Andrés Ortiz Suárez 🏳️‍🌈

GOOD life lessons learned from gamedev: - Savagely hacking down scope is the fastest and most effective way to make an awesome product - Limitations make you do your job better - A button or seam in the right place is all you need to turn a character from garbage to fuckable

Say it loud: leveraged buyouts are legalized theft

If you're mad about this (AND YOU SHOULD BE) - I know indies can't be expected to save the game industry. But goddammit some help would be great. Go to Steam or wherever - find a game (NOT MADE WITH ANY AI) that you think is fun and unique - TELL EVERYONE ABOUT IT. Boost signals!

"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

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Variety is reporting that RJ Mitte, who played Walt Jr. on Breaking Bad, has died. He was 34. No cause of death was immediately given. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Earlier versions of the game did acknowledge the creators of the original games at the start of each section, and I consider it unacceptable that this was removed at Jon’s direction. Stephen Totilo noticed this change and wrote a nuanced article here: www.gamefile.news/p/a-complica...

Turn the audio on for this one. Stellar messaging. Then click that button for the wishlist.

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AI is forcing a wedge between those who see any given craft as a means to an end vs. those who have learned to enjoy and value the skillful execution of the craft itself

also no one will fund prototyping which is another part of this catastrophe

Only 4 more days to put your game into the game industry hardship fund! Please add your games (and TTRPGs are okay too) so we can make some money for out of work game devs! Do it over the weekend! itch.io/jam/game-ind...

if you're not in the know, hourences leaving epic is the reddest red flag of all time

people (myself included) have always talked about how there will be a time when a certain unreal version becomes the new canon "last good version" that an extraordinary amount of developers lock themselves to, supported by the license agreement. the time is coming really fucking soon.

Today’s State of Unreal was yet another huge disappointment in an ocean of disappointments

I also made something for #manifestojam & I would love if you would check it out. thisisstar.itch.io/instructions...

can’t wait to see what new horrors will be announced at the state of unreal keynote. love when my livelihood is threatened by executives with chatbot psychosis, they are calling it 2026’s most relatable feeling

Studios not being allowed to survive making bad video games and learn from them is also a reason bad video games keep happening

A friendly reminder that Double Fine's Psychodyssey is one of the finest pieces of media ever created, and a must-watch for anyone who cares about video games, yet somehow it's also completely free www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I hate this timeline

One more week to submit your games to the bundle, please consider!

If anyone is looking to hire a Peabody and BAFTA winning senior writer, I am looking for work. I’ve got six years experience in games. Everything from indie to AAA. I am not married to staying in games. I am hoping to relocate to the Bay Area. I am keeping my ears to the ground.

Naughty Dog only makes trailers when A) it is the right tactical time to start the hype train for their next title and B) they benefit on working on the trailer as an excuse to flesh out a particularly ambitious segment of gameplay (usually a huge set piece) that they needed to do anyway

oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this??? In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING

I want a job animating on the new upcoming Wolf Among Us do I know anybody who works at telltale, please, I wanna work on it SO bad it's been a dream for years lol

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let me add too that we were ostensibly closed because our major was "unsustainable," but the state's - and university's - own metrics showed that our enrollment has been growing consistently since 2012 this wasn't about money and it wasn't about metrics. it was about something else.

I keep trying to think of anything to post or say or share but man everything sucks Just quietly making angry games under the heel of facism

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

We worked real hard and did a huge amount of quality of life stuff (mouse control, text logs), added New Game Plus, and a bunch of extra dialog bits for Demonschool. It's also currently the Steam daily deal at 30% off! Good time to grab it if you haven't.

slay the princess under $10...

Ok, there are some amazing photos here, but I'm calling BS on that dude by the firepit. No way he's a cosplayer and not an actual fae. apnews.com/photo-essay/...

little formulation I've been rolling over: for a class of games that want you to slowly steep in their narrative waters, gameplay functions as a kind of fidget toy. And this isn't incidental; some corners of the affect space that narrative as a whole maps out are only unlocked by fidgeting

I never thought I would be living in the timeline where buying a Switch 2 at launch was an economically smart move

The answer is: this isn’t a useful question Let’s move on

A Star Fox 64 remake in a “realistic” style isn’t what I would have done but you know what I am so starved for Star Fox games I will buy it day one

“Designers nowadays are more worried about pleasing influencers than gamers” No, let’s not misrepresent the past. Back then as now, we have always had to think about how our game is marketed. We designed around set pieces and how well features showed/demoed. Influencers are just the new marketing.

Taking swings at GenAI by making a video about how complex and artful the process of conceptualizing and designing characters actually is.

I love this essay very much!!!!