Good morning and happy Friday!

#nokings #naperville

I finished watching season 3 of White Lotus. I feel a little more dead inside. #whitelotus

The Kickstarter for our cozy sandbox RPG, "Hawthorn" is reaching the final 24 hours! Please support us at: www.playhawthorn.com/Crowdfunding Thanks to everyone who's pledged so far! It means a lot! #Kickstarter #Crowdfunding #bootstrapped #passionproject #cozy #rpg #indiegamedev

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

We hit our funding goal! Someone just pledged $10k and put us over the top! ... Now for stretch goals!🔥 📈 Also, we're on the front page of #Kickstarter! #indiegamedev #indiegame #hawthorngame #Kickstarter

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Our Kickstarter for Hawthorn is live! Please support our cozy, co-op, sandbox game! www.kickstarter.com/projects/nea... #Kickstarter #Crowdfunding #bootstrapped #passionproject #cozy #rpg #indiegamedev

John Wick style jiujitsu tournament where everyone is in a suit and fights over a pistol in overtime. Pretty fun 😊 www.youtube.com/live/vU7dBDx... #bjj #johnwick

An illustration for my personal project Oberant #art #illustration #conceptart #characterdesign #creaturedesign #magic #fantasy

Anybody else in #gamedev buying computer hardware to try to get ahead of #tariff markups?

When do you think you'll be able to experience the real world converted to Studio Ghibli style in real time? Such a crazy moment in Internet culture. I love it. www.reddit.com/r/AgentsOfAI... #AR #VR #AI #ChatGPT

Reposting from my LinkedIn. #OpenToWork www.linkedin.com/posts/samwey...

A nice rant about over-hyped LLM chat bots for character dialogue. #gamedev

Am I Ugly? by A Cybertruck

Hawthorn is among this awesome line up at Future Games Show! Tune in tomorrow at 4pm ET: https://youtube.com/live/JsFTvIsRYbw?si=Z_2IGIQzIGXUovhq Don't forget to follow our Kickstarter: http://PlayHawthorn.com/Crowdfunding #FutureGameShow #PlayHawthorn #PCgamer #PCgaming #RPG #Multiplayer

This is an amazingly detailed slideshow explaining why the game industry sucks right now and where there's opportunities for growth. www.matthewball.co/all/stateofv... #gamedev

I started doing level design for this cozy, co-op, sandbox game where you play as woodland creatures in a fantastical, Victorian-era, setting. Riding an owl as a mouse is the best! Please support the Kickstarter and Wishlist on Steam! #cozygames #steam #kickstarter

there are so many people looking for work in the #gameindustry right now. it would make so much sense for people to open up their own indie studios with all that talent floating around and make cool creative shit that most of the AAA studios wouldnt dare releasing. #gamedevjobs #diyordie

Hawthorn surpassed 1k followers on our Kickstarter Coming Soon page! Follow us on Kickstarter to stay up to date on the campaign. www.kickstarter.com/projects/nearstudios/hawthorn #pcgaming #pcgamer #gaming #cozygamer #cozygames #videogames #indiegames #whattoplay #playhawthorn

BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. Warner Bros. is also canceling the Wonder Woman game.

I had one of those, "I wonder if that's a product. ...Yup, it is." moments. Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!!!

Just installed Houdini for Unreal game dev and I have no idea what I'm doing. #gamedev #houdini #unreal #proceduralgamedev

My toddler adamantly demands that you "sit" but mispronounces it as "shit". I hope she never grows out of this.

Hello world. Thinking about moving over here after a lifetime on FB/IG. How are you guys liking it over here? It feels hard to switch because of all the friends and family on FB but there's so much ads and trash in those feeds now. #Enshittification