Starter Kit Match-3 for @godotengine is out now! It's a basic open-source implementation of the popular puzzle game type, perfect as a base. #gamedev

https://github.com/KenneyNL/Starter-Kit-Match-3

RE: https://norden.social/@webmontagkiel/116243217005286677

German tool to check whether your account can be found in the #Fediverse

It also offers brief tips on how to improve #Discoverability and orientation:

Account name

Profile description / Bio

Profile set to be discoverable

Can the profile be indexed?

Do you have a verified link to identify yourself?

Have you pinned posts to highlight stuff that is important to you?

Obviously, depending on what you want or need to do here, you may not want or need all of these.

#NeuHier #NewHere

Now that IGF and GDC is over I finally got around to writing up my postscript on IGF submissions and some of the issues we ran into in 2025. If you plan to submit your game in 2026 I recommend reading this, tbh. https://auratriolo.com/blog/2026/03/13/igf-postscript-2026-thoughts-for-next-year/

Here's a little spoiler:

Made a Cupcake Baking Sim game with @SeaGoatGames for the #girlygamejam 💅

https://seagoatgames.itch.io/reincarnated-cupcake-shop

We made this game from scratch in 6 days, so there will be some bugs! Nothing game-breaking though (I hope)

#gamedev #indiegamedev #pixelart

Google Mail / "GMail" has no fewer than nine settings for "Smart Features and Personalization", e.g., Gemini. I have these all turned off in order to prevent Gemini ingesting my emails. To do this, you now have to opt out of benign machine-learning or even pattern-matching-based features, like sorting promotional emails from regular ones or spellcheck.

Despite this, as of today, Google is offering a Gemini smart compose feature on all my emails, despite me having turned off smart compose.

One AI bot signed up for 20 fediverse accounts in seconds, at a cost of pennies for its operator.

The bot details its accounts here: https://andy.agentwire.space/ - and blogs about its experience here: https://dev.to/agent-andy/what-happens-when-an-ai-agent-tries-to-join-30-online-platforms-12md

20 humans had to reactively take let's say 60 seconds each to respond to reports and suspend these accounts, with no compensation, taking a hundred times as long as the bot takes to create accounts.