Surprise! I'm stoked to share that I'm writing this book. It's a dream to learn more about the game's development history from @wrongorgan.bsky.social themselves!

So the usual suspects are going after a "cozy survival indie game" because they allegedly worked with Sweet Baby Inc. These people need to be put away.

New podcast episode is out!

Just finished Consume Me! The game is unapologetically personal but at the same time I think everyone can see a bit of themselves in it. I hope one day we’ll all find a way to be free of the critical inner voice that bounds us!

play 1000xRESIST

TFW u open BlueSky and a bunch of ppl are vaguely posting about the same shit

I‘m sorry but it's so relaxing to watch people from the world stressing over mandarin LMAO www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcoI...

It's announced! See you again on 6th December for the final act of Rhythm Doctor @rd.7thbe.at !! www.youtube.com/watch?v=q98t...

A scene showing a gay wedding in the movie 'Together' was censored in China using AI, but it makes a big chunk of the movie nonsensical.

Finally finished Don't Get Your Hopes Up (store.steampowered.com/app/3795490) by @krishraghav.bsky.social all I have to say is pls play it yourself! Without spoiling the experience too much here are my favourite moments in the game with minimal context 1. This was a brutal read, I audibly gasped

actually i changed my mind store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/... #gaming #indiegames #gamedev #indiegamedev #videogames

GEMMA CHAN!!!!

TIL that the dev who made Master of Pottery is developing their second game which is... (check notes) an open-world racing game in Tianjin www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWfa...

Just finished watching My-HiME (2004) and ugly-cried to the finale. The anime started as a high school drama with an uncomfortable amount of fan service but it ended as a fable about... patriarchy? In this world only a dozen girls are gifted with combat powers, which are secretly used by the state

I really, really loved this bite-sized narrative 'horror' game last night. Do yourself a favour and check out Don't Get Your Hopes Up. www.rockpapershotgun.com/dont-get-you...

Housing horror story: Amsterdam’s rental market is a video game www.dutchnews.nl?p=257626

The game has sold over 1 million copies since launch It has pretty much gone viral everywhere. Love to see it tbh

Phenomenal write-up of Palestinian Voices in Games by @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social. Still very proud to be supporting the initiative, and happy to see attention for it. If you want to help out, check out the link via the article! www.rockpapershotgun.com/creators-of-...

Dutch futurism 🤌🤌

We just announced a new game last night! The Lift playtest open now: store.steampowered.com/app/3283240/

*deep breath* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

Rana Card also launches today! Seems to be doing really well already! My friends are sooo talented 🧡

A game my extremely talented friend made, about the horrors of finding housing in our city, is available to play today! The art and music is killer and Krish should be raking in cash for it, but instead it is free. Check it out!

完蛋！我被杀人犯包围了

Saw another well received FMV game that isn't a dating sim launching 1.0 today, seems to be about solving murders store.steampowered.com/app/3364770/...

Albert Heijn is cursed because tell me why every time I walk out of one I’m always at least 30 euros less regardless of how few items I buy💀

Road To Empress launched last week, it's an FMV game where players play as Wu Zetian (the only empress in the history of China) to survive the royal court. Made by the team that created The Invisible Guardian in 2019, probably the biggest Chinese FMV game EVER store.steampowered.com/app/3478050

Big news! I sold out! I will be retiring to the Bahamas with the eye-watering sum of... *checks contract*... “minus thirty percent”?! Waaaaaaait a second, I need to have a word with my lawyer…

New Community Dev Newsletter 📰 With an incredible guest post! Thrilled to have @sarahhana.bsky.social, Head of Marketing at Toge, w/ marketing advice for devs who aren't coming from a Western perspective 🔎 Let's talk international marketing! Plus job posts & more! thevtran.kit.com/posts/market...

That guy on TikTok doing freestyle rapping to this one beat is actually really funny

A handcrafted, nonfiction game about real lived human experience that is also free to play?! Yess

Yesterday in Vondelpark, Amsterdam I saw the local gay men’s choir performing Viva La Vida, which took me back to when I heard the song for the first time — it was 2008, Shanghai, with my parents in a packed cinema, the song played in an iTunes commerical before Kung Fu Panda went on

Theory A: once reviews breaks a certain threshold it only tends to get lower until something major changes (broken-window-esque), the new language-based review display definitely doesn't not help Theory B: it's just us Asians being Asians 😂

I feel like what publishers took away from Baldur’s Gate’s success is that every game needs to have like 5000 hours of content, instead of the much more valuable takeaway imo: you need to let players have sex with a demon lady and a man who turns into a bear

Layoffs wreck studios. Institutional knowledge is SO valuable in the games industry. When you eventually replace that laid off employee, I don’t care if they’ve got 30 years of experience and dozens of games under their belt. They still have to learn the pipeline, the software, the systems.

The debate about Silksong's Chinese localization has the merit of showing devs and publishers that the quality of your localization 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 to players. Even if we'd have prefered it didn't turn into the witch hunt it seems to have become...

As of now review score has decreased to just above 50% positive. Team Cherry responded on socials that they'll look into improving loc quality. Is Silksong Chinese loc hate justified? ChuApp did a report on this: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/eoHmKsC2Uy...

Oh well So around 50% negative reviews are complaints about the game not having presale/presave which wasted a lot of people's time. The other 50% are about translation quality. Players from my country never fail to humble me

Silksong is hammering the Steam, Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation stores 😅

Me to future me: Jingtong was here

It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

'The King is Watching' has sold over 300K copies!

Played a little bit of MIlitsioner playtest, I think the game awakens something in me 🥵

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment 👇 Please RT.

I started playing Whisper of the House last week without much expectation, but it ended up being one of the best games I've played this year The game has small touches of detail and secrets tucked away everywhere. A rare game that reminds me of childhood store.steampowered.com/app/2589500

プレイヤーが見張っているときだけ国民が働く「非常に好評」の王国づくりローグライクゲーム『The King is Watching』が最新アプデで日本語に対応 https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/250831e

One thing this article doesn't mention (for some reason) is that the studio was originally founded in Shanghai by an ex-Ubisoft China manager in 2004. It now has 3 studios in China that form much of its core dev backbone + has expanded to Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, North America, Europe etc.

Just a reminder that the @seagamesforgood.bsky.social Games for Palestine charity bundle launches in less than 33 hours! Please RT and spread the word. Nearly 400 games, with all proceeds going to Gaza relief. Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

I'm BAAAAAAACK! That's right! it's me, Doc, and I'm here to tell you all about guns in first person shooters, hopefully helping you be way more creative in your weapon design by breaking 'em down into the basics that's right, it's FPS Design 102: da guns docseuss.medium.com/the-way-of-t...

This game being on my timeline is insane