Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Me, minding my own business: 😌 Husband, playing Silksong on the Steam Deck: *click click click click clickclickclicklick clickCLICKCLICK CLICK!!CLICK!!!CLICKLCKCLKCLKC!!!!!! Husband: "F**K!" Me: "You ok, babe?" Husband: *takes a deep breath, picks Steam Deck back up* *click click click click...*

Today in Game Development, it's 11am on a Thursday. #StandupOclock

Happy Silksong day to all who celebrate!! Please enjoy this slightly cursed Hornet I made in creative mode during lunch

Thanks to a standing order signed by the state health officer Thursday, anyone in Washington state can get the Covid-19 vaccine without consulting their doctor.

our PAX booth kinda ruled. so cool to see in person.

My favorite shot from PAX! It was a blast seeing everyone and demoing Starseeker for old fans and new faces alike! 🌠🌌

Thanks everyone who came by and tried out a small sliver of our game. I loved seeing all the smiles through the weekend and can’t wait to show even more in the future #paxwest #starseeker #indiegames

It begins! Come see @starseekergame.systemera.net at booth 1613 at @officialpax.bsky.social #PAXwest2025

Remember how everyone really loved the badges we printed for Astroneer at PAX 2018? Well…. we’re doing it again! Only bigger and fancier for Starseeker. Come see us! 🚀⭐️💖

Just Bellevue Things. Brought to you by the same people who also don't want the poors riding light rail through their "city" 🙄

My weekly game group gave @sunderfolk.com a try last night. And besides the 30 mins of finagling to make it work remotely (cuz who can actually get 4 people in their house regularly?) we had a great time! Muuuch less painful than Gloomhaven, but all the same satisfying beats! Count us in :)

The Foundation show is so good.

Lots of juicy details for you in the SES Community Update! 🚀 📢 Lots of details about PAX (badges are back!) 🧑‍🚀 New Community Manager! 📺 STARSEEKER Direct gameplay reveal coming in September! 🔗 blog.astroneer.space/p/pax-week-i...

Come see us at PAX!! I’ll be at the booth all weekend, don’t forget to say hi :)

Playing D&D tonight... this is how it's going for our bard: #LuckyNotLucky

AO3 mentioned on the @shiftf1podcast.bsky.social today was NOT on my bingo card for 2025! I am also stunned @dannyodwyer.bsky.social doesn't know what AO3 is... 🤣

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together. With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection. If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

nothing good ever came from someone posting a long paragraph on slack

I continue to maintain that the two hardest things to settle on in game dev are: 1. Seating 2. Credits You'd think those things would be easy, but no. And even with so many being hybrid/remote there are still plenty that work onsite. And deciding where everyone sits is a huge PITA. #gamedev

Ever since I learned how to microwave corn on the cob from TikTok, I’ve been upset about how much time I wasted in my life boiling water then waiting for the corn to be done.

Late in development we discovered that in Aliens: Fireteam the players sidearm would be spawned at 0,0,0. Our levels had nothing at 0,0,0 visible by a stroke of luck. We added a pivotal room to the game at the start of a level. And guess where 0,0,0 was and by extension a floating sidearm? 1/x

Nothing beats a trip to the library. Grateful to have easy access to this incredible resource. Thank you, Seattle Public Library!

if you're tired of friendslop, that's not very hopecore of you, truly in your hate era, so not teeheepilled, should be smilemaxxing, have you ever heard of yay theory, don't be a genrecel, i love to play companionlikes, it's so sugoipunk

GDC talk submissions are open and just wanted to point out to people that if you were planning to apply to talk at a summit (like indie summit, narrative summit, tools summit, etc.) that there's only one call for submissions now and it's only open for a month: gdconf.com/gdc-call-for...

Today in Game Development: A matchmaking bug turned out to be the system doing what it was intended to do and not matching two people together when one of them was blocked by the other. Solving weeks of "why can't I playtest with everyone??" bug reports as "by design."🤣

The Cat and The Hat, 2025.

Zazzle just declined printing Max's drawings of our son dressed as Final Fantasy characters because they "violated content guidelines." Which they don't. Nor do they violate Square's content guidelines on fan works. (big AI review energy, tbh) So -- any other printing options folks can recommend?

Love is waiting in line for 40 minutes to get a balloon pikachu for your 4 year old 😵😵😵

Heard y'all were waiting for us. The Elevated Update is here! 🎚️ Stacked Platforms 🖨️ Print Filters 🔋 Large Battery 🪲 Assorted bugfixes

But please keep telling me how games aren't political and shouldn't make political statements.

“At the largest rally in Seattle, over 70,000 people flooded the streets shoulder-to-shoulder, marching en masse from Capitol Hill to Seattle Center — making it one of the largest protests in the city’s history. “ SEATTLE SHOWS UP FOR DEMOCRACY! @seattletimes #NoKings #Seattle

For everyone out there today, protesting: make your voices heard, stay safe, know your rights. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

This year, System Era is pledging $10,000 total to the National Center for Transgender Equality and the Transgender Law Center. While we donate to LGBTQIA+ charities every year, we feel it's important to do so publicly this year. Be safe out there 💙🚀

Today in Game Development: "Ah shit, here we go again"

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Ok maybe an 8 day vacation with 3 location changes was too much for the 4 year old 🤣 Everyone is glad to go home tomorrow I think!

Which Carrotling are you today? This is a *very* old look at some of our concept art from way back when the Carrotlings were just taking shape!

DnD tonight. Getting ready to run the sessions so I loaded up our map in DnDBeyond. Just noticed my husband let me a note in the fog of war, so that only I can see it 😍. Gosh.

My boss (the CEO) told me at our 1:1 today that he's noticed, in a positive way, that my "give a f*cks are on vacation." Two things there: 1) I'm amazed he knows the lyrics to Espresso 2) I'm feeling really seen and appreciated 🥹

Check this out! A brand new, original horror game from one of our partners. Some truly stunning and horrifying scenes, IF you can handle it...

TIL there was a Scottish National Antarctic Expedition and it produced this image

ok but for real if you want to make a really good indie (or AA) games the number one way is "be financially comfortable via other means" blue prince guy owned a popular website generating income, toby fox was a successful musician... frankly if we had a UBI youd get SO MANY GOOD GAMES

Jira and Slack are misbehaving, which means I can go home now.

At that age now where all random backpain is explained by "hah, welcome to your 40s." RIP

We included AI clauses in all of our System Era services agreements this year!