What would life be like if you moved to a city where plants carry magic like cables carry electricity in our world? What does a queer Arab fantasy world feel like? We’re making a solo-journaling TTRPG set in that world for zine month🐸 sliding scale PDF available! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sof...

Golden Ray 🌱 #pixelart

In which I don’t really care what the others are supposed to represent, and I’m accidentally a little mean to my Pop.

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

A little more help could go a long way for my pal Samael and his sweet kitty Harlan. 💛 Please share and/or give if you're able to.

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

Please consider helpin' out @coroner-samael.bsky.social and his lovely cat. Every bit helps. <3

"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs." Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

Happy Half-Life: Decay Monday. @naetoid.bsky.social is live with our pal Sviddy on their channel! www.twitch.tv/svideotheque

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

"Brb" - quick but boring - reminiscent of a bygone era - allows only a brief break "____ WILL RETURN IN AVENGERS DOOMSDAY" - descriptive, clear, current - confident certainty yet undefined expectations - take as long as you want - impossible to refute until the recipient watches Avengers Doomsday

The Demo for Duppy Detective Tashia is live! Help Tashia unravel the mystery of Bredda Anansi's murder and (more importantly) find her cell phone! 🔍Gather Clues 👻Meet the Suspects 👁️Experience the first day of Tashia's investigation store.steampowered.com/app/4222200/...

you're used to "top game recommendation" lists at the end of the year but what about top unhinged game crushes? HM? WHOEVER YOU'RE THINKING IS IN THIS LIST, IT ISN'T THERE. please read on for the best piece of journalism i can provide. ENGULF ME, SHADOW DADDY!!! 😫💦

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

The best season for sleeping. 🌨️

Games launching this week ‼️ DuneCrawl | 1/5 Death Machine; StarRupture (Early Access) | 1/6 ODDCORE (Early Access) | 1/7 Pathologic 3 | 1/9 These and more, with a primarily #IndieGame tilt, in our free monthly game release roundup on Patreon.

We are so honored and excited to announce the winner of VGG's 2025 Game of the Year award... CONSUME ME! Congratulations to @qdork.bsky.social, @apthomson.bsky.social, @frogfungus.bsky.social, Violet W-P, and @codatrigger.bsky.social for making such a special piece of art. WATCH THE VIDEO!

It's time for our end-of-year stream! 🎄 twitch.tv/Naetoid 🎄 We're announcing our Game of the Year winner and VGG community-picked GOTY, and unwinding with some cozy holiday decorating in Light Up the Town. Then, we'll be taking a break from streaming until 2026!

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

We're excited! We've got a live watch party going in the VGG Discord. ❤️‍🔥

"but what if they can't draw" here's hideo kojima making level blockouts for metal gear solid 1 and 2 with LEGO I am begging AI bros to use their brains for two seconds

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

anyone vibrating with excitement for the @indiegameawards.gg?! Spirit Swap is a nominee and we're offering our deepest discount so far, 25% off! As Samar, you'll battle your entire friend group of hotties as you try to figure out the mystery of the spirits✨ and also try to romance the hotties obv

Our final total was $400.00 in donations during stream. We'll be adding another $100 as the cherry on top. That's $250 for Outside In and $250 for Bridge for Youth. Getting needed funds to both city's programs and helping those in need during the winter ahead.

Holiday gathering reminder 🎁 If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%! This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍

the good that you do persists in this world

Come watch our friends and please give if you're able! Today's charity stream supports Outside In in Portland and Bridge for Youth in Minneapolis! 💜

A heartfelt thank you to all who buy from independent artists, hire us, or even share our work or give words of encouragement. Even the most established of artists are feeling a decline in work and sales this year. Your support in all or any way is felt and appreciated amongst us! Thank you!!

Back from break and with a new corny sound alert for donations! Thanks to several of our friends we’ve already hit over a third of our initial goal! We’re shooting for $300 and have plenty of time left to do it!

OVER THE RIVEN AND THROUGH THE WOODS It’s time for Infinity Break’s annual charity special! Help us raise money for health and shelter resources for the unhoused in our hometowns www.twitch.tv/infinitybrea...

We're live now co-streaming The Game Awards (pre-show has begun)! 🔗 twitch.tv/Naetoid

":( the attention economy crisis is killing the video games market" i wonder who did a lot of that damage

Good morning! I’m currently at Beaverton High School in OR where a mass student walk out has just started to demand a proactive ICE protocol for their school and district. Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.

10-hour yule log be damned. 3-hour ILA: A Frosty Glide is our new cozy winter ambience of choice. New review up on VGG for @magicrainstudios.bsky.social's small, snowy, and glide-y open world.

Delighted to share that I've just been named a 2025 BAFTA Breakthrough, alongside such luminaries as the director of K-Pop Demon Hunters and the star of Sinners! www.bafta.org/stories/brea...

Things slow to a crawl during the back half of December, but we managed to fill up the monthly game release calendar nonetheless! Look forward to a busy first two weeks of December. Check out 30+ games releasing this month in our free Patreon post!

GDC 2026 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS OPEN 📣 Our alumni say it best! 🗣️"This opportunity allowed me to connect with other marginalized game designers, who helped me navigate challenging experiences in AAA & continue to act as mentors for me." ✏️ www.gamedevsofcolor.org/scholarship #GDC2026 #gamedev

Consoling myself with this as we continue to put out 1 or perhaps 10 articles/reviews a month lmao. It's giving the people 🫴 authenticity.

If I was a young person or creator just starting out on the internet today, I’d have no clue how to convince people I was real or that I made my own art myself. You all only know I’m real because I’ve been around for awhile. I use that same reasoning for other creators I know are real.

On December 9th, the doors of Waterfalls at Dawn will open for a once in a lifetime showcase of the raw creative talent of illusive artist Maurice Clayborn. Only the paranormal investigators Saint Garcia Flores and Agent Alister McAndrews will have the opportunity to see what he has in store.

[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy

one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!

🚨 Creator Day is LIVE! 🚨 For the next 24 hours we are waiving our platform fee! Creators will get the most they can from each transaction. Support your favorite developers and check out over 15,000 projects participating in our Black Friday sale itch.io

WE ARE SO BACK New OFK track this Friday Our first original song since the game Something to warm u up 🤍

Keep it up folks! Do your dailies! Call the paypros and call your reps too! I'll be sending some letters in the mail as well today.

If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art