Scrubbin’ Trubble is out now!!! 🧼 store.steampowered.com/app/3276700/...

Phantasy Star II celebrates its 37th anniversary today, and we have two great interviews covering its development. This one comes from The World of Phantasy Star; my favorite detail is how the fiendishly complex dungeons were the result of a tryharding new employee. shmuplations.com/phantasystar...

This is cool: extremely well-drawn comic about the fighting game community.

My physical copy of Animal Well arrived this week, so excited to see it! @mossmouth.bsky.social did a fantastic job with the cover art, it’s a beauty!

✨ Spring Sale ✨ on Steam ✨ 🔗 store.steampowered.com/developer/mo...

Happy to hear that so many C64 fans are enjoying Paul's amazing port of Spelunky Classic! 🔗 paulko64.itch.io/spelunky64

Yasushi Nirasawa - one of the GOATs of monster design! So many of his monsters are cool head-to-toe, but he could also turn silly ideas, like this watermelon monster, into solid gold with inventive thematic design and asymmetry. Even common decorations like skulls could feel new in his hands.

"Light RPG elements and resource management spice up the brain-stretching core gameplay of this unique 'logic puzzle roguelite', where you have to figure out which treasure chests are lying Mimics." 👍Derek Likes Mimic Logic: store.steampowered.com/curator/4057...

Good morning! I wrote a book! @flantz.bsky.social called it “the definitive history of procedural generation in video games” which is just about the best thing that can happen to a book. Tell your friends, enemies and book-loving acquaintances!

DLSS 5 OFF // DLSS 5 ON

It's a great pleasure to announce #Pico8 Compilation on #Steam, in collaboration with @finjico.bsky.social @elastiskalinjen.bsky.social and @johanpeitz.com store.steampowered.com/bundle/67391... Hundreds hours of fun at your fingertips !

The UFO 50 Draft Bingo Race is coming up next on Frost Fatales / GDQ (less than an hour from now) and they're about 70% of the way to adding Spicy Bingo Goals if you'd like to donate towards that incentive! 🛸 gamesdonequick.com

Oh yeah!

The most epic sci-fi trilogy of all time, no hesitation! Official UFO 50 tee designed by @kduffles in collab with @mossmouth.bsky.social and available now for a limited time as part of @framefatales.com $6 from each tee sold gets donated to @nwlc.org theyetee.com/frostfatales

COMPUTER WORLDS starts this Thursday, check out the trailer and get ready for amazing games on Steam and noclip_2 during our Thursday Showcase.

Hell yeah! @fourbitfriday.bsky.social and team have made one heck of a fun game: a turn-based RL that often feels like a frantic arcade title, with the added satisfaction of sudsing up a variety of grimy locations and monsters. 🫧🧼 Solo Mode is also available btw! That's how I played.

UFO 50 is once again in Frost Fatales and thanks to @theyetee.com and artist @kduffles.bsky.social there's an awesome Alpha tee available as part of the event merch! The UFO 50 Bingo Race is on Saturday, March 14, but the full event begins on March 8! Check it out and get a shirt if you're keen!

Website is live! Hopefully it works ok for everyone. Bookmark if you want to keep up with my work in the future 👻 garyyk.com

tfw too busy working on 1yrl to do 7drl

Love the way this game looks. Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/2738490/...

I'll be showing off Hot Streak at this GDC event, Wednesday morning!

UFO 50 Deluxe Editions for Nintendo Switch are out of preorder and shipping now! Take a look inside and pick up your own here: www.fangamer.com/products/ufo...

When you see "HPRshredder" and "Simon's Quest" pop up on the timeline and you know you've got to set aside an hour to enjoy peak retro game analysis...

Someone asked me to animate it so I did

BTW in case you're interested, you can actually play the original PC-88 version of Hydlide on Nintendo Switch, courtesy of EGGCONSOLE! 🔗 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

While we're celebrating Zelda's 40th, I want to give some love to some of the foundational action adventure games that predated it. Hydlide, in particular, deserves more respect outside of Japan for what it did for the genre in '84 (PC88). Tower of Druaga, Courageous Perseus, Dragon Slayer, Hydlide

Shout out to The Legend of Zelda after 40 years! A game whose sense of exploration and adventure still feels unparalleled to me in many ways. Art scans courtesy of @historyofhyrule.com: www.flickr.com/photos/histo... Hand-drawn map by my dad, from when we played the game together in the 80s.

Genuinely unnerving trailer for this upcoming stop-motion horror game. Just like the horror movies I'm interested in, I'm alternately excited and apprehensive to see what it's about! And the team's previous games, Judero/Mashina (also stop-motion) are on sale: store.steampowered.com/bundle/49099...

