Here we gooooooooo! I want to see what you all come up with! #CHAINLINKEDGameJam itch.io/jam/chainlin...

Marathon and Highguard both launched into a wall of negative public sentiment. Both peaked around 88k players. On paper, same story. But one rebuilt its narrative over six months and the other shut down after 16 days. So what actually happened? 🧵

continue to be excited by the new design hires happening on the D&D team, can't wait for the next product created by this crew!

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I read every city building worldbuilding game on Itch, Here's some of my favorite mechanics from 5

doing research for a game dev bsky thread, probably should be a blog post but i'm excited

I do think due to underwhelming AAA releases, people having less money to spend, and so many great indie games people have reached a point where "how new/realistic" something looks is no longer a great quality metric. I'll choose a retro game with a creative voice over any souless franchise title.

still thinking about this

The BackerKit campaign www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

normalize cross system collabs like a fortnite event

this week I've had to do a lot of research around "cozy" life games like Animal Crossing. The biggest take away has been how much the underrated the value to just decorate and "make something your own is valued"

treating myself to playing around with low resolution unity aesthetics

After 4 days of playtests, I noticed every player fell into one of 3 archetypes. Here's what I found about who they are and why you should listen to them.🧵

A Senior Designer from League of Legends reframed how I see player feedback, let me save you 15 minutes 🧵 #gamedev

Me thinking about designing a maximalist rpg in a box vs Me trying to estimate material costs for packaging and components

What Alien: Isolation, Hitman, and Rain World teach us about why the best game AI are the ones that cheat. 🧵 #gamedev

I want to talk about why I bounced off Deadlock hard, and what finally clicked when I came back a year later. Why it's not just MOBA with shooting but building something genuinely different. 🧵

Each individual backer grants access to a new Adversary for this #Daggerheart Supplement, which comes with an entire Villain Frame to allow you to create a brilliant story with a main antagonist BACK IT NOW AND GET IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO 6 ADVERSARIES tgimenezrgm.itch.io/crypt-of-the...

When you have a rpg group where players are allowed even a marginal level of creative discretion, you get an interesting 3 layer interaction I don't have a name for

Many people seem to think that AI is a convenience with no cost. But for years, AI data labellers in Kenya and elsewhere have been organizing against horrific working conditions offered by companies like Meta and its subcontractors. Here's the latest story:

zamd kinda major mistype, defiantly "a feature not a bug", different opinions is half the fun of collaboration

While making a prototype, I had a sync with a senior designer where he gave surprising feedback. Still 90% what we had agreed but with 10% completely different. So I decided to look into why this always seems to happen on collaborative projects and what I found were super interesting. 🧵

Here's why "lets test it and see" is honestly one of the best but least satisfying answers in game development 🧵

Sometimes it can feel like designers and engineers are speaking different languages, jumping between vision and implementation. But once you understand they're making two separate decisions, both sides get a clear. 🧵

I want to talk about why it's important to build tools based how people actual use things versus how you expect to use then 🧵

Check out my games at dyingsungames.com! We've got: a doomed world building, boss fight a chaotic, print-and-play card rpg a somber, solo journaling monster hunt

I want to talk about 3 reasons your game choices in games might not matter🧵

today I just want to share that I have discovered editor widgets (positive) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovpi...

friday night we let lose (on side projects)

I want to talk about the process I've gone through the past week going from "blue sky" gameplay to 2 specific mechanic proposals. 🧵

Combat Designer is a fulltime position, you were given CR and expected to figure it out

I want to talk about the 3 very basic things I'm trying to focus on while trying to grow my indie deving from a hobby to something profitable🧵

game dev idea backlog

You can now pick up of copies of my and other DSG games on our store! stan.store/dyingsungames

realizing that I was spoiled with cheap and accessible flights while living in Orlando

Maybe the games were the crunch we made along the way

I want to talk about the importance of focusing on moment-to-moment gameplay when build a new game 🧵

I just want to share why I think having a fast start to my last two ttrpg projects was a benefit

I want to talk about 4 games released last year and how they each uniquely benefited from organic social media.

Reports indicate at least 100 children have already been killed in strikes on schools. That is unconscionable. Three U.S. service members are dead as a result of this entirely preventable war of choice. The blood of these service members, these children, and every civilian rests in Trump’s hands.

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Don't forget to channel your feelings into something active if you have the energy www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

okay end of session progression checklist but you can lie

sending my love to gama expo and wishes I was there❤️

another win for "suburban sprawl is a financially, environmentally and socially bad policy" gang

The growing desire to put an rpg in a box

I want to talk about Popp's Playtime Capter 5 how over priotizing the user experiences can lead to flat gameplay.

celebrating funding my game by prototyping a new game

We are like 2 backers away from hitting our last stretch goal where we'll unlock @rrookstudio.bsky.social madness to go all out with the interior layout, honestly what I've been the most excited for out of everything bit.ly/backyard-rpg

There's 6 hours left so give me 5 minutes to just honestly convince you to back Fantasy in My Backyard on backerkit. 🧵