@Techmeme@techhub.socialAt TrustCon 2025, trust and safety professionals expressed anxiety over the industry's retreat, but no leaders condemned platforms' rollback of safety policies (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/trustcon-trust-safety-leadership-decline-20…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaWhen I was little, I felt there was something massive and cosmic about the Hampster Dance song, like a hymn still sung centuries later, like the seasonal chants of an uncontacted tribe. My first exposure to it was its use in the Scratch platformer series "Cube World", this game where important characters go to space and tragically die, this game that no longer functions due to all the updates since Scratch 1.4.
![[The next Cube World will be released in February 2010, so please stop asking]
The Second Last Cube World Game. Join Cube Guy's son as he goes into space to find his dad. This will be the hardest, scariest, and saddest Cube World Ever...
P.S. Don't forget to click on the planet on the main menu...](https://cdn.social.linux.pizza/system/media_attachments/files/115/141/448/745/784/319/original/5b49d5579de553cf.png)
@ayn@trunk.lolThis is amazing. https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114970908518687748
@mho@social.heise.deAnother publication has arrived in the #Fediverse:
@… (#Platformer) is here, thanks to #Ghost
@Techmeme@techhub.socialxAI's Grok is rated for kids age 12 and up in the iOS App Store, despite adding "companions"; one includes an NSFW "Bad Rudy" mode and the other becomes NSFW (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/grok-ani-app-store-rating-nsfw-…
@scott@carfree.citythis potential — for AI companies to tweak their chatbots to give pro-Trump answers to appease MAGA — is one of the reasons I'm avoiding LLMs as a political practice. they are inherently extremely centralized, requiring massive resources to crawl data and train. to become dependent on such products is to subject ourselves to the owners' power. this is just one of the ways that can go disastrously wrong
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaSeedlings (XPd on PC)
There's some strange new forms of life in the New Zealand forests, take control of one and explore.
So this is a short puzzle platformer with a neat catch: most of what you'll see on the screen are images captured directly from the forests of New Zealand. Using real images as a backdrop is certainly not a new idea, but it's used remarkably well here.
The gameplay is simple enough: as an apparently sentient seed, you are tasked with travers…
@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.placeÖoo is a novel puzzle platformer where you can't jump, but you can bomb yourself around. Love the aesthetic and demo takes 15 min and has some great puzzles. It's from the developer of the much-lauded ElecHead.
Also has the funniest implementation of Clear Save Data I've ever seen.
https://store…
@Archivist@social.linux.pizzaOkay, so with my friend Melcx we made a thing. it still needs more work, polish and to be made a real game with active gameplay beyond exploration, but here you go
https://archivist062.itch.io/enlighten
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@mikejolley@social.linux.pizzaNow playing Crash Bandicoot: Warped on PS1 🌀 Going for that sweet 105% completion! Come hang out as we time travel, spin, and slide our way through the chaos.
https://www.twitch.tv/retromegamuffin
@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.placeÖoo is a novel puzzle platformer where you can't jump, but you can bomb yourself around. Love the aesthetic and demo takes 15 min and has some great puzzles. It's from the developer of the much-lauded ElecHead.
Also has the funniest implementation of Clear Save Data I've ever seen.
https://store…
