Haven't done a #screenshotsaturday post in a while. Here's an enemy type returning from Steel Carnelian - enemies that shoot homing, parriable missiles. New to this game: Jenny parries by swinging her broom instead of using a parry button. Smack enemies and projectiles away at the same time!

the failure of democratic leadership to fight back against this tyranny is wholly disqualifying. jeffries refusing to whip votes against ice funding is effectively a tacit approval of the street executions of americans by an unaccountable federal paramilitary. I dunno, man. they’ve abandoned us

Hey gamers! Big (normal) discount announcement. store.steampowered.com/bundle/65954... Splatter is now in a bundle with a sick wizard shooter that we know you'll love, MAGE TOWER MASSACRE. Buy the "Technically Zero Guns" bundle now and save 15% on both titles.

Netflix making waves again, and idiots are trashing Q-Force just for being a fresh, unique, and beautiful idea. The cast speaks for itself, and I'm BETTING the action will win people over even if the writing is a bit rough My fav part of the trailer

You’ve discovered a new post, where I ramble about Angeline Era and give my interpretation of things! indiehellzone.com/2026/01/23/a...

what's highguard?

some bias here because I do like SF6 a lot, but I think it's the best answer. There are imo 3 features that help new players: -good tutorialization / singleplayer options -a pool of other new players to fight -inputs they can perform intentionally SF6 is the only game rn that has all three.

"get rid of these baby-snatchimg freaks" is so simple and so universally appealing, and our ossified so-called representatives can't even bring themselves to say it

sad alex lost all his fun charge stuff. happy to have him back tho, i'm ready to power bomb some folks

they're gonna put this in the new bomb rush game to keep the playerbase humble

there was a upscale hipster pizza place by my college. and normally i like my pizza cheap and simple, but these folks had Bacon Clam Pizza. too expensive to buy myself but i got treated to Bacon Clam Pizza twice and those are some of my favorite food memories.

sometimes if i am having a really tough go at it i think about the way travis started making himself care about the shit around him while still being the same weird idiot he always was and that works just about every time

a great tragedy that Spawn is a DLC character in a Mortal Kombat game and not Killer Instinct (2013). under all that fatality shit, MK11 is basically ashamed of its edgy 90s past. KI retains that Mcfarlane energy perfectly and it doesnt even have to lean on lavishly-rendered gore to do it.

been poking around Fighting Layer (1998) lately. really fun trying to learn a game with zero real resources on the internet. you find a war crime button and it's YOUR war crime button.

listen bub bc im only gonna say this once, I'm not a 「Game Developer」I am a 「Game Artist」, I value only one thing, being more 「Free」than anyone else, I'm the 240p anime opening from 20 years ago, not the same opening uploaded 1 year ago upscaled to 1080p 60fps interpolated #JustFreedomMotifThings

Taking of Pelham 123, but not in a modern style. I want like Takao Saito character designs. Urasawa is an acceptable substitute if we have to go modern era though, that man was born to caricature Walter Matthau.

Big announcement today: here's our next game, JENNY THE WITCH! This high-speed shoot-and-slasher will be out spring 2026, with a demo at the winter Next Fest in about a month. Wishlist here (please): store.steampowered.com/app/4180990/...

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

social media saved again from my thoughts on "beginner friendly" fighting games by the fact that i cant cut them down to 300 character increments. but we could make them. we just don't because no FG dev actually understands what new players don't know.

A lot of people are going to preface tu-tutting tweets with variants on the theme of "Maduro was no angel" and it's very important to have the moral clarity to understand that these people are the lowest form of coward imaginable

(annoying voice) The Shadow as a narrator is public domain, but we won't get to make shit with the character design itself for another year, as the first Shadow pulps weren't published until 1931. Also the Golden Bat design that's public domain now is this one.

for me at least there's an ongoing obfuscation of workers lower in hierarchy of a project across all the arts. I can't speak for every discipline but this is definitely a conversation we've had in film and music in Jamaica at least. anecdotally, i know it happens elsewhere as well.

While there's nothing wrong with working on a game by yourself, the way we talk about "solo devs" is pretty toxic. It's used to discount contractor or volunteer labor, and it has this great-man-of-history stink all over it. You can be a great artist and also acknowledge collaborators.

oh hey. i missed our usual saturday post because i was traveling to visit family. i'm busy cutting an actual trailer rn so i don't have much to make up for it, but here's a clip i sent to our discord last month of a sick combo using some new moves and a new wallbounce mechanic

weird thing i see VF players do a lot is post gameplay like "this game is so cinematic!" and then it's two guys standing still at range 1 taking turns at each other. like no shade against VF, which is a cool game, but that's basically the opposite of a cinematic fight.

