There's a conversation to be had between developers and gamers about hardware expectations. We're hoping that a light-hearted approach like this is a healthy start: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEDe... Reposting is appreciated :)

One more AA RPG studio bites the dust. It pains me so much to see Spiders go down like this, they clearly had very talented and creative people in there. Between them and Piranha Bytes, we're losing such unique offerings in the RPG genre. www.origami.ng/spiders-gree...

Nine Dots created its own daycare, Les Petits Pixels. What I had not planned, was the ludicrously high baby boom within the company that would follow. During Outward 2's development, we've had THIRTEEN babies, with TWO MORE ON THE WAY. On average, they take 10 weeks of paternity leave.

This is the right way to go. A store that sells shit stains its catalog as a whole. With GenAI looming, things could get even worse if nothing is done to curate games. www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/03...

I am not surprised.

Video games shouldn't try to win the 'attention war'

We need every country to start regulating against these practices with extreme severity.

100% agree with this sentiment. Also, stop it with the armchair game devving. Playing demos doesn‘t make you an expert on anything. Indie games in particular should not be playtested to death. Let’s stop perpetuating the worst parts of industrial game development.

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

For 2026 I want to express myself less and listen more. Easier said than done, but I think that it will benefit both my personal and professional life.

3 out of 4 children I introduced to 1st person gaming prefer inverted Y axis on controllers. So I'm not THAT much of a freak!

The immortal Carl Sagan in 1995

this stupid menu does absolutely fuck all. useless.

They really nailed the parody of commercials "produced" by genAI vm.tiktok.com/ZGdmdpKRx/

🎄📆INDIEFIESTA 2025! Advent Calender Edition!📆🎄 13! Lost in Prayer from @ninedotsstudio.bsky.social ! Another less know game that came out this year! A tactical Rpg with an interesting twist : what you kill becomes playable 😮. Recommend for tactical rpg fans🙌 #indiegame #indiedev #gaming

Outward 2 zeigt großes Potenzial – aber die Alpha ist noch hart. Erste Eindrücke und klare Worte im Preview. 🔥 #Outward2 #RPG #Preview

"What I liked about diving into Outward 2 was how it immediately felt more like a proper RPG experience." https://www.cgmagonline.com/articles/previews/hands-on-with-outward-2/ #Outward #Outward#Outward2 #RPG

@aransuddi.bsky.social spent some time with @ninedotsstudio.bsky.social playing Outward 2 and talking about how this sequel expands on the original. Simply, it's the Outward experience a lot of you enjoyed. www.thesixthaxis.com/2025/12/02/o... #gaming #videogames #gamenews

Aurai shines like new, but remains the same in the developing sequel Outward 2. Read our preview to learn more!

this is mesmerizing

This is...sort of brilliant.

Thought I'd check in on chatgpt and see if it had gotten any better at game history research. It hallucinated an unreleased "Wizards and Warriors IV" project for NES and when I asked what the source was it made up a tweet by...me.

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

This cracked me up (by Justin Charity at The Ringer) www.theringer.com/2025/10/15/v...

healthy self criticism is perhaps the most important skill to develop as an adult. being able to recognize your own strengths & weaknesses and accepting them humbly. it's amazing how little other people's opinions matter once you've decided to critique yourself openly and honestly.

Outward 2 launches in summer 2026 Outward 2 will launch for PC via Steam in summer 2026, developer Nine Dots Studio announced.

The risk of traveling to the US used to be a delayed flight or lost luggage. Now the risk is to be detained and possibly tortured for weeks. I am a father of 2, I can't make that bet.

you: what are we having for dinner game designer: great question. i wrote some pillars to help us align on a good outcome here. you, reading: wait, this pillar is just "food must be edible," that seems pretty vague game designer: ah, that's where the secondary pillars about Edibility come into play

Nine Dots survived 2 flops and had been in a precarious situation for 8 years before we launched Outward. Being used to how harsh the market was, I thought that if we sell 250,000 units, then I'll consider this a major success. This is nuts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JY_...

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you. They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

We subvert tropes. We tackle complex themes. We don't design by committee. We certainly don't let ChatGPT write for us. Will you color the voice of Nine Dots with your own? The job market is rough these days for game devs, please share! ninedotsstudio.com/blog/narrati...

Signed! It isn't even mentioned in the petition but typically when conservative groups attack pornography, the goal is to extend any representation of anything queer as pornographic as the next step. It's something legitimately worrying even beyond how it affects people in the porn business.

It's my absolute pleasure to present to you our labor of love: Poly Fighter! We are HeartLoop Games! ♥

Capcom has arguably the best performance out of any video game company in the world. That's not a position from which you're supposed to complain, especially while the industry as a whole is collapsing.

You become more of your best self when someone close to you believes in that version of you.

Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

The way Paradox is handling Bloodlines 2 is huh... quite something. The game was selling itself based on nothing but a name. The OG Bloodlines was a budget title with a very limited scope. They just needed to respect the material they are following up on. How much did they waste on this shit, >100M?

Triangle Strategy now available for PS5, Xbox Series Publisher Square Enix and developer Artdink Corporation have released turn-based strategy RPG Triangle Strategy for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series for a limited time launch price of $41.99, the companies announced. After September 4, the price…

Yup. If someone couldn't be assed to write/draw it, why should I be assed to read/look at it? I partake in art because I wanna see the kinds of stories that give me a glimpse into someone's inner world, so I can expand my own!

Lost in Prayer launches in Early Access! Everything that kills you becomes a playable character. And you can die to a LOT of things. We got our foundations, but now we need players to guide us so we can build something wacky and filled with emergent stories. store.steampowered.com/app/2849500/...

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

How do we help the gaming industry fragment into more pieces and survive the process? The consolidation is a curse for both consumers and the creators. So how do we cancel technofeudalism? How do we make the audience more curious when they are bombarded with bad practices and bad products?

Windows has become the Idiocracy meme where a guy watches TV but there's ads around the video. Paint has sign-in and ai. Notepad has sign-in and ai. Start menu is just a big ad space. It auto-installs sponsored apps like Linkedin This system costs $199. You paid for it, even if it came with the PC

Amazing video by DuckDuckToby that dissects the similarities in the design of Outward and Lost in Prayer. Given that Nine Dots is very deliberately trying to hit the same design pillars across various genres, a video like that makes my day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXAC...

If you missed my interview with @ninedotsstudio.bsky.social to go with Turn-based Thursday Fest, it's now up as we talked about the industry and their upcoming roguelike Lost in Prayer youtu.be/M_ycICURz94 #indiegamedev