The time has finally come! Our first game Swimpossible is out now! 🥳 You can buy our swimming rage game right now on Steam and catch a 30% launch discount 👀 So get to swimming, have fun and let us know what you think! 🫶 #swimpossible #ragegame #indiegame #release

I have one hundred thousand thoughts on all of this. My top line drum bangs are: - game cultural ecosystems need patronage from the places money has pooled - we need to shout & celebrate the long term impacts of grass roots game culture. They are hugely ignored by both “industry” & arts orgs

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

“Please enjoy the museum”: Relooted is OUT NOW! Please share!

Registrations are now open! #TalkAndPlay

First time we're getting public funding for Talk & Play! Wouldn't have happened without: 1️⃣ Melanie Fussenegger who took care of the funding application 2️⃣ @gamestormberlin.bsky.social for providing the legal infrastructure 3️⃣ @happybroccoligames.bsky.social for the generous sponsorship 💛 💛 💛

please don't rob yourself from the time to create things. and become little vaults of art at home. keep the dvds, buy books, save those pdfs, download the flacs, get drm-free versions of everything. reject the tool that saves you from thinking. any industry or market can fall, humanity should not.

A kind reminder that just about all larger women in games organizations are shite and and often ran by clout chasers or worse You'd be best served supporting your local initiatives

Drone video of the landslide in the town of Niscemi in Sicily www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ5R...

Generative AI is not just the instrument and aesthetics of fascism, but it has permanently sewn itself to fascism in a fucked up human centipede of scammers and grifters and guys who've long ago forgotten how to think.

Some spots just freed up!

Really sad to hear today that Freeplay Independent Games Festival is likely coming to the end of its adventure in 2026 after 22 incredible years. Freeplay has been pivotal to my own career and I have some complex, straight out contradictory feelings about the announcement I wanna try to articulate.

I'm co-hosting an origami meetup on Sunday Jan 25th in Berlin at our coworking space @saftladen.bsky.social, RSVP here: www.meetup.com/origami-craf...

Excited to announce a trial run of [Untitled Games Event], a new Amsterdam-based space for experimental games and playable arts 👾 This will be a monthly 'book club' of sorts for games and conversations about play, inspired by @molleindustria.org + others' LikeLike. Help us spread the word!

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

There are a small number of these rather incredible bundles of booklets by @devolutionbln.bsky.social containing process documentation from my It is as if game series still available. I have them and... they're great! devolution.online/barr-booklet...

Worked on this slowly throughout the last month. Lots of incredibly unique games to explore from @amazefest.bsky.social. My favourite part of this was adding the flamingo confetti explosion.

Toshiba TMP47C834N-R071

As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

My favourite tea of 2025

I don't write promo posts on vacation, but I could post screenshots I guess 🤔 itch.io/s/158296/40-...

Reminder that The Guardian has a financial partnership with openAI so they have a vested interest in trying to paint this shit in a positive light. You can't trust a single thing they say about it whatsoever

Small holiday miracle: @smestorp.bsky.social just updated the 2012 Kompendium blog post with a working download link (via itch): mightyvision.blogspot.com/2012/06/komp... Compendium of 9 (???) 1v1 local multiplayer games. One of Michael's best releases imo! Glitch Tank is an all-timer.

So, uh, I'd heard about issues at Critical Reflex prior but I wasn't one of the victims so I didn't talk about it any. What I'd heard corroborates these claims and came from someone entirely separate from the one currently going public about things.

With Critical Reflex being such a major player in the indie space, these accusations of covered up sexual harassment and unfair labour practices are all deeply disappointing and distressing. I hope this all gets tackled quickly and decisively. noisypixel.net/critical-ref...

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

Submissions for the A MAZE. Awards are now open. Early bird fee if you submit before end of 2025 or pay what you want "with the help of the Supporter Tickets" — not sure how that works exactly but if you're from an underrepresented group in games or can't afford the fee I would suggest writing them!

new game release: Rainbows Are Carnivores is an experimental gay fishing romance / aquaculture management sim. Free, 10-20 min, play in mobile or desktop browser radiatoryang.itch.io/rainbows

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

This digital map and archive of Italian punk zines from the 1980s has been blowing my mind all day. Some of it is weird to load but it's worth the effort. Tons of energy! Some interesting art zines too. paolopalmacci.it/capitmundi/b...

Folks of bsky, if you're interested in a free wee risograph print in the mail and have time to beta test our fairly complicated management sim MMO roguelike, please come play here: settle-gliese.com & lmk your deets and I'll send you one! #gamedev #indiedev #giveaway

🔔Big announcement time🔔 After almost two years of saying I was a Project Manager at @thinkygames.com, I can finally talk about what we were doing. It's a daily web game, but every day there are new rules, plus there's a story (and some lovely art) that progresses with each day.

Itch ban when?! The whole thing is fucked up but good publicity for the game I think (as long as it’s available to buy somewhere)

Wild Horses!

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

somebody made a web playable version of a game boy style port of this

Special thanks to GOG for being so supportive of the project! HORSES preorders are now available on the store: www.gog.com/en/game/horses 🙏

Oh yes, Christian Marclay's The Clock is being exhibited in Berlin, always wanted to see it On two nights they'll show it around the clock and access will be free outside of the museum's opening hours www.smb.museum/en/museums-i...

seeing people being like "ehhh Idkkkkk horses DOES sound kinda icky, I get why it was banned" like barely 2 months after a bunch of people kicked up the wildest possible hostile campagn against _itch_ makes me feel like I'm losing my mind lol

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

Gmail users!! They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off. Pass it on!! www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Wednesdays is ✨ free ✨ for World Children's Day in order to raise awareness about child sexual abuse. Grab it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/... or Itch: artefrance.itch.io/wednesdays before November 21th 9PM CET!

Since restarting the event in 2023 I asked #TalkAndPlay attendees to wear an FFP2 mask. I finally dropped the requirement because few people seemed to care and I got tired of having to justify the choice. At the last edition some still wore a mask and it didn't feel weird, which is a win I guess?

1998 truly a golden year for emo & friends

✨IT'S MOVING DAY✨ Are you ready to explore the apartment, renovate it and uncover its turbulent past? Out on Steam (Steamdeck verified!), PlayStation and Xbox NOW!

technology that makes people more productive is inherently used to perpetuate capitalism, that’s why I make videogames, technology that makes people less productive

Jacken für Obdachlose "Die Berliner Stadtmission ruft angesichts der sinkenden Temperaturen zum Spenden von warmen Winterjacken und -mänteln auf. Jeweils zwischen 7 Uhr und 9 Uhr können diese an der Sammelstelle am Washingtonplatz am Hauptbahnhof an Ständen mit blau-roten Flaggen abgegeben werden."

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk