DynamicDonut

Hey all! I'm DynamicDonut. I've been designing games for years, 4 of those creating puzzles for the game Two Dots. I also have a huge passion for game design teaching! I'm always willing to chat about any new indie releases and you can see my personal work over at bwgamedesign.com!

In the last year, No More Robots has funded + is currently funding a dozen games, and has paid numerous devs to make prototypes happen for free But obviously, getting press is absolutely impossible for us, because only doom and gloom gets clicks

Deductopia comes out tomorrow! This is the culmination of two of the hardest years of my life, including disaster, recovery, and loss. It's a low-key miracle that this game still got finished, and it means a lot to me if you check it out. store.steampowered.com/app/4429720/...

RIP

With the recent news about the passing of Chiba Tetsuya (creator of Ashita no Joe), I'd highly recommend watching last year's episode of Manben that spotlighted him. It's amazing to watch a veteran of their craft at work and there are a lot of charming moments. archive.org/details/manb...

Putting out the call, I'm currently organizing prizes, if you or you think someone / a company you know would like to take part and offer some kind of prize for a human made game jam please shoot me a message, we already have a few locked in. #GameDev #GameJam #HandCraftedJam

Happy Monday! Cici found out it was National Pumpkin Day (US) and had a lot of fun carving their Halloween jack-o-lantern! Hope you get a chance to have fun this week :)

I am seeing a lot of “I didn’t know going for one credit clears was even a *thing*” in response to this, and folks, let me direct you to my wonderful partner @lordbbh.bsky.social and his archive of 750+ 1CC Twitch streams

Games are made by people and game studios are made of people but game studios are also made of institutional knowledge, continuity, practices, standards, technology, resources, and IP. And those things do mean something, and it is a loss when they're discarded.

steam next fest thread #2 lets dig through the fucking slop to find real games

"If I said I would come with you, would you let me?" This Thursday, my PC-98 inspired yuri game, "if you stay", is coming out this Thursday 10/22 on Steam and itch.io Link in bio.

this also applies wholesale to the indie game industry btw

But hey, if you push through and beat the odds and become a one-in-a-million success story, you too might one day have a throng of fans tweeting at you to kill yourself

it's simple: everyone on earth should make at least one game in bitsy, twine, puzzlescript, zzt, rpgmaker 2k/3, and pico-8. all of them have robust tooling, smart creative constraints, browser exports, and lively communities.

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

i see it as a natural evolution of tone in environments where we have to convey a lot more subtlety and cues than conversational/casual written english was really meant for

The homies have a new stim, and I dunno if I can handle it.

Genuinely the best physical game work I've seen in a long time. Escalatrónico7000 was playable as part of the GLITCH Collective showcase at @sagabcngamefest.bsky.social - tactile, poignant, and fascinating. Endless conversation about the little climber friend. www.todonormal.com/pages/escala...

I never forgot this but 9/11 happened when I was like… 22? And I had all these naive ad violent images in my head. And I had one friend, slightly older guy, he was just not about that, and I asked him “you don’t want see anyone dead for this?” And he goes “no man, hate hurts the character.”

I also want Vertical Slice to evolve beyond the confines of a traditional paper. That's why I'm launching The Repository, a growing (free) collection of pitch decks and design docs donated by generous contributors including @kitfoxgames.com, @outersloth.com, and @outerloopgames.bsky.social.

new site idea everythingloggd and you click on someone's (my) profile and see this

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Not many cozy black horror games out there and even less for under $5 check it out for Halloween 🎃

breaks my heart when people respond to zine scams with long threads of "advice" boiling down to 1) don't make zines and 2) if you do, professionalize. genuinely think my advice would be the complete opposite. go smaller, go shittier, go more diy, and all of that will keep it manageable.

YouTube hasn't paid out music streaming earnings to Distrokid for almost two months with no communication, so my income has been cut in half just for fun. It's a startling reminder that the entire streaming ecosystem could just go away overnight because a tech company lets it. Buy albums if you can.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our latest project: preserve.games, a browsable catalog of organizations, museums, projects and communities dedicated to video game preservation! If you've ever wondered how to get involved or where you can learn more, this is the site for you!