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oh for fucks sake
WOAAAH NEW BLOCKS!! 🧊
Come test more features from the upcoming game drop! Turn packed ice blocks into a full brick set, including packed ice bricks, slabs, stairs, walls, and chiseled blocks. Enjoy the ambiance over frozen rivers and oceans – listen to the singing sounds from ice blocks over water, echoing through the freezing cold. Available now in Bedrock beta and preview and Java snapshot.
Learn more here! minecraft.net/en-us/article/…
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18 NEW ZEALAND INDIE GAMES ARE COMING TO PAX AUS!
Yep. EIGHTEEN.
NZ CODE is bringing a whole bunch of Aotearoa's latest indie games to Booth #1840, and there is a frankly unreasonable amount of weird, wonderful stuff to play.
Here’s a tiny (XD) taste of what you can find:
🧪 Apothecurse
Play as an aspiring alchemist, brew potions and uncover the dark secrets of a plague-ridden city.
🧙 Bashful Adoration
Four competitive witches. One crush. Bombastic combat. Love, rivalry and friendship. Obviously.
🐋 Beyond These Stars
Build a city on the back of Kewa, a SENTIENT SPACE WHALE, and journey across the stars.
🍔 Burger Bois
Run a food truck, make burgers and attempt to turn around a failing food business.
🛼 Canvas City
Turn-based tactics. Roller skates. Street artists. Rebellion. Take back the city one map at a time.
🍳 Cooking For MA!
Cook your way through the spirit world to save your grandma from an evil sea serpent.
🚁 spkl.io/60137TxKb
Take control of a drone and tackle high-risk missions where stealth and split-second decisions matter.
🎱 Dungeon Baller
Pinball meets dungeon crawling. Launch tiny heroes, smash monsters and hoard ridiculous loot.
🌽 FarmZ
Farm by day. Defend your farm by night. And yes, your crops can become weapons.
🎣 GO PHISH
Go fishing. Go phishing. Pay your rent. Crack passwords and drain savings in this rogue-ish debt-builder.
🧟 Killing Things With Your Friends
Team up, tear off mutant limbs and use them as weapons. Friendship has never been so... medically questionable.
💼 Middle Management
Build an office, manage your workers and delve into brains to create the perfect employees.
✈️ Night Plane
You're a flight attendant on a doomed plane. Check tickets, serve passengers and work out which ones are secretly demons.
⚔️ Nothing Lost
Every death makes your next hero stronger. Battle through ever-changing dungeons and combine the powers of your fallen heroes.
🪐 PlanetSmith
Build, explore and survive across fully spherical alien planets. Then build a rocket and LEAVE THE PLANET.
🧩 Shape Sender Deluxe
Meet Sendy. Solve 90+ handcrafted physics puzzles. Then make your own. Keep an eye on Sendy.
🌌 Star Catcher
Fish for lost souls across a sea of stars, explore ancient islands and venture into the great cosmic unknown.
⚔️ The Order of the Damned
A grimdark Arthurian action-RPG where one of the last knights of a fallen order must face an ancient darkness.
And that's just the tiny preview XD!
Come meet the developers. Play the games. Find your next indie obsession.
18 games. One booth. Probably several games you didn't know you needed to play.
Go discover something.
I expect @dinopoloclub to make a mini metro map for those arriving from Auckland Airport to travel to Te Waihorotiu
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1 year ago, the wait of 7 years ended and Silksong has finally released.
I will forever be grateful for this experience that changed my life, and I don't have the words to describe my love for it and everyone involved in this journey.
Thank you Silksong, and happy anniversary!!
okay - now that we know @IceflakeStudios has been working on this for many years (?)
it makes a whole lot of sense for why they've then taken up the mantle of fixing up Cities Skylines 2.
Can't wait to see how this shapes up!
Give a warm welcome to LEGO® Skylines, who are joining our city-builder family.
Let your imagination set the limit as you obsess over the details, big or small. There is just one rule. Make it yours.
Read all about it over at legoskylines.com
youtu.be/mfBg8TQQrCQ
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The reaction to the Chapter 1 blog post has been beyond positive, and honestly a big relief. It confirms we can get creative and lean into the RPG elements we all love.
