The next game I saw was Generic Dating Simulator. This game hurt me in a great way. Once again really smart writing here. You feel guilty for even playing it, because it really feels like a Dating Sim written by Daria and she's judging you.https://rennykins.itch.io/generic-dating-simulator

This is a Cosmic Horror/Humor infused dating sim that uses contrasting art styles and fonts to embody each datable character. Smart writing, great music, and holy fuck the character design. Like this moth lady? THIS MOTH LADY.

One of the coolest things about teaching is that you get to see students make really cool shit. At Open Studios I got to play a few of our students games that they've worked on this semester, and they were fucking fun. A quick 🧵. First up, A Visit From Venus. justmicahh.itch.io/a-visit-from...

Log 1....is this on? Hello! We are Studio T12, a small indie game development team out to make creepy, artistic, and narrative-focused games! Playtest demo for "Silent Numbers" is available NOW! studio-t12.itch.io/silent-numbe... #indiegame #indiedev #visualnovel #gamedev #gamedevelopment

I'm sooooooo close to being done with this indie game I've been working on since 2019. It's about helping your weird suspicious internet bff solve a boyband mystery

Consume Me devs @qdork.bsky.social and‪ @apthomson.bsky.social say Collective Shout's mission to protect women and girls is doing the opposite. "Their actions here mainly serve to cut off income streams for adult content creators, many of them women.” www.wired.com/story/steam-...

Leaf mentioned in the official itch discord server that the open case they have with Stripe right now is probably the most critical right now. Submit a complaint to Stripe here: stripe.com/legal/compla... Need to know what to say? Use this: bsky.app/profile/void... #itch #censorship

Some photos from The Sentient Severed Arm at the UCSC Lighting Studio. Video inbound.

ok so!!! something I found really interesting after talking to Korean protesters was... well, it was actually me realizing something about protest in the US: protest is trapped in an unwinnable spiral about "peaceful" versus "violent" protest, and even people who know it's dumb can't break free

And once you've made a script, you can move on making it a 2D game using Binksi smwhr.itch.io/binksi Making _a_ Video Game _is_ easier than you think.

it’s hard to get americans to care about people in prison, but it’s *bad* for trans women inside & a lot of us rn are one wrong interaction away from being entangled with the law, through no fault of our own. if you’re cis & there’s a trans person in your life you care about, you should read this.

Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮 We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.

An E-bike battery burned my house down on the first day of GDC. Seeking mutual aid from financially stable colleagues. gofund.me/47306b15

Critical Mass is officially one year old today! 🥳 Take turns drawing cards, adding to a shared map, and asking each other meaningful questions about what it means to keep one another safe in the street when we’ve decided to be dangerous together.

I launched a new project last week! "Play With Your Own Junk" is a collection of free games you can play with stuff you already own. It's my way of making space for anticapitalist art that challenges overconsumption and the carbon impact of large-scale product production. youtu.be/aMs-FkVK7K4?...

Trans allies- there are way more of you than there are trans people, so we need you to speak out in public comments against State Dept making it impossible for trans people to get or keep accurate passports. The freedom of movement is a fundamental human right. Don’t let the government erode it.

I’m performing in Los Angeles for this Trans Day of Visibility Fest! If you’re in SoCal, come through!

If you're in LA, come to my Trans Day of Visibility Fest happening March 30th in DTLA. 11 non-binary, trans, & 2 spirit artists performing electronic & experimental pop music. Support weird art! withfriends.co/event/229479...

🥚🍳 boshi's place is in town with syzygy at GDC! 🥚🍳 We’re partnering with syzygy SF on thursday, march 20th for a night of free-range indie games from the east AND west coast! no GDC pass is required! (only 2.99) 6-11pm | Syzygy SF 395 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103 Tickets and details ->

Join us Friday, March 14 for "I Seem Agical," a live showcase of some interactive games by game designer, animator, and illustrator Blake Andrews Blake Andrews - I Seem Agical Fri., Mar. 14, 2025 Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm www.indexical.org/events/2025-...

