hey 💜 im a trans woman working on my next game - Encryptid. its an FMV horror game about catching cryptids featuring footage and photography caught with the Game Boy Camera and will be available this year on both PC and Game Boy 🙂 store.steampowered.com/app/4242890/...

Hi hi, and thank you! I'm Maxi, trans masc solo dev of The Hayseed Knight! Come hear the tale of Ader, or how a poor one-eyed farm boy who's got nothing left to eat but his dreams, accidentally becomes the greatest knight in the kingdom this fully voice-acted and animated picaresque Visual Novel!

Today seems like a good day to remind ppl that if you post a cashapp or venmo link, no one outside the US/UK can send you anything bc, unlike kofi etc, those apps don't work internationally Just FYI

Looking for fulltime or contract animation work in games or animation! youtu.be/4GuJJWu4O6E I was the cinematic lead on Wanderstop, creative director on Ivy Road's ENGINE ANGEL prototype, and main animator on Saleblazers. Feel free to DM me or email me at [email protected]

(Knowing I'm about to set off a real fucking bomb with this one) the ability of customers to leave reviews on your games is a net positive for discoverability

you should put the link in your post when you promote your game

After years away I have returned to writing about video games with a piece for Remap about the less immediately obvious problems with DLSS 5

[sighing] it does matter whether the writing in a video game is good or bad

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"what the developers originally intended" [archive footage of the original devs fist fighting over the shade of brown they each want for the dirt]

"restored to the way the developers originally intended it" / "remastered to the style the devs envisioned but wasn't technically possible at the time" is a fantasy There is no platonic ideal. Every game is constructed out of the choices its developers made. Changing that makes it a different game

making this huge wandering freak more lethal

before you write your funny little joke in a comment or commit message, read it in the voice of someone who came across it six hours into tracking down a unsatisfying crash which turned out to be all your fault, and then decide if it's still cute

draw is work

Eidos Montréal is announcing a reduction in its workforce (124 employees affected) and the departure of Head of Studio, David Anfossi www.linkedin.com/posts/eidosm...

TWO DAYS. Give the page a follow if you wanna make sure you don’t miss it!

I should just turn this into a blog post but I have a rant building within me about the concept of "if you have the money to do the thing, just do the thing" and how it relates to * indie studio closures I've been involved in * situations in indie where poor hiring choices had cataclysmic results

idk i think if people tried to cancel me for not localizing a game in a specific language, I'd take that as a sign it was time to stop having a social media account.

I'm available for work!

Note that the workers who made Beast Breaker ARE getting rev-share on sales of the game on Steam, even though the studio shut down. Why? Because we had a union, and we negotiated for it.

in the year 3000 they're going to dig up my corpse and make a recreation of me wearing giant noise-cancelling headphones due to the wear on my vertebra

even though it always sucks to see this stuff on steam, I have to admit a certain satisfaction at the fact that more devs seem aware no one likes this shit and have begun to put on a sort of begging, whining, "I'm just a little guy" tone instead of bragging about it

* 7th Guest * Rehire as many of the original FMV actors as possible * First take gets put in the game no matter what

I'm generalizing, but working in tech doesn't reward or encourage diligence and maintenance - it's all about new features to show off at the next meeting to leaders In any role that has to play "janitor" to other disciplines, the work isn't respected, seen as a cost center, and first laid off

rules to see mainstream publications picking this very obviously true line up and running with it

Hey, so if Avi Lewis is already generating obvious concern among media pundits, old guard former NDP leaders, and provincial NDP who embrace Lib/Con lite policies, he's probably onto something very important.

CBC announcing this like Monster Hunter patch notes

Hairy Heart is excited to be entering the publishing scene with the irrefutable, belligerent, and downright perverted Anthology of the Killer. We're bringing thecatamites' award-winning cult classic murderfest to Nintendo Switch and PS5 in the very near future. 🔪😱🖤😱🔪

We're up to seven reviews already! I'm thinking getting to 10 within this week is very doable. Thank you to those who have written me something, consider joining them to help me out!

Hanging out with my friend, this screwdriver seems to be bothering him tho I should probably take it out

saw discussion about how a lot of indies are funded by larger corporations & we need government funding for the arts, so i wanted to share this article about how gov funding can fail to actually reach creators often it just ends up going straight to the corpos who know how to apply

looking for a trans graphics artist who designs logos! pls tag em here ty!

But, hey, you know what works before your body even has to worry about whether the vaccine is effective or not???? Wearing a mask.

New preview for the Dungeon Gals OST is up! This track plays in the Silent Graveyard area. youtu.be/dAAT6GpNlFI?... DG releases April 22nd! Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/2864880/...

Re lrt, Liz issss still looking for work if you wanna hire the director on engine angel as well as the Wanderstop cinematics lead. She's crazy talented

buried lede in Ivy Road dissolving is that the game they were pitching looked sick

if I were ever to write a followup or expansion to 'A Pivot To Indie Won't Save Us' it would probably center around how much midsized indies benefit from the ability to poach producers, QA and other roles from AAA, roles that indie itself makes zero room for other than preexisting domain experts

The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish is now available on Steam :o) We hope you enjoy <3 store.steampowered.com/app/3172760/...

anyway now that ivy road is shut down it's time to shitpost out all kinds of stupid convos I saved bc I thought they were funny

the cool thing about blogging is any time a specific discourse topic comes around you have an entire essay already prepared for it, every year, in perpetuity. it's always applicable

I link "A Pivot To Indie Won't Save Us" all the time these days but I really do want to hone in on this one again. I truly believe an industry without room for anything but bare-minimum hiring is a weaker industry. Discipline expertise only comes from having room to exercise that discipline.

despite it all, it's really nice to see all the lovely things ppl are saying about wanderstop today. we all put a lot of ourselves into that game. feels good to see that energy reach people.

New blog post! I threw together a little graphical script editing utility for the Magic School Lunar fan translation, which lets me visualize every line of dialogue as I write it in order to let me see how it'll look in-game. www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/20...

If you need excellent 3D/2D artists, designers, animators, QA, programmers, please look at this thread! I'm still looking for work, as is the rest of the team now 😢 ENGINE ANGEL wouldn't have gotten as far as it did without them, and their skills are immediately apparent in Wanderstop.

Temi | Temi gets to the core of issues while bolstering team confidence as a powerhouse 3D Art Director/Environmental Artist! @thezhato.bsky.social led the charge for the atmosphere + joyful intricacies of the tea machine/shop, and don’t get me started on the environment concepts for Engine Angel!

Zach | Zach is the glue that can make a team feel solid: calm, collected, and always ready to help. In addition to leading QA for Wanderstop, Zach also did incredibly when hopping in to co-lead production on Engine Angel! Find Zach at: www.linkedin.com/in/zacknicke...

Marv | One of the best QA folks around and always ready with a smile and laugh, Marv also stepped up and co-ran production for the Engine Angel prototyping when we were building it out, going above and beyond. Find Marv at: www.linkedin.com/in/e-marvel/

April | Not only is April an outstanding programmer, holding down the fort these last few months with Wanderstop, but she also played a huge role in making zooming around in our Engine Angel prototype feel great! Find April at: www.linkedin.com/in/april-mar...

Hey yall - unfortunately the rest of the very, very talented wanderstop team was laid off today and the studio shuttered. I'm no longer in need of work, but please, hire these peeps in the thread below! They're all absurdly good at what they do.