free level design advice for creating an FPS arena that people will call the best multiplayer map ever made for generations.

sorry for being cringe I'm trying to enjoy being alive

It’s finally time to… Unleash the ✦⁺₊✩GIRL POWER✩⁺₊✦ Don’t Stop, Girlypop! is officially OUT NOW!!!! You better be ready, because this sh❤t is serious 👇 https://bit.ly/45CRvme

it's out now!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3811020/... #BLASTERMANCER

Have you ever wondered how time is spent in game development? I've made a handy pie chart to illustrate it.

I interviewed Freeplay's co-founder Katharine Neil a couple of years ago about its origins & legacy. There was SO much fascinating stuff that I couldn't publish but I'm still really proud of the piece & feel as if documenting this stuff holds a tiny bit of importance too.

This needs to be louder: "Of the 81 arts organisations supported by Creative Enterprises in the 2026-2029 funding round, none are games/interactive arts organisations." Freeplay is hugely important, we have to find a way to keep it alive 🙏

Kinetic Games, the developer behind Phasmophobia, has announced the launch of Kinetic Publishing to "support and champion creativity within the indie space". The publisher will fund two to three indie projects a year up to budgets of £1 million. www.gamesindustry.biz/phasmophobia...

you don't know me

Hey isn't this that Counterstrike map

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

It's December! Happy festive season everyone 🎄⛱️🎅☃️ Already wondering what Santa's got this year? Maybe consult my playlist of all the things Santa's Got: open.spotify.com/playlist/308...

So very tired, but I couldn't let 2025 end without taking stock of Microsoft's embarrassing treatment of gaming, Windows, and indeed human beings while it chases the AI money train

✨ BOOKS OPEN!✨ My clients for this year have wrapped and in 2026 I will be looking for new work! I am a Art Lead with a specialty in anything 2D, who has also done business admin. I'd love to work with kind folks making cool things, if this sounds like you plz shoot me a msg💚

Thank you to all the incredible ANZ-based developers who took part in our first Frosty Mini showcase today, and shared such wonderful announcements! What a beautiful line-up 👏🏼

Lately I've been in Options Screen UI space and I often think of that thread of intentionally bad volume controls. I think we should rehash this with brave new worse ideas. ie Make the player type the whole name of the monitor they want to switch their game to.

Jump scared by December 1

Last night's interview with Novara on the Rockstar firings is now up as its own standalone video, if you'd like to watch. Delighted to see the story picked up by the wider media in this way, as surreal as it felt to appear on a show I've been watching for years now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuP...

Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.

My job is create problem and then solve it

Feeling very lucky to get to see so many genuinely lovely people at MIGW 💗 Another great year with you all!

Thank you MIGW, the desire to fill even more of my non existent free time with making a tiny indie game intensifies

The #AGDAs25 Winner For Game of the Year is... The Drifter by Powerhoof

Fantastic game, a well deserved win!

Likewise I'm at the BGDAs Baldurs Gate, Dressed Appropriately (pyjamas)

How I look and sound trying to speak to the barista at 7am. Thank you Games Week Launch Party, it was a fun night 😌

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

I think about AF Kuro's vehicle art on a regular basis 🤌🔥

Expedition 33 gives me the unique experience of vibing to an upbeat bright pop dance track while getting absolutely beaten to pulp by a mime

Got my Freakon Ticket 🥹

New favourite house archello.com/project/vill...

I'm convinced Noclip.website is the best website in the world for Level Designers. I'm not gonna tell you a single thing about it ~ Go, explore, discover, see what secrets you find. noclip.website#ffx/00e;Shar...

Another Drifter Dev Diary! Diving into getting voices into The Drifter. Casting, recording, editing... what I learned and some tools I used or made along the way. youtu.be/Nopuf0ESnb0

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

*obsessed* with the cinematography in Glass Heart. This is some of the best I've seen on Netflix.

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

Every game designer atm: "So I had this idea after playing Blue Prince..."

Just now reached room 46 in Blue Prince, in 36 Days. My brain HURTS. What a game!!!

The Steam Summer Sale (June 26th) is coming. I'm going to start rolling out a list of indie titles you have probably missed or haven't heard about. Blue Prince. Expedition 33. Split Fiction. Go pick them up -- but I want to cover some that could use more exposure. Keep checking in for new titles.

How deep does Blue Prince go?!! Every time I think I can't learn anything new I uncover a whole new sector of the game

I reached the door to the antechamber in my first run of Blue Prince but it seems I have been fooled

before I forget, here's some art I made in Quake

as someone who has a kid in my house actively obsessed with roblox, its exhausting reading adults grasping at stuff every time they try to explain away its success its free. and has chat. and is a platform that lets them play different stuff. thats it, thats the reason.

Level design is: A whole day of work adding an extra 20 seconds of gameplay 😌

Yes and the very kind IT repair man said my computer had over 500 viruses

This is it. This is the one. My favourite steam review for 420 Blaze It 2

Woke up today to see 420 BLAZE IT 2 has 1000 Steam reviews with a 99% Overwhelmingly Positive rating!! Stoked!!!