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Most recent reason for my existence: A note-taking metroidvania where the only upgrades you get are knowledge. You can already do everything, you just don‘t know how.

Rockstar workers in @gameworkers.co.uk are determined to push union recognition over the line by whatever means necessary, so we can continue making progress on our key aims: an end to ‘crunch’, pay transparency, flexible working, and commitments to no AI or layoffs. 1/5

Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

Some of my favorite designs- hey! don't just collect them, use them in your game! There are 40 more in my sale itch.io/s/181080/ok-...

I‘ve been thinking about doing something similar but with knitting. Only it would take about a year just for the sprites. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

"Indie games" (itself an overly broad term at this point) aren't going to "save" games; there's a whole list of factors at play with what's going on, but man At this point independently produced games feel like about the only ethical option.

I’m thinking, as a consumer, what‘s the right course of action? Is it possible to put enough pressure on corporations? Or is it our obligation to educate our fellow gamers not to support them?

Damn, I don‘t want to meet one of those in the dark.

Well this sucks. Feel free to send them feedback and/or cancel any memberships or donations.

For everyone still caught up in the „knit or crochet“ question, 300year old icelandic blanket says the people back then already knew that BOTH, IN THE SAME PROJECT is the answer.

If you‘ve got loved ones that knit or crochet, for the love of yarn, don‘t gift them… well, yarn! (Unless they specifically asked for a certain amount of a certain yarn of course.)

Flying to Iceland now. Anyone volunteering to finish my game if I crash?

There's always that stage of music composition that feels like piecing together a puzzle where none of the pieces fit together so I have to cut each of them to shape. Can anyone relate?

A father builds an adapted controller for his daughter to play Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Protect your images from AI thievery: nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

A good resource to help resisting GenAI I just discovered thanks to @drkatedevlin.bsky.social talk at #emfcamp: airesistlist.org (the talk: media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-19...)

I contend that Super Mario Bros 3 for the #SNES is not only the best #Mario games ever, but it’s the greatest home video game ever made for any system. I remember the visceral rush of playing that game for 3 days straight almost nonstop when it was first released. #Nintendo #gamesky #dailynerdfix

Who‘d have thought it was a bad idea to give CRUD capabilities to a probabilistic machine that doesn‘t know what it‘s doing. www.techtimes.com/articles/320...

"I can't brainstorm without ai" "I can't draw without ai" "I can't write without ai" "Ai summarized it for me cause it's too hard of a read" So what exactly /can/ you do? Because you sound fucking useless to me

I kinda feel like the writing is on the wall now. We're seeing a spike in insider trading as everyone gets out before a crash, countries are instituting rules that make it functionally impossible to be profitable because AI bros were banking on literally zero externalities, etc.

i think taking a longer break from a project is a great way to learn which parts of your code are unreadable as the fuck did I do there did I really write this what was i think taking a longer break from a project is a great

considering making my character into an amigurumi. I have the pattern, but I‘d need the right colored yarns 🤔

Hey Friends :) My name is Eric and I am making a game called LUCID. Its a love letter to the games I played growing up. I'd love to connect and be friends. #WishlistWednesday #pixelart #aseprite #ドット #metroidvania #indiegame

Ohh the mustache! 🥸

Omg the cookie jar cat

I can‘t play as fast as I want to support indie game devs.

I changed the way I work a couple of months ago to follow this advice, it made a big difference and my productivity went up by miles. (I don't know who made this image, if you do, let me know so they can be credited)

Gotta admire the obtuseness of not even reading the tweets you‘re screenshotting and going, huh, whatever might they mean?

"I've struggled to write something that would persuade my colleagues and friends to ditch AI and affirm their avowed beliefs about climate change, the trustworthiness of megacorporations, and our right to live and work with dignity. I accept that I'm not up to that task. So I wrote this instead […]"

Another tiny gem I recently played was Drill Bird. Very short (like, an hour or two), very sweet, and it‘s even got one of those „oooohhhhh“ moments. store.steampowered.com/app/3809940/...

Just finished Elec Head. Shoot your head to power things in your surroundings and overcome obstacles. ⚡️ Short and sweet puzzle platformer by the developer of Öoo. store.steampowered.com/app/1456880/...

Is everyone being hacked or am I being a boomer? Why is everybody reposting that Zeus game?

Wheeling out this classic. RIP Anne "Bone Farmer" Widdecombe

What happens when you lose hope is not depression. What happens is you become an asshole.

Guys. I‘m not an expert at social media in the least. But I do know that people are lazy. When you post your games, don‘t expect people to go and find your bio or google it. POST 👏 THE 👏 LINK 👏

That was both entertaining and interesting. The Gemini pics are scary good.

Yes, it does. 🤨 #jokesters

@eternalskies.neocities.org thank you for all your starter packs. Just what I was looking for. ♥️

How do you know which projects to pursue when? How do you know whether it‘s just ADHD brain or laziness or the promise of an easy beginning drawing you to another project—or it‘s genuinely best to give up on the current one?

I *could* be thinking about the plot of book two. I could be thinking about character arcs and plot twists and revelations… But it‘s much easier to be thinking about what the title could be. #booksky #authorsky #amplotting #amwriting #writingcommunity

🌸 Devlog: STUFFSCAPE is back in production, soon! ^_^ I took a long break after getting pulled onto another project, and with most of that work being under NDA, there wasn't much I could share here. Happy to be working on it again ✨ #gamedev #indiedev #devlog #pixelart #stuffscape #solodev

My book has three followers! One is my husband, one is my boyfriend. I wonder who is number three. Are you going to be number four? 🥺 Read Doom and Discord on Royal Road! #booksky #authorsky #writingcommunity www.royalroad.com/fiction/1757...