🙌The first recognised union for game devs in the UK! 🙌 Workers at ZAUM now have a say on their pay and conditions at work with the support of the @iwgbunion.bsky.social Work in games in the UK? Join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

For £22 you could go on Steam and buy more games than you'll play this month anyway, and not worry about them being pulled from a subscription service.

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

🏁 TIME 🏁 #UKSGBlue2025 is now officially over and we can now confirm that the grand total raised for @crisis-uk.bsky.social is ... £6753! Thank you all once again for your amazing genorosity and support. Without you, this marathon wouldn't be possible 💙

boycotts work. anyone who says otherwise is spreading pro corporate, pro government propaganda

i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content

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

I would actually die for the fleas in Silksong. Actually the best lil guys!

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

my isometric #pixelart Chibi Metroid for the Game Boy. Explore a bunch of ruins. In 3D. #indiedev

Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

Be sure to follow @hbomberguy.bsky.social and @skutchdraws.bsky.social ‬if you enjoyed this comic!

Looking to read more of Failure to Launch? You can get a copy here!: store.ironcircus.com/products/fai... Take your breaks at work, people worked for those!

I tried my hand at making a video codec. I didn't know the first thing about video codecs when I started, so was quite fun to learn about the concepts and how to implement them. I packaged the result in a stb-style, single-file header-only lib, < 2500 loc with no dependencies.

Managed to finally finish up Ghost of Tsushima and its DLC just in time for Silksong!

[IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT]

Reveal Time! (soon)

And the final panel. A reveal that will soon be presented to all of you soon!

Panel 4 and this might be the most drastic thing yet!

Panel 3 and something painful is about to happen!

Panel 2 and we first need to go shopping for some essential items!

Panel 1 and we have the seed of an idea cooking up! 💜

Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

my god. what a beautiful way to live

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Remaking my CLI streaming tool with an imgui interface

Is this going to hurt???

It would have been so easy to give every single award to Bloodborne for @backloggd.com's 2015 #goty replay event. Genuinely in my top 5 games of all time but I won't deny how special MGSV's core gameplay was and how much of a banger soundtrack it had. backloggd.com/u/Reicha7/go...

If you see this, quote this post with a title screen that's iconic to you

We are incredibly disappointed by the Labour government's decision to seek advice from such a narrow segment of our industry. You can find our open letter here: www.gameworkers.co.uk/open-letter-...

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Hey look, it’s our long-overdue punishment for referring to simple state machines that compile into a kilobyte of code as “artificial intelligence”

the amount of misinformation getting published about the whole itchio situation is honestly kind of infuriating lmao

This basically sums it up

Ripped out the last week's worth of code and just put in what would be a "game-level" implementation for my test game objects rather than trying to do the generic update and render flow. Would you believe it that it actually just works better and faster lmao. #gamedev

Realised last night that my attempt to make something too generic was actually harming my game framework longer term so I think I do need to buckle down and make *something* so that I can then build what I need around it and decide what makes sense to go into the framework level.

Announcement time! At the end of August will be my 5 year affiliate anniversary on Twitch. To celebrate I have something planned that I will be unveiling over the coming weeks! This 5 part comic done by my friend @loobydoodles.bsky.social will lead to the main announcement! 💜💜💜 #vtuber

Adding multiplayer in Unreal: Step 1: enable replication Step 2: regret every line of code you've ever written

OK yeah it took no time at all to make a custom export format for Texture Packer that identically mirrors the json one I'd come up with previously. Changed the ImGui window to just be a viewer (as it's still nice to have as a debug view) I guess now Texture Packer is a tool I use haha

Some progress made on a spritesheet "editor". I won't lie it will not be amazing in the end as it involves eyeballing somewhat but the idea is that you can import in a spritesheet image and set up all the sprites data for it. Literally just something basic so I don't need external tools. #gamedev

Strongly recommend EVERYONE reduce their Itch support to 0% until they reverse course.

I've had a long weekend for birthday celebrations which I guess is the closest to a summer holiday I am going to take lmao! In the spirit of Summer though I commissioned my friend Chlo for an appropriate #illustReition and holy shit did they deliver! 💜💜💜

Definitely not the cleanest of ways to do things but it works for what I need to establish a way to statically access class names without full reflection. One downside is that classes down the inheritance chain could take their parents' class name if the macro is missed. #gamedev

Found premake supports an "ExcludeFromBuild" flag so was able to restructure my solution to cut the project count down a bit. The Editor now lives within Core with automatic file exclusions for non-debug builds rather than being its own conditionally compiled project. #gamdev

Another evening of game dev

This kind of experimentation is unsustainable. What Nintendo SHOULD have done after Odyssey came out was lay off the team

over 20% of the global game dev force was laid of on the last 3 years and absolutely none of it was because of piracy