another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Merry Christmas from John Woo 🥲

you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you

been thinking about something

Wife got me the Caves of Qud shirt for Christmas. Like it so much I'm thinking of buying myself a second one.

it's that time of year

you there boy, what bullshit is this

Gamers. It’s time

Simply Having A wonderful

that the Whos celebrate Christmas suggests some knowledge of Christ, but whether this is our anthropic Christ or a distinctive Who-Christ remains obscure; some have argued Christianity was introduced to them during their refuge with Horton, which of course turns us to the matter of Elephant Religion

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

honestly one of the better things you could read on the construction and curation of a procgen corpus, from @tsawac.bsky.social on the Nebula-nominated Scents & Semiosis

Paradise Killer is currently FREE on Epic Games Store as one of their festive free games! 😱 May the Silent Goat walk with you! 💗💜💙 https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/paradise-killer-c3ea1c

Apocalypse World is profoundly important work. It has shaped the landscape of roleplaying games for over a decade, and with this third edition, I'm sure it'll continue to shape it for a decade more. Clever, gripping, and human. There's still a few hours to snag your kickstarter copy!

I keep seeing content labelled as "for the fifth edition of the world's greatest roleplaying game" and then it's clearly written by somebody with a *very* poor grasp of the Ars Magica rules.

In our last Mandrake dev thread of the year, we'd like to consider that most festive of topics: the unquiet dead. #indiedev #gamedev

Speaking of art... Apocalypse World is such a gift. I truly 100% believe it is the most important game of the modern era of TTRPGs. I cannot even begin to detail how deeply it has influenced our hobby (including yours truly!). Please back it if you haven't.

It still stands as an affront to me that we couldn’t even get the Bakers one (ONE!) million dollars after everything they’ve given the hobby, but if you haven’t backed Apocalypse World yet, you have to do it now!

garth marenghi's game dev studio

Bjork's hitboxes are wild

Promise Mascot Agency (2025)

We need to get Yoshitaka Amano into WH40k.

They’ve got to make a true-crime style film about the Salt Path scam, but also starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs.

It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.

This is devastating. One of my favourite games of the year, To a T is a beautiful slice-of-life narrative with some of the best disability messaging I’ve seen in games. Please play it!

Your QA team has been Ludovico Techniqued into panicking at the sight of magenta even outside of games! Take advantage of this work-induced brain problem!

Meet the Yolf, your furriest neighbour in Mandrake. #WholesomeSnack

You will be visited by three spirits

Ever want to make a parser-based interactive fiction game but didn't know how to get started? Of course you have. Good news! I've created a small and very basic tutorial to creating IF in TADS 3.1.3 using the adv3lite library and Inform 7! Find out which works best! #gameDev #interactiveFiction

Look at this ridiculously amazing deal on Classic Traveller PDFs! 61 books for $16 www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/tr...

Vincent is threatening to write a beginners guid to designing a game the Powered by the Apocalypse way and I'll be honest, I kind of need y'all to step up so that goodness can come into the world. Just, like, 10.000 dollars more to go.

Esnupi and the boys

johnny: oh hey ur back from dino's bar 'n' grill early this chick that used to dance a lot: the boys are back in town johnny: what? that chick: *loading a pistol and getting back on motorcycle* the boys are back in town

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦

"The industry's finest sustainable storyteller" is an appellation that we'll wear with pride. Thank you, @jeremypeel.bsky.social and the Edge team, for this wonderful profile in January's issue.

LET'S MOSEY

Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today! …Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :) Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen. blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...

We don't know. What we do know is the wiring diagram works. We built it, virtually, in @godotengine.org. We fed it scans of the books we found. And the books are very, very strange. The "game" that resulted is also strange. We're hoping people can make sense of it for us.

At Develop 2024 I gave a talk on how we tested the narrative logic in Mask of the Rose, now up on YouTube. If you're interested in testing branching narratives with millions of possible states, but you also love dumb jokes delivered in a monotone, then hold onto your hat: youtu.be/7nxGsml1DUY?...

We need a National Book Awards-style game award: every year a committee of five freaks is handed the keys to all the prestige, they pick stuff no one's heard of, readers (players) get mad, the committee members get defensive, no one is truly happy, and then next year we do it all again

People say Cancel Culture is real and then you see Lydia Tár being invited to meet the Pope. 🙄

This shit is exactly why placeholders are commonly pink/black checkerboxes with PLACEHOLDER in giant text on it so that shit doesn't get missed and go to fucking retail

Cannot recommend modules by @kharrak.bsky.social highly enough. He is a skilled adventuresmith and we've had some extremely fun times playtesting his modules. Without fail they have all had those "OH SHIT" horror moments.

happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day

I am not much for post apocalyptic games these days, but the Bakers could put out a new edition every year and I would buy it. Apocalypse World is responsible for fostering curiosity and inspiring confidence in so many designers. It helped build an era for games incredibly rich with creativity.