Wow!!!! What a blast from the past. Cleaning out some shelves and found my OG hard copy of the Medal of Honor GDD. I wrote like 90% of this. #psx #medalofhonor #gamedesign #nostalgia

mini break from the break to share that amazing dev and wonderful friend Felix has launched the steam page for his equally amazing and very fun game Helmet Head. Go take a look and if you like what you see leave a wishlist or share to make another solodev's day♥️ #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #gaming

Seems like Bend Studio @bendstudio.bsky.social doesn't really use this site anymore. That's a bummer because I've just finished #DaysGone for the 4th time and wanted to tell them for the 4th time how much I love the game. #PlayStation #DaysGoneRemastered @playstation.com

💪 Looking for an extra arcade challenge? Jump into Trasmoz Legends 💀, a classic 2D adventure by solo dev @volcanobytes.bsky.social! 🙌 Play solo or team up with a friend in this retro experience. The golden arcade era is back! 🕹️ #Retro #Arcade

After 13 years, my game comes out in 29 days. I can't wait. :) Wishlist on Steam now!! store.steampowered.com/app/893710/ #gamedev #indiegame

My typical week. Not the worst. Not a lot of leisure time. I’m not sure I’d have it any other way.

Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends! 🦃 Taking a short break to recharge and prep some great new Brain Arcade content. Next season, I’ll be deep-diving into game dev topics across multiple episodes! What do you want to learn about? Drop your ideas below! #GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcade

The best artists / devs don't always make the best leaders but the best communicators often do. I talked with Andy Coley of Game Studio Training about what really makes teams work, avoiding burnout, and building trust through better conversations. 🎧 buff.ly/fxmWG2Q #GameDev #Leadership #IndieDev

Huge respect for indie devs who plan, persevere, and actually ship! I chatted with Chris Knauer about his path from TV writer to game designer, lessons from making his own Unreal game, and how to keep scope in check so you finish. Listen In: buff.ly/dkV5eoF #GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcade

How do you get a job in games when entry roles want experience? Nathan White, founder of Threeclipse Inc, is helping juniors get real experience shipping games with real mentors. We talk breaking in and how to ship a game with a small junior team. Listen in: buff.ly/UaopzIA #GameDev #IndieDev

Mergers, layoffs, acquisitions. What do they really mean for the future of games? Mark Netter, co-founder of ElectraCast Media, and I talk business. From EA’s $55B acquisition to how art and money shape creative industries. 🎧 Listen: buff.ly/eJwMFPU #GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcadePodcast

Had a great chat with Keith Waggoner on his new podcast Keith IRL! 🎙️ We talked game marketing, creativity, and staying motivated in unpredictable industries. Always love Keith’s energy and “let’s make it happen” spirit. 🎧 Listen here:

What’s the biggest challenge for creators today? Discoverability. I talked with Emmy-winning Stephan Bugaj (Pixar, Telltale, Genvid) about how game marketing has changed, and why finding your community early matters more than ever. 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/g7qoADe #GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcade

I say this all the time, traditional marketing is dead. Arthur von Nagel joins me to unpack why discoverability is broken, and how indie hits like Balatro & Cult of the Lamb found their people through community. 🎧 Listen in buff.ly/CQ5d7ht #gamedev #indiegamedev #gamemarketing #brainarcade

Joe Ksander & I have been debating storytelling for 30+ years. From UCLA dorms to his days at Netflix & ILM, we talk perseverance and evoking audience / player emotion. So stoked we finally captured one of our chats! 🎧 buff.ly/pOd7aLz #gamedev #Storytelling #IndieGameDev #animation

The end of an era. We’re in uncharted waters now. Will have a podcast episode soon about this.

What shaped your sense of funny? We had an absolute blast talking to Mike Drucker Comedian, Emmy Nominated Comedy writer, and Author of Good Game, No Rematch. How do you write comedy without being corny? What's funny about Mortal Combat? 🎧 Join the convo buff.ly/u6eiiJz #GameDev #ComedyWriting

Games made in New Zealand Steam Event has begun!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3782840/... We’re super stoked to have Neon Knives, Snug, and Mingle alongside so many other awesome games made in Aotearoa 🫶! You can find our 3 games here ☺️ store.steampowered.com/developer/co... #indiegame #indiedev

i love looking at art and having horrible moments of eldritch-esque fear considering the amount of decision paths an artist /didn't/ take. someone arrived at a choice when they had infinite options, continually narrowed by constraints and then finally, their own taste or discretion.

