Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat : Success hubris and the disrespect for expertise - People who are successful in one field or industry assuming they can transfer that expertise to games - Peter principle - Cognitive arrogance - Are we just gatekeeping This and more today. Join us:

Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: Writing for Games! Welcome back @davidgallaher.bsky.social - Writing vs Narrative Design - Writing for fun vs professionally - Dealing with creative blocks - How narrative with each other - the AI elephant in the room - Managing writers Come listen in:

Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: Designing Your Playerbase - How you decide your community feel through game design - How mechanics impact player toxicity - Why team diversity can determine who ends up playing your game - Which games are great at this...or not so great Join us here:

Hi! I'm Úna-Minh Kavanagh, an Irish, award-winning, writer & #gamedev 💚 Author: Anseo, DIY #Gaeilge 1&2, Lonely Planet ☘️ Managed Irish translations: Among Us, VVVVVV, Axyz, Crowded. Followed & More 🎮 Prev. Lead Producer: EyesofHellfire 🔗 Portfolio: unaminhkavanagh.com 👾 Solo games: unaminh.itch.io

Started the Game Industry Coffee Chat: 2026! - Congrats! You survived '25. Now what? - Who's likely to hire (and get hired)? - Where is the market likely to go, for platforms, for game genres, for disciplines, geographically? - How to approach the next 12 months...even the next 2 months.

New year but still job hunting! If anyone has leads on narrative design, writing (video games or tabletop/board games), DEI consulting, or editing; HMU via LinkedIn or I can DM you my email. Unfortunately, due to past harassment, I don't have a publicly available email address.

First work day of 2026. Time to make an indie game 🔥

We're launching into Early Access on January 21st #RPG #pixelart

Reminder as the new year begins that I head up GameSpot’s opinions section and would love to read your pitches! I’m always on the hunt for timely and thoughtful criticism and analysis on games and gaming/internet culture, so feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] if interested ☺️✨

Shaking off the holiday break and remembering how calendars work😅 My current gig runs through March. If you’re hiring a Producer / AP / QA Lead this spring, I know a guy. It’s me. I've got a QA background with strong Liveops and Art production experience. CSM, CSPO, & 15+ years in games. DMs open!

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☁️ InnoGames - Senior Cloud & Windows Administrator 👉 tinyurl.com/5d8ph3az Help maintain and scale their infrastructure. Ideal for experienced admins who enjoy keeping large live systems running smoothly behind the scenes. #gamedev #indiedev #hiring #jobs #gamecareers #gamesjobs

hi everybody! I'm urgently looking for full-time game writing/narrative design work. I'm a 6-year industry pro working with both AAA and indie studios on titles like Borderlands 4, Endoparasitic, and [REDACTED]. I also edit and consult! Updated portfolio is live on my new site: www.nessacannon.com

Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: Running your game business: - Starting a new business (consulting, studio, co-dev, freelance) - finding work or clients - logistics and paperwork - how much work it is to find work...and to get the people paying for the work to actually work with you

All the money in the world won't prevent you showing your whole ass in an interview.

Placeholder assets should scream 'placeholder' at you.

Ranger Rumble is now available to pre-register in more countries! Specifically Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland! :D #RatchetAndClank

Victor Game Studio (VGS) is looking for a talented Level Designer who can blend creativity with technical skills. 📅 Full-Time ✅ Unreal Engine 🌐 REMOTE 🔗 remotegamejobs.com/jobs/victor-... #gamejobs #gamedevjobs #UE5 #unrealengine #remotegamejobs #gamedesign

Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat - different types of businesses. - for-profit vs non-profit - what it's really like starting a new studio...logistically - contracts! - legal counsel - jurisdictions - LLC vs partnerships vs consulting vs co-op vs ... discord.gg/6YaVQUuDK

i'm open to relocating, but requiring a candidate to move their entire family during a recession when layoffs and studio closures are still happening is too risky. no one can predict or offer job stability, so it'd be nicer to be laid off near a support system than say, thousands of miles away 🫠

We've opened the Game Industry Coffee Chat for the day! Talking about 2026. - AA making a comeback in a big way - how many games launched in 2025 vs 24, and where were they? - how TGAs really showcased new AA devs and publishers - what even is AA now? Come join in! discord.gg/6YaVQUuDK

Guys. I wanna work on a sci fi game

Just as a reminder, I'm still looking for work! I have 5+ years of experience in the video game industry, and if you saw @civilization.2k.com on the TGA, that's one of the projects I worked on. Since then, I have worked on various games on UE, Unity, Godot, Ren'Py as a narrative designer :3 #LFW

🌟 Atlantis Animation – Sets/Props & Shading Artist 👉 tinyurl.com/yypmyrvm Great for artists who love detail work and want to make a visible impact on visual fidelity. #gamedev #indiedev #hiring #jobs #gamecareers #gamesjobs

Work with me and way cooler people on our Star Wars game www.arcanautstudios.com/careers

I'm now open to work and looking for my next role as a Writer or Game Designer in games, now that my contract has ended. I have worked on the award-nominated Civilization VII, and have many other indie and AA projects where I was responsible for content, systems and production.

