Small ultra fast games are whats hip, but have you tried a lifetime game production cycle?

A story told to me from an ex-director at a AAA studio well known for crunch: one time after staying in the studio several nights in a row during a death march, he took the train to go home and just...forgot where he lived. He called his gf and she thought he was cheating on her and making shit up.

✨My first newsletter is officially out!✨ I talk about some tips to implement before you start a career in freelancing. And don't worry, it's never too late to implement any of these! tinyurl.com/yr3fnscf

🎉 Happy New Year from Slow Game Club! Thank you to everyone who’s joined so far. Your support helps young people build careers in games and gives you a space to slow down, play, and chat. Not part of the club? You can still join and enjoy this year’s curated indie games! slowgame.club 🐌

ugh its going to be hard to move to godot after 10 years of Unreal Engine, but looks like its the time?

they'll never make superintelligence because by the time they got even to like kindagoodintelligence the machine would just be laughing at them and telling them they were idiots

commissioned dnd character #dnd #dndoc #oc

Finally coming back from total burnout i had while working on other project, turns out i hate doing what i don't truly want to do and... DRASKEL alpha 2.0 IS HERE, remastered third and first person, better weapons and player cosmetics! More to come cus i love developing this game #gamedev #indiegame

👀 Looking for 👀 Unreal Dev Mentor Mentee: - Fem Middle-Jun indie dev - Knows UE5/4, it’s tools, how to customize engine, build plugins, and general flow. - Wants to learn ways to scale, build proper architecture, design patterns and mindset 🙏Pls share🙏 asking 4 a friend w no online prescense

So stylishhhhh

1000+ Enemies! Still a ton of optimizations that need to be implemented but not bad for now. Multi-threading is next! #indiegame #gamedev #gamedevelopment

👀 Looking for 👀 Unreal Dev Mentor Mentee: - Fem Middle-Jun indie dev - Knows UE5/4, it’s tools, how to customize engine, build plugins, and general flow. - Wants to learn ways to scale, build proper architecture, design patterns and mindset 🙏Pls share🙏 asking 4 a friend w no online prescense

As a way of separating myself from enshittified apps and services, it feels like leaving social media is the only reasonable step.

Something I think about a lot is the active process of divorcing yourself from evil companies: Microsoft, X, Google, countless others. I think there’s a real importance to articulating each of their use cases and dismantling them, making alternatives viable, otherwise the effort is stillborne.

screenshot in case the post gets taken down or deleted

eventually they will just start lying about AI use even in the early processes, and then the whistleblowers and group chats will open up, and you’ll find out anyway

Reminder that Basilisk 2000 is a fantastic game that everyone missed in 2023 because it's not on Steam. Made by KIRA, who also did Lunacid (and a million other cool projects): akuma-kira.itch.io/basilisk-2000 You don't need a Steam sale, it costs only $2 (unless you want/can pay more)

less uwu indie publishers, more collectives. Grab a bunch of friends making games similar to yours, make a single social account for promotion, and share the burden of Posting. Bundle them together. Promote each other and do less work at the same time

Massively multiplayer tabletop

Canadian banks have amazing service! Closed a bank account. Now im on hold for 30 mons, calling to cancel the online service, otherwise it will charge 120/month, but i wont be able to know about it, cause i dont have a bank account, so it will create subt i cant pay, and will constantly report it

Its the most Friday Friday of the year. Push to prod as a treat.

Saw this at NeverKnowsBest youtube essay on Chinese indie game industry!

GDC talk on the professional importance of keeping it in the group chat

Indie Dev discovers the game they're making basically already exists, worried of being deemed a ripoff. Original dev responds.

Some asian game website spilling biggest tea on western indie game scene, and nobody’s talking about this here

House of Healing 🫣 #bg3

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

my parents: - Not sure how you got ADHD, none of us have it Also my dad with an unstoppable amount of vocal stims: - Beep-boop, tsk-tsk, *hummmmmmmmmmmmmming*

Winter Solstice is almost here, and along with it a brand new holiday themed Winter Burrow update! The perfect companion for coziness this holiday season. 🎄 Available now on Steam, Xbox and Nintendo Switch!  https://store.steampowered.com/app/3008740/Winter_Burrow/ #cozygames #gamedev

Seasoning. 🌶️

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

Realized that after applying for some positions, I started self-censuring myself. I dont post a lot because there are people who can express thought more precisely and shitposty then i am, but this feels so wrong. I am queer, horny and lefty, fuck everything, that prevents me from being that.

the world if men had more ass

my favorite pieces from 2025

KCD2 needs an AI tag on Steam

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To my fellow gamedevs: Pls support Slow Game Club. Communities like this are your save haven from internet enshittification.

Yo, 🇨🇦 and Ontario specifically pop-rock bands! Wanna be in a hame where a girl skates while listens to your music?

We're so excited to be partnering with local indie bands like NERiMA and King Fabbs!✨ We need even more music. Drop the name of your favourite pop/pop-punk indie band below and help us build our soundtrack!😎

next year i wish you all happy usable internet

all things aside, cant i just say to “pretend to be on acid”? whats the reason for this grift?

just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"

Listen, I’ll grant you this thing sucks ass and doesn’t work, and employees and customers hate it and by extension us for using it. I’ll grant you all that. But what if it doesn’t? Wouldn’t we look foolish? I think my logic is sound.

Hands down the funniest thing anyone has ever typed in mastodon

Yeah, I mostly played Stalker GAMMA these past two years.

reminder that genres dont exist anymore you are either a dwarf game, or or a honse game

all our lines are currently occupied… please hold. ✨

Girl you don't know it yet but it's just gonna be like this the whole time I'm so sorry