https://lemmy.world/u/Jeffool posted on Mar 10, 2026 11:18
Outersloth takes a 50% revenue share before a project recoups its investment, after which the company takes 15%.
In the post on its website, Outersloth’s communications director Victoria Tran and CEO Forest Willard wrote that the firm’s aim was to “encourage” other companies to “adopt terms that were more developer-friendly”.
Anyone else surprised that this is what passes for “developer-friendly” in the games industry? Yikes…
Good idea. But might be a bit late now that the platform has become tarnished by unmonitored sexual predators, and heavy-handed and poorly implemented age restrictions.
A user (whom someone else now banned from LW, I guess,) reported this post for child predation. I get that, given: a) Roblox only recently taking putting better communication regulations in place, b) the multiple states suing them, c) People Make Games’ reporting (which I encourage anyone interested in Roblox to watch.)
But banned-user, you probably won’t be surprised to find out that I’m going to let this post stand. Not only because I posted it, but because I do hope that if anyone here is already developing for Roblox, they’re able to best take advantage of these programs available to them. And I believe there’s a greater chance of that, than a young child finding these posts and considering them inherently a recommendation of Roblox over other development options.
But you be either happy or disgusted to know that I did consider this before the post. I’ve posted about Roblox before, and made that call.
It seems like the Jack Welch playbook is here to stay for a while still, to the detriment of the 99%.
UK Game of the Year: Battlefield 6 (Criterion – A Battlefield Studio)
Best UK console game: Atomfall (Rebellion)
Best UK PC game: Battlefield 6
Best UK mobile game: PowerWash Simulator (FuturLab)
Best UK mixed reality game (VR, AR, XR): Train Sim World VR: New York (Just Add Water, Dovetail Games)
Best UK user-generated content: King of Meat (Glowmade)
Sustainability Champion: PlanetPlay
Diversity and Inclusion Champion: Limit Break
Best UK developer: nDreams
Best UK publisher: Playstack
Best UK service supplier: Yrs Truly
*“Rising Star:** Tanglewood Games
Why?
Meh, it’s game awards.
If they meant anything all thos games that start their trailers with award lists and review ratings would actually be good and not total pieces of shit.
That’s my red flag, btw. Any game that lists off awards and ratings all through the trailer, always avoid it.
It was announced on Twitter(/X) by Xbox ’s CEO here: https://x.com/asha_shar/status/2029645713962156149
Great start to the morning with Team Xbox, where we talked about our commitment to the return of Xbox including Project Helix, the code name for our next generation console.
Project Helix will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games. Looking forward to chatting about this more with partners and studios at my first GDC next week!
I haven’t read the article because frankly, I don’t care about xbox anymore. But how user upgradeable will this be?
at this rate, I’d be impressed if any new Xbox hardware actually ships.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/46568392
Creating a good (and successful!) game is beyond challenging, especially in our trying times. What’s been your experience with balancing different aspects of your own projects?