Today at #gdc Festival Of Gaming(tm), I’m moderating the first of three roundtables on test automation. I’ll see you at 308 South, 4.30pm! Find all the roundtables and other talks on test automation (including my panel!) here atig.dev/gdc/

Getting a Mel’s out of the way early in the week, so I don’t have to worry about it later

Getting a Mel’s out of the way early in the week, so I don’t have to worry about it later

First SF ad was “has AI ruined your code? Let’s code review it with AI”. Finally we have created the ouroboros from the famous sci fi novel Don’t Create The Ouroboros.

Excited to get off the plane at SFO for a week of GDC and friends! Now to catch up on what I’ve missed on bluesky.com.

in our most recent developer blog, we discuss the finer details (and challenges) that go into balancing a multiplayer game economy in its Alpha playtest stages. if that sounds interesting to you, come take a look! 🧩 spryfox.com/developer-blog-lets-talk-about-economy-balancing-pt-1/

We're stoked with how Vampire Crawlers did at Next Fest: 4th most-played!!! The reaction from players has been overwhelming! We've been working on Vampire Crawlers with our friends at @poncle.games for a while now, so follow them, us and wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/3265700/...

A week until the first automated testing roundtables at #gdc2026! If you’re interested in automation, we’ve curated a few relevant talks here at the Automated Testing In Games community’s website: atig.dev/gdc You can also join our discord there, even if you’re not heading to San Francisco

Our huge Nintendo sale starts today! Massive discounts on all of our Switch titles are available from now until March 20th, with up to 75% off individual games and 60% off our multi-game bundle. www.draknek.org/nintendo

I'll be at GDC in two weeks! I love having breakfast catchups with mutuals, but I've not been very proactive this time. Let me know if you'll be there and want to eat american slop together!

OK, this is nearly done now: stecurran.com/LUGE2026/ reddit.com/r/LUGE20XX/ Also the instructions pop up is the best thing I have ever written.

Normalise sharing your narrative tools bsky.app/profile/sfbd...

for the love of god i’m begging people to say “genAI” instead of “AI” when that’s what you mean AI is an ancient and glorious and critical tradition and muddying language makes talking about things very hard sometimes

Hey, it's been a while! I've been focusing on my character art render for the last few months; here's a Spinning Top Monk I have been working on for some time.

Pico8 is fun!

ATIG is a discord community of game devs excited about test automation. We've been around for a while, but we've finally got a logo and a website. Check it out! atig.dev

Spirit Crossing 14.7 is now live! 🧡 we've got.. 🌳 big tree changes 🏙️ new decor and hairstyles 🚂 fluffalo train ride boosts 🎨 art changes & improvements + requested Quality of Life updates! available now on Android and iOS (via Testflight) + more details here. ↓ spryfox.com/spirit-cross...

damn this went hard

you either stop using TeamCity or you live long enough to find yourself on the "it should be possible to resolve value of reverse.dep.*** parameter in context of the head build" feature request page

My morning is people going "wow really, christopher "earw0rm" glumwell is in meogenics?? fr??" and having no idea if that means they're good, or the game is good, or they're bad, or the game is bad, or anything in between

why haven't you turned on warnings-as-errors yet?

🚀 Mythmatch launches March 13th on Steam!! 🚀 🐐 Merge the items 💪 Unite the people 🏠 Make a home Play the demo now and continue your progress in the full game. store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/...

that's it. it's done.

We're reuniting with @ant-workshop.com to bring you Into the Slimy Mines, a tower defense roguelike with a card twist! You can expect... ⚒️Intergalactic Mining Dwarves 🦠Hundreds and thousands of Slimes ⚒️Did we mention the Intergalactic Mining DWARVES? youtu.be/9MPBCESan6Q

BREAKING: I am living in the past

🎵 In our latest developer blog, we chatted with Spry Fox's Audio Lead to learn all about what goes into the sound & music design for Spirit Crossing! This one's a two-parter, so let's dive right in: spryfox.com/developer-blog-audio-qa/

sure the world is on fire but I think what would really set us back on the right path is a dark mode for unreal game sync

tomorrow!

this wednesday!!

Fun fact if there's no project managers on your project that work is just being done by someone else with a different title. Even solo projects need planning.

Next week!!

everyone keeps saying "there's no ethical AI" when what they mean is "there's no ethical LLMs" stop strapping ML researchers to the trolley tracks alongside big AI corps

I think most game dev teams underestimate how damaging slow workflows are to the ultimate quality of their game. If it takes 5 minutes to launch the game and see your changes, I think your game is going to be MUCH worse than the alternate timeline where it took 1 minute

Don't forget that our Steam sale continues until the end of the month, with up to 70% off our entire catalogue! store.steampowered.com/publisher/dr...

Placing the first tower and clearing out the sprawl. This is Existential Treads, our post-post-apocalypse settlement action game. Positivitycore throwbacky top-down action tower defense ass game, right here. Demo on steam and itch. #indiegame #indiegamedev

Hey all! After 3 years working at Netflix, we're back as an indie! I will still be part of the amazing team at 🦊 @spryfox.bsky.social joining them on their next adventure, and I'll try sharing as much as I can about my journey and the work I do!

EARTH MUST DIE is OUT NOW. Starring Joel Fry, Martha Howe-Douglas, @alexhorne.bsky.social @misterabk.bsky.social @benstarr.bsky.social @5teviem.bsky.social Tamsin Greig, Don Warrington and LOADS of other people. It's cheap | good | funny, check it out. store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

Čapek: In my play R.U.R. I invented robots as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the robots from classic sci-fi play R.U.R.

We’re releasing Turnbound in less than 2 hours aaaaaaaaaaaahhhh

This is made by a small team that includes some lovely ex-Roll7 people and deserves your love!

🚨Early access is live! 🚨 It brings: 🏹 Robin Hood 🏆 Leaderboards 🛠️ More abilities, ultimate's and items! Buy the game on Steam ⤵️ store.steampowered.com/app/3802470/... Learn more ⤵️ store.steampowered.com/news/app/380... Every RT, Like, share and review helps! #IndieGameDev #gaming

Is there any accessibility consultant or designer who is willing to work with me on a talk or article about the accessibility of game development tools? No budget, just trying to do the right thing and get it out there. I don't feel like I can talk about it enough on my own. I miss lived experience

Pocketgamer connects going well already: - accidentally booked super early train - hardly slept - got up at 5.45 - my train is cancelled anyway Say hi if you see me (napping)

This weekend is the last for subbing a talk to Qualicon! This is a great virtual conf focused on quality and games, and there's a track just for automation. The submission is only 300 words! I'd love to hear about your scrappy-yet-effective automation solutions. gamequality.org/qualicon/202...

Something positive: Spry Fox is spinning out of Netflix. We are independent (once again!) and preparing to launch Spirit Crossing. We wrote up a little blog post musing about this wild adventure. Worth sharing the good news. spryfox.com/a-16-year-ol...

We took a break in January but Brum Indies is back for February! Join us for a relaxed and informal hangout for those in, adjacent, or aspiring to the games industry. A few steps from New Street station. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/february-b...

genuinely one of the thrills of getting to work on a life sim is opening our playground\gymnasium maps and flying through them

working with a US client, figured I'd try to add a world clock to the win11 widgets. nope, nothing there. the clock app has a world clock! and you can Pin To Start! ah that must be useful! ...why. who designed this. what happened.

making a color utility for a Unity game and just made so that right-clicking a color gives you a lot more copy (and paste) options than the default ones