A feature about games on SBS News? It’s more likely than you think. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Today is trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ but more immediately for me it's also the 3-year anniversary of Lancer Tactics' Kickstarter campaign. Writing up a larger retrospective for the next backer post, but it's cool to see how far we've come since then.

I saw this and thought it was a real DLC for a sec and got very excited, nobody talk to me rn

pls remember that star trek is actually about romulans and the federation shooting at each other, not social issues.

🚨 BIG NEWS: We’re officially adding Gen-AI to Fruitbearer! 🍎🤖 As a small indie, non-AI won't work! 😱 Forget Deckbuilders—we’re now the world’s first Roguelike Promptbuilder. 💀✨ Watch our tester absolutely LOVING the AI integration ❤️ #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #WishlistWednesday #fruitbearer

The amount that we talk about Dragon Age at my office is wild (affectionate). It had such a powerful impact on so many people. Some of my coworkers worked on it, others just grew up with it. Impactful 🥹

After 10 years of offering first-class, complete (we thought) dialogue solutions, we learned we had been missing the most important narrative design tool of all time: Tarot. We're sorry. We're listening, we're learning. And today, we've taken the first step: adding Tarot to Yarn Spinner 💚

I've had the pleasure of working on MyDear.exe recently! It's such a sweet, fun game and the team are the nicest people ever. Do me a favour and give it a wishlist? 🙏

it's currawong season also known as the time of year i start seeing more currawongs

Multiple game studios have recently closed because their titles couldn't compete with established live-service games like Fortnite. Meanwhile, you can also literally work on Fortnite and get laid off and Tim Sweeney remains a billionaire. Something has to change. The time is now. uvw-cwa.org

I've had the pleasure of working on MyDear.exe recently! It's such a sweet, fun game and the team are the nicest people ever. Do me a favour and give it a wishlist? 🙏

i know it's pretty unlikely in this climate, but if anyone needs a game writer/editor in the next few months, i am good and could use the work 🙏

Some say that making a smaller game or simpler game are ways to cut down on dev time. This is also true. But if you're making a game of any size that has any sort of consistent production methodology, a good way to make everything take longer is to change standards and pipelines in production.

Let's go dig a *big* hole!⛏️ ⬇️WISHLIST ON STEAM⬇️ store.steampowered.com/app/4304900/... #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #screenshotsaturday

Helllllo I could use your help! We're trying to create a new steam tag, and that requires a bunch of people tagging our (and games like it) with the same tag. If you could pop over to our store and put in 'Fake OS', that'd be super appreciated! pls share =] store.steampowered.com/app/4253020/...

What absolutely gutwrenching news. I spoke to Katherine a handful of times back when I was community manager for Before We Leave - she was an absolute treasure, a complete delight. My love and thoughts are with her community and her family.

Heard a kid say “that game Doom is really old, I think it came out in 2017?” And now I am dying, thanks

New t-shirt company creating sustainable clothing featuring designs from First Nations designers, and 100% of profits are donated to charities or causes aligned with each shirt 🥰 Sizes range from XS to 3XL! #AusMade

never, ever piss off a writer. god damn

hi! we're the makers of 1000xRESIST, and we have... something special coming up soon 👀 ✨ triple-i showcase on April 9 ✨ 9am PDT / 12pm EDT ✨ no hosts, no ads, just GAMES see you there, sisters 💖

thinking about the medieval cat door in Exeter cathedral again

Pleased to share your first look at Frosty with DLSS 5 on 💙

In addition: www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne... The most traumatic and tedious work is outsourced to underpaid people in different countries with no proper support for the workplace trauma they endure.

I know Pentiment is set in the 1500s but finishing it puts me in mind of great Victorian novels, with their multigenerational stories of astonishing pain and the recovery that can only come with a certain amount of forgetting. The knotty tension between moving on and remembrance.

Hey folks, there's a Games from Ireland event on Steam right now, which is the very first showcase of Irish games on Steam, and features a variety of neat titles made wholly or partly in Ireland! Just in time for St. Patrick's Day! Everyone go check this out: store.steampowered.com/sale/Gamesfr...

AU x NZ GAMES EXCHANGE 📣 In collaboration with @noblesteedau.bsky.social we're sending a few games made in Aotearoa to showcase in AU! Could that be yours? Full details below. Applications close 23 March. Email us if you have questions! ➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Yo! It's #GamingNewsRecap Day! This week in video games, Pokémon Pokopia is a massive success, Xbox gave us first Project Helix details at GDC, American McGee is working on a new game and EA has laid off an unknown number of Battlefield 6 devs. [1/2] 5 Pages:

Do you work in games? Are you tired of corporate greed taking over our industry? Do you miss when industry events were by workers, for workers? The United Videogame Workers of CWA, in partnership with other unions and worker-centered organizations, announce the #GameWorkersConference. May 22-23 ❤️‍🔥

this got more attention than i thought, so let me do a quick shameless plug - one of the projects i'm working on is a really cute boardgame made by my dear friend @amilanuh.bsky.social. Please give her Patreon a follow, it's well worth your time! www.patreon.com/cw/busgamede...

my god this is beyond brave

I think we oughta pay attention to the fact that a good number of posts in the #WhatAGameDevLooksLike tag have: I’m not at GDC And/or I’m still/newly looking for work Let that sink in, really think about it. Especially if you wanna share opinions on devs & the industry.

New conference just dropped, and it's for workers, by workers. Best of all, it's free. Are you gonna go? 👀 (Sorry to all my pals reading this back home, the time zone difference is toughhhh 😥) actionnetwork.org/events/game-...

Hi! I'm Emily, an Aussie freelance narrative designer & writer, with a background in community management. My favourite game is Pentiment, and my current hobby is exploring my new home in Berlin, Germany. (aaaand I'm not at GDC, and likely never will be at this point) #WhatAGameDevLooksLike

Huge trans rights ruling from the EU's top court - if someone moves to another EU country and transitions, their home country can't refuse to amend their registration details to match their lived gender identity

My homeland is going to have to reckon with all of the bullshit we've wrought one day. This is yet another horrible thing on a long, long list of bad actions we've taken.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

the sun has actually been out here in Berlin for quite a few days now and maybe, just maybe, the crushing imposter syndrome i had was actually the worst seasonal depression i've ever had lol the australian mind cannot comprehend the european winter

I come bearing SENSITIVE INFORMATION including our past #SteamNextFest numbers Share if you appreciate graphs #gamedev #indiedev

If you played way too much Slice and Dice, this demo is for you!!!!! Having a great time with it

Do not do unpaid work for someone who will profit off of your labour, and do not trust anyone who is trying to frame that dynamic as acceptable or woke.

-------------------------------------------------------- ⚠️ Warning!! A new demo has appeared! ⚠️ -------------------------------------------------------- my demo is finally live on Steam! ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/4342490?... hit me with that wishlist 🙏 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

correct! every post about fixing a broken games industry that involves [specific games industry tweaks] and not [destroying a speculation-mad executive class and using their bones for compost] is just wasting everyone's time

🍳 Omelet You Cook 1.0 is OUT NOW! 🍳 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTJR... #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #roguelike

Really sad to hear today that Freeplay Independent Games Festival is likely coming to the end of its adventure in 2026 after 22 incredible years. Freeplay has been pivotal to my own career and I have some complex, straight out contradictory feelings about the announcement I wanna try to articulate.

This needs to be louder: "Of the 81 arts organisations supported by Creative Enterprises in the 2026-2029 funding round, none are games/interactive arts organisations." Freeplay is hugely important, we have to find a way to keep it alive 🙏

terrible news coming out of Freeplay. I really hope it & Parallels can continue. "Of the 81 arts organisations supported by Creative Enterprises in the 2026-2029 funding round, none are games/interactive arts organisations." (freeplay.net.au/survey2026) This is so supremely fucked

This is actually devastating. Please respond to the survey and rally behind Freeplay to see if we can support the ongoing org and its team to continue delivering pivotal events and connection points that we so desperately need.

Crunch is bad. Crunch ruins lives. Crunch kills. Don't ask for it. Don't do it. It's bad. I can't believe I still have to say this after all these years.