we're hosting a watch party for @gameworkerscon.bsky.social may 22-23! it's a free, online conference by & for workers organized by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. please use the qr code to rsvp! there will be snacks, swag, park hangs during breaks, & we can learn how to build worker power together.

Hypnogenesis has a wishlist page on Steam! After the response that @allenriley.com and I got at GDC we decided to make a home version! I think we're the only game on Steam that mentions Nam Jun Paik in the description. store.steampowered.com/app/4545390 #indiedev #videofeedback #indiegames

You all once again proved that your love of Nightmare Kart is too powerful for our humble contraption. The shifter base broke right off! So @mattfryed.bsky.social busted out the big guns. The new console has an all metal interior, soon to be welded together. Now it'll really be able to take a hit 🤘

Come help us make arcade games! I’m hype as hell that we’re making a cab for Ziggurat and we want to give new people an opportunity to make handcrafted arcade machines! bsky.app/profile/arca...

🚨Volunteer position for a UX Designer🚨 Soon we'll be starting work on a sit-down cocktail cabinet for Ziggurat of the Titan Beetle. The existing UX will need to be converted to make sense for a cocktail cab. If that sounds like you and you want to get involved, please drop us a line!

As part of a brand new build for Super Rad Arcade in Lynchburg, VA, @mattfryed.bsky.social and Michael Consoli bring you a second version of Nothing Good Can Come Of This! Who says you can't make your own spray booth in a pinch? Refreshed art by @chriscariot.bsky.social :)

"Icarus Proudbottom's Typing Party," our two-player typing arcade cabinet, will be in the lobby of the Museum of the Moving Image (@movingimagenyc.bsky.social) for the next six months! Thanks to the museum for this opportunity and for @wonderville.nyc for making it happen!

in 2017, I saw @arcadecommons.org at MAGFest and said "I could probably do that" Today marks 9 years since my very first project teaching myself to solder

After the Experimental Gameplay Showcase we’ll be bringing Hypnigenesis to Boshi’s Place x Syzygy! checkout.square.site/merchant/ML1...

Andy Wallace and I showed and discussed Hypnogenesis at a video game concept art exhibition curated by Steph Ng and Meha Murthy at Little Raven Gallery in San Francisco on March 12, 2026. The show also featured microtalks by game designers including Richard Lemarchand and Bridget Winn.

Doom Drop arcade cabinet release party at @wonderville.nyc in one week, on Friday the 13th! 🤘 www.wonderville.nyc/events/doom-...

The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential! gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...

This is TOMORROW!

The refurbishment of Nothing Good Can Come Of This is complete, thanks to @chriscariot.bsky.social, @alexpanait.bsky.social, @mattfryed.bsky.social and developer Michael Consoli! Come through @wonderville.nyc on Sat. Feb 21st for a celebration featuring new game modes, tournament, and prizes!

Exciting news: @allenriley.com and I will be showing Hypnogenesis at the Experimental Games Showcase at @officialgdc.bsky.social We'll be talking about using video synthesis techniques to make video feedback a core gameplay mechanic. We'd love to show the game at your GDC party! Drop us a line!

The refurbishment of Nothing Good Can Come Of This is complete, thanks to @chriscariot.bsky.social, @alexpanait.bsky.social, @mattfryed.bsky.social and developer Michael Consoli! Come through @wonderville.nyc on Sat. Feb 21st for a celebration featuring new game modes, tournament, and prizes!

Feb 12 is the next play test. Open to the public, but you must be on the security list.

Finally got the poster for It’s Bunlith! in a nice frame, thanks to @b0tster.yeag.gay for signing it at MAGFest! (and @arcadecommons.org for the awesome setup they had there!)

#MAGFest is a reminder of why we love this space so much. So many brilliant indie devs, incredible conversations, and genuinely good humans building games they care about. Feeling grateful, inspired, and very excited for what’s coming next. 💙🎮 #IndieGames #GameCommunity

Every year I make a little game for my partner's birthday, usually staring our dog Tuppy. This year I asked... could our dog run the @arcadecommons.org merch stand at @magfest.org? You can play it here: andymakes.itch.io/help-tuppy-r... (requires keyboard) Art by @chriscariot.bsky.social

New from Indie Arcade Wave: Dyebreaker at MAGFest 2026. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e6BY_zkON1w

The indie arcade at magfest is spectacular as always. People immersed in the unique experiences offered on custom hardware, created with love and passion for the medium #photography #magfest #magfest26 #supermagfest #indie #indiegames #eventphotography #arcade

Nightmare Kart custom cab feat. @slowbeef.bsky.social

calling all nyc tech sickos: please introduce me and @arcadecommons.org to your "i got a guy" e-waste salvaging connection who knows to call you when they come across That Gem. do we have a ton of space? god no. but we want to help cool pieces of tech history find new life/homes!

