jess
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making games 👾
The future of shopping starts here – Roblox creators and brands can now sell physical merch in-game with our new @Shopify integration, powered by our Commerce APIs. Plus, our new Authorized Merchandiser Program (AMP) lets sellers connect physical retail products to digital…
WTFFFFF This is genuinely insane, I have no words man
I've heard from a number of people now that Donkey Kong Bananza is quite possibly the greatest 3D Platformer Nintendo has ever made. It takes the best of 3D Mario and mixes it with Donkey Kong Country. EPD Production Group No. 8 does not disappoint.
super special stuff. hearing living legends get candid is rare and beautiful
The 2 episodes of Mind The Game with KD were really dope, the basketball nerd in me enjoyed every minute.
youtube.com/watch?v=3pdlTM… Interesting to hear what Carmack's been up to for the last few years. Some of the research directions and trying to come up with good benchmarks (sequential exposure to diverse tasks, learning efficiency, showing strong transfer) make a lot of sense.
The “next Labubu” is not a single IP or product. It is an industry. The lifestyle character brand business, which has flourished in Japan through Sanrio, Snoopy, and their competitors, is now taking root across the United States and Europe in ways few could have imagined before…
making games is all about creating the right friction games, by their very nature of interactivity, are defined by the friction they present to the player to overcome. this is why game UX is rarely as simple as app or web: sometimes we are creating problems on purpose
Death Stranding 2 Composer Woodkid says Hideo Kojima made changes to the game because early testers liked the game too much and it wasn’t polarizing enough! “And he said, ‘If everyone likes it, it means it’s mainstream. It means it’s conventional. It means it’s already…
probably nothing
"Grow a Garden" is now the single biggest video game... in the world. 🌍 Today, this single @Roblox experience reached 16,411,769 concurrent users, surpassing the previous world record set by @Fortnite at 14,343,880 in November 2024.
This clip reminds me just how important that finish was for the business. Only UEFA Champions League/EPL can truly claim superior worldwide popularity over the NBA, and considering the global distribution breadth of the Finals broadcast -- sooo many new international viewers are…
That's how the Korean announcers reacted to Tyrese Haliburton's game winner vs. OKC in game 1 of the 2025 NBA Playoffs. FULL HYPE!
the “bad for the NBA” crowd looking extra dumb right now
great team and great community. sad day indeed
Today, with deep regret, we are announcing that development on Battle Aces has come to an end. Creating Battle Aces has been tremendously rewarding and we are grateful for the passion and support from our community. Unfortunately, the returns from early testing were not strong…
last year, I spent most of May building football AI; this year, I'll be working on something cool with basketball among other things, I'm planning to: - detect and track players and the ball - cluster players into teams - calculate shot distances code: github.com/roboflow/sports
football AI code is finally open-source - player detection and tracking - team clustering - camera calibration I still need to work on README; don't judge me on that code: github.com/roboflow/sports
Between the Lanes: Nest of Thorns dota2.com/newsentry/5377… #Dota2
And everyone is just going to have to get used to coexisting in a world of infinite kind of good media that used to be challenging to make No use being in denial. No time.