NEXT THURSDAY "Why did I make this?" NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Bennett Foddy March 5th 7pm - 8:30pm RSVP: bennettfoddylectureseries.eventbrite.com (Also live streaming at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter) Join us for a career retrospective with @foddy.net! Poster by @cromsferatu.bsky.social

I hope everyone is excited about Verses! We would love it if folks would check out our patreon. It's the fastest way to play the game! patreon.com/superfutureg...

GDC attendees! We'll be having our annual listener meetup at 4pm on Wednesday, at the usual spot (around the cement benches just beyond the northeast edge of the park). Hope to see you there! maps.app.goo.gl/Xx4CBusosu92...

Ep. 152: Walking Over It w/ Gabe Cuzzillo and Bennett Foddy (Baby Steps) Rob, Sarah, Doug, and Andy are joined by @foddy.net and @gcuzzillo.bsky.social to talk about their (with @maxiboch.bsky.social) multi-IGF-nominated, multi-faceted adventure game. secretlives.games/152-walking-...

Yes!!!!!! Haha listen closely, you’ll hear the trauma behind the smile (but you are actually hearing my huge and genuine giddiness to be back!) So grateful to the team for standing by the Service Technician. Really moved by players who missed her. If only I could emote-hug you all. 🫂💪 #helldivers2

All Systems Brough - Vertex Dispenser Rob and Andy are joined by @droqen.bsky.social, @tinysubversions.bsky.social, and Tara Macalister to discuss the second game in our yearlong coverage of @smestorp.bsky.social's work. secretlives.games/all-systems-...

The memoir game isn't new, but it is having a moment. I blogged about the boom of autobiographical games in the early 2010s -- and why the sub-genre is now returning with a vengeance.

UPDATE: The awards ceremony will now be at 12:00 PST! The best place to watch is on steam: store.steampowered.com/sale/IndieCa... In the meantime, why not check out some of our incredible nominees?

The Indiecade Awards are in a little less than half an hour! Join us on Steam or YouTube at 11AM PT! @elysewillems.bsky.social and @selmaleh.bsky.social and I are excited to celebrate these wonderful indies with you! @indiecade.bsky.social check indiecade.com for more info!

Folks, the @indiecade.bsky.social Awards are in just a couple hours!!! 11am PT! After a year away I’m BACK with the radiant @islahinck.bsky.social & @elysewillems.bsky.social to goof, gag and deliver the most wonderful slate of indies to you, and honor their creators Steam home page! Indiecade.com!

I really meant to log on one more time in Anthem before it sank gently into the abyss….the flying was so fun, & the promise of fleshing out combo-based ME3 style co-op was a worthy pursuit. Love and kinship to all the Freelancers who stuck around. Love and kinship to the devs.

Our almost 4-hour GOTY 2025 special is live now! The gang's all here to count down our favorite "games" of "2025", alongside a bevvy of great picks from previous guests and listeners. secretlives.games/151-games-of...

Join us on Steam on January 17th for the IndieCade Awards with our hosts Sarah Elmaleh, Isla Hinck, and Elyse Willems! Ceremony will air at 11 am PST / 2 pm EST. Learn about the nominated games here: www.indiecade.com/festival-202... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #indiecade #Awards #games

What's actually involved in getting a human voice actor to record lines for a game, and how does that compare to an AI replacement? @maddie-b-a.bsky.social speaks to actors and audio engineers like @selmaleh.bsky.social and @jeffvandyck.com to try and demystify what goes into giving games a voice.

61 workers at Ubisoft Halifax have formed the first North American union at Ubisoft. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ubi...

I created a Blue Sky starter pack of all the game worker unions across the world. There are a lot of us now! Give them a follow, they're all great! 4/ go.bsky.app/PNcLPFU

Here's how the joining process works behind the scenes at the union. In case you're wondering, "Ben.... Where did you get this information? I've heard other things before...," my source is the Executive Director of Customer Experience at SAG-AFTRA.

HEY! If you want 2026 to be THE year that labor gets the upperhand on corporations forcing AI culture, then you need to learn from the early wins. Here's voice actor union rep @selmaleh.bsky.social explaining how gaming voice actors fought (for over a year!!) to guarantee protections from AI.

Celebrate the IndieCade Festival 2025 Nominated Games with Awards hosts Sarah Elmaleh, Isla Hinck, and Elyse Willems! youtu.be/5fJmGRO7f4E?... Learn more about the games here: www.indiecade.com/festival-202... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #indiecade #Awards #games

We want to hear from YOU, #SagAftraMembers! Join us on December 17 at 2 PT/5 ET for our artificial intelligence caucus in preparation for the 2026 TV/Theatrical/Streaming contract negotiations. Use your voice! Get more info/RSVP here: https://ow.ly/mR5s50XIHCo

Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud are on sale at the same time! 🍄⛏ Get both with the Best Patch Notes bundle: store.steampowered.com/bundle/38314...

