THE 2026 GAME DEVELOPER MANIFESTO: 1. i am so tired

my manifesto is called "I think you should give me 50 dollars" it's available on itch (PWYW as long as it's 50 dollars)

📈🚀📈🚀📈🚀📈🚀 Hey come check out some experimental clicker / idle / incremental games! 👇📈👇📈👇📈👇📈👇 For their final projects in my 'economics for game designers' class at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social, students made some awesome incremental games, so I wanted to do a thread sharing their work! 🧵⤵️ 1/~15

we have ample evidence that FOSS can produce industry standard creative tools (look at Blender), Gimp is... not that

Usually I cannot STAND it when I try to watch a foreign-language vid on YT and that awful AI Slop auto-dub comes on. But uh... there seems to be something wrong with this one??

the opposite of "fromsoft" is "to hard". which interesting because that's what their games are

a bug in preset loading just produced one of my favorite patches.

⚠️ HEAVY TIME DILATION WARNING 2026-06-10T13:20:00+0000 Regions may experience perceived time longer by a factor of 1.5 to 1.9 than standard time.

mentally just solved a work problem. unfortunately it is 11 pm so i will have to solve it again tomorrow

come meet me if you want to get your mip mapped

Buying Steam games and playing Steam games really are 2 different hobbies

Lenny Kravitz's finest performance.

i dropped this store.steampowered.com/app/4613890/...

I feel like the photographer could have gotten a little closer tbh

I'm soft-launching my compiler project minc today. It compiles directly to minimal native executables for x64 Windows (PE), x64/ARM64 Linux (ELF), ARM64 macOS (Mach-O), ARM64 iOS, ARM64 Android (.so), and WASM. See minc.dev

@enclose.horse huh… how come the puzzles feel so natural to solve perfectly? What wizardry is this?

Didn’t ACDsee or whatever steal the eye

Computer science is the art of preventing computers from doing things. Big NO notation is used to formally specify how many things you have prevented the computer from doing.

oh no the girls are z-fighting

not even done with this slay the spire mod and i already have another very stupid idea for a mod presenting THE SHITTY WIZARD, an incredibly powerful spellcaster with a grimoire they can't fucking read

you BRIBE miette? you bribe her with digusting grain?

ugh i added more features

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

“I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.” — David Lynch

Sometimes art is so breathtaking and poignant it defies all expectation

Incredible

The last time I was turned down for Arts Council funding, they sent me a model application for a project to demonstrate what they were ideally looking for. The model application was by me a year earlier. And was also turned down.

Rewatching 30 Rock and I think this is still possibly one of the best constructed jokes in anything, ever.

I love this.

A sneak peak into the development of indie games:

Only a couple days left to get Coin Crypt for 90%(!) off It is the very first roguelike deck builder ever published (that I can find). It has a lot of weird choices, from an alternate reality where slay the spire never existed. Still proud of it :) store.steampowered.com/app/264690/C...

[desmond] yeah, the bladder, i've heard of that. it's where pee is stored, right? [vidic] (chuckling) I suppose you read that in a free online encyclopedia?

new nekoweb layout. i think it is pretty cool

what i tell my toaster every morning

when you meet a growling dog and its owner yells "He's Friendly" are they talking to you or are they talking to the dog

That's why I brought up Baby Steps as an example of where the controls are the point. I understand the critique for games generally, but I can also remember people complaining about early Antichamber being vague / confusing / difficult and I'm like... that's literally the gate. That is the puzzle.

I really hate YouTube’s A/B thumbnail testing because I feel like I’m being gaslit by the website, I’ll see the same stupid video I’m never going to click on but wearing different hats and fake mustaches

"python is good and/or straightforward" is the wildest lie I've seen in a while

every time I find a tool that might do what I want but it's a fucking python package I really question whether what i'm doing is actually that important

everything that could be said about star wars has already been said. it's the story most strip-mined of content ever since the bible

Insane being a Californian seeing people post pictures of $4 gas going ‘I don’t know how we’re expected to survive.’ You are a weak people, grown decadent and fat on the sap of the earth. You will welcome our armies as liberators.

maybe this is self-flattery but a thing I’ve heard consistently in my life is that people like my taste. since starting social media that has continued. am guessing a bunch of you appreciate my taste & share my value of paying independent creatives for their labor & would like to do so more

[me, suffering amnesia, reading the Scrabble Dictionary backwards]: ah yes, it’s all coming back to me now

CSS is very easy to learn. I myself have learned it 100 times.

I hope the guys who always mocked Rage Against the Machine are enjoying The Machine

if you find a cool security bug I bet you could make the most money from it by selling it to an AI startup so they can pretend their tooling found it