You need numbers. I can't tell you how important YouTube trailer numbers are. I pitch indie coverage basically every day, and the metric for what gets covered and what doesn't is internal numbers for previous coverage and YouTube. If the audience isn't interested, it doesn’t get spin. That's it.

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small games by tiny devs finding huge success by dropping all notions of expression and focusing on dopamine delivery has done some sort of heavy damage to whatever I believed in in the 2010s about game design

I have an international flight coming up, and with it comes a fun challenge: going gate to gate for 14ish hours without ever taking my brand new Flo mask off.

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Want to pull out this slide: people deserve to know there’s a growing mountain of evidence finding more Covid infections = more likelihood of being left chronically ill. There’s a temptation to think that if you recovered ok last time, then you will next time too, but that’s not what the data say.

Paid for expedited processing for my passport since I’m about to take my first ever international trip soon, and I was expecting to have to wait the full 2 to 3 weeks that they estimate on their site. I was *not* expecting to get it just a week and a half after submitting the paperwork.

How I try to become a better game designer: 1/ I try to get a lot of feedback from players and improve based on it 2/ I play and analyse games in my genre 3/ I try to listen more to external ideas :) I discuss game design with my team and other indie devs, especially 4/ I read research papers!

Industry Events Have COVID Protections Challenge failed

Perhaps one day Frictional will make a non-horror game for us weenies.

I'm looking for animation work! -15 years working experience -9 years in game development -Helped ship three games, most recently as 2D animation lead on The Plucky Squire I'd love to animate for your game.

Indie dev is "oop, found a new discipline today, time to learn just enough about it to be get by, while knowing that this a person's whole career at bigger studios." Needless to say, I know why we have lighting artists now.

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Please stop showing me the AI Wal-Mart video, I beg of you.

It’s impressive how quickly natural peanut butter goes from a solid back to a superfluid-like state the second you take it out of the fridge.

What am I doing today? Oh nothing, just updating my fishbowl sprite metas.

Me after reading the headline: I bet they were trying to unionize. The article: They were trying to unionize.

Say what you will about reboot culture and how I.P. is never allowed to die but Howdy Doody was one of the biggest cash cows in history and he is GONE we put that motherfucker in the ground

TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. HEADS. TAILS. Unfair Flips is OUT NOW! Flip the world's worst coin over and over as you try to get ten heads in a row!! store.steampowered.com/app/3925760/...

Bit Brigade is a really amazing audiovisual experience. But a lot of fellow performers have been concerned with the hypocrisy of booking the same act for a third time when the current @magfest.org goals clearly say "no year-to-year booking" (super.magfest.org/music-artist...)

If you're having a QA tester look at code, what you actually have is a test engineer and you should be paying them way more.

Launched a game publishing label with 3 friends today!!! Get at us, attack our inbox (with pitches) Really exciting to start something new with folks that have all my trust in the world and I'm looking forward to lending a helping hand to devs and their projects!

Got my covid boostie. RFK Jr. in tears.

Sharing my art process for TORSO TENNIS Releasing in 2 days on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2824780/...

You can just wear a mask From pmc19.com/data/

this exists it is called thinking

This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"

This is the Geoff Keighley Game Awards of Tonight Show monologues

Some Good News, everybody! "Nonprofit environmental organization the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034"

inside the room where ceos say what they really think about the wallet inspector

What if the country *wasn’t* lead by a fascist regime that tried to eliminate free speech and punish even the most milquetoast criticism said about them? Just a thought.

random thought ive had for weeks: a version of “Virtua Cop” where Buffalo Springfield gently warns you when bad guys appear

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

Incredible Steam review

at this point i just want to accomplish one thing before my country fucking kills me lol

[Installs iOS 26] “Hmm…. I think I hate this?”

Seeing an Xbox controller with non-staggered thumbsticks is fucked up.

I cannot yell about this enough. So many times I've seen an idea with lots of potential get thrown out because it wasn't "perfect" initially, only to be replaced with another underbaked idea, when we could have taken the same amount of time to reflect upon, tighten up and grow the first idea more.

One issue generally overlooked in the whole screenwriter vs gamewriter, discussion is time. Beyond anything to do with training, ability, style etc is the amount of time screenwriters get to invest in a script. Whilst there are time pressures on any writer, the vast amounts of script that- 1/9

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

still bummed that hbo's perry mason got cancelled after 2 seasons. season 2 was okay but season 1 was incredible and i wish it'd had a chance to start firing on all cylinders again.

I’ve only been out of town for a day and I already miss my cats.

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Finally played beyond the demo for Chants of Sennaar (I always have to look up how to spell it), and that game is very cool and very good. I was always worried it had eaten Lexa’s lunch, but after playing it, it’s zigging on some designs where we’re zagging. Two different takes. Video games!