Just when you thought there couldn't possibly be any more balatro inspired rogue-lites... I went ahead and made another one with dice scoring mechanics. rentonl.itch.io/pip-pip-hooray #roguelite #balatro #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev

Coming in Spring 2026: Oeuf, a 3D physics platformer where U egg. Wishlist innit. store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/...

New Game: Egg terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg

raw as hell and super-well-done flicksy by @amidos2006.bsky.social (cw for slurs and institutional homophobic violence) amidos2006.itch.io/queen-boat

🎮 @amidos2006.bsky.social was interviewed by @trueavatars.bsky.social at the @qgcon.bsky.social where he was presenting his game: Queen Boat. 🎧 Read more and listen to Ahmed’s interview 👉 game.edu.mt/blog/queen-b... #GameStudies #SeriousGames #LGBTQ #IndieGames

finished! this was a good time, loved the main twist on platforming language and the masocore levels were a pleasant surprise. (note that the down key is required for a verb later on, and it didn't work on my xinput d-pad, only the analog stick. that was my only wrinkle in an otherwise rad game)

I am one of the editors for the upcoming Transaction on Games special issue :) The special issue is about "Multi-Modal Content Generation for Games." One topic that excites me the most is the orchestration between different facets of content generation. (1/5) #PCG #AI #ML #GenAI #AIandGames

My friends have just released their amazing poetry-based visual novel. Go support them and buy it if you are into cute games and poetry :) #gamedev #indiedev #poetry #poetrygames #releaseweek #retweet #screenshotsaturday

Congratulations :) That is amazing :) Next time, I am in the US, I will go to @barnesandnoble.com to see it on the shelves :)

We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games. Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.

Please we are still looking for more human data for our project :) Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :) #research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle

Please we are still looking for more human data for our project :) Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :) #research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle

Great tool by our researchers to help #AI students and researchers in comparing their algorithmic advancements (in #PCG, #LLMs #GenAI) with as little friction as possible. Full thread with links and explanation by @amidos2006.bsky.social 👇

We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games. Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.

We introduce PuzzleJAX, a benchmark for reasoning and learning. 🧩💡🦎 PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.

Next week (on September the 3rd), I will be talking about my 2024 book at the @festivaletteratura.it >> www.festivaletteratura.it/it/home My talk will be in in Italian, and tickets are still available! >> www.clappit.com/biglietteria... << If you're in Mantova next week, come and say hi :)

We’re not just about making games, we're about #research. 🔬 Our strong research focus highlighted by StudyInternational.com as one of the programmes inspiring future #gamedesigners alongside Abertay and @nyugamecenter.bsky.social 🔗 studyinternational.com/news/3-unive...

#QueenBoat is part of this amazing bundle. The bundle has a great number of games by tons of creators. Don't miss it.

'Between Puppet and Actor: Reframing Authorship in This Age of AI Agents', by Yuqian Sun and Stefano Gualeni, examines the conceptual tensions in understanding #AI agents’ role in creative processes, particularly focusing on Large Language Models. bit.ly/4fGwN8U#AI#BookSky

proudly presenting DANIEL LINSSEN'S TYPING CHALLENGE, educational software to help you type quickly under pressure managore.itch.io/daniel-linss... (web)

I made 50,000+ game assets and now they're yours, enjoy! gameassets.com

Mark your calendars! 30/06 18.30 CET, as part of DiGRA 2025 at the University of Malta, I'm thrilled to be co-chairing Games at the Crossroads - a public discussion with a great lineup of speakers! Livestreamed on Zoom, free attendance - just sign up to receive the link: forms.gle/jmwCWyLQtof5...

Become the moon is just out, it is a great autobattling deckbuilding game by my amazing friend @benal.itch.io and other amazing people :) Go buy it now, you will enjoy it a lot :)

Become the moon is out! It’s a deckbuilding autobattler and is very good. I can’t pitch it any better than that worry store.steampowered.com/app/2862890/...

I managed to save the balloons and give them a new home in my office away from the homophobic sensors for pride month. #pridemonth #pride #pride2025 #academia #pridemonth2025 #gay #lgbt #lgbtqia

#QueenBoat is accepted to @qgcon.bsky.social :) so excited to get the notification too during #pridemonth2025 :) If you didn't play, the game raises awareness that it is still hard for #LGBTQIA in a lot of countries. #visualnovel #QueerGames #IndieGames #pride #PRIDE2025 #gamedev #indiedev

#QueenBoat is accepted to @qgcon.bsky.social :) so excited to get the notification too during #pridemonth2025 :) If you didn't play, the game raises awareness that it is still hard for #LGBTQIA in a lot of countries. #visualnovel #QueerGames #IndieGames #pride #PRIDE2025 #gamedev #indiedev

