Chris DeLeon Ⓥ make your own games

@chrisdeleon.bsky.social

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I help people make games DevPods.gg GameDev since 97. Angry about AI. Worked on Topple, Boom Blox, Medal of Honor, IndieCade, Extra Credits, IGDA LA. 4 GDC talks. 400k udemy students, 10M YouTube views/100k subs, 185k podcast DL. Vegan for 24 yrs. he/him

cloud looks like it has a mouth and sort of eye area from darker patch.
me making an uh oh concerned expression by a spirit Halloween coming soon banner on a mall nearby.
me in sandwich board that says clouds are the best handing pamphlets to construction workers.
clusters of fluffy clouds.
xkcd shows three boxes of oat cereal on a shelf. one is labeled genco another stay puft the third is called red farm the red farm one has a advertising burst in a corner of the box that says asbestos free. the caption at the bottom says I hate whatever marketer first realized you could do this.
firm tofu pack in sink knife at the ready.
annoying ad for cat puzzle game, colored squares and cat face. text on screen says: ONLY IQ>130 CAN SOLVE IT? 1 Cat per color 1 Cat per column &row Cats cannot touch.
image of cartoon cat fishing in pond, labeled artist programmers writers scientists, then another cat labeled AI sits down next to it and fishes from the bucket of fish the first cat caught, then another cat approaches also labeled AI and fishes from the first AIs bucket. source unknown, I added the last panel/part with second AI cat.
comic originally about veganism from vegansidekick edited so someone outside stretches their neck unrealistically far into a building labeled with a sign that says following me on bluesky, the head poking in says to someone sitting there minding their own business "stop forcing your views on me."
musk robot arm falls causing water bottle to explode after it moves like removing a vr headset.
2 game developer magazine covers and game career guide. one has uncharted art the other a blue character, back one is orange and black but blocked by foreground magazines.
all pictures here are art by Shigeru Mizuki (I think, I apologize if I misunderstood something I found when searching his name, this is new to me). illustration of kid walking into mouth of giant monster head.
rpg 90s dialog box young man says If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower classes.
chris barnett YouTube guy looking sweaty and disheveled standing in a kitchen.
photo of older man outside in daytime. Climate crisis. yellow highlighted tag with clock icon: This article is more than 18 years old. headline - James Lovelock: 'Enjoy life while you can: in 20 years global warming will hit the fan'
text says Check your kids Halloween candy carefully. Someone tried to hide a bunch of Al asshole garbage in absolutely everything. image of Snickers cut in half showing logos in it of AI companies (they all look like circles / lines / buttholes).
carpet with nest of wires and keyboard and mouse and controller and UsB hub and surge protector wires all over and two external drives.
screenshot of text: In one article on its site, ISBNdb explains that printed books published before 2022 are ideal for AI training data because they don’t include AI generated text. As the article correctly notes, much of the data that AI companies can scrape from the internet today is likely to include AI generated text, which could result in “model collapse,” a process by which AI models that are trained on AI generated data results in worse models that are more prone to errors. The article also notes that book authors who object to their writing being scraped for training purposes can now easily poison AI models by producing writing designed to manipulate and sabotage the resulting AI models. “Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination. That alone is a significant...
Wikipedia screenshot article on Betteridge's law of headlines. Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not.
Guess what, we have yard signs!! The Tea Party (I highlighted that part) graciously paid for our first 100 yard signs. We are requesting a $10 donation which we will use to pay for legal fees, sunshine requests and so we can purchase the next round of signs. If interested in a yar... image if a red and black yard sign says no data center.
screenshot of NY times: The New York Times logo in fancy font. title: Federal Agents Were Told F.B.I. Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations. Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days. Listen - 5:50 min. By Devlin Barrett and Hamed Aleaziz Devlin Barrett covers the F.B.I., and Hamed Aleaziz covers immigration. URL in address bar: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/politics/fbi-ice-agents-investigations-shootings.html .
guy in hat at pulldown chart gesturing to cake part of graphic showing The cube rule of identification where it shows each side of a cube being added. No sides is salad, 1 side on bottom is toast, top and bottom is sandwich, sides and bottom is taco, sides and top and bottom is sushi, 4 sides and a bottom is quiche, all 6 sides is a calzone, and cake is top bottom and middle tier.
overly attached girlfriend old (15 years ago?) meme of glaring young woman. background says laina in colorful letters.
couple dozen people at corner of an intersection with signs that say no data centers.
xkcd web comic 2 stick figures talking: SILICATE CHEMISTRY IS SECOND NATURE TO US GEOCHEMISTS, SO IT'S EASY TO FORGET THAT THE AVERAGE PERSON PROBABLY ONLY KNOWS THE FORMULAS FOR OLIVINE AND ONE OR TWO FELDSPARS. other replies: AND QUARTZ, OF COURSE. first agreed: OF COURSE. caption: EVEN WHEN THEY'RE TRYING TO COMPENSATE FOR IT, EXPERTS IN ANYTHING WILDLY OVERESTIMATE THE AVERAGE PERSON'S FAMILIARITY WITH THEIR FIELD.
remade the quoted meme but with a cat cartoon in police uniform, geometric 90s background pattern, gradient orange to blue green text reads: ACAB Includes Bonkers D. Bobcat. I bet y'all forgot this mfer existed. kids probably guess this is bubsy or heathcliff some of them think this is garfield.
Pointing gun at sun. quoted post missing alt text: GMRT: Game visibility decreases when ambient sunlight is present in room #15331 Closed as not planned In-Game Bug RaidShadowJesus opened 2 weeks ago What Is The Bug? photo of sunlight from window on tv screen. During testing sessions, it was observed that game visibility is affected by external lighting conditions in the physical environment. When sunlight enters the room at certain angles, darker areas of the game become significantly harder to distinguish, especially in shadow-heavy rooms or Ul elements with low contrast.
