Rosewater won big at the AGS awards! More game ceremonies should be like this, performed in-engine and simulcast on IRC

Video games often have floating platforms, but they don’t explain why the platforms are floating. That’s where game writers come in, to say that platforms are kept aloft by “ghostium” an invisible fog created by the souls of every dead person

Tomorrow will be an April Fool's edition of the NYC Indie Games Social—and there are still a few spots left! luma.com/iw9ma2vl

Birthday brunch treat: color-changing mini ube vegan waffles. They mixed up lavender and turned green-blue.

Great card to draw for my birthday, following yesterday’s draw of Defeat. I see both of these quite a lot. Why do I keep using Crowley’s stupid Oops All Swords deck, anyway?

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

@attie.ai, for those who wanna press the funny buttons too

NarraScope 2026 registration is OPEN for in person and online only memberships narrascope.org/register/

This is absolutely disgusting. Language is at the root of this game, and it's beyond despicable to assume an AI tools can properly translate the narrative emotions of a title of this caliber, especially considering how Czech is one of the hardest languages to master www.thegamer.com/kingdom-come...

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy

h/t @bullheadpsalms.bsky.social #TarotSky #OccultSky #WitchSky

bless these kids

Me, when students ask if they can use whatever citation style they were taught at school.

Multiple game studios have recently closed because their titles couldn't compete with established live-service games like Fortnite. Meanwhile, you can also literally work on Fortnite and get laid off and Tim Sweeney remains a billionaire. Something has to change. The time is now. uvw-cwa.org

Hire her quick!

This will end up being likely a monologue and part of the intro of this week's premium, but every single person that wrote a "Sora 2 is destroying Hollywood" piece should be apologizing to their audiences and to the entertainment industry for deliberately misleading and scaring people in TV/Cinema

Exactly. VO is a choice. It can make the game better or worse. And if your VO is gonna suck - or if you use AI for some unfathomable reason - having none is for the best. Zniw Adventure and Zid Journey don't have VO by design.

Love this game so much. Outstanding atmosphere.

Your word is "congruent"! Adjective: 1. CONGRUOUS, as in the sentence "establish incentives and rewards ~ with professional standing" 2. "superposable so as to be coincident throughout" (as in triangles)

Do you design or publish board games? Do you want to protect the planet? Earlier this month, the Green Games Guide team updated the website and the Guide to include more info to help you make more eco-friendly games. Please check it out and share! greengamesguide.com

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

"AI doesn’t love a fucking thing, because AI isn’t alive, it isn’t intelligent, it isn’t aware. ... It fakes it. It fakes choices. It fakes preferences. It fakes love. And it is able to fake it because it stole those choices and preferences from us."

ROSEWATER is a critically-acclaimed IndieCade-nominated Wild West epic adventure where you travel across the frontier with 5 companions. Your choices and relationships actually change the course of the story! Get it for 25% off during the Steam Spring Sale! store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...

Been playing Pools, and last night showed Mom the whole Backrooms series. It’s so good. I always found the monsters superfluous—the infinitely proliferating, indifferent, inhuman architecture is plenty thrilling and terrifying all on its own.

Everyone should work with Jess!!

Loco Motive is 30% off in the Steam Spring sale - aka your excuse to grab our IGF nominated, comedy point n click whodunit for a tenner 💸 Join us aboard the Reuss Express. A journey of a lifetime, derailed by an unexpected assassination! 🗡️ s.team/a/1709880

If you have the AUDACITY to play video games on "easy" or "story" mode... I want you to know that I think that's a perfectly acceptable way to enjoy a video game that you paid for because you're supposed to enjoy your favorite pastime any way you like. Real life's hard enough. Enjoy your hobby. 🫶

Sometimes I fear my placeholder dialogue might come across as a bit cynical...

Take a trip to sunny 1920s Miami in A GOLDEN WAKE, a historical fiction adventure game with one of the most unique settings you'll ever play! Get it for 80% off during the Steam Spring Sale! store.steampowered.com/app/307570/A...

Don't tell them that, you'll scare all the fish away. 😂 But seriously, that was a blast! Thanks so much for the excellent dealing and gracious hosting.

Can confirm, Jess has a great pokerface and will absolutely muscle you off the table if she can.

this is one of those games you have to experience for yourself with minimal knowledge in advance, preferably on a dark spooky night and with headphones

Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making? - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

Hastily snapped pic preparing to play poker with Dave Grossman et al. at the delightful Skunkape party celebrating the Poker Night at the Inventory remaster, truly a highlight of my week. I came in 2nd and got this gorgeous Sam & Max vinyl! (Of my play, Dan Connors called me "very intimidating." 😆)

A few more GDC pics to share. This one was at the Latinx Game Awards, where Rosewater was up for Excellence in Narrative and Game of the Year (with the lovely @supernorn.bsky.social and @josephriches.bsky.social of Robust Games along to cheer us on!) latinxgameawards.com/categories/

Too busy enjoying the night to take any pics of my own, but just got back the few we took helping AP carry his IGF awards...more or less reverently. (I got to hold the Seumas McNally! It's heavy!)

According to these analytics, I just need to attend one major conference AND be nominated for (and win!) 2–6 prestigious industry awards every week, and I'll finally be on track with my social media performance goals! ✅🌟🚀

Excellent summary of the state of the NYC game scene and its challenges (plus being refreshingly clear-eyed about AI's utter failure to yield any perceptible benefits). I truly hope our new "gamer mayor" can improve on MOME's current efforts with a new focus on affordability for indies!

I was going to share my IGF and GDC thoughts but Meredith really nailed it, so just read this. And yes, it was disappointing to be told press would come speak to IGF finalists, only for not one person in media to show up.

www.reddit.com/r/linux/s/jf... Mega thread on who is behind these age verification laws, spoiler alert it’s Meta.

Frowny meal dinner at freaky vegan McDonald’s

omg guys it's happening it'xs HAPPENIGN

Visiting some friends #gdc

GDC's 2026 IGF winner calls out U.S. cruelty at home and abroad

2026: the year of the game editor? Three editors of IGF winners (me, Titanium Court; @deptofmeteors.bsky.social, Perfect Tides: Station to Station; @arden.rip, Horses) enjoying the afterparty. Really lovely to see editors included and celebrated onstage with their teams!

this is such an honor, especially given the peer-reviewed nature of the IGFs. and it feels great to be part of a night where dedicated editors were so present & recognized in the winners, with @jesshaskins.bsky.social on Titanium Court and @arden.rip on Horses.

So, last night Titanium Court took the IGF Game Design and Seumas McNally Grand Prize! As editor, I got to see my name in lights and shouted out in AP’s acceptance. What an amazing night and a cap to an incredible project. Many thanks and big congrats to AP! #gdc

*finger held to ear* I’m just getting word that Rosewater has been nominated for TWO Latinx Game Awards, for Excellence in Narrative and Game of the Year! *pause, listening* And the awards are TONIGHT? At 6:30 in Moscone West? Well all right, then! #gdc

Two of my favorite games of the year were Rosewater and Old Skies and they both absolutely got A+ performances from the cast. A ton goes into that and I think there's a lot for creators to learn from both games!

Really digging the Page to Booth session combining wisdom from writers, actors, audio techs, and directors about how to reach the Goal: “Get the best performance that everyone will love and will win awards.” As a director, protecting actors, giving them just the right amount of context, is key. #gdc