May as well just shout this out because at this point I'm #lookingforwork. I'm looking for employment. I have 10+ years of Illustration, Asset Admin, Social Media Managment, Voice Acting, Concept Art, Creative Writing, and Animation Storyboarding. Any leads would help out.

Reminder that my husband is looking for a 3D gameplay animator role! Open to freelance, contract, all levels. Times are rough out there.

Congrats to @nookada.bsky.social!

We're proud of GICC moderator @angelosmako.bsky.social and his team at @gamebreaking.bsky.social on the launch of Dungeon Rampage (after 8 years offline)! store.steampowered.com/app/3053950/...

Each Sunday, we're on the lookout for accounts we should follow here on Bluesky. We want game Industry vets, aspiring devs, game critics and journos - anyone posting interesting takes on video game development or business, really. Please tell us!

Today ,GICC is all about "you're doing it wrong!" Diving in to all the stories of folks who just didn't get it. What they did, why it wasn't the right approach, and what they could have done better. Real stories from real devs who've been there. Join in! discord.gg/fWccA5DdS

Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: Disagreement - Many people entering the industry seem to be surprised at how much disagreement exists. - taking/making it personal! (And how to avoid it) - How people have issues often separating the argument from the one making it discord.gg/Pn897pGyP

It's that time again! Every Friday, we have the Game Industry Weekly Winddown where game industry vets (and friends) get together to hash out the week. Come join us, either to casually listen along or to vibrantly join in with us. discord.gg/nXfAb4zD

This morning in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: Silence! - Accusations that recent Rockstar layoffs targeted unionizing workers - TGA has apparently erased all mention of future class from its website. - Stories from other devs about times they've been punished for speaking up. gameindustry.cc

This morning in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: the value in self-aware reflection - Refusing to change how you build studios or games; successful auteurs who suddenly fail - the value post-mortems and retros - how constraints are good discord.gg/GICC

This week in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: What We Actually Do Veteran devs will be talking about working in the industry right now. The work that goes into building assets, tools, pipelines, estimates, scheduling, testing - all of it! Start your day here: discord.gg/gicc

One of the most rewarding aspects of making games? Getting letters about how your games got them through tough times, or brought their friends and family together when they were apart. Making things that can do that? Magical.

First game I've been credited on in like... a decade (due to working on Live Service titles) launched this morning at 6 AM Local. Around 7AM, we have almost 10k people watching on Twitch. All this is so surreal to me. Voyagers of Nera is now live in Early Access. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qUE...

Today's theme: Telling your own story - What trips up startup founders in pitch meetings - How juniors can use their lack of experience as a competitive advantage - "Tell me about yourself" - Where the STAR method fails - How failure is actually valued by hiring managers Join us: gameindustry.cc

This morning in the Game Industry @Coffee Chat: Standing Out Why you're not being looked at for roles Why you aren't getting that promotion Why your pitch isn't taken seriously Why your game isn't selling Why you got laid off Hard topic with hard love today. See you there: gameindustry.cc

In the Game Industry Coffee Chat this morning: Living the Dream - Dream jobs vs Dream life - What IS your dream and why? - Pipe dreams vs reality - What are you willing to sacrifice? - Why? Is it even worth it? - How do you know you've made it? - What else is there? discord.gg/gicc

Firing up the Game Industry Coffee Chat ☕ Today's theme: the power of "no" - why saying no is more important than saying yes - prioritizong s hat to work on - time and money, the two constants - scope perfection: when is good enough good enough discord.gg/gicc

Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: When bucking trends can literally cost you support and money. How this leads to developers buying into technologies, features, strategies, and even political statements that they don't actually agree with for the sake of keeping an income. discord.gg/gicc

We've opened the Game Industry Coffee Chat this morning. We've got some subjects to hit this week (future of the industry, hiring on the rise?, AI overhype, more on Krafton/UW), but for this morning we're diving in first on Stop Killing Games. Join in with us at discord.gg/gicc

Every Friday, game industry vets join us for our Weekly Wind Down. It's a casual virtual conversation where we talk through whatever and however. Grab a preferred beverage and let's get into it. discord.gg/gicc

Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: - What to do after the layoff...when you were NOT impacted - How to help people looking? Specifically, what can you do to help people who need it? - What NOT to do - If you need help, how can you make it easy on the folks you need help from? discord.gg/gicc

Working in the game industry? Trying to break in for that first role? Looking to get into real conversations from actual devs who've been there? It's dangerous to go alone. Take this: discord.gg/gicc

Today in the chat, we talked about about the odds and outliers (and how to plan for both). - Increase your odds to get a callback for a role - Improve your odds of not being laid off in the first place? How to prepare in case you are. - Bad advice given based on outliers discord.gg/gicc

Today in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: How do you move forward when everything is going wrong? How do you know when it's time to quit? We're talking resilience and discernment today in the GICC. Join us: discord.gg/gicc