this is the bare minimum you should be doing when defending your employees. making a statement and proving you support them sets the standard and expectation that these people cannot bully companies into firing employees they dont like

My second- favorite part of making video games is that every time we interview someone for a role, there’s a step where they sign their NDA and get an hour call with me, 1:1, and I present the game they will be working on to them in detail so they know what they’re signing up for.

mr nolan please........... let anyone else write your movies..... please..................

Three plus hours of Choices

I see a lot of up its own ass game writing advice these days from folks who just want to gatekeep the act of writing. Now more than ever this silly talk feels relevant. Inspiration and technique can be found and built from any foundation. What turns out meaningful depends on how *you* find meaning.

video game writing is drastically underrated as a factor in their appeal and a lot of games regarded as stone cold classics (e.g. Witcher 3) are basically just Fine in the gameplay department and carried on the strength of their narrative and characters

Here’s 13 seconds of a much longer video! Clip from my version of Bob Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall: youtu.be/a33wBEwenfc

Someone made DOOM run in Jira marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/3372062...

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

No one wants this. People do not want hyperspecific individualized stories only they engage with. People want the shared experience of being told a story by a human and engaging with other people who also experienced that story. People want the social aspect of storytelling.

The only way we ensure the future of the craft that is Making Video Games is by holding the ladder steady instead of pulling it up and telling juniors and hopefuls there's no way in. Even now, THERE IS. It's bad everywhere, therefore, we have to be more supportive to each other than ever.

This is a set of frames of the surface of Comet 67P taken by the Rosetta mission on 1 June 2016. The particles in the foreground are bits of dust and ice or cosmic rays effects. The "waterfall" of points moving in the background are stars.

This is very exciting!

Just a reminder to register your intent to submit by May 1 if you are interested in submitting a game to Game Poems Issue 2: www.gamepoems.com/submit #gamepoems

Honestly never thought I’d do Bob Dylan but… just posted a Bob Dylan cover, so here we are! youtu.be/a33wBEwenfc

Get a load of this guy.

Goodness I love music and I love art. Annabelle Dinda's live performance of The Hand is so fun to watch and listen to. This is a peak "loud headphones" experience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwyH...

was out of town for nearly a week to celebrate a dear friend’s wedding and the garden went wild while i was gone

snack time interlude for the chickens featuring collards and kale

Idk if this is novel, but I just realized I can inform players about the game world via branching dialogue options even if they don't pick them. It's kind of self evident, but if one of the choices explains something the player's character knows, just showing that option teaches the player.

I recently ran a tiny Flickgame game poem jam as part of London Games Festival. Games made in less than an hour, and paired with a haiku. Check out the entries here: itch.io/jam/game-poe... Most just take a minute or two to play, and work great on mobile thanks to @increpare.bsky.social.

Im writing some character bios for my graduation project, and revisiting @alexaray.bsky.social's "Babygirls, Daddies, and Himbos" GDC talk from last year is so fun and helpful for getting the ideas going. Definitely reccomend. gdcvault.com/play/1035113...

impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community

This absolutely applies to TTRPGs in my experience. Having a weekly deadline to prepare the next content is so helpful for actually doing shit. If I didn't have the pressure from my players to actually run the game, it'd be easy to never actually finish anything.

Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.

So, it turns out that crystal vibrations can actually heal people. The crystals just need to have been installed in the transducer assembly of an MRI or High Intensity Focused Ultrasound! Also, can one intentionally electrocute ones self with piezoelectricity? youtu.be/U7NvNRzRrvQ

Fix your hearts or die.

Support the devs and wishlist The Quiet Things store.steampowered.com/app/2288520/...

Think of how many games where the verb is violence. How many games (including the ones nominated for tonight’s BAFTA awards) where you shoot, fight, kill. But when games want to explore the topic of violence in a meaningful way, that’s the issue?

It really frustrates me that we continue to nominate and give awards for queer content to big AAA assholes doing the bare minimum with their eyes rolling and lips curled when there are so many queer indies out there putting their hearts on platters that get ignored because they don't have the budget

A new Metro game was announced at the Xbox First Showcase today! Metro 2039 is going to be a brutal, dark, and terrifying story featuring a new protagonist navigating the consequences of war #metro #gaming #gamingnews #xbox #metro2039

The fact that "being taxed on a wealth that would take most people dozens of generations to gather" is "the scariest thing she's ever seen" means the world isn't scaring millionaires and billionaires nearly enough yet.

Enter the world of historical illustrations with the Illuminated Manuscripts Bundle! store.steampowered.com/bundle/72644/ To celebrate the launch of @yazagames.com' latest title, we welcome all to master your craft in Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts and your fate in Pentiment.

Donkey hugs for everybody.

God, revisiting old albums I haven't listened to in a long time is so wonderful. Sylvan Esso with proper headphones, loud, is such a magical experience.

It’s a weird time to be in game dev. I went to GDC 2026 feeling like the industry might actually hate us. But then I saw a guy brushing giant papier-mâché teeth and had dinner with friends where we just talked about the games we loved. Read my recap here: 🎮 #GDC2026 #GameDev

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Experimenting with the idea of running save files on the title screen for very smooth game-loading ...

This is why the democrats are almost as unpopular as Trump

how much money does the marine corps lose

Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide. Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session. Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.

fromsoft game narrative discourse often misses how the words are very good. item descriptions blah blah yeah sure. but "all things flourish, whether graceful or malign" is very good words

i believe in the indomitable human spirit because across all cultures we have understood to put yummy things inside of dough pockets

What a great week for me. Got to go to a protest after watching from afar for so long in Sweden, got lunch with an old friend, wrote poems, made a game poem (pompousshirt.itch.io/flickgame-ga...), ate delicious cannoli, and ran an excellent session of Draw Steel. Now just to do all my real work.

if you just say aloud the prince of persia sands of time line "no, no, no, that's not how it happened" then reloading is part of the game narrative

Some Easter Cannoli that turned out better than expected!

Shoutout to all the horses getting cake this weekend because one writer is a genius. I bet it tastes exactly as good as you thought and yes, you were right, you did deserve it. You are a good horse.