ATTN PORN GAME ENTHUSIASTS AND WORD PERVERTS: Pitches for the 4th issue of the Adult Analysis Anthology, the web's premiere destination for high-quality long-form writing about adult games & adult game culture, are OPEN! Anthology & pitch info through link! www.bpgamesinc.com/adult-analys...

Hey, if you’re in the game industry and have a literature degree, would you please comment? We got a family friend over here who insists my having a career in games while holding a literature degree is a one-off aberration and per usual, I’m not letting it go.

Happy Xmas! My present to you is to remind you (as I was just reminded!!) that this year Hiroshi Iuchi (Radiant Silvergun, Ikaruga, Sin & Punishment) released a new rail shooter developed with M2 - NIGHT STRIKERS GEAR (PC and Switch)

shout-out to the hospital guest wifi network, which blocks Github, Stack Overflow, and Reddit

🎄 moon and sun; wisdom and will. holiday cheer on your Ut yara Ux 🍄 if you want to give your favorite game a gift this season, think about leaving us a Steam review! We're 23 away from 10,000 LIVE AND DRINK

democracy game give each player 1d100 dollars. at beginning of turn each player pays $10 into a pot or dies. players may transfer money. at end of turn a system redistributes the pot to players. players may cast votes / submit more money to alter the system's rules. nobody understands the system.

Wife got me the Caves of Qud shirt for Christmas. Like it so much I'm thinking of buying myself a second one.

If @raiganburns.bsky.social is not on the Cinco Paus episode I will boycott

Santa Paus has returned! What a great way to get ready for @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social "All Systems Brough" year-long video game book club (it's already started btw!) Do take Raigan up on this. 😄

In my journaling game Be With Me you use paint swatches you get from the hardware store as people that you write about dating. What are some other things that aren't people but inspire full human persons to you?

Managed to play (and enjoy) 16 different RPGs this year. Thanks to my various groups who are willing to try just about anything! Y'all rock.

Some procedural shapes I made in Unity and Desmos while writing my book "Shaders & Procedural Shapes." Should I add more? The link in case you're interested ✨ jettelly.com/store/visual... #indiedev #gamedev #unity3d

FINALLY can get back to game deving!! It's a Christmas miracle!! #indiedev #gamedev

Got a request to share the source code of my Atari 2600 game Wizards & Dinosaurs; it's now included! (MIT license) kenney.itch.io/wizards-and-...

I can't reply or quote another post made by a well-known journalist about Gen AI usage, but it was probably the dumbest question you can ask Bluesky indies

As the backlash to generative AI in video games continues to pick up steam heading into 2026, it'll be fascinating to see what is considered "made with generative AI." Can a dev team say they're not using AI if they're writing design docs with Copilot or using chatGPT to make schedules and budgets?

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

Vince Zampella, the video game developer who created the ‘Call of Duty' franchise, killed in car crash

Related: If you like anime, whether you realize it or not, you've probably marveled at an "Itano Circus;" an action scene featuring aerial combat, with loads of skittering projectiles chasing a target. This was developed by Ichirō Itano. Watch a compilation here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x8q...

Yeah, no, it’s confusing 🫤 Afaik, it’s hitboxes for dealing damage, hurtboxes for receiving damage. Maybe we start calling them damage outboxes and damage inboxes.

The Escapist accused Blue Prince developer Dogubomb of using generative AI. This is patently false and an utterly gross accusation. The story has since been amended, but the damage has been done. You can search out the current version if you want, but here’s the original. archive.ph/CKiOB

The idea that all human knowledge is on the internet is ridiculous. Not everything is written down. The internet of today is missing a ton of historical knowledge that existed in the internet of the past even, and is just lost now

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

We are pleased to announce that I3D 2026 will be hosted at Lucasfilm in May 2026. Conference Dates and Location: Lucasfilm - 1110 Gorgas Ave, San Francisco, California 94129, USA 13 (Wednesday) to 15 (Friday) of May, 2026 For more details: Conference Homepage: i3dsymposium.org/2026/

Solo But Not Alone donation call is closing tomorrow! Every year, we sell a big ole bundle of singleplayer-capable TTRPGs to benefit mental health charity @takethis.org, because as everyone knows this is a rough time of year for mental health. You can help! forms.gle/gbjpRFiAUTYR...

Generative AI entering mainstream discussion has been doing immense psychic damage to me 😅

has somebody tried making a video game yet that has a gun in it, like the player could use it to shoot at guys, haha no no please calm down not real guys but like just little digital images of guys, could be big imo if done well 🤔

I can't directly reply to a thread I just shared about the early indie games scene and who the most influential individual was. One person missing, who was very influential for TIGSource, is Kenta Cho @abagames.bsky.social

I think it's foolish to give that label to anyone but "Father of Indie Gaming" has to be Edmund McMillen right????

This is me. Like yesterday, I was digging through cords and tried to repurpose and Xbox 360 power cable for a projector

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

you already know what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weird games, as big name titles don't need the help. so, onwards!

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

📣 GDC 2026 📣 @fortebass.bsky.social and I are doing a mid-mortem(?) mid-sloth(?) review of lessons learned so far from @outersloth.com! 💲 sub insights 💲 how is the fund faring? profits?? VALUES? 💲 ...terms reveal??? gasp?? idk still writing lol yay see u there! schedule.gdconf.com/session/game...

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

We are still recruiting game makers who had games posted to Steam or itch.io in July 2025 for a survey on the impacts of NSFW policy changes. More info on the project website. You can also always email me (via the website or through the email on the USask website) for info or with questions.

Announcing the nominees for the 2025 Thinky Awards! 🎉

This is entertaining, but I wonder if in retrospect Stranger Things should have came up with an in world reason why they're actually playing 5E to quiet the few people who know or care 🤣

The winter FUNraiser continues at 12pm Pacific: We're dumping a new set of mystery ROMs, live on stream! And we need your help to assemble the data! Based on the labels on these ROMs, there *will* be at least one new unpreserved game in here.

The Outfoxies 1 on 1 arcade assassin platform fighting before Smash Bros, where the stages are just as much the star as the characters. what you see in this video is a FRACTION of the size of the tower stage. total blast to play, the final stage is one of the best capoffs to an arcade game ever

i dont know why people care so much about the definition of fighting words when you can just say shit like "i think cake tastes good" and then like 87 people will descend upon you from the heavens and be like "how DARE you" and they'll each have reasons for why you're wrong

the payoff to this brilliant and deep post is pretty cool - an entire graphics api in one page.

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

I'm seeing some discussions about Japanese doujin（同人）compared to western indie. As the owner of a proper doujin circle myself (albeit a low-activity one), I'd like to give some context and insight. TL;DR "doujin" isn't just "indie but Japanese". It has a rather specific and structured form. 🧵🔽

If you've had you eye on one of our thinky puzzle games a while, now's your chance. Our games are on sale for a little while longer on: 🎮 Playstation: www.draknek.org/playstation 🎮 Steam: store.steampowered.com/publisher/dr... 🎮 Nintendo Switch: www.draknek.org/switch

Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.

reasons: 1. "indie" means different things to different people and is often primarily in use as a marketing term 2. there many types of "publisher" and publisher-indie relationship 3. team size and money are fluid concepts that can change radically for a single studio/game in surprisingly short time