I like this little sunken mezzanine off of montgomery street; cities are so vast and dense, but often unimaginative with their throw across 3d space on the street level.

hm

Now in your podcatcher: SHELVED BY GENRE continues THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, taking time to discuss our love of bathtime with the fellas, ominous hedges, and of course, the man himself, the greatest secret Peter Jackson was too cowardly to film: rangedtouch.com/2026/03/13/t...

This is the game I've been working on the last four years. It is an incredibly ambitious project made by a small team. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fax...

here's a slightly more zoomed in graph - the steamDB graph sort of hides that the 100-499 bracket has almost doubled in the past 5 years

(eyes rolling back) this is the good shit

hell yes

Huge congrats to @blueprincegame.bsky.social winning Best Design at the Game Developer’s Choice Awards. Well deserved, and couldn’t have gone to a nicer developer. 💙💙💙

A Russian WWII poster that still hits

gdc day 350

60 years in space

really useful read in the context of conversations we’re having (about Valve’s math, about what being indie looks like, etc)

andrew makes an interesting point. to sell more indie games we must simply push the species to raise dunbars number

I think game popularity is often so socially driven that I actually think the number of 500+ review games that can exist in a year is probably driven less by steam discovery and more by some really fucked up emergant vector of social diffusion of innovation news, connectivity and attention

id love to see a 1,000 year "book releases by review count" graph haha

cannot scroll the timeline for more than 5 seconds without seeing a new, unique example of a republican or technomilitarist executive bragging about how badass we are at killing indiscriminately. massacre pride at an all time high. if and when the tables turn on them, there must be repercussions.

I dont agree with the "discoverability maxxed" take from this The 500+ covers a BIG range and you could certainly increase the size of the 500+ bar by cannibalizing some 100,000 review games a little, but discovery isnt the only issue

the major implication LLMs have for consciousness is that the coherent and meaningful manipulation of human language doesn’t actually require it at all

I'm not so sure, I think language might encode a holographic surface

None of this makes sense, right?

new sistine chapel ceiling dropping

Developers of video game Caves of Qud arrested today on charges of forced intellectualization of inanimate objects. When asked for comments, the unrepentant game dev told us "Look if I have to deal with this shit, so does the toaster"

Heya @unormal.bsky.social the real ones (on YT comments) know From Geega's clip channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df0s...

where we're at: ai sucks ass! the fix? ai!!

All death animations frames from "Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion" (1991). #DOSGaming

I’m sorry, the suffering is infinite and things are genuinely fucking dire, but it is truly hilarious that the nazis ran into the middle east while screaming “logistics and diplomacy are fake and gay” and now they’re trying to ask everyone else to fix the strait of hormuz because tfw no more THAADs

So to be clear, for my starting quest you want me to recover the best version of the most advanced cybernetic enhancement *in the world* and give it to you?

caves of qud

sam altman

beyond technology as difficulty multiplayer games seem quite hard by this metric

This rings very true to me. Like I can remember Civ 2 getting played around the office A LOT. By people at the office I didn't even know and weren't on the team. Even though the marketing group at the time didn't understand why a sequel to Civ was a good idea, and didn't spend money to support it.

Her Story and IMMORTALITY are sale as part of the Curious Odyssey event on Steam organized by adventure gaming masters @revolutionsoftware.bsky.social along with a buncha other games and talks and previews -> store.steampowered.com/curator/4589...

You might think spray-a-brain is the most absurd thing in the game, but we discovered it in real life and we're spraying it on every object we can to the exclusion of all other economic activities.

In order to provide a natural language interface the door must be imbued with knowledge of mickey mouse and ability to suffer as christ suffered.

OH SNAP! YOUR GIRL DIA WROTE A THING FOR REMAP ABOUT STAR TREK AND TRYING TO KILL TOM PARIS LFG!!!!!!!

behold my handwriting I do all of my design work on paper in a composition grid notebook. Amberspire has 79 numbered pages of work

Titanium Court by @apthomson.bsky.social has won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the 2026 IGF Awards. It also won Excellence in Design, and Thomson was part of the team that won the Grand Prize in 2025 for Consume Me Other winners include Baby Steps, HORSES, and Perfect Tides: Station to Station

this art???????????

The funny thing about this is we're far enough removed from the origin that now games just do this, because people think games are supposed to have you squeeze between shit.

I haven’t been to GDC for a long time, but if you want to know my secret trick it’s this: take an afternoon off, walk to City Lights bookshop, buy several books, pick up some Chinese food nearby & take it into Vesuvio bar where Jack Kerouac used to hang out. Read. Heal. Live.

More people at GDC could probably benefit from the stories at #1ReasonToBe. Everything is on fire but there are comrades and hopeful stories everywhere.

first meeting isnt till noon im gonna sleep so much tonight lol

This afternoon I made a call to prioritize community over craft. I skipped a talk on POI design in Outer Worlds 2 and another on hybrid/remote work to attend the #1ReasonToBe panel and another on the necessity of hiring juniors. It was the right call. WE are the reason we're here.

really the only way humanity is still here all these glaciations later is that tribulations do not end us entirely, too many of us faced with the very end of ropes go fuck it we ball

me watching the gyro widen

the gyro cannot hold (too much tzatziki)