i’m not lying when i tell you that this is the first time i’ve been hyped for a video game in years

KEEP THOSE WISHLISTS COMING!! <3

For the weekend crowd: it's happening!! :D

You heard right, we’re announcing N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO! Wishlist it on Steam now: store.steampowered.com/app/3040020/...

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

from this just-published @shmuplations.bsky.social translation, icymi https://shmuplations.com/earthbound/

Another awesome preview of N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO... it's pretty awesome when the critic is saying the exact things you've been saying internally. <3 Now we just need to finish the damn thing! ;) www.consolecreatures.com/n-plus-infin...

Hold on... N+ Infinity Times Two was PC Gamer's #1 game **in all of Summer Games Fest**?! That's amazing!! :D www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Another really great article about what playing N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO is like — so awesome people had such a great time ❤️🔥

BEST PLATFORMER EVER MADE MADE BY BEST CANADIANS EVER MADE

This is such an awesome piece to read — love love love when people GET these games, and see what makes them so special. It’s the best ❤️

It makes me so happy that Metanet are continuing to work in this space still, finding new directions to explore. There are so few examples of this. The original N came out 22 years ago! How incredible to still be exploring what they want to do with their art and design practice. So fucking cool.

If you're at Play Days, many of the games shown off today will be playable! See you this weekend and happy gaming!

finally, a video game

Announcing N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO! Watch this amazing trailer, and then wishlist on Steam (link below): youtu.be/-Jhy9HNs-u0

N Plus Infinity Times Two is a multiplayer focused iteration of The World's Best Platformer™! Hop into the game's Discord to sign up for playtesting, and wishlist the game on Steam, and get ready for when the game comes out next year.

..only an hour or two to go! :D

ICYMI: we're going to be announcing our new game at Day of the Devs -- in less than 12 hours! :D

Metanet Software (N++ devs) will announce a new game at Day of the Devs Summer Game Fest Showcase on June 5th

;) ;) ;)

YES... HA HA HA... YES! www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

Come check out N++ Racing League: unofficial spring training stream -- aka "Rocket-Murder Time"! ;) www.twitch.tv/ninzwz

I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.

I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool. And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue.

As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

Google’s AI Overviews are providing “tens of millions of wrong answers … every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute.” wow, i love the AI future!

This game deserves at least 1000 reviews... it's truly exceptional across the full spectrum of game design. Mainly, it's just really really fun, clever/inventive, and expects the player to engage and develop themselves (ie no silly in-game "xp"; the human playing needs to level up their brains).

The fact that it's hard, but you still want to anyway, is how you know it's worth doing. It means you're learning, growing, exploring, discovering, building, or maybe even adding something to the world that wasn't there before: knowledge, beauty, community, or even new life.

great thread! AND i want to add that making art is GOOD work the act of making is GOOD work. the action, the verb, the process the people that own the plagiarism machine, all they can see is that you can sell a made thing...so that's what they're selling sell more things, without making anything

Fun with paper (ie bits of various collages I’ve been working on) ❤️

Here's a song I wrote ages ago about that time in the 2010s when people were really into 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams. It's not often something you write gets more relevant the further away you get from writing it, but...

#dandelions The sacred geometry of dandelions.

The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

This really captures my childhood, and what it felt like to learn about computers—everything was so captivating and full of potential I could uncover! I would spend hours and hours just trying things and exploring. I loved it. I miss the enthusiastic optimism I felt about tech back in those days :/

I wouldn't say I'm massively into phones or anything but I sketched this out of frustration bc why are there no modern phones with these features, it would be so perfect and I'm mad the only ones are old and slow

I wrote about a company that had bad vibes from the jump defector.com/vindicated-a...

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites. Yes. A MILLION. This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything: www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp... 🔭 🧪

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

I'm an unemployed video game designer with 14 years of experience and multiple shipped titles. Every day I get up to apply for jobs and every day the news says this

The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential! gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

It's an honour to have been part of @indiecade.bsky.social both as attendees as well as award recipients -- it's an event that has contributed enormously to indie games as an industry, and even moreso as a community. Happy Anniversary, Indiecade!

writing poetry has given me so much experience making stuff no one is going to look at and no one thinks is really worth thinking about. I encourage everyone to work in discarded, "abdandoned", neglected, "low", "unimportant", "irrational" forms, media, etc.; it is liberating, educational, useful

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

raigan said he's nearly out of copies, so let me pick up the banner: i've got 5 copies of Cinco Paus if you want to play one of @smestorp.bsky.social 's best games.

ATTENTION BSKY: in celebration of Cinco Paus Day's Eve, please message me if you'd like a free copy of the best game ever made. :) smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games: eggplant.show PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)

Happy Birthday to all my birthday twins! @doubleanna.bsky.social @ryanodonnell.bsky.social @droqen.bsky.social @petripurho.bsky.social I hope you are all having a wonderful day 🎉