A Monday morning giggle. Psst...the countdown is on. 5 days until Dawn Chorus Day. Comic: Jimmy Craig

Do yourself a favour and watch “The Sting” folks, what a damn good movie

We're gearing up for Deckbuilder Fest in a week - lads, I love this game, I get a kick out of playing it every damn day, & I know it sounds a bit arrogant, but you might like it too!

Friday mood: me telling a tiny origin story of one of the villains of our game

Actually wild what a difference the sun makes. Spring is here in Copenhagen and I suddenly feel capable! Bright! Enthusiastic! That golden ball sure is the bee's knees 🌞

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All hands to battle stations, this is not a drill! It's the official #TurnBasedThursday on Bsky! Calling all #GameDev aces: tell us about your #IndieGame; post your project below! Tag your friends! Tag your enemies! ❤️ Players, share the love and help spread the word about your favorite games! 🔁

the thing is, to make art, to fall in love, to do anything really worth doing, you have to risk embarrassment, humiliation, heartbreak. to do anything you have to risk being. and that's being in front of—or more scary, with—others.

"Crooks" season 2 on Netflix is so so so much fun. We inhaled it in record time. Partly in Vienna, partly in Bangkok, petty crooks and a mysterious coin - you don't need to have seen (or in my case, remember) Season 1, just dive in and roll with it!

Our next Welcome Back Birds live session is coming up—join Cornell Lab experts to explore bird migration & can’t-miss spectacles near you. Register once to access May + June events, the April recording (all about bird songs), bonus resources & a discount on Bird Academy courses! hubs.la/Q048D9J90

It's an honor to host this week's official #TurnBasedThursday! 📢 Calling all #IndieDev and #GameDev folks to show off their turn-based games below! Love #turnbased games? ♥ / 🔁 great games in the replies and @ who should be in this thread!

Let go (there is no right way), let them (you can’t control what they think of you), and let it happen: one step after the other.

Ultimately, you have to put your ego aside and try to enjoy the ride. This advice from Charlene Putney (in The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope by @inkle.co) feels worthy of printing out and sticking on the wall.

This Sunday 19 April is Good Decision Day! This is a fake festival I made up some years ago: a day when you must make only good decisions. I find it a weirdly refreshing thing to try for one spring day. Perhaps you would too? Some friends of mine also observe it, some others find it very upsetting

This game is an absolute blast, and I often find myself doing the Daily Challenge Run, which I typically don't do for any of the games I play!

I got around to playing this last week. It's fun! There are plenty of interesting choices and I like the feedback loop of defeated enemies becoming friends. Figuring out when to push forward and how to time the use of friends as wildcards to fix your hand was key for me. Demo recommended!

New demo patch allows you to bask in your former glory. How good is that?

The thing about actually making your video game real is that your projected imagination of what it will be is gradually substituted with concrete reality, and that reality is mostly going to be pretty bad until the game is almost finished. This is pretty heavy psychologically.

Life is so short. So short. So short. Do your best. It's all we can do.

Many many years ago I used to go to a kind of rock/metal place in Dublin & one night there was this girl there dancing on the tiny dance floor. She was wearing this sort of shimmering ethereal strapless top & it glinted and winked under the disco ball…

Hi everybody! My course, The Tools (Not Rules) of Story Structure, is back and bigger than ever! Yes, it's about structure, but more than anything it's about what your story really means and how it goes about meaning it! For more info, check out the Irish Writers Centre and their list of courses!

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II

Did you already submit your bird-themed game to our aptly named Steam festival Birds of Play? We need 20-50 wild games to submit the festival and then hopefully are able to go through with it and officially host it on Steam. tally.so/r/lbWro6

It was incredibly good - highly recommend especially the rice recipe!!

Was feeling melancholy, but then I dug up Theoden with an undercut from my vault of memes

This is what we’re making for Easter dinner here & I’m so excited with still 4 hours til the first bite www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ma...

I wish humanity would do more of this and no war, no conquest, no nukes.

