Our pinball game for the @play.date "Devils on the Moon" is coming out this February! Can't wait for y'all to play it. you can wish it here play.date/games/devils... #indiegames #pixelart #pinball #Playdate

Animation plays a key role in spatial experiences on Apple Vision Pro. @elkraneo.bsky.social put together an article for @stepinto.vision that goes into great depth about which animation techniques will work best for your creative vision. stepinto.vision/articles/dee... #AppleVisionPro #visionOS

This illustrates the full process of capturing the "Essence" of a mesh to be used in a morph. The distance field is retrieved and then the mesh is projected onto the cube-shaped "screen" in order to pack its surface properties into two cubemaps.

Y'all, I know two hours is a big time commitment, but this panel I arranged and hosted last month is one of the most important things I've ever done for video game history. The launch of the NES is a crazier story than most people realize, and my guests were extremely generous with their memories.

This is a great read. Ninja Gaiden isn't given half the credit it deserves in terms of its impact on games as a cinematic medium

I forget who, but years ago someone once referred to my Atari videos as the "Velvet Underground" of historical retrospectives in that they didn't get massive viewcounts but were influencing how other people considered their approaches and perspectives

Two shifts, twice the microfiche scanning 📄💪 The #InternetArchive Democracy’s Library #livestream runs 7:30 AM–Midnight PT. Watch public records being scanned & preserved in real time — all set to mellow #lofi vibes. 📡 www.youtube.com/live/SxUjwZY... #GovernmentDocs #LiveNow

Maybe not the most surprising thing, but it is extremely cool to me this 30+ year old laptop can run the latest version of Nethack on MS-DOS.

I told people about Ball x Pit, and now people tell me they can't stop playing Sorry/ you're welcome. www.gamefile.news/p/a-catchy-g...

this is the way to learn with ai. you can start anywhere and backfill. you have to remain curious and careful and not just passively eat up plausible explanations. but if you put in the effort and the model is good, it’s powerful

Apple's visionOS-focused cozy-WWDC, "Create immersive media experiences for visionOS", will be streamed live on YouTube next week. www.youtube.com/@AppleDevelo...

Snap OS now has Synth Riders, Star Wars, and Avatar: The Last Airbender minigames, which will be available on the consumer Snap Specs at launch:

Congrats to the Keeper team! 👏 👏 🎉 🎊 🎆 People are srsly loving on this game www.pcgamer.com/games/advent...

Taking things to the next level by insisting everyone refer to cornfield mazes as "metroidgrainias"

I'll do it in three: "possible race condition"

ICYMI – For my first original Access Granted report, I spoke with disabled players unable to afford the continuous rising prices of games, systems, and tech. If these trends continue, they say the disabled community will undoubtably be alienated from gaming. Read more here:

Exciting to see the latest development from Jaak at Kinotone Audio, the SpoOoOky resonator pedal/synth/secret third thing, GHOSTS youtu.be/5nMrVc0Yzpw?...

KEEPER 🤝 THE HOBBIT: ✅ Heartening tale of unlikely companionship ✅ An unexpected journey ✅ Guys named Lee featured in the credits ✅ Birds Wishlist KEEPER now (this Fri, Oct 17 is launch day)! @xbox.com: www.xbox.com/en-US/games/... @steampowered.com: store.steampowered.com/app/3043580/...

Collectors! Store owners! Hoarders! Help us out! @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is looking to source copies of this 1985 NES pack-in poster for fundraising reasons, and we need them asap. We already cleaned out eBay. Note that they need to be the ones that say copyright 1985, as pictured! Can pay!

* 𝓿𝓲𝓫𝓮𝓼 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓼𝓲𝓯𝔂𝓲𝓷𝓰 * 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️

Remember how I kept talking about the Metroidvania book I had in the works, and then it kinda dropped off the radar? I didn't lose interest. I was just working with a Legit Major Publisher (Dark Horse!) on turning it into the pilot release for a Press Run team-up: www.gamespot.com/articles/exp...

this might be the clearest articulation of how AT works i've seen in recent memory (and the practical consequences downthread), bravo

Excited to demo carrot fresh Follow the White Rabbit puzzles this Friday Oct 10th in Berkeley 4:30PM. Come also to see the amazing Julian Reyes, Evo Heyning, Kevin Ang, plus an important AMA panel with XR and AI leaders on ethics and impact with the incredible Avi Bar-Zeev luma.com/iqo3fqq9?tk=...

