I am reminded of wisdom passed down to me some time ago: Your personality is what you do when you think no one's watching.

"Birds with socks makes people better at maths" is what I dreamed and I'm struggling to disprove it

The (excellent) Secret Lives of Games podcast hosted @kissakolme.bsky.social, @jukio.bsky.social & @jwaaaap.com to have a big long chat about Nuclear Throne Update 100! Tune in and find out why bandits can't aim right here:

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After 9+ years at ustwo games I have unfortunately been made redundant. If you are looking for a stylised 3D generalist with 10+ years experience to have on your team please give me a shout or let others know that I am available for work! I'd love to chat ✨ fensartden.com [email protected]

💎 Brilliant Indie Treasures will be back for 2026! 💎 We will be opening applications on April 6th for our Brilliant Indie Treasures showcase in Brighton. 📍BITs will be happening on July 15th at the Old Ship Hotel once again this year (don't worry, we have more space)

Making an indie game? Want people to read about it in the upcoming new issue of EGM? As in, in an actual paper magazine? Pitch us at [email protected] and include "Under the Radar" in the subject line. Three main criteria to keep in mind:

Today is the 10th anniversary of this gif of me showing how to make games on TV.

We've teamed up with @theyetee.com to bring you a brand new Nuclear Throne t-shirt, with $6 from each tee getting donated to Prevent Cancer Foundation. theyetee.com/collections/...

Some #AGDQ2026 news! - Super excited for tomorrow's Nuclear Throne any% (4 characters) run by fishmcmuffins at 1:51am ET! - Minit 110% run by shovelclaws on Friday Jan 9th at 10:55am ET, with commentary by @jwaaaap.com! Head to gamesdonequick.com/schedule/ to see the schedule in your timezone.

Were classical statues painted horribly? buff.ly/fS78ULM It is often suggested that modern viewers dislike painted reconstructions of Greek and Roman statues because our taste differs from that of the ancients. This essay proposes an alternative explanation.

The freshly updated Nuclear Throne stays 50% off, rolling straight into the Steam winter sale: store.steampowered.com/app/242680/N...

We put a bonus level called "Golden Shower" (there were a lot of coins) in a pitch demo sent to a major platform a couple yeats back. They still signed us but we had some explaining to do.

Derek just did a thread of trailers for visual novels that he thinks are very good, and three out of seven of them were mine. In conclusion: consider hiring me to make VN trailers.

Thank you all so much for your amazing entries! We've spinned the wheel, and big congrats to the winners of a Y.V. plushie: @cakepan513.bsky.social and @chloraa.bsky.social!

Not enough minigames these days

It's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up It's Gim (ooh)

Happy #screenshotsaturday ICYMI we launched the Three Year Anniversary Update for Astra Protocol 2, overhauling the visuals to have the retro CRT effect we wanted at the game's launch

holy shit we broke the Nuclear Throne concurrent users record

OH and did anyone say Y.V. Plushie? Yeah we've got that too: www.makeship.com/products/y-v...

It took a while, but Nuclear Throne Update 100 is out now! (and 50% off on Steam) store.steampowered.com/app/242680/N...

Didn't even have time today to pick a Christmas sandwich.

Had a dream where I owned two cats called Alfa and Beetle.

Not one but two Draknek & Friends games are in the Pocket Gamer "Best Puzzle Game" category! If you played and enjoyed Spooky Express or LOK Digital this year, you can vote for it here: www.pocketgamer.com/pocket-gamer...

We were hit by a strange issue that made it impossible to nominate Öoo for the Steam Awards… it was pretty disheartening 😢 But it looks like the problem has finally been fixed! If you have a moment, I’d really appreciate your vote 👍 🔗 store.steampowered.com/steamawards/...

A new Chinese law regulating influencer speech has gotten applause from social media users and commentators who want similar policies in their own countries. But the truth is far from what's in the news and it's a sad reflection of our internet and media space. wenhao.substack.com/p/anatomy-of...

If one more YouTuber tells me to grab a snack and a drink I'm going on hunger strike.

Learnt far too much about Git today

Oh dang Tomonobu Itagaki died a few weeks ago

What is the most underrated game from the 6th generation of consoles?

I don't know if you've played Final Fantasy Legends 2 for Gameboy but my dad left one day by jumping out of a window and never came back and also I'm a robot with a Colt M1911 pistol.

I was stealing food to survive in my early 20s so if you see someone pinching bag of pasta shut your mouth and give 'em a jar of tomato sauce. Poverty kills.

git reset --hard my beloved

Minor spoiler but just got to a side mission where you give a cop a Shuppet because he wants to use its power to help read people's strong emotions and find criminals, but instead it leads you to the cop's wife and she's like "I'm unhappy in my relationship."

If you don't day goodnight to your pet(s) every night before bed you're basically a criminal. I don't even have pets.

Sometimes you gotta take a moment to appreciate some good tech art and vertex animation

Check out our retro RPG Destiny Spire in the #SteamNextFest ! Hectic take on a turn based battle system and 2 dungeons to complete. Should take about 1 hour to complete. Full game is around 30 hours of retro goodness store.steampowered.com/app/3369150/... #jrpg #rpg #indiegames

New GameMaker Runtime released

9 DAYS LEFT to back BLANKSWORD, our Roguelike RPG where you play an Angel that lost his brain! ⚔ God is waiting. ⚔

oh its the thing everyone said was going to happen when this got brought in and it immediately happened

it’s that day again buy our soundtrack!! please? 🥺🥺 radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/album/beasti...

Finally got around to making a list of all of my FOSS repos github.com/JujuAdams/Ju...

They found Danny De Vito's ancestors

Everything is better with cheesecake

I made an example of how to make native extensions for GameMaker in #Rust! Windows and Linux; all the usual stuff (numbers, strings, buffers) github.com/YAL-GameMake...

A trio of new and improved functions for drawing sprites with a shear transformation has been posted. gmlscripts.com/script/draw_... gmlscripts.com/script/draw_... gmlscripts.com/script/draw_...

Ninty patented Pokemon. Seems unenforceable to me given how many Pokemon-influenced games are out there already but you never know until there's a court case www.pocketgamer.biz/nintendo-sec...