📈🚀📈🚀📈🚀📈🚀 Hey come check out some experimental clicker / idle / incremental games! 👇📈👇📈👇📈👇📈👇 For their final projects in my 'economics for game designers' class at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social, students made some awesome incremental games, so I wanted to do a thread sharing their work! 🧵⤵️ 1/~15

new blog post: some Manifesto Jam 2026 notes + my submission for this year, "A Game Is A Knife"

Our next game, The Incident at Galley House, is coming out July 14, 2026! You can wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3641000/...

gameplay trailer for zero company is out!! it's been a dang delight to work on this game. tactics sickos are gonna love this youtu.be/WxLUZ1omFA8?...

Cats share a fascinating bond with humanity because when you see a cat walking around outside you and the cat share an equally intense but opposite reaction where the cat is like “ah shit I don’t want to talk to this guy” and you get to be like “cat my old friend! Come here buddy!”

Neat thread about a game managing the player’s experience from behind the scenes.

A scrub, you say? Hmm. Is it known by any other name, perhaps?

I can’t believe it’s already May.

Probably my all-time favorite quote about editing is, some clueless individual asked Martin Scorsese's editor Thelma Schoonmaker how such a nice lady could edit such violent movies, and she replied "Marty's movies aren't violent until I edit them."

i’m SO excited to announce that a game i was narrative lead on is available to play on steam!! Richard is a 2D social simulator inspired by persona V. i was on it since nearly the beginning with characters i adored building and writing. go play Richard now! 👑 store.steampowered.com/app/3635830/...

🔍The Big Hollow: 1982 is officially OUT NOW!🔍 Think like a killer - follow FBI procedure to solve a grounded serial killer mystery. 🕵️🔪 Inspired by The Silence of the Lambs & The Golden Idol games, great for armchair detectives & true crime fans alike. Links below 👇👇

In one hour I'm going to be streaming as part of the UCI Streaming Lab's end-of-year Games Showcase. Come check out some cool student games with me! twitch.tv/ucistreaminglab

As a game designer, maybe you’ve got some high-level goals for a [system/level/feature], but how you achieve them is a blank slate. Too blank. Earlier in my career this meant undirected brainstorming until something clicked. Agonizing. Here’s my top-down strategy for this kind of brainstorming

I liked all the parts of The Mandalorian and Grogu that were about muppets, which was a lot of them.

Game design is hard because you really need to solve problems without creating more problems And nobody has ever done that

This is the day the shortlists for the Spiel des Jahres, the most prestigious games prize in the world, are revealed in Germany, and I'm going to be livebleeting the livestream for your game-loving delectation. www.spiel-des-jahres.de/livestream.h...

Last week was the USC Games Expo and I'm finally recovered enough to post about it. Congrats to everyone who showed their work! More than 70 games exhibited, including VR, tabletop, networked multiplayer, alt control, and a full miniature golf course. www.uscgamesexpo.com

a game i’ve been working on for a year has released on steam!! i’m the narrative lead for the hack n’ slash co-op stitchlings! i’m so proud of this project and team and had such a blast developing this story go grab a friend and play stitchlings now!! store.steampowered.com/app/4200560/...

hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*

It’s the USC Games Expo! I’ve been really busy so I haven’t been posting about it but tune into the livestream in about 45 minutes. uscgamesexpo.com

Ahahaha who gave me access to a camera? #DarkForestGB @uscgames.bsky.social #gbstudio #indiedev

One of my sister’s goats just delivered her first of two babies! This guy is Han Solo and he’s the cutest thing I have ever seen. Lookit those ears!

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

My work is hiring for an associate director of digital communications (ie, my supervisor). We’re a team of writers and editors looking for the same, along with PR/copywriting/CMS experience. Posting here: www.bard.edu/employment/d...

JOHN FOGERTY: I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain JAMES TAYLOR: okay, you’re not gonna fucking believe this

Eyes on the prize (toy mouse 🐁)

How to write a SENTIMENT REPORT? 🤔📰 I finally got around to writing about a frequently asked question! 🙏 What is a sentiment report? 🙏 Are they needed for your game? 🙏 How to create reports - whether you use a tool or manually do it! 🙏 An example of one~ Enjoy! www.victoriatran.com/writing/how-...

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.

in canada we call it ehpril