In my new game, Biomechanoid Repair Shop, you play one of those shopkeeper side characters in a #cyberpunk story. zarkonnen.com/biomech/a_ne... This could be you:

In my new game, Biomechanoid Repair Shop, you play one of those shopkeeper side characters in a #cyberpunk story, shown in just a scene or two before being gruesomely killed off. zarkonnen.com/biomech/a_ne... This could be you:

So I've started working on a new game. It's called Biomechanoid Repair Shop, and it's basically Papers Please meets David Cronenberg. I'll be regularly posting about its development, starting today: zarkonnen.com/biomech/a_ne... #gamedev

So I've started working on a new game. It's called Biomechanoid Repair Shop, and it's basically Papers Please meets David Cronenberg. I'll be regularly posting about its development, starting today: zarkonnen.com/biomech/a_ne... #gamedev

Foggy sheep!

Video game where your research lab faces a catastrophic malfunction and *you* are a scientist who must leave behind environmental storytelling clues without alerting your coworkers that you are all definitely going to be dead in 24 hours. And then your friend plays, using the clues you left

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

The Cortylorhynchus considers my problems, nods sagely, and says, "have you tried basking in the sun about it? While being as spherical as possible?"

On Saints Row we had a debug npc named Skinballs (lol) that was literally just four spheres wrapped in different shades of skin texture so we could test lighting for different skin tones during development. But teams need to plan for that kind of testing with intentionality, and not enough do.

The royal pedo will henceforth be officially called "Andrew Mountbatten Windsor". It's not justice, but it's well-deserved.

The video game industry has *already* been killed by rich failson assholes who don't know anything. You can't look at the massive, industry-wide layoffs and armies of people fucked over in every single part of video game making, and think that its destruction is a future thing yet to happen.

@cstross.bsky.social Oh look, Case Nightmare Green

I rarely come across a new game I actually like to play, so I'd like to recommend Beneath Oresa, which is basically a Slay the Spire with juicy combat animations. And without those RSI-inducing drag motions. store.steampowered.com/app/1803400/...

A hard truth is that the search for artificial general intelligence as a commercial tool is fundamentally a reproduction of slavery. Not because computers are people or anything so silly, but because of the impetus: To acquire the products of humanity without the need for a human to consent.

Isle of Beasts is a narrative strategy game I've been working on: your people have been exiled to a strange island, and must build a new life there. Gather resources, build shelter, explore the mysteries of the island, and decide what kind of society you will become. > zarkonnen.com/isleofbeasts

Isle of Beasts is a narrative strategy game I've been working on: your people have been exiled to a strange island, and must build a new life there. Gather resources, build shelter, explore the mysteries of the island, and decide what kind of society you will become. > zarkonnen.com/isleofbeasts

Looking to play a simplified take on a classic strategy game? Play Airships: Lost Flotilla instead of Civ 7: $5 ↔️ $70 Very Positive ↔️ Mostly Negative Brother Zinn, a mysterious monk who gets better with every martini he ingests ↔️ Mangy Ben Franklin store.steampowered.com/app/2858150/...

Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

Star Trek II is what happens when you don't give a well-rounded education to your genetic supermen. Khan had a decade to read Moby Dick and missed the central themes of the book.

if you enjoy the playful surreal-mundane vibes of Keita Takahashi (Katamari, NobiNobi etc), you can get a bit of a fix from Henry Halfhead, a strange little experience that's genuinely joyful but also a touch philosophical, about the purpose of play and curiosity. highly recommend.

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

developer: put it down. we don't need another one concept artist: (clutching tighter) no. this is my emotional support sky whale

it's not FOR us

Ooh, the long awaited Excel/buttplug.io integration!

Currently in Heidelberg drinking local wine, reading "In Patagonia" and feeling very sophisticated.

When it comes to adult games on Steam, winter is coming. And not in the fun way

Bonescape is an exploration and trading game I've been working on: The discovery of a giant, verdant boneyard spurs on a flood of explorers, hunters, homesteaders, outlaws and merchants - and you. 🦴 zarkonnen.com/bonescape

Bonescape is an exploration and trading game I've been working on: The discovery of a giant, verdant boneyard spurs on a flood of explorers, hunters, homesteaders, outlaws and merchants - and you. 🦴 zarkonnen.com/bonescape

I hear rumblings that EA might continue profiting an oligarchic dictatorship that routinely destabilizes other countries by committing and supporting war crimes and human rights violations while openly ignoring international law, freedom of press, and the right to fair trial

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I am very pleased to announce that the two premier side-view killing machine construction games on Steam have teamed up for a bundle! Airships & Forts by @earthworkgames.bsky.social! store.steampowered.com/bundle/59685...

Happy (rainy) Tuesday, #Boulder. I've got a new story for you all about a new temperature-stable, single-injection rabies vaccine developed by @colorado.edu researcher Ted Randolph. www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

"the world is so scary nowadays I'm so scared for the future of-" WELL my friends made a video game where you can turn into a piece of toast tho, hope that helps

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

New Yokai alert! Meet the Chōchin obake (提灯お化け), a yōkai that belongs to the group of the Tsukumogami (付喪神), or object yōkai. According to Japanese folklore, some tools or objects become alive and self-aware when they reach a certain age, and Chōchin (a paper lantern) are no exception.

A game I'm working on: Eldritch Sandwich, a mash-up of cooking, tower defense and factory automation: slaughter Lovecraftian monsters and turn them into meals for your customers. 🦑🥪 zarkonnen.com/eldritchsand...

Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists

Did we do it? We made it exist first and now it's better? Did we making it right? Did we? I mean it's better now than before! So probably we did it. Yes I think we did it...or atleast something.

Airships: Murder on the Sky Express is a game I'm working on. You are the concierge of the world's unluckiest hotel. Assign the right rooms to guests like axe murderers, mad scientists, spies, and cultists to keep them from killing each other. 🛌🗡️ zarkonnen.com/airships/mur...

You should try out Airships: Conquer the Skies, because I mean double overwhelmingly positive: store.steampowered.com/app/342560/A...

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Airships: Murder on the Sky Express is a game I'm working on. You are the concierge of the world's unluckiest hotel. Assign the right rooms to guests like axe murderers, mad scientists, spies, and cultists to keep them from killing each other. 🛌🗡️ zarkonnen.com/airships/mur...

I'll be giving a talk about games accessibility at the Swiss Game Hub on September 11, 19:00: www.meetup.com/game-develop...

Planet Flipper, a satirical terraforming game I'm working on: Buy planets, fix planets, sell planets, profit! 🔧🪐🖌 zarkonnen.com/planetflipper

Planet Flipper, a satirical terraforming game I'm working on: Buy planets, fix planets, sell planets, profit! 🔧🪐🖌 zarkonnen.com/planetflipper

Hanging out in a lovely back garden.

Herdling is OUT NOW! We’re stoked to finally invite you on this journey 🐐🦬🐏⛰️ Get the game now on Steam, Epic Game Store, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S or Game Pass, links below! We’ll give away 5 Steam keys among everyone who reposts this 🎉🎉🎉

Biomechanoid Repair Shop is a game I've been working on, where you repair strange and mundane device-beasts in your carefully laid out workshop - until things go wrong. It's inspired by HR Giger, David Cronenberg, and Blade Runner. => zarkonnen.com/biomech