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@notch Avatar @notch notch

Notch, a game developer, appears to be leaving the Los Angeles area and is struggling to find programmers for his game "Levers and Chests". He mentions that the team is on life support with only one programmer left. Notch also expresses frustration with the job market and the challenges of finding talent in LA.

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Social topic influence youtube, fps #1417, support, level, red, red dead redemption #1040, the first, voxel #32, ai, discord

Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"From the Bitshift dev discord. Spot the difference"
X Link 2025-05-12T20:12Z 3.3M followers, 146.8K engagements

"Hell is other programm. oh wait no I wrote this one nevermind"
X Link 2025-06-25T07:36Z 3.3M followers, 103K engagements

"@youtube also you might want to put the "auto dubbed" thing back into the oven music the automatic captions are get things right"
X Link 2025-12-05T03:19Z 3.3M followers, 17.8K engagements

"@elonmusk True"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:02Z 3.3M followers, 16.5K engagements

"A Zelda walks into bar and orders "the Hylian usual" which results in some comedic misunderstanding"
X Link 2025-07-14T16:35Z 3.3M followers, 77K engagements

"Finally beat Tears of the Kingdom. Currently experiencing postpartum depression never had this much free time before"
X Link 2025-07-19T23:03Z 3.3M followers, 172K engagements

"What if Levers and Chests came with a licence to make your own games in the same game engine. Now THAT'S modding support"
X Link 2025-08-12T19:05Z 3.3M followers, 221K engagements

"Wow Megabonk exceeded my cautiously high expectations I think this one's a keeper boys. ps cloverpit addiction deepened send snacks"
X Link 2025-11-20T10:51Z 3.3M followers, 109.4K engagements

"Having a hard time deciding if I consider Megabonk a "difficult game" a la dark souls and such. I mean yes it definitely feels unfair a lot of the time but it's almost always a direct result of my own greed. As usual the final boss is yourself"
X Link 2025-11-20T19:29Z 3.3M followers, 88.4K engagements

"Ok there we go. If I get my way that was the last time I saw LA. Sorry people who remain there it's a beautiful place but the corruption runs too deep and I'm getting too old for that shit. It'll take a bit for me to get settled in but the new attempt att finding people who want to work with me to make games will happen from Dallas Texas"
X Link 2025-11-25T06:22Z 3.3M followers, 493.2K engagements

"@MichaelG_3D Yes it does"
X Link 2025-12-10T20:55Z 3.3M followers, 7.8M engagements

"@Grummz Same. I have yet to meet someone who actually wants that shit"
X Link 2025-12-14T19:30Z 3.3M followers, 25K engagements

"Either I skip lore too much in games or the Kindergarten series of games has more memorable characters than the rest of the industry combined. Nugget misses the goo"
X Link 2025-06-26T11:38Z 3.3M followers, 165.9K engagements

"Stickers are like the polar opposite of Lego bricks. Analogue to a fault horrible tolerances and you get AT MOST two or three tries to attach them correctly. That would be fine but my skillset ends somewhere in between the two. I can do the bricks just fine but oh my god why"
X Link 2025-10-17T19:52Z 3.3M followers, 59.9K engagements

"We're looking for a voxel/pixel artist for Levers and Chests. Please contact @BitshiftEnt if you're in the LA area and are interested in joining the team"
X Link 2025-01-25T00:48Z 3.3M followers, 1.3M engagements

"Makes for great screenshots and super slow panning shots though for trailers so it sells well. Sacrificing actual gaming experience to sell better. What is this loot boxes"
X Link 2025-06-21T13:26Z 3.3M followers, 91.3K engagements

"TAA is just interlacing again"
X Link 2025-06-22T10:27Z 3.3M followers, 172K engagements

"Recommended: Bloodshed A vampire survivors style fps I keep coming back to for excellent shoot bang bang. I wish there were more levels though"
X Link 2025-07-07T16:56Z 3.3M followers, 159.8K engagements

"Levers and Chests is a game made by humans for humans"
X Link 2025-08-07T22:24Z 3.3M followers, 136.1K engagements

"Meeting another guy in a colorful shirt is probably the closest I'll get to owning a motorcycle and seeing another one on the road"
X Link 2025-08-18T16:08Z 3.3M followers, 65.9K engagements

"Oh no I got sucked back into Balatro by trying to see if I could beat my win streak. The game is MUCH harder when you stop rerolling for the perfect start but the dopamine payout is waay higher. Not sure if this is a warning or a recommendation"
X Link 2025-10-03T19:44Z 3.3M followers, 63.7K engagements

"Bitshift no longer on life support but the level of ambition for Levers and Chests has been lowered back down to initial plans. I was fleeing from everything by collecting exotic orchids in Red Dead Redemption X being generally mopey about the entire situation when I suddenly realized that early on I was the only programmer as well and I LOVED work. Now we're in the same position but with awesome artists as well. ngl realizing this kinda ruined my moping around in RDR2 as it was like flicking a switch I can't unflick in my brain and all the sads were gone. So I moved on to fishing"
X Link 2025-10-05T18:30Z 3.3M followers, 104.4K engagements

"Dynamically merging one bit quad trees in real time implemented in Javascript. Runs at 60+ fps with the rendering step taking up 90+% of the cpu time. So the actual merging is FAST It's pretty recursive in nature but if I manage to port this to WGSL we might be able to pull off GI using it"
X Link 2025-10-06T18:42Z 3.3M followers, 115.7K engagements

"I assume we still have to pay taxes while the government is shut down"
X Link 2025-10-07T20:01Z 3.3M followers, 122K engagements

"I just had a burger so good I'm now sad that I am full. This is an emotional time"
X Link 2025-10-12T21:08Z 3.3M followers, 91.8K engagements

"Cali's not for me. Where do I go"
X Link 2025-10-16T18:15Z 3.3M followers, 498.4K engagements

"Clover Pit using the "one spin per round more rounds per deadline" memory card. Got a jimbo with -X spins (lol) as the negative and retrigger ALL patterns as one of the upsides. Very big mushroom it is"
X Link 2025-10-18T21:20Z 3.3M followers, 71K engagements

"Got it on the third try. It was nowhere as bad as I first thought. As usual with CloverPit the initial momentum you manage to build up during the first deadline is all the luck you actually need"
X Link 2025-10-21T21:41Z 3.3M followers, 85K engagements

"Exactly one round ago this is where I was at. Just before selling the weird clock to go reroll for it. Note the net gain of over a thousand tickets"
X Link 2025-10-25T05:59Z 3.3M followers, 58.1K engagements

"Technical details: This happened after beating the Memory Card that doesn't let charms recharge on their own but triggers them twice. That and the nuclear button means a net of +2 rounds per round played. I'm using the Super Capacitor to charge up a Lemon Picture (for increased lemon odds until the end of the deadline (which is not happening)) and Ancient Coin (which gives you an extra spin with +4 luck after this one). They both trigger three times. For scoring the Very Big Mushroom doubles the points I score every single spin I do. I'm sure it's technically possible for me to not trigger 15"
X Link 2025-10-25T06:12Z 3.3M followers, 47.9K engagements

"I've been seeing a lot of Jeb hate over him saying the creeper's only around because it's iconic and I'd like to set something straight. This is originally one of MY opinions. I tried to fix the creeper by having it only explode as the result of player (in-)action as I realized random destructive events you have no control over is anti-fun"
X Link 2025-10-25T17:37Z 3.3M followers, 925.7K engagements

"I'm going to make getting all rainbow bordered memory packs in CloverPit more painful than it needs to be aren't I "Well" I think to myself every single time. "I might as well go for the true ending while I'm in there. And why not go infinite""
X Link 2025-10-27T08:19Z 3.3M followers, 74.3K engagements

"Which one is funnier 1nd or 2st"
X Link 2025-11-14T18:12Z 3.3M followers, 103.4K engagements

"Coming up with a clever idea as a self taught programmer is a bit of a coin flip between it being mathematically impossible or the existing industry standard. Surely the coin will land on the edge eventually right"
X Link 2025-11-15T19:41Z 3.3M followers, 102K engagements

"Backstory: I woke up to this. I had a weed edible last night when inspiration struck. (also: no spoilers if this actually works or not please This is the fun learning part of the cycle)"
X Link 2025-11-15T19:46Z 3.3M followers, 85.3K engagements

"More like Assassas's Cheeks amirite"
X Link 2025-11-29T10:22Z 3.3M followers, 116.8K engagements

"I've reached Bark Vader twice now. The first time I had no idea what to expect and failed hard. The second time I have no excuses for. I just suck at Megabonk. (also my dog ate my controller + the sun was in my eyes)"
X Link 2025-12-02T12:48Z 3.3M followers, 59K engagements

"@MugenLord Not always true. Evidence: I pirate older games because that's the only way I can access them. This includes some games I already own for hardware that no longer works but also games they straight up refuse selling me. I don't pirate newer games because imagine playing AAA"
X Link 2025-12-02T12:57Z 3.3M followers, 458K engagements

