Todd Cameron

Some Fall days in Washington smell like petrichor and dog piss and I dunno how people enjoy that It's worth it tho

Why do we persist in making games despite weeks like this one? This:

This legit could be a character in Deadlock

Gaming in the big 2026 🙂‍↕️

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to me the existential threat posed by AI slop games is less "AI slop games will steal our sales" and more "the onslaught of AI slop and the exhaustion over having to second guess every new game will make people mentally check out from supporting new games at all and retreat to their backlogs"

right now there's no guarantee AI usage becomes embedded in indie games. We're a scene. We don't HAVE to be this. Individual choices couldn't matter more in this moment. To see that you can make a small, positive impact at mild inconvenience to yourself and say "nah" is to give up on a better world.

The crazy thing about this is how quickly I forget about it too. I hit ignore and I never think about it again, that's how easy the decision is when you're comfortable saying nothing is worth it. All the fun in the world doesn't excuse this. I'll just go play a different game

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Everyone is on three+ platforms desperate to share and stay connected but the people making Bsky et al still aren't in the room. They don't get the vibe they're simply not considering the lives of anyone using their shit. These people have so much data but no information. How pathetic.

Hi. I would very much like it if black gamers/devs (specifically those from Chicago) would get in touch for a story. You can get me here or on discord @adashtra

We REALLY need fem VAs y’all. We have many auditions for the male characters & almost none for the rest. ISO -Japanese or other East Asian fem &/or nonbinary VAs -Indigenous fem VAs -Latina or Filipina VAs 🔁 Please RT! 🔁 #VoiceActress #VoiceActor #VoiceActing #VisualNovel #IndieGame #Monsterhearts

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For me good art has to put its head into the jaws of Insisting Upon Itself and sometimes it gets devoured but the greater sin lies in the opposite direction, which is never giving us the chance to care at all

Why do so many video games have silly names? I wrote about it for PC Gamer. www.pcgamer.com/games/why-so...

WNBA players having to play in Indiana seems rough man. So many moments of actively hostile croud behavior that their org doesn't think is their responsibility.

Took some time for myself the last day or so, but I was also affected by the Halo Studios layoffs. To go from YouTube to Halo was an incredible jump, and I think our community team was hitting at an absolute premium throughout my whole time there. I freaking love editing, man...

video games as a whole make hundreds of billions of dollars a year and apparently somehow nobody can make any money on them or pay anyone to make them

I need them to add Old Bag to this and don't you dare draw her as a dead person!!

Did you know that you can play our closed beta cross play on steam deck and PC? It works perfectly

Oh hey! Saw a tweet long ago begging a journo to look into why trying to buy quality video game merch sucks shit. So I did that.

Metroid has been on my list for a while, so the new reveal made the perfect opportunity - the Metroid Ravenous Font & Logo Generator is live now!

#b3d

Hey guys, if you're gonna share that one meme I made like a million years ago on Tumblr, share the original, not the horrible auto-smoothed traced version. Don't smooth out my angry, "it's 11 at night and I have FEELINGS ABOUT ART" hand wobbles, they're part of the piece!

HEY HI! I gotta build up my savings again from car repairs and the like SO i'm opening up some Emote commissions over on my kofi: ko-fi.com/c/872ffc0eb3

btw they do this so they don’t have to hire back the same crew on a raise 🤙 (speaking from experience)

Reposting this because

"No strings attached" Geoff Keighley is the string. He's the string in ALL OF THIS he's attached to ALL OF IT that's his WHOLE THING

Big Walk was something of a dream project for Vancouver-based @emaudible.bsky.social. It required camping in the wilderness, hiking to the top of many hills, and one of her favorite things: listening. By @zoehhannah.com:

Samus is so fuckin' cool man

hell yeah so excited

Love a physical media! The first of many from the inexorable funkmaster @2mello.net

What if old thing had more texture everywhere everything had texture let's put texture on all of it it needs TEXTURREEEEEE

Increasingly convinced this is the most important post

topic was GTA 6, but this applies to basically all games and the type of discourse/criticism you might see

Turns out the key to getting writing again was indeed to leave my room. I've been telling myself it'd work for years without actually doing it. Sitting around somewhere (even just in the living room) instead of at my home base computer my brain is like "What if you did the thing you want to do."