Still thinking about her…

Submissions to the National Cultural Policy close next Sunday 24 May. We need as many studios, gamemakers and sector support organisations to put in submissions. Freeplay's helpful guide on making a submission can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It's a great day to be an Arc Raider. 🫡

Our game has received Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam in 3 days!! Thank you so much everyone :-)

the thing about video games is its a terrible business, because they have to be made by a half dozen of the most elite creative professions working in harmony and they're priced worse than disposable single-person works

this is the sorta shit your friend’s older brother had in his room

games used to look good instead of like computer movies for dorks

A computer can never pack a bowl therefore a computer must never make a playlist

fun Weird West dev anecdote: there was a decal on a gun shop that said "riffles" instead of "rifles", i pointed it out in the slack and this was the fix that came through and shipped

This past weekend, the new movie Project Hail Mary was a smash hit, bringing in nearly $141 million at the box office. But many years ago, before he was writing novels adapted into mega-hit films, Andy Weir was fired from his dream job... at Blizzard Entertainment. Excerpt from my latest book:

tired (boomers): my wife is maxing out my credit card wired (amazon): please sir, your gf is renting y2k paul giamatti classics on your account again

our video game is on sale!! rescue cats, flush pirates out airlocks, argue with decapitated heads, experience a severe dust mite allergy. it's Skin Deep!

Me texting my wife:

Oh and btw, the podcast is great even when I'm not on it. Maybe even especially so! For anyone who's into the business side of our medium, it's a huge rec. In my top three games podcasts for sure. So an honour and absolute blast to (finally!) be invited!

My pal @shamsjorjani.bsky.social was kind enough to have me on his podcast, The Business of Video Games. Always loved chatting with him about the rubik's cube that is this wild industry and medium of ours, and this chat was no different. Part 1 now live! <3 open.spotify.com/episode/1b3M...

wonderful news everyone i have enabled dlss 5 on 'shower with your dad simulator 2015'

Hahaha, get fucking wrecked! You just love to see it. Imagine being so incompetent at being a greedy fucking loser that a judge confirms it for everyone to then drag you on main. Big love for Ted, Charlie and the UW team. Huge win!

Good afternoon #GDC2026! At 3:20pm today I’ll be hosting a fireside chat with my pal Amir Rao, Studio Director of @supergiantgames.bsky.social, on the Festival Stage in Moscone South. Come along!! schedule.gdconf.com/session/fire...

Babe wake up, new videogame print magazine just dropped! Get behind this magazine from a couple of absolute kings from the Aus journalism scene. Looks siiiick. Cleanse your soul with some print media

When I grow up, I wanna be @imakeindiegames.bsky.social. 🙌🏼

A look at the WIP trailer for Ghost of Yotei created by Sucker Punch a year before the studio officially unveiled the title in Sept 2024. It was used as a ‘forcing function’ to help the team lock in on a vision.

Hey! @outersloth.com just publicly shared it’s contract terms at GDC 2026. Here’s the skinny if you’re looking for some funding!

Kicking off #GDC2026 with @victoriatran.bsky.social and @fortebass.bsky.social’s talk on Outersloth. Absolutely packed. Standing room only!

Heading to GDC. I don’t have any business other than GDC advisory board stuff, and my fireside with Amir of @supergiantgames.bsky.social (which you should come to!) So if you see me at GDC do not talk to me about videogames, unless it’s about Arc Raiders and why the Renegade is the best gun.

Just read this article on the US & Israeli strikes on a school in Minab, Iran. - At least 168 killed, including many girls aged 7-12. - The school was bombed THREE times, not once. - There were claims this was on an IRGC military base, but the base was closed 15 years ago. This is a war crime.

When you had to cancel your GDC talk but it reads like you cancelled every indie funding opportunity instead. Lollll fuck 😬😬😬😬😬😅😅😂😂

Live and drink, cardguy5.

Catch Crabs, navigate the harsh waters of the Antarctic and defend your ship from the threats. Play the Crabmeat Demo Today in Steam Next Fest 🦀 store.steampowered.com/app/3671850/...

Come and build an empire (aka; a sensible and sustainable indie development studio with creative practice at its heart) with me. 🫡📈🤙🏼

This is "The Sauce". This is what the centrists don't have.

Stacking's 15 anniversary sharing continues! Today I'm sharing the Game Design Document I wrote for that game, all those years ago, which was part of our pre-production deliverables. You can download the PDF here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8jk0e...

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

Lol

Absolute dogshit. Incredible how determined the powers at be are to jam this slop down our throats, and years on it’s still devoid of any heart and soul. Pi was one of the films that opened my eye to cinema. What an insane fall from grace for Aranofsky. Scab.

taleb also wrote ‘antifragile’ and he himself sees that book as a more complete perspective on the same idea. i tend to agree, but black swan was a bit more specific and applicable for me somehow

i still think about the ideas in that book every few weeks 20 years later. even though it’s not about game development specifically, it speaks to attributes of things with luck and chance that is applicable to game dev. like why to prototype & iterate, or what ideas to pick up, how markets work, etc

Organizational Culture & Leadership, 5th Edition, it's a textbook sorry it's not specific to game direction because I don't think the industry-specific skills are nearly as difficult a challenge as the whole "how to navigate and lead and effect change in an organization full of people" problem

We're only just now starting to get decent contextual accounts of games as a medium, and I find that it's much easier to internalize lessons from related but external media. Someday Valve and Steam may be the subjects of similar documents, but we're still too much in the current moment to understand

"I Want My MTV" by Rob Tannenbaum and Craig Marks. It's a tremendous highs and lows accounting of how a dominant cultural movement began and how it shaped the art and world around it, in a way that can only be properly be understood after the fact.

That said--as someone literally handing over the reins right now--I made it clear when recommending reading that almost every business book I've ever read was 80% filler around fairly simple (even if novel) concepts. Just read a couple summaries & watch the TED talk.

David Graeber - Bullshit Jobs

black swan by taleb

Horrific, unspeakably violent greed.

Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

I know everyone talks about this book, but I quite honestly always revere it as the most helpful book I've ever read in my professional life Radical Candour. How to be a kick ass boss without losing your humanity www.radicalcandor.com/our-approach

Genuinely only know one book that targeted. Ashamed to say (that despite owning it) I haven't read it, but really enjoyed working under Brian: www.directingvideogames.com