"GenAI is the futu--

Go on a thrilling Old West adventure in ROSEWATER, a game about friendship, storytelling, and a good old-fashioned treasure hunt. It's also an IndieCade nominee! Get it for 20% off during the Steam Winter Sale: store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...

Bro, you doing alright, bro? I saw the autosave icon come on just as you entered the room

Always a market for somebody to tell comfortable and complacent people that their complacency is a virtue and maintaining their comfort as a first priority is a sound and moral position. bsky.app/profile/stev...

This is devastating. One of my favourite games of the year, To a T is a beautiful slice-of-life narrative with some of the best disability messaging I’ve seen in games. Please play it!

me when an ai tool offers to "help"

I love this article SO much :’) If you don’t watch bob’s burgers: this is an article about an interview with the show’s creator on the evolution of a beloved trans character in the show who started as a one-line funny character—and I have never seen a cis white man respond better to anything ever 🥹

Old Skies is PC Gamer’s adventure game of the year! (Magazine held by @rsmoushall.bsky.social)

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

"Have you considered doing [completely different job that pays much less but is traditionally femme coded]???

RIP Tom Stoppard, you were The Real Thing all along

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Shot + chaser

I’m super happy to officially announce our next project, spearheaded by @threeohfour.bsky.social! “Gilt” is a sci-fi/fantasy game about a priest haunted by a dying God. Learn more (and wishlist!) over here: store.steampowered.com/app/3979770

#3157 A helpful tutorial

It figures that an industry that thinks that "vibe coding" is a reliable thing would now decide that QA is the next thing you can replace with AI 😒 Your friendly reminder that good QA people are worth their weight in gold and an invaluable part of game dev

This is all a question of the pleasure of responsiveness, and for me the best model of this is in @stcymsn.bsky.social’s dissertation. It’s been incredibly influential to my thinking on narrative satisfaction.

If your values don't apply to everyone, they're not your values. They're just a favor you do for people that you like.

Ask A Manager is a great place to learn management/office tips, and also a great place to find a letter writer describing common behavior in the game industry and get a response accurately labeling it as "bizarrely adversarial"

I might not be making Hades 3, but if this is what anyone is after, PLEASE check out Mythmatch and help spread the word to others who might want this because I am making this and it is good! store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/...

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

These kinds of stories are so important to tell

"The primary reason is that Hollywood is making less stuff." THIS. I've seen so many people lazily (xenophobically) claim 'outsource is stealing all the work', but MOST countries are in the same boat rn. Never let the suits skimming more and more off the top convince you a fellow worker is to blame.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

In case you wanted to get a 100% achievement score in Old Skies today...

You will never be able to make "data driven" decisions until you realize just how much your decisions are driven by emotions: fear of missing out, defensiveness of your favorite idea, apprehension over something unusual. That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.

1/3 20 years ago today, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, I wrote a piece called "Being Poor," to answer, in a way that I hoped would stick, why so many people stayed in New Orleans to face the storm. It was and remains one of the best things I've ever written. whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/b...

My game is good, the algorithm just ignores me My game is good, the algorithm just ignores me My game is good, the algorithm just ignores me My game is good, the algorithm just ignores me... store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...

there's only one day left to preorder Moonflow. this is your last chance. if you don't preorder it today, you'll have to just ORDER it and everyone will know that you're a johnny come lately www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bitte...

@89ravenwolf.bsky.social went to a boardgame bar and they made a game about your life

We will be jettisoning trans rights from the Dem Party platform over my room-temperature fucking corpse. We are leaving no one behind, and fuck anyone who thinks otherwise. A core tenet of American identity is that we, not the government, define ourselves. All of us get protections or none of us do

Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Hey if you're in Ireland and you like GOOD BOOKS, here's a place you can get Moonflow👇

I don't have the proper words to say more than this now but I was just laid off. My role at Giant Squid is being eliminated. If your studio is looking for an environment artist, please let me know ASAP. I have 5+ years of experience. thank you

james dobson is dead and cannot wish anything but eternal pain on that mother fucker. that guy destroyed so many lives

Writers will be like “this one neat trick saved my career” and it’s just a photo of them eating shredded cheddar cheese over the sink after midnight.

video games right now: half the people I know are out of work and the other half are in DMs with me telling me things like "yeah so Lobster Guy (guy at my studio who does no work and puts a live lobster into other people's cars as a prank) was moved to another project so HR can avoid firing him"

So many problems that could all be solved by giving me millions of dollars to hire a team to make a Murderbot game

Let's not use "hallucinate" or "lie" when we talk about ChatGPT. It can't make decisions, it doesn't have a conscious thought, it's not having a conversation with you. It's regurgitating false information based on stolen content without context or nuance.

I get writing tests, it's very important to make sure you share an aesthetic connection with your future game writer --but I think the opposite should also be implemented, where writers get to poke at whether their future collaborators understand things like themes, authorial intent and subjectivity

your poor friends are Venmoing the same $20 bill around freely with random emojis your rich friend is sending you a request for $0.35 because you drank a Coke from their fridge

I'm kind of amazed that no matter how many Steam reviews Old Skies receives, it has consistently remained 1% shy of the threshhold for "Overwhelmingly Positive" (95%) for months. Anyway, we're almost up to 600 reviews! Thanks, everyone. Even the 6% of you who didn't like it.

it's time to COMPLAIN about the delisting of NSFW games on steam and itch! tell these payment processors that they need to STOP listening to these boring anti-porn thought-policing friendless tossers and START LISTENING to us instead. there is no art without queers, sluts, perverts and weirdoes 💦

This will be on @reactorsff.bsky.social on July 11.