GFM update! Recovery has gone almost as perfectly as it could, but unfortunately, I had to re-open the fundraising because between a partial insurance denial and some frankly ridiculous hospital costs, I'm now looking at over $9000 #transsupport #supporttransmen #transhealthcare gofund.me/44e711c83

Can highly recommend. Check out @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

I have played this almost one year ago and I still keep thinking about it. It's very good.

I know it's the new hip cost cutting thing but let me tell you as someone who worked on a game that got utterly reviewbombed by Chinese players due to the poor quality of the translation ...don't fucking rely on genAI translations. Thank you.

HERDLING releases on August 21 !!🐐🐏

I cannot stress this enough: working on @tinybookshopgame.com and adding a tiny part to an already masterful translation was such. a. pleasure. If all translation projects were like that, I'd quit my day job without a second thought. Happy release day, Tiny Book Shop!

Happy release day to Tiny Book Shop! @someindie.bsky.social and I worked on the German localisation for this, and I've been a huge fan of this project for years. If you need a game about bookshop management, the value of community and a life beyond capitalisn, this is for you

Please sign this petition to oppose censorship from payment processors and extremists! It's made and supported by female and gender-marginalised people working in games. Collective Shout does not speak for us. They can't silence us. We will continue to stand up for freedom of expression in games.

I'm working on putting Let's Freeze Some Penguins on the Nintendo Switch. #nintendoswitch

Let's Freeze Some Penguins is localized into a number of different languages, and that work is done by real humans who know what they're doing! Of course it was suggested to me that an AI could do the job, and to that I say: No. It clearly can't. #indiegame #gamedev

Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:

Hello!👋 I'm Laura, English > Italian translator and game localizer. I've been active in this field since 2011, first in-house at Nintendo and afterwards as a freelancer. Here's some of my work. Hit me up with your projects, I'll be available all summer! #PortfolioDay #TranslatorsInTheCredits

If you're an indie dev exhibiting at Gamescom and you want a fancy German translation for your demo build to benefit from the fact that most of the audience will be actual Germans … 1. what are you waiting for? 2. get in touch, I'd be happy to help!

Happy to report that I did some translating for Atuel, which, for the record, was a total pleasure. Go play the game, it is worth experiencing (and won't cost you anything but 30 minutes of your day).

Eyyyy your boy is looking for projects! #commission #art #mecha

@maschimensch.bsky.social huch, was ist denn da schiefgelaufen?

Seems like my brain is broken and I cannot finish that last mission, but: Tactical Breach Wizards. What a gem.

Can confirm. Someone complimented my translation of Dicey Dungeons recently and that got me through a really bad week. It's easy and free, folks!

I'm excited to officially announce CROWNBREAKERS, my new deck-building roguelike #indiegames that has you fight back against demonic billionaires! To celebrate, check out the announcement trailer! youtu.be/Bypf6pKX2rI

ATUEL IS COMING TO STEAM & GOOGLE PLAY ON JUNE 30TH! 🎉🙌✨ This free re-release of our award-winning surrealist documentary game about climate change comes with localization to 7 new languages and full controller support! 💬🎮 Wishlist it now! 🙏💕 store.steampowered.com/app/2794330/...

The German Games Industry Association (game) still refuses to acknowledge that the recently appointed minister responsible for the local games industry, Dorothee Bär, openly demands to deny queer people equal rights...

Popemon: gotta catch em all?

This is quite something - massive respect to Kate Nash for putting this out into the world. Give it a listen. Kate Nash - GERM youtu.be/q2MoQJP-PhA?...

Hello everyone! My wonderful partner finally has their top surgery scheduled after over a year of prep, waiting, and insurance BS. Please help however you can make this process go as smoothly as possible for them! Even if you can't don't, reposts are much appreciated. gofund.me/793f6925

The wrong people own the future, your friends are imprisoned and the world is about to end. There’s no more time for deliberation. It is time for desperate actions. It is finally time to end the Age of Reason. Virtue’s Heaven is now out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1929860/...

Folks this is the EASIEST activism you can do today. Let's make conversion therapy BANNED. eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

▶️ ⚙️ Join the GUTENBERG WORKSHOP on #Laboratory #Automation at @unimainz.bsky.social 🥼 🦾 🗓️ 3-5 June 2025 📍 Helmholtz-Institute Mainz Info gutenberg-workshops.uni-mainz.de/laboratory-a... Deadline to register soon! converia.uni-mainz.de/frontend/ind... #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence

indie dev friends, we need your help!! we launched our game yesterday, but people in Germany still can’t buy it on Steam! 😩 that's is our 2nd most wishlisted region and we’ve been working on Freeride for years so this is a huge bummer any advice what we could try? Pls share for reach boost

I feel like anyone who wants to pass judgement on what constitutes as a "biological trait" in humans should be required to first explain what they think evolutionary theory is, how they think it works and how it all connects to humans.

