This is the Italy I like

For context: Steam pays out by the 30th of the month following sales. That means between 30 and 60 days from the moment your game was purchased by someone to that money reaching your bank account. Itch offers an option where you immediately get the money.

Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.

Grew up in bars surrounded by Trevisane so they will always be my favourites

The Berlin marathon is taking place today. I honestly don't understand why we allow public transport to be interrupted every year for this event, affecting a huge part of the city's population.

Palestinian Voices in Games announced - a network of more than 50 industry professionals supporting Palestinian video game creators, with 4 games currently receiving help. (Read more: Palestinian Voices in Games)

Thank you Julian for the flattering picture (yes that's a 868-HACK shirt I got printed a few years ago)

The bad news: the speaker that was supposed to give a presentation at Talk & Play tonight can't make it due to illness ☹️ The good news: we found a replacement! @ianjb.bsky.social will talk about naturalistic sound design in @despelote.game ⚽️ #TalkAndPlay ➡️ www.meetup.com/berlingamesc...

Reminds me of this incredible stat: "In 2012, 60 trans-related articles were published by Britain’s media. By 2022, it was more than 7,500." (Dysphorum via Trans Media Watch) 60 to 7,500. PDF link committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

OPEN CALL VIDEO GAME CREATION ON OUR ALT CTRL 💸 2500€ PRIZE 📅 Deadline to submit: Sept 15, 2025 🛠️ Production: Nov–Dec 📦 Delivery: Jan 15, 2026 🎪 Exhibitions in Strasbourg & Amiens (Feb–Mar 2026) 👉 random-bazar.fr/open-calls-f... 🔎 Check out our technical sheet on the wonderful footpedals

Great performance but I'm mostly amazed by the desk jump and barrel roll during the last song, he didn't hit a single thing on the desk! youtu.be/ylL-SSRDyJc?...

I've been bedridden for the last 9 months, unable to work as I try to get a surgeon and insurance lined up for my operation to let me work again. If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Time isn't on my side here, and waiting is very expensive. ko-fi.com/fooneturing/

i like Silksong in a lot of ways, but one huge failing of the game is that with all the resources they have and all the time they had to make the game, they choose to have no accessibility options at all. i hope they can improve on this. i have a lot of concrete ideas for easy to implement options.

This Wednesday at panke.gallery: Hostile Platforms / Beloved Margins – solo show by Everest Pipkin; opening: 10 Sep 2025, 7 PM panke.gallery/exhibition/h... This is a retrospective of browser-based works from the last decade, from the lens of (or lack of) stability practices on corporate platforms.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Registrations to attend Talk & Play #52 are now open! ➡️ www.meetup.com/berlingamesc... (we still have a handful of spots available for the showcase 😯) #TalkAndPlay

I'm excited to announce I'm going to be running a four-week remote workshop on creating interactive fiction with #bitsy starting at the end of September! Games created in the workshop will be featured in an exhibition at Accent Sisters in New York, with whom I'm partnering on this project!

The first ever Sokpop Direct is starting in a few minutes... Tune in now! 🧦🧦 youtu.be/88l9l3m5Vyw

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

❌ Solar power is ‘a serious threat to agriculture and food security’ ✅ Ultimately, solar panels take up relatively little land…less than golf courses in many countries. Some farmers may not like them – but others see them as a welcome source of revenue...

Talk & Play #52: showcase registrations are now open! The event will take place on Wednesday, September 17 from 18:30 at UE Campus Berlin 👾 Submit your game-related project here forms.gle/HwNTQ4K158YY... #TalkAndPlay

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

And continuing the analogy, that doesn’t mean zero driving, because cars will always have some purpose, it means not single-mindedly pursuing the impossible goal of everyone driving a car everywhere as fast as possible and destroying everything that makes being alive in a place worth it.

Focusing only on the “efficiency” of AI is like focusing on driving time in cities. The cost of building to save a few minutes is social services not provided, reinforced economic stratification, and the mental and physical effects of cars having more right to exist in public than people.

