If you're not willing to even keep up an *archived list* of the game developers you touted as future stars in the industry, let alone a notably *underprivileged* list of developers who were supposed to get resources *from your organization*, then you're not serious about that work. (3/5)

There was no Future Class last year and there will not be one this year, because we had the audacity to do the thing we were good at and the powers that be that had underestimated us were too cowardly to put their money where their mouths were. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

They gave me a headset mic and everything for my talk this afternoon; I’m so professional 😅

A thing that I think is good is when a human creates a piece of art

Clarification: you have to pick a function first and then the detail section should have more options! I’m sure this opens up a whole different debate about prioritization of what goes into the main function and what goes into detail section but yall can figure that out for yourselves

Looking at the registration form for GDC and they don't even include production or QA or narrative or UI as a role you can have as a game developer 😩

It’s really nice to wake up and see so much political joy on my feed for once. Good job with the vote, America 🎉

If you’re in the US and you’re able to, please go vote. Even if your slate is just local elections. Change has to begin locally.

Is that a problem because it was too seasoned for him

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote: "To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace." No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

Creatives dealing with production people. Yes you need to update your tasks. No we're not trying to throttle the creative process. Please leave the attitude at the door.

I have an irrational + minor fear at the hair salon that when I put my head in that washbasin thing that my neck won't make a seal with the washbasin properly and when they are washing my hair that the water will go down my neck and my clothes/back will get wet, is this me being neurospicy or...?

Did some extremely Dutch stuff this weekend

A haunted house but it’s just the country you live in trying to kill you.

What an honor: the Explore Breda Store is hosting our little Knightling and team for a temporary exhibition, right in the center of our hometown!😱🤩 Come and see in Breda until December 8th, as part of Dutch Game Week: www.explorebreda.com/nl/locaties/...

lmao

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

My favorite quote from this wonderful panel full of great quotes and wisdom: “Find a different hole to fall into every time." - Dr. JC Lau

Executives don't actually think AI will help teams innovate, they just think it will mean doing things cheap and fast. They are gutting the medium you love to line their pockets and it should piss you off.

in the netherlands major league baseball is called Honkbal Hoofdklasse

Europeans are gonna be waking up and seeing their feed full of stuff this and wondering what late stage political shenanery this is

The video game industry has *already* been killed by rich failson assholes who don't know anything. You can't look at the massive, industry-wide layoffs and armies of people fucked over in every single part of video game making, and think that its destruction is a future thing yet to happen.

me

Post a witch 💜✨

Hot take here: Wikipedia should be payed for by the tax dollars of every first world country in the world. Wikipedia is such an integral information tool. I want them to stop begging for money. If every Canadian citizen paid 1 cent per year every year, we alone could keep Wikipedia add free.

I know this bag of white sugar makes sense in Dutch but I am still giggling at the store

Women started fandom. Women started fanfic. Women started star Trek cons. Women invented beer, and the novel, while we're at it. Stop trying to erase women from spaces, you stupid, lazy, misogynistic fucks.

Some of the super cool people I talk about game design with and coauthor cool papers about multiplayer game design with!

this meeting could’ve been a free fall into a volcano

“We hate tutorials, we hate yellow paint”. Exactly 30 seconds later in the Steam reviews: “this game sucks we got lost and it’s hard to play because we didn’t understand a core mechanic”

*checks new info about GDC changes* ah

If I go to your website and am immediately hit with random audio that autoplays before I can even see what is happening and no volume controls, I am going to close your webpage and not look at your product. JFC that's annoying.

Today is a fresh opportunity to send some kindness out into the world - something free and easy to create that can have a bigger positive effect than you’ll ever know. Tell someone you love them. Compliment their work. It’s getting cold out here - be your own warmth.

Somehow I am doing three different talks in the next three weeks; so here is an accurate representation of me right now:

The best games are made by centering the humans making them

I did not have Amazon forcing me to stop working and touch grass on my bingo card for today, but here we are

You’ll notice that no one at No Kings marches throughout the country tried to storm state Capitols nor did they try to smear their shit on any walls, just people saying fuck no to a fascist criminally indicted felon and his Nazi/Hitler agenda.

How many people had to look up how to spell diarrhea because of that video today #NoKings

OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.

This No Kings rally could have been a national election

Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

#NoKings, but yaaaassss Queens 🏳️‍🌈

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

lol. lmao, even.

all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene

Haven't noticed this before! "it's missing accessibility features that I need" given as an option on Steam's refund reason dropdown #gamedev #indiedev #accessibility

i hate this meme because when i first saw it i giggled and now i live a life where operating system recommendations are among my most frequent topics of conversation both professionally and sometimes personally

Update: cracked a rib (I'm fine, it just hurts to cough or breathe deeply or laugh)

How is it that every new video they put out is worse than the previous one, and cost considerably more than what they pay their speakers