When the Company Outgrows the Tribe

Sometimes the hardest realisation isn’t that a company changed. It’s that we’re no longer the customer it’s optimising for.

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When the Company Outgrows the Tribe - Island in the Net

Sometimes the hardest realisation isn’t that a company changed. It’s that we’re no longer the customer it’s optimising for.

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@ligthert well, it dod have appeal for a lot of #IndieDevelopers when #Microsoft dialed back on their #XNA program and it was quite consumer-friendly with their mandatory #free #demo.

  • Shurely in hindsight we'd all know that they should've scrapted their proprietary wireless controller and just shipped an #Xbox360 bootleg wired cibtroller or just wait a year till #Android got it's #Gamepad-#API standardized.

But it's not a #trainwreck like the #zeebo that only made sense on paper from an exec perspective, completely ignoring #piracy on existing platforms as competition!

Town of Zoz تحدد نافذة الإطلاق في أوائل 2026 وتكشف ملامح تجربة طهي وقتال بطابع قصصي
https://pixelarab.com/town-of-zoz-%d8%aa%d8%ad%d8%af%d8%af-%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%b0%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d8%b7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%82-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a3%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%a6%d9%84-2026-%d9%88%d8%aa%d9%83%d8%b4%d9%81-%d9%85/
أعلنت Humble Games بالشراكة مع Studio Pixanoh عن نافذة إصدار لعبة Town of Zoz في أوائل 2026، في خطوة لافتة ضمن سوق الألعاب المستقلة التي تواصل المزج بين السرد القصصي العميق والميكانيكيات المبتكرة. الإعل
#GameAwards #GameIndustry #GamingNews #HumbleGames #IndieDevelopers #IndieGames #PixelArab #StudioPixanoh #TownOfZoz #أخبار_الألعاب #ألعاب_مستقلة #بيكسل_عرب
استبعاد Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 من المنافسة في Indie Game Awards بسبب استخدام الذكاء الاصطناعي التوليدي وتأثير ذلك على مشهد الألعاب المستقلة
https://pixelarab.com/%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%af-clair-obscur-expedition-33-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%81%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d9%81%d9%8a-indie-game-awards-%d8%a8%d8%b3%d8%a8%d8%a8-%d8%a7/
شهد مشهد الألعاب المستقلة خلال شهر دجنبر حدثًا أثار نقاشًا واسعًا داخل أوساط المطورين واللاعبين على حد سواء، بعد الإعلان الرسمي
#AIinGames #ClairObscurExpedition33 #GameAwards #GameIndustry #GamingNews #IndieDevelopers #IndieGameAwards #IndieGames #PixelArab #ألعاب_مستقلة #بيكسل_عرب #صناعة_الألعاب
New weird grift seems to be dropping on birdsite. There's a number of these fake brand accounts for newer indie game releases, created without the knowledge or sanction of the actual developers, masquerading as official accounts. This needs eyes on it. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #indiedevelopers

@fuchsiii Yeah, so definitely not in the cards for many #IndieDevs that use @godot / @godotengine / #GodotEngine to begin with.

  • Because [not for all!] for many the #costs are one big factor to chose #Godot over #Unity.

OFC there's @defold / #defold as well but this will definitely make it easier for #IndieDevelopers and #freelance #Animators to #collab and get quite good animations done well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNDRre6q98g

Shaders Case Study - Dead Cells' Character Art Pipeline

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THIS is #extortion and #blackmail by #Google and I'd like to ask if anyone else wants to file protest at @BNetzA & @EUCommission if not file charges against #Google for said felonious blackmail...

Seriously, I hope @fdroidorg / #Fdroid and other #3rdParty #AppStores actively consider this #AntiCompetitive action by Google as an act of #sabotage.

  • NOONE can claim Google are "the good guys" when they are subject to #CloudAct and enforce #cyberfacist bs like that.

It's time for #Android to be #forked!

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So excited for all the great app updates #indieDevelopers have been working on! You make the fall so much fun! #iOS #Apple #macOS #iPadOS

Blending AI and horror? What a weird concept... that we're doing right now on this week's #gamedev stream at https://www.twitch.tv/drusepth -- see you there!

#gaming #indiedev #indiedevelopers #aigamedev #ai #madewithunity

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Tomorrow's my birthday, but today I'm finishing shrines in our crafting RPG

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🇬🇧 Here's the English version of the video – hope you like it! 🌲
This scene features the voices of:
🎙 Tim Stephenson ✨ as the servant
🎙 Zachary Whitmore ✨ as Foxwood

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