My friend and industry colleague Heidi has received the devastating news that her partner can no longer fight off his cancer and must go into hospice. She will lose him soon and she is a good person who has already lost so much. Please consider helping her defray the costs and survive the aftermath.

Um YES????

Girls don't want flowers girls want the save room throne from Castlevania: Curse of Darkness

Spotify needs to have options for epilepsy/photosensitivity warnings on the clips that play when you open a song. Why am I getting flashbanged flipping through music

looks like we got some info, i'm always happy to be wrong: ubm.ent.box.com/v/GDC26-FoG-...

Not to just echo what everyone else is saying but the vibes of this are just off. Hoping more info from GDC clears things up but... hm. Hm.

so good atmosphere and story with bad combat? NOW you're playing silent hill baby

Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice. Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT." IT IS ART. YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.

Why. Why. WHY

Updated my website to reflect my status as a highly employable writer ooooooh you feel compelled to look www.emmkid.info 🪄

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Emma Kidwell - Writer 💚 Get a deeper understanding of the games media to #gamedev pipeline, the successes, and the deterioration 💙What new writers and narrative designers should do now to kickstart their career now that the pipeline no longer exists. #GDoCExpo2025

The timing on this is hilarious because i've become the statistic of unemployed writers, BUT I'll be chatting about the games media to game writer pipeline, why it worked, and what's viable now 📝 ti.to/GDoCExpo/2025

the patenting of game systems and system design harms the entire industry

What an expertly called shot

This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight. I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open: emmkid.info

I feel like what publishers took away from Baldur’s Gate’s success is that every game needs to have like 5000 hours of content, instead of the much more valuable takeaway imo: you need to let players have sex with a demon lady and a man who turns into a bear

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I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

A project I cleared my schedule for is taking some time to get off the ground, so I’m once again open for contract work. Need a writer/editor/localizer? Let me make your women angrier and your bisexuals more chaotic.

‼️⚠️ STILL LOOKING FOR WORK & IN NEED OF HELP ⚠️‼️I'm at my wits' end. Even 'survival jobs' haven't gotten back to me. Overdrafted, overdue, & rent is coming up fast. If you're comfortable enough to help, please. If you have leads on jobs, PLEASE. Thank you. 🌺 ko-fi.com/kocobo | 🌺 paypal.me/kmarrero22

Getting mad over a game about migrants because it's promoting "illegal immigration" is one of the baddest bad faith takes they've tried yet, considering you do illegal shit in tons of video games, and many of them glorify it. BFFR.

Not shocked at all. A reminder that everything is political; if you think that politics won't affect you, think again.

Hellooooo marketing folks! It's your time to shine! ✨ Know someone who would be a good fit? You know the drill: share and tag!

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

As some of you already know, my little brother has a rare cancer. Less than 200 people are recorded having it since the 70's. In just a month, it's progressed to stage 3. He's only 20. It's been SO hard. If my game dev advice was ever useful to you, please consider: www.mealtrain.com/trains/y5z8yy

Mohamed Mesbah and Don Quichotte films present "Still Playing", a documentary about Palestinian game developer @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social's quest to loudly tell his people's stories through games, in a world where the violent powers that be have decided his people cannot have a voice.

VILE: Exhumed may be banned for sale, but I refuse to let that stop people from playing the game. It’s now available, for free, at WWW.VILEISBANNED.COM Please share the site, share the game, and fuck anyone who tries to control storytelling and expression.

Hey #gamedevs! Looking for an arab composer or sound artist for The Arab League Of Misfits that wants to work with themed like satire, slippers, and regionally grounded chaos. NO STOCK “DESERT” LOOPS. Original post here on LinkedIn or dm/email www.linkedin.com/posts/nazihf...

little did i know expedition 33 came with a side of getting over it with bennett foddy

I guess they answered “what it’s like to be a teen right now” clearly, if unintentionally

Tsunami start times for the US West Coast from the senior meteorologist at the Weather Channel:

I’m part of a project near and dear to my heart, a documentary about Nancy Drew: her stories, games, & place in girls’ imaginations Funding was cut by the fed, so it’s up to Kickstarter. Please, if you can - this is a special project that deserves to come out www.kickstarter.com/projects/cod...

It's been creeping up for years, but with Collective Shout and KOSA (again), I've been finding myself thinking of Boards of Canada's "One Very Important Thought" a lot lately. Make some calls this week. Defend your constitutionally protected rights. No one else will do it for you. Thank you.

KOSA is back. This is the internet censorship bill! And it's not just coming for SWers, it'll be coming for all LGBTQ content, because the people in charge view LGBTQ people as inherently pornagraphic! We must push back even harder than we did last time we killed this bill 🔥

There's no anomaly here. People, globally, volunteer their time to powerful public goods the moment they're not actively terrified that they'll lose their home, their food, and their freedom. Which means that capitalism requires us all to live in fear, always - because it can't compete with free.

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visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help. this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls. we can beat them phone numbers and a script:

I love when people are like "AI will replace writers because writing is low-grade/meaningless/unskilled work" but then are like "I can't write a whole paper because that's hard." Like girl which is it.

13 of our titles have been shadowbanned despite containing no nsfw content and not being tagged as such. They ARE tagged LGBT content. Don't pretend this is only about nsfw works. Why are you censoring queer works?

Somehow, ValiDate was not unlisted on Itch despite all of our tags. fuck censorship, you can pick up a copy for FREE until the 31st enjoy ;) validategame.itch.io/validate-str...

Here's a thread of links to games I love that itch has decided to censor and attempt to make unrecoverable. Will gradually be adding to this and please feel free to add your own suggestions or your own work into this. taylormccue.itch.io/trauma

Yeah, this is bad. Payment processors and banks determining what can and cannot be sold is the reason why you need to buy gift cards from Japan if you want to buy from DLSite now, and why adult games sites are constantly dodging crackdowns. Banks are the razor-sharp tip of the censorship spear.

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead

Hi friends! My team is casting 5 voice actors for contract roles in our combat-focused video game! Ideally remote voice talent with home recording setups. We’re seeking authentic representation for the following roles:

when i was a kid i would eat pizza by tearing off the crust, using it to eat the cheese, then eating the dough. couldn’t tell you why

the verge is hiring a news writer, fellow unemployeds

the concentration camp for immigrants is approximately 30 minutes from where i live. this administration is planning deeply evil things. art will be crucial for our survival in the next few years. please support art like this that gives a voice to the most vulnerable. it’s more important than ever.