I LOVE the new art-style for Rift Wizard 3. The first two games were pretty utilitarian pixel-art, but the chalk-sketch aesthetic here is gorgeous.

Fresh one up on my Youtube today, an A-Z exploration exercise of RPGs and strategy games on the Genesis! youtu.be/83_uoaxoIqA Hopefully a few in there you haven't seen before, enjoy!

At GDC this year, I'll be one of several people giving a microtalk at this session: schedule.gdconf.com/session/game... The larger topic is "Games about Games" but my talk will be about game collections in particular.

Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection is $2.99 on Steam buff.ly/EkS86AC $10.49 Xbox buff.ly/o6QAntg Deck verified

SAMURAI GUNN 2 ⚔️ IS SO BACK ⚔️ Rebuilt from the ground up in our own engine, FASTER and DEADLIER than ever! MORE to COME! store.steampowered.com/app/1397790/...

The Ana Spelunky Youtooz plush went well and she'll be shipping out later this year (ETA April). Thanks to everyone who preordered one and hope you enjoy! It'd be fun to do another - if you're interested, let me know if there's a Spelunky character you'd be excited to see next!

The Crimson Diamond is 25% off for Steam Typing Fest 2026! 🎉⌨️ It's a text parser cozy mystery adventure set in early 1900s Canada! If you've never typed "open door" to open a door, this may be the perfect time to see if your brain is wired to love that! ❤️‍🔥🧠 store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/...

I don't typically put much thought into chain scoring or scoring in beat 'em ups at all, but this one got me hooked on trying to go higher! And it's a free browser game! From the creator of Fight'N Rage. Really impressive PICO-8 graphics, too! 👊 sebagamesdev.itch.io/backstreet-w...

bop! 😊 KOLYDR: adamatomic.itch.io/kolydr

Hi I'm on bluesky now! Last year was a hell of a year as my 2-year-old was diagnosed with cancer (!?!?!?) and spent much of it in the hospital. Thankfully it's in remission now. What a ride. Hoping to slowly get back into gamedev stuff this year!

Just posted my latest - a Rygar-spective covering every game and port in this weird and well loved series! youtu.be/onRg_sydwS0 Spreading the word is very appreciated :) LET'S FIGHT!

The third update for UFO 50 on Switch is out now (v1.8.10)! This one fixes a single issue where a detached Joy-Con could register multiple inputs. But we're currently working on more bugfixes and optimizations, for a larger update in the future.

1cc completed! And only my third time reaching loop 2 on one credit. I played a few runs every day, sometimes credit feeding to practice tricky areas. 'Til the very end, the game loved to throw unexpected scenarios (and weapons) at me, so my heart was pounding when I finally defeated Lucifer! GG!

Big PB today! I made it to the second loop on one credit for the first time! Shout out to the master @aqy.bsky.social, as quite a few of his tips + tricks came in handy. Starting to learn how to beat Red Arremers. Love how they sort of organically throw a little fighting game in there. Masterpiece.

Current GnG PB is boss of Stage 4. 1cc makes me realize how great the balance is between static and random elements. It's easy to think the "bad" weapons are a waste, but it's actually more like Super Crate Box - sometimes you're forced to pick one up and make do for a while. Adds replayability.

Burst's upcoming GnG challenge is inspiring me to try and 1cc Ghouls 'n Ghosts arcade myself. The Genesis version of the game was one of my favorites and the mechanics and aesthetics have really stuck with me over the years. I'd love to get to know it better through an arcade 1cc.

Any advice Tom has on making indie games is worth listening to, but I really want to highlight his thoughts on price point - it's well explained. I do think that the movement to get indies to charge more mostly just hurt new indies - with fewer players, fewer/worse reviews, and lower sales.

New video up! Kind of a re-post as this combines my old parts 1 & 2 of the Contra retrospectives from 2024, but there is a new section added to the end with some extra stuff since uncovered. Enjoy! Sharing around is much appreciated :) youtu.be/Ap10X-REdlk

For people who aren't aware of HAMSTER's Arcade Archives or EGGCONSOLE... They're porting games to Switch that previously never left the arcades or PC-88/PC-98. Some really fantastic, interesting games. Just search for "Arcade Archives" or "EGGCONSOLE" on eShop. Arcade Archives is also on PS/Xbox.

I'm starting to write more reviews of smaller titles on Steam. 1. Reviews are very helpful for developers and players alike. 2. It's a nice way to cap off a fun time with a game. So not only do I recommend Babushka's Glitch Dungeon, but I also recommend writing reviews of indie games you enjoyed!