TRUE FINAL RELEASE DATE!! 🐭🙌 Mina the Hollower launches May 29 for only $19.99! Prepare yourself for one of the greatest top-down adventures ever to be delivered directly to your soul for less than 20 bucks. Mark your calendars. Tell your friends. Wishlist now - links below! 🧵

#xrd #ggxrd uagh, neat combo feat. @celialicious.bsky.social

jmargaris.substack.com/p/how-not-to... Used examples / case studies to look at various traps teams can fall into when they collect and respond to feedback from (not on-site) playtests. Including Marathon's alpha testing, Overland's paid "First Access" and Valve's Artifact. (And Star Wars Galaxies)

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

New Blog Post: How Do Games Make Characters Touch the Game World? I'm taking a look at how Inverse Kinematics and Animation Blending are used to create dynamic composite animations for characters that match the world around them.

Demon Bluff is really good store.steampowered.com/app/3522600/...

"Sharks" Study

This is a fucking INCREDIBLE and spot-on way to describe the increasing restriction by corporations and governments of sex work, porn, and erotica. Resist the enclosure of the sexual commons!

Ridley's Lair from Metroid redraw

New Article: How to Learn a Fighting Game from Scratch! I love picking up random games with friends, and I figured I would share my process for learning almost any game efficiently!

Something I think about a lot is how Stealth is a tiny genre with barely any games, and Fighting Games are a massive genre with an unfathomable number of games. It feels like these things should be the opposite?

Before Unreal Tournament, there was NERF youtu.be/MzlX53Bdj6s Nerf Arena Blast literally nerfed UT! They use the same engine and were developed alongside each other, but after you get past the "UT Total Conversion” feel, NAB reveals its own distinct identity. Let's look back at it 27 years later!

Gonna be handing these out to the dolls at slashback.

Reposting an old Guilty Gear edit I made

Dialectics & Conflicting Priorities: The Tension that Binds Games Together I've been teaching my third Mastering Game Mechanics course with GameDesignSkills.com and one of the concepts we talk about is Tension. Alex Brazie, my cowriter for MGM and one of the owners of GDS, likes to explain tension…

Thinking about Wild Zero AGAIN!?

guess he just had high blood pressure and his neck just did that, then

Today you might be visible, but these overheads are not. Test your reactions today at: www.dustloop.com/w/GGST/Milli...

the game's principal engineer since 2017, evan kinney, who has been the backbone and spirit of this game for nearly a decade has been laid off. this is fucking bullshit, dude. i'm fucking done.

wisdom sourced from allegedly-human @ tumblr

LMFAO LOOK AT THE REPOST

now that Steel Ball Run is out, I thought I’d post this passage from Araki’s book…

I caught the con crud after GDC, but I'm trying not to let that break the momentum that the event gave me to work on personal projects!

i actually think it's lowkey problematic to joke about stabbing caesar bc for some low income senators becoming tyrant is literally the only route out of poverty

I analyzed the Proud Boys donor list. The most common occupation was real estate (realtor, mortgage broker) — the same parasitic class that was over-represented among Jan 6th rioters.

GDC was a magical experience. I now have an insane number of business cards and new friends that I'm sure I'll struggle to keep in contact with after the event. Thank you everyone!

Guilty Gear Move Names on Booty Shorts

do you guys see my vision

We out here! #gdc

We out here! #gdc

I'm going to GDC this week! It's my first time going to the conference! My departing flight is out of gate E3, pfffffffffffffff

this is what deadlock gameplay sounds like to me

Vyper's vibes #Deadlock

you gotta be brain dead stupid to not realize that the US and Israel are the bad guys.

Finally.

Kansas invalidated a trans woman's license even though she never changed her gender marker. It's not about the gender marker. It's about targeting trans people and making their lives unlivable.

Melee Attacks in PVP Must Be Fast! There is a common misconception in PVP game design that melee attacks should be slow and reactable in order to make it fair for your opponents to play around them. The problem with this is that it fundamentally breaks the core game dynamic, resulting in a game…

A joke about excessive interruptions and handholding isn't funny when it's about a game that already has excessive interruptions and handholding.

I finally remade my old infographic on the 3 filters of depth! Learn more about depth here: gamedesignskills.com/game-design/...

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121