Lord grant me the confidence of a student who will argue the nuts and bolts of how games companies work with someone who's been in it for quarter of a century.

Good news for people at the TIGA awards tomorrow night: my kilt still fits! Bad news for people at the TIGA awards tomorrow night: see above

There should be a law fully banning dream sequence levels in games.

lol Bafta for some reason promoting an interview I did over 10 years ago where I talk about how great Twitter is for chatting to devs. Anyone who doesn't check the date on that is going to think I'm full of shit.

thinking about potato house this halloween

Streamers, we're celebrating our legacy games. Form is below. You got your choice of award-winning platformer, prescient stealth game, prescient visual novels, cyberpunk solitaire and... um, ominous math-based survival board game??? You got choices, details below 👇 🟥🤫🚆☣️🃏🪐

over 30 seconds in to the trailer before it lets me know what sort of game it is. Mad.

At the moment I'm reading The 7 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and reading the description of Blake Manor it sounds weirdly similar (even down to the victim being called Evelyn).

Oh no, Eurogamer :(

Ok my cozy game bugbear (no you didn't ask, but I saw some people talking about this subject) is how many are just capitalism sims wrapped up in cute graphics. Turn up to an area of natural beauty and exploit & strip mine that fucker to earn yourself coin.

It’s not on the front page any more, but the deal’s still on if you want to grab a copy

About five hours left to snag a deal!

🔴 STRIM LIVE 🔴 Time to mooooooooooove on up the leader board in GO KART ISLAND! #gifted twitch.tv/captnhurricane

I will never not highly recommend this game :)

Into the Restless Ruins is a daily deal on Steam! Get your fix of Scottish deckbuilding, dungeon making vibes store.steampowered.com/app/2877770/...

I would like to know what, canonically, has happened in some of these Powerwash Simulator 2 places

I regret to report that 2026 will still be fucked. Absolutely zero change from the past few years. Be safe out there. Do what you need to. Just survive.

Reminder the amazing #book I wrote a #Game for is launching tomorrow in #Edinburgh, curated by the amazing @jedapearl.bsky.social details below, come along if you can, I'll be playing a wee bit of the game tomorrow during the event, details and ticket info below

Just had the absolute nicest DM from someone. Maybe social media isn't all bad after all.

Into the Restless Ruins is coming to PS5 physical next month. You can pick it up from Amazon and a bunch of other places. Get involved!

Introducing our upcoming DLC: FRIGHTS IN TIGHT SPACES 👹 Lurking in a sinister manor house, an ancient evil thirsts for a sacrifice. Horrors and otherworldly threats stand between you and your objective. 🎃👻Coming to Steam next Week 👻🎃

🚢🚢🚢 GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!! 🚢🚢🚢 Introducing ☀️CRUISE CONTROL☀️, our take on the management tycoon genre - Deck out your cruise liner fleet - Entertain and relax your guests with various facilities - Hire staff, and keep building to meet the demand WISHLIST NOW: store.steampowered.com/app/3973220/...

I'm looking to cast a new #VoiceActor for AETHUS! This is a freelance, paid position! Male, 60+ voice-age, UK/EU-based. Native Scottish accent preferred. Email: hello(at)pawsmonaut(.)games with your reel! Please share and spread far and wide! #GameDev #VoiceActing #CastingCall #IndieDev #GamesJobs

All of Amazon's money and it's seemingly impossible to change a kids' Prime video account to a teen Prime video account.

All the money people pay Slack and they've never managed to get playing videos in a thread to work properly. When I click "play" on a video, start that video from the beginning, it's not hard!

Check this demo. You won't regret it, it's proper good.

I made a Discord bot that alerts you in real-time when Twitch streamers start playing your indie game. ...and it's 10% off for Steam Next Fest!! (Code: NEXTFEST10) 🤖👉 impress.games/coverage-bot

UK Game devs - there's an open letter going to DCMS about a new Games Growth Relief. Get involved! ukie.org.uk/news/press-s...

🚨Deadline for submissions is 8pm tonight!!!!🚨 forms.gle/exeduC4yCtWY... Enabled by @silverliningint.bsky.social 🥳

GOOD NEWS, I was on One Life Left this week, and now you can listen to it. I blabbed some more about Earth Must Die.

Applications close in a week. If you were thinking about it, get yours fired in asap

Hey investigators! Just a reminder that "The Horror At Highrook" is currently 30% off during Steams Autumn Sale (The biggest discount so far!) Why not pop over and treat yourself! 👻🌛🐈‍⬛ store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/...

Hello! I wrote this op-ed because I've fielded some awkward requests from devs and PR (who shall remain anonymous) this year and I think it's indicative of a wider issue in the game industry that stems from some folks not fully understanding the role of reporters. THOUGHTS on Game Dev Dot Com:

Best Switch go-karting game since Mario Kart 8 and I'm not even lying.

📣 BIG ANNOUNCE 📣 Ma go kart game is coming to Switch on 9 January 2026! 🙌 Literal childhood dream stuff making a kart game on a Nintendo console! Big ups to @ant-workshop.com for handling the publishing, always liked those guys. HYPED 🥳 #indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

Lego Gameboy set is really nice. A very satisfying and clever build with a surprising amount of detail for the size of the thing. And best of all, only 2 stickers (for the cartridge labels) with everything else being printed bricks. Lovely.

Good morning from Unity, I guess. If you’ve released a Windows/Linux/macOS game in Unity recently, might be worth patching unity.com/security/sep...

✨NEW CONTENT UPDATE!✨ Sure you love the Go Kart Island demo, but have you ever wished you could play as a Zebra and race around a hotel? Well now you can! 🦓 🏨 ✅ Patch notes for 0.3.0 linked below! 📝 tinyurl.com/4wymfnrk 🎮 s.team/a/3749790 #indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

Absolutely cool I'm getting spoilers for Peacemaker S2, a TV show I want to watch, through news about Fortnite, a video game I have no interest in.

EARTH MUST DIE 🌍💀 Very proud of how this turned out - looks and sounds beautiful, great cast doing sterling work, and imho it's funny and clever too! Please WISHLIST and SHARE! store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/... youtu.be/RtgXzAiGw-I...

“The controls in RDR2 are deliberately clunky and unwieldy to make playing it a slog like being an actual cowboy” is a real big brain take.

I posted this at the weekend and it got _nothing_. Maybe that guy was right and Bluesky is a dead platform after all.

I'd really like a windows development laptop where the fan doesn't go mental the whole time (unlike when Unity's running on my Razor one). Does such a thing exist?

EARTH MUST DIE Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE Please RETWEET and WISHLIST

This is TODAY! Tune in! Tune in and wear your special double-reinforced trousers in case of EXCITEMENT OVERLOAD

Really enjoyed watching this Rugby World Cup - and a win for England is the icing on the cake. Well done Red Roses!

scottish gamedevs have a looky! 👀

🎵Another dimension, new galaxy…🎵

WHAT? Like a team up? No More Robots and Size Five Games teaming up together, like in that episode of He-Man where Skeletor and He-Man had to work together? Oh, alright then. SEE YOU SUNDAY.

Fights in Tight Spaces: K9 Division is out now!💥🐶 Equip Agent Eleven with your new K-9 companion, introducing a brand-new set of cards, events, and enemies. Expanding the replayability of the core game. 🎮➡️ s.team/a/3625850