If you’re wondering what the bright star next to the moon is, it’s Jupiter

Our next meetup is the 17th June, this week! A relaxed meetup for those in, adjacent, or aspiring to the games industry (Cherry Reds is very near New Street Station, for those travelling in) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/june-brum-...

forgive the very linkedin-coded post, but I'll be at @developconference.com in brighton, and if you want to chat about how I help developers improve their shipping experience through automatedaf.dev, dm me!

It has been wild watching the world filled to bursting with players. One of those things that is so hard to imagine 🥹 (Clip from SharkyNiku on Discord)

the public playtest for Spirit Crossing is now LIVE on Steam, and you all really came through over the weekend! thanks for all the friendship offerings, bonfire music jams, and teahouse parties. here's to many more. 🦊 come join us today: store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/...

I’ve been working with the team on the build system for this. It’s a really charming mmo that’s doing a lot of interesting system design for positive community engagement, really pleased to be involved.

PLAY NOW: Spirit Crossing is a cooperative life-sim MMO from the makers of Cozy Grove. Explore islands with unique daily minigames, decorate your home, rave with spirits (and tiny bears), and build villages together. Join the playtest on Steam today! #WholesomeDirect2026

this is far from the biggest deal in the world, but Develop Brighton's registration page will automatically Capital Case words. I hope no-one from XBOX is attending!

We recently added a bunch of nice housing features (real lights! New floors and walls!) and players are doing some fantastic stuff ✨ (These are from player BossyRoad’s house) Much more new stuff to come 😊

So much talk of the halting problem. I see only halting opportunities

Looking to fill some gaps in my schedule so if anyone needs some freelance game dev in June/July/Aug, and beyond, give me a shout. 🥑 Unity Expert 🥑 C++ Engine and Graphics programming 🥑 Tech Art, tools and VFX 🥑 Multiplatform dev, porting and optimisation 🥑 10+ shipped projects #gamedev #indiedev

Day nineteen of the heat wave. Ice cream is sold out everywhere. Lollipops run dangerously low. Brother turns on brother for a fruit twist. The government COBRA meeting decides to activate the national Fab stockpile. Somehow everyone is still drinking tea.

in the credits AND credited properly. someone did not do "additional writing" if they did the plot design, character design, dialogue, quests, item descriptions, and scripts. can you imagine being credited as "additional actor" just because you didn't play the protagonist? come on.

Today's thread of #qualicon2026 talks starts with Miruna Bercaru talking about the automation journey of Funcom on Dune Awakening

oh!! hi #WishlistWednesday 🦊 if you haven't yet heard, we're working on a social MMO called Spirit Crossing. it's full of spirits, NPCs, tiny bears, and of course, other players! we're gearing up for our Open Beta on PC + you can wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/...

I only just noticed this was free: what a great resource if you're unsure about the value of juniors, or you're sure but not sure what to do to get more juniors into your org

Plur1bus is the closest we get to an Ancillary Justice tv show Although the way Apple TV funds sci fi that might not be true for long.

Next up is Rémi Veilleux, talking about automation in Dead By Daylight

Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.

I'll be live-posting some #qualicon2026 talks today and tomorrow - it's an online conference for quality professionals in the video game industry, and they were kind enough to ask me to be on the content committee this year. Really excited to watch along!

In the middle of these automation workshops for game developers right now, with a Unity workshop on Friday (UK time) and an Unreal workshop spread over two UK evenings the week after. Come!

huge parts of the eve engine are now open source, including core libs and resource management. it even has .teamcity files! github.com/carbonengine

how are people still, in the year of shadow 2026, still not wearing headphones when on a group video call? you can't do full duplex! people have to wait until you're fully finished talking before you can hear them. that's not the way normal conversations flow. just buy some comfy headphones.

We've got our first big update for Existential Treads! store.steampowered.com/news/app/358...

