I've been pondering my solo game projects a lot lately. Not enough hours in the day, not enough spoons in the drawer!! 🧠🔥

Man, I was so determined to avoid buying furniture until I could afford the REAL stuff But I caved. My order arrives today. 😔

Cripes, this was only a year ago??? Feels like a decade. I've done and learned so much since.

i am so good at naming roads

As game designers, one of our most powerful dramatic tools is the *rule break*: Those moments when we break a long-established rule for the purposes of punctuating and aligning with a dramatic story moment This was a key philosophy for, say, Undertale's game design, but you see it everywhere

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

i want to make cool vidogam

Some say that making a smaller game or simpler game are ways to cut down on dev time. This is also true. But if you're making a game of any size that has any sort of consistent production methodology, a good way to make everything take longer is to change standards and pipelines in production.

I love inserting disc 2 man. Feels like you've beaten a big chapter Put this message in your games even if you have no discs

Back by popular demand, I’ve revived my little game design newsletter! First up, a selection of notes I took while at GDC last week. Featuring insights from Donkey Kong Bananza 🍌, Silent Hill f 🐺, and an AI sermon that backfired 🌝 estebanfajardo.com/2026/03/20/t...

RSE was a great place to start my career. It provided stability in an even-then pretty volatile industry. Veteran devs worked there. Obviously, that changed. And now they’ve tossed what talent remained. RSE is good. Ubisoft, not so much. A lot of talented people are in a tough spot now.

What if you could collect Wikipedia articles and make them battle? Wikigacha, created by Japanese developer Haruki Sugiyama, turns every Wikipedia article into a collectible trading card.

Metamorphosis - my visual novel about a horrible vampire and her many batgirl lovers over the course of thousands of years, is available to play on itch! 🧛🩸🦇 jocelyn.itch.io/metamorphosis

I've been trying to initiate an exchange of one of the those Oodies but their return portal finds ways to bug out on me at every step 🙄

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oh HELL yeah a metal version of Love is War youtu.be/M8D5jOXozFI?...

you know what. Clair de Lune freakin rips youtu.be/X-Xxqt6Xdio

my word…. RE9. incredible.

Meet the unconventional publishers trying to unfuck the games industry: aftermath.site/indie-game-pub...

YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL. YOU CAN DRAW YOUR FAVORITE THINGS. YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL. YOU CAN DRAW BAD AND ITS OK. YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL. YOU CAN TRY DIFFERENT MEDIUMS. YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WILL. YOU CAN DRAW YOUR FAVES FUCKING NASTY. YOU ARE AN ARTIST WITH FREE WI

The takeaway from the success of Iron Lung isn't to fund YouTubers making sci-fi movies about games. The secret is that Markiplier is a creative person who made something that excited him. This is also the secret sauce behind Sinners. There is no repeatable trend. Fund creative people. The end

Fake Xerox and real piano wire. Gorillaz’s new video for ‘The Mountain’ rebuilds a 1950s animation pipeline using painted backgrounds, optical tricks, and strict self-imposed limits. www.cartoonbrew.com/music-videos...

yeesh, all the games I want to make are not quick to make. and my attention span is small.

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

i grow weary of mediocrity

Time to relearn the Blender to Unreal SK pipeline 🥲

What a great launch day! Seriously so proud of the team for nailing this latest release. I feel so lucky to have been involved with this project. Thanks for playing! ❤️

mere hours remain youtu.be/EriEensiy0I?...

future 🪽🪽🪽 #hazbinhotel #animation #fanart #blender #lowpoly

ah dangit I want to rearrange my office again 🙄

This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous. Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

Here are some techniques I discovered through 14 years of shader programming:

criminy, how many HR payroll portals do we actually need in this world

there’s a horror in the light in the hole in the blood in the bottom of the seaaaaaaa 🩸🩸🩸 #ironlung

you know, I thought at first I needed to keep my art stuff and my game stuff separate while I hunted for work. But f that. Here is a thread of some low poly #hazbinhotel animations I've been jammin' with.

Unseen Path ✨

More than once I showed various examples of Unreal Engine materials, Vector To Radial Value node. So I used it in frost. Then I will show the code, it can be called a pattern for frozen glass #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

one more time!🩸

letterboxd.com/hbomberguy/f... Accidentally wrote 1300 words about Iron Lung and I can't decide if I should post about it to justify the time spent, or avoid admitting this embarrassing fact

Iron Lung is pretty good! Cool movie! 🩸

yaaas

This is a truly excellent idea for an article series

I’m not really sure what to make of the numbers my fan animations are doing on instagram. I’m skeptical of how real those numbers are?

happy birthday to me yippie

IT IS TIME

in 2026, I would like to: - make a fan game - build an N-scale track layout - play scales on a cello - learn how to make a P2P networked game in ue5 - try Godot Engine - go on long walks - animate something fully original - craft a new cosplay costume - watch some birds

delighted to report I accomplished almost all of these things this year. At times, a little different from what I envisioned, but accomplishments were made!