With October coming to a close things really escallated quickly. We now know of so many games industry layoff waves in 2025 that we're only one short of matching 2024, and we have two months still to go.

I just discovered Rumicat, a newsletter service, and I love their manifesto. "Rumicat was born from the loss of spaces designed for authentic connection and personal expression." www.rumicat.com/about

One of the grad students I counselled at the HKU just announced his game, a wild mix of genres with a unique style - keep an eye on this one!

I am CAPTIVATED by Blake Manor. The stunning style, the most excellent detective mechanics, all those suspicious guests skulking around the hotel at their own schedules, it is really living up to the promise of those first screenshots years ago.

This man don’t quit!

I wish streaming platforms had something like a 'reading list', for albums I want to check out when I have time to sit down with them.

Hey friends, I just lost my job—I’m looking for new work! See a thread of work below 🧵, or visit oldmanofthefire.com I’m an artist and programmer. As an art director I’ve lead art teams on projects for Netflix, Apple, Sony, and more. If you’d be so kind, please share this to get the word out!

Hey, it’s back! A formative stealth game, missing from storefronts for too long. And a great Steam Deck game. I’ve made a custom controller configuration for it since it has no controller support out of the box, can be found under community layouts.

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw

We sure won't be starved for interesting historical fiction games soon - Valor Mortis, Blight, God Save Birmingham, La Divina Commedia, Kaidan, Ghost of Yotei - but I'm happy to see someone in AA also went for the idea of a Green Knight-like, which I am chasing too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIg5...

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

The word is out! BlackMill’s newest game, which I’m doing some work for, got announced at GamesCom 🎉

Damn, I wish I worked on Star Trek Strange New Worlds in some capacity, just so I could stand up at the end of the internal screening of the season 3 premiere and yell "HELL YEAH! NOW THAT'S TELEVISION!"

I finally had time to pay full attention to Harold Halibut, and it hit me right this time. It's like slow tv; you just inhabit this sunken spaceship and do menial tasks and breathe in the lore, and then one day you find an alien! And you talk to it about your ex while classical music plays.

My new(ly remade) homage game The Ruin Wanderer is out now on Steam! Step into the boots of an intrepid adventurer in this tiny indie game, and go raid that tomb. Takes about 15-30 minutes, runs great on a Steam Deck #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity s.team/a/3775390

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My time with Ubisoft has closed, and I'm looking for new full-time work! I have game accessibility experience from indies to AAA. Looking to make your games accessible for disabled players while honoring your creative goals? please reach out! linktr.ee/clintonlexa (Signal boosts appreciated!)

I wish I had the time and attention span to get deep into Tiny Glade…

visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help. this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls. we can beat them phone numbers and a script:

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

Oh shit, I want to find something I saw on my feed earlier, I'll probably never see it again - oh wait, this is bluesky. Hell yeah there it is, right where I left it.

Hell yes

I'll take it as a compliment that the only complaint Valve had when reviewing my game build was about the trailer on the store page.

Someone use ChatGPT to write their terms of service then

WeTransfer updated their terms to ‘get’ your ‘consent’ for training their AI model (sigh) by forcing you to give them a perpetual worldwide license to modify and publically display your copyrighted works just to use their service (deep sigh)

This is very good. www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

This is an incredible website that displays several vintage versions of MacOS live on the page for you to play with 🤯

It's very depressing when I open LinkedIn to look for jobs that I see a post by an industry titan saying "your creative hard skills will become obsolete in 5-10 years. Stop being in denial, embrace AI" 🩻

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Reminder to all itch users. If you enjoy something you played, let the creator know. Personally, a thoughtful comment lights me up more than a purchase.

I definitely indulge in this with my older games. It feels wasteful sometimes, but if I like what they do or what they say about me as an artist but they look like ass, then I’ll go back in and freshen them up with everything I’ve learned since, so I can proudly present them again.

Good lord I just got a Valve antitrust class action lawsuit email out of nowhere and I thought I was being sued for a second, but looks like it’s the other way around 😅 Well, I won’t be needing any more coffee today

Let's be 100% clear on this, Microsoft is investing $80 Billion in AI. This is not conjecture or speculation, it is plainly in their own words back in January this year, they gutted a profitable games division because AI is the new shiny bauble. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

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It’s wild that I bounced off of the first tomb raider remake trilogy hard because it felt like the controls were just not in my system anymore. Then I played the angel of darkness remake which has a proper tutorial, and now I’ve gone back and smashed all the other remakes like I’m still in 1999 💪

A few times already this week, when I booted up the test build of my game, I was struck by a beautiful vista and had to take a screenshot of it. That's a good sign that your game is almost done, isn't it? Wishlist on Steam s.team/a/3775390 #wishlistwednesday

Wild, I’m at the dentist and they’ve replaced their stack of magazine with an app that will allow you to read any magazine or ebook for free on your phone while you sit inside the geofence of this location

MORTAL SHELL 2?? 😍

Yo this is what JUICE looks like 😍

Getting pretty excited about this hobby project, remaking my little tomb raider homage in Unity 6. Runs great on Steam Deck, too.

Check out this absolute bounty that just landed on my doormat from @pixnlove.bsky.social 🤩

Adaptive Probe Volumes in Unity 6 are a revelation, by the way. Before, I had to wait a long time for a GI bake, deal with hundred MBs of lightmaps, and had to manually edit lightmap UVs 💩 Now I can do a fresh GI bake in ~2 minutes, and the lightmap set is ~80 MB! Plus: automatic probe lighting 🤩

I've been tinkering with an old project to get a feel for Unity 6, and on a whim I decided to add a flashlight and look-at head-turning, and it's such a fun addition.

Late to the party, but I jumped on the Andor train! Me after episode 1: …what tf did I just watch? Me after episode 10: <wipes away tear> this is incredible television.

It's all fun and games until it has to be fun and a game

Prototyping a new scene. Starting to look promising... #gamedev #sortofsoulslike

Ugh does the Pinterest algorithm ever hit you so right while you're searching for art reference that you just sit there and go "oh my god... oh wow... god, yes... siiiighhh" and you want to live on that page forever? No? Just me?

I’ve been bouncing between games lately, and it’s so interesting to notice when writing works and when it absolutely doesn’t. Oceanhorn 2 and Outcast ANB I was ready to love but they just fell flat for me. In contrast, Veilguard and Loco Motive have me completely engrossed. I want to understand why.

In case you needed more convincing