One time I spent five minutes at lunch drawing a reverse centaur and it became one of my most retweeted pieces of art. I resented that so I deleted it but now it can be free again because not enough people follow me on here for it to go big

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

if you found my thread about Assault Android Cactus trailers from the other day kind of interesting, the game itself is 75% off on Steam right now! store.steampowered.com/app/250110/A... (alternatively, check your Steam library to see if you accidentally bought it in a bundle years ago)

All Witch Beam games are part of the Steam Autumn Sale! store.steampowered.com/developer/wi... #indiegame #indiegames

Animation test for "The Black Knight", an aborted animated feature film project by Genndy Tartakovsky (2019). The story of a 20 feet high Knight Armor controlled by a knight inside using ropes, pulleys, and levers. The setting is around the 14th century. instagram.com/p/DPEqSjkCXyd/

TOKYO GAME SHOW 2025 - Day 2! Play TANUKI: Pon's Summer at the Critical Reflex booth in Hall 2. Get yourself a free Post Officer Hat! 🏣 🤠 Come say hello to Pon!

Finally got the X-ray post process material working so you can see the gator when submerged! Also roughed in a jump that I'm not sure if I want, but it could be a fun mechanic to play with in the design. #Gator #GameDev

After over 2 years cooking in Steam Early Access, Mars First Logistics 1.0 is finally here! Engineer your little rover and deliver lots of silly stuff!

something I think is interesting about @witchbeam.com.au is we've always made our own trailers for Assault Android Cactus we cut 8 different trailers (!!!) which is way too many so I thought I'd do a thread celebrating our hubris! 🧵 #indiegame #indiedev

please visit the link Jeff posted - even if you don't have time to listen to AAC's amazing soundtrack, do yourself a favour and read the track names meanwhile I don't think I get enough credit for designing a new key art just so I could create an alt version with instruments for the OST cover

Hard to believe this was released 10 years ago! open.spotify.com/album/26deon...

Assault Android Cactus came out of Early Access ten years ago!

informa : wanna come to the Game Developers Conference? me : I am a game developer who likes conferences but it's still in the US, right? informa : what if it was a festival me : ... informa : a UFO is fucking up the sign

kind of wild to think that tomorrow (September 23rd) will be the ten year anniversary of the release of Assault Android Cactus on Steam it snuck up on me because I've been very busy but also AAC had, like, 5 significant release dates?? And this isn't the first or last

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

Fenneko’s Halloween Costume

Excited for all the amazing recent Australian games! Our latest @tempopogame.com is a finalist in three categories - Excellence in Sound Design, Excellence in Music and Excellence in Accessibility!

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

You're probably aware games like Unpacking, Hollow Knight, and Cult of the Lamb are made in Australia. But did you know hundreds of other great indie games are made right here? Check out a massive range of them right now on Steam in the #ANZIndieFest thanks to @theindiebrew.com.au!

Team Cherry are very talented and have done a great thing but I really feel like Hollow Knight / Silksong offer absolutely no business case lessons for indie gamedevs, aspiring or otherwise

Not only is AI destroying the environment, but the average citizen is paying for it. 😩 I hate how individuals are criticised for wanting comfort (heating in the winter and cooling in the summer), while big corporations can waste enormous amount of energy to see numbers go up. 🤷🏻 youtu.be/YN6BEUA4jNU

I've been working on this little platormer concept. Thought I would start posting a devlog thread to track my goals.

I decided to spend my holiday time today writing at length about why I think the treating of Silksong as "the GTA6 of indie games" is nonsense auratriolo.com/blog/2025/09...

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

James Cameron's stance that VFX *artists* cost too much and have to learn to be cheaper (with ai somehow???) to save their jobs??? is ai booster nonsense and shows just how dangerous getting into bed with these scam companies can be he's shitting on his own artform and legacy to pump a bubble

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

writing an article about "I was at gamescom and the vibe was everyone wants to make games faster and then everyone secretly confided that the way to do that is with ai and they were already using ai and everyone is already using ai" isn't journalism it's propaganda

when I saw this yesterday I thought "that's a cool book" then I looked closer at the cover and spotted a pig toy in a box and was like "oh my game is included!" then I clicked through to the store page and saw my name on the list of people interviewed ... look, I'm very tired

buying into AI

Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture

hot tip: don't let genAI companies tell you what 'industry-leading model quality' and 'a significant advantage for workflows' is... because this ain't it

played an hour of this so far, if you enjoyed ElecHead this is going to scratch that same itch but in a new way if you haven't played ElecHead, well, now you have two clever puzzle platformers to play, lucky you!

"Öoo" the bomb caterpillar exploration puzzle platformer, is out now! 🎉 Dive into an adventure packed with discovery and clever puzzles, we hope you enjoy it! 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/...

genAI is morally wrong and disrespectful to the creatives in your life as long as the models are built with material stolen from unconsenting and uncompensated writers and artists there are a bunch of other reasons why it's bad - it's a rich tapestry - but that first one should be enough on its own

SPOT SOMETHING FAMILIAR??????? THAT’S RIGHT WE’RE IN THE INDIE WORLD WITH SOME VERY EXCITING NEWS!!!!!!! #IndieWorld check it out check it out: www.youtube.com/live/mTv0HmK...

‼️ New Mythmatch Trailer ‼️ Mythmatch is a Greek myth anti-capitalist merge game and we've been selected to be part of the #tinyteams2025! 🏹 Challenge the Gods 🏹 Inspire the Mortals 🏹 Rebuild Ithaca. 🐐 Avoid the Goat Poop www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMYB...

The fact that ai art and writing programs are built on stolen work really seems to be fading from the discussion even amongst artists and writers, which is a bit shit.

Game Dev Rule: Once you add a character portrait to your HUD, you are legally mandated to include Doom / Madou Monogatari style facial expressions to convey health status. #screenshotsaturday #GoblinGirlGame #monstergirl #indiedev #gamemaker #pixelart #ドット絵

I am once again requesting that if you are an indie headed to Pax Aus to exhibit at riding, please send me an email. I will be creating shorts on the games that are attending and will be giving the shorts to developers so that they can use them on their social media. They will also be appearing on

something that frustrates me about genAI discourse is how much importance is placed on if the output can fool people, as if that's an objective worth striving for the Turing test hinges on if a human can be deceived but ultimately that's all it is measuring, it's a very flawed metric

Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?

if ai agents actually ever see widespread use it's going to be an exciting new world of opportunities for black hats to trick LLM chatbots into divulging the user credentials they've been given for the task of "book child's birthday party, email invites and add to calendar"

(1/2)This got more ridiculous than I intended but here we are, a little rujinu aquarium date shenanigan inspired by @galaxyspeaking.bsky.social ‘s great aquarium date concept! I have a part 2 sketched out that’s more romantic and sappy but we’ll see if and when I get to it 🐠

We're at @bitsummit.bsky.social this weekend! If you're here, please come by and play, we also have stamps!

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