"@NewBlood Ok you have my attention"
X Link 2025-12-06T21:21Z 3.3M followers, 7868 engagements

"Making your own language is basically a rite of passage for any programmer. I expect (but don't require) people I hire to have done so. For me it was a pinball game I was making. The boss wanted two different tables and server-side validation of the game data in a different language from what the client was written in so of course I invented a new language that was different from both to script these suckers"
X Link 2025-12-14T14:40Z 3.3M followers, 60.2K engagements

"ogre_gib.gif by @DanielWienerson"
X Link 2025-08-18T23:30Z 3.3M followers, 81.9K engagements

"Worst part about Red Dead Redemption X first person mode I'd be out huntin' and shootin' for hours return to town trigger a cutscene find out I apparently had swapped to a very silly hat at some point. That sure recontextualizes things. Goes from western to Frank West"
X Link 2025-09-09T16:56Z 3.3M followers, 78.8K engagements

"That's like saying jpegs are lossless"
X Link 2025-09-15T17:17Z 3.3M followers, 155.1K engagements

"Streaming data to an sparse voxel octtree by inserting/removing nodes near the camera as it moves is neat tech and everything but will require some kind of heap memory management for the gpu. Programming for WebGPU is the most fun juxtaposition of high vs low level programming"
X Link 2025-09-17T18:48Z 3.3M followers, 67.4K engagements

"Levers and Chests is basically on life support as we're about to drop to just one programmer. I do not understand how it can be this impossible to find programmers in LA. Well I have some theories"
X Link 2025-09-27T21:09Z 3.3M followers, 303.7K engagements

"I find the most efficient way to learn a new skill is to not overthink it at first. Just pick it up and faff around until you understand it. Faff Around and Figure Out. FAFO if you will"
X Link 2025-10-15T16:44Z 3.3M followers, 80.2K engagements

"Building new the new LEGO Star Wars Death Star btw because I could afford it. (thanks gamers I appreciate it) About half way through I think. Other than the stickers it's a really good set. Loving the greebles"
X Link 2025-10-17T19:55Z 3.3M followers, 50.9K engagements

"@juliarturc I was ranting about vibe coders and basically said "We didn't need no ai to do the coding for us Besides if we ever couldn't figure something out we'd just go on google and uh search. stack exchange. for. ok so i'm more of an OLD SCHOOL vibe coder" So maybe that"
X Link 2025-10-24T20:01Z 3.3M followers, 25.9K engagements

"YouTube doing vague "AI filtering" to all videos or whatever strikes me as the perfect attack vector for a man-in-the-middle attack on speech"
X Link 2025-10-30T19:24Z 3.3M followers, 81.4K engagements

"Free game idea: Roguefort - A medieval cheese making roguelite"
X Link 2025-11-03T08:15Z 3.3M followers, 81K engagements

"Levers and Chests update: Not given up yet. Goal is to beat Half-Life X to market which should buy me plenty of breathing space. Or worst case I get to claim I manifested HL3 for us. ;)"
X Link 2025-11-11T20:05Z 3.3M followers, 153.5K engagements

"Imagine using a live feed of the water splashing against a rock in a river as your source of randomness. Someone could attack this by building a tightly controlled artificial river where the splashes become predictable. Randomness and entropy are just the lack of understanding"
X Link 2025-11-13T11:07Z 3.3M followers, 76.8K engagements

"@YouTube Let me disable shorts please. I have an ultrawide monitor (which you know you literally did the CSS layout for me) and I will never watch one. You hiding them amongst regular videos now feels like you're trying to trick me. Just stop"
X Link 2025-12-05T03:06Z 3.3M followers, 120.6K engagements

"Just look at the skills on this dude Voxel pixel art perfection (amongst other skills). Can't wait to get back to working on a game with this man"
X Link 2025-12-06T08:40Z 3.3M followers, 325.7K engagements

"I got SO CLOSE to beating Bark Vader. Pepperonis in chat. But hey at least I managed to unlock the Chaos Tome"
X Link 2025-12-07T01:05Z 3.3M followers, 175K engagements

"@TheCartelDel When the democrats needed more voters"
X Link 2025-12-14T15:03Z 3.3M followers, 48.6K engagements

"@I70AllStar @Grummz No I moved to Texas and am working on a new game"
X Link 2025-12-14T19:49Z 3.3M followers, 3556 engagements