so you wanna learn how to HOVERDRIVE? well you can! join the playtest on Steam :) #gamedev #indiedev #gaming #racinggames #speedrun

Do you work in games? Are you tired of corporate greed taking over our industry? Do you miss when industry events were by workers, for workers? The United Videogame Workers of CWA, in partnership with other unions and worker-centered organizations, announce the #GameWorkersConference. May 22-23 ❤️‍🔥

RE Bluepoint: Having a studio that is expert at remakes, working for a publisher with an insanely deep backlog of beloved classics, was always a recipe for printing money at a steady cadence. Leave them alone and they print money forever, little or no opportunity cost. Come the fuck on

Okay so generally all I've REALLY been doing for the last 3 months is coding rollback AABB collisions from scratch for my platfighter and it took until TODAY to get proper collision & 1-way platforms working. Feeling pretty proud. #platsky #godotengine

Union-Made Game Jam is now open for sign-ups! Next week, UVW members and friends are making some bite-sized, union-themed games to show at our GDC booth! We hope you’ll join us! #UnionMadeJam itch.io/jam/union-ma...

Value erosion gives you finer control over texture breakup and fades. With a softness parameter, erosion feels smoother and more organic while maintaining the overall shape #realtimeVFX #VFX #GameDev #UnrealEngine #UE5

ALTERNATIVELY Take your big dream project and break it down into much smaller, self contained micro projects with reusable code. I'm currently working on 2 racing games which share code but one can be released WAY earlier and can start brining income. I also get to make mistakes earlier

Before the Game Awards in LA last week, a US video game workers union turned up to protest. "Anyone who works in the games industry can identify that our art form is being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money." @alyssamerc.bsky.social reports www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...

The Avarice Awards holds a mirror to the hollow glamour of The Game Awards, as workers continue to have their livelihoods upended by mass layoffs. We are speaking truth to the powers ruining the game industry with their greed! Stream begins on December 10th at 7pm PT / 10pm ET on twitch.tv/UVW_CWA

Hey! Yeah so this Metroidvania grew out of a game jam we did a long while back. I was involved in just about every animated character you see in this game! EXTRA for enemies, I animated 100% of every enemy in the game, including the bosses! Super hype to announce this!!✨ #Metroidvania #gamedev

We're releasing the game we've slowly been working on around our day jobs for free at the start of next year! ✨ My first time working on a game. I learned so much from the team and made so many mistakes. So grateful for their patience. 😆 But such a fun experience and looking forward to the next one!

Planet Jellham is home to a complex network of naturally forming hardened jelly tubes, used by the local fauna to get around. Might as well catch a ride while you're exploring in our free, upcoming Metroidvania!

Presenting Planet Jellham, the movement focused Metroidvania I've been working on quietly in the background with my pals! Explore a gooey alien planet and recruit the local jelly hamsters to unlock new powers. Coming early 2026, for the low, low price of free!

The final few @s5flare.bsky.social hours of #TheGIG!

Next Mission 'Virtual On' SEGA Saturn

Want to bring a little union pride to your corner of paradise? One of our members made a UVW flag for your island in ACNH! (Just, uh, maybe don't let Tom Nook see.)

Woah! Ontario passed a law starting Jan 2026 that it is illegal for companies to ghost you. If you have interviewed for a job they are legally required to inform you if they hire someone else or close the position. The law also requires salary transparency on listings and disclosing use of AI

Meow #gamedev

please. please when does it stop. when do i stop having dreams about finding out im scheduled for a class i completely forgot about and now its finals week. please i graduated almost a decade ago

A bit of progress on my slime project :D

🥳 Happy #VFXFriday, everyone! This time, we celebrate the #Flipbooktober2025 challenge, and what's a better way to do that than with a VFX Showcase? #vfx #framebyframe #2dvfx #2dfx

It's that time of year again💥ExplosionTober💥 Any form of media is welcome! It can be 2D VFX, real-time, simulation! Whatever you want to use! If 31 days is too much, check out the 13-prompt reduced version! Can't wait to see the results! #ExplosionTober #ExplosionTober2025

Join this year’s #flipbooktober2025 challenge at VFX Apprentice 💜 Our yearly tradition continues: bring the suggested topics to life your way alongside like-minded, talented community members! 🤝 discord.com/channels/727... #framebyframe #vfx #rtvfx

'Mulan' Characters 'Kingdom Hearts 2' PlayStation 2

In all and complete honesty, GDC has not been for *developers* for a long time, and especially not for *workers*. We need a Game Workers Conference. Unironically.