For all the Weird Little Narrative Games and VN Devs going to GDC: Do you make visual novels? Do you make weird little narrative games (positive)? Come talk shop and meet other games industry people who also do this! Thur Mar 20 12-2PM in Yerba Buena Please share! lu.ma/4se4oevj

PAID GIG - I need someone who can teach a Character Animation I class to college sophomores who has a Bachelors degree and can work either in the Seattle area or remotely in the PST timezone. Pay is between 4 and 5k USD for a 10 week class depending on experience. DM or email me at [email protected]

REMEMBER KIDS when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down. This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless

South of Midnight’s Southern Gothic folklore world is rooted in authenticity

Fahmi Mohammad was a beloved Indonesian game dev who created Coffee Talk and What Comes After. His final game, Afterlove EP is about learning to live with grief. It was completed by his studio after his passing. It's a slice of life visual novel + rhythm game set in Jakarta.

Bandmates, we just released Pikselnesia’s dating-meets-rhythm game Afterlove EP on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X, and PlayStation 5 🤘 This is a tale of finding oneself, and is the swansong of beloved Mohammad Fahmi, the late creator of Coffee Talk. Trailer 👇

Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.

‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+". The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history. This pride, we riot.

Presenting "Terry's Other Games"! A messy little collection of short games I've made over the past 20 years, out now on Steam and Itch! <3 Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2824580/... Itch: terrycavanagh.itch.io/terrys-other...

I’m playing my Game Boy set at KZSU Stanford’s Day of Noise in a couple minutes!! Please tune in!

Up next at Day of Noise, @tambalaya.bsky.social

Deeply honored to have served on the jury for this year’s IGF Student Game Award! You can find all the wonderful student game nominees in the link below. Please play them! They are all brilliant! igf.com/article/welc...

new @teenvogue.com: @brittneymac15.bsky.social digs into the details of Trump's exec order on trans youth healthcare. I checked with an @aclu.org senior attorney on what trans youth and their families should plan for. in short: no changes RN; stay on top of your healthcare; don't comply in advance.

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

I've talked myself hoarse with cis people in my life over the last few months, trying to get them to understand what the consequences are of the puberty blockers thing. I've described it as a Cronenberg situation: You watch yourself change in ways you hate, day by day.

go and commit a crime instead. supply someone with hormones. add to a surgical fundraiser. think of a way to help that does not involve me personally trying to make you feel better

i'll be honest the last thing i want as a trans person is random guilt ridden cis folk ive barely maintained contact with reaching out to check on me every time there's shit news

IGF 2025 Finalists: Best Student Game A Dual Ascent DisplaceMen Growth Spurt: A Meandering Intermission into the Afterhours of a Miscalculation Slot Waste The WereCleaner (@thewerecleaner.com) Year Unknown #IGF2025

despelote has been nominated for an IGF award in: * Excellence in Audio * Excellence in Narrative * Nuovo Award * The Seumas Mcnally Grand Prize We are floored! 🤯 Thank you to the IGF judges for the honor and congrats to our fellow nominees! Excited for you all to play despelote this year.

So, uh, Consume Me, the game I've been working on with @qdork.bsky.social and @frogfungus.bsky.social and Violet (not on here) is coming out later this year and you can wishlist it starting today: store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...

if you're applying to phd programs you should probably LinkedIn stalk the profiles of recent graduates from said program, *including* those that do not have academic jobs, to get an idea of not only what the program's placement is, but also what people who go a different path end up doing.

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaG4... Pop bubbles, fight monsters, and keep rocking to the beat in BubbleBeast DigiDungeon, the arcade-style music puzzle game I've been working on for the past year! wishlist below!!

This week's podcast is packed! @writnelson.bsky.social joins us in the first half to spill secrets. Then, the familiar crew faces off to decide whether GDC or PAX East is the Spring Events Champion. And you get to decide who wins! the-indie-in-former.com/2024/03/08/t...

In case y’all weren’t already sufficiently excited about Roguelike Celebration (this weekend online, preparty in 20 minutes!) I have set up the silliest streaming setup to get us procedurally generated chiptunes with a new Game Boy piece by @tambalaya.bsky.social!

I asked my straight friend how much her boyfriend thinks about the Roman Empire and MY DUDE HAS A WHOLE ASS FLAG

Unity has been shady since the moment it hit the scene js 💅🏽 natural outcome of trying to professionalize DIY culture by signing an entire practice to one platform heralded as the main and often only way to do indie game development. A predictable mess

(Not really sure what the etiquette for skeet/tweet crossposting is atm, but if I really want my Bluesky migration to stick I think I’ll have to do that for a while lol)

So glad this Unity announcement is happening two weeks before the start of the quarter so that I can demonstrate to my students *exactly* why I keep my design courses medium/engine agnostic