on itchio. People have a distaste for Unity, but I don't hide the fact that I use it.
Tim Sweeney is criticizing Valve again over Steam’s requirement for developers to disclose their use of generative AI.
The Epic Games CEO called the policy “abhorrent,” arguing that developers are being forced to make a “political statement” that could be used against them by a “hate mob.”
Sweeney has been criticizing the policy since 2025, previously comparing the disclosure to a “Scarlet Letter” and arguing that AI will eventually be part of almost every game production process.
If at some point the hate towards Unity is so big that I struggle to get sales, and I get a lot of hate (like people who use AI), I will simply have to accept it or use/make another engine. The market hates AI, so if you use AI you will get hate, and you will lose out on sales.
If art is gatekept by a so called elite, would it not be the same if AI becomes the norm? In any craft there is almost always only the top 1-10% who actually have success, because supply and demand doesn't allow everyone to be on top. The rest struggle to be seen.
You'll still be "gatekept", most AI artists would never be recognized. I'd say that way fewer would be recognized, as the speed which AI can generate images would likely create a tiny elite at the top who generates almost all art we see.
I enjoy coding, I enjoy game design, I enjoy modeling, I enjoy putting it all together and see it come to life. I might be slow, and I might not be the best dev in existence, but I enjoy it. And I want to learn and improve.
If I fall behind, so be it. This is not a race.
People have been doing things inefficiently since forever and still managed to find success. I think that hopping on every trend and having to readjust your workflow every 2 months because of a new AI release is just going to stunt your progress anyway.
You have no clue how many people got into game dev because of a little curiousity. "I like this game, maybe I can make something like this?"
That's how I got started, and I was making online games and played them with my friends when I was like 13