#Swordtember2025 Swordnik 20: Vapor Today's design is a spectral guardian knight that uses a incense burning Censer as its base. Lots of fun VFX here! I do love making armor when I can. #b3D

haha heyyy anyone want a 3D Environment Artist who can also do: concept art, character design, UI art, recruitment, social media management, voice acting, opera singing (or any other style really), level design, provide cute dogs???? I know a girl... haha.....

Finally getting a chance to start reading Debug++ from @debugmag.com. Between this, @gameinformer.com, and @apwot.bsky.social, I love reading mags again. Are there others that people recommend that I'm missing?

I've been experimenting making vfx using Unreal engine's curve atlas as a substitute for color map texture files #RTVFX #VFX #UnrealEngine

Our brain is incredible at detecting edges, to the point where too much visual clutter makes it harder for players to focus on what matters. Blending meshes isn't always about making it look good but helping the important stuff "pop". Used MeshBlend + "Find edges" filter to visualize #gamedev #ue5

Masahiro Sakurai is all of us.

Perfect 'Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram' SEGA Dreamcast

We need a law that says if you're only driving your car for fun, you must do it on a race track. And if you are driving a car for transportation, it must have a speed regulator, and your phone will be disabled as soon as you enter the vehicle.

Make a game they said! (no one said this) It'll be fun they said! (absolutely no one has ever said this once) You can be on the intersection of art and technology they said! (this is an especially egregiously false thing that no one has ever expressed outside of sarcasm)

English fucking sucks, man

Mesh2Motion (@scottpetrovic.bsky.social) is an open-source alternative to Mixamo that allows you to rig humanoid and four-legged characters! mesh2motion.org

📢 Good news, demo's under review! Plus, announcing a small name tweak... #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #godot

So GMTK Jam ended today and this was the entry I helped with - Echo Rider! Mario Kart / F-Zero zero-grav hybrid where each lap you fight off the ghosts of your last laps with items for the fuel to survive 5 loops! finite-reflection.itch.io/echo-rider #GMTK #GMTKJam #Gamedev

Made a racing game in 4 days with @finitereflect.bsky.social for GMTK Game Jam 2025! I've always enjoyed Mario Kart 8's antigravity system, so it was fun to finally take a swing at that kind of track design! itch.io/jam/gmtk-202...

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now that I've flushed out a lot of weirdness, the cpu particle vm for @luxeengine.com is running nicely. this is 1k pink particles, 50k black particles and runs smoothly, no hitches on spawning that many which is good + pink took 0.0803 ms + black took 7.9005 ms #createwithluxe #gamedev

Help, I need a playtester or two this week! 1. Written a short story, especially in the horror genre 2. Have never used ANY game narrative tools like Twine etc. 3. Would be willing to do a 45 minute playtest this week or next on a zoom call Then please get in touch!

📢📢 I'm proud to finally reveal my indie game... 📢📢 Cutting Edge is now available to wishlist on Steam! Perform life-saving operations in this fast-paced surgery sim + visual novel-lite! The patient's life is in your claws! #indiedev #indiegame #announcement #trailer #godot #CuttingEdgeGame

We love a good tavern brawl, especially when all the furniture is destructible 💥💥💥 #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #soulslike

RT appreciated: Are you a hobbyist gamedev ? Meaning you are not working in the game industry, but you make game that you publish in your free time. DM me! I'm writing a new article

Finished an effect for the indie game in working on with friends! #realtimevfx #vfxfriday #metroidvania

one more Skyrim spell remade in Unreal! ⚡ #gamedev #vfx #UnrealEngine breakdown in 🧵 to come!