This is gonna be a good one

in our game you parkour up mountains with your friends: you might think we have metrics. but we never graybox. it's just more fun to download models and prototype in real places, like blood gulch. #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

Doing a bit of a hard reset and just muting everyone for a bit. I love you all but I have a bad habit of opening this app multiple times a day and ending up like 🥴

I'm a fan of game designers leaning into their personal taste. One way to do that is to write a Taste Manifesto. I wrote about mine here, and why you should write yours! open.substack.com/pub/ezraszan...

paradise-collab.itch.io/paradise-dig... new paradise zine! I contributed some travel writing and painting from my China trip. Not very game design related but oh well! Enjoy!

Im so excited for this 💖

check out my cool talk at @technicallygames.bsky.social about the making of BLUEJEWELED www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPqU...

The Polaris List is out! Top 100 most personally influential games as listed by senior game designers. Fascinating trove that is at the root of most modern game designs. What inspires us and why? Spoiler: It ain't all Call of Duty polarisgamedesign.com/the-polaris-...

If you're looking for new games for the #SteamWinterSale, all of my games are currently 67% off so now's a great time to pick them up! (links below)

Don't put off making what you want to make because you're "not ready yet" Not knowing how to do something and then doing it anyway is how we learn It's how we surprise ourselves. It's how we discover what no-one would have encountered by doing it "the right way"

Every time a discourse makes its way into my feed I realize how uneducated I am in games

The Center for Digital Play (digitalplay.itu.dk) has a YouTube channel, and we've just published a ton of content! Seth Giddings (@sethgiddings.bsky.social) on Postdigital Playthings: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAjE...

💼 I’m looking for work as a board game designer. 🌎 I’m open to in-person, hybrid or remote work. ⭐ I’ve previously worked at the Uzzle and made Abandon All Artichokes, Starry Night Sky, and other board games.

I was hoping to have this update for 2PPPP4P out by the end of the year, but with a new job starting up and all of the good stuff that goes on around Christmas, it's just not happening yet. But here's a little clip from the trailer. Can you tell I've been on a huge American Football kick lately?

IT'S A WRAP! ✨ @chadtoprak.bsky.social & I have de-installed Traces of Play at Footscray Community Arts. With over 40 game contributions, we want to thank everyone who played/contributed a game, our workshop participants, the exhibition curators, producers, artists & FCA staff. 💛 📸 Yi Li & Thuy Vy

I played this while I had the American Football LP1 Covers album playing in the background, highly recommend

Golden Retriever Gamer

Showing off some of the improved enemy behavior!

"It is what it is." - Everyone, 2025

Machine-learned AI is terrible for idea generation. The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token* Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes. Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.

boshi's fundraiser update!!! www.gofundme.com/f/boshis-pla...

Gosh - just realised it's five years since New Rules came out. It was a project I put together in the second half of 2020 to publish little essays and articles and poems about different experiences of play and games during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic newrules.website

today we're recommending one of our favorite games ever zk maps for stranger, by Marek Kapolka, you will understand why we believe that the best platforming levels are "undesigned" ones. #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

Official 2002 European Super Mario Sunshine screensaver that features Mario sliding across the screen and periodically turning into his famous "aggressive" render from that game.

I've been working on puzzle design on Order of the Sinking Star at Thekla for the past 2 and a half years, and I'm excited the game has just been announced!! It's a special game, made by a lot of talented people, and I hope everyone enjoys it when it comes out!

we haven't been very good about asking for money, but we are a space that is mostly funded by the people who run it (on top of the labor required to keep things running)! if you like what we do, it would mean a lot to us if you helped keep us afloat through a donation :)

Boshi’s, NYC nonprofit games space, is hosting an end of year fundraiser!! Your generous support is greatly appreciated. For more about how, what, when, where, and why, see the link in our bio. We love you! #game #nyc #donate #videogames #boardgames #giveback

also, get ready to set down your teacups and start your engines ~ it's almost time to start showing you what we've been prototyping lately 🚗

the WIZARD PUNKS!!! demo has just come out as part of the @frostygamesfest.com Frosty Mini Steam Event! go play it!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3332770/... #wizardpunks #frostymini #gamedev #indiedev #partygame #anzgames

BTW, Spirit Crossing is coming to Steam. The goal is to create a major Cozy MMO with a huge population of folks making friends in a safe and welcoming space. I deeply believe we can make the world a better place. If this interests you, please wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/...

well

Can confirm, its a banger

It's official! IndieCade selected me as this year's recipient of the Bernie DeKoven Big Fun Award. I was over the moon when they told me 🥲 Bernie's work is foundational to so much of the work that inspired me, so to be considered a part of what he began is the most incredible honour 🧡

The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish - Release Date Trailer A story-driven photography game... on the back of a giant flying catfish! Transform clouds into sea creatures and bring abundance back to an empty sky! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFxG... #indiegame #indiedev #indiegames #videogame

incredible viewing

If you happen to be in the El Paso area this coming May, I'll be giving a presentation on photography games, both digital and physical! 📸 sites.google.com/view/peepelp...

omg what's this!?!?!?!? new catfish trailer drops tomorrow!?!?!? 1:00 EST!?!?!?! whaaaaa!!!

This was my very first time trying to subtweet around a discourse btw, not sure how I did but I feel spicy

Something I learned in my own play studies and “childlikeness“ is the importance of humility. There’s an idea that the older and wiser you get, the more you discover how much there is to learn. In this way we ought to be teachable well into our adult years, if not for the rest of our lives.

in our game you parkour up uncharted mountains with your friends. but it began as a game where you jump idly around peach's castle grounds. i think that had to be fun first for parkour of any sort to be possible! #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

You've got to love the ambition that says "here's a wacky ENORMOUS idea - it may even change the world - let's try it" 🧡

It's always super cool to see Alistair pick apart his own playful thinking

New Games Tournament, 1973 archive.org/details/cbpf...

Some initial photos from the Traces of Play workshop last Saturday! Thanks to everyone who came along - @chadtoprak.bsky.social and I feel incredibly blessed to have shared the afternoon laughing and playing games with you all! 💛✨ 📸 Photo credits: @chadtoprak.bsky.social

hey everyone, it's looking like i will not be able to earn enough money at my job to pay my rent for the next three months. i urgently need your help raising money so that i can make it to january so i can move someplace with cheaper rent! ❤️🐈‍⬛💚 gofund.me/7d6b4d270

its back online! buy or wishlist if you ve been looking forward to it :) store.steampowered.com/app/2701800/... or on itch papercookies.itch.io/no-players-o...

hello bsky! our game was taken down due to a false DMCA which completely killed our momentum at launch. our studio is in a very precarious position right now. please share and spread the word, steam has been little help to our situation. noplayersonline.net/statement

you're about to loop this for two weeks