Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

Maybe all those CEOs saying that AI is an answer to bloated team sizes and ballooning budgets should take a look at No Man's Sky and try to replicate whatever they're doing. Cause I don't particularly like what it has become but that small team has no issue pumping out insane amounts of work.

The Italian in me agrees. My Swedish side will defend oatmeal to death.

Just saying: I haven't seen cyclists and pedestrians destroy shit.

A clear explanation of a very strong feature of Godot. Much more understandable than "any node can be a scene and a scene is just a node", which is how I describe it usually

The game that got linkedin marketing experts talking (about how you should not market a game) is now on sale! store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...

As Pratchett said:

As someone who finds grimdark fantasy way more cringe than Kirby, despises mouse and keyboard as input system, hates overcrowded UIs, overlong games and horror, this kind of explains why the Steam ecosystem baffles me. I wish developing for consoles was easier. howtomarketagame.com/2026/01/15/p...

I've run businesses since 2003, a large chunk of that time in games. I've worked with AAA, publishers, platforms, service providers and indies. Huge success and epic failures. No one knows what's going to work today, or in the future. Anyone claiming otherwise just hasn't been humbled ✨yet✨.

We decided to slash the price of our game to 7.99. There's something to say about perceived value and commodification of games. But reality is that the market makes the price. And, even more important IF YOU HAVEN'T BOUGHT THERE'S NOTHING UNDERGROUND DO IT NOW store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...

Disco Elysium

Twinkies are the best friend I've ever had youtu.be/v_6USrg4p4A?...

What a year, huh?

I've been working out consistently for a decade and not once I felt good while I am doing it. I exercise to feel better *after* and hopefully push back death and physical injury. There's only one physical activity that feels good while you do it and that doesn't consume much calories.

I miss those times when people used the internet as a way to share what they think in text. But also, I am not gonna start a blog, come on. However, one post a year that is a bit diary, a bit reflection on my job and a bit time capsule is something I can do. www.cinquemani.it/2026/01/01/2...

A friend just informed me that Rhea Seehorn (Pluribus) did a Magic: The Gathering tutorial video in the '90s!?

Credits don't need to be boring! As a last minute thing, we decided to do something a bit more fun with the credits of our game so it's sort of a freeform gym where you can experiment with the gadgets of the game while you desecrate our names #gamedev

See? I am not the only one saying that!

Dragon Quest enemy ass pose

Honestly, these are exactly the reactions we wanted as we made this game. There's a fine line between real rage and "creative swearing" and I feel There's Nothing Underground stays on the right side of that

Gentle reminder: if you bought There's Nothing Underground and you liked it, please leave a review! If you didn't buy it... store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...

Last days of launch discount for There's Nothing Underground! If you were planning to buy it, now is the time :) store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...

We're starting to get clips from players of There's Nothing Underground and I don't think I could be more proud. Also, I am not sorry.

This is exactly the kind of stuff I love about our game www.twitch.tv/vizesninjonk...

Most delightful fact from yesterday's release party of There's Nothing Underground: the kids who happened to be at the party (kids of someone in our same coworking space and my daughter's best friend) ended up playing for HOURS. Without even being asked. We thought it would be way too hard for kids.

Two years in the making, finally out now. There's Nothing Underground is a puzzle game that rewards creativity and your stupidest Wile E. Coyote plans. It's cheap, it's good (I promise), it's 25% discounted on launch week. Buy it now, share, subscribe etc... store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...

-1! Tomorrow we will release There's Nothing Underground, our "mosa-like", physics based roguelike where you get random tools to solve levels your own way. It's a deeply personal project for me. Despite being done in two years, it was one of the hardest I ever made. Will talk more about it.

Yikes

Less than one week from the release of There's Nothing Underground. Not a game for everyone, but *it is* a game for someone. Specifically, those who like to find their own way to solve problems. Also, banging soundtrack. store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/... #screenshotsaturday

I enjoy narrative games and I also enjoy systemic games. I like some novels for their plot and some for their prose without thinking one is childish and the other literature. Crazy, uh? But I guess I'm not an academic who made a meme game 15 years ago so what do I know.

Not the "narrative in games discourse", please. Not again. Are we gonna resurrect "are games art" next?

Game With Important Message About Human Nature: I will force you to do something bad. After you've done it I will shame you for it.

Our "mosa-like", rogue-like, open-ended-puzzles-where-you-create-your-own-solution-like, called There's Nothing Underground has a release date, Dec 12th, a new trailer and a new demo out now. Try it and let me know what you think, especially if you think it's great! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC3B...

Finished Tactical Breach Wizards yesterday and I am a bit baffled people don't talk more about it. So elegant, challenging in the most exciting way and superbly written

I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here: open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

What is Gustav thinking about? Can it be that there will be news about There's Nothing Underground (wishlistnowonsteamthankyou) very, very soon?

The developer of breakout hit Dispatch has called generative AI a creative solution for developers ‘who aren’t creative’. vgc.news/news/develop...

Our game is fully dynamic, systemic, based on emergent gameplay and open ended puzzles. Which in practice means you can make silly bridges and glue stuff. It's called There's Nothing Underground and it's coming out sooner than you think. #screenshotsaturday (though it's Sunday) #indiegames #games

The winner takes all-instant hit-meme-flywheel mentality that has completely overtaken the games industry and even #indiedev is poison. It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.

“0% woke shit” a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time

Awful. old.reddit.com/r/GamingLeak...

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

You know what's funny? You never hear a AAA company say "we will innovate by scoping projects in smart ways, with small, lean teams, with minimal churn in order to build institutional knowledge". Nope, still horribly inefficient giants teams full of middle managers but with AI slop on top now.

Itagaki Tomonobu

I can do better: "Pivot: extraction shooter"

Hot take. Maybe Ireland could instead... I don't know... stop being a tax haven? That would do more good than giving UBI to 2000 artists.

Same day Avalanche, Funcom and Starbreeze announced layoffs. The Stockholm game dev industry is being gutted.

This machine fights fascists.

Death Stranding 2 (2025) - Written by Hideo Kojima, Directed by Hideo Kojima, Game Designed by Hideo Kojima

An extremely important petition. #FreePoinpy www.change.org/p/free-poinpy