everyone on a game is a storyteller and the storytellers on Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator fuckin’ despise the incentives of late stage capitalism also that kid beto is pretty cool

BIG NEWS: We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply: The Secret Lives of Games AND ALSO: We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along! secretlives.games/all-systems-...

Side Effects store.steampowered.com/app/4055160/... #indiedev #gamedev #horrorgame

Whenever I see variations of the "Dependency" comic by xkcd (xkcd.com/2347/), I always feel it's actually more like this:

Yo dev I heard you like platforms so I put a platform inside your platform so you can pay a fee while you're paying fees

Audio (sound effects, music, and dialogue) has a weird relationship with temp assets, mostly because of issues revolving around human psychology. Problem #1: How do you communicate that something you're hearing is temp?

when i say ship a game i mean like a viking ship with a dead guy on it who is on fire

ok they deleted and reposted it for some reason but, reminder: this is a survey of GDC attendees only which self-selects for highly paid, senior devs and management which is to say: this is most likely what a result skewed _against_ unionization looks like right now

We just published the latest update to our prototype on itch. Involving a massive art overhaul and mechanics shake up - lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king

The annoying thing about the "oh we left a placeholder" generative AI slop excuse is that that is EXACTLY NOT how you should be using placeholders. Anything "not obviously terrible with a panicked hurried half-awake glance" is getting shipped.

dear lord. these people. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

non-binary people do not owe you tutorialization

Xbox made the certification documents public (this is it takes to ship/pass the checklist/QA to launch a game on Xbox) for everyone; and Nintendo/PS should consider the same. There are a lot of things that if were common knowledge would save hours/money to everyone. developer.microsoft.... #gamedev

Oops, we made another game! Fivefold is a daily logic puzzle where the rules change every day. Play it free in your browser! fivefold.ca

Adam Saltsman just gave the best talk about the process of game design that I’ve ever seen. Bravo. Incredible investigation of the journey an idea goes through, and smart breakdown of the intrinsic and extrinsic forces tugging on the project. A must watch.

Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026: Steam Controller Steam Machine Steam Frame.  Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware

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Happy #PitchYaGame! Arcane Eats is a roguelike deckbuilder with a delicious twist 🧑‍🍳🍳✨ Does crisp & crunchy card play, tossed in roguelike spices, with a heaping side of culinary puns tempt you to try something new? Get a taste with the demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2640090 #indiegame #games

Every publishing contract should have a clause saying that publishers are not allowed to submit games to peer competitions like the IGF. They treat it like a marketing beat every damn time and it's yet another place where their archaic focus on press releases actively damages games.

my ThinkyCon 2025 talk about crankin out little games in my free time is up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGsl... includes a cute photo of Stegi ((un)official mascot of the corgispace manifesto)

💊our game has a release date!!💊 - a pill-roulette horror game for up to 4 players - pick your poison - use experimental items to shift the odds - bluff, betray, deceive, and survive - solo or up to 4 players online Side Effects, coming 21st November to Steam!

technology that makes people more productive is inherently used to perpetuate capitalism, that’s why I make videogames, technology that makes people less productive

No shooting in this game. Your weapons are tools - one of them is the Adjuster. With this device you must fiddle with knobs and match the enemy's 'wavelength' to destabilize them until they burst.

7DFPS 2025 - JOIN THE JAM - TELL A FRIEND itch.io/jam/7dfps #7dfps #gamedev #gamejam #itchio

Q-UP is out NOW on Steam! 1. flip a coin on the internet 2. 50% heads, 50% tails 3. flip another coin it's $8.99 ... but more importantly it's $7.99 if you already own Unfair Flips s.team/a/3730790

The Arcane Eats demo is available RIGHT NOW, fresh out of the oven and piping hot! 🔥 Serving crisp & crunchy card play, tossed in roguelike spices, with a heaping side of culinary humor - enough to whet the appetite for the feast to come! Take a bite & wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2640090

PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else! 🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st 🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam

🤖🌟 Issue 6 of APWOT is live on Kickstarter! 🌟🤖 Featuring a beautiful lenticular cover of Astro Bot marking both our feature interview with the game’s director, Nicolas Doucet, and the 30th anniversary of PlayStation. Get in there! 💫 kck.st/4i1GAHT 💫

Game design is simple, actually. Except when it isn't. Here are the 12 things you need to know.

i owe so many video game designers an apology

folks it is time for game #15 !!! i am proud to present!! ✨ LIL KOBOLD'S BIG STEW ✨ adamatomic.itch.io/lil-kobolds-... 🐸 big. ass. OVERWORLD 🍄 TONS of puzzles 🧿 nasty little shortcuts dont worry about it 🧪 absolutely will NOT save your PROGRESS happy halloween !!

i only in the past year heard the unionization slogan "united we bargain, divided we beg", so sharing in case you havent heard it. its hard to misunderstand or argue with

On this Halloween, a reminder that a sculptor included a Xenomorph gargoyle during the 1990s restoration of Paisley Abbey

a year of free games !!

Modern AI permissions are a form of exorcism

What a delightful and very cool animated short from DoodletmeGO youtu.be/z0AUrwl3-DI?...

Getting my Halloween costume together for tonight :)

🚨 It's that time of year again! Please sign up for the upcoming ISSUE 6 campaign! 🙌🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...

They should change the file extensions on Photoshop documents to .ptsd (on account of all the trauma).

A blog post from last year, which I never posted here — Bytecode VMs in surprising places → dubroy.com/blog/bytecod...

For gamers who aren't in game dev, you should know that we are in one of the worst periods in game dev history in terms of industry stability and the reason you're not seeing that play out through products is because the average development window of games is 3-7 years so it hasn't reached you yet.

You don't hate sex scenes, you hate couples without a drop of chemistry shoehorned into Ikea erotica

get in everybody let's unfuck google drive by shooting gemini drive.google.com/drive/u/0/se... (if you're signed into google this goes right to settings. may go without saying, but if you're not already signed in and see a login please don't enter a password into a link you click on social media 😂)

(Angel Bullet, PC) [NSFW 18+] [エンジェルバレット]

I think about this a lot.

One of the most important jobs of a designer is understanding that there are some things that everyone says they want, but then absolutely hate if they get it

ANNOUNCEMENT: introducing our latest game! The Marvelous Raincaster of Yell Holler, a time-looping puzzle ballad. 🪕 💧 Unravel a story-based time puzzle 💧 Employ a traveling c̶o̶n̶m̶a̶n̶ salesman 💧 Orchestrate a shindig and other such matters Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/3800300/