I never thought I would see this in my life, and that they’re making it immediately generic so it’s affordable is making me want to cry

For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products

Beautiful short film about Karel Martens, one of the most influential graphic designers in the world www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvn_...

Before the 2008 crash a few people rang the alarm, but most of us didn’t see it coming. It took years for normies like me to grasp the subprime mess. The coming crisis, compounded by tariffs, deportations, and public divestment, is so transparent it almost feels planned.

Every day brings new analyses of the AI bubble: the overinvestment in data centers, the lack of profits, the unreliability of LLMs, the impact on energy and the environment… Yet nothing and nobody can hit the brakes. The financial market is a runaway train and we are all passengers.

Come join the coolest Berlin Gamedev Office. Desks are available from September 1st already!

Definitely wasn’t expecting this: @fernantastic.bsky.social showing a new version of Panoramical (!) integrating Doodle Studio 95 (!!) at Show Us Your Screens in Berlin tonight

This is exactly--and I mean exactly--how Holocaust deniers have long discredited the Final Solution being a concerted effort & high-level order. "The Jews in the camps all died of typhoid outbreaks"

this is not to say that they've been doing a perfect job. frankly, they're a mess. but they are certainly doing more for me than steam is

just got a payout from itch that i requested a week ago. there's a lot of misinformation going around about itch, so i want to be clear that itch is currently allowing me to: - sell my porn work - display it on my profile page - receive money for it

I've had the pleasure of being part of this beautiful not-for-profit community space for game developers since its very beginning in 2015. Due to all the shit happening in the industry right now we have a bunch of desks available for rent and we need to find new tenants fast. Please share!

I only did pizza for nine years, but after that (relatively) short time I got so used to the feel of dough that I could judge temperatures within two degrees by hand, nail weights without a scale, and get a full pie from phone to oven in twenty seconds. All labor is skilled labor.

I've had the pleasure of being part of this beautiful not-for-profit community space for game developers since its very beginning in 2015. Due to all the shit happening in the industry right now we have a bunch of desks available for rent and we need to find new tenants fast. Please share!

I've been thinking a lot about how I really hate the implication that AI skeptics are luddites because most of the AI skeptics I know are relatively tech savvy while the biggest AI champions I know can barely use email

People take good stuff for granted after a while, so as a reminder for those of you who forgot these are some things you can do as a creator on itch that are not possible on any other game distribution platform (in some cases on any other website really):

With payment processors and governments censoring the Internet and queer content, there’s never been a better time to start making and selling and buying zines in person.

Posted this a few months ago when itch went offline (following the bogus phishing report from Funko), still very relevant today for different reasons

Filehosts, stores, websites. They just go. That’s it then. Just gone. Our ecosystem, our ability to support each other, has taken hit after hit, people cut adrift or left to sink. Sometimes you have to look at something as imperfect but load bearing and fight for it. That’s Itch right now.

what use is your moral purity and queer anger if it achieves the exact same outcome our oppressors are gunning for? building things takes work, so much more work than preserving what we already have. if we tear down every imperfect tool we'll have nothing

still rattled by the sheer giddy glee with which some queers are coming for itch.io, one of the largest collections of queer games in existence. i know it's scary to accept, but we do actually have good things worth defending. we have things it would damage us to lose

itch.io has been nothing but supportive of LGBTQ+ work since the beginning. it pains me to see the community turn on them like this and so gleefully spread misinformation about them without even giving them a shred of benefit of the doubt. journalists too...

an actual gift of the internet age is how relatively easy it has become for non-wealthy people to maintain memory systems. both personal ones (photos, backups, searchable mail) and collective ones (wikis, archives, fan communities) the glee with which that is being destroyed right now floors me

Israel called Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif a "terrorist." Then they killed him. How many more journalists killed in Gaza will it take for us to do something? @premthakker.bsky.social reports. Read the full story: zeteo.com/p/breaking-i...

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 28th More info 👇 grants.draknek.org

Itch has supported my community for nearly a decade. Anyone talking shit about them being anti-LGBT doesn't know what they're talking about and needs to fuck off. You're not helping anyone and you're blaming the wrong people. bsky.app/profile/make...