Tonight starting at 6:30pm! Come kick off the jam and hang with dev pals! We'll also have a special presentation from our friends at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospitals and extralife on their Therapeutic Gaming Program, which we'll be supporting when the jam is over at the Year End Showcase ❤️

We used to be a society

HUGE IF TRUE: Since I got laid off it's time to run a sale on my ko-fi shop! Enter code CAPITALISM to get 25% off everything - games, zines, stickers, and pins! (Tis the season to mention they make great stocking stuffers for the nerd in your life) #KofiDiscountChallenge

Going through a box of recipes I inherited from my great aunt Ruth. It's quite a ride

Get ready for our Year End Showcase! On December 8th, bring out your "Finish Your Game" Jam games or anything else you've worked on over the year for our holiday party ♥ We'll be at Urbanite again with tons of games to play and pals to meet, you can RSVP at pigsquad.com/yearendshowc... ❄

Tomorrow (Wednesday) evening! We're hanging out for a Speed Meet and coworking sesh. Bring a lil thing to work on and/or hang out & chat with new folks during a structured meetup activity in prep for next week's game jam ♥ pigsquad.com/events-list/...

we're doing in kinda huge next weekend in portland oregon we've got my goat kreayshawn and enough @909worldwide.bsky.social support artillery heat to blow the roof off of this sleepy northwest city dont miss the debut of vulkauf and i's b2b excursion 909 worldwide hardcore will never die 💥🤯

🧼Tonight & Wednesday🧼 We're doing Speed Meet events to help you meet other devs in prep for next week's "Finish Your Game" Jam! TONIGHT In Discord pigsquad.com/events-list/... WEDNESDAY At White Owl in SE Portland pigsquad.com/events-list/... Huge thanks to @ragonia.bsky.social for art this year :)

0hr Game Jam was so fun--you can play the games we made last night from 1am to 1am here: itch.io/jam/pigsquad...

Tonight is 0hr game jam! If you're looking for another jam soon, we're hosting "Finish Your Game" Jam and have 2 events this coming week to help you work with new folks! 🍂 Speed Meet Monday in Discord - pigsquad.com/events-list/... 🍂 Speed Meet Wednesday at White Owl - pigsquad.com/events-list/...

This is 1 am Pacific time, so if you're trying to join from another time zone, ... good luck

Happy Halloween, goblins and ghouls. 🍂🦇🎃

Hello friends! Our Volunteer Coordinator is looking for more great folks who'd like to help us out at OrcaCon! Got a few hours? Help during the whole show? You can fill out our volunteer form here: www.orcacon.org/volunteers/ We hope for a great 10th Anniversary and would love to see you there!

PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else! 🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st 🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam

Roguelike Celebration slides continuing to hit

Thank you @jbrew.bsky.social for adding the Brooklyn Interpretation of karaoke to our collective community toolkit.

Homestuck (Roguelike Celebration continuing to have completely normal rooms in the dungeon this year I see)

biblically accurate soccer ball by @zenorogue.bsky.social at @roguelike.club

The 10th Roguelike Celebration is now LIVE! Pick up a ticket, pay what you can, and join us for a full weekend of amazing talks! We have a whole online chat space that's bustling and full of secrets, we have breakout rooms to chat with speakers, please come say hi! ti.to/roguelike-ce...

c u tonite :3 details at pigsquad.com/events-list/... come have fun!

Hey friends, after ten years in the industry the layoffs finally found me. I'm looking for roles in front end engineering and/or the intersection of engineering and communication (tech lead, developer advocate, that kind of thing).

Local legislator displays the importance of kerning

Hey new folks! Really great to meet you at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. We're having a chill coworking evening this Thursday in E Portland if you wanna come hang out, meet folks, and work on stuff in each others' company. Details here: pigsquad.com/events-list/... See ya soon!

This year's Roguelike Celebration steam sale is up! Check out some awesome games, and don't forget to buy tickets for the conference *this weekend*! (also @shing.bsky.social's art is so good, I'm so glad we got them to do this year's art!!) store.steampowered.com/curator/4122...

If you're in a group chat and never engage except to post your own news, you should be kicked out of the chat

Good morning Retro Gaming Expo!

Our #cozy 🐌🐌 #metroidvania will be at @retrogamingexpo.bsky.social generously hosted by our friends @pigsquad.com !!! Bellow is a mega thread of our boothmates and incredible fellow devs from #Portland #prge2025 #PRGE #indiedev #gamedev store.steampowered.com/app/3448390/...

AND WE'RE LIVE! Our alt ctrl game jam is happening RIGHT NOW at itch.io/jam/flip-out and on the @arcadecommons.org discord! And any good game jam ofc has a theme to get the creativity flowing and ours this year is....

I am a master of animation

In case you missed it, a typhoon recently hit Western Alaska, doing catastrophic damage to multiple remote Native villages. If you have a couple bucks, consider giving to the recovery fund alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c... If you want to know more, check out Anchorage Daily News, adn.com

If you're gonna be at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo this weekend (Oct 18!), swing by the big purple PIGSquad booth and check out my game, Super Lunch Rush! Did I mention it comes in its own custom cabinet??

This is your annual reminder that I made a spooky tiny town builder in PICO-8, and you can play it for FREE at nextlevelbanana.itch.io/pixeltown

"Local time or UTC?"

Every year I am again reminded that the canon story of Dracula includes a random Texan guy

🗡🧛‍♂️ BE WARY 🕯👻 We're hosting our annual Spooky Games Marathon at the end of the month! Join us October 30th for live Let's Plays of scary games by community members and play awesome games in the Halloweenie halls of the Pacific Northwest College of Art! Details here: pigsquad.com/events-list/...

If you're looking for something short, funny, and free to play this spooky season, let me remind you about my tiny point and click Perfectly Normal Apartment! Your roommate summoned a demon and left you to clean it up. You know how it is with roommates. nextlevelbanana.itch.io/perfectly-no...

9 days remain before our annual alt.ctrl game jam kicks off! There's still time to get your parts and get in on the action! More info @ itch.io/jam/flip-out

A ghost dog followed me around for awhile (you can pet the ghost dog)

#weirdWebOctober 1: transparency #weirdWebOctober 1: transparency blargfest.neocities.org/transparency

happy October 1

TONIGHT! See you at the White Owl for Art/Code Night and also HAPPY OCTOBER 🍂🌬️🎃🎉 pigsquad.com/events-list/...

Let's gooooooo

This is the first farming sim whose characters I liked enough to bother romancing. If you like the genre you should check it out

The hubris of getting double vaccinated over lunch I will not be programming any more today

I am the ten percent

So I found this lamp on the curb. It works. I really wanna give it a makeover but I'm not sure what to do. Suggestions?

Geocities from 1997, back when we surfed the web.

Me shop, it dropeth 💀 Ragonia.com/shop 💀

Happy Friday! Hope you have a wonderful weekend. We're also looking forward to next week - this coming Wednesday, October 1st, we're hanging out at the White Owl in SE to kick off the month with a chill coworking night 😊🍂 Details here: pigsquad.com/events-list/... Let us know if you have questions!