Our full schedule is now up on our website! gameworkersconference.org/2026-program

Gameplay Teaser is now on Steam! Folks that were at @amazefest.bsky.social have seen some of this, showing some more at @untitledgamesevent.bsky.social and preparing a public playtest for June! #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev store.steampowered.com/app/3727200/...

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

gorgeous write-up of @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social’s game about the Nakbah, made by a developer in the occupied West Bank and crowdfunding now. please, please support this vital creative work 💜 www.rockpapershotgun.com/palestinian-...

Support the project now www.launchgood.com/1948

If you found yourself reading about the oppressed people of Palestine and went "But... what am i gonna do!" Well, you can support this game and help lift the dehumanization campaign been put on these people (and Arabs generally) by helping the game production. Change starts from within. Thanks.

Rasheed is literally risking his life for this game. Israelis could decide to capture, torture, or murder him at any point for daring to share the truth of the Nakba or Palestinian culture. He truly believes in games and their power to tell these stories. Please help his courage not be in vain.

TALK ANNOUNCEMENT📢 Emma Kinema & Carolyn Jong This session dives into how fascism takes root in games, how bosses have benefitted from harassment campaigns led by gaming audiences, and what what we can all collectively do to combat the rise of fascism in our industry.

📣 GAMEDEVS 📣 Did you know the @gameworkerscon.bsky.social is officially ONE WEEK FROM TODAY? ...And that it's FREE and ENTIRELY REMOTE? 👇👇👇 gameworkersconference.org

I’m NOT excited and I’m NOT thrilled. I’m honestly scared to share this, but I’m not a coward. I have to show you what you helped us create. None of this would have been possible without your help, and we can’t finish it without your support www.launchgood.com/1948 youtu.be/D4qh1FAPEUo

It's heartbreaking that games as a medium remain out of reach for people telling the stories worth telling most. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Today is not only PT's Switch release day but also 19 years since Octopus Pie debuted! I'll be going live on the stream at 12:30 to draw and chat ✌️

Mass Effect 1 fans be like 'this is why it's the best one'.

There’s also a one-hour talk of mine, in English, where I summarize one of the book’s central theses (namely that videogames are the art form of the Anthropocene), and you can find it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O2U...

Important announcement (reposts appreciated): I’ve regained the rights to UDO. Guida ai videogiochi nell'Antropocene (The Unidentified Digital Object. A Guide to Videogames in the Anthropocene), and I have about a hundred leftover copies to give away. So:

Wednesdays est jeu du jour sur l'Appstore en Europe!🔥🔥🔥 Si vous le téléchargez EN MASSE ça convaincra peut être Apple d'en faire le jeu du jour PARTOUT, TOUS LES JOURS!

The fight for justice and a union @rockstargames.com continues ✊ Work in the UK games industry? Join our union at iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

Meanderware: Things I loved about cyberspace 💥 tetrageddon.com/meanderware/ 🔥 - A short playable essay and poetic breadcrumb trail of thoughts about cyberspace, the internet, and ephemeral digital worlds. - 🔥💀🔥💀🔥 #IndieGame #WebGame #BrowserGame #IndieWeb #IndieDev #GameDev #Cyberspace

To celebrate our @amazefest.bsky.social participation, and to allow you to catch up on the story so far if you come play our demo - Mini Mini Golf Golf, the prequel to our new game, is 25% off this week! (You can also play this if you don't come to Berlin!) store.steampowered.com/app/3188050/

Buy this game!

SCOOP: double fine is unionizing

We're presenting an early playable build of our eco-terrorism cyberpunk mystery A PERMANENT ECHO at @amazefest.bsky.social ! Come by the village area and say hi next week! We have stickers! #indiegames #indiedev #amazeberlin store.steampowered.com/app/3727200/...

Curiously, "Buzz Aldrin" already sounds like he could be a Star Fox character.🐝

James McCloud, professional star pilot and savior of the Lylat System, named his son "Fox." It's kind of like Neil Armstrong naming his child "Human." Human Armstrong.

This @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social Amberspire review has me beaming. It means the world to read something where they clearly just vibed with it and got the sense of balance, chaos, and history we aimed for 💙 www.rockpapershotgun.com/amberspire-r...

