His children will go without Switch 2's this Christmas

POW is a wonderful animated short by @joeytainment.bsky.social about a Native American boy who is brought to a powwow by his family, but all he wants to do there is charge his game console. You have a favorite Christmas special. Make POW your yearly Thanksgiving watch. youtu.be/dOTuVqdwu8Y

Take a Fun Audit! It’s more fun than it sounds!

finding out recently that almost all the words in the dictionary are not IP and are in fact open source/public domain was an absolute game changer for me as a writer

Join us! Let's make the game industry better for workers.

Continue to awaken dateable objects.

game developers must realize our only competition is real human relationships. if we can continue to erode those, our market dominance is assured

I’m alive! And I hate it!!!

credits that include the names of everyone who worked on the game at any point

Most of my job is writing dialogue for murderous robots.

I'm proud to be a union game developer and I got to click a little box that says as much.

‘Special thanks’ is for people’s dogs and cats. Not for people who spent five years of their lives actively developing a videogame for you

I look forward to every issue of ChoiceBeat. Not a lot of publications are talking about HyperCard in 2025!

Narrative Design sometimes... when you are organizing files, localization work, prepping lines and barks for voice actors.

Heeyyyy I'm the trailer narrator for season three of Worst Movies Ever Played: www.faustiannonsense.com/worstmoviese... Thanks to @geoffreygolden.bsky.social !

I think it should remain possible to work professionally on video games without having to move

Maddie won.

My friend @geoffreygolden.bsky.social made a game that's this EXACT mood. geoffreygolden.itch.io/fymp

Hi again! Are you a studio or individual looking to hire Narrative talent for your games project? Good news! This great big Starter Pack below is brimming with Game Writers & Narrative Designers who are looking for work right now! I hope it helps you find somebody really special 🥰💛

The three types of game dev job listings

The president’s latest public appearance has drawn concern over his health due to his body rapidly flashing red. paletteswap.site/different-co...

Yeah, no. I'm a contractor, I write for games, and sometimes that means writing 100% of a game's text. I'm a valuable part of the team! Contractors aren't just "support", they deserve to be credited (and treated) better than this

It's Friday, which means a new installment of Equip Story from @geoffreygolden.bsky.social! (My favorite post is still his discussion of the Muppets at Disney) www.equipstory.com/muppet-funer...

Very excited about my Gen Con haul! I bought solo TTRPGs, card games, a board game, an autographed Magic the Gathering card and finger puppet with hand rods!

Settling in at Gen Con.

I got to concept, co-design, and write a dynamic dialogue system with thousands of lines of commentary, so the robot announcers can make fun of you when you get slaughtered right after acquiring a power-up!

Itch's new content policy is: 1. We can't tell you what violates the rules. 2. If you violate the rules, we take all your money. Not just the money from that work, ALL your money from EVERYTHING you've ever made. I don't care how much of a smol bean Itch is, this is not a viable platform.

This please. It doesn't have to be elaborate, just hearing "I like this" or "this is so cute" really is nice and makes my day! I don't know how or why people started thinking it was annoying or insincere to give compliments but it's not. Artists like knowing if people resonate with things we make.

Maybe we could find out. Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372 Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111 Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911 Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440 PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

"How lovely, then, for noobs and old-timers alike to have this visual chronicle sorting out its sometimes-chaotic evolution, from an author, illustrator and translator whose love for the medium — and nostalgia for its sundry eras — shines through virtually every panel." -Colin Dwyer, @npr.org

the muppets take the means of production

I’m grateful to have contributed to such a fantastic game. Congratulations, @shing.bsky.social! 🎉 🐦

Mass layoffs affecting thousands of workers. Cancelled development cycles sweeping years of hard work under the rug. We have seen time and again how little the worker matters to corporate leadership. 🪶 Sign & share the first step for change: actionnetwork.org/forms/were-d...

Another thing to mention for people who don't live in LA. Most of LA is very chill and peaceful right now. There's a huge Pride fest going on, countless farmer's markets, tourists walking around, families at the parks, people walking their dogs. It's a big place.

I now have a silk screened run of poppy T-shirts! Man I hope people buy these ones because printing them was a bloodbath (well, a green and orange bath). www.etsy.com/listing/4312...

We stand in solidarity with those affected by the studio closure at EA.

My advice for aspiring indie devs is to make littler, potentially crappy games and game jams first before you go all-in on that multi-year, make-or-break dream game. Give yourself a few projects with deadlines that only take a month or two to experiment and figure stuff out.

If Shakespeare were writing for games today he would have been laid off six months ago

This was such a fun project. I have the foldout of Jen’s awesome map behind me in my office. I was on a video call the other day and a client complimented me on it.

If you're a #gamedev who's sick of being overworked and underpaid, you're not alone. Sign this petition, then join your fellow devs in the @videogameworkers.bsky.social. actionnetwork.org/forms/were-d...

I WROTE THIS!! It’s based on a true story

The new Donkey Kong has pants, so as to hide his penis. He has eaten the apple of Eden and discovered his own nudity.

Hooray for Captain Spaulding, but also, US!!!

Clone Drone got a Gamescom Latam nomination! Incredible news to kick off my GDC trip. Congrats to all my @doborog.com studio chums! 🦾🤖🍾