@jakearchibald.com your excellent article about video with alpha (jakearchibald.com/2024/video-w...) has been a go-to for me to explain the current state of the world so I thought you might like to know that x265 has alpha support now and ffmpeg can use it (as of 8.0). this is what we do for Steam

inkle, one of the best to ever do it in narrative games, tackling the deduction game space makes me very excited

this is really fuckin cool. probably extremely hard to do, but so cool

Valve’s announcements last week about their new hardware were particularly welcome here at Igalia: a lot of our work will be in those machines. From translation layers to better frame rates and longer battery life, we’ve helped @valvesoftware.com push gaming forward. www.igalia.com/2025/11/help...

Gave penguins timing-sensitive motor planning capabilities. In other words, they can try to move a body part to a specific place *at a specific time*. This is vital for NPCs with a sense of rhythm or good reflexes! #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

If you want to start making games, instead of trying to make your magnum opus on your first go, please do some game jams. Ludum Dare. Something short with a fixed time limit and specs you need to follow. Learn about developing under restrictions, how to get creative in them, how to scope smartly.

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

“Eating candy corn feels like eating wax” Yes! Good! Exactly! Do you know how many scented candles I’ve had that I’ve desperately wanted to eat?

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

Did a game jam with friends this weekend! I did the music. Page for it is here: ldjam.com/events/ludum... direct link to game: thristhart.github.io/ld58/

So I started watching this streamer whose schtick is he dresses up as a scarecrow. It's pretty good but a little repetitive - he starts every show with hay guise

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

opening your new game announcement with this is so fucking funny and real

I left little critiques on lots of game trailers so here's a thread with the most common issues (and additional reading) 🧵 1. Don't put logos at the start. It's just dead air that could be gameplay, which is 100000000X more interesting. www.derek-lieu.com/blog/2021/3/...

new for game devs: w i d e s t o r e plus a big improvement if you like putting GIFs into your game description. steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

Earlier this year, @steampowered.com started work to make it easier for players to find games with accessibility features. If you haven't yet, take a look at our documentation highlighting how you can display accessibility options your game supports: partner.steamgames.com/doc/accessib...

I feel like not enough of you heard me tell you that you must read The Tainted Cup so I’m saying it again. two weird detectives in a quasi-Roman fantasy setting with the most interesting magic system I’ve seen in a while uncover murder plot while beset by… fine I’ll call them kaiju

Kaizen: A Factory Story is now available on Steam! Build assembly lines to make toys, electronics, appliances, and more in 1980s Japan. Impress your bosses with your innovative solutions. store.steampowered.com/app/2275490/... Look out for weekly bonus puzzles coming your way soon!

18/28, and that was a hard earned score from my long time in the javascript mines. this is a tough one

The latest steam client beta adds UI Scale, Reduce Motion and High Contrast accessibility settings in the desktop client! Now you can make your UI big and clear on desktop as well as SteamOS. There's still more work to be done but I'm really happy we're doing it. Let me know what you think!

never feel more alienated from my neighbors than on the fourth of july. i am trying to sleep how is it possible that so many people think hours of explosions are acceptable

it’s that time of year again

I hate footnotes, especially on the web, and hopefully by the end of this, you will too. jakearchibald.com/2025/give-fo...

introducing the "puzzle compass," a certifiably correct and statistically proven chart of my infallible opinion what games need added? let me know, because i am the authority on this purely objective study #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gamestudies

I've been working real hard on this for a long time, and there's still more to come. If there's anything Steam can do to be more accessible for you, I want to hear about it! store.steampowered.com/news/app/593...

These features are now visible on store pages and as filters in search! store.steampowered.com/news/app/593... I've been delighted to see how many developers are filling out these tags, and I'm looking forward to sharing more about how we're improving things for users with disabilities on Steam.

blue prince is surprising in many delightful ways but I think the thing that is most surprising to me is how good the writing is. I am used to reading correspondence in a puzzle game that is just a vehicle for clues, but the worldbuilding and characterization in blue prince is really good!

ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN | Bring Me to Life Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot6j... "When your allies have fallen and all seems lost, dig deep down inside and summon the strength of early 2000’s alternative metal. WAKE ME UP."

I really like VS Code, but the all-in on LLM junk has made it increasingly clear that the corporate priorities are entirely different from what I want out of a text editor. Refactoring copilot into vscode core is the exact opposite of what I'd prefer. Maybe time to go back to vim

It's all fun and games until it has to be fun and a game

wooahh Figma's new Sites thing produces no semantic HTML at all. Every single element is a div. Incredibly inaccessible Example: plugin-value-scrum.figma.site

The official Steamworks bsky account is now live. Game devs, give us a follow over at @partner.steamgames.com to learn about new tools, features, updates, data, and more. You can also follow us directly within Steam at steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

this is something of a personal passion of mine and I'm really happy that we're making progress in this direction. As part of that, if you use Steam and have disabilities, I'd love to hear from you about what we can do better: www.valvesoftware.com/en/contact?c...

Game devs! We're working on making it easier for players to find games that support the accessibility features they need. The first part of that is for you to use the new Accessibility Features Wizard to answer questions about the features your game supports: store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...

this is a lesson that game jams teach me frequently and I always forget it when I'm making something outside of a jam

blue prince is extremely good, and it's intrinsically extremely good because it's both a roguelike and a puzzle game. the frustration of not getting the RNG you wanted is the point, and if that's not for you that's okay. but a version without that would be a much worse game

Play our game for Ludum Dare 57, Subsume! Featuring the music of @itslauragpo.bsky.social and the many varied talents of my other friends who aren't on bsky. ldjam.com/events/ludum...

Ludum Dare time! this is somewhere around my.. 35th time doing it? that is a really large amount of game jams

I love all of SuperGiant's games and Pyre being their least popular is criminal because it is by and large the most unique (and easily my favorite). It's a lot of reading but it is so worth it, with a lot of cool, very impactful choices and a ""combat"" system of ritualistic basketball it is so cool

UNDERTALE is on sale for $1. If you're a bluesky user who hasn't played this game - now is the best time to join the other 99% of people on this website and pick it up. store.steampowered.com/app/391540/U...

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development localthunk.com/blog/balatro...

the best joke in videogames development is replying "ship it" to every broken ass prototype no I will not be taking questions

doing technical writing for work and I have so much respect for people who do this full time. I have spent today agonizing over like thirty total sentences of documentation

I'm happy to announce our first major game, Kaizen: A Factory Story! Design production lines to create the iconic products of 1980s Japan in this open-ended factory puzzle game developed by Coincidence and published by Astra Logical. Wishlist it now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2275490

everyone is suggesting things that involve changing my behavior. i do not want to do that

It rains, and it’s very cloudy and humid.