Welcome to 2026 - New Year, New Voices! We'll be announcing the winners of our amazing New Voices puzzle grant next week: $15k each for 5 under-represented teams in puzzle development. If you'd like to participate in next year's grant, drop us a line! grants.draknek.org

Kirby carries a scythe and rides the warp star, not just to destroy, but to sow a new harvest, Welcome to 2026 [ #Kirby - #RisographPrint - #DigitalArtist ]

Reply with a month and I'll tell you something I learned that month in 2025.

10/25 of the top Google Image results for 'Scout Harding Cosplay" are photos of me

I'm setting up my diary for 2026, so here's something I achieved each month in 2025. Jan: Soft furnishings makeover at home brought me joy! Feb: Actually celebrated my birthday 🥳 Mar: Saw Hadestown!! Bucket list item!!! Apr: Stayed safe in a really rough mental health month

Reply with a month and I'll tell you something I learned that month in 2025.

All my freelance work has started because someone liked the cut of my jib. They see my work, they have a chat, they check with others how things panned out with me.

catty is quite literally the best live2d artist i know PLEASE consider working with her if you’re looking for a new vtuber model!!!!!!

Started playing Consume Me today and I'm fascinated by it. Though there's something kind of funny about being on holiday and restraining myself from the temptation to work... by playing a game in which I am minmaxing my productivity. Seeing shades of myself in this. 🙈

We have entered the season of no meal rules. Dessert is breakfast. Dinner is lunch. A snack is an entire honey-mustard ham

That's today's plans sorted

There is only one thing that could convince me to brave the mall on boxing day

Incredible secret santa haul (thank u @itsalex.bsky.social 😌)

Meri kirihimete to those who celebrate! 🥰 I have managed to rescue the Halloumi I almost fucked up so signs are good for Xmas lunch. 😌

On a much happier note, the last two days have had so much high quality Friend Time and I'm immensely grateful for it 😌

Sounds like FIL is going to be okay, but needs to stay in hospital till at least Boxing Day. They think he had one big embolism which burst and turned into multiple medium ones. A bit worrying they missed it on the last admission but what's done is done. Glad it's been found before it's too late.

Father in law has been in and out of hospital for a week. Back in today and they've now been able diagnose him: multiple, significant, pulmonary embolisms. Between that, some fury-inducing news on behalf of a friend, and the joy of having my BFF back to visit, this is a very fuckin weird time.

Everybody say "Happy Birthday Tana!" (by wishlisting)

if u r around Ōtautahi Christchurch and wander into RIDE ON SUPER SOUND u could play the Small Town Emo demo on a big machine

Having a cat is so cool. There is a little creature in my bed who loves me and vibrates like a tiny motorcycle and is so fuzzy and wants to snuggle. How could I want anything else

After games where I played as a fox (Spirit of the North 1 and 2), cat (Stray) and dog (Farewell North), looks like next my animal game will be Toroa: Skycall, an NZ-developed game where you "fly as an albatross," in a "game grounded in the Māori world." store.steampowered.com/app/2003490/...

I always get a lot from Hera's pieces, but as someone trying to be less practically minded this snippet is going to stick with me: Not only must you imagine Sisyphus happy, but you must imagine him in an exquisite ribboned bonnet. Many other gems here: thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-1...

Making mockups for artists to interpret takes basically no time and it's fun!

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

One particular way using AI as a reference totally misses the point of having a 'reference' is that, if you're trying to do anything with a level of specificity - to a culture, a time period, a type of garment/device/building - using a garbled version as your starting point dooms you to inaccuracy

I remember two of my friends in design school who were roomates accuse the other of copying them - when the truth was they both looked at the same magazines, had the same classes and listened to the same music. This is going to happen on a much larger scale with prompts

The act of gathering reference is such a deeper thing than just a fucking collage. It's research, learning, assessing and building on your knowledge base. Even google image search is dog shit for this, crack a fucking book. Learning names, history, influences.

Have you taken a moment to check out the official Frosty Mini Steam event? It's stacked with the coolest games made in ANZ 🍦🧡 store.steampowered.com/curator/4542...

This is the closest they get to cuddling these days :')

One more week until my EOY break starts, and ngl I am regretting not starting it sooner :' D

Hades 2's story doesn't change the status quo aftermath.site/hades-2-ending

✨NZ Games Festival is back and celebrating our 10th birthday in 2026!✨ After a decade, "Checkpoint" felt like the perfect theme for us to reflect on everything that’s happened, and look to the future. Join us in April for birthday bash, and watch this space for more info! #nzgf2026 #nzGameDev

Just rolled credits, and what a lovely experience. :' ) If you're looking for a chill, meditative game with lots of lil giggles and a beautiful indigenous worldview, please give Toroa Skycall a shot! It's 2-3 hours of playtime and worth every moment of it for how well it fills your cup. ❤️

new game release: Rainbows Are Carnivores is an experimental gay fishing romance / aquaculture management sim. Free, 10-20 min, play in mobile or desktop browser radiatoryang.itch.io/rainbows

The real reason I work from home

We really need to double down on outwardly stating our work does not contain AI. We're seeing it in movie credits and books, we have to start putting it on things we make and pressuring others to label their work as human made, and normalize that as much as we can, I think. stuff like this maybe

ok one earnest post……. 10 yrs ago today I graduated w my honours degree which I wrote my dissertation on the need for more self determined Indigenous video games… and on this very same day 10 yrs later released one w my friends!!! 🥹

At long last, Drăculești arrives in Early Access in just a few short months. @fine-fiends.bsky.social checkpointgaming.net/news/2025/12...

Ngl @itsjackal.bsky.social did such a great job with the truck design. I had forgotten how hard it was to pick between all the brilliant concept sketches until I wrote this BTS. 🤩

HUGE NEWS 🤩🤩🤩

Turn on the TV. Doesn’t matter what channel.

📣 VOICE ARTISTS! 📣 We’re looking for VO artists to lend their beautiful voices to our game Teeto! A bunch of roles available for minor NPCs - so DM here or reach out via email (link in bio). Please share with your VO buds 🩵 #indiegame #gamedev #voiceover

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We have some VERY cool news to share - here’s your reminder to tune into Frosty Games @ 10AM NZDT this Wednesday for an exciting announcement! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji17... #adaptory #indiegames #basebuilding

if you're into AI "advisors" and find their insights helpful, may I non-ironically recommend seriously considering: tarot - connection to your subconscious - therapeutic or confessional as need be - patterns of meaning - self-determined takeaways - no need to google facts afterwards

So, do I know anyone who knows someone at Valve / Steam who could help with an expedited game listing review due to extenuating circumstances? Many thank yous in advance 🙏🏼

you can use my released fonts, free or commercial, for video games!! i allow it. links are in alt text!!

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