It's finished! The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic game, is now fully documented. * 41,902 lines of lovingly annotated source code * 51 deep dives (116,240 words) * Buildable repository * 100% handcrafted AI-free content * 7 months’ work thesentinel.bbcelite.com #retrocomputing #C64 #BBCMicro

Over at CRPG Addict, a game from the '90s raises some relevant questions for present-day designers. crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2026/03/star... #GameDevelopment #VideoGames #GameSky #CRPG

To this day the “Good Truckin” image (used on the cover) is one of my favorite things I’ve ever drawn. Truck Quest is one you must go on!

Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen (1988) In this Infocomics release, we follow the adventures of accountant turned superhero, Lane Mastodon, as he saves humanity from the terrible blubbermen of Jupiter. They're using a space ray to enlarge our insects, and must be stopped before it's too late! 1/4

Truck Quest is a choice-based text adventure about hauling military-grade narcotics to the megachurches of Bean Station and driving flammable poultry to the casinos of Inverness. bitterlyindifferent.itch.io/truckquest #IndieGame #InteractiveFiction #Twine #FreeGame #GameSky

someone on the internet is wrong *takes deep breath* and that's okay

Thank you everyone again! Labyrinth.os v1.0 is ready: dataerase.itch.io/labyrinthos

Sharing my research on "best way to teach non-gamer parents to play your game on Steam" Top Learning: They will tell you they are not looking at Steam in the browser. They are definitely looking at Steam in the browser. Steam logo was described "gear sprocket" and "goofy foot" #gamedev

I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna start calling game teams "kei" and "midi" and not "iii" or "indie" and you're gonna hate it but I'm right to do it, until we have better terms, sorry bro, this is not discourse, this is praxis newsletter.hushcrasher.com/p/taxonomy-o...

How about some more cheerful stuff? The Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction is open, with 22 new games to play. www.springthing.net/2026/play.html

The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation is looking for sponsors for our 2026 NarraScope conference (narrascope.org) in-person event in Albany/NY this June.

WCW lasted longer than the Confederacy.

Hey Hanover Voters, If you happen to get a text from "Rachel" telling you to vote no on the redistricting constitutional amendment, that is NOT from me. I think you should definitely vote YES on the redistricting constitutional amendment, as soon as possible if you haven't already. 1/

I have seen one good example of this plate

Just one month until a Saudi-backed golf tourney holds a tournament at President Trump’s club. #synergy

Free point & click games! Guga makes really elegant puzzles- I’m in No Rest for the Wicked, and it also has a terrific puzzle where you need to trick a talking skull!

Hey! So faeexe.itch.io/26ib-03 This week, you can play a weird little (v. short) interactive fiction about a strange machine. faeexe.itch.io/backpack-world Also, chapter 4 of backpack world came out last week! And the french translation for the first 3 chapter as well! #curiouscollection

If you like poignancy and space, you should play my short interactive fiction story, 'My Battery is Low and It's Getting Dark'. What would you say to a robot that gained sentience half an hour before it was going to die? benkaestnerfrenchman.itch.io/my-battery-i...

How do you classify games? One way is by looking at the relationship between a game's disk size and the number of people in its credits. hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... #VideoGames #IndieDev #GameSky

I wrote a new post for Indie Game Insights. Today's topic: Which visual novel themes were popular on Itch in 2025? Spoiler: Otome games are on top. indiegameinsights.dev/blog/itch_vi... #itch #itchio #visualnovel #vn #vndev #renpy #gamedev #indiedev #dataviz

Oh, cool! @geoffreygolden.bsky.social made a new website for his Adventure Snack games: adventuresnack.com That's getting bookmarked.

Disappointed I didn’t get into the Wholesome Direct, I really thought Dino Cleanup was a good fit, but I imagine there was a lot of competition this year 😭🦖. Anyway, here’s an updated trailer for Dino Cleanup ahead of schedule! #gamedev #indiegame #madewithunity #pixelart #恐竜 #wholesomegames

Rules and norms about war crimes are a global public good. If you or anyone in your family is between 16 & 60, male, & walks, you have a direct personal interest in it not being legitimate for them to be assinated for walking within any undeclared 3km radius around any combatant.