Ok. I have posted an update to the gofundme, bumped the number up a scary amount. Really I need to sort the main fundraiser page out too but I’ve been going at things for twelve hours now, alternating between house and usual dad stuff and I need a sit down. I’m shattered. gofund.me/ecddc7af

Hey, why is nobody talking about this? Fund this already! 11 days remaining.

Things I need to tell myself, again and again (and you probably should, too): do not work for free. This is not getting you any paid work down the road whatsoever. Just people asking for more free work. Even people who could afford to pay you, won't. So yeah, don't.

You can get all our games for under $13 total. store.steampowered.com/bundle/6109/...

The Collage Atlas: My entirely pen & ink first-person adventure is on sale on Steam this weekend. There's a 21 min vid on the Steam page where I talk at length about the motivations behind the game. So if you're curious...or struggling to sleep: store.steampowered.com/app/2581960/...

It’s finally time! Our submissions for gamescom 2025 are officially open! ✨ We have a bunch of free and discounted showcasing options available for you 👀 Please check out our website for all relevant information: indiearenabooth.de/apply ⌛ Open until 9 April We look forward to your submissions! 🙌💗

If trailers and descriptions aren’t enough to convince you to care about this game, I also wrote a blogpost where I’m doing my best to explain the reason why I keep persisting with it: mokkograd.net/posts/2025-0...

The time has come to be reckless, desperate and beautiful. Virtue’s Heaven, a game about violence, friendship and humanity is going to come out on May 20th, 2025. Play the demo and wishlist the game on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1929860/...

Yes! Finally! Recognition! Validation! Muhahaha! (Screenshot from a positive Steam review of Blyts' Slender Threads, which mentions the "good translation". This lil translator thanks you, kind Steam reviewer. Go and play Slender Threads, btw. It is, as the review states, "a banger" indeed.)

Presenting "Terry's Other Games"! A messy little collection of short games I've made over the past 20 years, out now on Steam and Itch! <3 Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2824580/... Itch: terrycavanagh.itch.io/terrys-other...

Big news coming for Virtue's Heaven in about 10 days. A good time to go and wishlist/follow the game on Steam, if you ask me. store.steampowered.com/app/1929860/...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the German CDU, just claimed in parliament that gang rapes are committed on a daily basis by asylum seekers in Germany. It is pure far right propaganda. The mainstreaming of the far right is happening on steroids in Germany right now.

New article for Steam #gamedev folks! 🌍 How Translations Could Double Your Steam Success Covers: 1. Why you should translate your page 2. Why you should translate your game 3. Which languages should you support? 4. How to get translations https://www.valadria.com/how-translations-could-double-…

@richtaur.bsky.social Heya, thanks for the unexpected newsletter shoutout! (Bad timing on my side: that website will go offline in a few days. Ha ha, oh well.)

Sending my lil website into the abyss, where it belongs. Wasn't very pretty or kept up to date, had surprisingly many visitors, and still yielded surprisingly little translation work. Eh. Pretty sure I'll do okay without it.

Here's a fun game. Vinyl christmas haul. I got two, my 19-year-old got the rest. Which ones are mine?

hi! my annual video countdown of the year's best movies will be up on monday, january 13. on the advice of "No Other Land" director Basel Adra, the annual fundraiser i launch along with it is in support of The Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the fundraiser is now live: gofund.me/ae3c2b9f

Hi #gamedev / #gamesindustry / #gamesmedia sky! My position as editor and games industry journalist has been terminated. I am looking for new positions in Munich or remote (with option to travel) in Germany and Europe. More in pic/alt text. Will also post credentials in thread. Could you share? ❤

Goodreads is getting more shitty year by year anyway, the reviews becoming unreliable, the whole site has too much influence on (pre-)sales anyway and was bought up by amazon to boost their book sales (which harm the book industry) storygraph has all the same features and even more!

Music to stare out of the train window to: sg-goodman.lnk.to/OldTimeFeeli...

@dioneira.bsky.social Hey, ich habe gestern eine Verkäuferin in einem holländischen Laden für englische Kinderbücher (!) gesehen, die sah exakt so aus wie du. Das fand ich irgendwie sehr passend und ganz schön und randomly mitteilenswert. (Haben ein paar Moomins-Postkarten mitgenommen.)