Godot Foundation is updating contributor rules to reject AI-authored code, AI-agent pull requests, and AI-generated human-to-human text. r/gamedev framed the change as a maintainer workload issue rather than a blanket anti-AI license move.
The developer of IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator said the game gained 124,622 wishlists in roughly the first five days of June Steam Next Fest, including about 11,000 on day one and 32,000 the previous day.
Godot 4.7 is now available with HDR output, the new Asset Store, Android export and publishing support, AreaLight3D, and UI/editor workflow changes.
A small French indie studio with 3 team members organized a niche Steam curation event and received 1,371 applications, a sobering look at how fierce the fight for visibility has become in the indie game market.
LocalLLaMA treated this less as a speed chart and more as a question about completion quality under a messy real prompt. On the same MacBook Pro M5 Max, Qwen 3.6 27B wrote more and faster, but Gemma 4 31B finished the game logic with far fewer tokens.
October 2028 is set as Ludum Dare’s final scheduled game jam, Game Developer reports, with co-founder Mike Kasprzak planning six more events and a likely April 2029 encore.
A top r/gamedev post highlights Facepunch’s new Valve agreement, which is intended to let creators export S&box projects and publish them on Steam without paying Facepunch a fee.
A game developer sparked discussion by arguing it's "easier to say we failed at marketing than admit we failed at making the game," challenging industry self-deception.