These boys are boys of ice, they'll none have her: sure, they are bastards - All's Well That Ends Well (II, 3)

Every person working in entertainment got ask the question at some point “what you work on I would know?” Usually during first time meetings. I never know what to say because I don’t know what they watch/play/read Do neurotypical ppl just able to clock stranger”s consuming habit ?

Well that's MagFest coming to an end and thank you to everyone who came by the booth! Also S.O to our neighbours Little Nemo @totter87.bsky.social and @starworksstudios.bsky.social #SuperMagFest #IndieGame #IndieDev

Middle aged regretful Link isn’t real. He can’t hurt you

You don't get this shit at GDC

God bless Magfest.

Be the Quan Chi you want to see in the world #MAGFest2026

Man this is a good slide

My MAGFest roommate and I just had a cursed thought: a Protoman album sung with the Mega Man 8 voices

Got in some #MAGFest concerts tonight - Mega Ran and The Protomen were amazing as always

When you "make it" as an indie, it's so important to give back and support others to help keep the indie market thriving. Love to see this from the Kinetic crew and extra cool to see Southampton gamedevs having such a positive impact on the industry 🙌

Wishlist Tailgate 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3046820/...

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

I see devs get prickly about playtesting because they're afraid of being "focus grouped" or having the edges sanded off. The point of playtesting is to see if what you intended was what the player actually experienced, and there's no other way to find this out than putting it in front of someone.

Yes, and: This is why good game design isn't about knowing what the player wants, it's about making the player want something.

Oh…I think I got a little collectible guy here…(made for my Little Nemo game)

Quake Brutalism Jam 3 is now out!! new weapons and monsters across 77 modernist levels!!... this year there's also a 100% free "standalone" download available, no Quake purchase required!... thx to @frwthr.bsky.social and @makkon.bsky.social for organizing!! LINK: www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...

EAT THE CANDY, STUPID FROG!

There are a lot of folks including personal friends and some of yalls favorite game devs still on X and those relationship designations need to change until that is rectified. Seriously.

Prints and paintings from the cat republics. Here's Architect Reviews Plans With a Work Crew (2022), acrylic on wood panel, 8x8 inch. Print works available through my shop nathannunart.etsy.com - thank you and happy new year!

After 3+ years, I have FINISHED this chapter on the origin of the universe!! A circuitous journey that has led to our home, in which that history of the universe is carried (and in all of us). This page recaps key moments & points forward to the next chapter - Life. Onward... #Nostos #Unflattening 2

Going in to 2026 like

Still a favorite of mine

we verifiably do not do a good job of mitigating the societal impacts of technology on labor. this leaves us with things like the entire state of west virginia yearning for the return of the coal economy, whatever's going on with detroit, etc

ATTENTION ARTISTS AND ANY ASPIRING PIXEL ARTISTS!!! Aseprite is on sale on Steam!! It's a Pixel art program for art/animating and I highly recommend! (I have almost 700 hours in it!) It's $13 and a one time payment for an excellent program!!

Godot really is pretty good, huh? It genuinely took some time to click, but I've found my flow and am really enjoying my nightly hour or two working on a tiny side project as my upcoming release has started wrapping up.

I can’t explain why or how I know this, but the number 3 is red

Any discussion of how a few actors are protesting Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center has to consider how Republicans have tried to slash social spending for the arts — and denigrate the arts and humanities as legitimate fields — since at least Reagan, if not longer.

This was the way

I picked up Rayman 2 to play on my Analogue 3D. This photo is terrible but I can’t get over how amazing this game looks and plays. I’m now mad at myself for not getting it back in the day. What a gem.

hello. here are some games that came out this year, this year of 2025, that are cool to check out. or don't check them out, i dunno it's your decision, i can't make it for you

Y’all, the Castlevania: Awakening In The Moonlight musical by Takarazuka Revue is available legally on VOD with subtitles starting today until the end of March, this is a great adaptation and the women in this show are so good, PLUS this is a rare experiment globally Please see it if you’re curious

I sketch almost exclusively in ballpoint pen nowadays, and it's still my medium of choice for plein air studies:

I sense another wave of newbies! If you're looking for cool game devs & artists to follow, I made a starter pack a while back! There are so mamy great people to follow on here. go.bsky.app/GQLCxzc

[first day as a shepherd] boss: where are you going? me: [pointing] star boss: what? why me: [shrugging] baby

We're taking a break for the Holidays, enjoying some of our favourite GB Studio Games and hoping that Santa brings us more under the tree. We'll be back in the new year with more articles 🍾 #gameboy #gbstudio #homebrew

I am tempted to go on a longer discussion of this but I am on vacation. But as someone who leads the design department and hires and mentors designers, using chatGPT to write your design specs is antithetical to the role and job responsibilities of a designer.

I know he’s only using it as a general example, but when talking about this with artist and writer friends I often say a variation of: genai doesn’t impact me as much as it does you so I can be more nuanced, but the moment someone hands me a generated design doc I will go absolutely nuclear

The great thing about making your own video game is that get to add as many It’s a Wonderful Life references as you want

Got another one: a Lord of the Rings cover band called…The Eagles

A Lord of the Rings cover band called They Might Be Entwives

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Haldir and Oates

Watching Batman Returns and it’s really impossible to overstate how good this thing looks. The sets, the costumes, the colors. What a movie

Catching up on some videos by the ever amazing Critical Kate. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind being cited in this one shows how meaningful the failures of the TMS Little Nemo film were: Miyazaki notoriously quit that film and used his ideas for it to make Nausicaa youtube.com/watch?v=dGwW...

“Hey, it’s me, orzo, the little rice-looking pasta that if you put me in soup, will soak up literally every ounce of broth” Anyway, now I just have homemade Italian wedding orzo…

This one is wild for first starting off feeling like a light Rudolf-esque jaunt, then becoming a full on fantasy epic with LORE. It’s also pretty long?

Got a nice little spotlight in the Globe and Mail!

Worth mentioning that if anyone needs any last minute #gamedev gift ideas: @adriansandoval.net and I published a book this year that builds a critical level design language for 2D action-adventures and Metroidvanias. It even includes tutorials for @gbstudio.dev www.routledge.com/World-Design...