I've been thinking a lot about visible vs invisible skill layers. i.e every craft has outer layers of skills that laypeople can recognise, and inner layers that you need expertise and experience to perceive at all. Could y'all think of examples of visible vs invisible skills in your own discipline?

www.artstation.com/rachel_damours www.artstation.com/marinaserra www.artstation.com/marie-angoul... www.artstation.com/lachance www.artstation.com/luhanwang Mini art blast from some of my colleagues working on Grounded 2 today! Super happy to see their amazing work getting shown off 😊

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Flipped Normals is shutting down their marketplace. Download what you have paid for now before it is gone! www.linkedin.com/posts/this-w...

HEY 👇 so secretly we've been working with a cabal of indie devs making the type of strange & distinctive games that we love to play on noclip_2. tomorrow we're announcing a SHOWCASE on noclip_2 as part of an upcoming Steam Festival about these games. it's gonna be fun. we hope you tune in.

🎮 Steam Next Fest kicks off today! There are so many new demos to check out, so I'll use this thread to keep track of what catches my eye. Devs, drop your demos below! Players, let me know what you’re loving so far 👇

Great interview 😊

May this year treat you kindly, little horse #lunarnewyear #yearofthehorse #digitalart

My handsome husband becoming even more strange with Strange Brew 😂

I just got my copy! ☕☕🧟‍♀️🧟‍♀️

A really cool list of resources for making games, with a really well put together website!

A long running side project finally sees the light of day www.artstation.com/artwork/Gv5ERW

did a 16th century fashion study but made it spoopy

Don that dome, fluff those feathers and fill up that mug. Strange Brew releases on Steam on February 18, 2026. Wishlist on Steam ➫ s.team/a/3499670 #indiegame #coffeeislife #zombies youtu.be/hd-s7F0Kaa0

Get a pass to GDC! Pixelles Ensemble especially considers applications from experienced game devs of marginalized genders who are also: 🎇 Studio founders seeking funding / publishing 🎇 Organizers advocating to improve the industry This #GDC2026 pass program closes in 3 days pixelles.ca#gdcensemble

However, despite the continued slip in diversity behind the camera, the study found that underrepresented storylines – regardless of the lead actor’s gender – increased in 2024. “Even as diversity drops overall, we find that the stories are still there,” That's... Not a good thing...

The West End Cultural Centre says it needs $50,000 by the end of the year to stay up and running.

I really loved this conversation on the Game Makers Notebook Podcast. Very frank, insightful, and inspiring conversation about running studios and making games. gamemakersnotebook.libsyn.com/the-developm... #gamemakersnotebook #gamemaking

ZBrush Sculpt Off - Almost. I had a time conflict so I couldn't participate in the actual event. But I was ready to go this year with a practice sculpt (I always just wing it so y'all I was very prepared for this year) I ended up putting an extra hour on the practice so this is all in 4 hours.

@strangebrewthegame.bsky.social #superpulpscience What a treat! A bunch of people I admire talking about game making and the process of Strange Brew 😊 open.spotify.com/episode/5pJl...

Another Halloween, another pumpkin friend 🧡 link in bio to get the base pumpkin model for free! 🤸‍♀️✌️

Ooo highly recommend getting the "Quiet Posters" tab - I need this on every app 😯 nicely curated little feed here of posts I would very likely miss otherwise.

Another banger movie poster from James Jean 🤯

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

Owlcat Games unveils free educational resource hub for game industry professionals - www.gamedeveloper.com/business/owl...

Lend your expertise to our Make Games program! We're looking for mentors (remote) and lecturers (Montréal): 🔹 1 Godot programmer 🔸 1 GameMaker programmer (urgent) 🔹 1 Pixel Art lecturer for Oct 10th 🔸 1 UI/UX lecturer for Oct 15th Honorarium provided. More info: docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...

New name, new logo, same old nonsense ✌️

the sacred text 😔

Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Digital Showcase RETURNS for 2025! Join us after @thegameawards.com for a first look at the future of indie games. ✨✨✨ Working on something awesome? Submissions are now OPEN! Learn more & submit your game here: dayofthedevs.org/submit/

Let's see...Modern privacy tips... -Don't upload things to the cloud if you can avoid it. -Offline programs are best -Tor is in fact your friend -As is vagueness. -Obsidian, libreoffice, or other offline text editors should be used over either microsoft's or google's systems.

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up

Made by an amazing team out of Winnipeg! Can't wait for this one ☺️

I couldn't begin to count how many ten thousand hours I have passed at this point in my life. The work is the point. The art is the work.

A few years into my TV writing career, I was struggling! But one simple piece of advice changed the entire trajectory of my career. So I wanted to do a #Scriptsky #Screenwriting thread about that advice and the ways in which CREATIVITY CAN FLOURISH (and also how it wanes). 🧵1

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

This 👀👀

ICYMI the DNA Codex project is basically: 💪🏾 putting our skills to use for the whole industry 🦾 adding a tip jar to work we already enjoy doing for others 😤 wow search engines suck (AI) so we're the librarians now 📚 PRESERVE! KNOWLEDGE! 💸 watch what we can do with $5 Learn more in my pinned thread!

Here are 543 images (1.5GB) of items at the Philadelphia Museum of Art arms and armor exhibit You're free to use them for anything, even commercially. I tried to focus on details not usually represented in available reference material drive.google.com/file/d/1NRzg... Here's a small sampling:

👀👀 very excited to share this game with the world soon!

Same rules apply for artists - label, organize and *comment* as much as you can! This even occasionally includes me making a blank paint layer in my substance files labeled "NOTE: ....."

hpc.anatomy4sculptors.com Anatomy for Sculptors - always my go-to reference But a peek at this particularly excellent tool - human proportions calculator *chefs kiss* to putting straightforward, clear guidelines in an easy to use and access format.

I know folks say it all the time but I earnestly, sincerely stand behind: make weird art. which includes the macabre, the uncomfortable, the bizarre, the cathartic, the erotic. and engage with weird art too, please.

Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦🎆🍁 Check out the Canadian Game Sale on #Steam featuring Pinball Spire and 300+ other awesome games by Canadian devs! ➡️ store.steampowered.com/curator/4554... #gamedev #indiegames #canada