Some of this is related to what it takes to make a game in most genres. Underground comics can be made/sold by one person as a side gig. Games require more disciplines (and more total man-hours for a sellable result) which means it's harder to build a lifestyle around being an underground gamedev.

Congratulations to @nicanor.bsky.social for getting nominated for a Games Journalism Award at the NY Game Awards, hosted by the New York Video Game Critic Circle! This marks the first time a No Escape contributor has been nominated; read his essay on Despelote here! noescapevg.com/despelote-re...

Splatter came out three years ago today. I don't have much clever to say - it was a big project, it changed our lives, I'm constantly grateful for the people who have played it and appreciated it. Here are the concept sketches I did back in 2020 that turned into a whole fucked-up game.

Five-year anniversary today of the release of Meat Shift. This was the first game Rat King ever finished, and it was the point at which we realized we could make video games that people wanted to play. It's pretty rough, but I'm still proud of what we did. ratkingcollective.itch.io/meatshift

Late #screenshotsaturday (had a really funny build-only bug to resolve) but we got there. Here's a pack of miniature bomb drones. These guys do a lot of damage (and they're fast too), but they've got very little health. Shoot quickly and keep your aim steady if you don't want to get blown to pieces.

bounce off the windows, bounce down the hallways, we'll never stop til we're bouncing always

Man IDK if i got 50 in me but I'm gonna do some. #1. Escape from Terror City. Hybrid platformer / bullet hell / light-gun shooter. Bite-sized, goes down in an afternoon. Try the hard mode. This game should be an entire genre. store.steampowered.com/app/1524020/...

I keep remembering gamedevs that don't get enough love, like @renegadesector.bsky.social who makes lots of cool PS1 style action(?) games. My favorites are Thunder Kid I and II but there are lots to choose from.

Thomas is getting hyped for Christmas

Rigor Mortis (Chapters 1+2): A visual novel for goths of all stripes who are surviving under late-stage capitalism. holographicdoll.itch.io/rigor-mortis

Thought it would be hard to top Steam's behavior around Horses, but EGS and Humble have them beat. The whole "oh we'll cooperate but pull your shit at the last minute" is a huge business risk. Prepping marketing materials is money. Building for a platform is money. Pulling out wastes that money.

Are games art? Not if gamers have anything to say about it

This is particularly funny to me because volume sliders are a necessity if you wanna develop a game without going nuts. you're telling me these nintendo guys just rawdogged testing new features while listening to the first 15-20 seconds of the same song over and over again? couldn't be me.

#screenshotsaturday We're not just focusing on combat with this game - Jenny also will deal with traversal challenges. This room uses timed switches to test her shooting and platforming abilities.

Back with more old Splatter dev posts. Many of the clips in my folder are showing off weapons, like this one showcasing FUCK. We had a pretty large weapon roster on Splatter: the weapons were just finger guns, so animating new ones was very quick and let us slip in a bunch of weird designs.

It's Black Friday and Itch Creator Day. Splatter is 50% off on Itch for the next 5 days (buy it here: catbirdsoft.itch.io/splatter). Over the next day or two, I'm gonna post some of our old dev clips of the game from Twitter. Here's one from February 2022.

somebody brought a shonen jump to class in 5th grade and grimmjow was fighting ichigo in the bleach chapters. that shit was a religious experience

sketch of Francois from Rigor Mortis by Doll and @hannyabee.bsky.social

i got so into modding skyrim i told a teacher about it freshman year of college and she convinced me that it was a real and viable career path. and it fucking was!!!

KEEP HONKING! I'm listening to BRING THE SUN/TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE by SWANS. THE GUITARS ARE GOING CRAZY RIGHT NOW so I will not be able to HEAR YOUR HORN until it gets to a quiet part in 5-10 MINUTES

Hey. #screenshotsaturday. Check out our new enemy. This heavy-duty drone deploys barrages of bullets from a distance, and pressures the player with its extendable arms at closer ranges.

what's interesting about this handholding stuff is that AAA games actually have the MOST affordance to cut those features. People will buy the new Metroid and try to push through it because it's a fucking Metroid game and they want to be Samus. They won't drop it the second something confuses them.

If you’ve historically been a “vote blue no matter who” type, it’d be cool if you could use this moment to understand why vilifying leftists who actually do think it matters is basically a psyop you accidentally fell for. This is why people warn you about guys like Newsom.