You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you

At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs. There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.

For Tan's release anniversary I'd planned on sharing a player home themed as a Wisteria + Tan hideaway between Garland Ring missions, complete with bits of worldbuilding. Then I scrapped it because we released an even better player home so I'm posting about this so I hold myself to finishing it.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Delighted to share that I've just been named a 2025 BAFTA Breakthrough, alongside such luminaries as the director of K-Pop Demon Hunters and the star of Sinners! www.bafta.org/stories/brea...

easily one of my favorite games, I think about it constantly

Hahaha, right?! Or what about mandatory disclosures for the discrepancy between the salaries of the CEO and their lowest paid worker? That would be so funny, right?! Let’s do it as a funny joke!!!

Today I can announce an exciting collaboration of friends and former colleagues, we've formed Ironroot Games, a new independent game studio. We are a developer-owned studio where games are crafted by care for both developers and players in mind. We can't wait to show what we're working on!

another group that's come out (at least in part) from the layoffs that impacted ZOS this summer. excited to see what they get up to!

EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum". PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...

my partner, drunk: "I think it'd be funny if I gave you one of my T-shots."

🕯️💾 manifesting 💾🕯️

-Writhing Fortress: Solstice- (@ kilnerdyne, @ NineteenGiraffes, @ Sillvos, @ Phange, @ JimTray, @ GattsLord, @ dianabz, @ and_hobbies, @ madchook, @ Klazzy135, @ Menkaure.Khakhet's characters) #ESOFam #ESO #ESO_JP #ElderScrollsOnline

#huevember #huevember2025 #theelderscrolls #tesonline #tanlorin #teso

jimmy mcgill is onceler-coded

Wall Breaker title secured! Now to keep farming these bone shards.

Phase 2 complete!

Hey so, today is my last day at Crystal Dynamics apparently. I joined the company in 2018 to work on Marvel's Avengers and it's been the longest (and best) job I've ever had. It now means I'm looking for work, so if you know of any senior writer/narrative designer positions please send them my way.

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

This and the Tequila Gundam stickers were instant purchases!!

Eraserhead baby labubu

sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.

Everything about making video games is harder than you think.

I just bought volume 2 of 昏姫と恋烏 on Bookwalker to show support for this awesome series!! If the sales do well enough it may just continue otherwise volume 3 or 4 may be it's last due to poor sales!!! Please support shoujo if you care!!

Needed a title for a project and my partner, in all his accursed wisdom, recommended I give it an Isekai name.

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

the mtg/linguistics/trans nerds have translated "death before detransition" into phyrexian.

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

Gamedev friends, this is more proof that we are not to blame for the current state of our industry. These are the same executives that follow every trend blindly and ignorantly. Aggressive MTX, everything is a live service, DRM that only punish paying players, NFTs, and now AI. What a shitshow.

NEW: I spoke to original Halo devs about that ICE Halo post One: "abhorrent” Another: "Using Halo imagery in a call to ‘destroy’ people because of their immigration status goes way too far, and ought to offend every Halo fan, regardless of political orientation” www.gamefile.news/p/halo-ice-d...

Went grocery shopping in some ZeniMax gear and ran into someone who loves the game and has played for over a decade! Wild!

Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for. Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.

The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.

well that explains a lot.

This is the beauty of mandatory AI labels in marketplaces -- it's a black mark and I couldn't care less how a team used it. Maybe you built the entire game with an LLM. Maybe you polished up a logo. Doesn't matter. It's not my responsibility to find out or even care. It's a death warrant regardless

The White House demolishing one of its walls is to distract us from the Star Wars tea

More exciting video game union news: Team 5 is joining CWA 💪 "We chose to organize in pursuit of a collective voice and a force of solidarity that the industry cannot ignore."

Big week for unions at Blizzard as Hearthstone team also votes 'yes' aftermath.site/hearthstone-un...

It's worth reiterating that independent creators are getting debanked for the same content

Here's a YouTube link right to it: youtu.be/u2rwJ2fBJ9w?...

Sadly, my contract with Blizzard ended in September. That means I'm looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

Elder Scrolls lore : look at the tower sideway to see the only name of god which is I Also Elder scrolls lore : it's a slug+toad lets call it sload

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Come read #dogyard! Our FIRST creative piece! @kattysouza.bsky.social is a delight and we were so grateful for her work and we hope you love it as much as we did. She's a DOG FOR LIFE! #litmag #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #art #reading #writing #author #writer #online #interview

Signalis is one of the best survival horror games you can play right now, it’s like Silent Hill 2 but in the future and you’re a lesbian robot. Absolutely killer game

a semiotics major could write a whole PhD thesis on this thing. images divorced from their sources or any inherent meaning, presented in a stew, artificially aged, to invoke the hint of a scent of a feeling of something bsky.app/profile/airb...