The Adult Analysis Anthology, the web's premiere destination for longform writing on adult games, is BACK with more planned essays than ever before, but we need your help to make it happen! Support the creation of high-quality sex-positive writing from diverse voices HERE: itch.io/s/180048/aaa...

If you're a little artist who just wants to tell a Cool Story you don't want to learn to code load-bearing shit like a save system, trust me

So the official version seems to be an half-dead, microtransactions-ridden hellscape, but - The unofficial server is going strong - This spiritual successor also exists: store.steampowered.com/app/2841320/...

This hits like an absolute truck, it *actually* uses the video form and, interestingly, the essayist's own access to looking a certain way in very clever ways. Highly recommend

And last is... me! Hi, I'm looking for work. I was the animation lead for Wanderstop. I rigged every character, set the animation style, hired and set schedules, and did a huge amount of animation and anim code, FX work, and more. Enjoy my new demo reel and then email me at [email protected]!

WHY NOBODY TOLD ME S4 LEAGUE IS BACK youtu.be/tyxOk2KUiXQ?...

You know what I'd like to see more of? Shared settings that aren't big IPs. Just an indie studio, their broke comic friends and a writer or two making media about their shared brainrot

"Isometric games don't exist" is a guide with 40 detailed charts about perspective in videogames. It teaches you everything about isometry and what all the other game perspectives & projections are and how they work. You can download it for free on my itch page cyangmou.itch.io/isometric-ga...

Another tool! Ink Explorer. Visualises the shape of an Ink story and lets you play through from any point, watching variables (and tweaking them), keeping track of visit counts, and letting you snapshot and restore the state. Early days - hope it's useful to someone! medium.com/@wildwinter/...

i often think about this review

Please share this post with your favourite cosy, wholesome, (darkly-cozy, unwholesome) creators who might want to come to an event in the South East of England! Surely there are many!

They should make a Silent Hill set in North Italy next Silent Hill P(adania)

I often joke about me never reading a book published past the eighties, but this thread really hits the nail on the head on WHY I find most mainstream contemporary literature insufferable

This what a Game Narrative Kaleidoscope looks like 👀

I hate Valentine's Day it's a stupid made-up holiday EXCEPTing when it gives me an excuse to post Garashir www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR1z...

Last year, I had the dark and haunted pleasure of making the soundtrack for Occlude by @tributarygames.bsky.social. If you would like to use it to soundtrack your next occult ritual, you can now listen to it via this bandcamp link: vortiganking.bandcamp.com/album/occlud... Use it responsibly.

RPG Maker Fest 26 has begun! 🏰🎮 Final Profit is participating and is on sale for the event. Fest page: store.steampowered.com/sale/rpgmake... Final Profit: store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...

I IMMEDIATELY guessed it was an rpg maker 2000 game because I recognised the default font. I am cursed by an incredibly useless superpower

Game Dev Story is free on mobile iOS apple.co/4tKyRTY Android buff.ly/9ZKHSu3

Love Windows 11 rebooting for an update during the night and losing a bunch of unsaved opened documents. Definitely the behaviour I want from my trusty OS

I am absolutely not kidding

genuinely haunted by stickybear on the cd-i. this bear is so fucking ugly but he lives in heaven. everything is animated on 1s and this world knows no pain or suffering. i feel like i've seen something i shouldn't have.

bring them back de-extinction them

the god of fear and hunger acknowledges your suffering

I'm still looking for full-time or contract work – I'm a narrative design generalist with credits on multiple shipped titles. I focus on taming the complexity of narrative systems, writing prose, and leading narrative teams. brunodias.dev/bio

i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.

everybody should check out @direkris.itch.io's You Are Jeff Bezos (direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff...), which is my favorite illustration of how obscene this amount of wealth is (and doubles as a prime example of how "games" can be more than pure entertainment)

Boktai 4

❄️ Update: The GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ will be published soon - we just sent a proof to the authors. 400 pages - 100k+ words - 118 authors - including the writers from several well-beloved games and major franchises. If you want to be notified when it releases, you can add your name below!

remember back when we all doodled the current thing for warmups? we could bring that back, maybe, that was fun

I’m sure someone else has put this better but: producer is a very…female-coded profession. They do the work that needs to happen but rarely attracts any glory. They have “soft skills” that auteurs and geniuses don’t. They’re often paid less. Just something to consider about why they’re devalued.

Just finished 3 micro-RPGs for this jam! These are my first attempts at tabletop games. Find them here: itch.io/c/6917091/tt...

please know when I use the ✨ emoji, I do not mean anything to do with AI. they stole my emoji from me.

Wondering what my userpic is from? Play my game Displacer Beast (and maybe drop me a tip because things are hard out here right now) direkris.itch.io/displacer

I think most game dev teams underestimate how damaging slow workflows are to the ultimate quality of their game. If it takes 5 minutes to launch the game and see your changes, I think your game is going to be MUCH worse than the alternate timeline where it took 1 minute

Hey yall. As you've seen here - unfortunately a large portion of the ivy road team was laid off today, myself included. We're all looking for work! Gonna do a quick thread about those who were laid off today and why you should hire them:

We’re hiring a QA Analyst! $90,069 CAD/year, remote 6-month contract, 4-day work weeks with flexible hours! 🫶 Apply now: www.workwithindies.com/careers/ko-o... ✨

They should have named Skate Story Glass Delusion en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_d...

Starting a new game narrative job listing thread since the old one's getting long in the tooth. Wanna get new BSky folks up to speed with my posts. #gamedev #writing #narrative Okay, 1st entry: ea.gr8people.com/jobs/185329/... Campaign Creative Lead Writer (Battlefield) - EA. Marina Del Rey, CA.

I worked with the irrepressible @jonremedios.bsky.social @tylermakesgames.bsky.social @rainysector.bsky.social @bravemule.bsky.social to write a paper on why permadeath (and other forms of loss in games) appeals, and what we lose when we try to paper over it with metaprogression. Check it out!

Since Larian's CEO cannot handle press coverage that isn't wrapped in the gentlest, softest cotton, I suggest journos stop covering anything the studio does, to not hurt anyone's feelings

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Rpgmaker.net coming back online is very significant, as a whole generation of 2000s and 2010s indie games was contextless and nearly lost without it. It's wonderful to see it back in action. Hopefully to stay!

We're launching a website. Jank is an independent PC games website funded by readers. jank.cool If you like funny, thoughtful games journalism and can't stand adverts, deals posts, affiliate links, and other nonsense - Jank is for you.

Very soon I will be ✨available for work✨ If you’re interested in who I am and what it is I do/have done then here’s a little introduction thread about myself and my work.

Hello. I built another thing. Remember Dink, my extensions to Ink to add a bit more support for dialogue? This is Dinky an editor/IDE for writing in Dink, mostly written to make my life easier. Yes, my naming conventions need work. wildwinter.medium.com/dinky-an-edi...

I read There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

Small, free act you can do to bring some good in this world: add positive reviews to ALL you Steam games, especially the small indies. You don't need to write anything smart, just "game good" is enough. Every positive steam review tips the algorithm and helps your fav artists get more sales

I am writing a TTRPG. It's gonna be cool