Jan Kubíček (1927-2013)

Pretty surreal to get the storefront blurb for one of your books read back to you on a video. Thank you @nocapsbb.bsky.social for the shoutout! Glad to know it landed well! [Link to both video and zine in the replies]

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

When I referred to the industry as being “crashier” now than it was in 1983, I meant how it feels to live and work in this industry as a developer, not in terms of industry revenue. A🧵...

Financial circumstances mean I am available, possibly even a little desperate, for freelance gigs that can use my abiltiies as a writer (Cryptmaster, Valheim, Ironheart etc) and voice actor (Cryptmaster). Anyone who can pump the visibility on this will have my eternal(ish) gratitude!

people got mad at me for this take but games were on such tenuous ground that as an industry they could not withstand any sort of crisis, least of all the one we have now slate.com/culture/2025...

new game to announce soon time to bring out the old Rolodex oh

Hello! Are you a game developer who has been impacted by restrictive or confusing contract clauses that essentially prevent you from working on side projects in your own time? If so, I'd love to chat with you (anonymously or otherwise) for a report I'm working on for @gamedeveloper.bsky.social!

🚨 JOURNO REQUEST 🚨 Are you a US citizen whose foreign spouse is applying for a green card within the US? I want to talk to you about how Trump's recent "applicants go home" memo affects you & yours. Likewise if YOU'RE applying and your US citizen spouse is freaking out. (If not, please repost!)

Michael is a friend and I’ve witnessed this all play out firsthand. I will only say to never give a moment of your time or a cent of your money to engaging with miHoYo slop. Despicable behavior that should lead to resignations

Hello!! Do you like games about memory? The past? The pain of absence? Check out the Memory Palaces bundle, live on Steam now! Featuring Interstate 35, @calligramstudio.com's Phoenix Springs, and @meiacalca.bsky.social's Panthalassa! store.steampowered.com/bundle/76841...

Very pleased to introduce our very first Phoenix Springs bundle with Garage Heathen's trippy nightmare, Who's Lila: store.steampowered.com/bundle/76917...

gud thread

Made a little game in Godot where you defend your castle from medieval monsters ronyaib.itch.io/cannone

Thomás Sánchez (b.1948, Cuba) Inner Love, 2020. #Acrylics

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

ahem

Pay per click is horrible business and encourages the worst quality, style and focus of coverage, and is exploitative Fuck this

Its fucked up how i made a game called panthalassa which is about an AI and now there is a company called Panthalassa making data centers in the ocean

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losing my damn mind at this game at Bitsummit that is a dungeon crawler where you use visual scripting to create gambit-like behavior to do everything. there's no direct controls it's all programmed by you. insanely cool store.steampowered.com/app/2731030/...

A great bit from Rich on a first-hand experience of seeing exactly how those vultures at Roblox go after younger gamers, both taking them for a ride and (arguably as bad) poisoning their general relationship with games as a medium. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Mieczysław Wasilewski

found a website on a hard drive from 2011 but the images corrupted

ABIDE is our stop-motion psychological horror game. We just put the Steam page live. Please wishlist and share!! store.steampowered.com/app/4289310/...

Couldn't finish listening because it's too close to home, but a great episode from a great little pod. Thank you for playing, Travis and team ❤️

could swear it's about gamedev

All ready for campsite holiday next week, with my lovely little Thinkpad which runs linux and doesn't have a gpu:

coilcoilcoil. gouache painting on paper

Episode 208 of The Left Behind Game Club is OUT NOW. @traviscolenutt.bsky.social and @lesperak.bsky.social deep dive into the neo-noir modern point-n-click adventure game Phoenix Springs by @calligramstudio.com Listen here! leftbehindgame.club/208-phoenix-...

i really loved Phonopolis and i think you will too 📢 my review > youtu.be/nmzswlo2K9E

If you follow this account, I can't recommend the newsletter enough. In-depth look at the techniques and creative decisions with stories straight from the animators' mouths. Like, why do his arms wave like that? Such a joy to read.

Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art. I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.

Open for any and all freelance or commission work. Send me an email or dm if interested.

Click to reveal translation is such a great way to celebrate the original language while also making it accessible.

Alexis on absolute top form here. You should read this review.

Point-and-click adventure folks, you gotta play this. Got sent an early key and while I've not finished it yet, I've loved every moment. Weird, smart, funny and mostly about navigating weird alien computer interfaces.

i feel like this is incredibly relevant to the indie game space too, especially with how discourse heavy + online it can be: web.archive.org/web/20260515... good food for thought. a big reason i don’t trust discourse topics in online discussion anymore is because narrative matters more than reality.

I don’t know, rebranding is actually a pretty cool way to clog up the news cycle so folks aren’t talking about your horrific environmental impact, the war crimes you’re helping execute, and your cutthroat business practices tbh!

They need to make the data centers architecturally interesting or at least a little foreboding for the future explorers of their husks

There are plenty of good interviews out there about success, but this week's Triple Click is more unusual — a raw, candid conversation with someone who put many years of his life into a video game that flopped: maximumfun.org/episodes/tri...

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No idea what's going on with Telodendron but it uses the grammar of adventure games in a surreal way that's got me instantly hooked

Been following this game's progress for years. Stunning technical art. Really happy to see it's coming soon.

Been doing a LOT of "best of" lists lately, which I love, but have also done plenty of reviews, news, updates, guides, and previews in my several long years of games journalism! Actively looking for freelance work in any of the above at the moment! Do say hi! ✍️ muckrack.com/miri-teixeir...

From 3 years ago today. A mossy pathway in Coedydd Maentwrog in North Wales. Pen and watercolour.

you guys rule ❤️

André Domin (1883-1962), Les Fleurs du mal, 1920

okay i've installed the extension that replaces ads with slogans from They Live (1988) and it's pretty neat