early on in anodyne 1's life a puzzle game dev vocally quit the 8-bit maze. 13 years later a user review said the game was mid but they loved the 8 bit maze. people will have preferences for different parts of your game. that's why metacritic 70-80 is god's territory while metacritic 90 is sloptown

Doing the most insane mixup of my life while I hear my wife from behind me explaining transformers lore

The internet, on scientists: They're secretive gatekeepers, they hoard esoterica/the truth, they don't want anyone in their ivory tower little clubs Actual scientists: LOOK, WE FOUND A 300 MILLION YEAR OLD FOSSILIZED CLOACCAL IMPRESSION AND THE VENT IS HORIZONTAL! PLZ READ MY 67-PAGE PAPER ABOUT IT

DMV/Arlington friends, this lovely gentleman had to flee Afghanistan after building a delivery app business with 300,000 users there. He’s starting over building an errand-runner app, message him on LinkedIn to be one of a refugee-owned business’s first customers: www.linkedin.com/in/masistani...

also, this is a post for GDC but not exclusively to GDC: if you liked Civ 7’s narrative system, you should come tell me! I had a friend praise it when we were talking today and it really does mean a lot to hear that from people who admired what I did with it

yeah this is basically it

You know what, I'm gonna double dip on the gacha. I will assign you a random DC Comic book character for every $5 you send me on ko-fi.com/alexjaffe. Make sure to include your BlueSky handle in the memo.

AGENT ASHCROFT? WELL HOW THE HELL ARE YOU? UMBRELLA? GOOD IDEA, YOU NEVER KNOW WITH THIS WEATHER.

it's international women's day. buy me food. paypal.me/juliemuncy

please help if you can!

Spare a thought for your local bluesky gamedev during GDC

chat i just got added to a "daylight savings enjoyers - these people are fucking depraved for liking that shit" list and i am begging people to stop being weird lmao

Oh, it's International Women's day! Women sure are freakin' amazing, huh? 🥰 Oh, and trans women are women, don't forget! Anyways, always support the awesome women around you, but make sure to give them extra lovin' today, alright? *coughs and slides a link to you* ➡️ paypal.me/ellyberries

the average transsexual has watched more friends die than the average US army cuck

every time you learn an interesting fact and you don't spend three months putting together a six hour video essay about it you're hurting all of humanity, you selfish bastard

We’re also celebrating the wonderful women behind All Will Rise! 🖊️ Narrative director, Meghna! 🌎 Climate law specialist, Loes! 🎨 Art director, Marocha! 🎶 Audio designer, Neha! 💬 Social media and community manager, Chanté! Happy International Women’s Day! ❤️ #IWD26 #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev

pokopia is sending me with this

With the release being this year.

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i made it in time for the deadline for #7drl so here is my little roguelike mining story game!!! ⛏️ you do not know why but you long to mine 🪨 mine to the bottom of the cave & find the treasure that awaits you there... play it now!!! → npckc.itch.io/you-do-not-k...

It’s GDC so my pinned skeet and the attached thread are getting some attention. I’ll layer onto this skeet with a recent example. My wife’s family is Canadian and she was just up in Vancouver dealing with some family stuff. Took a bit longer than she had anticipated and she needed laundry rotation.

happy international women's day

when you ask Grok for financial advice

one nice thing about exfil shooters done right is that you could just put all kinds of wacky bullshit in the loot pool cause its all transient. glad marathon is taking some stabs at that.

has anyone ever made a sandbox game that's literally about a sandbox

Obligatory once a year "It is my birthday and also International Women's Day therefore I am The International Woman" post

If you work in a creative industry, you *must* read this “If you were a man, every one of those negatives would be in the positive column.” - My first performance review in games included as negatives: “personality is too big, too confident, asks too many questions” Yes, there’s a double standard

I think about how elitism has consumed american education through its constantly increasing tuition. How MBAs have destroyed every stable institution on earth for personal enrichment. How a culture of STEM first ate away at arts and social sciences and basic ethics amongst our tech communities

Social media is a turn based strategy game. You have 100 posts left to benevolently manipulate public opinion and solve all of Earth’s problems. If you fail, humanity is doomed and it’s all your fault. You are history’s fulcrum

if a waymo gets anywhere near me I'm going to fight it for its rare drops

There’s a quote from a book I read often when I was younger: “it’s such a pointless unhappiness.” I think about that a lot with the state of things in the US right now. It’s so miserable, and so pointless.

My Dame Da New Game that was just Like A Dragon is getting cancelled for costing Infinite Wealth

i am so excited to listen to the album alongside everyone ~ please come join us in just about 4 hours!!

my notifications these days are basically a buffet of "here is 1000 word thread of detailed nuanced geopolitical analysis" and "check out this rock that looks like a cock"

happy birthday beepo

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

it's weird to see someone do the "how come drawing skinny characters as fat is ok but drawing the reverse is bad?" thing. all I will say to that is fat bodies are still heavily marginalized and stigmatized. that's it. there's nothing greater to it.

i'm very used to the idea that writing is thinking but it doesn't stop being funny to sit down to a blank page and be like "i'm not sure what this game was saying" and then over a couple of hours and 1200 words to be like "oh. it was eco-fascism"

On my deathbed, with a strained gasp: I never did find out... what the fox says...

bezos bought a prestigious national investigative newspaper so he could gut it and run "consider setting a monthly budget" and "pay off your credit cards" tier financial advice columns like those blogs with adsense spots on all 4 corners of the screen

mfw when the

it does tremendous things to decrease your own resentment to do your own projects that you feel totally good about and to feel like some people out there appreciate it too. i'd recommend it. resentment is one of the bigger poisons we all need to find ways to confront and deal with whenever possible.

And for full transparency so you KNOW I am not kidding– this is the sad state of my bank accounts. US checking and savings (lol less than a dollar lol) and my JP account.

Good news: I've started a new job in Kyoto as a Tour Coordinator. Been working for a week, and things are good Bad news: my commute costs me ¥8,400 a week ($56 USD)... and I don't get paid until April 15th. That's five weeks! Plus groceries, rent, etc. Even $3 can help! ko-fi.com/christine_da...

Astonishingly powerful turtle fit

the tournament is over and the winner has been found

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