Will Armstrong

NEW: Remedy's latest game, Control Resonant, is filled with art galleries. The galleries are filled with real art When I began talking to Remedy about it, I was delighted to discover who the artists are: many are the game developers' parents My story... www.gamefile.news/p/control-re...

Name a non-LotR character who is a cool and good person but would nevertheless set land speed records for getting fucked up by The One Ring

🚨 We're extending our submission deadline to October 31! 🚨 One more week to submit your innovative, weird and experimental games to the 2027 Experimental Games Showcase at @officialgdc.bsky.social! Find the submission form and more info here: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

One of the most insightful comments about game development came from a former boss. He said “Making a game is like starting a band. You can’t throw money at a new studio with random AAA veterans and expect it to crank out a hit.” 🧵

Give Shayna the Egg. She is not normal and can be trusted with him.

i think the games industry should have studios that exist

The Killing Stone's 1.0 launch is today, and players can finally experience The Reckoning. That was one of the most memorable parts of development for me, wrangling almost every system in the game to bring the ending experience together in its own unique way.

By Taiyō Matsumoto

I am sure this will go well. It is not like D&D players are obsessive rules lawyers with no concept of moderation, shame, or exhaustion. It isn't like every one of them has self selected for the ability to organize and feed each other through a long series of obstacles.

This is our best chance to secure the American Dream by saving Texas schools and putting money in your pocket. Polls are OPEN for early voting until Oct. 30th. Let’s vote, Texas!

Binary Serialization in df_game_data A new blog post where I talk about how the binary serialization works. In particular, how static vs dynamic sized objects are handled to avoid special case limitations. blog.demofox.org/2026/10/15/b...

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

do you or have you worked at a place like this? what’s been your experience of it? how are mandates enforced? get in touch privately, securely, and anonymously (if that’s your preference) via signal (nathangrayson.666) or proton mail (aftermathdotsite@proton.me). my DMs are also open

If you were ever targeted by the Gamergate horde from 2024 onward, I'd love to talk to you briefly for a short section in my book! Reply, DM me, or email me at alyssamerc@gmail.com. Signal boost!!

Some enterprising hacker collective could test this: throw some vibecoded OpenAI Astra & Claude Opus bullshit together, train it on stats about student loans & what would happen if they went away, & then instruct it to free up spending power for millions of americans, & just like, see what happens…

I gave Braid an A+ back in my press days. I spent 100s of hours working on The Witness at PlayStation, fighting for it, getting it into conferences, and being Jon's personal wrangler. I even coined "Metroidbrainia" after it. I will not be buying Order of the Sinking Star, and neither should you.

Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

This is what I'm talking about when I tell you that forecasts need to be evaluated realistically and people need to be held responsible for making them, not just for meeting them.

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

Blue Prince is now 40% off as part of the Steam Autumn Sale until 8 October. https://bit.ly/41AwPsB

Happy October! 🖤🍁💀🎃

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io

What we imagined: <sexiest cyborg possible> "We have to lock down the ports, get that ICE back online triplequick, or these rogue AI will meat-frag our squad, chummer." What happened: "Hey, IT, JIRA is trying to talk to me in Slack. Can you opt out of its Rogue AI again? They updated the default."

thinking of the following commentary on D&D names from an old DM of the Rings comic:

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

Went from 28 FPS to a rock solid 60 FPS on Steam Deck just by tweaking my SubViewports #Godot Quick Tip: If your project uses a lot of SubViewports (as I do for signs, labels, letters) and chokes on low end hardware (like Steam Deck), drop this script on them Huge performance boost for a #gamedev

That's cool. I'm sure all the BitReactor devs that were furloughed weeks before launch are gonna see some of that $50 million... right? Residuals are standard in other creative industries. If the people who actually made the game got their share of the profits, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Send us your experimental game — we wanna help you show it off! Get a chance to share your project onstage at GDC next spring, and help us inspire more people to make strange and experimental projects that change how we think about games. <3

When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1.

Just a friendly reminder, you don't need...that shitty wizard series...for references for wizards. If you wanna draw a wizard or magician fight, look up irl photos of music conductors. You're welcome.

Quick! Someone start posting slightly inaccurate facts about the F-35 in Chinese on the War Thunder forums! Should let us know what they know very quickly.

GDC NARRATIVE PORTFOLIO REVIEW………. 2!!!!! Coming to GDC 2027

Ed Sheeran's tour bus.

We were watching the Wolverine Sentinel footage, and... We used to call these "high chair boss battles" because the boss looks like a baby in a high chair and you're on their tray. Now you have to see it, too 😅

I wrote about how Skin Deep's "Highlighter System" works -- automatically detecting events in the world and showcasing them to the player: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

more videogames should have a dedicated button to talking to a little freak of a woman

DEV INTERVIEW👾 South of Midnight is a third-person action-adventure game. Players take on the role of Hazel, who learns an ancient weaving power to explore the Deep South mythos, cleansing "Stigma" and defeating "Haints" - physical manifestations of deep-rooted sorrows and trauma. 🎮 #GDoCExpo2026

Not quite done with it but South of Midnight is one hell of a game so far. I have plenty of mechanical critiques - but the game is trying to be art. Trying to evoke an emotional response. And in that it WORKS.

blizzard workers had to fight tooth and nail for years, but they finally did it: they secured a union contract not just for one team, but for all unionized units--warcraft, overwatch, diablo, and more

The Mimic Meadows demo is part of the Prismatic Indie Showcase on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4136640/...