My college is hiring a full time game design faculty, with a strong union! please share around, link in reply. $85k-100k Salary Benefits and retirement matching Design, Programming or Art disciplines Seattle Area

Congrats to @kohler.bsky.social and the DE team. #Dice2026

The podcast is back! This week on Make Games, Drink Coffee, I spoke with @natloh.bsky.social about game design, leadership, masking, and the need for regular game developers for have a seat at the proverbial table when big companies decide how (and if) to use AI. www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com

Anyone else notice how bad Google Docs auto-correct has gotten lately. Sometimes it ignores typos and other times the word is changed into something completely unrelated to the current sentence. "Commiting" becomes commuting instead of committing. "Suprressing" becomes "Superceding" ??? I blame AI

Does anyone have a clever pun or caption for this image? Cat-ra-oke? Meowtallica? "And I'm feeeeeeeeeline good"

I finally got a perfect score in Dungeon Sweeper on my lunch break.

Are there any fictional worlds that use the metal Jabronium?

Does his hair really look like instant ramen?

If you missed my GDC talk with Monica Fan, Scott Fine, Damien Crawford, Jakub Kasztalski, and Joe Quadara, it is now up on the vault in the free content category! My topic was systemic complexity. Let me know if I missed something. gdcvault.com/play/1035079...

If you're a publisher or VC partner and your team score formula is only "total years of experience" x "total shipped games" you're missing out on a key factor that could spell doom. "Total games shipped together."

Glad to have survived the #gdc2025 con plague.

Dense and full of good information / resources. If you are considering a multiplayer / GaaS title and this article sounds wild / foreign to your ears, maybe reconsider that game, scope down, or hire a consultant to guide you through your design. I'm sure a lack of social design has ended some games.

Happy #Caturday #DrawMeLikeOneOfYourFrenchGirls

@johnaustin.bsky.social proposed an amendment to my flavors of complexity examples that I like with Outerwilds moving into a Explorative Complexity category (+the Witness, Runic) and Disco Elysium taking up the Narrative Complexity spot. Thoughts? What games do you think fit these categories?

I'm speaking at #GDC! If you are there, please consider attending the Gameplay System Design microtalks. I'll be talking about Systemic Complexity and I hope to see you there.

www.nature.com/articles/s44... every two minutes, you alternate between 100 C water and 30 C water for a total of 32 minutes (8x in each temp pool). If you ever want to spend all that time to cook a "scientifically perfect egg"

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT! A 1995 CD-ROM. A game buried for a reason. You flip a card. The screen glitches. Something is watching. Forbidden Solitaire—a dungeon horror from the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline. store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... With @slicknicklives.bsky.social

Yesterday we announced that we are doing a Kickstarter for STARS REACH. We're doing this because the climate for games investment is terrible. We've raised a lot of money, and expect to keep raising. Being able to show support from players helps. Even a Follow goes a long way:

📢 Announcement! 🗣️I'll be speaking at GDC this year! 👯‍♂️I will be participating in the Gameplay Systems Design for Indies Microtalks with the incredibly talented Monica Fan, Scott Fine, Joe Quadara, Jakub Kasztalski, and Damien Crawford 📅Please consider adding this talk on your GDC scheduler app

🎉 Congrats to my sibling Ariel Loh for winning a Grammy! 😮 www.grammy.com/news/2025-gr...

1st diamond victory in Arena/Ranked

First time to get 10 wins in #TheBazaar Arena 🙌

On this day, at the Hudson Yards, I have fallen to #Mariahgeddon

This holiday season, should you find Whamageddon not challenging enough, consider the new game plus version; Mariahgeddon. My score from last year was 3 days.

I finally got 10 wins with Dooley in The Bazaar. And in quite an epic fashion. This build was able to beat 66 gold out of the training bot.

It's either diamond or bronze wins (sometimes unfortunate journeys) for me. playthebazaar.com

Happy Caturday, everyone!

I finally got a 10 win victory in The Bazaar and it was a perfect victory. This is my new Balatro.

Hello Bluesky, it's time I stopped lurking. I'm Nat Loh, currently a freelance design consultant working with [redacted]. I've previously been a Design Director/Lead at Toys for Bob (Skylanders), Beyond Games, and Disruptive Games. Hear to talk leadership in games + cats