Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

Good morning from Unity, I guess. If you’ve released a Windows/Linux/macOS game in Unity recently, might be worth patching unity.com/security/sep...

THIS IS AMAZING NEWS For LC folks like me who have been gaslit so much about brain fog that I sometimes even do it to myself - this is huge.

What the fuck is this team-brained bullshit from Hasan? Political parties support individuals running for office, they're not the POINT of an electoral system, and not having parties in elections doesn't remove choice! It's the fucking opposite!

I have a favorite gate. It is both terrible and incredible, a portal to a kids playground in a busy tourist spot. In theory it's designed to be kid-proof, in practice it's 90% parent-proof too, but strong enough to survive all the ways adults smash it about. So alien that it's undoubtedly art.

Time to inject some hope and post the Tomorrow Corporation engine video that proves magic exists in this world. (Backwards debugging! Auto-versioned repro recordings!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=72y2...

oh it's time to post the Tetris story again. (short version: reporter goes to cover early e-sports, discovers that his wife is, unknowingly, the greatest Tetris player in the world) archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

EARTH MUST DIE Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE Please RETWEET and WISHLIST

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

After over 2 years cooking in Steam Early Access, Mars First Logistics 1.0 is finally here! Engineer your little rover and deliver lots of silly stuff!

video www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

Can you believe this schedule? www.roguelike.club/event2025.html Join us in our carnival-themed MUD space on Oct 25-26 for this incredible lineup of speakers and talks on all things roguelike!

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

omg the talk/speaker lineup for Roguelike Celebration (@roguelike.club) 2025 looks sooo good: www.roguelike.club/event2025.html So obviously one of the most vital events in videogames right now, I really hope I can make the time to attend this year.

Signing a lease, moving in, working from home, letting my landlord and boss fight about who owns the IP to what I just built.

Ah, the cycle of young blue belts getting interested in competing once they realise they can out-muscle their peers. Might be starting a comp class again, but for now we teach them why takedowns matter. And what happens when they don't start on top all the time ;)

Mars First Logistics 1.0 comes out on Friday! Here are some of my favourite builds from Steam Workshop:

Our first signee, before we even really had a plan for @outersloth.com, is gonna 1.0 soon!

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Just threw an old potato the length of the garden directly into the compost heap, kid is amazed. I am too.

6 years ago we unleashed OVERLAND, the hugest most polished most complex game I've ever worked on store.steampowered.com/app/355680/O... it's beautiful and weird and i'm still so proud of it!! happy birthday overland, you were not easy to make but you turned out preettty pretty special <3

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

[me, sobbing, on my knees] You can't turn everything into a deckbuilder roguelike. Some things must remain sacred [an indie dev, drunk on hubris, points at seagull] that's a deckbuilder roguelike now

Co-worker just casually mentioned how an extended family member, a doctor, was detained while travelling to the US from the EU. For four days! Wasn't even news... The fash know they can normalize anything if they just keep doing it.

Trans rights are human rights.

so these chuds are "reviewing" my game now lmao. If anyone has Coven and hasn't reviewed it yet, please do 🙏

Guess what? Sunken Stones has new content! Version 1.1.0 is LIVE! 🦜3 NEW Crewmates Rescue Fiona, Saru and Ctharlos starting from Zone 2. 🎲The Roulette of Doom Now when the Curse meter is full, instead of triggering a flat buff on all creeps, you take a chance with the Roulette! Check it out Now!

Every game dev has made at least one settings menu full of jokes. It's an important release valve.

Which stage of "covid is over" is "covid wastewater levels have just been nationally upgraded to high"

"The State of Israel has committed genocide." Navi Pillay, chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, has told Al Jazeera that Israel’s war on Gaza is a genocide.

permanently pointing to this

Relooted's demo is available to play right now! Link in thread ⬇️ Get ready for some action-adventure and reclaim real African artifacts in our indie heist game! #indiegames #steam

Here’s a little tease for our demo that’s less than 24 hours away from a Steam near you! Get your heist on tomorrow, September 16th, at 4 PM SAST/CEST Relooted is an Africanfuturist heist game where you reclaim real African artifacts from museums around the world! #indiegame #demo

Teachers would complain about their problems with the school's network within earshot and then pointedly look the other way while I disappeared in the direction of the computer labs... Somehow things kept getting magically fixed while I was out. No idea how that happened.

Sparrow Warfare's gameplay teaser, narrated by @alphachar.bsky.social, is now on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXov...

It did feel really weird how queer-coded a lot of the movie felt visually, only to have a bunch of the characters explicitly do weird hetero objectification shit. Plus the way it couldn't decide how to treat Kate's character... #DadeShouldHaveWornADress

Just watched Hackers in a private cinema with a bunch of massive nerds. Haven't had that much fun dressing up for anything in ages! Also turns out today is programmers day?

when bluesky's CEO or head of 'trust' and 'safety' say some nonsense about violent rhetoric what they mean is "people I think are my social lessers should die more quietly"

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

Does anyone know if those audiences have been released, or are we in an oxygen-running-out race against time here?

“The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.” I wish for all men to read bell hooks The Will to Change. I wish I had earlier.

What an expertly called shot

It’s that time for SA GAME JAM 2025 👾 Join the jam here :https://itch.io/jam/sa-game-jam-2025 #SAGJ2025

Apart from rudely pointing out that Moxyland is almost 20 years old (it's only 17!) this Salotto Giallo review of the new Fanucci edition is gorgeously written, thoughtful and incisive and ALSO points out all the horrible resonances/relevances today. salottogiallo.com/2025/09/01/m...

I wonder why all these great indie games are coming out of Australia where they have a massive public funding effort for videogame creators

If you've played Cosmic Express, then you'll love Spooky Express. It's a follow-up to our award-winning thinky puzzle game. We've built on what worked best to make even more satisfying puzzles that scale with complexity. Oh, and it's got vampires too 🧛‍♀️🦇 spooky.express

It's been 1 year since we released the Shroom and Gloom prototype!🎉 Created over 3 months, the prototype was created to asses the viability of turning Shroom and Gloom into a full game. Here's how it turned out, alongside the OG jam game made in 10 days: #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment