Oh no, this is a disaster! I had long since concluded that physics in 3D games was so bad it should be used only as a special effect. But this... this one might be usable and then I'll be tempted! :-O

Clover's Quadrants is available NOW! It's a challenging puzzle game where your four directions of movement are also inventory slots. Check out the demo / buy the full game on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3191170/...

Re: Capitalisation of PascalCase names. The standard is to alternate capitalisation at random according to the degree of uncertainly. So, for example: * Use VideoKeyFrame 70% of the time. * Use VideoKeyframe 30% of the time. The time you save on thinking about this is worth the compile errors.

And... #thinkypuzzlejam6 has begun! This year's (optional) theme is: Locked Room itch.io/jam/thinky-p...

Added ability to embed scenes into scripts, because I can. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

...and how little of a typical game's budget goes towards that aspect.

Explain your @ Mine's a tarot card. In particular, it's the first of the major arcana. It literally means "juggler", but is sometimes a magician - a different kind of performer - and sometimes an actual wizard. Computation is just another kind of magic ("computer wizard"), so it's a play on that.

One week until TPGJ6! itch.io/jam/thinky-p...

Powerful new way to waste ten minutes using Unity: * Zoom in the game view to inspect some pixels. * Exit play mode. * Do some more dev work. * Enter play mode again, forgetting about the zoom thing. * Wonder where the actual f*** your in-game UI has gone. #protip #gamedev

Was at Voidspace Live on Saturday. Had a good time playing a range of interesting games. Missed @agaitcheson.bsky.social's show, but judging by my friends' comments it went extremely well! Also: "I will never see Pierce Brosnan quite the same way again..."

TFW ToString() isn't the one character integer representation you were expecting...

Just reached 100 signups!

Me on every dev Discord thread: "Undo systems are a solved problem." Also me: <spends three hours designing an undo system>

We have BIG NEWS... Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is OUT NOW! ⚛️ Brain-twisting quantum puzzles 👥 Play in both solo or coop 🔬Plenty of secrets and hidden areas 🎨Full cat customisation! store.steampowered.com/app/2111550/...

🎉 Aw yeaaah, Thinky Direct is back for 2026! Over 40 exclusive trailers for upcoming puzzle and problem-solving games! It's gonna be freakin amazing! 📺 Watch live on Thursday May 28 🕕 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 6pm BST thinkygames.com/direct2026/

Me: Meh, there's been a lot of games like... Also me: OK, that trailer actually looks super fun! <instant wishlist>

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Thinky Puzzle Game Jam is back for 2026! #thinkypuzzlejam6 itch.io/jam/thinky-p...

LAUNCH DATE ANNOUNCEMENT! Forbidden Solitaire is officially launching NEXT WEEK, on April 30th! We unearthed a new trailer from the archives - an advertisement that originally aired in 1995! Wishlist on Steam and GOG: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... www.gog.com/en/game/forb...

I really should come up with a better naming convention for my methods. Currently I use -Async to mean both c# Task/await style threaded async and also things which do work and then call a callback. This gets confusing, since the two don't play nicely together. :-/

So, with apologies to Luis, one of the most important game design lessons I ever learned is why this is wrong. :-P

Ran into mention of this new www.indiepass.com thing today... ...can someone explain to me why this isn't a horrible idea? From my perspective the whole idea of indie development is to move further away from a winner-takes-all, race-to-the-bottom market, not towards one.

ANNOUNCEMENT: I will stop running "scheduled" Ludum Dare events in 3 years! "Scheduled" is the key word though. My hope is that leaders within the community can build something better, more welcoming, that honors our legacy. They've got 3 years to figure it out. You even get to study me. 😋 #LDJam

Best comedy code autocomplete I've had in a while. Honestly baffled as to how this gets offered as the best option.

Unsurprisingly everyone's all grumpy about the Bluesky AI nonsense, but consider this: What kind of enshittification would you like to see here? Don't answer "none", because of course, but that doesn't fund the system.