Dig this RPS review of amberspire.. very much gets that sense of history and broader lunar context that the team at Lunar Division was going for. Woo hoo! www.rockpapershotgun.com/amberspire-r...

star fox is samsara and unless fox mccloud lets go of his worldly attachments (his place in the melee tier list) he will never attain the nature of buddha and leave the cycle (getting a third game)

Chaotic, challenging, and evocative in places while narratively stingy in others, Amberspire kept @dialacina.com coming back for more misfortunes to lavish upon her residents. remapradio.com/articles/amb...

If you've picked up Amberspire, thank you! Please also leave a positive review! I want to keep making games!!

🌖 Amberspire is OUT NOW! 🌇 A dice driven science fantasy city builder. Grow your city atop a mausoleum moon, interact with strange weather and ecology, gain influence to make deals with powerful off-world factions, experience the history of a future city. PC, Mac, Steam Deck s.team/a/3350750

I'm very excited to have my comrades at @nogamesforgenocide.com give a talk at this conference.

TALK ANNOUNCEMENTS📢 No Games For Genocide Palestinian Voices in Games Multiple orgs will be speaking on the intersections between the games industry and Palestine, exploring the ways in which the games industry can divest from an ongoing genocide, and how to support Palestinian game creators

After years away from game dev, I couldn’t stay silent about my people’s dehumanization. I made Dreams on a Pillow 🍉a game inspired by a famous Palestinian folktale about the 1948 Nakba. I’m crowdfunding it now—please back & share! 🔗 launchgood.com/1948

Amberspire is out TOMORROW, on Steam, for PC Mac and Steam Deck. It's a science fantasy city builder with increasingly abstract dice, esoteric and powerful factions, and an ecology atop a mausoleum moon.

📢 CALLING ALL NONBINARY GAME DEVS! 📢 i'm helping run a steam sale event to showcase games made by nonbinary devs during the week of international nonbinary day! if you fit this description, fill out the form by may 18 👉 forms.gle/cx9AqFfPqzF9... please share & send to all your nb dev friends!!

my new zine, Shareware Made Me Trans, is now out!! ~6000 words (and lots of images) on the 90s games that shaped my gender identity, including windows 3.1 amazons, sapphic crpg romances, and my own teenage fetish games. link in reply with excerpts and free community copies for trans readers

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

United Videogame Workers is organizing a world-historical conference for the games industry. Forget Chris Crawford's 1988 living room: nothing like this, nothing this advanced has ever happened before in our field. This is the beginning of the future of the games industry.

Do you work in games? Are you tired of corporate greed taking over our industry? Do you miss when industry events were by workers, for workers? The United Videogame Workers of CWA, in partnership with other unions and worker-centered organizations, announce the #GameWorkersConference. May 22-23 ❤️‍🔥

Mini Mini Golf Golf has me hungry for more fiction that imagines the world we will probably live in if climate change continues at the current pace. Not optimistic or pessimistic. Not utopias or post-apocalypses. Where are we *actually* going?

There is still time (and there isn't a better time) to support the making of Dreams on a Pillow, a palestinian game about the 1948 Nakba www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKwd...

Many Nights a Whisper is 1 year old! 🎂 To celebrate, enjoy the pleasure of buying it at full price, the whole 3 bucks. Or buy it for a friend so they can experience some healthy and meaningful anxiety. Luckily, some catharsis even. Thank you all for playing! store.steampowered.com/app/3541130/...

As kid my way to school was always blocked by checkpoints From that day i know my life gonna be different But i didnt imagine my game will be blocked or my posts would be flagged as a spam just because I'm Palestinian Please consider supporting this gorgeous game about Palestine launchgood.com/1948

Rasheed’s beautiful, necessary game about the nakba is now crowdfunding. At a time when Palestinian lives, voices and humanity are being erased, it’s more important than ever to support Palestinians making art — particularly, as Rasheed is, in the occupied territories. Support + share please 🔥✨

We are so excited to be featured on @plante.bsky.social 's "post games" podcast for his episode on climate change 😍 🌱 🦦 #indiegames #podcast #indiedev postgame.substack.com/p/this-game-...

One of the towns we've been researching for Dreams on a Pillow -the Palestinian-made game about a young woman escaping the Zionist atrocities of the 1948 Nakba- is Naqura, on the Lebanese side of the border with Palestine. As of this week, Israel has destroyed it. www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

Uh-oh I'm keynoting the History of Games Conference in Hong Kong. Impostor syndrome: 📈 Since it's about periodizations, one of my goals is to brainstorm a name for the ongoing implosion/restructuring of the Western game industry. June 25-27 www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/events/histo...