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Drill Bird has now been out for a week and I've been delighted by the response. The game sits at +80 positive reviews. Fun that people like tiny games! 🐦⛏️✨ Feel free to give it a go if you're keen for some bitesized chill puzzly mining🥚 store.steampowered.com/app/3809940/...

or… he could’ve given out a MILLION free steam decks

i’m curious how newer Paradox titles like EUV apparently do not use AI gen tools as that is one of their work application fields (at least for designers this past year)

Here are the current top ten games on Steam that use AI-generated assets. Mostly stuff you expect but I was initially surprised to see Stellaris on there a while back, and now Anno 117, which I will sadly have to skip.

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

at the end of each year i usually make a big playlist with songs from all the albums i enjoyed that released that year. this year in addition to that i'll make a thread here with album recommendations... maybe one or two a day... 🧵💿🎶⤵️

this trailer is incredible?! support them if you can!

Drill Bird is now on Steam!! ⛏️🐦✨ I am really happy with how joyful this lil game felt to make, and how it turned out. I hope people like it! 🥰 store.steampowered.com/app/3809940/...

Today is the steam release day for the lovely Drill Bird by @mnniska.bsky.social and friends, it's just a lovely little game!

Game Design is Simple, Actually: "fun is basically about making progress on prediction" and the nature of good problems www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/g... by the enlightening @raphkoster.bsky.social

a cyberpunk character should at all times be one mandatory firmware update away from complete ruin and one software exploit away from infinite wealth

ok ok last muppet render for now 🐸

Some of you have never seen the Enter The Void (2009) title sequence, and it shows. Wait till the last third - and imagine this in a theater. [BIG flashing lights warning!]

I think it should remain possible to work professionally on video games without having to move

Hi, we’re Splendid Failures, a small indie game studio in Gothenburg, Sweden, working on our first game: A Corporate Machine. Play as Sanitron TC-84, the world’s most overqualified cleaning robot, and explore life of the giant conglomerate Omega Global. Follow along for updates on our progress!

“All States are under a legal obligation to use all means that are reasonably available to them to stop the genocide in Gaza”

Game Design Lessons from the Emmy Awards! gametek.substack.com/p/game-desig... 🎲✂️

popped into my junk mail folder and found this gem. gonna get all my desires!

[cw suicide, suicidal ideation] i can't verify, but this is ostensibly from the court case against OpenAI. this is exactly why i've been saying you absolutely cannot have this technology be publicly available in this sloppy, zero ethical oversight fashion, /especially/ in pseudoprofessional roles.

If you have an interest in making an ambitious rhythm game with me, with a DIY attitude, radical liberation worn on it's sleeve, queer focused subject matter, and colorful characters, I am seeking to build a team ahead of grant applications this coming March. Interested in contributing?

If you’re someone who has touched the game in a significant way you ARE an auteur and that’s good for your audience! You should be respected by your employers as someone who has intrinsic artistic value! You are NOT replaceable

”the blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it” holy moly this is gold all the way through.

ironically, the one game i spent the most time with here is caves of qud, and 99% of that playtime was last year 😅

i really want us, collectively, to understand that chat format LLMs cannot assess their own behavior. if you ask it what it did, it will construct a likely response to your query and that is all. "why did you do this" is projection. even accusing them of "lying" is projection.

In other words, LLMs don't learn facts and store them for later. Where we learn that the sky is often blue, the LLM learns how to form a sentence about skies and their colors. Where we learn how to spell "apple", LLMs learn generally how to sound like a professional who is explaining something.

i keep seeing people tricked into the idea that LLMs like chat gpt ”knows” things or has values or any kind of agency, even ”anti-ai” folks. all the tech is this, statistical average (with weighting):

haha this rules. folks don't know that AIs scraping websites accounts for like half of all internet bandwidth usage right now. Sites get scraped- ie, all the contents downloaded- over and over again, destroying/wasting their bandwidth, often maxing it out. It's like being continually DDOS'd

This is pretty incredible. A guided tour of 20 years of "control panel" displays, all actually interactive running via emulation in browser. There are even little achievements and easter eggs in each section! Lovely UI design resource.

I saw an early build of this like two years ago and was immediately charmed; really recommend wishlisting if you’re a fan of city builders, simulation, or thinky games

Please enjoy one of the sickest pieces of pixel art I've ever seen: "Amiga Lagoon" by Jim Sachs (~1993)

Reviewers including No Pun Included and Shut Up & Sit Down are boycotting Codenames publisher CGE for releasing a new Harry Potter-themed game while ignoring JK Rowling’s anti-trans rhetoric: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

I have a links page and it's fun and I think everyone with a website should have their own links page as well virtualmoose.org/favorite-blo...

Tony Hawk's Pro Tactics Advance

What perfect albums came out when you were 16

Truer than You is OUT NOW on Itch-io and Steam! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨ Navigate through love and loss in this choice-packed visual novel, which challenges you to stay true to yourself in a world expecting conformity 😍 #indiegame #indiegames #visualnovel #indiedev

an ex-colleague from my team at thunderful malmö (rip) just released their game. check it out! even has a demo truer than you by @transcenders.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/2161830/...

hey bluesky experts? any way i can make a feed of people i’m following that only shows their image posts, and not any reposts? i’d like to bask in all the cool art that people i’m following are making

At the beginning of the study, developers forecasted that they would get sped up by 24%. After actually doing the work, they estimated that they had been sped up by 20%. But it turned out that they were actually slowed down by 19%.

Curse Match is out and free to play in your browser! Drop blocks, match colors, and choose your curse each level. Survive with the help of bombs and spells as you rack up combos under ever-shifting circumstances until you escape or become cursed forever. davemakes.itch.io/cursematch

I'm not kidding, this is one of the top 10 metroidvanias I've ever played. I also love that it branches a bit off of a "pure metroidvania", becoming sometimes a pure platformer or adopting elements of random generation. It's also the perfect length. (Took me 11h to beat, 15h to 100%.)

i know it's been a while but i'm happy to report it's that time again... v pleased to present: DINO SORT adamatomic.itch.io/dino-sort 🦕 it has dinosaurs in it 😭 but they're s a d :( oh dear 🔀 SCOOT. THEM. AROUND. until HAPPY. ♾ 26 authored puzzles + infinite mode :o 📆 also daily challenge ?? y

Dracula's Castle entrance.🧵8/18 The Plant Castle ability makes a vine Christopher can use to reach higher places. Not very useful in combat, though.

amazing thread, even if you haven’t played the original like me. glorious pixel art

Discovered the joy that is 1975’s Model World this morning, just something mesmerising about watching old boys who probably killed Nazis with their bare hands making little model hills and embankments for tiny trains to shuggle past

I have written and deleted at least four responses to this, all of which would get me into a lot of trouble. So I’ll simply say that once you learn about the working conditions at Epic, Tim’s championing of AI suddenly makes so much more sense.

saw that i had some traffic to powertile from a site called speedrun. apparently there’s someone speedran it snd submitted it - the current world record is just under 53 minutes! www.speedrun.com/powertile

demoing powertile at #retrospelsmässan today. quite a few people playing! the game is quite hard in this kind of environment though

tried the demo for this a while ago and it is very very good

Did you know I made a pack of 175 pixel fonts that can be used for commercial/free games, websites, videos, stream overlays, and more? You can buy the entire pack or buy the font families individually! I also made a trailer for it: youtu.be/45Ylt2FLJxI?... All available on itch: chevyray.itch.io