The bear but its the costco food court

PITTSBURGH! whether you're designing your first game or putting the final touches on your 6th, i wanna see you at the mimic's market game designer's brunch, this saturday at 9:30 am!

been quiet but some very exciting things have been happening that i'll be excited to share more about

PREQUEL Fight against the Evil while simultaneously recalling your Heroes’ exploits. Victory will not meet you. But those who come after you may still have a chance...provided you can pave the way. Learn More: glyphtide.games/prequel/ Purchase: www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Preque...

A very good test for Last Hope today! We’ll have a new update for the Demo soon with a few corrections (and the French version will be out later today or tomorrow)!

godot-he fuck to sleep

finished the beta version Fantasy in My Backyard's full text so I've updated the preview rules If you missed the campaign and want a urban fantasy worldbuilding game, check it out below. It's fully playable and hopefully gets you interested in the full version! quigjam.itch.io/fantasy-in-m...

brain at deadline go brrr

Hell as mutual destruction — another preview of my comic for the Hallowed Ground queer horror anthology, now 2 weeks away from our funding goal! For queer art that’s more cathartic than comforting, consider backing it 🫡❤️‍🔥

ur telling me a table topped this game?

maybe i'm just making a Lancer campaign?

After 6 months working full-time as an mid-level game designer, here's the 10 biggest differences from when I was a junior. 🧵

when you're concepting a class-based, grid combat rpg and you can't decide which @gilarpgs.bsky.social to put in inspirations so you just paste the logo

Have you read the Rascal Article about love yet?

In my video game isekai TTRPG, you can choose from 30 different playbooks! Mix and match IRL Archetypes with in game Avatar Roles for some high action RP & battles. Follow on Kickstarter! Safe Mode: Disabled launches April 21

I read every play-to-lose worldbuilding game on Itch, Here's some of my favorite mechanics from 5

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!

At your service

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