Elliott Mitchell 🎥 🧀

Intro: I am an artist who founded an indie studio & became a game dev, XR dev, volumetric filmmaker, & community organizer. My game reached number 3 on the App Store. I have played significant roles in projects that were Emmy-nominated, exhibited internationally, & had a substantial cultural impact.

The demo is live too (no matt mercer voice in the demo, that's coming in the full version) store.steampowered.com/app/3796720/...

Matt Mercer is the voice of Mr Magpie! youtu.be/PGB5VC6rebY

Holy Smokes!

Mulholland Drive is probably the pinnacle of David Lynch's long-running ability to craft a story of about a thousand different depths. There is no real "Aha!" moment of solving the mystery. You go deeper and deeper until you find the meaning that personally feels right to you.

I've got some thoughts on the game Peak and narrative design. Yes, Peak. And yes, narrative design. I did in fact put those two things together in a sentence. Also the debut post of my new site, A Tattered Coat. Check it out! tatteredcoat.bearblog.dev/peak-an-open...

OMFG: I went to use a Datacolor Spyder 5 Elite monitor calibration device that had never been activated, and this is what I was presented with. $250 and useless as of 9 days ago. I can’t even…

FINALLY I can publicly say that Mr Magpie is being published by @bhvr.com, the creators of Dead by Daylight! It's been great working with them. Everyone on the team is bright and talented. We are super lucky to have them in our corner. youtu.be/1gHE0TOoP5g

Excited to be running our first official GodotCon as SceneTree. Come to GodotCon Boston 2026 July 21 - 22 at the Microsoft NERD Center. conference.godotengine.org Early bird tickets are on sale until June 5th. Accepting speakers, workshops, and Godot project showcases until June 15th.

That's right, BGD will be on the show floor at #PAXEast in booth 13085! In addition to these glorious pins, you can also play these great locally made games: Of the Devil @nthcircle.bsky.social Never’s End @hypersect.com Nocternum @normalhorsegames.bsky.social Wilderbard @respite-dev.bsky.social

An 1.5 hours from now - I'm delivering the @officialpax.bsky.social East keynote! See y'all soon!!

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

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

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!

Huge Update for Mr. Magpie! Big new art, a ton of new perks, a Theology Department, and a million other improvements. store.steampowered.com/app/3616280/...

Our CCG roguelite deckbuilder, Vortex Siege, just launched a public playtest! Check it out here: store.steampowered.com/app/3029050/... #indiedev #gamedev #playtest #vortexsiege

Frogmageddon... TODAY!!! BUY NOW: store.steampowered.com/app/3201190/... #frog #indiedev #gaming #Steam

Keeping warm in Vermont

Was super excited that the trailer for our game Drift Scavenger just got posted to IGN! WOOOOO! Definitely a big milestone for me. feels good!🙂 www.ign.com/videos/drift...

Meet my angry gnome, Orrin Ironpiss. Rigged and animated in Maya. He's the main character in my third person #VR game, Stabby Stabby Loot Loot. #VRGaming #Animation #ActionRPG

Towerbound is live, free, and playable in Browser. freezebeam.itch.io/towerbound It's a bite-sized Tower Building / Tower Defense Roguelite Deckbuilder. Take a 20 minute Silk Song break and see if you can finish a run.

Making games, volumetric XR experiences and music in #vermont

💥Ash & Adam's Existential Treads now has a pre-release demo!💥 Top down Action! Settlement-building! Explosions! We've been working on this all year and can't wait for you to play.🍻 Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/... Itch: ashadamsgames.itch.io/existential-... #indiegame

Come join our artist Annie and senior engineer Ian on how animations and the details of each of them brought the unique worlds of CIPHER ZERO to life! notes.cipherzerogame.com/posts/02-mak... #GameDev #IndieDev #SolveForX #DevLog

"There are two truths we must face when we look at nostalgia: first, that memories aren’t necessarily identical to reality; and second, most of us firmly believe that it is." -- @nyanfood.bsky.social notes.cipherzerogame.com/posts/01-dra... #GameDev #IndieDev #SolveForX #DevLog

We're going to be sharing stories and techniques over the next coming weeks to give you a peek into the development of CIPHER ZERO! First up: an interview with our designers! How DO you design over 300+ puzzles? notes.cipherzerogame.com/posts/00-sta... #GameDev #IndieDev #SolveForX #DevLog

#Vermont 2/2

#Vermont 1/2

Stunning end to a historically abysmal day - Nature always wins!

RIP m.youtube.com/watch?t=2s&f...

Today is the day, y’all! Battle Train is now available on Steam and Nintendo Switch and we are simply exploding with joy! #BattleTrain #GameRelease #IndieDev

Some folks from the BGD community dispensing knowledge at PAX! @ichiro.bsky.social @caiojmini.bsky.social @noabeazley.bsky.social @chelwongaudio.bsky.social @trellos.bsky.social, @mrt3d.bsky.social, Alex Engel and Luigi Guatieri.

My new website is up. I only mention it because I know most you only follow me for my recipes. You're in luck! We've got recipes for turkey chili, rockin' chickies, and turkey burgers. erikrobson.net

Gif of who you wanted to be as a kid.

🎉 LAB RAT is out now!! 🎉 - A comedic puzzler that satirizes your favorite games - Over 100 puzzles - At least 10 good belly laughs 👇 Check it out Here 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/1304610/...

Logic, Laughter, and Laser Grids For anyone interested in behind-the-scenes puzzle dev stuff this is an interview I gave on the making of Lab Rat: news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...

Refactored the audio waveform VFX graph (left:old, right: new)

Audio reactive particle effects github.com/keijiro/Lasp...

something people don't talk much about in this era of "publishers expecting a near-finished game before investing" is games are being made sub-optimally in order to speed-run vertical slices/convincing demos instead of finalising systems then building content, you have to make content alongside 1/

I love this, and I am in awe at the community getting behind this grueling work, instead of fun hacks. Wish more software did this:

I built my own prefab system, the hard way. Similar to what Unity has, and wrote about the challenges and techniques used to solve the problems. Learn some maintainable C++ code tricks: dev.to/timbeaudet/t... #gamedev #cpp #indiedev #enginedev

It had been a while since we saw Beignet so I dug him out and made him take a bath. This frog is thicc. I mean, he's going on a diet kinda thicc. Like, his face is slowly disappearing inside the mass of chub. He is hefty. He is husky. He is a large frog.

Boston Gamedev Week is gonna be so rad! Come hang out! I'm leading a few discussion sessions in the Relaxing Chats blocks--should be a good time: Survival Game Design Innovative Game Mechanics Team Culture and Vision Holders

Reminder to folks attending #GDC25: We’re enough days out from the conference now that symptoms for COVID and flu will start showing up, so keep testing etc to keep yourself and others safe!

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Imagine you're being summoned. What GIF represents that?

Farewell #GDC

A happy place #GDC