From @leepetty.bsky.social‬ and Double Fine Productions, our new game is Keeper - a beautiful and surreal third-person, atmospheric puzzle adventure, and a story told without words. On October 17 2025 — The Keeper Shall Awaken! Wishlist today, and find out more on www.doublefine.com

A lot of people are (understandably) focused on the Saudi Arabia and Kushner part of this, but the far bigger immediate impact will come from the new private EA being on the hook for $20 billion in debt. That could mean mass layoffs, more aggressive monetization, and other big cost-cutting measures

CALLING ALL DISABLED CREATORS AND STREAMERS Do you want to help other physically disabled people to access gaming, to spread the word about accessibility and to highlight that gaming is for everyone? Free in late February 2026 to support @specialeffect.org.uk?! Drop a reply and tag your friends!

A whole bunch of notes on Unreal Engine in a Wiki. https://zomgmoz.tv/unreal/ #UnrealEngine

Le Guin undefeated at "the fuck you say to me" as subtext

no spoilers but I'm genuinely astonished at the level of prescience about sexism that the game seems to be displaying, I want to be like 'this is a silent hill for the girls' but maybe guys should play this shit just for the empathy experience or something. ambient patriarchy hellscape simulator lol

Our new #article with Mark et al: Understanding polycrisis: definitions, applications, and responses TL;DR: traditional disaster studies concepts must be adapted for the polycrisis context and places historical events on a spectrum of such critical moments www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I've taught many people new to gamedev from kids to adult, from a practical educator lens I believe the main difference people credit to kids learning faster or easier than adults is they aren't yet consciously trying to avoid temporarily looking like a beginner at something adding alt text to help

just thought of a really good joke I can use in 4.5 years

The reviews are in: this set is a crowning achievement for our species and should be a required part of every American home

Thanks to @liambroza.bsky.social and crew for inviting me to my first XR fight with real-life robots. Quite possibly the most Silicon Valley thing I’ve ever participated in.

A peek at today's cipher class! The next generation of secret code ninjas are being trained 😎 @defcon.bsky.social

Phrack turns 40. The digital drop is live. Download it. Archive it. Pass it on. 💾 www.phrack.org #phrackat40 #phrack72

UUIDv4 is kinda like IPv4 in that later versions exist but most people pretend they don't exist

I read this article yesterday and it really emphasized for me just how little I know about immersive media 😅 It's a problem space I'm cautiously optimistic to explore. medium.com/@portemantho...

Dylan Shea is one of the kindest, smartest people I ever met in the hacker scene. After he moved from San Francisco, I got to spend time with his family when I would travel to the Boston area to record music. When I heard this news, I doubled over in shock. Join me in supporting his son’s memory.

If you've enjoyed some of my games and are interested in trying it yourself, why not join the ONE HUNDRED ONE PAGE GAME JAM next month? There's PRIZES. itch.io/jam/one-hund...

The demo for Lady Dracula, my "Castlevania for girls," has been released. Play now: store.steampowered.com/app/4044270/... Wishlist Lady Dracula: store.steampowered.com/app/3624840/... Glitch art (TV shots) by @glitchwolfe.studio Music by @mikhailagkonov.bsky.social Game by me. #castlevania

For decades, researchers have strained to reconstruct cellular backstories through indirect means. But these are forensic efforts at best, postmortems of a vanished process. A new generation of DNA-recording tools promises to change that. By Elie Dolgin @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Finally got what was probably the closest thing to a "grail" for our book library - a 1983 cartoon book parodying video games, by Tim Skelly, a prolific game artist of that era. The book is so rare that this advance copy is the only one I've ever seen for sale, I've never seen a regular edition!

3D art is pretty magical #Blender

I wonder what other PSVR content and peripherals will make its way to Apple Vision Pro? Things that make you go Hmmmmmm

super late to the party but i've been playing Flock and it's so lovely and beautiful and the most accurate depiction of bird-watching/identifying i've seen in a game yet !!

visionOS 26 is finally here! We have sometime special for all the developers out there. #visionOS #AppleVisionPro #SpatialComputing #SwiftUI #RealityKit stepinto.vision/articles/twe...

What if platformers went back to when nobody had decided how movement should feel, like Super Mario Bros 1 friction and running jump heights, or Metroid's choices of more vertical motion than horizontal and fixed air speeds, or the committed jumps of Ghosts n' Goblins