I created a little video detailing just *some* of the accessibility features in Piczle World of Puzzles! Please wishlist! s.team/a/2174300 #hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #logicpuzzle #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev #madewithunreal

I created a little video detailing just *some* of the accessibility features in Piczle World of Puzzles! Please wishlist! s.team/a/2174300 #hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #logicpuzzle #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev #madewithunreal

seen this trend in the current animal fest. on one hand, i kind of cant hate the hustle. same time we got two games in the event, spammed down because of literal pages of tactics that seem to be about maximising key words and exposure. seems very bork. #GameDev #IndieDev

What a coincidence!

Who could have guessed that 3 hour Youtube exposés on a 2nd monitor while you're working would be *the* perfect way to experience 1990s Sierra adventure games?

As someone for whom the Steamdeck became my nr. 1 most played console (I hardly touch others anymore) I am extremely interested in Valve's new hardware - but also, I am not in the market for new hardware right now so it's also...you know...fine.

Pro tip when you launch a game. You're gonna get *so many* key requests - ignore them all. Straight into the bin, report them as junk. They're 99.9999% scammers and key resellers. Any streamer/reviewer worth their salt will buy the game or be one that *you* contacted. #gameDev

Are there any scheduling sites/apps that do more than offer the same scheduling options as social media sites themselves already do and some AI guff about the best time to post or which tags to use? Really not interested in paying $30 for that...

Me watching the latest episode of The Chair Company...

“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

If you needed more proof the IOC is a trash organisation and that the Olympics are terrible...

Piczle World of Puzzles will go into Early Access on December 1st. Play FREE logic-puzzles, or make and share your own! Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/2174300/... #hanjie #お絵かきロジック #イラストロジック #nonogram #indiegamedev #solodev #madewithunreal

Occasionally when I muse about potentially switching engines I am always thinking of Godot, and *never* Unity - I simply don't trust that they won't screw me over at some point in the future. Epic could decide to screw me too, sure, but so far they've only done the opposite of that.

I wonder if I'll be able to find my kid some Kirby/Famimart goods or if, like Kirby Cafe reservations, they're all snapped up middle aged geeks. 😓

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

I think the one thing, of all the things that is kinda breaking my suspension of disbelief in Plur1bus, is how the other 5 were reacting. Like... Kim Wrexler is absolutely right like wtf?

Today Unreal decided to just be an obtuse pr*ck and throw up obscure bugs and weird side effects at me that I spent all day failing to sort out. Yes, yes, it's a skill issue, but today seems especially egregious. I'm not *this* stupid (I think). 😰

Invest in Score Studios! My last quarter did approx $12 billion better than one of the largest tech companies in the world!

I think this is the first season of Taskmaster where a contestant didn't endear me regardless of what I felt about them before Taskmaster. Most contestants really shine in this setting but this one is obviously doing their persona/act and I'm not buying it at all.

Using ai for reference is one way to legitimise it but also will make you worse in time. If you care about the art you make you should care about what influences it and where your ideas come from. The world is massive with tens of thousands of years of art and culture and history you can learn about

Seeing a lot of gamedev tiktoks along the lines of "we made a massive mistake with our game, nevertheless we didn't and found success". Is this what chatgpt is telling people to make for social media exposure? It's all so transparent...

"I'm having a productive day!" UE crashes somehow reverting about an hour's worth of work. Cat has catastrophic puke event in the *most* inconvenient location requiring quite some clean-up. "I guess I'm done with work today...🤬"

Just received an "important" update to our automated cat litter tray's privacy policy (!!). I wonder if they're training AI on our cats ' output, which would explain a lot about genAI "art" looking that way.

I love how Arc Raiders has thrown a grenade into the "Unreal = terrible performance" crowd who are now scrambling to find other things they know nothing about to shit on 😅

Just checking you all know about Spirit Swap, the game that came out this year that I directed alongside many incredibly skilled friends and workers! We’re a majority (uh I’m pretty sure 100% tbh) marginalized people co-op and self-published! Please check out our trailer I love it so much!

We need some new game award categories, like "most investor returns earned by sacking the team" or "most ludicrous sales projection" or "best mealy-mouthed 'refocusing the business' press release after a mass layoff" or "least effort AI 'assisted' cash grab remake" or...