Hytale is going to drastically change in the coming months and years. It's the hardest path to take, but the right one!
If you have any questions about the game's future, feel free to comment here, and I will be actively replying!
if it's not the Kangaroom
then what's the point of asking
REMINDER!!! We made a brand new area for PAX Aus 2026.
It needs a name! ENTER HERE: gleam.io/6CSLo/help-us-name-…
Submit your best name idea and you could win 2 x 3-Day Badges! (All entries will enter the random chance draw)
Look out for the voting comp on our socials soon!
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YEAHHHHHHH
Minecraft Dungeons II is coming this year!
Take on high-stakes encounters, thrilling challenges, and new locations in the Minecraft universe! Wishlist now on your platform! #MinecraftLIVE #DungeonsII
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How about that healthcare and education for the rainbow community. Oh that’s right they’ll march while undermining those things. Hypocrites
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Roblox prioritizing shareholders over creators is not surprising at all; they are a public company, and that's their duty.
If you want to understand the direction the company is heading, don’t look at the marketing aimed at creators. Read how they talk to investors vs how they talk to developers and artists.
In investor communications, the focus is on scalability, efficiency, margins, and AI-driven growth. In creator-facing messaging, the word “AI” is often avoided entirely, replaced with vague buzzwords like “real-time dreaming” or “4D.” That disconnect is calculated.
The strategy is clear, though: leverage developer and artist content to train their own AI labs and reduce dependence on human-created UGC over time. Whether that future arrives in 2 years or 10, the direction is obvious. At the end of the day, platforms under investor pressure look for ways to scale content creation without scaling payouts.
It’s visible in earnings calls, investor decks, hiring patterns, and the language used, depending on the audience. Creators should pay attention because the story told to shareholders contrasts with the one told to them.
What do I know? I've been on both sides: as a successful UGC creator and now as a UGC game/platform. I met with many of the big companies you can think of and was part of many discussions on monetization and business strategy for those businesses. I know this space from the core; I started from absolutely nothing and worked through every aspect of the business.
But hey, that's just my personal opinion ;)
In our research lab, we are building “real-time dreaming” - the ability to generate fully playable video worlds prompted from any text or image.
Our real-time, action conditioned world model (currently running internally at 16fps at 832x480p) is trained on a combination of data, including proprietary Roblox 3D avatar/world interaction data.
World models are different from multiplayer engines in that they store state and memory in video latents. Roblox is multiplayer, and we are actively researching optimal ways to simultaneously store state for thousands of players, and keep them in sync with their environment.
Our world model leverages database technology which stores all user interactions on Roblox in a vector format that can be used to re-render video and interaction from any camera angle.
We see several immediate uses for our Roblox world model. We will use it side-by-side text, image and video prompts as a way to launch auto-generation of immersive worlds.
In Roblox Studio, a creator could walk around and use prompts to “paint” a world and then convert it into a 3D representation or direct to Roblox native as a way for many people to play simultaneously.
All of this comes alive as we explore the notion of a “Dream Theater” - where one user is dreaming, while others watch and prompt them. 2/4
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The beginning of the video has stolen assets/design from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 by Sandfall Interactive. The environment is the Flying Waters area and the girl in the video is Maelle.
store.steampowered.com/app/1903340/Cl…
expedition33.wiki.fextralife.com/Flying+Waters
clair-obscur.fandom.com/wiki/Maelle
another wild Sonic transmedia collaboration lore to my collection
Loved the Chaotix Casefiles theme song? As a special treat, check out @rebeccasugar's original demo!
Take a listen and learn more about her inspirations and how the song developed into the final version in the show: youtube.com/watch?v=9oEvcf_n…
ALT Poster for Sonic the Hedgehog Presents: The Chaotix Casefiles featuring Vector the Crocodile, Charmy Bee, Espio the Chameleon, an astroscopic lens, and a crashing Chaotix Copter.
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@Simon_Hypixel "One day, we'll look back at where we started, and be amazed by how far we've come."
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IMPORTANT
We expect over 1 million players on the early access release day for Hytale (January 13). Please download the launcher today and log in now to help us significantly reduce launch-day stress. Let us know if you are having any issues.
Download now: hytale.com/download
