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We LOVE our first BGD fan art!! The characters from local studios carrying our BGD banner 🥲

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Boston Gamedev Week is next week! Check out these cool happenings in Boston leading up to and including PAX East. I’ll be leading a BGW MiniCon roundtable, “XR in Transition,” on Tuesday. Hope to see you there! gamedev.boston

If you're in town for PAX East, be sure to stop by Boston Gamedev Week! It's a developer-focused mini-con before PAX as well as some events and meetups in the evenings. @bostongamedev.bsky.social gamedev.boston

We’ve got our own fancy little mini conference coming up! Boston Gamedev Week's MiniCon will host talks + round tables in a neat little 2-day package It kicks off Tues 3/24, full schedule and pay-what-you-want tickets here -> gamedev.boston/events/minicon Thanks to our sponsor, @gamemaker.io!

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GG to all the very-early-morning climbers who managed to make it to our annual GDC Bouldering Meetup! Already thinking about how to make next year even better... 🤘🕹️

Boston Gamedev Week is BACK March 23 - 29! If you're in town for PAX East, come hang out, meet some other devs, and maybe learn a lil something! The current schedule, with events both at PAX and outside the con, is posted on gamedev.boston

“All those who are lost deserve kindness.” 🧡 Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit is coming to Steam later this year! 🚐 Discover a relaxing island oasis 🐻 Bond with a charming cast of characters 🎁 Exchange gifts with other players asynchronously .. and more! Available to wishlist now: s.team/a/2021960

Better pay that Maya invoice or you’re going in the black sedan

A peek at Agent Higgs 2 -- my particle physics puzzle game coming out this summer... testtubegames.com/blog/

Boston Game Dev will be hosting a Global Game Jam site again this year! We'll be at the Nonprofit Center downtown all weekend, 1/30 - 2/1. Come make a game with us! More info + registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-gam... Huge thank you to our sponsor @unity.com for making this possible!

I am hunting for work! Anyone in games, or other creative fields have open roles I could apply for? UI Art / Design, Concept Art, Hard Surface modeling, Design, UX... jdeegz.com

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

Build a solid, working system out the gate: nobody notices. Build a buggy mess and then fix it later after everyone experiences the pain of using it: you're the hero.

Visual scripting is objectively terrible in 99.99% of cases. This is the hill I will die on. blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com

Man, C is so much simpler and more fun to program in than C++.

friends, full disclosure: i have ZERO recollection of what we talked about when we recorded this. But I was hanging with Alan and Syrenne so I'm sure I had a good time. Go listen and be entertained? Educated? Who's to say, I guess. Go listen.

Can confirm. Adam is one of the best humans I’ve ever had the pleasure of getting to know. Check this out!

Draknek & Friends Official Podcast Episode 36 featuring @adamdegrandis.bsky.social is out now! Topics include the development of the games, his time teaching, a dive through some gaming history, and a surprisingly long tangent about music. draknek.org/podcast

Our latest Studio Spotlight: Jake Birkett (@greyalien.bsky.social) on the 20‑year journey behind his “overnight” indie success. 👽 Read → www.weloveeverygame.... #IndieDev #GameDev #Interview

"Don't repeat yourself" (aka "DRY") is the foremost pitfall of our generation of software engineers. It's followed so myopically and dogmatically that people perform heroic code structure contortions just to enable re-use of a 10 line method they could have copy/pasted.

✨ MY BOOK IS OUT NOW ✨ "Mastering Community Management" is finally here! 😭 Learn what goes into community management for video games from pre- to post-production. ❤️ Get my step-by-step strategy for creating meaningful online spaces! Shares appreciated. AHH!! Buy: www.victoriatran.com/book

Maybe we'd have flying cars and world peace if Windows had switched to LF and case-sensitive file systems like everyone else... 🤔

Hi everyone! We're Spry Fox. 🦊 As some of you may have heard, we've been working on our newest project: Spirit Crossing, a cooperative life-sim focused on friendship & community. Let's take a look at the world we've been crafting: 🌲 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEKb... ☀️ playspiritcrossing.com

the thing about "move fast and break things" is that not breaking things is often quite a lot faster

Dumpster fire fighter 🗑️🧑‍🚒

just ship it. shut up, theseus.

There's a reason the summer community BBQ is one of our favorite events of the year! So great to see our amazing community come out and make an already sunny and beautiful day even better. #gamedev #indiedev

Please, Windows, just be an operating system for me. That's all I want.

Imagine not being able to open your game engine editor today because it can't phone home. status.unity.com

hypernormalisation

Join us today at the very first Thinky Direct, filled with trailers and announcements from all the games that scratch your brain. Tune in to see #CipherZero news! 6pm BST/10am PDT/1pm EDT! www.youtube.com/live/iXyyhQd... #PlayCipherZero #IndieGameDev #IndieDev #SolveForX #ThinkyDirect

Yo! I’ve been working on my game, a tower defense called Spires of Morosith: Gossamer Sundered, and I've just published a Demo! Please give it a try, you can get it on steam here: store.steampowered.com/app/3094970/... If you dig the game, tell a friend! #indiegames #steamdemo #towerdefense

Boston GameLoop tickets went up the other day! GameLoop is one of our fav local events, "like a day full of all the best hallway conversations you’d have at GDC" as they say. Tell your game makin' friends and coworkers! August 16th @ MIT Tickets here -> www.bostonfig.com/gameloop-2025/

Some of y'all are gonna think I've gone completely nuts, but I'm gonna talk about rounded corners and why circles suck. Most devs take it for granted that rounded corners are circles. Spoiler: They don't have to be! There is a much more aesthetically pleasing and cheaper alternative. 🧵👇 #gamedev

After nearly a decade of development, I am very excited to finally announce Desolus! Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxfV...

I really struggle with this when I talk about my interests and career. I always have to say “game AI, not LLM ChatGPT stuff”

Whenever I ask colleagues about bizarre Unreal things the response is often "Oh right yeah that's a thing. Yeah you'll get used to it." Unreal is the C++ of game engines.

Five years ago I went to my first PAX not knowing anyone and with no clue how to start connecting with people in the industry. This year could not have felt like more of a full circle moment.

Unity just is not stable enough as a business or a company to rely on it for developing multi-year projects.

Are you already in Boston for PAX East? Boston Gamedev Week organized by @bostongamedev.bsky.social is happening through Friday! There's a demo night and wonderful social meetup (Make Games, Make Friends) tonight and I'll be at both. Come hang out?! Details here: gamedev.boston

My favorite part about parking at South Station is this 26 year old Mapquest printout in the elevator. #boston