ostrich, donkey, sheep, horses, hippo and meerkat exited so face connects directly to body.
contra 3 in game full screen player character art showing red and blue future soldiers back to back with guns, blue outfit guy has an assault right in each hand crouching down, red outfit guy holding shotgun facing the other direction I edited onto him very poorly a photo of jimothy the racoon which due to some conditions has a shorter body than usual.
A few geese in grass, most eating, one standing upright keeping an eye on me.
Photo of me (40ish year old white guy) in a dress shirt arms crossed, smiling, hair short on sides medium length on top, clear round frame glasses, gray background. tattoo on the back of one wrist looks kind of like a 5 with an extra slash but it's an intentionally unreadable word in my personal shorthand.
wizard illustration pondering orb meme but I edited a big pinball over his orb.
THE CLOUD APPRECIATION SOCIETY We do hereby certify that Christopher DeLeon was elected as a member ofi this society on 11 July 2012 and will henceforth seek to persuade all who'll listen of the wonder and beauty of clouds membership number 30320.
flight of the Conchords jemaine saying I'm actually feeling a little bit tired though.
big square painting on wall in front of bench. top 75% is orange blob bottom is navy blob. sides of walls have abstract black and white pattern paintings. museum guard to a side is maybe 60% the height if the painting in the picture. wood floor and white walls.
lazy guy at office writes bad email then uses phone AI to rewrite it.
The final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. The entire page is mostly white as they're in the winter snow. The pair is walking with a sledge, warmly dressed in scarves, hats, gloves. Calvin delightedly exclaims 'wow, it really snowed last night! Isn't it wonderful?'. Hobbes follows up with 'Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!' -- A new year... a fresh, clean start!' adds Calvin. As they look over the landscape, Hobbes observes 'it's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!' -- 'A day full of possibilities!' Calvin affirms. They get ready on their sledge and Calvin tells his friend 'it's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... let's go exploring!', and the pair sledges off into the wintery landscape. Alt text for this comic was found/adapted from daveherman.bsky.social .
tall hills (Scottish Highlands / Munros / Cairngorms area-ish) in scotland with clouds passing overhead in time lapse, shadows rolling over hills.
time lapse of sunset over pond.
about 25 people posing outside at night, mostly age 30-50s, mix of videogame programmers, designers, musicians and such.
Boston Indies mug logo looks like Dunkin donuts, orange and pink bubble font. text says Boston's home for indie games since 2009. lots of signatures pink handle.
little printed key cap of me white glasses black T-shirt.
very large hiking backpack visibly loaded with groceries, bananas and bread on top.
duck cleaning itself on a log in a pond with its bill, twisting neck all over.
Pacific pinball museum 60s pinball machine room.
Guy in sunglasses holding open door to enter, common meme.
edit of you wouldn't download a car old meme says you wouldn't take a care. background has streaks of muted, shades of cyan and tan resembling the effects of old VHS tape glitches. text is in intense stencil font at inconsistent heights to look more deranged.
extreme games for playstation 1 shows people roller blading on road past barriers and ramps to jump through pipes, sides are low fidelity canyons, skybox is monument valley style pillar rock plateaus.
shen comix buff guy approaches shen. shen asks wow how'd you get like that. muscle guy says Every time - then I edited in for my version of this commonly meme'd comic: "I read the worst news of my life" the muscle guy continues "...I do ONE push-up" then shen says jesus christ in response.
calvin and Hobbes black and white comic, probably from late 1980s or early 1990s. 4 panel. calvin is drawn as an oval with round feet on stick legs, antenna sticking up from head. speech bubbles say: oh, no! calvin has turned into one of his own childhood drawings! his anatomical references being obscure at best, calvin finds it difficult to move! are these lower appendages feet or wheels? his own mom thinks he's some kind of helicopter! if only calvin had learned to draw better! calvin now appearing as a correctly drawn normal human child: no one understands my work. calvin's mom while reading a newspaper at the table without looking away: that's what all artists say.
parappa the rappa 2D dog kid in beanie hat and baggie jean shorts text says "u squeetin' good" (edited from u rappin good)
Last place comics by Zach Cranor character mischievous expression as fading off into a crowd wearing headphones, text says at top "he's getting away" it originally says she but I cropped it. Link to full comic (unfortunately does not have detailed alt text) and discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1atg72r/what_is_he_swipe/#lightbox
goldeneye n64 boris in photo area of fake kmart with arcade rug
me* on camera with background nicely lit (100k subscriber youtube silver award, notebook bookshelf, LED hex lights, fake tree, old final fantasy inserts and alice in bomberland white rabbit illustration, shure mic on shock mount) *40ish year old white guy with short brown hair and clear framed glasses, black t-shirt, read headphone wires hanging down from ears
little pixel art of barney on black background
Michael tells Samir in the movie officespace no way Why should I change he's the one who sucks, sitting in their shared cubicle in a 90s office building, in reference to Michael Bolton the musician having the same name as this programmer
Me in hat and glasses smiling next to a chrome skull above a red light bar
cat paws, so cute though. then a photo of the bottom, "beans" we call em
grandpa simpson turns and walks out from bar right after entering
some guy with big hair mouthing wtf in popular gif I don't know the source of, but it's on bsky so not animated