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With it's public announcement, I'm extremely honoured and privileged to finally be able to say I'll be leading the team bringing the beloved HeroQuest board game to the digital realm. ⚔️ I can't wait to share more as we approach release! store.steampowered.com/app/3883590/... #gamedev #indiedev

🧵This Molyneux quote has filled me with existential dread ever since I read it. It reminds me of one of my favorite collaborative moments working with @threeohfour.bsky.social. We were about 1/3 through Unavowed production. I asked him if he could animate some kind of idle animation for Eli.

FACT 👇

Watching this thing suggests all over again that AI-generated art's central failing continues to be that the kinds of people who might use AI tools to make something interesting are the kinds of people who hate the supposed shortcut of using AI tools because they enjoy the work of making art.

There's a Knightmare point and click adventure game in development based on the 1980s TV show. No AI. Apparently it'll be free, which is weird, but OK fine! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQnQ...

NVM figured out how to get it #gamedev #sammich

One of the most insightful comments about game development came from a former boss. He said “Making a game is like starting a band. You can’t throw money at a new studio with random AAA veterans and expect it to crank out a hit.” 🧵

RIP Tom Skerritt 😢 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's so damn dire out there. Support your favourite indies, your dedication actually helps them unlike whatever this AAA loop is

Actual crime.

We just released the demo for our game "Demi and the Fractured Dream" for the Steam Next Fest. Try out the demo and wishlist! 🥰 #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #demiandthefractureddream #steamnextfest

The magic returns! We are thrilled to announce that we are bringing Hasbro’s legendary dungeon crawler HeroQuest to PC! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGSR...

Finally getting around to watching The Mandalorian and Grogu. 🍿

Hungry Horrors is made in @godotengine.org 4.6 and all art is hand pixelled in @aseprite.org. We launched it on Steam for Windows, Mac and Linux and it also is Steam Deck verified. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

Gamedevs, now's your chance! It's #TurnBasedThursday and I'm honored to be this week's official host on bsky. Share your turn-based games in the replies along with the #TurnBasedThursday hashtag! Turn-based #gaming fans: ❤️, 🔁, and follow your favorites! You ready? LET'S GO! #GameDev #IndieDev

Feeling rather jaded with the perpetually constant seeping of AI tech into everyday life. 😩 Seems like it’s almost impossible to avoid now no matter how one tries to do so. 😒

In 1980, Hayao Miyazaki felt creatively washed up. Then he read an American comic that amazed him. Its name: Rowlf. As he tried to adapt it into a movie, Miyazaki evolved and found a new approach that reshaped his work. We're looking into the story: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/an-unmade-...

Never been a more moral time to be buying indie games instead of the Big Boys. It's like getting your coffee from the locally owned cafe on the high street instead of a massive bucket of watered down piss slurry from EvilCoffeeCorp that burns down the rainforest. Buy indie, they have your back.

Integration test of the P3 model. Animation handling is easier since this character has no "locomotion" just one timeline I scrub based drift/thrust and a barrel roll. That's a wrap on art for a while, going back to coding for a few weeks. #ScreenshotSaturday ♫ Surfboard (Walter Wanderley) ♫

Shipped the latest build of our next super secret project for a milestone this evening and had pizza for tea. It ALMOST felt like a traditional late night submission for the PS2! 🎮

RIP Margaret Hamilton

You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid

Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.

Anybody accusing Loish of using AI is just admitting that they never paid any attention to online art spaces for the last couple decades.

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

We're not just a Hack n' Slash, we've got schmoovement too 😼 #indiedev

If you play games, do the indie dev folks who create them a favour and review the game! Here's more on how and why - nomadgames.co.uk/blog/how-to-... #IndieDev #Gaming

they're finally bring 3d movie streaming to the Quest.. holy shit, been waiting for this forever..

YESSSS!! Took a couple days, but I now have one motor function that can lets penguins hit any point on anything with any point on any other thing. Probably one of the most versatile motor tasks I've made. SO happy with this! 🐧🐟🔨🙏🧊🚿🪵 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

"Yes we've let loads of people go and laid waste to great swathes of the industry BUT BUT BUT let us also regale you with tales of this absolute bullfuckshittery we've got going on."

DLC ANNOUNCEMENT! Just when you thought the card-flipping horrors were over... new secrets are unearthed. Introducing a brand new story-driven DLC, Forbidden Solitaire: The Discarded! Please wishlist and share: store.steampowered.com/app/5238350/... New levels, enemies, jokers, sigils + more!

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🎮 Help us map the UK’s videogame heritage We’ve launched the UK’s first nationwide survey of videogame-related collections, and we want to hear from developers, publishers, studios, collectors and industry professionals. Take part: forms.gle/z9a1qhVopYMT...

Such an iconic image. The Conan The Adventurer book cover art by Frank Frazetta really created the template for a ‘Barbarian’ warrior that has inspired so many since! More here: exploringwarhammer.substack.com/p/conan

Mounted Postal Knight, for the upcoming Obojima expansion book: Tales of Yatamon

Some short thoughts on Steam Frame from a developer perspective (not a tech heavy review)...with some groaning about the industry. youtu.be/UxFVc07rFww

Finally at the IMAX in Manchester to watch the Odyssey. This best be good! 😉

My heart is heavy today. It was such an amazing group of people and I treasure my four years there. I know the weight of the world has been on the founders trying to make it in a brutal games landscape. If Polyarc meant something to you reach out and let them know.

As someone who worked at a British dev studio in the north of England who made superhero games for Acclaim, this post is spot on.

Being an Ocarina of Time fan as a gamedev means testing every new feature of your game in an OoT re-enactment (duh). Here's an old test of penguin "battle stance" and falling animations. #gamedev #indiedev #Zelda

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sea slug sanctuary

Next member of the Coffee Crew is ready for autumn!