29 long years have passed since I founded the emulation archive, Zophar's Domain, on 11.9.96. To this very day, the site still stands as a testament to an era that never actually disappeared but continues to live in the hearts of retrogamers all over the word. Emulation Forever!

for me an exciting sense of exploration for me isn't a giant world map, it's being able to wonder if there's an entire world of things I haven't seen under any given bush, even that one I passed hours ago. a sense of inner life that defies "good game design"

I love a lot of things Angeline Era does, but IMO its smartest decision is understanding that Mystery and Full Knowledge Of A Game's Scope are enemies that cannot coexist and its refusal to even _imply_ what completionism looks enhances its sense of atmosphere a thousandfold

also sorry I am never going to call deduction games “metroidbrainias”. sorry. I am open to other terms but not to that one

This game's aesthetic and battle system should have been the inspiration for an entire generation of rpgs

dragon quest 1 is in the air lately, so please enjoy this old blog exploring the development of one of my favorite relationships with a jrpg world map tunditur-unda.neocities.org/posts/2020-0...

Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice. They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.

It's Bunlith: The Witch Upstairs 📅 EPISODE 1 NOW AVAILABLE TO WATCH ON KICKSTARTER! Watch Now!! 📺 www.kickstarter.com/projects/bun...

Grabbed by the ghouls. Grasped by the ghasts. Seized by the diseased. Held by the fell. Had by the bad lad. Acquired by the undesired

Tomorrow. 11/8. 12:00 PM EST. Bunlith Show Premiere. 👍👍👍

I made lowpoly dreads just to see if I could #chabindra #apronstrings

My next material is entirely procedural, so I can keep messing with the seed for variations.

More Hazel shapeshifting shenanigans

I'm the composer for this game! Can't wait for you all to play 💖🐉

急にやりたくなっている #FF6

There's a round of GOTY discussion going around, and I realized that a lot of my favourite games this year have been absolute Sicko Picks. So here's a few games I've loved so far in 2025, starting with a mild one: Babushka's Glitch Dungeon. A scrunkly lil' puzzle-metroidvania with so many fun verbs

YES, in ANGELINE ERA, you can jump on shopkeeper's HEAD. It's said this is the essence of good game design. store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

One thing we hear consistently about despelote is how much its writing resonates with people around the world—it's a personal story, in the best way. See for yourself: ⚽️ despelote.game

Thinking about these blogposts again with Shelved By Genre announcing they're covering tolkien the idea that someone in the 70s-80s would write up a screen by screen adventure game recreation of the ENTIRETY of the books' middle-earth (map from said blogpost seen here) endlessly fascinates me

The morphs in Keeper use distance fields as an (implicit) surface representation, which makes it possible to control the distance at which the surface should lie. In other words, it’s easy to deflate or inflate objects, and meshes become easily ‘moldable’.

Holly is cool, you should hire Holly to make your game world feel properly placed within its own history.

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new blog post: notes on quest design in Dread Delusion, a very good indie first person RPG / Morrowind-like www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/11/drea...

Factory 95 is an automation game set in Windows 95 where you make PowerPoint Factories #pitchyagame

Game Awards: We're inviting less press and opening up seats to the public so that we (probably) can have a more engaged, excited audience for the camera and make more money What the Game Awards thinks the public can afford:

if they manage to do a new mass effect they should kill off your protagonist halfway through the story and pivot back to the mass effect andromeda cast with zero foreshadowing

This will be our last #PitchYaGame before release 😮 A woman goes missing on a train in this mystery adventure game, inspired by games like Ace Attorney, Famicom Detective Club, and Hotel Dusk 📖 Uncover the story on November 26th, coming to Steam and Switch! store.steampowered.com/app/2689930/...

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Hey #pitchyagame ! 💥a mash up of top-down action, tower defense, and settlement building, and hive fives 🏠defend your people against waves of rogue AI bots 🌳bring life back to your island in the post-post-apocalypse DEMO: store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/Ash__Adams_Existential_Treads/

Hey #PitchYaGame! I'm making Future Vibe Check. An automation game where you make music. • Factorio-inspired building meets real-time musical composition • Production chains generate notes, beats, and melodies • No music theory required Steam & discord in bio

Someone shared a job posting yesterday for a concept art position outside of games and was kind enough to tag me. The position has been up a year and I was actually flown out at the beginning of this year for interviews. It's the last interview I've gotten. I was rejected for being anti Ai. (1/3)

if you're curious about how hard I go on IGF judging, I just added up all the steam playtime I've put into IGF over the last month and ended up with 83.9 total hours

My slasher friends are always saying this

tfw the settings are machine translated

My favorite comment on the FT story

Sorry, i didn’t realize his posts weren’t pornographic. Unfollowing now

It's been about a week since I released KINOPHOBIA, my new (free) game. Parser-based horror fiction inspired by investigation games, database thrillers, and reading too many Letterboxd reviews. brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia

It cannot be stressed enough that many of SE's own competitors don't invest nearly as much in their LQA process and it shows. Many times, LQA is limited purely to technical checks, if that, and I've had games come out where I wasn't allowed to be involved in LQA and the difference is pronounced.

Put simply, SE's LQA testers take a proactive role in the final stages of localization and ensure that our final edits are as spotless as possible. While the translators and editors SE hires are quite talented, QA always deserves credit for making sure our vision is, in fact, implemented correctly.

Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art. I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.

Alright yall it's some sort of lunchtime situation for me so I think that makes it a reasonable time to do the live thread of my IGF post

game of the year? friends, I don't even need to think about it. it's obviously Tactical Nexus

just leaving this text from an oooold blog post of mine here re: TGAs ditching the future class

going back to the 90s/00s it's basically impossible to overstate alexander o. smith's role in shoring up square's global dominance post ff7. absolutely insane localisation resume

can I just briefly say, VGC doesn't get as much attention as other personality-heavy publications, but I'm that bitch who traces news to the sources and this team has been *hustling* to publish these scoops lately.

If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency

I thought people were overreacting to the rude label but mine was set to hide and not warn and I didn't even know it. Go check your moderation settings and make sure that they're what you want.

thinking about why, aside from its popularity ofc, the Lord of the Rings map seems to have specifically inspired so many games to fill it out over the years and I feel like it's because unlike most fantasy maps that focus on cities & routes, the LOTR map is almost exclusively names of land features

"At the same time, the documents indicate that Meta’s own research suggests its products have become a pillar of the global fraud economy."