Hot* take: I want to see more spiritual successors rather than remakes for old games. I want to see people telling new stories and building new worlds rather than just rehashing old things. I also want old games to be easily and legally playable. * Probably not actually that hot

Close enough, welcome back Endwalker Grapes

procjam starts tomorrow! regardless of experience level, it's a nice time to make some generative art and find community around it. it's a very chill and noncompetitive week long jam.

Hey folks, I often do posts calling for indie developers to link me their games so I can signal boost them. Today I want to do something similar for all trans creatives. If you are a trans game dev, artist, writer, streamer or YouTuber, reply here with a link to your work. Only one rule: no GenAI.💜

who tf modded Allison SLARPG into Yakuza 0

it is funny whenever people get tricked into playing a JRPG and goes "holy shit, why has nobody else done this before?"

Nyx

"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it" My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever

in my mind, appeasing this kind of audience is akin to dumbing down music for the express purpose of being a frictionless backdrop in a starbucks. it's just the same content-ification ray we loudly and rightfully condemn across other artforms. video games should not be an exception

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GCN, 2002)

A big reason proc gen feels so different to AI in spite of superficial similarities is exactly this!! Proc Gen systems reflect the interests and creative preferences of the tool makers, whereas AI is catch-all sludge that reflects no specific point of view. It’s not remotely the same!

🍊🍊🍊 #b3d #art #pokemon

gaming magazines used to be so true........

Time to bring this back

Tiny astronomers. 📸 kazutoshi_ono_

oh no i'm getting back into vgc oh no

make video game

It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves. A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...

Pov: some tiny angry child wants to buy a map from you

You know, when you look at the sexy lady animals in 80s/90s cartoons that they really shoved front and center, sorta feels like not as many of us ended up as furries as you'd have thought

i am fully primed for these beeps and boops

I updated the examples from the Answer-Set Programming chapter of our Procedural Content Generation in Games textbook to current syntax, and added web demos via clingo-wasm. Check it out if such things interest you!

Personally, I think if they make it so hybrid cards are one or the other, that should also apply to the command zone. If you can run Rhys in a mono-green deck, you shouldn't be able to run Watchwolf in a Rhys deck.

This year's Roguelike Celebration steam sale is up! Check out some awesome games, and don't forget to buy tickets for the conference *this weekend*! (also @shing.bsky.social's art is so good, I'm so glad we got them to do this year's art!!) store.steampowered.com/curator/4122...

It’s truly unreal how many times GDT has said something that resonates with me, personally, on the deepest possible level.

Honestly, I respect ZA's "to get good, you'll need to memorize frame data" battle system but I still think I prefer the classic turn based combat. Still super cool to see the series experiment, and I love that the Legends side series is how they're doing it.

the US government has arrived on bluesky

Final Fantasy VIII (PS1, 1999)

People really need to get lawyers to read their attempts at legalese.

People keep saying "let's go, lesbians" but we need to also remember: let's rest, lesbians

Re: Frankenstein is an audio drama adaptation of Frankenstein from the team behind Re: Dracula and Re: Carmilla, featuring an award winning all-trans cast. It stars @senabryer.com and @dturtleva.bsky.social, and is crowdfunding now! Check it out at igg.me/at/refrank and spread the word!

Sorry you're getting one posters rant this morning: losing my mind at this post I saw looking at funny pokemon pictures where all 200 of the comments are people going "Lol...they're so bad at design" AND THEYRE ALL TALKING ABOUT A LOW LOD MODEL USED FOR AERIAL SHOTS.....AAAAAAAA

Announcement time! DUNGEON GALS will be in the October 13-20 Steam Nextfest!! Play as a cute throuple racing to save a floating city from monsters! This will be DG's *FINAL* demo! Wishlist Dungeon Gals HERE: store.steampowered.com/app/2864880/... #indiegame #nextfest

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

hey here's the "community talks about the fae again" starter kit. you're welcome

highly recommend this book even if you don't work on "procgen games". Thinking about how the player experience is assembled is valuable for ALL types of games.

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

the Unfair Flips speedrunning community has gone in a terrifying direction

greta ily what an outfit

Having the classic software dev moment of "okay, I have no idea why things started working, but they are and I'm not going to question it"

Yesterday we got news that our paper on speedrunning has been accepted, and fittingly yesterday I also earned a speedrun world record for the first time. What game? Doesn't matter. Not important. No further questions. www.speedrun.com/unfairflips

If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it! That’s just me though.

@leggystarscream.bsky.social just started SO2R, a game I love. Her: What room is this? Me: It's Allen's sex dungeon. *sees the altar* Her: IT REALLY IS A WEIRD SEX DUNGEON I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE.

What made me laugh was that I couldn't figure out if this was in the hopes of making your kid autistic or trans, cause it works either way 🤣🤣🤣

omg the talk/speaker lineup for Roguelike Celebration (@roguelike.club) 2025 looks sooo good: www.roguelike.club/event2025.html So obviously one of the most vital events in videogames right now, I really hope I can make the time to attend this year.