I think a 1981 Suzuki CV1 would fix me

areadoug777: My wife likes the house so hot. I turn the thermostat down to like 65, and then my wife turns it up to 70. Joke’s on her. I wanted it at 70 the whole time lol. It’s all about how you play the game, fellas Jacques0: en france, we do not have this idea. this échecs de femme… uh wifechess

There is no world in which you're prepared for how incredible this is

it’s true that overall likes are way down on bluesky over the past year. however, if you look closely at the data, that’s mostly an anomaly resulting from the fact that your posts specifically have gotten worse and are dragging the vibe down.

Here's a tiny snapshot of how the fantastic music of Sparrow Warfare was made. Basically our genius composer used a break in a project when he had a handful of super talented musicians at hand to record the piece: www.instagram.com/p/DWYamjeDGZ...

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

Quick morning shout out to all the other freelancers who didn't even know it was the bank holiday, the whole concept having become utterly irrelevant to their lived experience.

"you are responsible for every possible way your words may be interpreted" is an expectation, I think, that no one would want applied to themselves, but it seems to be becoming normal on this site. internalizing this is a good way to make yourself crazy.

🕯️ The deck is shuffled, the hour is nigh. #TurnBasedThursday awakens. A weathered token passes to us, we rise to host. #Gamedev & #IndieDev warlocks: lay your turn-based offerings in the replies. RPGs, roguelikes, strategy… all may be cast in. Adventurers: step into the thread. The ritual begins🔁🩸

Oh no @alphachar.bsky.social and I had an even better game idea. Stay tuned for game #2 might become game #3. Be sure to play the Sparrow Warfare demo in the meantime because that's game #1 and will stay so until launch.

We're planning a bird-themed Steam festival and if your game features birds you are welcome to submit it here. There more the merrier! tally.so/r/lbWro6

the nicest thing you can wish upon an artist in 2026 is that their work gains a small but dedicated cult following of kind hearted and politically shrewd weirdos & sickos that keep the fire going. the meanest thing you can wish upon an artist in 2026 is that their work gains a large online fandom

No point worrying about it.

I made 7 games in 4 months. Here's how i did it, why i did it, what i learned. This is an in-depth piece into the mind of a woman who needs creativity to stay alive and thrive. unaminhkavanagh.com/7-games-4-mo... #gamedev #indiegames #gamejam

and more on your point, nothing in the past defines who we are and likewise nothing in our future does either. who we are is what we do and feel in this moment that's given to us, and no one else can make those decisions for us. we can only be it ourselves and try to nurture ourselves to grow.

When I hear the way some people talk about the choices they make in their lives there is this kind of implied thread of eternity running behind their choices. But the real thread running behind all of our lives is that we have only a finite stretch of time to do what we are here to do.

I'll add my voice to this. Melville died well before Moby Dick was really recognized as a classic and there are many other like examples. You can't know one way or the other. Only you can make your art, and if you don't make it, it never happens, for you or anyone else. Dickinson trunked it all!

One of my favourite newsletters is Oliver Burkeman's The Imperfectionist: "making the choices that are actually available to you, in the real situation in which you find yourself, with less deference to the inner judge, and more focus on what makes you feel alive." ❤️ ckarchive.com/b/4zuvhehpl4...

In the pandemic, @martinpi.bsky.social & I were GLUED to @imaginaryadvice.bsky.social's podcast "The Golden House" & loved solving the puzzles together. 1 line from the 1st episode stuck with us SO strongly for years that it's now a prime seed for our next game 🌱 www.the-golden-house-podcast.com

In the pandemic, @martinpi.bsky.social & I were GLUED to @imaginaryadvice.bsky.social's podcast "The Golden House" & loved solving the puzzles together. 1 line from the 1st episode stuck with us SO strongly for years that it's now a prime seed for our next game 🌱 www.the-golden-house-podcast.com

One of my favourite newsletters is Oliver Burkeman's The Imperfectionist: "making the choices that are actually available to you, in the real situation in which you find yourself, with less deference to the inner judge, and more focus on what makes you feel alive." ❤️ ckarchive.com/b/4zuvhehpl4...

What if, instead, foreign tourists from the countries whose heritage the British Museum stole were paid upon entry?