My indie game comes out soon and I really want to hit 5,000 wishlists! Wishlist if you like point-and-click games! Play the Demo & Wishlist: tinyurl.com/wishlistgda #IndieGameDev #IndieGames #SummerGameFest #IndieDev #SteamNextFest #NextFest #GameInformer #PCGames #VideoGame #PointandClick

External development teams are often the key to shipping games, but how do we invest in these partnerships and empower them to do their best work? 🎙️Janyl Lambee Tanoy joins Brain Arcade to talk building trust, clarity, and synergy with external dev teams. Listen here! buff.ly/YAwNIRM

Check out Joe on @coffeewithcross.bsky.social !

What does it take to ship an indie game in 2025? Joe Mirabello walks us through creating Battle Train and surviving 4 years of dev, funding, growing a company, and finding the right publisher to successfully make a 9/10 on Steam! 🎧 buff.ly/WqvtYDH #BrainArcade #GameDev #IndieDev #battletrain

Our cozy semi-idle game Plantasia just officialy released on Steam! The Full Release includes several new features: decorate your bedroom, buy and shuffle seeds, have an overview of your seed database, and more! 🌿 store.steampowered.com/app/3236330/... #cozygame #game #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

My indie game comes out soon and I really want to hit 5,000 wishlists! If you like mystery games, check it out! Play the Demo & Wishlist: tinyurl.com/wishlistgda #IndieGameDev #IndieGames #SummerGameFest #IndieDev #SteamNextFest #NextFest #GameInformer #PCGames #VideoGame

My friend and video game developer @coffeewithcross.bsky.social has a great podcast called "BRAIN ARCADE," and on MY episode, we discuss Creativity vs. Business. Chris was an important interview subject for my 8 episode HBO series about video games called "Game Changers." Give it a listen, please!!

The layoffs keep coming! We need to talk about what happens when spreadsheets and creativity meet. Steve Hoffmann joins me on Brain Arcade to talk game history and the business of creative industries. 🎧 Join the convo! buff.ly/CmVXsVq #Gamedev #Indiegamdev #Brainarcade #Gamepodcast

How do you design player choices? Show consequences like Telltale—or hide them like Chrono Trigger? 🎮 In this Brain Arcade ep, I chat with Martin Montgomery on agency, dissonance & what makes outcomes feel meaningful. 🎧 buff.ly/BflPNJU #gamedev #indiedev #BrainArcade

I hire designers who make sound effects 🎶 Sounds ridiculous but sound design and game design truly go hand in hand. Jon Ontiveros talks how audio can shape a player’s heartbeat, heighten tension, and build terror. 🎧Listen Now! buff.ly/iNEAlot #GameDev #IndieDev #BrainArcade #Sounddesign

Can’t find the MMO you want to play? David Siddock couldn’t either, so he’s building one. We talked nostalgia, what we're missing today, and what MMOs could be next. Listen here: buff.ly/iNEAlot #indiegamedev #MMORPG #gamedev #BrainArcade

Blockchain? Yeah, I know some of it's crazy😅 but knowledge is power so let's talk about it! Is there a way small teams could use it to build trust and transparency? Episode here: buff.ly/nHMQHsq #IndieDev #GameDev #BrainArcade #NewPodcast

"but that's what kickstarter is for" says the strawman Do you know how much it costs to run a Kickstarter campaign that *might* be successful? It's all the difficulty of marketing a game, piled on top of funding the game.

I’ve got notebooks full of small multiplayer game ideas but the server costs always killed them. Talking to Ken Anderson about serverless, peer-to-peer games felt liberating! No servers. No sunsets. Just games that could live forever. 🎧 Listen in—Ken’s always a great guest! buff.ly/I9RBvNG

What can indie teams learn from Spider-Man? Veteran Art Director, Art Manager, and Lead Artist Jason Priest talks building smarter with procedural modeling, modular assets, environment storytelling, and the illusion of realism. 🎧 Listen Now! buff.ly/I9RBvNG #GameDev #BrainArcade #GameArt

Free RPG Boot Icons – armored greaves, and footgear – perfect for fantasy equipment screen, and character customization UI👢 Check it out and download👉 craftpix.net/freebies/fre... #craftpix #ドット絵 #gamedev #indiegame #assetstore #pixelart #픽셀아트 #gamemaker #gamedesign #characterdesign #gameasset #2d

If you are a Steam developer and recently got an email about a class action suit, it's legit and you should check out two sites and your options: 1) Good summary article: fixgamingchannel.com/valve-antitr... 2) valvepublisherclassaction.com (full info/docs) #gamedev #IndieGameDev #steam #sgteamgame

Creative, embraces challenges, and always player-first: Tatiana Funk talks designing for Nightingale in a live game environment. If you're into game design or trying to break in, this episode of Brain Arcade is for you! 🎧New Ep: buff.ly/zLUmtfj #GameDev #GameDesign #BrainArcade #Nightingale

Theater to Games! Jessica Woodard, Writer/ Producer Terrible Posture Games, talks building thriving indie teams and how stagecraft maps directly to game dev. Congrats to Jess & team on Battle Train! buff.ly/njW5KDK 🎧 New Ep buff.ly/YZBWgxM #gamedev #brainarcade #IndieDev #gameproductoion

“Games are a series of interesting choices.” Too many? That’s how you get analysis paralysis! UX lead Ed Moore gives us tips about information hiding, cognitive load, friction, and designing with empathy. 🎧 Episodes: buff.ly/YZBWgxM 🧠 What game overwhelmed you? #Gamedev #UXdesign #BrainArcade

Mega Man Day In The Limelight 2 #16 - Condescending Combinations www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HYQ... #DoctorNovakaine #MegaManDayInTheLimelight2 #MegaManFanGame #MegaManFanGames #MegaMan #Capcom #RetroGaming #RetroGames

Will be going live on #Twitch at 12:30 AM CST will be continuing my blind playthrough of #Afterimage by #AurogonShanghai www.twitch.tv/angelus_05 #Metroidvania #IndieGame #IndieGames #IndieGaming

I stopped by Chris Cross's Brain Arcade podcast and we had a blast chatting nostalgic games meeting modern hardware. He's the Lead Designer of the og Medal of Honor games, and has so much industry knowledge of making the games that we call retro now. Fascinating to pick his Brain (Arcade). 🎮

Retro games are time machines! 🪄 They bring us back to a specific place and time. Stubbs from Retro Handhelds chats about why handheld emulation is booming, the strength of nostalgia, and lessons from old game design. 🎧 Episodes here: buff.ly/3v6Qqrz #GameDev #RetroHandheld #RetroGames

EARLY ACCESS DEMO UP ON STEAM! Check out the early access demo on Love Me's steampage if you'd like to try a short atmospheric, PSX horror-adventure game set in an otherworldly Japanese highschool. (pls leave a wishlist if you'd like to support!) #gamedev #indiegame #horrorgame #psx #godot #steam

Loved going down memory lane with The Retro Hour podcast! We go all the way from my first job in QA to unpacking what retro games can teach us today about modern game design and storytelling. 🎧 Catch the full episode buff.ly/8P7fhHH 🎙️Jump to my interview: buff.ly/q4p9M34 #Gamedev #retrogrames

✨Neopets! What made this kids game so successful? Natalie Odien, Design Director, talks about her work on Neopets, the difference between designing “for kids” vs. “family-friendly” and how respecting young players creates lifelong fans. Episodes: buff.ly/bHndkkS #GameDev #BrainArcade #GameDesign

Fun episode to record. You have to come back on.

Expertise bias is real—and it can slow your whole project down! This week we kick back with the fantastic Layla Mamedova, Cinematic Pipeline Manager at ZeniMax and we chat all about building thriving teams. 🎙️For more game dev knowledge, join the convo on Brain Arcade!

We often talk about well designed games giving players a 'dopamine hit', but what does that really mean? Liam is back at Brain Arcade, bringing a nuanced perspective on the relationship between player engagement and dopamine. Join the convo! Episodes: buff.ly/kqmco4K #Gamedev #GamePsychology