I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna start calling game teams "kei" and "midi" and not "iii" or "indie" and you're gonna hate it but I'm right to do it, until we have better terms, sorry bro, this is not discourse, this is praxis newsletter.hushcrasher.com/p/taxonomy-o...

non-dev playing a game: why didn’t the team do [X thing that seems obvious]? are they stupid? dev playing a game: why didn’t the team do [X thing that seems obvious]? am I stupid?

fuck these guys

Black & White CDs exploded 4 times in my CD drive. What the hell did the game had to read there that intensely? My 10yo ass had to disassemble and clean the drive or beg my parents to buy a new one. And then I got another Black & White CD. Never played past the second island.

Oh no. Please... not an existential threat. Please don't price out the vast majority of players from games that rely on high-fidelity graphics. ( throws hand dramatically over forehead) Whatever shall we do. What would players play if they couldn't have Ultra Graphics Games. What would become of us.

Addendum: I think we (as a medium) fall victim to building overly-noisy attention economies within our games in 3 major ways: 1. GAAS games, where new systems and information is always being added 2. In large-scale dev teams when there isn't a strong singular design owner for it 3. Complex games

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Finally some good games

Just a reminder Persona’s ost came from Black Culture Katamari Damacy’s ost came from Black culture Sonic Adventure’s ost came from Black Culture Parappa the Rapper’s ost came from Black Culture Jet Set Radio’s ost came from Black Culture

Land trust founder pushing Halifax for piece of Cogswell 'to settle a debt' to displaced African Nova Scotians www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

Behind (almost) every beloved auteur is a team of incredibly talented, often marginalised people who will be jettisoned into unprotected obscurity the minute their work draws even the lightest criticism towards the person taking all the credit 🤷

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Darling, wake up, new Virtual Economy trends just dropped

@bonusstageto.bsky.social dont gotta do me like that

Sisyphus is Streaming! Imagine Sisyphus Happy - an ironic philosophic tribute to Albert Camus. Streamer Sim + Clicker + QTE game about life, spectacle, and making the grind worth living. Aren’t you a Sisyphus too? Can you Imagine Sisyphus Happy?

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.

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🎉 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.

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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.