You don't need Deus Ex (ugh) remastered, just buy it for a buck and play it in 800x600 with fixed lipsyncing, unfiltered textures, and brightness way down 😌

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

The number of people I know in games looking for work right now is staggering. ...including me! (if you need a c++ programme with nearly fifteen years of gamedev experience across eight platforms and five engines, get in touch)

I had an idea for a bigger game than I'd usually attempt, but I can't stop being fascinated by the idea of procedurally generated history for a game. Just thinking about the data structure tells me it'll be a challenge though!

A video on gyms, zoos and museums! A must-watch by @rystorm.com for any indie out there. Goes into why you should choose different ways of documentation sometimes, learned a lot myself! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PJR...

You’re banning kids from the internet but beaming psychosis-creating, suicide-coaching, wrong-60%-of-the-time autocomplete robots that cause cognitive atrophy directly at them

No take, only throw

This is literally the same shit Putin has done in occupied Ukrainian territory.

Not to brag or anything, but my 2 year old just beat 1-1 in mario bros on his own

i wrote about mothership.blog for @theguardian.com today by the way. thanks so much to @mackeza.bsky.social for the opportunity to tell more people about mothership and what we are doing with the site <3 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

I played this game a hell of a lot, and enjoyed the hell out of it. Definitely worth a look!

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

get on my level

It's weird I was REPEATEDLY told that payment processors "had" to ban all nsfw to mitigate the risk of processing CSAM. So if that's true then why wasn't X immediately dumped by every one of those payment processors when Grok turned into an automated CSAM generator?

Tracking my mental health by the ratio of things I write on here that I delete without posting. It's not great right now!

This is very applicable to indie game devs. Don't try to make a game for the masses, it's not going to work. Make your own weird game and don't water it down at all. SOMEONE out there is gonna go crazy for it, maybe a lot of someones. People can feel passion, and they react to it.

Decided to learn a little game maker as my kid is interested in it. Seems pretty decent, but it has some very interesting gotchas. It could really do with 'find references' and 'goto definition' functions in the editor though. Took me too long to realise object functions get defined in Create

My NES seems to have given up the ghost at long last. I'll have to try removing the anti piracy chip, and if that doesn't work, cart connector replacement 😭

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Why have all the game engines gone for a big field of nodes like Blueprints for visual coding, rather than the so-called "spreadheet approach with folding sub-code" of smaller apps like Construct or Clickteam Fusion? It made game making easy to learn for me, and very readable.

We're all ready for S2 of Frieren, right?

Makes me feel insane to live in a world that's persecuting trans folk while simultaneously doing big billboards advertising gender affirming care to cis people???

Something positive: Spry Fox is spinning out of Netflix. We are independent (once again!) and preparing to launch Spirit Crossing. We wrote up a little blog post musing about this wild adventure. Worth sharing the good news. spryfox.com/a-16-year-ol...

I signed up to the ebook borrowing system of my library, to look for a specific book. I've learned that they don't have it, but a neighbouring council has it physical and digital I can request they ship the physical copy they have to my library, but I can't borrow the digital one. wtff?

I gave an off the cuff answer to a question about singletons on /r/gamedev, and someone responded with a full screed about how wrong I was and how I probably didn't even know what a singleton was (mostly based on them misunderstanding me) They ended up deleted their comment in shame 😂

Adding Breakfast Game and Lunch Rush to my linkedin page feels really strange. It's sensible, I think: they are a good demonstration that yes, I do know what I'm doing making games. But I didn't make them with any financial, capitalistic, or career outcomes in mind. I just thought they were cool

This makes me weep with laughter every time I see it

I'm converting my game Lunch Rush for arcade, and trying to build my own arcade cabinet for it. The interesting thing is that the vertical aspect ratio feels terrible with a 9:16 aspect ratio on a cabinet, but high res 4:3 screens barely exist any more! sireel.itch.io/lunch-rush

Two little kittens have lost their mittens. Brockley.

cleaning up my desktop and found this little gem

I hit the button ✅😭🐸 🚨BIG HOPS is OUT NOW🚨 Get it on Steam | Switch | PS5 for just $17.99 with our 10% launch discount! #indiegames #nintendoswitch #ps5

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

Website of 2026 so far. Trust me, just click.

Yearly reminder that IRC still works. If discord sucks you can just use IRC. I wonder if anyone built video calls for any clients using DCC

Wish I could internalize this

And Might and Magic!

second degree murder, and specifically depraved heart murder, wherein the accused doesn't actively plan to kill a specific person or people but acts with callous disregard for human life - like firing a gun into a crowd or driving drunk - should apply to decisions made by CEOs and heads of industry

I took joint 3rd/4th at a 31 player pauper tournament! I lost to the UK pauper champion in a mirror(ish) match of elves vs elves. I can live with that 😂

Importantly, HIS MAJESTY THE WORM's gots jokes

Today is my birthday, and I am 35. As with many of my birthdays, I'll spend this evening flying bc it's a cheap day to fly. I'd like people to share and/or wishlist my game, and if it seems interesting to you wishlist it (the description has so much info). Alternatively boop your kitty for me.

This is a good idea.

Part of what bugs me about all of the discussion around programmers potentially losing jobs due to LLMs is that many people seem to be operating under the flawed assumption that the primary function of programmers is to type code into a keyboard. The product is the software, and not the code.

Uh... Spy/accountant/thief (managerial) for the last book I finished Ex paladin, in-house muscle for a holy order I'm not part of for the last book I started I'll be impressed if anyone guesses either book