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DID YOU KNOW my game design sketchbook runs on steamdeck and also a variety of toasters and is less than $5 🐕 20 new games (that could have been made in 1983) 💠 Most of them are actually good!! 🔥 Reclaim long lost sense of joy 📚 Unlockable making-of diaries! store.steampowered.com/app/4044300/...

Belltower House is currently accepting applications through October 30th for the spring at belltowerhouse.org

261007 pico-8-edu.com?c=AHB4YQqKBQ... press X to toggle demo mode Xを押してデモモードを切り替える #pico8 #dailycarts

How do you play Tetris with spaghetti? Noodling around in indie puzzle game Spaghetti Celesti is a great way to pasta time! Free on Itch! punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-ce... by indie dev @punkcake.club #gaming

i put together a little video explaining 868-BACK for the curious! youtu.be/SU_67Y2Wb_0

yeah man it’s an upgraded cluster grenade but let’s give it a banana theme <— good game design

making games so you can hopefully afford to make more games is literally a different industry from grinding up people so number goes up and it is harmful to pretend otherwise regardless of whether or not we share a platform or a binary format

i think the games industry should have studios that exist

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

sorry, code is fucking beautiful. its fucking magical i can type words in the thing and fucking TRIANGLES just appear ? oops i typed it wrong and the triangles did something i didn't EXPECT ?? now weird shit is happening ?? this is the best shit of all time. i was born to fight the computer

"dont worry, we didn't use LLMs for real art, like writing, or graphics, or sound, we only used it for dumb gross useless basic shit like programming" always the funnest thing to read as a programmer, as someone whose whole career is based on code, whose handwritten library changed the industry etc

@unwisewoman.bsky.social @thatdoll.online

hell yeah, back on my bullshit

I had a great time speaking at @roguelike.club earlier today. The live stream recording is here www.youtube.com/live/R8DSq8q...

vibing to the wilmot warehouse soundtrack today to discover there's a sequel available 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/2060590/...

BBF and Nemmie ❤️ Soldiers by necessity. Guys did you notice that 1000xRESIST and I Was A Teenage Exocolonist are in a Steam bundle for the Autumn sale?? Two incredible games with amazing plots, characters, art design, lesbians, generational trauma, and more!! #Farisart #art #IWATEX #1000xRESIST

My roguelike minesweeper game, Dead East, is ready to play! 🪦 Travel east to Haven’s Reach and bury as many of the dead as you can along the way! 🎮 Play on Lexaloffle: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=159... 🕹️ Or on itch.io: punkcake.itch.io/dead-east #gamedev #indiedev

Transmissions? What transmissions??

i don't read a ton of YA, but whenever i do i am reminded that 1 - the children must be exceedingly unhappy 2 - the Nouns must be Proper

we are not qualified

I’ve never played Cinco Paus so listening to this episode was like hearing people talk about a religious experience or an encounter with an alien. Great podcast.

really beautiful essays on what it means to tetris, and to be a tetris reprogram your brain, enjoy the gorgeous vibes !!

Hot Wax is finally coming out on Steam!!!

Heyyyy Beast Breaker is 33% off! Try out this combat pinball game that I so happened to work on. It's good! store.steampowered.com/app/4011790/...

Usual June is coming January 20, 2027 to Steam, XBOX, GOG, Humble, & Itchio! Fight monsters, talk to ghosts, and get to the bottom of a mystery threatening to obliterate an entire city in Usual June, a third-person action-adventure game developed by Finji (that's us!) 👻 Play the demo on Steam!

literally surrounded by non-human consciousness experts desperate for research funding, withering, insightful, measured, while valley bros are doing bumps of horse tranquilizer and posting like my web app really gets me you know and now my orthodontist wants to know if autocorrect broke containment

we are not qualified

If Chris's work following this case (and other worker-focused industry stories) is valuable to you, then please consider subscribing to his new games industry outlet @verticalslicenews.bsky.social - currently running a 33% discount: www.verticalslice.news <3

All Systems Brough - CINCO PAUS We're joined by @johnaxon.bsky.social @raiganburns.bsky.social @blueprincegame.bsky.social to discuss the landmark wand-slinging magical-deduction roguelike. It’s the 10th episode of our year covering @smestorp.bsky.social's oeuvre! secretlives.games/all-systems-...

El- Sayed: "Here‘s the thing about it – no matter who you are, how you love, how you pray, how you identify, it just should not be this hard... Shouldn‘t be this hard to keep our money here. Spend it on roads and bridges here, build our schools here, provide healthcare here. Shouldn‘t be this hard"

I'm wrapping up my time with Cardboard Computer on their unannounced game in early November, & I have some capacity again! If you're looking for consultation or longer term support from an expert game director, narrative designer & writer, drop me a line 💖 contact [at] hannahnicklin.com

Take a look behind-the-scenes at Usual June's level design! 🪦 Cemeteries, giant hydrangea bushes, otherworldly arenas, and more! youtu.be/aqp0k6_LcyM?...

#ldjam #60 this weekend ~ grab a #pico8 key for good luck! Theme Voting: ldjam.com/events/ludum...

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

if you want capital letters at the start of sentences you'll need to pay me. that's On The Clock behaviour

thinking back to when i started a new game project in 2023 but accidentally began by making this impossible to follow up setpiece

i keep seeing headlines about "anthro pic" and

we've been doing 🌈 LEVEL DESIGN 🌈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqp0...

Have you seen the brand new @usualjune.bsky.social trailer we premiered at @cozyafterdarkshow.bsky.social 👀 #usualjune | Wishlist on Steam! | Play the free demo!

Two new contract positions on Project D! Know how to make Unreal shine? Come make something beautiful & surprising! These are remote contract roles, ideally EU timezones => ➡️ Senior Environment Artist ➡️ Environment Artist www.workwithindies.com/work-with/ha... #gamejobs #gamedevjobs #gamedev

Usual June is now launching January 20th, 2027. Read more below 💛 @usualjune.bsky.social | #usualjune