To celebrate hitting 14,000 followers on Bluesky, I'm... gonna shake my tip jars on Ko-Fi and Paypal below, because work's been slow this month and I've got a house move coming up at the end of April... But I'll be also posting a big thread of cool games with under 100 Steam reviews! LET'S GOOOOOO!

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

My college is hiring a full time game design faculty, with a strong union! please share around, link in reply. $85k-100k Salary Benefits and retirement matching Design, Programming or Art disciplines Seattle Area

Imo deep rock galactic has a substantially less toxic online experience than its contemporaries because there is a button that lets you go “hell yeah”. I try not to invest too much into one weird tricks but I think it’s harder to get mad at strangers when they’re always saluting each other and you

This is just Street Fighter

We're a quarter of the way through 2026. (I know. 🫠) A lot of great games have come out -- but who has the time or the money for them? Here are some of the demos that you can download know if you want a free taste. These are demos for games already out and you might have missed.

Games are a unique art form. They are direct instructions, with an audience primed to follow them. They are unlike music. Unlike graphic arts. Unlike fiction. Game design is about how instructions focus us, inspire us, outrage us, motivate us, reveal us, help us connect to each other.

An AI dares to dream that she is human. You’ve been hired to put her in her place. We’re sunset visitor 斜陽過客, the creators of 1000xRESIST, and this is our next game: Prove You’re Human. Published by our friends at @blacktabbygames.com. s.team/a/4533950

Submissions are . ݁₊⊹OPEN⊹₊ ݁. We can’t wait to get our hands on your wonderful games 💖 Submissions are open from today until May 1st, here’s the link: glasgowindiegamesfest.org/links/ What are you waiting for? Submit your indie games .✦ ݁˖TODAY˖ ݁✦. #GIGF26 #indiegames #glasgowgames

I’m putting together my syllabi for next semester and I think I’m going to take this off my reading list, which breaks my heart. I’m at least buoyed by the fact that it’s been making the rounds again. Please do yourself a favor and read it, even if no one has assigned it to you.

⚛️🔭 Hey physics/astronomy science communicators: apply to come to @perimeterinstitute.ca for a workshop in October on how to engage the public in science! Anyone can apply, working in any kind of scicomm (video, audio, text, live performance, whatever it is you do). Check the link for more details!

thread of photos from wikimedia commons that i think are amazing

After emerging from the far side of the moon, the Artemis II astronauts witnessed something few have ever experienced—a total solar eclipse in space. 📷 NASA

We all seem to have forgotten one of the most truly delightful and surprising indie interactive fiction drops of the last decade. 17776 is ostensibly about football, which is why at first glance I thought I wouldn't like it. But it really makes me smile, and the world could use that right now.

For the first time in history, I managed to record my Gay Gaming Professionals GDC Party DJ set! 🎶 And here it is, on Mixcloud. Thanks so much to everyone who made this wonderful evening possible, my ace fellow DJs, and all of the FABULOUS people on the dancefloor 💖 www.mixcloud.com/rich_lem/ric...

I've lost 4 friends to suicide and other friends to health conditions. My first experience losing a friend was when my best friend died when i was 7 due to a heart condition. What I have learned is I'll never wait to tell someone something kind, because you may not get another chance to say it.

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Me: Oh, I love when previous students reach out to give me career updates about things they are proud of! Also Me: Nah, I shouldn't messaged the people who helped me with an update. I don't want to bother them, they are busy and I don't want to be annoying

2–as a value for either a cost input or effect output—is not 1 more than 1, it is twice as much.

One of the *magic* things you can do with a gameplay atom is recontextualize it. Fire burns plants, but creates an updraft -- you must use this updraft to push a fan. Later you have to put out fire to *stop* the updraft to cross a room.

TOMORROW and ALL WEEKEND THE HIVEMIND X WONDERCON

Cleaning out the disk drive and found this.

oh my god this is extremely funny

Absolutely bowled over that Lisa Kudrow has had a DEAD-ON Parker Posey impression this WHOLE time.

Remember all of those times you said you would pick up an indie game if it was on sale. Now's that time. Here's a list of solid titles you can pick up for less than 5 bucks.

Last week was spring break, so I had lunch with a couple friends, caught up on some work (including wedding planning), and played one (1) video game: TR-49, by Inkle Studios and released just a couple months ago. Strong recommend! Some thoughts below. 🧵

There has been plenty of dunking on what DLSS 5 does to characters, but this thread is a really nice breakdown of how it also seems to reduce the detail and fidelity of lighting in scenes, and introduces contradictions in the art design.

Great thread about UI/UX and attention economy, especially when it comes to complex games. Max makes a really good observation that, on large teams, someone needs to be specifically responsible for managing attention.

i wish i had cheese filled fried jalapenos but i’m a jalapeno pauper

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Anyway go to and support and help with narrascope, metatopia and other smaller blooms of practice-sharing wherever they sprout! Big events are extremely hard to sustain and even smaller ones are huge lifts. It would be tragic to lose this unusual culture of communal sharing.

Where do I vote? Am I registered to vote? Does everyone get a ballot in the mail? Get the answers to your election day logistics ahead of California’s June 2 primary election. bit.ly/4cLIkEy

Hello and welcome to my unboxing video

Strong reminder: women have not been independent for as long as some folks would like you to believe. We’ve lost rights that we never should have lost.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

You don’t think adventure games could give you Tetris brain-burn, but just try checking into a hotel room after playing Seance of Blake Manor for a week. “Nightstand!”

Kate has put together an amazing thread full of games to check out. Warning: I added a lot more games to my wishlist than I intended to. 🧵

ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

*batman voice* do you have any cough drops

SOME GENERAL TIPS FOR STEAM GAME DEMOS (from someone who has played so many of them) Note: These tips also apply to games in general! They're good tips!

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

Jesus fucking Christ. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.

low poly cat with an HD head

Designer intent versus player experience.

oh but when *I* just use a bigass quad as the ground plane for my level I'm lazy

Wild story documenting some absolutely unhinged behavior by TikTok.

Just saw an ad that started out "your kids won't remember their best day of screen time" and while I of course broadly agree with the sentiment that you should do activities with your children, don't tell me i don't remember beating zelda a link to the past