people can do whatever they want of course, but instead of posting incredibly tepid and uninspired responses to the most regurgitated discourse, you could like repost good art, or post about your dreams, or post some cool ascii art, or like song lyrics you like or like literally anything else

Time and time again it feels like the “how do I get into media type x” question is best answered by “approach it as a deeply appreciative consumer first” but people just want to skip that step, as if you can have a career making [whatever] without first becoming a true sicko

What if someone made a videogame where you play a cop who is really fucked up

feels somewhat mad to be on the short list of gamedev channels that Tim Cain watches www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4dV...

Honestly think you could massively improve the quality of viewership and discourse on a YouTube channel if they gave you a “don’t suggest my channel to people who watch this” and “do suggest my channel to people who watch this” set of preferences.

For the real ones

It’s nearly “two gigs weekend” time! Haven’t played with drums since January. Last time, someone took this pic which looks like I am channeling… something.

The only good kind of YouTube game design video is actually when @pentadact.com looks like he’s in a Placebo album

How did Everything is Crab end up having a launch party at an actual Crab Museum? 🦀 We chatted with @indiegameclinic.bsky.social about the event and more indie games marketing stuff, if you're interested in that kinda thing ⤵️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIblzdmsTlQ #gamedev #indiegames

I was tired of having lots of mini rants about AI art, why it's aesthetically bad, and the larger moral issues with it. So I plopped them all here. Bit of a long read but hopefully useful to someone. www.patreon.com/posts/no-you...

Last time I was hiring manager for junior designers I threw out CVs which mentioned programming or engines in the first few sentences. You’re basically saying “I don’t understand the job description and/or will be unhappy in this role”.

Regulate is a gay song, they just throw some girls in at the end as beards youtu.be/1plPyJdXKIY?...

Age of The Deep is part of Steam's oceanfest! So go wishlist it duckies 💖✨ #steam #oceanfest #indiegames

This is a good game: if you like little twitchy action games with short gameplay time-windows, lots of upgrades, and cute vibes, you will probably like it.

Coming up this week. Two regular streams and a special for the #CollabJam games on Friday. You can set reminders at youtube.com/@indiegamecl... but I’ll be on Twitch too.

date idea

Death of a Unicorn: how does Richard E Grant make every role he gets feel like it was written specifically for him

why Kevin the cat look so much like nick cave

I am finding my primary dislike of AI is shifting away from any negative social effects and shiftiness of outputs to a more amorphous (and maybe harder to justify) disdain for the underlying attitudes which make someone want to use it in the first place

We found out the pub’s jukebox app let you pick venues you aren’t in, so we just sent a bunch of offensive and/or left wing songs to the local conservative club jukebox. Haha.

I don’t know why they’re still looking, he’s obviously right here! youtube.com/shorts/v-g9w...

“Maxident” (the worst possible accident you could have in a given situation) ie “I was carrying my water bottle through the server room and I had a maxident”

oh no now I have to actually write a book

This has become one of my go to personal theme tunes for the channel. I picked it because it sounded like the perfect “kooky slightly cringe uncle” beat and fitted well with having a shit camera and wearing a blazer. youtu.be/3NkdfV5NQxw

EXPERIMENTAL SKEET FORMAT! Here are my takeaways from today's INDIES UNDER THE KNIFE stream, featuring three cool-looking games of first person platforming and/or exploration. www.youtube.com/live/3l7N4vo...

My only daily interaction with any sort of LLM tech (outside of Google) is the companion app for my weight loss jabs, and boy is it stupid.

Just going to the supermarket to have a little cry

I made what I think is a pretty great short video today. It’s not the sort of thing which will necessarily do well, but I felt like I pushed out of my comfort zone a little bit, and I’m proud of it even if it does small numbers (but also plz do big numbers)

This is what peak game advertisement looks like

I think rondel eurogames might be an interesting digital game design space? I think you could make something like Loop Hero x Great Western Trail? (GWT is like… a crypto rondel)

Hopefully gonna get to see Infinite Bisous on Friday hell yeah youtu.be/rCRB9PsGV8o?... I basically have to go otherwise how will local promoters learn we don’t just want metal and jangle indie down here

I was talking to someone local who was asking for help getting work as a “creative producer” (not games) and they got upset with me because I told them I don’t know what they can do, or what they mean by a creative producer.

Nate Dogg was incorrect, you do not actually need to smoke weed every day

Dunno if you know this but it’s a lot easier to read books when you’re properly medicated and not having a mental health crisis or a drinking problem

Amberspire by @nictringali.bsky.social and team ( @bithellgames.bsky.social ) is pretty great. We had a very chill time building Hole Utopia and discussing the game's themes... www.youtube.com/live/id-PWMK...

The “funniest” instance I ever had of “dev team says no to QA” was when external QA complained our game’s gacha wasn’t VPN compatible… the dev team didn’t know (/ask) why that mattered, and then, after launch, Chinese players were buying currency they couldn’t use which just got eaten by the void 🙃

Checking out Amberspire in a couple of hours if you want to come and hang (skiving off work to do so is encouraged) www.youtube.com/live/id-PWMK...

Game developers need to develop good taste. In other words, they need to become a special type of pervert.

One thing I learnt about how Uk academia works during my stint is that because “Professor” is an honorary given by your specific workplace (not an automatic promotion level) it’s can be an indicator that someone is quite pally with senior management (and therefore also anti union in some way)

I bought a NAS for work backups and I didn’t know it didn’t come with the HDDs 🫠

This is a matter of volume and personal exposure, but I stg the folks who Louis Rossman got to use clippy as their pfps on YouTube (to support right to repair) tend to be the worst commenters? Some are fine, but it’s a disproportionately high amount of jackasses. Feels like I mute >50% of them.

I’ve been really enjoying playing with a band again and we have 2 gigs this month. But it’s still quite hard to rationalise recording and releasing music.

I wanna do an animatic series where a series of different game characters go to counselling.

Eating healthily is difficult because of a series of grocery psyops. You know you can just eat a bell pepper or half a cucumber whenever you want, with no prep beside washing? Of course you don’t, because Big Fruit gotcha. You’re under the thumb of the Man From Del Monte. #endbigfruit

The sun beats down upon the skiff. The vessel is still. The children pretend to be angry folk with daggers of silver.

A jittering machine covered in whirring pistons appears briefly in the distance. Fastenings break from it, splashing into the blue.