Suits are bad at making game development decisions. Keith puts it more diplomatically than I would, but no punches are pulled here.

MISSING! HELP! I am looking for the playing card deck from GDC 2020! It was printed but the show was cancelled. I have heard rumors that they gave them away but I've never seen one and no one on GDC staff has a set. I'm in it and want to complete my set! Let's bring my card home! To me!

Grey Alien continue to be the people you should pay attention to for real, useful indie info.

This, plus the fact that GDC still being this big in-person international event feels terrible in 2026. Carbon emissions? Covid? Accessibility? (Quote posts are disabled on the OP. I hope it isn't rude to comment anyway, but maybe not since I'm just agreeing.)

Slightly puzzled by C#'s ConcurrentDictionary... There are multiple overloads for AddOrUpdate, but the most convenient one still has me doing this: myDictionary.AddOrUpdate(myKey, myValue, (key, val) => myValue); Why isn't there an overload which does this without the useless third parameter?!

Challenge for those who are very confident that the Texas Instruments "Little Professor" calculator isn't conscious: Explain how human consciousness works.

Congratulations to @katekillick.bsky.social and @ellieeady.bsky.social on the release! Was a privilege to work with you both. It's an excellent game, I hope it does well.

Exciting Announcement: Pieced Together has an official launch date. We're happy to say that on March 6th 2026 the game will be released on Steam! It's been hard work but we are so proud of our little cozy game and can't wait to share it with you all. #cozygame #indiegames

The biggest trap for unwary coders in Unity is Awake(). It looks like an init function... but it isn't, because there are cases where other code can run before it. Worse still, when someone makes this mistake, there is no easy solution. You can't just say "Do this instead...".

Ellie, talking about character design. I think players often don't realise how much iteration and refinement goes into this stuff behind the scenes. (This is Pieced Together, the game I've been doing dev work for.) www.tiktok.com/@glowfroggam...

We can have these conversations without mentioning money... but I'm disinclined to.

Me (smugly): This will fix it. <makes change> Pooter: Nnnope, still broken, LOL! Me: <flips entire table> Me: Long, ranty explanation about how that couldn't possibly not have worked. Me: <returns to code> Me: <saves previously unsaved change>

My new least-favourite coding mishap: 1) Make a one-character typo. 2) Intellicode guesses wrongly what I was trying to type and autocompletes it. 3) Because the autocompleted thing requires a library I'm not using, a 'using' directive is automatically, silently added.

"Without that, the game just wouldn't exist" Rami telling the real story of game production. There are always compromises. Players only see the gap between the shipped game and perfection.

This is a good wording of how I feel about puzzle design too. These days I only 100% about 1/4 of the puzzles I start. Sometimes not finishing is because the game gets very hard at the end and I don't have the time (eg. Gentoo Rescue), but more often... (1/2)

This thread is worth a read. Personally, I'm probably not going to play the game. Not because of the politics of the creative lead, but because I already don't have time to play all the creative and interesting puzzle games that come out.

Update to my review: I think this is now my favourite web game of all time. Just consistently great all the way through.

Part two! Next time some clown tries to tell you that nobody makes interesting games anymore, just send them these articles.

This is what I want the gaming press to be all year round! Wishlisted more games from one article than in the last three months combined!

Steam intentionally killing an old, respected, and beloved decade old indie game studio through bullshit policy is fucking wild

This is a very good puzzle and you should play it. (Free!)

If you know anyone who might be interested, plz send them the link? I've been doing dev work for this project and it's pretty great! Playtesters so far have loved it.

I played a bit of this during testing and it's really good. Andy Duff consistently impresses me as a game designer. store.steampowered.com/app/3330410/...

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In case you weren't able to watch ThinkyCon 2025 live, the helpful folks at Thinky Games have now given my talk its own video. :-)