happy birthday to the # 1 cat dad and smartest, hardest worker i know @emredeniz.bsky.social ♥️♥️♥️ emre gives and gives to the games industry community at scale, educating and advocating constantly and rarely has a weekend or lunch break. It’s his 1st bday not at GDC in over a decade! 🥳

This is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike!! I will be at GDC all week!

It’s that time of the year again! This is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike 🫶 I’m Tarja from northern Finland, not at GDC or any other in-person event due to my disabilities. You can catch me online doing games industry bizdev, production, accessibility things & community nurturing. Don’t be a stranger! ✨

It's international women's day if only there was a starter back of amazing Black & Femne Developers to support ✨✨✨ go.bsky.app/88aYGTF

i start paying attention to Online again and get yet another mass layoff??!

i just realised i shadow-dropped what I was doing without ever announcing it lol, so um: ✨ PATCH NOTES: v2025.08 (delayed upload) - New class "PLATFORM DIRECTOR" added to CREATIVE PRODUCER base - Dev note: Resolved issue where "Job Announcement" failed to trigger in public servers are live xox

it’s that time! #WhatAGameDevLooksLike I’m Calliope, prev lead producer at Wētā Workshop on Tales of the Shire 🍀 👉 now full time Platform Director at GYLD, & part time advisor/cozy game expert/ marketing/strategy @dragonsnacksgames.bsky.social i’m into history, cozy, and spooky!♥️ pic: gdc2025

all the news constantly being about AI must be really annoying for people called Al as in Alfred

Ok good news

hmm, how can we monetise… i know!! the public park outside the nearby food court!!! the one where all the indies who can’t afford tix to the conference go to catchup with people!! m o t h e r f u c k e r s

I’m not at #GDC or FOG or whatever we’re calling it this year! First time missing it (outside covid) since my GDC scholarship in 2018 — i’m going to miss seeing all of yall so much — but for me, travelling to the states was not an option this time round. Look after each other! 💜 (pics: gdc 2018)

it's been 15 years since i played Skyrim (vomit) but Dragonborn remains the game theme song I'd most like to see live, in a great hall, played by a fantastic orchestra and choir you get one in your area, pls hit me up ❤️

Niceness isn’t honest or authentic. Kindness is usually both.

Nice doesn’t make waves. Nice plays well with others. Kind is ready to start some shit for someone’s benefit, and then will help pick up the pieces. Kind has intention and a goal.

i take back everything i said about recommending discord as the new safer online place for communities. wtf

i’m sorry but i am nervous for you folks going to gdc dude

this is the face of feminine rage disguised with laughter. obsessed with this response, what an icon

honestly i don’t know who to be angry at about the raw sewage joining forces with yet another crazy storm. but there is shit sand on the roads, i haven’t been able to have a single swim in summer bc of sewage or e coli, and i’m bloody sick of this govt continuing to ignore every climate emergency.

this storm is so bad that i finally duct taped the glass (first time after 7 years in wellington with these massive window panes 🫡) obviously it’s tame when im filming, but ive been watching the windows buckle for days 😅

you better believe i broke out the popcorn to watch budget, sociopathic, regina george be dragged over the coals for protecting child traffickers and pedos. Schadenfreude isn’t the best emotion, but it’s better than constant horror!! I wish Pam the nuremberg trials she deserves 😌🙏 namaste

airnz lied to us in an email about delays (partners, not mine) saying their flight have been delayed eleven hours due to 'unexpected maintenance on the wing' we can SEE THE NEWS. Your cabin crew are striking. I used to be proud of airnz lol

the cars were actin wild last night

Imagine a website with EVERY VIDEO GAME BOOK EVER PUBLISHED! 🤯 Well…that doesn’t exist yet. But this one is well on its way! Reach out if you want to chat for a podcast or article 😊 👇📚👇📚👇📚👇📚👇📚👇

it was this scene that i knew i'd absolutely love the hedge knight series, haven't stopped giggling every time i think about it i found the humour really similar to how our writer wrote comedy in tales of the shire. Little moments of unexpected, common absurdity that make you burst out laughing.😌

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

genuinely astonished that elon’s defense against accusations of sec trafficking and p**dophilia is “Nah but i COULD have done even BETTER than him and it would have been NOTHING TO ME” sir we saw the emails of you begging to attend and this behaviour is NOT beating the accusations

surprising. perhaps more a comment on which type of people have been able to attend gdc in the past and aren’t impacted by the hostility to foreigners (i’ve gone to heaps of GDCs — thanks to scholarships and work — but i’d say i’ve been uniquely fortunate)

how many years til we get to this bit

how many years til we get to this bit

Something positive: Spry Fox is spinning out of Netflix. We are independent (once again!) and preparing to launch Spirit Crossing. We wrote up a little blog post musing about this wild adventure. Worth sharing the good news. spryfox.com/a-16-year-ol...

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

I'm gutted to miss the annual community catchup -- which is particularly important for devs like me in remote locations -- but there's no amount of money that would pay me to go to the states right now. Last year I went, and registered -- any kiwis going, please register: www.safetravel.govt.nz

i was looking thru my pics to make a very belated 2025 post, but honestly this picture sums up a lot of it: struggling in airports (i did 8 long haul trips this year of 30+ hours)

i found so many four leaf clovers! it’s gonna be a good year 😌

eat ur greens

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

i’ve been doing a lot of smoking on my balcony and staring bleakly into the distance about this exact thing it’s so hard to feel excited for the future

stop putting rewinds and recaps everywhere ffs no miro, i don’t want to see my year in review. or you, linkedin. or you, duolingo. and you’re cute finch, but i don’t want to see a review there either. this is like when everything stole stories from snapchat

i would like to personally congratulate the photographer and editor of all these shots, it’s a masterpiece the specific and deliberate framing (love all the aircon!!) and the…throwbacks to certain images from the 1940s is a work of art.

i don't want an incel gaston backstory however i would definitely take a gaston-hosted mountain chalet renovation tv series

apt that merriam-webster's word of the year (slop) also incidentally describing dictionary dot com's word of the year, 67

how i felt watching larian's new trailer at TGAs

woke up this morning to texts I'd missed last night re my kid cousin who...rode his bike into bondi beach as the attack started. he had headphones on and didn't hear what was going on until people were running past him. i'm heartbroken for sydney -- and i'm also very grateful for his safety.

am now suspicious my grandad could see the future. he died late jan 2020. smart.

Gaming’s biggest night, but snuggled up at home! The Dragon Snacks founders are hosting a The Game Awards watch party in our Discord – live reactions, takes on the industry, and a peek inside a dev’s brain every time a trailer lands. Come watch with folks who think about these things all day!

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

(TW: ED) getting quite upset lately seeing several old friends who had EDs as teens very obviously flaring up 15 years later (which means it’s in the severe stage if it’s visible from pics of wrists/elbows/collarbones). I hate that we’ve gone so backwards and the beauty ideal is frailty again.

(as of right now, i can still purchase via humble link on Santa Ragione's site FYI) disappointing. we need to have places people can access weird, gory, or taboo games, just like we have places people can access weird/gory/taboo films.

getting ready to take my dad to Tool, lil sister was adamant she didn’t know them. I start playing Schism and she just sighs heavily and goes “oh. yes i remember when you were learning bass guitar.”