A customer badly scalded my daughter's foot at Jonathan's this weekend. Tho the restaurant didn't *need* to do anything i was a little surprised we got *nothing*, no comp, no vouchers, no cab ticket to the hospital, only repeated interrogations to make sure they weren't at faul and a bowl of ice. 😫

Rockstar firing workers trying to unionise means no GTA6 for me! Mind you, all the talk of it being a $100+ game makes this boycott super-easy. I *may* already have decided not to buy it before this news came out, but now i get to feel smug about it rather than poor! 😀

Haaaaappy Halloooooween! Your dev company is being bought up by a VC conglomerate with unrealistic sales projections and a demand you lay off your entire workforce! You're a walking corpse of a business! SpOoOoOky!

Why are there so many remakes of Ghosts when you can just watch the UK one and enjoy that?

Thanks @rainyfrog-en.bsky.social for the copy of Detective Dotson for #NintendoSwitch (releasing tomorrow: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...) and the promotional keychain! 😎🔎

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

FarCry Primal. Ok, fine, I'll give it a go. Hm, *very* Ubi, I guess. Never really enjoyed a FarCry game, really. Oh, a collectathon, ugh. Heh, they're really crowbarring in those game design tropes. I'll just... Maybe just a couple more hours... Ok, I'm playing this till I've 100%ed it.

Did a PWOP early access trailer. Hopefully to release soon? Pls wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/2174300/... #indiedev #gamedev #nonograms #steam #earlyaccess #wishlist #solodev #madewithunreal

Did a PWOP early access trailer. Hopefully to release soon? Pls wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/2174300/... #indiedev #gamedev #nonograms #steam #earlyaccess #wishlist #solodev #madewithunreal

Happy 25th to the Playstation 2! I will never forget getting devkits at Criterion which were *literally* caged and bolted to the floor (except for when one of the producers took one home for the weekend for his kids to play with). We just played a lot of DOA2 during our lunchbreaks on them.

Sexy AfterEffects GPU rendering

When someone tells you about their app and it sounds pretty cool and promising and then shows you it and it's AI slop art, NFTs and crypto/Blockchain...

Chris' content is generally not aimed at me but this is a pretty good video about the current wave of disingenuous outrage slop by some toxic Japan-based creators that feeds the far-right both abroad and here.

I am now a Krafton last (ie. never) consumer.

Old Japanese guy (my age) walking the street with a small radio/speaker (with surprisingly good bass) blasting J-pop. Dude seemed *really* into it, I'm not even mad, bruv. (But "tsk tsk Japanese people don't follow rules smh" ofc 😅)

Just sayin', every time you promote ModRetro and their products, this is who you're promoting. Every time you buy one of their products, this is who you're financially supporting.

Whenever the idea surfaces of leaving Tokyo to live in an akiya in inaka I get Totoro envy, despite *knowing* full well that the reality of such a life would be *far* from idyllic in reality.

Sorry to vageskeet but I'm feeling pretty down watching a YT about accessibility in puzzle games, seeing the majority of accessibility features Piczle introduced presented as new innovations, and not mentioning Piczle even once. "Most games don't do this", maybe but ONE very much already did.

That's Deus Ex MD 100%ed (minus that ridiculous Breach stuff ofc). 1st time i ever played A Criminal Past! Great game! That Breach crap killed the IP? 😑 Such a square peg in a round hole. My last save game was 2016 lol. Well, it's done and dusted now.

I really wish I could communicate to Steam users who buy my 6 year old game at 90% off that I simply don't have the time, bandwidth or money to address their minor complains or feature requests, and that if that makes them very angry then they may need to relax a little.

For Piczle Lines 2: Into the Puzzleverse, released almost 3 years ago, I created a themed puzzle pack called "Technical Innovations" and one of the puzzles is "artificial intelligence". Pretty cringe nowadays. I am wondering if I should patch it out 😅

A new blog post, started a tutorial on writing e-Reader games. www.mattgreer.dev/blog/ereader...

Having a closed beta of players invested in my game has been so incredibly useful and productive, I'm honestly shocked. It's almost better QA than professional QA. The feedback (on top of the bug reports) has already elevated my game beyond what i thought was possible. Heroes, the lot! #indiedev