Dan Thomas

Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater. RIP Bioware and so sorry to all the amazing people there, you deserved better.

I don't use Tiktok much. I don't know why because it takes me to some fucking wild places and I'm here for it... 😂 vm.tiktok.com/ZN8AxLP9b/

In case you were under the impression it's just games in a bad place. Not too be too depressing, but this is important context to acknowledge

Hey gamers! I'm thinking of creating a women-led luxury gaming magazine or book. I have a quick 4 question survey to gauge interest in it. Please fill it out even if it's a "not for me" it would be hugely helpful. Also please share so I can get more data! forms.gle/ZD9Gen7C4foe...

Good start to the week, vegan french toast discovered in Manchester 💪

Bore da 👋 Celebrating Shwmae Sumae Day with a morning Welsh class at my local cafe. Da Iawn! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm a tech artist searching for some freelance work ⚔️ I was tech artist on Knights in Tight Spaces, and made some sick VFX ✨ I've worked on AR projects with Aardman and The National Gallery, among others 🎨 I love making weird procedural art and shaders 🔗 viki-scull.github.io

Taking a break from programming @kalapaint.bsky.social to paint in @kalapaint.bsky.social Playing with some of the brushes users are making, they're awesome

tldr; Other platforms have you rent access to their creators, but Launchpad is not a platform – it is a suite of tools that helps you build your own creators database, manage your keys across all platforms, and send your keys out organically! 🙌

Big news! Indie games Devs and marketers pay attention. Launchpad has been in the works for a long time, developed for indies with indies 👇

I'm mostly just focusing on the barn build lately. I'll get back to games stuff soon, but whilst the weather is just about holding out, we build! #BarnLife #SelfBuild youtu.be/KXIPxZoyH98?...

Can we stop with all the autumn celebrations? It's not like it's even October yet or anything... 👀 😳

The Quiet Things is 20% off in the Steam Autumn sale! 🍁 If it's been sitting on your wishlist, now is a super good time to grab a copy, for the price of a few pumpkin spice lattes you could support a little indie team ☕ store.steampowered.com/app/2288520/... #indiegame #narrativegame

Just heard about the countdown mechanic in Blood of Dawnwalker, which reminds me of the timer countdown in Séance of Blake Manor. Seemingly a marmite mechanic. I'm for it. Completionism compels me to *do all the things*, but this gives me permission to *not* and just get on with it. I approve.

A nice grown up thread on running a sensible service business in the games industry. Well done George, good grown-upping right there 🙌

"Make the game you want to play" might not be the best advice. It probably already exists and you can have a lot of fun finding it. "Make the game you want to be a part of creating" is better and makes you focus on the process, associated learnings and joy available in that.

Was thinking this earlier. To IPO is to hand over the primary concern of a business to being: benefit shareholders no matter the cost

We knew it was good, but we really didn't realise how good it was in the nineties, eh?

Super fascinating. Long form is more significant than I'd assumed. Doesn't mean every dev should be making *their own* long-form content though, also consider enabling it from others with existing reach (provide quality assets, do interviews, be interesting to creators) 👇

Been playing The Mermaid Mask and it's SO GOOD. Great writing, genuinely funny, superb voice acting, lovely art & animation and a super intuitive and satisfying UI. Big recommend and congrats @sfbdim.bsky.social, @sfbtom.bsky.social and co 🙌

Today we're all celebrating that it is NATIONAL VIDEO GAMES DAY!! We know what our favourite video games are... but what are some of yours?

Fuck genAI, just have been alive in the actual 80s...

Extremely hyped to hang out with the @limitbreak.co.uk committee tomorrow. Excited to make plans for what comes next and spend time with a bunch of selfless legends doing their bit to make a better, more diverse, supported and creative games industry in otherwise testing times 💖

Some great tools for thriving with adhd here 💡 (Also, hard relate on the early dementia paranoia, appreciated reading this 👀)

I'd happily help with this. I can advise on strategy, technical setup, and making the most of your platform. I'm clueless about romance media, but obsessed with people finding and making the most of "their thing". If yours might be romance games, step forward 👇

So, industry revenue has continued to climb. But we know thousands of incomes have been obliterated. Great, so execs and shareholders are laughing, but what happens to future games content? 🤔

If you're into indie horror games, @readgraves.com has been going HARD on surfacing that shiz. Check out his feed for the firehose of ✨goodstuff✨ #indiedev #horror

"The modern workplace runs on fear..." 100%. Likewise for modern society and government. "...put fear where it belongs, beneath us" 🔥🔥🔥

This was a really fun and cool chat with Wayne about three stellar arcade game that really shaped my love of it all! Give it a watch / listen 🕹️💖

"If I had a pound for every time someone in the games industry asked me that question, I could nearly afford a PS5 Pro" First actual lol of the day brought to you by @georgeosborn.bsky.social's VGIM. Extra points as I'm on a busy train 👀

Another thought on "friendslop"... Does that style of game appeal to the generation of players who have graduated from Roblox > Steam over the past few years, perhaps?

Looking for someone who can do rigging and animation for a some ad-hoc work on Crescent County! If you are that person, or know of that person, please reply or DM me 🙏

My barn has a tall, 45 degree pitch roof (very steep). So getting the various materials on it requires some iteration 😅 youtu.be/akfV-917_wc?...

New #BarnLife video just dropped. This one is super exciting for us as the stonework on the barn starts being done and it totally transforms the aesthetic. Finished, fresh stonework is SO satisfying www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TO-...

📢 Public service announcement: gamescom is a work event. Women there are working, not looking for a date. If you can’t handle being around a woman without making it weird, stay home. Thanks for coming to my annual TED talk.

Managed to do a weekly shop that lasted a week. In your face cost of living crisis. (BRB just finishing eating my plain pasta and carrots dinner)

I have been using this every day for a couple of weeks now and it gets a BIG recommend from me. If you journal, or think you should (you should) start here 👇

Just read all 33 quoted posts and yep, not a single positive sentiment (but a few funny takedowns). I'm almost tempted to see if there's any positive response to this on the bad place, but nah. bsky.app/profile/gibi...

This is an amazing initiative. Just a bunch of good gamedevs doing something good. Good. 👏👏👏

Selling on FB marketplace is so freaking stressful. The amount of scammers and bots makes it such a hostile environment.

Borbs