fridge magnets i made :-)

[shares appreciated!] taking some surprise illustration commissions for august and onwards! ⭐ vgen.co/vampbyte #vgencomm #vgen #artsupport

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Cardholder designs have been restocked~ www.koyamori.ca

Proud to announce you can now pre-order the Levelling The Playing Field 101 Video Courses. Practical, focused 101 video courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - €40 (excl. VAT) per course, with bulk & group discounts! courses.ramiismail.com

hiring two rare+cool positions at Fangamer right now: 🧸 Product Development Manager: responsible for taking on licenses and getting merch made! 🗣️ Partnership Manager: communicate with our AAA and indie partners about merch licenses & plans RTs always appreciated 🙇 www.fangamer.com/pages/jobs

They should make clothes for fish before it’s too late

If the meme number for next year is higher, the Summer Sale discount will match it, that’s a *promise*. store.steampowered.com/app/966320/L...

Here's the rough--

I just want to clarify, because I have been asked quite a bit! The Titan sequence from Deltarune, and anything SmallBu animates, is not rotoscoped! Rotoscoping is cool! We just don't do that unless we're asked to. All of this came out of a brain 🧠🫰

Hi, we have 21 days to get $2100 in my venmo for August's rent. I'm a disabled acrylic and watercolor painter who is also a pro cartoonist. I take commissions and am open for work. Here's how you can help: gfm: gofund.me/c5ec9580f 💸 venmo.com/priyahuq 🎨 ko-fi.com/Priya/commis... and sharing! ty🌸

starting to be able to recognize pre migraine symptoms like right now

did you know, if every follower I have here pledged 1 dollar to my patreon, I would be able to live comfortably as an artist? and u get my art... www.patreon.com/cw/ceboidea

did you know, if every follower I have here pledged 1 dollar to my patreon, I would be able to live comfortably as an artist? and u get my art... www.patreon.com/cw/ceboidea

Exhibit N°128482016492 that UBI works and _makes money back_ For those in the back: UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME HAS ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE BETTER RETURN ON INVESTMENT THAN ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE

I know im goin on about this a lot but please contact your senators about opposing KOSA and the KIDS Act. Please make friends and family aware of how this will effect them and their privacy.

who can afford the risk of relocating for a game job atp

we laid off the people who develop the games, we laid off the journalists who cover the games, everyone is freelance and there’s no freelance budget. It’s probably fine though

its almost funded!!! help us reach our goal 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha...

there is no greater enemy to creating art than picturing how good it would be if somebody you admired did it instead

I'm kind of REALLY DESPERATE RIGHT NOW, NOT GONNA LIE! but the funny thing is, like. I have 6.6 THOUSAND followers on here, right? if freakin' less than ONE HALF of a TENTH of all of your donated at least a dollar, i'd be pretty much golden! that's LESS THAN 0.05% of you guys!!!!!

apparently i made this game incredibly difficult

i guess i honestly would be better off saying my game functions more like episodic chapters with the days, since each day has a couple hours of playtime and replay-ability depending on choices made previous days....

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date knight is like the everyone is nonbinary and trans and gay video game except it doesn't matter at all or come up other than players begging for me to add heterosexuality to the game

Got my D&D knight plushie keychain with squeaker from Date Knight by mkg in the mail yesterday, it’s very cute!

imagine if they fired every band member every time an album came out

In what is becoming a stressful annual routine, Microsoft has decided to lay off thousands, including MANY of us at Bethesda Games Studios. With over 10k developers already cut from previous rounds, those at the top have deemed that insufficient in fixing their mistakes.

Hope is an act not a state of being. It requires talking about and sharing to grow. It is hard to hope but I'm gonna ask you for it anyway: If you're a game dev and have stories of what makes you hopeful for the future of games whatever that may be and would be willing to talk about it, get in touch

todays a good day to remind you to play my video game which you will like because i said so monkeykg.itch.io/date-knight

asha sharma going "we want 1 billion players a day" a nice reminder that these execs are fundamentally incapable of understanding that their customers do not have infinite money or even just that time is finite. they just think you haven't been fed the right marketing yet to get you on board

The funny thing about recovering from aura migraines is the way my body expects me to sleep for 6 hours in order to fully heal. What if I don't wanna

So basically it smiles every day

oh look its my journalism debut with a review of the Among Us show

I see a lot of people asking "where do you even go when this many people lose their jobs at once?" the answer is that a lot of people leave an industry entirely, which is the whole point of seismic level layoffs in any field: the executive class wants their workforce to remain arbitrary deskilled

if you work in the game industry, i think it's important to be able to work through the shock of maybe just now realizing all your time and labor was never valued by the people with money - and conceptualize how you can work to create the sort of space that actually does.

A bit of good news in the middle of all the bloodbath today: Supercell has announced a Grants program for game development studios across Africa with equity-free grants of USD $20,000–$200,000 to help them reach their next stage of growth. supercell.com/en/news/deve...

im starting to think i dont know the difference between june and july

you know, one thing i notice is despite 0 advertising and going quiet about the game for the time being, there's still multiple downloads like every day

"can you add heterosexuality"

If you are one of the many valuable workers callously laid off for corporate interests today, please consider applying to our hardship fund.

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"can you add heterosexuality"

hot pursuit!! #sgdq2026

at what point in a professional acquaintanceship can you can go auuouue auuuaeuuaae iin a conversation and its understood

i love the vampire lestat but its so fucking stressful and triggers vasovagal episodes LOL

the worst part about arthritis is episodes can be unpredictable and i'll feel guilty for not making enough progress fast enough

I think it is time that an indie game publisher fucking locks in and creates a console that runs on REWRITEABLE cartridges (or something like a memory card or floppy disc, y'know) and allows all digital purchases to be tranferred to physical media. Think commodore amiga or similar but modern. /1