Jan Willem Nijman

Jan Willem Nijman

@jwaaaap.com

Game designer: Dustbiters, Disc Room, Minit, Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing, Luftrausers, Super Crate Box, and many more. 100% of @vlambeer.com. www.jwaaaap.com

8.7K followers1.1K following721 posts

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Joonas Turner
@kissakolme.bsky.social

PAPERHEAD has the CRUNCHIEST and PUNCHIEST Sound Design & Music that I have ever done. I am beyond proud of how the game feels sonically and I truly feel like we cooked something special with this 🤘🤘🤘 IF you haven't already, give PAPERHEAD a play :) #gamedev #sound #music

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Hatok
@hatok.bsky.social
dame@dame.is

my nuclear-grade AI hot take that’s sure to get me cancelled until kingdom come is that refusing to use AI at all is rapidly becoming an extremely privileged lifestyle choice that feels social justice-y while actually being the complete opposite

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hallowbij
@bijan.bsky.social

cyberpunk thriller where a team is hired to kill an AI CEO decades after his death

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

A recent securities filing spotlighted what triggered Mark Zuckerberg’s months-long power battle with board directors at Meta — a fight that sparked not-so-veiled threats from Zuckerberg and led board members to contemplate quitting.

washingtonpost.comZuckerberg can control Meta after death. He refused to give up that power.The Meta CEO can control the company from beyond the grave. He refused to give up that power.

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Brendan Keogh
@brkeogh.bsky.social

The top two frames of the slop comic are pretty much the first part of how Marx explains technological innovation to work under capitalism. But it's missing the stage where once everyone is using the same technology, you end up back at 1-year development and only breaking even again.

Kim Hu@kim-hu.com

I can't believe he's still at it, it's been days

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adamatomic
@adamatomic.bsky.social

making games so you can hopefully afford to make more games is literally a different industry from grinding up people so number goes up and it is harmful to pretend otherwise regardless of whether or not we share a platform or a binary format

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silverm00nl1ght
@silverm00nl1ght.bsky.social

A reminder that I will be doing a hitless run of Nuclear Throne tomorrow at 10:10pm EDT! The nerves are really starting to hit me but I'm super excited - hope to see you all there!

Games Done Quick@gamesdonequick.com

GDHitless Schedule update! Here's the new schedule for today and the weekend

Jan Willem Nijman
@jwaaaap.com

Still have super fond memories of making this, electric times. Probably the first game I designed (after hundreds of finished and unfinished projects) that really felt like there was something special.

Vlambeer@vlambeer.com

Super Crate Box turned 16 today! Still very proud of this one. Big shoutout to @royndegroot.bsky.social @pietepiet.com & @strotchy.bsky.social

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Dominic Tarason
@dominictarason.com

Just a reminder to all the indie devs: You can just post a link to your game when you mention it. In fact, attaching a link and thumbnail beneath doesn't even add to the character count. This isn't Twitter. You won't be suffocated in your sleep by the algorithm here. There is no algorithm here.

Jan Willem Nijman
@jwaaaap.com

holy shit, do you have any idea how many indie games you could make for negative 80 billion dollars?

Reuters@reuters.com

Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026, WSJ reports reut.rs/4z2Zi9J

reut.rsAnthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026, WSJ reportsAI startup Anthropic recorded a net loss of more than $80 billion ​in the first half of this year, including $72 billion in ‌accounting charges, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing a draft initial public offering prospectus.

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adamatomic
@adamatomic.bsky.social

sorry, code is fucking beautiful. its fucking magical i can type words in the thing and fucking TRIANGLES just appear ? oops i typed it wrong and the triangles did something i didn't EXPECT ?? now weird shit is happening ?? this is the best shit of all time. i was born to fight the computer

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ANNAPURNA
@annapurna.com

The Faraway release date trailer is here! Faraway is coming November 5th to PC (via Steam and the Epic Games Store), Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox X|S.

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Remar Games
@remargames.se

Tower of Gold is coming November 1st! 🎉 It's a massive puzzle/action game with a first-person overworld full of characters and mysteries. I'll release a trailer alongside the game, but here's a small teaser in the meantime! #indiegames #indiedev

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Vlambeer
@vlambeer.com

Nuclear Throne Update 100 added Custom Difficulty mode last year. Question: have you been using it, and if so, how?

Jan Willem Nijman
@jwaaaap.com

i haven’t played this yet but do wanna say it’s very important in game design to let some things be annoying sometimes

Blue@bluestigma.bsky.social

Fighting Medusa Heads in a Castlevania game with no contact damage is like seeing an athlete who was never the same after that life-changing injury years ago: Depressing

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Roguelike Celebration
@roguelike.club

Our full schedule is up, and what an amazing one it is! roguelike.club/event2026.html Our delightful alternate-sports themed MUD will be open for you to watch all of this goodness live on October 17-18!

roguelike.clubRoguelike Celebration 2026Roguelike Celebration 2026 is taking place October 17th and 18th, with a weekend of talks, games, and conversations about roguelikes and related topics, including procedural generation and game design...

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Visai Games | Venba is Available now!!
@visaigames.bsky.social

We're Visai Games! 👋 We made Venba, an award winning narrative cooking game. As outsiders to the industry, we found our following in twitter but logging into it now means coming face to face with a lot of South Asian racism. If you like Venba, Follow us here so we don't have to login to twitter!

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WangleLine
@wangleline.com

Can't wait for the day bluesky adds 60fps video support so I can properly show off my disgustingly optimized game

Jan Willem Nijman
@jwaaaap.com

programming is hard that’s why I use game maker

Rock Paper Shotgun@rockpapershotgun.bsky.social

"We vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher" because "programming is hard", announce company we're somehow supposed to see as a serious Steam competitor https://bit.ly/4hMHbi5

rockpapershotgun.com"We vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher" because "programming is hard", announce company we're somehow supposed to see as a serious Steam competitorEpic Games have released a new "vibe coded" launcher for their store, because of course they have.