Microsoft is laying off 4,800 workers today. Its CEO made $96.5M in 2025, a 22% increase from the previous year. Microsoft made $101B in net income last year — and raked in up to $12.5B in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. This is what a rigged system looks like.

No union employees at Blizzard were impacted by today’s bloodbath—and I sincerely doubt that was because the powers that be think that we’re all vital. Odds are, they wanted easy cuts. Status Quo makes you not easy. The best time to unionize was a year ago. The second best time to unionize is now.

[CASTING CALL]🎙️ We are looking for 1F, 3M voice actors for our upcoming visual novel, Dearest Darling Dragon! The rate is $1 per line with an $80 minimum. More info below! ⬇️ docs.google.com/document/d/1... Many thanks for your interest! #castingcall #voiceacting #indiegames #indiedev

Got a cool idea, can't decide whether it's gonna work best as a tabletop or as a bideo game. Tragically paralyzed by the options, can't proceed with either, send help #gamedev #gamedesign

Damn what to do if your #indiegame is entirely text based so you can't participate in a #screenshotsaturday

My new year resolution this year (i don't care that it's July) is to comment more on other creators' works. So often I think "that's so cool!" and then say nothing because I feel like they already know that and why'd I state the obvious #gamedev #writesky #art

I made a murder investigation #indiegame (which was adapted from the real-life plated dinner & detective kind of event I authored). Very very text-heavy. Ugh, I can't promote myself for shit. Pls play? Some people said it was good! #gamedev #interactivefiction

just went to r/indiedev and been liking every post. You got a like! And you got a like! Pixel art that I hate as a genre? Still got a like! Everybody is so talented!!!!!!! Wish I had the same attitude when it comes to my own work #gamedev #indiegame #sorrynotsorryabtpixelart

I feel like as #indiegame devs, we're often prompted to create content early and often to market our games, and devlogs are often suggested. Now it might be just me tho, but I have never read a single devlog in my life as a player... What about you? #gamedev

i stg working in corporate while building an #indiegame about working in corporate is like an infinite content glitch. i dont even have to come up with anything, life writes the jokes for me #gamedev

one thing i realized working on my #indiegame: i cannot be my own playtester and i cannot be my own marketer. which is funny bc i never have anyone else to playtest and my day job is literally marketing. welp. #gamedev

got called brave for riding #lametro every day twice a day. yes, every morning and every evening i'm enduring the unimaginable horror of spending about 20 minutes listening to music while a trained professional drives me past the traffic. it takes a lot of guts indeed #publictransit

Finally understand why I avoided #manga for 15 years: I correctly predicted I'd become the person spending $15 to read what amounts to a pamphlet and going 'just one more volume' at 3am like some kind of literary crackhead. #Noragami volume 14. I'm fine. This is fine. We're all FINE. I'M NOT MAD.

cant tell if nearly every #book and #game nowadays suck because I'm depressed, because I've developed a taste, or because everything became very same-y... #booksky #videogames

Me: i wanna be a famous writer with tons of readers!!! *Three people express their desire to read the continuation of my #fanfiction * Me: oh no that's too much pressure i literally can't do it omg omg omg #writingsky #writingcommunity #fanfic #authorsky

for my entire life i begged the universe to let me design a game, and im fucking designing a game. it is an ARG for our patrons, but i am, in fact, designing a game. should have been more specific that i wanted to design a VIDEO game, but hey, i'll take it! #gamedev #gamedesign

im mad because i wrote a #fanfic (and its my strongest work TO DATE) but i cant tell anyone that i wrote #fanfiction because people associate it with shite like "character X is alpha and breeds me in the barracks" or "character Y is a frat boy" #writingcommunity #booksky #writingsky

nintendo would be a good name for a month. like "i have an appointment on nintendo 3rd" or "where were you on the 22nd of nintendo"

i recall i was seeking tiktok reviews on this #book (i LOVED the series) and there was a girl who went all ballistic, and her whole displeasure was "the author describes the horrors of war therefore he endorses war, i stopped reading after 20 pages". bruh #booksky #medialiteracy #jonathanmaberry

#worldofwarcraft is not without flaws (who is? i still love it deeply) but the thing they absolutely NAIL is game feel. i stg nothing else makes dopamine go brr as much as pressing holy shock

how are people so brave posting their #indiegame stuff lol im in constant horror that someone sees something i did. im like simultaneously afraid but also craving someone looking at it. im pretty sure there's a disorder in the DSM like that already

so what will you choose? #gamedev #indiegame #corporate #officejob

my hot take for today is that #books written in first person need to say so explicitly in big bright letters right there on the cover. nothing ruins my excitement faster than starting to read only to realize it's first person present tense #booksky

most of my days as a noob #solodev look like this: opened #gdevelop at 10 am. stared at my event sheet for 15 minutes trying to figure out how to do what i wanna do. felt overwhelmed. read documentation, understood none of it. closed gdevelop at 1 pm. achieved nothing. ???? PROFIT #gamedev

im ngl as a former gifted kid im so bad at being bad at things and #gamedev calls me bad at things in like 6 different languages at once. a very humbling journey... and a painful one -_-

Just make it exist first, you can make it good later! #gamedev #indiegame

working with an artist on my #indiegame is a real test to my communication skills. i never realized just how unclear my instructions are lmao. good learning tho #gamedev

started a new office job (in-person, worked for 4 years remotely prior to that). im having withdrawals from #remote work. why can't we just agree to not wear pants in the office? this is my #1 complaint. #rto #officework

itch.io is popping off with suggestions today, what the hell is this this is so fun to play omg overboy.itch.io/noobs-are-co... @overboy-games.bsky.social GREAT FREAKING JOB cant wait for the release

i was concerned my digital marketing background and skills wouldn't be applicable to #gamedev at all but im finding it not to be true almost every day. makes my original career looks like a good stepping stone. did i.. make the right choice for once? :O

havent even finished v1 yet (its very far from being finished actually), already have ideas for v2 tho #gamedev #indiedev

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I used to be a solo developer but then I asked chatgpt a code question and now everyone who has ever written code is on my team against their will

Good morning. It's Saturday and I'm writing news. "It's not hard to imagine ways in which repeating the myth of Clair Obscur's team size could contribute to worse conditions for games and the people developing them." www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

that "OH THATS WHY" moment when you finally spot the bug is genuinely addictive. its like solving a puzzle thats been personally insulting you for hours #gamedev #devlog #solodev

im thinking that i now need to add one more possible outcome when your "credibility" (aka good at your job) value reaches a certain point, the game is automatically lost and you're shown the screen "you were actually only here to train your #AI replacement" or something 🤔 #gamedev #devlog #indiegame

this is by far my favorite outcome of "get onboarded" task from my corporate hell game. i don't think you can draw in shared docs, but its hilarious and im keeping it #gamedev #corporateamerica

Please make a bad drawing, draft a poor text, leave your emails unread. Take a flat picture, butcher a melody, run out of ideas. Build a game no-one plays, a website no-one visits; a zero-downloads app. Please be bad, and fail and fail and fail and fail and fail and fail and grow, damn you.

i finished #expedition33 5 days ago and i'm still thinking about everything. just utterly depressed both because of the story and because the game had the AUDACITY to be finite.

i would like to express my deepest respect to all the UI designers out there, whether web or game, this is a freaking hard work. thank you for making our websites and games not look and feel like shit #uiux #uidesign #gamedev

and here i was thinking the hardest part of my gave dev journey will be to actually code. nope, its selecting a font for my UI! send help #gamedev