We made a fake repo with fake bounties, and the bots are applying fake PRs, so we know who is fake, and we can ban them from the Coolify repo. IQ over 1000

my post that did the biggest numbers in the old place was ironically talking about how the numbers should be smaller

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I was duckduckgoing for scissor lift reference pics and came across this pretty much complete game design document. (dozr.com/blog/scissor...)

artists: come quick it's urgent me: what happened?? artists: we gave the turnips little butts :)

Microsoft rolling back copilot on notepad and paint and Xbox is for one of three reasons: - they actually care about user sentiment now (lol) - they realised no one was going to pay the tokens of literally billions of people - a third reason I haven’t figured out yet

If you want to iterate faster and ship more stable builds, you should learn about writing automated tests. I'm offering a few one-day public workshop on test automation in video games, for both unreal and unity devs, Pay What You Want. automatedaf.dev/workshops

Kenny was already a legend but this pack alone would be enough to put him in the hall of fame

HOLY HECK! Existential Treads - our retro top down shooter + settlement builder + tower defense game - is OUT! 🤘🍻💯 Stop reading! Go nab it! Thanks! You rule! Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/... Itch: ashadamsgames.itch.io/existential-... #indiegame #indiegamedev #towerdefense

LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT Forbidden Solitaire is out now! We are immensely proud to release this awesome game made by two veteran indie studios and we hope you really like it. Steam: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj GOG: tinyurl.com/2s3sv45j Itch: tinyurl.com/3k4bjt8m Please share, many thanks! #indiedev #FakeOS

very recently, olliolli world megafans have launched a campaign to #SaveRadlandia, as _someone_ decided the online features should be 'retired'. hmm. as you can imagine, seeing my colleagues' hard work appreciated like this is super heartwarming/breaking- they made something special, it resonated 🥺

seeing this today was nice, two years to the day since they shut roll7. so much cultural vandalism in the last 2 years that this industry will take years to recover from -- but it will recover. the medium is too potent, its people too creative, to stay down for long.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable for a studio head to point out that full time sustainable roles are not always possible right now. A full time permanent role that has to be laid off at the end of the project is actually just a contract where you were paid less and given false hope.

I don't think "claude write me some automated tests" is enough - it makes passing tests, but they're not very maintainable or readable. Come to my workshops below and I'll show you how to write test for gamedev. In our AI codeslop future, at least you can see what the AI is doing wrong!

If you like puzzles at all, this bundle is amazing, and going cheap for just one day more. Also, Baba Is You has a GIGANTIC mod scene with tens of thousands of levels with new verbs and gimmicks to play around with. You could play it for the rest of your life and probably not run out.

Our new game, Feather’s Edge, has taken flight! We proudly introduce you to our fast, tough-as-talons adventure about becoming the ultimate bird warrior. Please share & wishlist! Playtest coming soon. (Wishlist link in the thread)

10 days until launch! Check out weird twin stick shooter/tower defense game: store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/Ash__Adams_Existential_Treads/ #indiegame #steamgame #screenshotsaturday

A number of things happening throughout this article but the implication that the slowest part of pre-prpduction is developers making rapid concepts and not a director making a call on those concepts tells me this person has never ever experienced the process themselves.

Oh hey, my game Flipside Diner is finally available on iOS and Android. It's a puzzly action cooking game! Store links in thread. 🧵

You stumbled upon an 80s computer and found this weird little clicker game on it, you started playing and now you can't stop... there's something lurking just beneath the surface trying to get out... Announcing Kingdom Klicker! Coming Soon! store.steampowered.com/app/4579740/... #indiedev #wishlist

Unreal has a commandlet to run data validation against your assets, which is great for CI. If you need to _exclude_ some assets from validation, you can add the below to DefaultEditor.ini. This doesn't seem to be documented anywhere! Luckily I read asset validation pipelines for fun. #unrealtips

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

teams sharing code works like HOAs. Sometimes it works, but most of the time it sucks up all the money and turns into paperwork quicksand. the execs like to talk about it anyway.

This house will make these turrets a home store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/... #indiegame #steamgame #comingsoon

sometimes the sky whales grace us with their presence, sending well wishes from the clouds.. 🐳 (screenshots courtesy of Oof42 in Discord - thank you!) + wishlist Spirit Crossing on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/...