I live here now.

this is ridiculously cool shit

free level design advice for creating an FPS arena that people will call the best multiplayer map ever made for generations.

oh no

I think it's good and sensible for a team to meet up once a week, but whether the regular meetings are 1/day or 1/week, they all need to be run thoughtfully and efficiently. If the meetings are not, in truth, helping people do their work better, you *have to* change it up.

Game jam story: Two security guards were looking confused so I went to check in with them. "We got reports there was a cat stuck in here somewhere?" Me: "Oh... Erm yeah, so about that... One of the games someone made requires you to meow in order to jump?" "..." "It's not a real cat at least?"

this TF2 mod I worked on like a decade ago is out today -- classic TF2 gameplay with some extra stuff to shake it up a bit, tons of QoL stuff, lots of fun. check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/3545060/...

Would you still love me if I was a WIP giant worm in a sci-fi metroidvania??? #esagame

Godot feature that just sped me up: there’s a time scale selector right there on the project preview window (spoilers for the top left corner of my next project). That was like 6 clicks and three windows in Unity

Nothing personnel, kid

May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

My 2025 talk 'Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game' is now also available in text format, for those who like to read instead of watch: rystorm.com/blog/gyms-zo... And if you haven't seen it yet, there is an all new video too, with bonus material on the history of Zoos!

unironically i think the loss of dedicated servers really messed it up. Counter Strike is a hyper competitive nightmare yes BUT in Source i had servers with regulars that were more or less chill and would kick assholes. now youre matched with dicks and punished by your rank going down if you leave

SAVE ME UT2004 SERVER BROWSER

a lot of this is culture and politics of the moment, but also: we turned every single multiplayer game into an esports-aligned hyper-competitive service game where performance is tied to paid progression tracks and then wonder why everyone in the audience is a jackass.

Chance is up on Steam now and in the board games festival. Give it a wishlist! Also check out the trailer...

I think EU should repeat the time they forced a browser selector during installation, but for operating system. First time starting a mac/windows PC in EU, there should be an easy option to install Linux. Also, every time a Windows update breaks the bootloader, Microsoft should be fined.

There was a console released in 1998 that had hardware support for normal mapping. The Sega Dreamcast. And they were encoded in a two channel format a decade before anyone else even thought to. But encoded in the _most cursed_ way possible. Polar coordinates, azimuth and radial for red and green!

This video shows how we developed games for the NES at Software Creations. PC-ED was our in-house IDE that we used to edit/build/deploy/debug our game code on a PC. This demonstration shows me loading up the 6502 source code for NES Wolverine - May 1991. Object code deployed to NES target dev kit.

Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.

this is wonderful bsky.app/profile/rick...

🎙️ Looking for Scottish Gaelic voice actors for paid work on a small indie horror game set in the Highlands. 1 female role (~12 lines) 2 male roles (~5 & ~50 lines) Remote recording OK. DMs open or share if you know someone! Tapadh leibh #gamedev #horrorgame store.steampowered.com/app/4224960/...

solidarity or fuck off. don't let the fake idea of nations divide our global struggle against fascism and colonialism

putting together a particle system...... its already cute....

hey what the fuck so my sleep window that always slides forward is just normal?

Once again reminding people who play Deus Ex for the first time to play the training missions so they don't hard bounce on the first level of the game. Liberty Island is not the tutorial mission, the Training is the tutorial mission.

Material Maker 1.5 (the open source procedural material authoring tool) is now available on itchio. It has loads of UI updates and a few new nodes that were contributed by williamchange, and a few bugs fixes. rodzilla.itch.io/material-mak...

Reworking some early levels to better tutorialize rolling/building up speed... hopefully the giant waterwheel isn't too subtle 😵‍💫💫 #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #gamedev #indiegame

it’s timemaster! they’re going to be in-game UI

if you play Balatro on Linux, I would love for you to test out this tool I made github.com/lynn/cav 🍌

Officially announcing my next game, and it's about: ...driving a 4x4 in a Furniture Store 🤣 (physics-based precision driving in a mini open world mega furniture store) Please help spread the word and ☆WISHLIST ON STEAM☆ s.team/a/4135570

this is genuinely incredible

rat patrol

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Where is everyone? #indiegamedev #lowpoly #c64 #badpixels

Hey every other company ever, check out how easy this was blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...

PMG have just released their excellent video covering the situation at Rockstar. Thanks to @chrisbratt.bsky.social for this great and important piece of journalism. You can check it out here: youtu.be/dnuipPQDd_w?...

We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...

We are not backing down. Our response to @rockstargames.com's latest statement.

alex kidd: high-tech world, screenshot, sega master system (1987) www.mobygames.com/game/8366/al...

Honestly, a cool part of this process has been creating my own versions of stock unity assets, but with features I actually want.. the audio manager for the next thing is hand made on top of godot’s cool audio tools, for example. Godot also just comes nicely stocked

my only sappy thing to say about GDQ is that the last however many years have tried their best to convince the world that ppl like me should not exist and sometimes you wonder if we really are on a downfall but GDQ comes around saying trans rights all day all week raising millions and millions

GDQ was so good, such an incredibly nice thing to just have on all week. Always sad when it ends - but I've got a bunch of runs I'm looking forward to catching up on

Skin Deep is nominated for the IGF EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN award! I'm so proud of what we made. Skin Deep's designers: - Suzanne Will @binarypartitioned.space - Tynan Wales - Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social Skin Deep credits: blendogames.com/skindeep/cre... IGF noms: tinyurl.com/2zzt8sw4

There's some tasty graffiti artists at work on those store shutters... (By which I mean, @mattjohnss.bsky.social who designed nearly all of them ❤️) (AND @balazsronyai.bsky.social created a lovely bunch of vehicles and characters to pass by) (AAAAND @ginaloughlin.com made another killer song)

Just received my Kickstarter copy of Thieves of the Tome. It's a TTRPG where you read sentences from books in your house and use them to cast spells in the game.

I should follow this up with another facet since it's related to games. Unity's ad system (+ its 2022 acquisition Iron Source) can & will report your rough location (~zipcode granularity) if you allow a game to "communicate w/ devices on local network." Breakdown: timsh.org/tracking-mys...