Got some animations going in engine. Positions are a bit wonky, so it's still a WIP. Super excited though! #godot4 #blender #indiegame #lowpoly #gamedev

Reading this was infuriating, and the award seizure is only partly why. Worth reading though. A bitter example of how badly the game industry fails those who do the actual work.

Look at the difference a few flat textures (and some lighting) makes! You can grab the textures for free, a gift from me to you; kenney.nl/assets/retro... #gamedev

Doing some style tests while also learning more 3D modeling in #Blender. Modeled Kei from Akira in this low-poly style. #indiegame #gamedev #lowpoly

IndieCade awards festival kicks off today! Please show some love to these award nominees store.steampowered.com/sale/IndieCa... #IndieCadeFestival #indiegame #gamedev

Announcement: STEAM DEMO OUT NOW! The early dungeons of Forbidden Solitaire are now open to those bold - or foolish - enough to explore them. How badly do you wish to live forever? 👁️🩸 👇👇👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... Please wishlist and share - thank you! #indiedev

Are you or someone you know in #gamedev an experienced game designer who also enjoys Job? Well, we have Job! Look at, share, consider applying for Job! Have a good time with Job™ apply.workable.com/jackbox-game...

Missing the schadenfreude heydays when Luigi fanfare was all over your feeds? Maybe try this

Excuse me, we're supposed to be discussing ludonarrative dissonance, get on the page!

Congratulations to our Narrative Award Nominees! 📚 @meredithgran.com @arteinteractive.bsky.social @wednesdays-game.bsky.social @thepixelhunt.bsky.social @ho-games-studio.bsky.social @jeremyxho.bsky.social @rocketadrift.bsky.social 🏆#IndieCade Awards Ceremony on Steam & YouTube Sat 1/17 11AM PT!

Join us on Steam on January 17th for the IndieCade Awards with our hosts Sarah Elmaleh, Isla Hinck, and Elyse Willems! Ceremony will air at 11 am PST / 2 pm EST. Learn about the nominated games here: www.indiecade.com/festival-202... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #indiecade #Awards #games

Gamedevs in 2026 trying to develop games for $6000 potato PCs with 256MB of RAM

Starting the new year in Blender #gamedev #indiedev #3dart

Dead Finger Dice by @rocketadrift.bsky.social - Who hasn't wanted to play a sinister game of poker dice against blood-thirsty demon billionaires who’ve trapped you on their mega yacht? I love the visuals on this one. I recently picked it up & you can too! store.steampowered.com/app/3512300/...

Thanks for another year of Rocket Adrift Games! New Year's resolution - to keep putting out fun and interesting games. #newyears #gamedev #resolutions

put up a generic icon set in the shop, fleshed out from a set i made ages ago for a now defunct internal UI kit set is pay-what-you-want and available both as PNGs and SVGs. want to make more resources like this, so hope this helps: store.corviday.net/products/ico... #gamedev #indiedev #ui

61 workers at Ubisoft Halifax have formed the first North American union at Ubisoft. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ubi...

‘everyone in gamedev is using AI’ the business dumdums are using it to generate decks and write bad copy. They think it’s good because they think their basic lore ideas make a good game. that’s it that’s who is using AI

Here's my indie game in #15seconds store.steampowered.com/app/3512300/...

Steam Winter Sale discounts are available for all of our games. If you have been waiting for sales, now's the time to grab a copy! store.steampowered.com/curator/4509... #indiedev #gamedev #steamsale

As a gamedev of nearly 30 years, I can absolutely definitively say you do not need AI as a placeholder. You know what we used as place holders? Fucking cubes. Grow the fuck up.

Any game studio or publisher that pledges to never replace an artist, an engineer, a musician, a designer, a producer, or even a tester with AI, and/or to never allow AI to be integrated into their workflows will have my unending support - and more importantly my money. Long live the real makers. ✊

We're so proud and excited to share that Psychroma is a nominee for the @indiecade.bsky.social Anywhere & Everywhere Narrative Award! Learn more about the festival here: www.indiecade.com/festival-202... #indiedev #gameawards #gamedev

relatable 😞

1) AI placeholder stuff can easily end up as the final content. 2) Don't reduce your creatives to chasing AI slop when it would have been easier to just have a human make it. 3) Some of the best moments I've had in gamedev were the organic creation process with concept artists. Don't snuff that.

while industry figures, dressed to the nines, filtered into LA's peacock theater last week, protesters chanted "the industry is dead" outside of it. despite how often geoff keighley says the game awards exist to "celebrate" games and the people who make them, many feel ignored

Inverse Kinematics returns to Godot 4.6! 🕺 After a long wait, IK is back with significant improvements. Tokage breaks down the new implementation:

With Clair Obscur winning multiple awards for best indie game, does that label even mean anything any more? I love this industry breakdown which uses measurable data - not vibes - to break games down into 4 categories. newsletter.hushcrasher.com/p/taxonomy-o... #gameDev #indieDev #indieGames

This is criminal. To a T was excellent and Takahashi is a genuine treasure for the video game industry.

