Trying something different for Hour by Hour's paywall (under the expectation that the user will be pleasantly surprised with where the pricing will land!)

Why am I lusting after the Steam Machine so much when I know I’d almost never use it 😭 Also, love the vibe of this wood faceplate 😙👌

New article: one thing from every inkle game that we failed to explain clearly enough, and how often we've been made to regret it.

Apple’s on-device LLM when asked for an SF Symbol: chaos. Apple’s on-device LLM when asked for one emoji: extremely competent. So Hour by Hour now uses emoji as a middle layer for icon picking. Welcome to modern computing. Details in my blog post: joethephish.me/blog/apple-f...

Dug up my ~25 year old Casio graphing calculator yesterday. It still worked (after putting new batteries), and the little games I surreptitiously made during maths class were still on it!

okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form: forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...

How has it been 14 years already 😳

14 years old and there are 14 games in the image. How many can you name?

The most exhausting thing about game dev is proudly polishing off a feature (for me at inkle usually that’s UI), and then realising that some subtle issue means you have to rebuild or rework it again. For every bloody feature. Like five times each. 😮‍💨

How I felt at the start of this week

Been working on my own take on iOS 26’s swipe actions, it’s satisfying getting these little interactions working! SwiftUI only provides the .swipeActions modifier on List views (which I’m not using).

Installed Duolingo on my 5 year old son’s iPad because it has age appropriate arithmetic games. I’m absolutely FUMING at the shitty malware it turned out to be, targeted at children

Two great storyworlds in one neat package

Rift Riff released on mobile & it's portrait-only. just look at how sexy portrait is App Store (iOS): apps.apple.com/us/app/rift-... Google Play (Android): play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Adorable!

I… think I might have fallen in love with Godot 💖

How the Colossus machine that cracked the Reich’s most sophisticated code wasn’t built by Turing - but by a Post Officer worker unknown to history, his colleagues and a barber.

This was NOT on my bingo card for what I expected to be in our next game: an audio clip of me singing like a pirate

Just got back from @swiftleeds.co.uk, it was fantastic! My first non-game conference, and my first small conference - it had a great, friendly, welcoming vibe. GDC is always fun but it’s also MASSIVE and by comparison impersonal and super commercial. Leeds is a beautiful and vibrant town!

@chriswu.com great job, your talk was fantastic! 🕐🕑🕒🕓🕔🕕🕖🕗🕘🕙🕛 (Also holy shit time zones are insane)

My younger son holding up a drawing with “I want to be a game developer when I grow up” with a drawing of Mario. No idea where he gets these silly juvenile ideas. ❤️

The thing about this is, is this is how born-rich people *already* do it - whether it's making art, or starting a business, or whatever they successfully do. They already know it works.

I wish Apple would make it possible to make extensions and add API access for the Notes app. It would make it possible to create functionality like Math Notes without necessarily needing to make the core Notes functionality any more complicated than it needs to be.

God I wish Apple would do this youtube.com/shorts/KGZ4V...

@strasser.bsky.social you up for a coffee swap at Swift Leeds? I can bring a bag from my excellent local roaster 😀

Spatial scenes on iOS 26 are super impressive in general and have been near perfect in my experience. Great fun on a lock screen! So I was curious to see how it would interpret a full frame photo of a painting. Valiant attempt but not great 😅

This is insanely impressive. Unfortunately the camera and battery are dealbreakers for me, but the Air seems amazing. youtu.be/sQ56ve39l2I?...

Selkie Design is currently matching donations up to a total of £200 to support families in Gaza through this campaign, please donate! This is an excellent way to directly support victims of the genocide 💔 Thanks for drawing attention to this campaign @meghna.bsky.social

Started a new little trailer for Substage ever since adding Homebrew support, since I don't think I've done a good job of just how much it can do now! (markdown, epubs, PDF manipulation, animated gifs and more). Trailer is very much work in progress, but here are the first few shots!

Please give something if you possibly can 💜

Proud to say that Selkie.Design donated $200 to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital this year as part of @relay.fm campaign! I encourage you to donate if you can afford to: relay.experience.stjude.org

Our new app PocketShelf is OUT NOW! 🥳 - Track your Books 📚 - Get AI summaries of your reading notes 📝 - Designed for Liquid Glass 💧 - 100% Indie Made ♥️ Exclusively on iOS26! Please help us spread the word! 🙇‍♂️ #shipaton #buildinpublic

A Highland Song (Inkle, 2023)

Amazing. Conveys exactly how I feel about horror films. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who feels this way! youtu.be/4C6c7GJXr0U?...

Awww @superraregames.bsky.social sent us a developer plaque for A Highland Song! Love this ❤️

This one came out pretty well! I still can’t pour super consistently, but it’s exciting when it’s one of the good ones

dusting off my feed to share this (hi gamers) 🎮 my first ever video essay, exploring five indie games which showcase Scotland authentically and compellingly, in an effort to bring more visibility to the creatives doing Scottish representation right! youtu.be/emA9MoxPDok?...

Super excited that a big YouTuber (@brandonbutch.bsky.social) featured Substage in a roundup of awesome Mac apps! Happy to say it sold a few extra copies in the past 24 hours 😀 (sales are very much at “hobby project” levels in general so it’s lovely when they get a bump) youtu.be/V1M2r7thV6A?...

Uuuuh coulda given us credit at least 🙄🙄🙄

Fantastic video essay by @sariaslays.bsky.social on Scottish games, featuring A Highland Song of course! It’s really well put together - and dips into how we made the game and where the inspiration came from: youtu.be/emA9MoxPDok?... Well worth a watch!

My window this morning. No idea why the droplets formed a grid but i think it looks kinda cool? Might use it as my phone wallpaper in time for iOS 26!

Great piece about concept art featuring @paulscottcanavan.com’s gorgeous work on A Highland Song. I loved seeing this concept pic, which I had totally forgotten was actually a paint over 😍

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This was supposed to be a 2 week project lololol

Had an idea for a game yesterday, this is the first proper one I’ve personally had since A Highland Song. Partly it’s because I’m on holiday right now and left my laptop at the airport 😱 (don’t worry it’s been recovered) and partly just, I think my naivety about game scope is slowly returning! 🗼

our game about DEAD GODS and TAKING BILLIONAIRES TO COURT FOR THEIR CRIMES is in the graun!! thx @yourkyotowife.bsky.social for a thoughtful write-up touching on our complex conversational systems & how joy + rage power transformation 🔥 @allwillrise.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/games/2025/a...

Too many clouds. Must be an inkle game

Not bad for a little hike with my 8 year old 🥰 proud of both of us

Arrived in the homeland of the world famous “Art of Fauna: Cozy Puzzles 9+” @strasser.bsky.social 🇦🇹

Lots of adventure games and… a motorbike game.