Made a site to track NPCs & relationships in our #MythicBastionland campaign with interactive chart/node/card views + dice tool and hex map view. Player review: "Brandon, you’ve gone too far…" 😆 (if you haven't tried @bastionland.bsky.social's Mythic Bastionland, you really should) #TTRPG

Time to prep #TTRPG #mythicbastionland

Why I prioritise my #TTRPG time. “If you want to build community, you have to be willing to “waste time” with people. The irony is that this kind of time is never truly wasted. It’s where trust grows. It’s where belonging takes root. “ open.substack.com/pub/vivekmur...

Friday night, 11:30pm, BattleTabs DB decides it's had enough. Nothing keeps a solo dev honest quite like that 😅 #gamedev

This #animation from 40 years ago still looks incredible today. (Need to show this to my #MythicBastionland group this week 🎠 ) youtube.com/shorts/WqB_9...

I've been a sole dev on BattleTabs (a live service game) for the past 18 months as a non-technical producer. Ended up building a workflow centered around #ClaudeCode Sharing what I've learned. First: running Claude Code without guardrails, safely #gamedev #claude open.substack.com/pub/thebrand...

Mythic Bastionland 1st session hightlights (thread): I love how how the story quite literally unfolds at the table through the roleplaying, dice rolls, and a ton of improv. Incredble how much story can evolve from just a couple of sentences to start with. #TTRPG #mythicbastionland

Going to run Mythic Bastionland for the first time. Very exciting! #ttrpg

On-boarding was very different back then. Get your printer ready! (revisiting Heroes of Might and Magic III) #gamedev

The feeling when I work on user authentication and account sync on a cross-platform game #gamedev

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

According to the National Archives, this is the very first image of Santa Claus to appear in Japan in 1900. His name name was too foreign sounding so the author called him 三太九郎 (さんたくろう) dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1168287/...

Word-game designers worldwide celebrate the birth of the crossword puzzle today, invented on 21st Dec 1913 by one Arthur Wynne. #gamedev

I printed some D20 baubles for my D&D group last week - uploading the models to share if anyone's got a 3D printer and in need of a last minute gift for a TTRPG friend!🎄 makerworld.com/en/models/21... #dnd #d&d #ttrpg #3dprint

I keep Caves of Qud open at all times. It's the perfect 20-second break when I need to look away from the IDE—the best cure for IDE fatigue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nG-... #gamedev #cavesofqud #coq

Had a long list of things I wanted to improve in the game and couldn’t decide. Then this morning, staring at the build, a thought hit me: What does the game want? Not what players want or what devs want, but what the game itself is asking for. Feels like the answer might be hiding there #gamedev

Nothing makes you feel older quite like returning players describing the game as “nostalgic“ 😆 #gamedev

I pushed out a new season update for BattleTabs yesterday - a weight off my shoulders! I love seasonal content in live service games, but it definitely adds a certain amount of stress for devs. Glad it's shipped & the community seems to like it so far! battletabs.com/blog/2025/11... #gamedev

Closing in on 6m #gamedev

My latest deep dive into a closed game/studio examines the fall of Phoenix Labs and Dauntless, and the three lessons the team learned from the experience. I hope you get something out of the story. 80.lv/articles/les...

Nostalgia overdrive 🔥

Between reconnecting with peers, giving a talk on our journey with BattleTabs, and enjoying Kölsch, some reflections from Gamescom 2025: thebrandonwu.substack.com/p/passion-pe... #gamedev

I've been printing custom D&D miniatures for a campaign I was DMing. Pretty new to 3D printing but decided to share the models! You can find them here: makerworld.com/en/@thebrand... #3dprinting #dnd #miniature #D&D #ttrpg

Fandom drives creation #gamedev

Weapons in games peaked with fire flower #gaming #gamedev

Fans, what do I do without them ❤️ (from our discord community discord.com/channels/770...) #gamedev #fanart #battletabs

Polaroid's knocked this one out of the park #polaroid #creativeadvert

Update on my pixel art guide for beginners: Transferred all the information from Tumblr to a Google Doc, so anyone who doesn't have a Tumblr account can now read through the whole thing! I also updated quite a bit of information too. I hope it will help somebody! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The post also contains the Steam store assets if you want some reference or use as template. Awesome project! #gamedev

I’d like to make a chess game with permadeath #gamedev

To a T is what we all need right now. #gamedev

Behind the Scenes: Check out Keita Takahashi's adorable To a T storyboard sketches

Apple has its first-ever internal studio after acquiring Sneaky Sasquatch dev RAC7

"...love letter to retro adventure games " — I am here for the 2.5D transitioning to low-poly 3D. Gorgeoous ✨✨ #gamedev #indiegame #gameart

Moebius-style Rendering in Godot, from an indie game that's aimed to be a mix between Attack on Titan and Gundam. SIgn me up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F9C... #godot #madeingodot #gamedev #shader

🍞 The world can certainly use more fun like this right now 😻

'It was really wearing people down:' The funding challenges that followed 'runaway success' Another Crab's Treasure

I wasn’t joking #vr #gamedev #virtualreality

Trying to find my way back to making things — being the "business" person in a creative organisation often requires you to surpress your desire to create. I am trying to find a balance. My rant: youtu.be/kZu3Xen84lY #gamedev

And I found it @human.computer #gamedev

The creator of Papers, Please wants developers to make weirder, more personal games

Time to relive my youth #rct #applearcade #classicgaming

"There was no sober solution to that problem" is my sentence of the day #designthinking #product

That's it, I am going VR #gamedev

Now wondering if I know of a game that respects my time #gamedev

This thing rocks. I one-shoted making a Meetup clone (anyone else tired of the ads and non-stop monetisation on Meetup?!). Going from a prompt to a working web app deployed with database in a few minutes... Great stuff! 👏👏👏 - upbeat-starfish-358.convex.app #codingagent #vibecoding

FREE INDIE GAME EXPOSURE KLAXXON! I love that I get to show off indie games to the 1000s families who visit our huge Family Gaming Zone at ComicCon London & PAX East Boston. Please share for indies. Tell us about your (or other people's) game we might include! www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ZG...

CLINE can now use the active browser instance. Is it becoming the only agent I’ll ever need??!

👏👏👏 great pacing, classic gameplay, and a dash of silliness makes it a fantastic experience to enjoy with friends

Testing @augmentcode.com this afternoon, and so far it seems to be better at understanding issues and thinking through them. Still early days but I am liking it. It's UI is also much more organised and easy to understand what's going on. Pros to the team! #codingagent #agenticIDE