Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

The holiday season is finally here.

Hello indies! It's almost Thanksgaming 2025! If you have an unknown indie project in dev or just released, please could you email me at [email protected] with the subject "THANKSGAMING 2025", and a store page and YouTube link? I'll put as many as I can on Kotaku. Rules next. Reposts appreciated!

Me the last three weeks: Surely Hunter Henry will be worth it this week. Me this week: Fine, I'll start Kittle instead. 🤦

Boy, sure would be a shame if the GOP proposed reforming health care and not giving health insurance companies all the money in an effort to beat Obamacare. "Own the libs."

Well, hope they figure out getting AI to buy and play their game too!

I've been judiciously unsubscribing, deleting, and marking things read and have finally achieved Inbox 32,000.

Well, shit. Guess @microsoft.com is finally convincing me to install Linux.

Surely Kristi Noem went to Portland in person because the conditions were so bad, right?

The year is 2003. 17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity." Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.

One of the organizers of GodotCon 2025 in Boston, @chad.binarysolo.com, shared his reflections on the event in our latest blog post: godotengine.org/article/godo...

If you are at the US Open and in the audience while Trump is there: 1. Please BOO him. Boo him like you're from NY, even if you're not. 2. Record it. Record all of it. 3. Post it to every social media platform you can think of.

TL:DR; AI training requires so many computers, your electric bill is going up. Even if you don't use or don't like GPT or the like.

Did you just read about how traditional Medicare is about to require prior approval - and they’re going to hire **AI companies** to dole out those approvals? Then you need to learn about Dr. Gary Bent.

Pairs well with @chad.binarysolo.com "I Make Games on My Phone" www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoCW...

Would be awfully cool if you left a positive review on this game I worked on. store.steampowered.com/app/757940/R...

Trump Administration trying to get rid of the bad guys? www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

When you strip away humanity

Collective Moan?

A minimalist logic game. Can you solve for 𝒙? ❓ Infer the rules of each glyph without hints 🧠 Over 300 handcrafted across evolving lands 🎶 Chill, reactive soundtrack as you play CIPHER ZERO. Out Now. zpdt.co/playcz #PlayCipherZero #GameDev #IndieGameDev #IndieDev #SolveForX

Just read about Daniel Ek and his AI Battle Tech. Is there a good replacement for @spotify.bsky.social that isn't just downloading music?

Want a gravity defying, space faring, Metroidvania? I did a little programming and advising on this one and you can go play the demo in Next Fest right now! (This very moment!)

Going to tell my kids this is Greg Abbott.

When you hear that a company has replaced people with AI, just cancel subscriptions and stop using them. Sucks, but good-bye @xbox.com Game Pass.

That's a wrap on the very first Boston Gamedev Week! We were totally blown away by how many people showed up to every single event, wore our pins and embraced BGW enthusiastically. Thank you to everyone who took this leap with us, and to all of our incredible organizers. Let's do this again!

Where you'll find me next week! (And mostly running around like a madman at the NERD for GodotCon.)

A friend of Neri Alvarado, the young Venezuelan man with an autism awareness tattoo sent to El Salvador, shared this video from members of the swim club where he worked with neurodiverse children. More about Neri from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and I here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@braceyourselfgames.com please tell me you at least internally considered "Riff of the Necrodancer" instead.

Bummer to hear that @vancityreynolds.bsky.social is a fan of GenAI. Even bigger disappointment than Green Lantern.

Savin' up for my Switch 2.

I hear someone awesome is doing these things. 🤫

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Here's some animation from the new trailer. From rough to clean. 🌌☄️👽👨‍🚀🌑🚀 It's a quirky cartoony space adventure game. You're a bounty hunter, exploring space taking down nasty alien baddies. Wishlist on Steam TODAY! store.steampowered.com/app/757940/R... #workinprogresswednesday #gamedev #indiegame

Severance meets Inscryption in Mr. Magpie's Harmless Card Game! 👁️👁️👁️Play it now👁️👁️👁️ giantlight.itch.io/mr-magpies-h...

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

Civ 7 Discord absolutely delivering on a succint round-up of the last 10-20 years of internet culture with regard to games

You can totally stop going to Target already too!

So at this point, do we just turn The Lighthouse into the Josh McDaniels Signal and start writing up his theme song?

We did a thing here in Boston. godotengine.org/article/godo...

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

I've been using Zoom since 2014 and finally just got Zoom bombed. Badge of honor?

Why am I just learning there's a consultancy called EviCore in charge of helping insurance agencies deny more claims? Like... they're not even hiding it?

Look at the science going on here. 93% couldn't possibly be a made up stat.

SW:TOR folks: I just had a heart attack seeing a Z drive on my machine. I guess Unreal sets up a temporary drive when you package. 😂

Tiny Mass Games, Season 8, the final season of our second year, has just launched! Check out the games here: tinymassgames.itch.io

Some Metroidvania in these trying times? store.steampowered.com/app/1327560/...

It's been like a month, but I finally cracked open my long term side project and actually made a commit. Fixed a silly path-finding bug.

Make it make sense: my car was broken into last night and they only stole my YETI covered in corgi stickers.

Since I'm working in VR, pretty sure that means I get to call in sick when this happens.

Wife: I don't know why you're so surprised your car passed inspection. Me the one day of the year my check engine light isn't on: