Via My Game Dev Twitter @bloomzeye That I Forgot To Share Here 😅: “Here’s A Lil’ Peek Of What’s

that article going around abt firefox's new ad program is annoying bc it's phrased as though "mozilla has finally TURNED on its people and is SELLING YOU OUT for cold hard cash!!" when. that's not what's happening. it is specifically being implemented to discourage tracking behavior, and literally all the data they are giving to advertisers is aggregate and anonymized, which is like, the opposite of what that post wants you to worry about, lol

Concentration camp.

They built a concentration camp.

I don't think words can describe what this other than genocide.

Abdullah Haniyah's fundraiser has moved very slowly as of late. I must remind you all that he already has 4 children and that his wife is dealing with post-partum while in recovery from childbirth, his newborn is at risk of infection!!

gofundme.com

Donate to Relief Appeal: Secure Evacuation from Gaza War, organized by Abdullah Haniya

My name is Abdullah Mohammed, and I am a father of three children, with… Abdullah Haniya needs your support for Relief Appeal: Secure Evacua

Please do not hesitate to donate!

It’s tragic to me that the video games industry could be unfathomably successful and provide so many jobs if CEOs took a pay cut and executives stopped pushing for multimillion dollar budgeted hyper realistic 400 gameplay-hour 10 year dev cycle games. No devs ever need to be fired for a higher ups mistakes. Devs need to start unionizing or do something else to execs that if I said would probably get me banned.

It’s very clear that the AAA industry is in a death spiral, and as much as I would love to say “this means devs can find success in the indie space!” That just isn’t gonna happen on a large scale because indie companies cannot afford to give jobs to the mass swathes of AAA devs being laid off. And those AAA devs in general do not make enough money to just go found their own studio and take a risk developing a game with no income for years.

Tilly and Harlow artdump since Tiktok liked them so much!! 🎃🦇

Every time this ugliass staff deletes a Black blogger or a trans woman or an antizionist...I hope they explode

I am being so serious when I say: if you have the financial and time privilege to get a group of friends together and make an indie project, PLEASE do. Indie games, indie animations, indie comics etc etc

the art industries are kind of in the shitter. It’s not so much because of AI (though that doesn’t help) but because studios just aren’t hiring people and funding projects anymore. People who’ve been in the industry for decades are finding themselves struggling, and once you have a mortgage or kids it’s harder to do something as risky as making something on your own.

completing projects is hard. it takes a lot of time and effort, and most people can’t afford it. so if you CAN afford to make art, even at the risk of no financial gain, I strongly encourage you to be as resilient as you can. We’re at a point where these industries are not going to turn around by themselves, and waiting for jobs to open up again in order to get experience and portfolio work might not be realistic.

people have been making art and telling stories longgggg before we were getting paid for it, and people aren’t going to stop just because no one has hired them to do so.

for everyone else: support indie artists when you can!!!! That person who made that cool indie game or youtube animation or webcomic might be doing this full time! your support might be the only reason they’re able to keep doing it.

and if you have already started an indie project: you’re so brave and I’m very proud of you!!! in fact, drop a link to it in the reblogs if you want! 👇

how did you add those links w/ one or two words to your bio? :)

they're html links! just go to your tumblr page and click customise in the top right corner, and add this code to your description: