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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jul 23, 2026

Replying to @ThePlant@mastodon.social

@ThePlant@mastodon.social these games seem too young for a 60th birthday

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jul 21, 2026

From the Unity 7 announcement: "If your studio has committed to keeping AI out of your creative work—you're not on the sidelines of this release". This is quite disingenuous. From what I've been made aware, Unity internally is going super hard on AI in developing the engine itself - with things like explicitly making devs include how they're using AI in their personal development goals. If you're truly committed to keeping AI "out of your creative work", I think you'd want to know that.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 13, 2026

Fell down a hole and woke up in a hospital, got shot by an officer in the elevator on the way out and now I'm in prison

#StarCitizen

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 08, 2026

Don't worry, discord are investgating

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 08, 2026

I frikking love tests

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 05, 2026

Quite a novel way to close a bug...

https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/issues/13594

"Copilot tried to solve this but it got too complicated so what you did (that we recommend you do) is now not supported"

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 24, 2026

Replying to @hardpenguin13@mastodon.gamedev.place

@hardpenguin13 oooh thought that was a ways off

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 24, 2026

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@hardpenguin13 @fluxer.app it's open source tho so much hope is that's different

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 24, 2026

Replying to @hardpenguin13@mastodon.gamedev.place

@hardpenguin13 @fluxer.app yeah, I had a look when I was doing my investigations. I think the key for me is that it might look different now, but I don't know if there's much to stop it just becoming another discord eventually?

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 17, 2026

Replying to @sschoener@mastodon.gamedev.place

@sschoener@mastodon.gamedev.place @aras@mastodon.gamedev.place honestly fair call out, the strength of what I wrote is way more than what I felt! The feeling there is more that I've been unconvinced style transfer is going to produce much interesting art, given it exists elsewhere and has seen quite limited use.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 16, 2026

Replying to @sschoener@mastodon.gamedev.place

@sschoener@mastodon.gamedev.place @aras@mastodon.gamedev.place given re-stylising 2D animation is already entirely possible and I don't think I've seen a single meaningful use of that (other than upscaling some low-res anime!) I don't have the same excitement :(

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 16, 2026

Replying to @aras@mastodon.gamedev.place

@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place not just you. Realtime yassification isn't something I ever wanted.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 16, 2026

Replying to @richlv@mastodon.social

@richlv@mastodon.social yeah thanks, worth highlighting for sure. Not my choice I'm afraid! Many of the team work fully remote, so I would have rather have been able to offer more flex.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 16, 2026

My team at Frontier is hiring! Looking for a mid-level DevOps Engineer. Must be within commute distance of Cambridge (or willing to relocate).

https://jobs.eu.lever.co/frontier/478e9414-7f0a-4537-8518-a44db6df7af6

FWIW the job title can be a bit misleading as we're not looking for people with a purely AWS/Azure/GCP cloud devops backround. This kind of DevOps needs people with relevant experience to building, testing and shipping games at scale.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 16, 2026

My team at Frontier is hiring! Looking for a mid-level DevOps Engineer. Must be within commute distance of Cambridge (or willing to relocate).

https://jobs.eu.lever.co/frontier/478e9414-7f0a-4537-8518-a44db6df7af6

FWIW the job title can be a bit misleading as we're not looking for people with a purely AWS/Azure/GCP cloud devops backround. This kind of DevOps needs people with relevant experience to building, testing and shipping games at scale.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 13, 2026

Replying to @acb@mastodon.social

@acb@mastodon.social many languages have a nullable bool, I spose

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 13, 2026

Replying to @steve@discuss.systems

@steve@discuss.systems yeah, can't argue there

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 13, 2026

Replying to @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

I just need a third reply here to say how much I appreciate the sheer simplicity and insanity of this documentation page - almost every single word provided ask more questions than it answers

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 13, 2026

Replying to @austinkelmore.com@bsky.brid.gy

@austinkelmore.com one can dislike art, but that doesn't stop it being art.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 13, 2026

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Context: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.office.core.msotristate Note that there are actually 5 values, not three. Also True is -1, and the value that equals 1 isn't supported.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 13, 2026

A reminder that "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" isn't the shortest horror story ever written, it's actually "Specifies a tri-state Boolean value" written by the esteemed author Microsoft .NET Documentation.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 09, 2026

Replying to @ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place

@ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place Hugely deserved, bravo!

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 09, 2026

Replying to @sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place

@sinbad "open source"

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @xurizaemon@toot.cafe

@xurizaemon@toot.cafe haha you're on the money tho for real!

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @xurizaemon@toot.cafe

@xurizaemon@toot.cafe oh good point, I should really have been looking into which ones were european too!

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

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@coffeegm@dice.camp well I have to say this is one of the most fishy things a website has ever asked me

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @coffeegm@dice.camp

@coffeegm@dice.camp nice, first I've heard. I'll.check it out and add to the thread

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

For others reaching the end of this thread I want to call out the wonderful and similar work over on this blog post: https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/ Goes into a bunch more detail and has different priorities to me so may well fit your needs better.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @maswan@mastodon.acc.sunet.se

@maswan@mastodon.acc.sunet.se I'm kind of surprised a fork hasn't popped up tbh. Anyway yeah thanks for the info?

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @maswan@mastodon.acc.sunet.se

@maswan@mastodon.acc.sunet.se oh interesting - I didn't discover this when looking into it - what're the limitations?

