Hey if you are in town for #SXSW you have to stop by ATX Game Makers Showcase and Arcade. It’s free and we have free food while it last! March 15th starting at 10am FREE REGISTRATION HERE: www.eventbrite.com/e/5th-annual...

For any game developer or designer type folks out there - do you have any rules-of-thumb that you use in development that you would describe as "counter-intuitive"?

Back this year at GDC with Rules of the Game - honored to feature @joelburgess.bsky.social @tduringer.bsky.social Steve Meretzky @writnelson.bsky.social & @ashleyruhl.bsky.social ! Come by Wednesday 10:30 to hear some rules you will definitely for sure love and not disagree with at all. Mostly.

Food flavor themed attacks and weaknesses. Samara attacks with a boosted Spicy Wokarang attack. Hit the right timing on each hit to keep it going for multiple hits. Dosa Divas is a narrative turn-based RPG. Demo is live on Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/4316300/...

bringing the late great man's words back to speak on netflix ted's assertion about watching movies on your phone

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Homeworld: Vast Reaches is out today on Steam! Our new tale set between Homeworld 1 & 2 reimagines the game for VR and we even added a new challenge mode for this release. The classic Mothership really is stunning when it is gigantic next to your head!

Fleet, prepare to engage! Homeworld: Vast Reaches is coming to SteamVR on October 23rd with upgraded visuals & new challenging levels designed with Homeworld players in mind. Try the free demo during Steam Next Fest 🎉 store.steampowered.com/app/2949240/...

Following up the announce of The Hearth and Harbour last month, you'll shortly be able to pre-order a physical release of the team's first game, the Pale Beyond.

Learn from our Studio Creative Director, Richard Rouse III, and other veteran #gamedevs in the industry how wide-ranging design opinions can be 💭 Watch the popular "Rules of the Game" session from #GDC 2025 available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTE_bVUeHCQ

Fellow Traveller publisher sale on Steam buff.ly/fFDFakq

I was motivated to finish since I've been watching #alienearth

See you tomorrow at #PAXRising Seattle. We've got a dope demo and lots of sour candy.

DAY 3 of #PAXWest is here! Thanks to everyone who's been stopping by to play the Never's End demo 🖤 Come check it out at Booth 825 🦇 #gamedev #indiegame

And we're announced! The Killing Stone, a folk horror card-based strategy game from the team at Question (The Magic Circle, The Blackout Club), is coming soon to Steam. This has been one of the most exciting and unusual games I've worked on in my career! store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/...

When making a game, which medium/platform will suit your story the most? During #LudoNarraCon - @richardrouse.bsky.social‬ Deborah Hendersen, and Jesse Schell discussed how different mediums can alter our experiences of game narratives 🧠 Watch the full discussion below 👇 📺 youtu.be/pXQnO93XAAg

Our next game, Dosa Divas. Battle an evil fast food empire in this spicy narrative turn-based RPG. Two sisters and their upgradable spirit-mech cook delicious meals, fight corpos, build up your reputation with local communities, and reconcile with loved ones. youtu.be/jzOKSPSVYwY?...

Teamwork, that's what does it! by Frank Kelly Freas

Rest in peace to Peter David, who I followed from Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-Man to Hulk to X Factor to But I Digress... Was just reading his autobiography, which reminded me how much I love his voice.

TMNT: Tactical Takedown, a turn-based, Strange Scaffold take on the iconic universe, is out RIGHT NOW! - 20 evolving levels📍 - Turn-based beat-em-up action ⚔️ - Irresistible soundtrack 🎵 - Kick a mouser off the dang planet 🌎 - Only $17.99 💵 - Please share!! store.steampowered.com/app/3229100/...

How it's going

And so I turn all my tears into a tsunami sea Tumultuous down to the bottom where I know How deep it goes

Irène Jacob in two by Krzysztof Kieślowski! THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (1991) screens tonight & tomorrow, Monday & Tuesday May 5th & 6th, at 7:30pm paired with THREE COLORS: RED (1994) at 9:40pm.

My talk with Deborah Hendersen and Jesse Schell from #LudoNarraCon is now up on YouTube - come hear us talk game story changes between genres or from PC to console to VR/AR to mobile and everywhere else. Thx again @fellowtraveller.games for having us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXQn...