I finally got around to writing up my 2025 year-in-review post. This year I worked on high speed mutts, Robotron-inspired CRT psychedelia (with @allenriley.bsky.social), another alt control jam (with @mtylpg.bsky.social & @arcadecommons.org) among many others! blog.emma.coop/andy/andys-2...

Two rad pictures of @jfriedhoff.bsky.social and I running tournaments for @arcadecommons.org at @magfest.org courtesy of Nick Santaniello!

its post magfest so now I can showoff my Qualia Machine, lovingly built & designed by @blazinkarp.bsky.social inspired by glass teletypes and retro PC from a future that doesn't exist yet. The booth was decorated by me to reflect a cubicle inside an Intellica office. Lots of secrets there too...

I wanted to build a console for the game jam games that would eventually be wall-mounted and live at @wonderville.nyc Here's a demonstration of how it works showing Up To Go Down by @dxtr.se and Wesna

In late 2025 @mag-indiearcade.bsky.social teamed up with @arcadecommons.org to run a game jam called Flip Out - games made using 5 toggle switches. This is the second alt.ctrl game jam following 2024's Lever Up jam. You can play the games made from this jam here: itch.io/jam/flip-out

QUALIA IS ALIVE ‼️ PLAY IT NOW ‼️ my first game is out now! qualia is about a lot of things: ai, robots, depression, death, but those are just what it means to me. i hope, like qualia itself, this game means something to you. thank you so much for playing. ♥️ store.steampowered.com/app/3351080/...

walkthrough of the @arcadecommons.org space at MAGFest 2026. an absolutely OP lineup this and every year players on EVERY game, devs standing around talking to players, commander keen piloting a cheeseburger

Hello new followers! It was so nice meeting so many of you at MAG 26! If you wanna keep the conversation going and stay in touch, consider joining our discord! discord.gg/M32eyPRmGF

Of course, always have to give it up for the @arcadecommons.org and @mag-indiearcade.bsky.social people. I've said this during the con, but I've been going to this for 10+ years. To see it go from a little section in the expo hall to becoming one of the main pillars of the con is inspiring.

And of course the cabinet I design with @arcadecommons.org WeatherSys Admin!!

Another @magfest.org down! Thank you for sharing in the joy of independent arcade gaming with us. If you enjoyed any of the games in our collection, checked out our community showcase, stopped by and chatted with us, or just took in the vibes - thank you so much. See you next year!

AND THATS A WRAP! 561 races! 7,253 boosts! 2,616.4 km collectively traveled 569 deaths!! thank you all SO much for stopping by!! absolutely FLOORED by the volume of ppl who wanted to play and say hi ❤️🖤 hopefully ill see you all next year!!! 😃🐇‼️

I'm at the arcade, I'm at yeag, I'm at the combination arcade and @b0tster.yeag.gay yeag

so, yeah. they're all important. anyway if you're at magfest & wanna see some cool shit that *is* respectful of the process & human element of making art, the rest of @munitygames.bsky.social is there w/ @arcadecommons.org showing off shootlanzer (5/5) blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Update

dyebreaker tournament last night was so good! the winners were two folks who came in second last year. they showed up this year in their dyebreaker shirts and swept the whole thing. a redemption arc with some insanely good matches

the heroic winners, and me, and @andymakes.itch.io! massive thanks to Andy and Jane and all the other @arcadecommons.org folks running these tournaments. what a blast

Had to miss out on Day 2 of MAGFest - headaches - but back again for Day 3! Started out by paying tribute to the new old blood: Nightmare Kart! I know it's available on PC, but the arcade cabinet is something else. 10/10, would kart again!

If you aren't at the @magfast.org panel to see some high level Hoverburger gameplay, you can catch the stream at twitch.tv/magfast starting in the next few minutes!

I got to play the Nightmare Kart cabinet for the first time since last MagFest! And this time with the Bunlith! Hopefully i embarrassed myself less than yesterday 😂 Happy anniversary Nightmare Kart!

got 2nd at the magfest nightmare kart tourney! thanks to @b0tster.yeag.gay for the killer game and @arcadecommons.org for the killer cab!

Happy 20th MAGFest! Come try out #Shootlanzer at the @mag-indiearcade.bsky.social !!

Hey @magfest.org I'll be on the alt control panel hosted by @emilykoonce.bsky.social at 6PM! Panels 4 - Chesapeake I'll be talking strange controllers with Blake Andrews (currently blasting me in the arcade with horse race test), David Antognoli of Night City Games and John Meister of Super Soul!

The Doom Drop cabinet is going strong at #magfest

Dyebreaker ready for action! right between two MAGFest heavy hitters, Nightmare Kart from @b0tster.yeag.gay and Nothing Good Can Come of This from Cartwheel Games. halls open in 29 minutes 🙇‍♂️

At MagFest with my homie as he's posted up as a hunter with @b0tster.yeag.gay's Nightmare Kart cab