Nikhil Murthy

Hoop Dungeon is now available for purchase. Try out my basketball turn-based-tactics game that uses the powers of friendship and rivalry! store.steampowered.com/app/4250030/...

I just got a really nice piece of feedback and it really brought home to me just how rare it is to just see someone saying nice about your work. Come join the Washerwoman's Potlatch and say something nice about someone! itch.io/jam/the-wash...

Announcing: NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents AP Thomson & Kenny Sun Thursday, Nov 5th, 7:00pm - 8:30pm 370 Jay Street, Lecture Hall 202 Join us for a conversation with the creators of Titanium Court and BALL x PIT! Poster by @planetsmudge.bsky.social thomsonsunlectureseries.eventbrite.com

Always fun to see Said let the hater out.

Decided to craft new version of Agential (Historical) Problem Space summary worksheet (I present a pair in Designing Historical Games for Classroom) and I'm pleased with results. Clearer, detailed but still an outline. Anyone turning ANY academic content into a game can use this. 🧵 1/ (pls share)

This is very true. If Sweeney actually thought that AI makes small-scale dev viable, why not have his employees do that in-house instead of laying them off?

If you missed this, absolutely go play Mini Mini Golf Golf! It involves, among many other things, an in-universe game design talk show video series which is also a vector for the future communicating with the past (because games are tunnels into the past, the future, and the lives of other people)

I greatly enjoyed the @wallstormer.blacksky.app interview on Game Narrative Kaleidoscope for his commitment to values as necessary for a game designer

Looking for game devs who have been directly inspired by anything BioWare for my next video. I suspect the public likely doesn’t quite realize the extent of their influence on the industry, so I’d really like to highlight that. If you are one such game devs, pls reply to this post!

Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902), French lithographs of the then brand new structure and its environs, in the style of Japanese woodblock prints: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/36-views-of-the-eiffel-tower/

Warren Spector believes that the idea of using a vertical slice to “find the fun” is total nonsense, and that if anyone says “find the nugget of fun,” you should run screaming in the opposite direction

This year’s The Disappearers, called by some critics (while praising it) arduous and difficult, takes approximately 12 hours to read. Brother, you can’t even finish Cai’s path in Fire Emblem in that time!

And as an aside - you should not doubt how fucking uncool D&D was in 1998 as a game, and how poisoned that particular well had been for a while. Baldur's Gate turned that around, and if you do want a road from D&D then to D&D now, it does strike me that Bioware's needs more credit than they get.

Something that really stuck with me from The Kingdom of God is Within You is that when you do something wrong, that's one wrong thing. When you create justifications for why it wasn't so wrong, that's two wrong things.

(one of my first pieces of indie game consultancy advice is to take pretty much every marketing guide out there and throw it straight in the bin)

#lisbon today continues to make demands for affordable housing and right to housing.

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

I’m hopefully going to be working on a chapter about Whiggish portrayals of history in games and talking about “tech trees”… So you better believe my eyes snapped onto “tech tree following optimist”.

My thoughts on this aren't very developed, but Penguin Colony's architectural confronting of Lovecraft's fascist imaginary seems interesting to play alongside International Obsession from thecatamites, specifically the latter's twisty Model League of Nations exhibition space.

#lisbon there is a new festival celebrating independent publishers - uber cool stuff - across prints, zines, books. Last day today gerador.eu/en/print-pau...

Do you want to learn about how and why to do postcolonialism in video games but only have four minutes to do it in?

I wrote about my experience judging for the IGF for the first time, and shouted out some of the games I think people should play: brendanmcleod.dev/2026/10/16/b...

I gave a very short talk on postcolonialism in games last week.

🌉 Bay Area friends! Join us in San Francisco for Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation, the Internet Archive’s annual celebration. There’s still time to get your in-person tickets! 📅 Wed, Oct 21 • 5–10 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1998015902... Or join us Virtually 👇🧵

I wrote a tiny questline a bit ago. whynotgames.in/2026/10/15/t...

NEXT THURSDAY! NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Warren Spector Thurs. Oct. 22nd, 7pm - 8:30pm 370 Jay Street, Room 202 Join this industry legend to help celebrate his retirement from games! More info and RSVP here: warrenspectorlectureseries.eventbrite.com

You ever come across your game on the cover of a library book?

The Washerwoman’s Potlatch is in a month. Come write about indie games in the shadow of AAA excess! itch.io/jam/the-wash...

For people who like good video game books! www.twitch.tv/nyugamecenter

one more igf comment - this is the best year we've ever had for student games, bar none. bar fucking NONE. I usually happen to play 1-2 student games I really like each year, this time I'm up to SEVEN

Robert Clive in 1757:

Silvia Ruzanka: the process of making games is a process of care. #GAAF

Kristofer Vaske: the war industry cannot have a monopoly on exciting games. #GAAF

I have never played Gwent but I'm definitely going to keep an eye out for this game. www.rockpapershotgun.com/lazares-sacr...

Isles of Sea and Sky, Salad Fields, Bonfire Peaks, He Who Watches, A Monster's Expedition, etc (puzzle games you could be playing instead of Order of the Sinking Star)

Hoop Dungeon is 25% off right now and is a basketball game that you know is never going to be delisted to force you into paying for another game. store.steampowered.com/app/4250030/...

🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Okay, let's try this again but MAKING SENSE... I do not know is Ablahshikar is a good game yet, but I am compelled. Mesmerized, even. It is poetic and simulatonist equally. A mostly-ASCII game about ship salvaging in an arabesque world - equal Caves of Qud and Sunless Sea. There is a large demo.

We're hiring a QA Specialist 🔎 Apply at the link below! www.workwithindies.com/careers/drin...

Here's a quick breakdown of deadlines in Refantazio and how you can use them in your own game. whynotgames.in/2026/10/06/r...

We are hiring! Come join us as our Games Scout and help grow our portfolio of brilliant indie games. The right person with a love of the right games is more important than specific scouting experience. Full job description and details in the folder here: lnkd.in/egHyP7Xs. (UK only please)

you already know (after some delay) what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, or just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't tend to need the help. with that said, onwards!

Indonesian statue of unclear origin. It’s speculated to be a depiction of a European.

I'm trying to make a text adventure that is also a mind palace and resting place for carefully salvaged, mostly cringey, possibly undead writing from 20 years ago. I'm keen to hear about text games that do a really good job of instilling a navigable and memorable 3D landscape or structure.