Somehow despite everything we're in SF.

The poor Pittsburgh airport T-Rex… hidden away in the basement now.

If you're at #GDC next week join us again for the annual Local Game Community Organizers forum. It's been a challenging past year for game dev and this is a great place to talk with other organizers on how everyone is doing. schedule.gdconf.com/session/loca...

I'm heading to #GDC26 next week! If you want to catch up or just hang out drop me a DM!

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie. Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL. More info:

After watching all the shadow drops in the Indie World someone needs to explain why every game dev decided this week to release their game.

one of my all-time favorite weird and wonderful shows - DON'T HUG ME I'M SCARED - is now on dropout! full web series now; TV series (which less people have seen) over the course of the next few months. big thanks to blink industries, becky, and joe for their faith in us.

Night in the Woods' publisher says TikTok is creating and running racist GenAI ads for its games without permission. https://bit.ly/4kKnB5L

"save systems should dynamically handle object IDs and automatically populate the serialized data of every object that requires save states, and then for dialogue progression it needs to-" team cherry: WRONG. 1400 hardcoded fields in PlayerData.cs

Wake Up Dead Man is just a fun whodunnit time. Give me all of these until Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig are retired.

🕹️ CorgiSpace is OUT NOW! 🏃 Break out of jail (a lot) 🐶 Be a pug 🔪 Stab nazis 💥 Fall off stuff 🌍 Terraform a planet ⛪ Drink various popes 🍄 Farm mushrooms Check it out on Steam & itch.io!

holy moly, ok! we did it?? we made a collection??? it's the first 13 games, bundled up with unlockable dev notes, updated audio, some sneaky bug fixes, cloud saves, and Steam Deck support!! store.steampowered.com/app/4044300/...

We're excited to announce that LOK Digital is OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch! lok-digital.com/switch Featuring approachable mechanics and mind-bending gameplay, LOK Digital is designed by @letibus.bsky.social and @icedropgames.bsky.social and published by Draknek & Friends

Angeline Era is OUT NOW!!! 🔍Every level hidden in plain sight… 🗺️… chart your own path through the world! ⚔️Tons of thrilling combat, mysterious places… 👼… and a soul-shattering story! GET IT HERE!! store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

LOK Digital will launch on Nintendo Switch December 9th! In this charming puzzler from @letibus.bsky.social & @raindrinker.bsky.social , learn world-changing words, master their mind-bending effects & help the LOK creatures thrive. Play the demo and pre-order now www.draknek.org/nintendo/lok...

My annual "The Game Awards is the awards show the industry deserves" post.

Like so many other things in the world, games discourse just sucks right now.

Steam, the go-to destination for childlike anime smut, is so worried about one scene in this art game that it isn’t even letting the developers resubmit it. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

It's finally coming!! On December 8th... I'm releasing my next game, Angeline Era!!! It's a vast, 3D action-adventure where you travel across a country's unmarked overworld, with every level hidden in plain sight. Please look forward to it!! store.steampowered.com/app/2393920

48 hours for the signed version of Tunic: Design Works! There are limited deluxe editions! I am so excited for this <3

Reminder: Spooky Express is OUT NOW! 🚂🧟🧛 Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania. Steam: s.team/a/3352310 itch: draknek.itch.io/spooky-express iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id673842... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

mariners won

Mariners thank god

The folks at @finjico.bsky.social are hiring a Community Assistant to help shape their vibrant Discord community! 📍 Remote, Part-time (U.S. only) 💬 $25/hour, 15-20 hours per week 🚫 Strict no-crunch policy ⤵️

Finji is hiring! 🔎 We're looking for a Community Assistant to work with our fun & friendly Discord community! Learn more & apply: bit.ly/finjicommunity

civilization vi leader two turns before you destroy his lone attacking trebuchet unit with a missile cruiser

🍒 Whoa, what's this?! UFO 50 is available right now on #NintendoSwitch! #UFO50 #IndieWorld

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page! Wishlist... Future? No Thanks! 👉 futurenothanks.com

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

It is an extreme bummer that the guy who provided one of the most adopted creative commons music libraries for the internet is now an AI bro

Also worth noting: Jenny Jiao Hsia's autobiographical opus Consume Me, which won the Grand Prize at this year's Independent Games Festival along with a few other awards, is also delisted in itch search (but also has a searchable Steam listing)

Burn in the USA Celebrate independence by playing independent games about the land of the free. Friday July 4th 7-11PM LIKELIKE, Pittsburgh likelike.org/2025/06/25/b...

the pittsburgh pirates are out of town for the entirety of anthrocon. the MLB has negated andrew mccutchen's annual superhuman "furries" tweet performance. pittsburgh sports fans can't have shit in 2025.

Tune into the Xbox showcase on Sunday where they'll reveal the next Call of Duty, made by a solo dev and 2,999 of his friends

Tonight only at LIKELIKE Tide Breakers: a sci-fi city council simulator for 6 players. likelike.org

I got my Switch 2 so my day is complete.

🧩 Wilmot Works it Out is OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch! Sort and complete beautiful images and hang them in your house! Assemble more than 60 hand-drawn puzzles and unlock home customization options, additional rooms, and even a cat or dog! This house is going to feel like a home in no time at all.

Love how the economy is becoming a Russian nesting doll of tech companies built to solve the problems created by other tech companies www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

Finji is hiring! 👀 We're looking for a Rigging Artist to help us make @usualjune.bsky.social 💜 Applications due by May 13th. Learn more: finji.notion.site/rigging-arti...

Nintendo can get around the tariffs by using a floating barge with claw machines just outside US waters You can take a boat and pay $450 for unlimited attempts to win a Switch 2 from a claw machine If you win, it counts as “personal treasure,” exempt from tariffs under maritime salvage laws

The fact that it's been 5 days and we're still melting down economically is the greatest evidence that no cabal or illuminati exists.

It’s begun

Red Faction Gorilla

NEW RHYTHM HEAVEN GAME

GDC was a wild one this year, but thanks to all the devs for being awesome and pushing the industry forward.

Doing the Local Game Community roundtable at #GDC2025 again today. Looking forward to seeing other organizers and sharing tips and stories about the past year! schedule.gdconf.com/session/loca...

On my way to GDC again. Somehow Moscone always beckons…

The Luka trade is great because it shows we can still get enraged about stuff that ultimately doesn't matter.

A happy New Years to all that celebrate.