Tip for balancing wizards: keep buffing them til their attacks visibly illuminate your face. youtu.be/TBELTya013I .

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The Killing Stone is OUT NOW in Early Access 🃏 Occult Card Battler 👺 17th Century Occult Horror Mystery 📖 Modern and 17th Century English 🎙️ Starring @emmagregoryvoice.bsky.social & @voiceofobrien.bsky.social Can you beat the Devil at his own game? store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/

Are we doing trailers for bins now

Met a very high resolution rabbit tonight, and a very sweet drawing of a rabbit I did not meet tonight.

The Forgotten City is a game about going back to Roman times, so when it came time to choose a name, I decided it was worth becoming someone I hate in return for also ruining the game.

Accidentally summed it up.

A new website about PC games, from me, @brendyc.bsky.social and @jonhicks.com. Reader-supported, which means no ads, no guff, and lots of games blogging about delightful things to play. If you liked our work on RPS, we think you'll like @jank.cool.

My eyes are bad but I won't ruin the vibe with a flashlight.

The brains are in the grenades: How enemies think in Tactical Breach Wizards youtu.be/gEFfBXQAtYE I'm not going to GDC this year, so here's a little talk for free - on a thing I want to share before I forget how it works.

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Day 3 of being woken up by a long, low foghorn-like sound: It strikes me now that - given I live near the water and the weather has been foggy for 3 days - the explanation for this phenomenon may be closer to hand than previously realised.

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.

My post-layoff professional hiatus has come to an end and I'm looking to rebuild my contact book. If you're in need of: ✏️ Fiction! Produced entirely by my human brain and hands! 🧙‍♂️ Narrative design, worldbuilding or creative direction! 🎺 Comms, bizdev or marketing support! ...then get in touch!

Goddamn, I only just saw the Resetera thread for @breachwizards.bsky.social has the best strap I've seen in all our coverage: www.resetera.com/threads/tact... Rites in Tight Spaces.

Love this bit, when your Christmas License to Indulge has expired but your New Year's Obligation to Live Sensibly hasn't started yet. Feels like a loophole.

I'll add: if the other game is out, that's a gift. You get to play a finished version of your idea, see how it feels, how it sold, and what everyone thought of it? That's incredibly powerful information to make something that builds on it.

This season, give yourself the gift of giving us less money: 🧙‍♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 35% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... 🕵️ Gunpoint is 75% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G... 🚀 Heat Signature is 75% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...

This is absolutely batshit, and I'm so glad I was able to capture the effect on video, because I was feeling completely insane. Full story in the alt text. Anyone know what's going on here?

It was only a few months in, but our next game was feeling like it might be a long, hard, and not super fun road to make. So I started tinkering with something else, and it clicked much faster, and we like it more, so we're switching! More thoughts, and a little glimpse: youtu.be/GYJGmX5iGbw .

Apps are always asking me 'mute? block? report? don't recommend? downvote?' when the only option I want or need is "Imagine I am your grand vizier and I have yelled "ENOUGH!" without explanation."

Omw to tell the headstrong protagonist to drop it, he's out of his depth. Reckon that should do the trick.

Dug into the buildcraft of Slice & Dice - what works about it and what's weird: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Eh... .

Turning up Rain Sounds For Sleep 10 Hours so I can hear it over the rain outside.

For about another 21 hours all our games are suspiciously cheap: 🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G... 🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H... 🧙‍♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...

It’s time for this starship to take flight - Generation Exile has launched in Steam Early Access and is available right now! store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...

Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off in today's Daily Deal! The cheapest the wizards have ever allowed us to price them. To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch. store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .

I almost can't believe this but the game we've been working on for a, uh, frightening long time now is launching into Steam Early Access NEXT WEEK! November 4th, 9am PT Wishlistin' plz and thank: store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...

This is great to read. Letting players turn off permadeath in Heat Signature was sacrilege, design-wise, but trivial effort-wise - so we did it. Hearing how much it let someone truly click with the game really shows the value of letting people engage with your stuff on their own terms.

Aw, very kind! 🙏 And yeah, undo is so useful at dev time too. Check if the crazy thing you just saw was a bug or just a counter-intuitive rules interaction - and either way, study it in captivity.

Just an absolute cat pretzel. At my *funeral* I won't be this relaxed.

Looks like I'm looking for work. If anyone out there happens to have a lead or principal level design gig in Austin or remote, I'm all ears.

"OK, we've got nothing to brag about on quality or price, so what's our selling point?" ... ... "Well, if you're standing right outside..."

In this Columbo ep, he hassles a chess champ enough for the guy to lose one of his 10 simultaneous games. Fair enough, happens to the best of us when we done a bad murder. On closer inspection though, he lost in 2 moves, the literal worst moves possible in chess, and a comedy own-goal.

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Ever wake up and dice a whole bird's eye chilli into your hot chocolate? If not, I may have discovered why not.

Don't give me the One Ring cos if either of my cats reaches out to me with a paw, all logic leaves my brain and I give them whatever I'm holding. Similar guidance applies to firearms.

I started my new job last month: I'm now studio manager/producer at Suspicious Developments, the team responsible for Tactical Breach Wizards, Heat Signature and Gunpoint!

Increasingly think a lot of the things that didn't kill me made me weaker.

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Finally starting to click with The Bazaar. There was really no stopping this build once I screwed a Silencer onto my Dog.

The scamps both turned 2 today. They have no concept of why they got their favourite stinky fish treats or were allowed to play with The Forbidden Strawberry (a beloved choking hazard I have to watch them closely with) - but they had a lovely time.

Folks on the mailing list will also be getting a little something soon, so if you're not signed up yet, do so here: www.suspiciousdevelopments.com/mail/ .

Tactical Breach Wizards is a year old today! To celebrate, we're rewinding the whole last year to see if it can be done better or if it's just a bullshit level. In the meantime, we're 25% off til Monday! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .

The box opens! Our next game is The Killing Stone, and you won't have to wait overly long on this one... On that note, wishlists welcome as always, friends. store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/...

A seagull will repeat itself if you ask nicely.

Hi, I'm at WorldCon! The only thing I'm doing is a low key hangout type thing with only 6 spots - if you wanna join for that, register for it in the next hour! You can register at room 326 or here: seattlein2025.org/program-and-...

Yeah I guess you could say I live in a rough area.