Brenda is a game industry legend, personal hero, mentor and an all-round badass. Of course I had to back this documentary! www.kickstarter.com/projects/the... @gameonthemovie.bsky.social @brendaromero.bsky.social

*taps sign again* "any news outlet neglecting video game coverage is neglecting readers" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's paint some cubes! 🎲✂️

HYPE!

Yesterday at the Load ZX museum in Cantanhede we presented the GOTY ZX Spectrum Award for best demo 2025, congratulations to AddMortem by Joker and Arise and all the other nominees!

Do you dream of revenge on billionaires? Of course you do, it’s 2026 🗡️⚖️🌍 Meet our All Will Rise team, play our 3 HOUR DEMO and back us on Kickstarter so we can make our role-playing deck-builder bigger, better and juicier ✨ www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe... youtu.be/XTevxy007-o?...

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Eh, ok. So. Mobile games have, for a long time, accepted that there's a massive audience out there who is simply not interested in playing Steam games. You get some conversion as they age into bands, but they're just very different cohorts being grouped on graphs by biz-brained types. This is that.

oh the amount of times I went "this is such a pain to explain to players and make a tutorial for, I'm just going to redesign this whole system"

I got a great question on my Ramadan thread: do Muslims also need to avoid consumption by proxy in videogames? Does consuming in-game food or drink break the fast? Basically: does your character have to go fast? The answer is no, unless you happen to be playing Sonic the Hedgehog.

#GAConf is always insightful and inspiring.

It always makes me think of this clip by @sosowski.bsky.social "making games".

Starting to think that the reason why StaryTrek chacters are obsessed with 20th century culture is that AI slop will bury all art in the next 200 years

Me whenever I have to communicate with other human beings #anxiety

Hear, hear!

Check out the new story from @ithayla.bsky.social nullsignal.games/blog/the-soa...

the way they chose to adapt this for the anime is so cool

The amount of times I sit in a call with a dreamer and their dream game is basically "everything from my favorite six games smashed together into perfect harmony and there was endless flawless content and it has graphics everyone likes" and I have to explain that making feet go on stairs is hard

That's better! I like that it implies that the deck construction has already happened. Still a bit too similar for players not in the know but that's the right direction.

Game & Watch screens when you first put the batteries in:

Fun concept, and I'm intrigued to see a Detective as a Criminal. Left me wondering what NSG has in mind for Shaper and Anarch.

And as a fan of roguelikes, don't get me started in the term "roguelike". Nowadays it's used so broadly that it doesn't describe how the game plays.

We could use clearer terms than "deckbuilding game" and "deck construction game". They sound identical to people who aren't into the hobby but they make a world of difference in terms of gameplay. 🎲✂️

Lovely UX, looks so satisfying and tactile.

It cannot be overstated how much hobby gamers underestimate how unintuitive and difficult hobby games are to non-gamers. This is perhaps even more true of professional game designers, publishers and reviewers/pundits, broadly speaking.

👾 ANNOUNCING 868-BACK! Dismantle capitalism one server at a time in this computer-hacking strategy roguelike game by Michael Brough! Play the free demo in Steam Next Fest on Feb. 23rd! Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

Associação Inércia is partnering with the LOAD ZX Museum to present a demoscene category at the upcoming GOTY 2025 awards on the 21st of February. Here are the nominees selected by our jury.

My PS4 couldn't read this DVD so I went to check it and - uh oh. This used to be silver but now I can read the title from the bottom!

hey i'm the new editor for The Games Press!! excellent show by People Make Games about video game journalism, a topic dear to me. this episode has maddy meyers and zoe hannah on the launch of Mothership, great talk with chris on the current moment in independent journalism. check it out!!!!

This! Finishing games takes different skills than starting games. It requires prioritization and making hard choices. It teaches you to let go.

If you'd like to discover more interesting Japanese vocals, check out the movie Paprika! Here's a bit of the intro that is so perfectly directed that it never fails to give me goosebumps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXCo...

Loaded up this week's Critical Distance and was immediately hit with this oof

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

So heartwarming! That game is very special to me.

was asked to draw this for a book sketch. went a little above and beyond my usual doodle

That art direction looks so good! A lot more faithful to the original manga than the previous adaptations. I wonder if the tone will be as goofy.

If you want a print and play copy of Cortiça, this may be your last chance!

We even have bird-based bugs in our game!

Announcing!!!! 🦖 DINO RACER 🦕🍌 Dino Racer is a fast-paced card game where you’ll draft cards of five wacky dinos competing in a prehistoric race to the finish. Expect this one to *saur* at Gen Con 2026!!!! 🎲✂️ boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/46...

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

Já no próximo fim de semana, o encontro mensal da demoscene em Portugal. Junta-te a nós, dia 31 a partir das 15h, para uma tarde bem passada!

me logging on

It's amazing how well this title theme conveys that you're about to explore a mysterious alien planet, without saying a single word. www.youtube.com/watch?v=42u0...

LET'S EAT SOME GHOSTS www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5R2...

Today is the 10th anniversary of this gif of me showing how to make games on TV.

It's a great time to listen to the latest A Life Well Wasted episode if you haven't already. @robertashley.bsky.social 's reporting gets at some strange, uncomfortable phenomena around the release of big games. alifewellwasted.com

I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.