Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

marking my hesitant return to bsky to announce that avitium will be showcased at CIGS this year (come see it!!! i'll be there!!!) AND has a page on steam now!!! wow!!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3721560/...

Quit doomscrolling and fish that PSP or 3DS out of the closet: No Phone Summer means this is the summer of the retro handheld, Willa Rowe writes. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

OKAY HERE IT IS A BRIEF HISTORY OF LABOR IN THE USA AND WHAT IT HAS TO DO WITH THE MODERN GAMES INDUSTRY youtu.be/OmV1QTzfyRo?...

I haven't fleshed it out into a full article, but at DiGRA last year I presented this talk which was a Marxist analysis of the tendency of (indie) developers becoming publishers after a big hit. Maybe of interest to the current discourse I'm seeing around publishers www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ey014...

Just absolutely staggering. If even Brenda and John aren't safe from this brutal capitalist recklessness, nobody is. www.thejournal.ie/100-staff-la...

yes!! i just played this one by @megken.dev while catching up in my feeds after months of QGB work haha. every bubble face is my best friend now. some prolific folks in my itchio feed: celia14, jamwitch, jsmonzani, iamroarke, antoine-foucault

happy fathers day to the father that STEPPED UP kazuma kiryu

porwiigon!! ✨💾 design by @altardoll.bsky.social

Chicago ✊

This is a wildly satisfying watch.

i think the biggest fundamental Thing turn-based rpg devs can do to improve their combat is to consider turn economy. there's a lot deeper nuance you could take into this, but on the surface level, everyone who's played an older game has felt this: why use poison when the battle is over next turn?

FY2024 was the most profitable in history for the video game industry It also saw the most layoff waves, and highest known layoff headcount in recent history. Lets do the math. Who wants to guess where all the money is going?

Fuck This Bravely Makes Me Want To Default. Should I ?

I’m gonna be loud about it If you see few games being announced or games not being what you expected - you can blame the massive layoffs that have occurred in the last 2.5 years

It’s incredibly noticeable how often ‘and an army of outsourcers outside America and Western Europe’ is left out of these team sizes. That’s the part I find real uncomfortable.

The perception of cheaply made games by like 1 dude minus all the contractors that blow up hurts us because when we ask for a real budget, someone says "well I saw an article that this other game cost $60K to make and sold 1 million copies" and that ends the convo

there is something intangibly gross in how asian features are so frequently used for artificial, machine personas it's almost as if in popular imagination asian features are associated with a sort of controllable autonomous programming, but no soul.

✨🦋✨ 5.BRAVELY DEFAULT #ブレイブリーデフォルト #BDFFリマスター #bravelyweek25 @bravelycollabs.bsky.social

OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT

bravely default hd will save me from my job hunt crashout

i am a journalist

🚨HUGE News🚨 🐸BIG HOPS is a froggy platformer with deep movement, fresh tongue-gameplay, where you use powerful veggies to grow paths forward! ✨Free demo out NOW 🎮Coming to Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 in Q4 2025 💰Our publisher dropped us, so we're KICKSTARTING (links below)

ancient friends

The electrician they sent is wearing high-waisted pants.

Get in, losers

The 5 Worst Jobs in Omelas (You Won’t Believe #1)

水ポケ

If you’re not burned out on “deprofessionalization” discourse yet @pushtotalk.gg has a great chat with @brkeogh.bsky.social up that digs into more nuance. Some of that nuance is *yeah this whole deprofessionalization thing would suck a lot less if we had universal health care and basic income!!!!!*

If you liked or hated my takes on ‘deprofessionalisation’, I went into a lot more detail in this great chat with @pushtotalk.gg for his newsletter. Connected what’s going on now to what I observed in the Australian industry in the 2010s www.pushtotalk.gg/p/gamings-gr...

synth mouse

tomorrow! RSVP sold out but you can still come anyways!

rendered Gil, our main character, to look Fly as hell in celebration of completing our capstone project! play our finished game here :3c catacne.itch.io/fish-outta-w...

Couldn't be prouder of our graduating seniors, their amazing games, and that we get to throw their showcase @wonderville.nyc ! Come see! RSVP here: withfriends.co/event/232236...

happy mothers day 💐 #gamedev #indiedev

figuring out how to put a game build on steam is perhaps the scariest thing i've ever done but i did it and i'm literally so brave for it

THANK YOU AAPI IM GAMING FOR THE FEATURE!! Avitium, the FULL GAME, will be released soon on Steam so stay tuned! or play it now using the itch link from this post!

Us because Avitium is releasing on Steam soon (psst.... its on itch right now: studio-mik.itch.io/avitium)

Avitium by @mikstudio.bsky.social is a turnbased RPG and card battler. Uncover the truth behind a collapsing kingdom through trick-taking gameplay and combat! ⚔️ Play on #itchio: studio-mik.itch.io/avitium 🎮Proudly showcased at 2025 #GDC For fans of: Inscryption, Slay the Spire #aapi #avitium

once i release my current project (4 days!!) i'm going to have the most glorious reboot to my portfolio site known to man

Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social

pretty much! this result was not an endorsement of labor, it was an utter rejection of psycho politics www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Been looking at and saving the stories I'm most proud of after being laid off, just in case. I'm scared for the future but reminding myself that I did all this work, not Polygon. I hope I can keep doing it. I'd like to share some, starting big: www.polygon.com/23485977/vid...

Wow the Persona team is cookin again

House of Reps is pretty much in the bag for Labor which is great, but it's looking REALLY good in the Senate for Progressives, too! We're looking at Minority Labor Majority with Greens in Balance Of Power Again. Hopefully this means we get some decent discussion on Climate policy. #auspol

As video game journalism outlets steadily disappear, we don’t just miss out on coverage of indie games that need exposure to succeed. We also lose important industry watchdogs. Fewer reporters means less scrutiny of labor conditions and industry practices, shifting even more power to AAA publishers.

It takes an extremely big business brain to destroy your beloved gaming brands right before a hot new console launch AND the most highly anticipated video game of all time

polygon and giant bomb dead in the same week is just unfathomable