+++ FREE TO PLAY: Spirit Detective Chronicles [1] +++ Our supernatural investigation #VisualNovel released a few days ago – where you guide vengeful souls to the afterlife. Did you play it? What's your opinion on the game? Let me know! ❤️ Play here ⬇️ elduator.itch.io/spirit-detec...

I/O systems in Unreal: @joewintergreen.com explains what they are and how they can avoid needing mountains of special-case, duplicate code. www.joewintergreen.com/i-o-systems-... #Unreal #GameDev #GameSky

Isn’t it weird how “AI literacy” being pushed on students isn’t about learning how it works, the cost of how it works, learning to spot disinformation, media and tech literacy. But instead is just “employers will like it if you get it to write your emails :)”

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

While gloating publicly about layoffs at a game publisher, inside its AI department, please take a single sweet moment to check that it’s the generative LLM bullshit, and not, you know, actual useful important AI work that game studios have done for decades. Shame to look like an asshole on main.

Real talk: A substantial amount of this game's text was plagiarized from the all-company emails I was receiving on a weekly basis. I regret nothing.

Who is driving through Fluvanna County with a “Honk if you love market structure” bumper sticker?!

Pushing Loyal People: It's the direct result of one too many reorgs. bitterlyindifferent.itch.io/pushing-loya... #Twine #FreeGame #GameSky #IndieGame #InteractiveFiction

I think the Riddick universe of Vin Diesel’s Riddick movies is more interesting that the character of Riddick himself!

“It’s honestly been eye opening (in a bad way) to see how special interests work in our system” says the Head of Politics at Kalshi, which pays Donald Trump Jr. to sit on its advisory board and has spent over a million in lobbying over the past ~year.

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

The Little Mermaid is in public domain. You can make your own version. You don’t need to even consider Disney’s feelings.

maybe I should feel a way about re requiem's depiction of fatness but videogames have always done fat people dirty. this was 2018 theoutline.com/post/3032/fa...

today it took all of my willpower not to call out a major indie game curator account over the following: i am. SO tired of indie games always being painted as "ACTUALLY FUN" alternatives to "MODERN AAAA SLOP" they're their own games dude! let them speak! stop projecting petty gamer rage onto them!

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

Nothing quite like driving by an old employer’s building and seeing their logo replaced by one of those office-sharing companies. I’m sure things are going great!

Releasing tomorrow, Fishbowl @imissmyfriends.bsky.social is a narrative game about dreams, grief, and hope. I am credited as Accessibility Consultant on the game! Absolutely love this game, and can't wait for people to check it out.

Great, not only am I supposed to stay off social media, I also need to pro-actively delete every newsletter from my inbox that was published on April 1? Fucking April Fools Day.

Having 3 frames to get the digging to look okay was a challenge. This was also the moment I found out I hate the Pico-8 pallet. Still do. But go play this game! It still delights me.

Our latest Debut Devs showcase is up, with another four amazing games from first time #indiegamedev youtu.be/ty_540bWm2M and sign-ups are open for future streams forms.gle/LKR6TGiFGgHP...

It was just 24 days between when Zuck went on Rogan and talked about how "never again" would he suppress info based on gov't demands (misrepresenting those demands) and when he texted top gov't employee Elon Musk to say "we're all set up to take down info you want removed." I wrote about it here.

Fluvanna County: We can’t have nice things www.cbs19news.com/news/fluvann...

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

Games that take different approaches to level-based skill systems they need to work with their core gameplay loops, not against them. Some examples are Pokemon, Diablo 4, & Starfield. scottfinegamedesign.com/design-blog/... #GameDevelopment #UserExperience #GameMechanics

A reverse image search said this photo wasn’t anywhere else on the internet, and that sounds like bullshit. Does anyone know who created this artwork or where I could get a copy?

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct. — Carl Jung #gamedev #indiegame #games #art #digitalart #artist #artwork #MondayMotivation Wishlist bit.ly/sloppy-bs