I saw a great talk recently from a voice director who had actually run the numbers on using AI actors, and by every metric they’re a failure. More expensive and worse quality than just getting an actor to do it. Even before ethical considerations, the business case doesn’t work.

Enjoying watching Bob's Burgers from the beginning, but I have two thoughts I can't shake every episode: 1) If the restaurant was in Brighton it would be making a killing and be a famous local burger hotspot. 2) I think I might have married Linda.

DEMO TODAY DEMO TODAY DEMO TODAY!!!

Insane.

Chat is it good when your new dentist asks you 'how are you functioning?!' after an exam??

This is how you "democratize art." You make it possible for humans to make it. And for a tiny fraction of the trillions being spent on data centers for slop generators

Next week's to-do list: ☑️ Sneak into servers. ☑️ Steal glittering data. ☑️ Expose the megacorps. ☑️ Don't get caught. Dismantle capitalism one server at a time in the 868-Back demo coming to Steam Next Fest on February 23rd!

New Quinns Quest video!! 📺👻🌵 Public Access by the Gauntlet is razor sharp, powerfully strange and enormously thought-provoking. My players are still daydreaming about our campaign, even though it finished six months ago. I think your players will too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLrr...

Public Access is coming to Kickstarter in March. We want to give this game the best possible chance, so please sign up for prelaunch and help spread the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

👾 ANNOUNCING 868-BACK! Dismantle capitalism one server at a time in this computer-hacking strategy roguelike game by Michael Brough! Play the free demo in Steam Next Fest on Feb. 23rd! Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different. www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Our type to remote control humans game now has a Steam page! We're showing of a bunch of new stuff, have a peek and leave us a wishlist if you're into it #indiedev store.steampowered.com/app/4253280/...

Posting this here for reasons 😒 If you happen to see any Finji ads that look distinctly UN-Finji-like, send me a screencap. If you are someone who writes intelligently about something like "massive company running ai versions of paid ads without small company's consent" idk, maybe reach out.

Wishlist this cool game awesome people!!

My cat Mushroom 'helping' with the development of Dreams. I can't believe this was 6 years ago, time has moved so quickly in such a short period.

For the season 2 refresh of Quinns Quest, the YouTube ttrpg review series made by my pal @itsquinns.bsky.social, I finally got to fulfill my niche dream of composing music for a 90s multimedia CD-ROM! I switched on my best OPL2 FM chip emulator and made these tunes: soundcloud.com/unusualcaden...

Wait, that's what RFK Jr _actually_ sounds like?? I thought people were putting modulation on his voice as a meme! If someone asked me to sound design a reanimated corpse, that's what I'd do first and think 'nah that's too obvious'! Good grief!

I have cured myself from shingles by repeatedly hurling myself down the side of a mountain. Not sure if this is standard practice but it’s worked for me!

Harry Hill doing a podcast that has a tinge of the Eric Andre show is a treat that we don’t deserve in 2026

Shingles review: 0/10, no good, bad, terrible.

Hello fellow chair sitters. I had a great chair, but my lower back still used to feel bad, now it doesn't. I did the following: 1) getting a new mattress (mine was 9 years old) and 2) these two dead simple stretches every day. Just passing it on.

All of my bag of health niggles decided to gank me over the Christmas break. Tendinitis in my knee, psoriasis explosion everywhere, thyroid levels all wrong. The stress of getting back to a fitness level to enjoy snowboarding next week has really done me in.

The new series of Fionna & Cake feels like the creative team have taken all Adventure Time gubbins they made when they were much younger and naive and told 'just make whatever you want', and I'm enjoying it immensely. Hey I just realised it's in my favourite genre "Millennial Fail Angst".

You don’t need to watch Stranger Things series 5, much quicker to read the Wikipedia synopsis for the same emotional impact.

holy moly, ok! we did it?? we made a collection??? it's the first 13 games, bundled up with unlockable dev notes, updated audio, some sneaky bug fixes, cloud saves, and Steam Deck support!! store.steampowered.com/app/4044300/...

This is THE most indulgent and fun trailer I've gotten to work on. Big ups to @adamatomic.bsky.social for letting us go a lil wild on it.

🕹️ YOU ARE NOW ENTERING CORGISPACE 🕹️ CorgiSpace is a new collection of 8-bit games with short legs on purpose! This collection by Adam 'Atomic' Saltsman includes more than a dozen action, adventure, arcade, and puzzle games, and it's OUT NOW! Get it today on Steam and itch.io!

Hey Finji fans! You should probably watch this. No reason at all, other than cool indie games, of course. 🤐

Nature getting its ideas from a From Soft game now is it?

It is incredible to me how made up this issue is. No one gave a shit ten years ago. Sure there were your individual mad, ignorant bigots but *Theresa May* was pushing for self-ID because it was the last little bit of logistical sorting out of a settled question: we're ok with Trans people

This (presumably) special on South Korean music on Radio 6 is introducing me to so much amazing stuff that wasn’t on my radar before!

Wild news with some massive implications for the video-game industry www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

our new game demo is here! at some point we started calling it our "text-parser metroidvania", but it's evolved quite a bit. It combines three of my favourite things: typing, sci-fi-horror and thinly-veiled criticisms of capitalism. give it a try, tell us what you think. #indiegame #horrorgame

📣👀NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT👀 📣 Remote Control We've released an early demo of our next game on Itch. We really want as much feedback as we can get, please let us know what you think! bit.ly/RemoteContro... #indiegame #horrorgame #indiehorror

I'm just not very good at social media. I should be posting about sound design and music composition and game development insights, but I'm more inclined to post about how changing my laundry detergent has helped clear up a patch of psoriasis on my elbow. Like I'm texting my mum.

I rewatched all of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (the C4 series) the other night while doing chores. I haven't really had it out of my head since the first time round, I think it captures a certain kind of existential horror that it's hard to put my finger on better than anything else.

I’m a big Free As A Bird apologist (it works in spite/because of the eerie scratchy recording of John), but that new mix of Real Love is proof if anyone needs it that even the absolute best of us can’t polish a turd.

I was going to go to AdventureX but forgot to book tickets! Now I'm going to have FOMO all weekend! Boooo!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEeC... This video rules

Audio (sound effects, music, and dialogue) has a weird relationship with temp assets, mostly because of issues revolving around human psychology. Problem #1: How do you communicate that something you're hearing is temp?

This is my biggest turnoff in modern AAA games, please stop having characters or side characters babbling away. ‘There’s a ledge there’. ‘We can go that way.’ ‘Need to find a way up.’ Please stop talking and let me play!!

10/10 take. No notes.

Sometimes my job involves growling through a cardboard toilet roll tube in to a bowl of water to make monster noises. The line between creativity and madness is a thin one for sure.

Continuing my adventure game binge with Loco Motive! It's got a great Orson Welles 'ahh the french!' reference in it, just for me.

Quite some ways in to The Drifter, I think this is the best adventure game I've played since Norco. Would highly recommend for the atmosphere and art alone!

youtu.be/BcUTwnkrq88?... Phantom Brickworks are my favourite Bibio releases. Sounds rising through the murk of old tapes and delay lines are so emotive to me. Loops that go on endlessly, decaying and changing slowly. I'd love to make a game again befitting of such a soundtrack.

Voodoo is one of the greatest albums of all time. RIP D'Angelo.

📚 My current contract is coming to an end in Dec so I am now looking for new work! ⭐ I am an award-winning & expert/lead game writer & narrative designer. 🌎 I am interested in long & short term contracts & consultancy, ideally remote. Let's chat! hannahnicklin.com linkedin.com/in/hannah-nicklin

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