“For years they said it would never happen and it fucking is. [They’re] facing everything from stalling at the bargaining table to mass firings, and deciding that it's worth it for a shot at real agency in shaping their working conditions” @selmaleh.bsky.social postgame.substack.com/p/18-reasons...

I crammed all of your favorite video game podcasts into one Holiday Special! What are your favorite gamers grateful for? Hear from @kumail.bsky.social and Emily V. Gordon, @austinwalker.bsky.social @lucyjames.games @blessingjr.bsky.social @chrisbratt.bsky.social @teanah.bsky.social, and more!

This takes SO MUCH PREAMBLE out of hyping this beautiful podcast I’m so blessed to run with. So hyped for this rebrand and peep this lovely homegrown art by the one and only Dick Hogg!

Eggplant is one of, if not the best, videogame podcasts I've ever heard. Made by game developers, their conversations are approachable and lighthearted all the same. This latest one, being about Consume Me, fills me with joy.

Video game giant Rockstar has sacked more than 30 workers across the UK, including my constituents working at their Edinburgh office. I urged Ministers to support workers who have lost their jobs, and stop this from happening again.

And when actors went on strike over AI protections - literally fighting the bots - they wrote satirical dialogue to explain absences that was fully aligned with their own world-building, instead of replacing them with AI, or other actors. Cognitive assonance, so cool, so classy, so appreciated 😭😭😭

SAG-AFTRA stands in solidarity with the Condé United and NewsGuild of New York union members who were retaliated against for questioning the closure of Teen Vogue.

(curious, do we know what the *terms* were for actors who did AI licenses for arc raiders? “They agreed to it” - to what? Core to our negotiation: some stuff you should not be pressured to agree to, you deserve certain info beforehand, & have union enforcement if violated. I wish them the same.)

Half the battle is realizing nothing is inevitable, no matter how hard the sell. The harder the sell, the more dubious the value. When folks say “the genie is out of the bottle”, it doesn’t mean “and now we must invite him to all of our parties.”

The first most important thing you can do to support workers is to listen to them. They love their work and they want to keep making games, and they deserve a union to make their work safe and sustainable. Very glad to see People Make Games follow this closely. Staying tuned and in solidarity ✊

We've got 31 game devs who are keen to get to work, @rockstargames.com.

And if you’re looking to help from afar (or locally, I suppose), IWGB set up a fund for the workers who were dismissed. bsky.app/profile/game...

Any London based game devs out there, I think this would be an important demo to show up to if you can. The UK industry has to show Rockstar and Take Two higher ups that union busting will not be tolerated.

“Turn the volume up” is just insane contemporary speech work.

Southern Democrats get shit upon by the least worthy and useful of our coalition, and that sucks, so it's important to take a minute and say: What an accomplishment. What a *feat*.

Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too

you could not make up an arc like "hunger strike outside of city hall" to "mayor who now works at city hall'

link to the whole thing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOQT...

This person took this when they called the race

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

We know Rockstar can work productively with unions - making games that make huge money - because they do. These devs deserve everything. 💜✊💜

The fact that some of the companies who run the games industry are fighting so hard to stop unionization just proves how much power the workers have when they stand together. This disgusting action only delays the inevitable; solidarity will win.

Dan Houser (co-founder and former Head Writer and VP of Creativity at Rockstar) acknowledges the critical role workers have had in the success of Rockstar’s titles, yet Rockstar is engaging in one of the most ruthless acts of union-busting in UK video game history. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Announcing: Eggplant Community Game Jam aka Eggjam #28, "Make A Broughlike"!! Join the talented devs from our discord in celebrating the oeuvre of @smestorp.bsky.social and getting into the spirit of our upcoming series, A Year of Michael Brough! itch.io/jam/eggjam-28

Looking for a party game that combines social deduction with the pleasant absurdity of rating animals, films, and the weather on a scale of ★ to ★★★★★? And it's just a simple deck of cards? AND it's live on Kickstarter now?!?! Guess what, STARFRIENDS has launched! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...

It's that time of year... 🍂 🎃 The Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival is BACK for 2025! 🎃 This year we can support up to 800 players at once in this seasonal pumpkin carving MMO! This year's update comes with new areas and new secrets to find. Hope you don't mind if I re-use the trailer from last year! 😅

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And to give you a sense of the book club experience, check out this lovely article from @sporkyreeve.bsky.social on GameSpot about his experience! www.gamespot.com/articles/an-...