Yeah it's been really bad for me too. Gamedev is threatened by (at least) the following; * AI-loving, worker-hating greedy CEOs * Risk averse, cheap publishers * Anti-DEI nonsense * The firing of all 35k of our colleagues * Anti-remote work sentiment * Actively ignoring seniority and experience

I'm not going to re-write a whole piece I already wrote 8 years ago, so here www.vice.com/en/article/s...

Chiming in, Godot is a breath of fresh air in the #gamedev space, and creative software as a whole; making it accessible and free to everyone - in both meanings of the word. They, you and everyone could benefit from some more coin tossed their way.

More coverage of our 10,000 Game Assets Pack, this time on Dexerto. We really do appreciate all the support everyone is giving this - basically it makes the last year of working on it full time worthwhile & spurs us on to create more assets!! www.dexerto.com/gaming/indie... #gamedev #indiedev

I've been following Studio Witchcraft's Fate Mender for a while now, and I'm super excited to play! Check it out if you like puzzle deck-builders with magic in a fantastical purgatory store.steampowered.com/app/4177420/... #indiegame #indiedev #puzzlegame

Check out my friend's productivity creature collector, Motivi-Galaxy! Please wishlist, repost, & share! store.steampowered.com/app/4005940/... #indegame #gamedev #indiegamedev

Was part of a Toronto Hot Docs panel about Artistry & Tech where I got to talk to Nav Khavari (Ubisoft Toronto), Kaitlin Trembley (Soft Rains), and Victoria Kucher (Hand Eye Society) about game development and art! #gamedev #indiedev #hotdocs

game design 101

Dead Finger Dice album drop 🫳 rocketadrift.bandcamp.com/album/dead-f... #gamedev #gamecomposer #deadfingerdice

Every time you use AI slop in your game, even as a placeholder, even if it's supposed to be temporary, you're helping to destroy the video game industry little by little. aftermath.site/the-alters-a...

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

There is a trend of video game narratives where women are prominent to be overly focused on motherhood and the 'natural' nurturing urges we're all supposed to harbor. It happens even when the woman in question wears power armor and blasts aliens with a giant arm cannon.

🎉 We just released a new tool: Easy Outline for #Godot! 🎉 #EasyOutline allows to quickly add different outline effects to your 3D models in Godot (with 2D coming soon as well)! You can get it here: www.febucci.com/tools/easy-o...

The Game Awards Future Class was clearly created to diversify the homogenous space that is the video game industry. But what happens when you only make superficial efforts to be inclusive, or when diversity is no longer in vogue and a chunk of your consumer base rails against it? Well…this.

We've added 100 new CDs to our collection of press CDs from GamePro magazine, with thousands of pieces of game art, screenshots, and more So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer

Great Toronto game dev panel with @ubisoft.com Toronto’s Navid Khavari, @rocketadrift.bsky.social’s @linrocketadrift.bsky.social and @softrains.bsky.social’s @kaittremblay.bsky.social! Really love seeing this kind of spotlight on talented Canadian devs at a local public venue like Hot Docs.

📣Hey, everyone! I will be speaking on a panel about artistry and tech in video games this weekend! Sat. Nov 8 I will be joined by Navid Khavari and Kaitlyn Temblay at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema in Toronto. Grab a ticket if you're interested and in the area! hotdocs.ca/whats-on/fil...

UPDATE 1.1.1: Added faster rolling option, tweaked Bobby Froggic's difficulty, and added a Steam controller configuration for people who prefer to play with controller or Steam Deck! #gamedev #indiegame #roguelike #deadfingerdice Buy or wishlist ➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/3512300/...

@rocketadrift.bsky.social Pleased to be playing Dead Finger Dice today for my channels on twitch.tv/mike_and_chill and kick.com/mike_and_chill We're a variety and chat interactive streamer so lets see what we can do to get you all involved today on this brand new game!

I love games with a moral compass. Also, hey Dead Finger Dice: The Billionaire Killing Game. You do sound lovely and wholesome. store.steampowered.com/app/3512300/...