Happy to be back at #LudoNarraCon, which starts right now! Our talk "Very Different Tales" is up first - come watch Jesse Schell, Deborah Hendersen & I talk about different ways that game stories work across games/genres/mediums. Thx @fellowtraveller.games for hosting! bit.ly/LNC_Steam

ICYMI: the #LudoNarraCon 2025 schedule is now available! 🗓️ 📺 Tons of amazing panels, fireside chats, and demo streams across May 1 - 2 🔴 Catch all the content LIVE on the #LudoNarraCon Steam page and the Fellow Traveller YouTube channel. Click the link for more info! 🚶‍♀️ www.ludonarracon.com

happy indie bookstore day! I wouldn't be writing books today if it weren't for independent bookstores and I am forever grateful. Now more than ever, in the face of some truly insidious forces, show your favorite indie some love. ❤️

🎉 LAB RAT is out now!! 🎉 - A comedic puzzler that satirizes your favorite games - Over 100 puzzles - At least 10 good belly laughs 👇 Check it out Here 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/1304610/...

Last week at GDC as an intro for our Rules of the Game session I talked about our very first speaker, Laralyn McWilliams. I recommend her "You're Not Broken" talk for anyone going through a hard time while trying to stay creative. Laralyn is so missed. youtu.be/eTWchlLFL-Y?...

Today’s the day for the first ever Game Trailer Microtalks panel at GDC! It’s at 1:30p in West Hall room 3001 9 talks about a different facet of making game trailers from producing, to capture, to VR, hacking together solutions when devs are too busy to fix bugs, and more!

I'm not at GDC this year (I'll be back next year!) but don't miss @richardrouse.bsky.social's excellent Rules of the Game session on Thursday, which I was lucky enough to participate in a couple of years ago—look at all these wonderful speakers! schedule.gdconf.com/session/rule...

I cracked into my secret stash to bring two of the best game controller of all time to GDC for demos. #gdc #gdc2025

the most important design rule(s) driving my personal work right now are: - if it is obvious, do not do it - if it is hard or boring to do, do not do it what remains, by definition, are only the easy and non-obvious things. it is hard to describe how fun and rewarding it is to design this way

GDC's just about a week away & I've seen all the talks for Rules of the Game & I bet you'll like them as much as I do! We're Thursday at 3:30, come see what rules will be shared by @carlaeng.bsky.social @ekanaut.bsky.social @nfalstein.bsky.social @harvey1966.bsky.social @alishathayer.bsky.social

Today we are launching the Kickstarter for Stars Reach. I've been dreaming of making this game for thirty years. Please consider backing it. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/starsreach/stars-reach

“What do you want? I’m very busy.” “Afternoon, ma’am, my name is-“ “Who is it, Mom?” “No one, go finish your homework.”

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT! A 1995 CD-ROM. A game buried for a reason. You flip a card. The screen glitches. Something is watching. Forbidden Solitaire—a dungeon horror from the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline. store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... With @slicknicklives.bsky.social

Amidst everything happening everywhere, we did make it to one of the last showings at the old @grandillusioncinema.org venue for a screening of Rebecca. Sad to see that spot go, but looking forward to their new location...

I teamed up with @dthron.bsky.social, world class artist/animator/storyteller and another of the principle creatives of the Thief series, and we prototyped a stealth tactics game that's also a roguelike deckbuilder and it's v good, lmk if that sounds like something you might play.

don’t rewatch Cabaret rn you’ll get the night sweats

Current mood.

Why don't you just...

20 years ago in The Suffering I included this graffiti in one of the prison cells. (It says "Peltier is still here" - forgive the low pixel count) Somehow amidst everything going on, I missed that Biden finally commuted Leonard Peltier's sentence. At last this video game graffiti is out of date.

The illustrations in Phantom Tollbooth were my faves 😔

We’ve compiled a list of shows the FarBridge team is attending in 2025. Want to work together or learn more about our gaming studio (perhaps at #DICE next month)? Let us know! We’d love to treat you to a cup of coffee ☕ farbridge.com/news/where-c...

Current mood (As I was mentioning to @ethanwkampa.bsky.social)

So how was your workday

this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)

I’ve been campaigning to abolish the term “congestion pricing” since 2011 … Call it decongestion pricing, or a congestion relief zone. humantransit.org/2011/03/watc...