Did another upgrade to the lava shader to add bloom and color match to the new servers and wow this is the most volcano that the volcano has ever looked

The Made in NZ sale is BACK for 2025 🇳🇿 Featuring 100+ games from devs all over Aotearoa Deep discounts, new demos and plenty of upcoming games to wishlist. Chur 🤙 store.steampowered.com/sale/nzgames...

12 years ago, I made a little game about arguing with internet trolls that showed the damage you take to your Patience and Reputation. I thought it'd age poorly, but sadly it now seems tame compared to the present. I wonder if we need a sequel about protecting ourselves from daily psychic damage.

After canceling Hulu/Disney, I realized that was my last subscription to cancel. I'm free. Our current systems only respond to money so choose carefully where to spend yours. Plus, canceling subscriptions and services means saving more money to ride out the 2026+ recession 😅

I put my collection of 26K live event and development screenshots from The Matrix Online on archive dot org: archive.org/details/mxo_... : ) #mxo #mmo #mmos #thematrix #gamedev #videogames

I like the implication that each team member increases the game's filesize by 5MB.

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

Did another upgrade to the lava shader to add bloom and color match to the new servers and wow this is the most volcano that the volcano has ever looked

⬇️ 🚨🚨Heads up, this sale ends tonight!🚨🚨 This is a _rare_ occasion when my physical books are on sale as well my digital stuff (probably increasingly rare if the tariff situation continues to worsen).

When all the journalists stop posting at the same time, you know it's going to be a big news day tomorrow. Like the water retreating out to sea before a tsunami.

The house is finally defeated. We can rest now.

The house is finally defeated. We can rest now.

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/...

I had a busy month with the start of the school year but I can finally finish the color and HUD overhaul for Black Ice. The new server colors give a better electric neon cyberspace vibe but I need to adjust the terrain and decorations to match.

It finally happened.

As I write the labor organizing and work stoppage components of the Black Ice finale, I'm glad to see real-life unions getting results. It's wild to consider that "we'll only work the hours we're paid for" is a radical position these days.

with each successive round of layoffs and buyouts, IGN staff have found themselves increasingly overworked. so now, in an effort to get laid-off colleagues rehired, they’ve resolved to do their fair share — and no more

zohran mamdani's new public transit concept video looks sick

The #HugoAward for Best Game or Interactive Work goes to Caves of Qud.

I appreciate all the reposts but I haven't gotten any responses! I'd love to hear about skill tests in hiring for different disciplines, whether level design or 3d modeling or narrative or art. Like "make a dialog tree using only emojis". What sort of projects were part of the interview process?

I appreciate all the reposts but I haven't gotten any responses! I'd love to hear about skill tests in hiring for different disciplines, whether level design or 3d modeling or narrative or art. Like "make a dialog tree using only emojis". What sort of projects were part of the interview process?

What started as a cyberpunk HUD replacement project turned into another round of auditing shaders and improving color balance. Managed to get the servers a proper electric neon. Still need to improve the aliasing though. Got any advice?

I'm about to teach a university course that involves preparing a portfolio and resume for a job in the games industry. Since hiring is changing pretty rapidly this year, would any gamedev friends who had recent job searches (or were hiring managers) be available to chat about it?

Today, August 10, in 1988, the front page story of the New York Times is about 11-year-old hacker Dade “Zero Cool” Murphy, who brought down 1,507 computer systems, causing a 7-point drop in the New York Stock Exchange (Hackers, 1995) #HackThePlanet

My friend was staying up all night with a newborn and remembered I've said Farscape, with its Jim Henson puppet aliens, was one of the best sci-fi TV shows. Since the baby then watched all 4 seasons of Farscape, I decided to make him some outfits with quotes from his favorite show. #farscape

My friend was staying up all night with a newborn and remembered I've said Farscape, with its Jim Henson puppet aliens, was one of the best sci-fi TV shows. Since the baby then watched all 4 seasons of Farscape, I decided to make him some outfits with quotes from his favorite show. #farscape

Found a brutalist playground.

I am 5 months late and 7 months early for GDC.

I'm so happy to share that the stairs update is liiiiiive. This is by far our biggest update that we've been cooking since *checks calendar* omg, since March x_x Huge thanks to everyone who helped us test it while in beta <3 Now lemme walk you through some of the new shinies 🧵

Added some interactivity to my Blue Prince cosplay for San Diego Comic Con. Those who spot me will be invited to draft a room sticker and place it on my blueprint! Be one of the first to help me assemble a convention-exclusive house layout, and I just might have a floorplan upgrade disk for you.

"What good is Nanite really? Who even needs that many polygons, what is it possibly for-" Cinematic Chips, next question

We like to describe our game as INSIDE, but instead of a boy, you play as a knight with an axe. And you have magic abilities. And you can throw your axe. And there are boss fights. And… 🤔 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #indiegames #unity #steam #DarkQueenOfSamobor

So this is a little over 5k units running around in 🐭⚔️, with an increasing percentage chasing me down to murder me I think I can hit 10k ezpz by the end, considering this is running in editor and still hitting over 30fps? Packaged builds should be much faster.

As game dev I often wonder if my intuition about the Steam market matches reality. So I did a small game to test it: Guess how many reviews a random game has. You can now play it too on steamle.com

When you start a UI overhaul on a 10 year old game. (I am very tired but the game looks GREAT)

A whiteboard is the absolute most useful gamedev tool.

If we put in the work, we can get those better futures!

I redesigned Black Ice's volcanic dungeon built by the egocentric tech billionaire (who dismantled governments and caused the corporate dystopia). This completes the gameplay improvements to the first chapter of the game. UI and story overhaul coming next! store.steampowered.com/news/app/311...

XII.XII.MMXXV on Netflix. More to come…

you asked for it, I added it! I love gamedeving cause you make fishing, somebody says "maybe you can hook your friends" and you go like "Oh yeah maybe" and you do it and all of a sudden you created a climbing gear.

A few years back Make-a-Wish reached out to me. There was a kid whose dream was to create a game inspired by The Mandalorian. I invited him over, and together we built a game fulfilling his dream! ✨ (The game can't be shared, for legal reasons) Please be kind to each other!

I made a website. It's called "one million chessboards." It has a million chessboards on it. moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. No turns. You can move between boards. that's it. Have fun! onemillionchessboards.com

It's 5am. I have accidentally made astounding leaps in solving Blue Prince.

Saw this and realized we're only going to save the pretty animals from extinction and all future biomass on the planet will have an evolutionary bias toward looking cute

People thought this was a joke but no, this is real and patched into the game yesterday! (P.S. the pizza delivery company is a front for corporate assassins)

You can't have a corporate dystopia without ads so I added ads to Black Ice! They're a window outside cyberspace, add flavor to the corporations, and foreshadow future events. Now I can replace exposition with character development in the mission emails too.

PSA: 1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly 2. If you are silly, you must stay silly 2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness

This is how you win Excellence in Narrative

It's hard for me to create parody in Black Ice when real corporations keep exceeding anything I'd put in the game.