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A LOT of work has gone into this. On most platforms, it will release as a new game, and we're working to make sure that owners of the original A Fold Apart will be able to get it for free. Please signal boost if you can!

I went so far as to do sobel filtering on the paper to make little ridges where the paper folds stack up. It’s one of those almost invisible #gamedev improvements that you feel 😆

As a studio owner, it would be irresponsible to have my team spend a week making FREE DLC just because I think it’s cool as fuck... We are totally not going to release FREE DL for a puzzle game this week 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/4756010/...

I backed the Fangoria Compendium kickstarter and it's cool to see the book finishing up before Halloween. Not sure if I'll get it before then, but still excited.

I can't wait for people to see this on a bigger screen. All of the art, across hundreds of scenes, was changed to make it look great on modern machines. #gamedev

"What is certain, however, is that a vast sum of our money will be wasted, countless Torontonians will find themselves profoundly inconvenienced for extended periods, and, eventually, a cyclist will get struck by a car. But at least the congestion will be worse." spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

I should do a video about the A Fold Apart #gamedev process and data layout to show all the weird hoops we needed to jump through to: make the Unity editor run without totally bogging down, let the team work on the same parts of the game at the same time, and make the runtime work with <1.25GB RAM.

Terrifying how close this came to being another massive tragedy www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

One of my favourite games of the last decade is coming back!

Revealing a new Indie Game Dev speaker event in TORONTO! Presentations and Q&As with the creators of: 💾 Inscryption 🗡️ Slay the Princess 🌟 In Stars and Time 🔎 The Incident at Galley House Tickets are just $10 for this fantastic lineup on Oct 24! Reposts are very appreciated!

To honor Tim Curry's memory, we are making Brütal Legend FREE on Itch.io, for 666 minutes: itch.io/s/199277/the...

Welcome to Maple Town! 🍁 Echo Generation: Midnight Editions is free on Epic Games Store from today through July 23 And if you're looking for more, Echo Generation 2 is available now on Steam and Xbox Enjoy~! ✌️

Do we have a term for when auto-complete or grammar check make useless or incorrect suggestions? Nuisance prompts?

I still feel bad for the spun out studios because they’ll likely need to conduct their own furloughs/layoffs while they seek project funding or acquisition. That kind of thing is heartbreaking. GDC 2025, I hugged a sobbing CEO who lost his biggest client and had to do layoffs almost immediately.

We’re 5 days into Next Fest, Pioneers! Thank you to everyone so far for playing the demo, sharing your feedback, or leaving a review. It means a lot to us! With only a few days left, we've shared another deep dive that talks about the Wonders, and why they matter in the game 👉 bit.ly/4uHJS7P

"This is a kids' game, and it's layering multiple currencies atop one another to obfuscate the cost of things, as well as using pop-ups, timer bars, and "buy" buttons to offer temporary boosts and, generally speaking, remove the game's in-built friction."

You know it's real when the launch trailer appears... Only 5 days until Echo Generation 2 is out! 🔥🚀 #EchoGeneration2 #deckbuilder #turnbased #turnbasedthursday #screenshotsaturday #CGA26

#tbt to some #gamedev prototyping. Gravity, folding, and pushing/dragging blocks.

That sucks. I was so touched when Paste named A Fold Apart as one of the best 40 games in 2020. It was a bright spot after a project that had been incredibly draining.

Time sensitive: They need a web dev to help save their site!

@justinling.ca Great event tonight!

I still can’t get over the km long ramp at Confederation GO Station in Stoney Creek for people with mobility issues.

Ancient jokes are still THE BEST! 🤣🤪

Longtime college friend of mine, Mike Prinke, was among those laid off at Epic Games: he has been fighting terminal brain cancer, and now he, his wife, and kid, have no income or health insurance. Sharing here in hopes it can reach the right people on their behalf. #epicgames

I have done versions of this, prefaced my presentations saying that the visuals were placeholder, and still had people ask “so is this what the final version will look like?”

Happy Persian New Year! 🍎🧄 Learn about the holiday and make your own Haftsin with fun physics! Made in part by Kitfox programmer Mehrdad. Play in your browser: muadibbm.itch.io/haftsin-maker

I’m so angry about this. I get that bureaucracy can be a nightmare but this is insane. It’s already nearly a decade behind schedule (with electrification promised in 2017, 2024, 2027 IIRC). Kicking something down the road 10 years is like planning to do nothing.

I lament how paper flipping never captured properly in GIFs because it happened too fast. I'll make a slow version to show it off because this new lighting looks so good and it looks even better in motion. #gamedev #gameart

Hey, Mighty Yell is 9 years old today. I wanted to feel energized and happy while working making games. That was the goal. So I made a place where employees get overtime back and put their health first. We haven't had any million-sellers but we're still fuckin goin'. Long live Mighty Yell.

I really like the idea of “skeleton as scaffold”

Yup. The team needed to be in sync with tech setting rules and both art and level design working within those constraints consistently. It’s a lot easier said than done - especially if the tech constraints create a brand new workflow. Kudos to them.

Found my Ill Communication CD, tossed it on. Thought years of streaming music had desensitized me, but my ears instantly recognized the good stuff. A funny reminder that as much as I'm sold HD and ULTRA HD streaming, it's an inferior product to tech from the 80s.

I haven’t baked bread in a month! Needed to get back into the habit. I didn’t mess around with the new bread pan and just used tiles and a water tray like I’m used to. Also, the poolish was 48hrs old and I wasn’t sure how it would turn out. Wouldn’t do that again though.

so AI is bad for countless reasons but I personally was not yet aware that "draft a man into a fictional conflict and stage a mass shooting" was one of those techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/f...

Another foreseeable disaster that we’re watching play out because people in power were/are hesitant to do anything about it.

"Man convicted of manslaughter after girlfriend dies hiking in winter storm" sounds insane until you get into the details. He put an inexperienced hiker into harm's way despite explicit warnings and waved away numerous attempts to rescue her! The punishment was too lax here, not too severe.

Tickets for March 7 @gdcheese.bsky.social Toronto are now available! Pay what you can - All funding will be contributed towards growing future events! Get your tickets today at www.eventbrite.ca/e/game-devel... Got questions or want to support us even more? Let @rajio.bsky.social know!

I’m seriously impressed by all the hard surface rigging on display here. #gameart #gamedev

This is maddening. Imagine finding out that you paid for a service that then just automated damage to your reputation without your permission or knowledge. Also I wonder if the support was AI or if it is outsourced to a company that is completely disconnected from anyone who can solve the problem.

Here’s something you don’t get to say every day: Wishing our cousin Jessie Linton good luck at the 2026 Winter Olympics! She’s competing in Moguls/Dual Moguls for Team Canada 🇨🇦 We’re all so proud of her!

My old Gundam animation from 3 years ago #gundam #gundamseed #blender #anime #freedomgundam

#gamedev and #gameart problems are just an opportunity to learn something new... and I feel like I am constantly learning... 😭