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club

@esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club love it, thanks. Will absolutely be getting to know draupnir

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @Mehrad@fosstodon.org

@Mehrad@fosstodon.org @movim@piaille.fr excellent thanks, this is exactly the type of suggestion I knew I would have missed. I will give it a spin and append it to the thread

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @Mehrad@fosstodon.org

@Mehrad@fosstodon.org updated, I couldn't find it :)

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @roguefoam@polymaths.social

@roguefoam@polymaths.social IIRC free tier users also can't store full history, which makes Searchable Log Of All Company Knowledge a bit of a misnomer

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @adamshostack@infosec.exchange

@adamshostack@infosec.exchange honestly I probably should have! Thanks for the reminder, will tag it onto the end once I've had another tinker after 15 years of being away.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @paco@infosec.exchange

@paco@infosec.exchange oh right, let me edit. I couldn't find any mention of a web app when researching!

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @chanakya@social.screamingatmyscreen.com

@chanakya@social.screamingatmyscreen.com honestly agreed - I don't think I'd ever recommend Matrix for actual company work. There's better solutions in this list for those kinds of users. That's not to disparage Matrix. Different tools for different jobs.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @chanakya@social.screamingatmyscreen.com

@chanakya@social.screamingatmyscreen.com ah yup that explains it. The whole thing had the stench of "open source but not really open at all"

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @darkuncle@infosec.exchange

@darkuncle@infosec.exchange it's an interesting point for sure. I think the management of multiple channels (most of the time 10+) is quite key. That's kind of what separates these tools out from Signal, Telegram, Threema, etc.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club

@esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club thanks a ton! Yeah so that's fair on homeservers. I had to over-simplify for sure. It's more that the responsibility is bigger than some might expect - though as you say not quite as big as it might first seem. For moderation - I've heard power levels to givee some of what I need, though without particularly good UX. It slightly feels like a bodge though and I haven't found solid docs on how to use them as you've described. Could you point me in the right direction?

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @shoren18@mstdn.social

@shoren18@mstdn.social glad to hear it and good luck!

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 09, 2026

Replying to @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

Here's hoping all that was useful to someone. I spent some time looking for a thread/post/blog like this when I first went searching, but couldn't find it, so here's me paying it forward for the next person.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 09, 2026

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(matrix cont.) Overall Matrix feels like a brilliant evolution on IRC, in a wonderfully old-school kind of way. Unfortunately that brings with it some goofyness and hard to understand intricacies. Matrix is one of the few options that lets you self-host *and* still connect with all the other communities, and that's wonderful. I want it to succeed, and it'll probably be my choice, but it's gonna take work to operate communities in it effectively.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 09, 2026

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(matrix cont.) You can choose to self-host but not federate, but the major apps don't support multiple accounts, so it feels like an unfederated homeserver has quite limited use. It's call support is currently in flux, with two methods that different apps support in different ways, plus some calls break out to external services in non-obvious ways. It also has fundamentally weak moderation tools, at least from a community standpoint, with basically no viable equivalent to roles or scopes.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 09, 2026

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And finally, Matrix. This is by far the most common suggestion I get. Especially here given the shared ethos of federation.

Fully released
Free
Open Source
Self-hostable*
E2E
Calls*
Moderation*
Supported everywhere

Matrix fills in so many of the requirements here, but still has issues.

You can self-host, but your homeserver has to host the full history and data in any channel that a signed up user joins. You could however not allow sign-ups, and just have channels.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 09, 2026

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(stoat cont.) Unfortunately the data sovereignty isn't there - it doesn't have E2E yet, and none of the apps support connecting to self-hosted servers. I also have to advise caution - the folks making it seem to have their hearts in the right place, but have no true funding model plans outside of donations and a future thought of offering a nitro-a-like. It's GPL license will likely prevent enshitification, but without E2E or improved self-hostingcompat I won't be jumping in just yet.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 09, 2026

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Stoat (née Revolt)

Still somewhat beta
Free
Open Source
Self-hostable*
No E2E (planned)
Calls (video planned)
Mod tools just like discord
Available everywhere

Stoat is the closest thing we have to a Discord killer, and is very much a discord clone, for better or worse. There's also something wonderful about seeing stuff like "femboy kingdom" among it's most popular servers, it's just so wonderfully queer coded and old-internet?

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 09, 2026

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Spacebar

Early days
Free
Open Source
Self-hostable
No E2E
No calls (yet)
Mod tools just like discord (soon)
Only a web app

I'll admit this isn't a serious consideration, but deserves a call-out. Spacebar is an attempt to re-implement the discord server itself with identical API. This could be a great transitionary tool, it could plausibly mean we get all the good of Discord with none of the crap, but it's simply nowhere near ready from what I can tell.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 09, 2026

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Zulip

Fully released
Free
Open Source
Self-hostable
No E2E
Uses external plugins for calls
Great moderation tools
Supported everywhere

Zulip on paper sounds so close to being good! But dozens of weird UI choices forced me away. Zulip's UX is far more like a set of forums than a chat app. It's trying something new and I commend it for that, but I think it'll be a hard sell for many people.

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Marc @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 09, 2026

Replying to @mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place

Pumble.

Fully released
Free tier is quite limited
Not OSS
Not Self-hostable
Not E2E
Has calls (but paid)
Very limited moderation at free tier
Supported everywhere

Pumble sems to basically just be bringing the fight to slack, and honestly it seems to be doing a good job of it. Because of that though it's clearly not going to take a bite out of any sort of grass-roots community work.

Check it out if you're the rare person who doesn't like Slack but still wants to use Slack?

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