Unfortunately, pride month didn't end but due to security reasons (alarm triggering becz of a balloon moving) I have to take everything down before end of month. It is actually making me very sad 😢 as I spent more than 6 hours decorating and then I have to go down during that month 😞😢😞

Since it is #PrideMonth, I want to raise awareness that it is still hard for #LGBTQIA in a lot of countries in the world. #QueenBoat is a #visualnovel that showcases this issue in #Egypt. #QueerGames #IndieGames #LGBTQIAHappyPrideMonth #GameDev #Gay #homosexual #IndieGameDev #TrailerTuesday

incredible important visual novel by @amidos2006.bsky.social 6 - based on real events you can play it now here: amidos2006.itch.io/queen-boat #LGBTQIA #gamedev #indiedev

Since it is #PrideMonth, I want to raise awareness that it is still hard for #LGBTQIA in a lot of countries in the world. #QueenBoat is a #visualnovel that showcases this issue in #Egypt. #QueerGames #IndieGames #LGBTQIAHappyPrideMonth #GameDev #Gay #homosexual #IndieGameDev #TrailerTuesday

Saturday I ran the second edition of the Upper Bound-associated AI and Games workshop with special guests Dr. Seth Cooper, @amidos2006.bsky.social, and @maxkreminski.bsky.social! Great conversations on modelling player knowledge, designer intent, and tension curves as a language for game design.

cave of cards screenshots.... working with really limited space and really specific / weird ideas def made this a challenge but i ended up really pleased with all these odd designs

#QueenBoat will be presented at @amazefest.bsky.social #OpenScreens 2025.amaze-berlin.de/openscreens/... #Flicksy2 #LGBTQIA #LGBTI #lgbtqcommunity #queergames #indiegame #indiedev #TrailerTuesday #IndieGameDev #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

I'm no longer with Polygon. If you're hiring, please consider the many talented writers and editors now on the market. Every one of them deserves a spot on your staff. I won't be talking more about the sale because I wasn't involved. Going to hang out with my kid. Taking wins where I can.

Have you tried out the Keeper Mech yet? Say hello to Iris - our first Keeper pilot! Compared to the Gunner and Stinger, the Keeper plays differently on the battlefield -- Instead of a typical Mech, the Keeper possesses the entities it can summon! #indiegame #deckbuilder

Space mama (final vs sketch), for a scifi game with @gua-le-ni.com, @amidos2006.bsky.social and Irina Tomova

If you are interested in Procedural Content Generation, there is a free online workshop with a multiple great speakers coming up soon. Go register for it. #AIinGames #PCG #ProceduralContentGeneration #roguelike #games #workshop #online #free #roguelite

If you are interested in Procedural Content Generation, there is a free online workshop with a multiple great speakers coming up soon. Go register for it. #AIinGames #PCG #ProceduralContentGeneration #roguelike #games #workshop #online #free #roguelite

hinokodo.itch.io/cardandcoin Sample was ordered a few weeks ago. Coins are being stamped now. Excited to start showing this off. If you can't wait, check out the digital edition! This page is where I'll host the 'living' edition of the rulebook. As we make more games for it, they'll get added.

Four game design books to get you started ⬇️

Here's an old technical breakdown of how I redesigned Celeste's lighting in 2017, before it came out: www.noelberry.ca/posts/celest...

In case you live in Australia and want to get your hands on my newest, weird novel, @perimeterbooks.bsky.social has some copies for you! >> www.perimeterbooks.com/products/ste... <<

Will you wishlist Replicube? “Signs point to yes” s.team/a/3401490

My GDC talk on tabletop design in UFO 50 is now online! 🙏 Thanks to @trentkusters.bsky.social & @mossmouth.bsky.social for helping with the talk & to @officialgdc.bsky.social for hosting & not paywalling it 💬 I'll try to answer any questions in this thread 🔗 gdcvault.com/play/1035154...

new game alert!! MOLE MOLE - out now ! 💣 Blow stuff up 🛌 Take a NA P 🌊 Turn around don't drown!! 🥵 25 (ish) levels of undergroun ADVENTURES 📲 Works decent ish on your phone even ! adamatomic.itch.io/mole-mole

I just found out about this periodic table of game mechanics that is fun to experiment with for brainstorming and game jams. determined-clams.static.domains/chipped #gamejam #brainstorm #gamedev #indiedev

Tequila Works is selling the rights to all of its assets on an auction site, having gone bankrupt recently. The IP rights to RiME is currently on bid for just €15,000. (Read more: Eurogamer)

I’ve been digging into the history of AAA games again, and would you believe the term actually goes all the way back to 1991? It’s true! Marketers were using AAA to distinguish between “high quality” NES games versus the “inferior” 8-bit titles out there. www.videogamecanon.com/adventurelog...