Thinking about how the Ucanny Valley effect might have been evolved to protect us from other almost-human species, and yet it's doing nothing to protect us from almost-human AIs

After God out of context panels

It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year! As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...

After God out of context panels

So, I am not allowed to request my ADHD medications "too early", because what it I get more before I am out and start hoarding and selling them But my health provider can take up to a week to approve my request, with no explanation keep being you, Swedish healthcare

I know we all scoffed when Moorcock tried to sue Andrzej Sapkowski for Geralt's similarities to Elric, but honestly? If MULTIPLE famous IPs profited from my work while my work languished forgotten by the mainstream, I would be mad too

I think this is bang on, and gets at a sense of what I see in play with stuff from Dwarf Fortress and Qud to Rimworld to Crusader Kings and the Sims: a desire to understand the world, whether a familiar or an alien one, through play

New article on Old Men Running the World, where I drill down into what makes me want to run a game and what makes me run a mile. #ttrpg

Capitalism ruined Znamya and I will never forgive them for this futurism.com/space/scient...

A spirit possessed me and urged me to recreate the Lighthouse trailer using footage from Lake Michigan Monster. Please enjoy it until a DMCA takes is away: youtu.be/UChneeWB1ik?...

NUTS is the party cannon of the steam halloween thing lol

Y'know, it's spooky season. I'll just make a whole thread of vampire media (some quality and some Quality and some fuck you it's bad but I like it). I'll try to link where stuff is accessible when possible

Hi, CEO of I Made It Games LLC, here. We're looking for viral indie games with a cool aesthetic that have a proven gameplay loop, narrative hook, the interest of top 1% streamers, and are 80-90% complete. In exchange for 50% of your profits we'll let you put our name on the Publisher field in Steam.

A spirit possessed me and urged me to recreate the Lighthouse trailer using footage from Lake Michigan Monster. Please enjoy it until a DMCA takes is away: youtu.be/UChneeWB1ik?...

Watching my partner play Expedition 33. I believe you could replace 2/3 of the party with a bunch of sword-wielding cats, with absolutely no repercussions whatsoever on the plot??

Cabernet is currently a #5 most popular Visual Novel on Steam!.. 😮🦇

Three options in two paragraphs.

In the Good Timeline Slice&Dice becomes the popular roguelike instead of Balatro, and multiple people congratulate me for my achievements

Amazing to see this view from another world. Gale Crater on Mars. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

I don’t talk about it much because the situation doesn’t really change but it’s still insane to me what an enormous amount of really talented game developers are out of work. just whole studios worth of incredible people, often people who worked on beloved games, unemployed.

Heck yeah play it

Important question: where can I find Buckfast in London

Judging for the IGF and not recognising most games it's like going to a comicon and not recognising the cosplayers....... I am not one of the cool kids anymore

Pro tip for indie unity devs: take three seconds to swap the default UI font with something nicer. Not bothering makes your game feel 1000% more amateurish

Learning C++. My code doesn't compile. I try adding an asterisk. No luck. I swap the asterisk for an ampersand

This went live last night - a big PDF bundle of the books I've written at Image. Includes The Wicked + the Divine, DIE, Phonogram, Ludocrats, the first Power Fantasy, We called them giants, etc. Basically, this is the stuff I got into comics to do, and a great chance to grab it.

I think it should remain possible to work professionally on video games

Owlcat Games has launched a free game development learning resource, featuring over 350 learning resources including software recommendations, tutorials, and online courses www.gamesindustry.biz/owlcat-games...

moomin gets stereotyped as cozy pseudo-ghibli fantasy, but much like ghibli itself it's something born from hardship, what with it starting publication at the tail end of WW2 by a queer author who kept her bisexuality a secret to the public, and the earliest books being blatant post-war allegories

The Nighthawks demo has arrived! During Steam Next Fest, seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, seduction, and forbidden supernatural gifts. Your second life begins tonight! store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...

unplanned German localisation announced

is there a website like goodreads where the "similar books" recommendations AREN'T algorithmically generated? I am looking for the equivalent to MyAnimeList's user-made lists

This is a magnificent piece of writing. In genuine awe here.

is there a website like goodreads where the "similar books" recommendations AREN'T algorithmically generated? I am looking for the equivalent to MyAnimeList's user-made lists

past script lock, but

"kill them with kindness" wrong. bat attack 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

she doesn't even know what a merge conflict is

she doesn't even know what a merge conflict is

Welp, Im a casualty from last weeks Stockholm Gamedev Bloodbath 10+yrs makin stuff, "an unstoppable creative force" & "patient, clear, & deft at design" Here for creative leadership, game design, narrative, & good-trouble-making roles so reach out if you need me linkedin.com/in/acegiak & acegiak.net

Our entire catalogue for like $10, I don't know what to tell you! store.steampowered.com/bundle/6109/...

Statistically Backed Stereotypes for Each 40k Faction. Astounding. Motion for Deathwatch to be renamed to Hotwifewatch. www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/c...

75% off HARMONY until October 6th!!! 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/1966420/...

I'mma #pitchyagame watch out @pitchyagame.bsky.social ~ Streets of Fortuna is a free-roaming sandbox life simulation. Survive however you can in a late antiquity city -- be a thief, blacksmith, priest, smuggler, whatever! From the publisher of Dwarf Fortress: store.steampowered.com/app/2946850/...

Important for Windows 10 users (thank you @azushark.bsky.social 🙏)

So far my main complaints aboit Silksong's difficulty are: - The over-reliance of flying enemies in arenas. Their movement patterns are too chaotic; I don't feel skilled by defeating them, it's all a matter of RNG - Every boss would be much more fun if they had like, 25% less HP

okay. I've tried this before but maybe it'll stick. WG is a forum where you can discuss at length tv, movies, books, new releases, metatextual topics, post and discuss art, post tutorials etc, read up in threads, which will not just vanish but stick around for a bit. try it! wg.jcink.net/index.php

Feeling extremely targeted by Steam rn

I've been bedridden for the last 10 months, unable to work as I try to get a surgeon and insurance lined up for my operation to let me work again. If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Time isn't on my side here, and waiting is very expensive. ko-fi.com/fooneturing

Thinking of switching to Linux to escape Win11 but idk if I am insufferable enough to be a Linux person