I'll be in Toronto at the end of next week for @torontogamesweek.com showing some new experimental games! Let me know if you want to hang out, I will have a bunch of free time 👋🍵🍹🎲

New blog post on the next steps for me now that I'm indie again! spaceteamadmirals.club/blog/rebirth/

This bundle has 5 of my favourite games in it!

So... I was just laid off from Epic Games along with 1000 other people! BUT... since I was already planning to quit in April, this is a pretty great outcome for me. Now I can go back to making my own indie games with severance pay and health insurance 🎉 Blog post with more details coming soon.

Experimental game festival LUDODROME is happening in Montreal again this summer and they are looking for game makers! linktr.ee/ludodrome

One of the things I find frustrating about sci-fi is that because of the American influence of it, all of the planets are called things like Zexion 5 and Danshassia 7. I’d call them things like ‘Nether Roundthorpe’ and ‘Spheresbury’. Gravity Bywell. Chalfont St Globeby. Bishop’s Goitre.

This is an absolute must-read.

We’re hiring a QA Analyst! $90,069 CAD/year, remote 6-month contract, 4-day work weeks with flexible hours! 🫶 Apply now: www.workwithindies.com/careers/ko-o... ✨

Roguelike Celebration is this weekend which is one of my favourite game conferences (and it's all online in a custom virtual space!). I can only go to a few talks but if you like Roguelikes you should sign up! www.roguelike.club

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

omg the talk/speaker lineup for Roguelike Celebration (@roguelike.club) 2025 looks sooo good: www.roguelike.club/event2025.html So obviously one of the most vital events in videogames right now, I really hope I can make the time to attend this year.

Registration deadline was yesterday, but we are taking limited late registrations in these cities! LA, Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, St Louis, Portland, Pittsburgh, Austin, Melbourne, Montreal, Brno, Christchurch, Singapore, Taipei, and London www.playdash.org/DASH12

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

Montreal friends: I'm hosting the DASH puzzle hunt this year on September 13th and registration is now open. Sign up here with your team if you want to join! playdash.org/DASH12/event...

Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮 We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.

The California Fire Relief Bundle is live!! Benefitting survivors of the SoCal wildfires through the Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE). Featuring 400+ games: Tunic! Tangle Tower! Catlateral Damage! Hidden Folks! Cook, Serve, Delicious! And more! $10 minimum!! itch.io/b/2863/calif...

After a long hiatus I tried to get Spaceteam on Android working again on newer phones but I wasn't able to do a lot of testing and it looks like I broke some stuff. Sorry! I'll try to fix it, thanks for your patience ❤️

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

I want to make a personal appeal for the beautiful new game of Palestinian gamedev @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social. As nobody will fund a game about the 1948 Nakba, Rasheed is crowdfunding via launchgood.com/1948. I've been doing production advice on the game pro bono, and it deserves to exist.

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

For those who are mad and activated (good) my one hope is that you will look for the people already doing the work. You probably do not need to invent your own new organization or group. Find the people already doing it and join them, listen to them, learn from them.

In Portland, Oregon until Sunday!

Portland friends: I'll be coming to XOXO Fest at the end of August! Do you have any accommodation tips, and do you want to hang out?

The good news is, we announced Streets of Fortuna. The even better news is we need help to build it! 🍁Canadian, fulltime programmer 🦊Longterm Kitfox hire 👾Low starting pay, but guaranteed raises for 6 years to max of $150k Applications due by June 23rd! kitfoxgames.notion.site/Job-Posting-...

✈️ Flying to Epic Games HQ in North Carolina for the week!

I can now reveal that the game I've been working on at Epic is... LEGO Fortnite! It just launched yesterday. youtu.be/GeKTrjGdJ2E

I organize my in-person events (eg. board games, playtests, poker, etc.) using FB but people are leaving FB, understandably. Is there a simple alternative that will send email invites, reminders, and provide a basic event page with info and a comments section? Or do I need to build it myself...

As a quick reminder: AI doomerism is also #AIhype. The idea that synthetic text extruding machines are harbingers of AGI that is on the verge of combusting into consciousness and then turning on humanity is unscientific nonsense. 2/

After being a self-employed "indie" for the last 10 years, I finally decided to get an industry job again to take care of my family with a reliable income... at Epic Games! But then, a few days ago, they laid off 900 people (not me, but still). So much for being "reliable" :/

Big news in my latest blog post: spaceteamadmirals.club/blog/leaving...

Introduction post! Hi, I'm Henry (he/him). I made the video game Spaceteam! 🚀 Before that I was a UI programmer at BioWare and Irrational. I like board games, escape rooms, puzzles, procedural generation, wordplay, and balsamic vinegar. I live in Montréal and have a cat called Gobo 🐈‍⬛