Submissions to the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC are now OPEN through October 24, 2025! Please send us the weird shit you're working on! More info about the session and where to submit can be found on our NEW website here www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

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that endless feeling (for too long now)

Musical theatre fans / theatre kids / game designers / players: this Thursday we have a talk + workshop for you. Come learn how Stephen Sondheim was also a game designer and learn more about his games at Barry Joseph's book presentation. RSVP below!

Hey! I have no idea how to do this, I’ve never made a List or Starter Pack before, but: ⭐️ If you’re a Games Writer/Narrative Designer looking for work, and you’d like to be added to my Starter Pack, lmk! ⭐️ If you’re looking to hire a Games Writer/Narrative Designer, check out this Starter Pack!

We're shortstaffed on RPS and need some rad PC-minded freelancers for urgent review work. Specifically: - Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already) - Dying Light: The Beast - Silent Hill f Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at [email protected]

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

One issue generally overlooked in the whole screenwriter vs gamewriter, discussion is time. Beyond anything to do with training, ability, style etc is the amount of time screenwriters get to invest in a script. Whilst there are time pressures on any writer, the vast amounts of script that- 1/9

We live in The Twilight Zone.

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder -WS Romeo & Juliet

The Thinky Games website turns 3 today! 🎉 thinkygames.com/

Not only that - many of the "stable" game jobs are also in some of the most expensive cities too, so if/when you are laid off, it's likely that you have to move again.

In case you wanted to get a 100% achievement score in Old Skies today...

Since today's discourse is on how "not everyone grew up with Nintendo", I'll reshare this: medium.com/@felipepepe/... And reinforce that this is systemic - a consequence of US hegemony. It's NOT a personal attack on American journos, youtubers & gamers, but rather a reminder of our differences.

Execs have no idea of the importance of institutional knowledge-they think of employees as numbers, believe they're interchangeable, and have no idea of how the sausage is made. Disbanding a team where people knows each other and works well is terribly inefficient and does not lead to more profit.

The final episode of my playthrough of @grundislav.games's Rosewater is now up on YouTube! You should definitely check it out! It’s a charming hang with a great cast of characters, and easily one of my favorite modern point-and-click adventures.

I know developers are afraid to deny players what they want or expect, but I genuinely believe that doing so — intentionally & thoughtfully — can mean players *remember* the game long after, like a grain of sand in an oyster turning to a pearl #ThirstySuitors 💔💦 www.dualshockers.com/great-games-...

For the NYC crowd: Linda Linda Linda is an absolute delight and you can watch it on the big screen this weekend. Youll end up singing along Japanese rock after seeing it.

Because I keep mum too often: Hey! I'm looking for projects! Does your game have words, stories, or voices in it? We do game editing, narrative consulting, and voiceover production! If any of those sound useful to you or someone you know, let's chat! Boosts appreciated! 💖 thegameeditors.com

The funny thing about this review is that not only it describes the new Frankenstein adaptation as being faithful to the original (which is hard to do!), but talks about it as if it was a bad thing.

I have an MIT degree, I have a PhD, I'm a seasoned university professor and today it took me five whole minutes to get my computer to work after it ran out of batteries, because I forgot to turn on the power strip I plugged it into. I'm well-versed in technology, I swear. 💀

Any visit to NYCC includes a stop at Yoshi’s booth and their fabulous stuff.

ChatGPT mines the work of actual PhD dissertations, and it’s nothing without the effort of humans, and it can’t produce new knowledge, which is what people with PhDs do. People should stop selling AI as something that it’s not.

@alexinthecupboard.bsky.social did such a fantastic job with this game. Short and (bitter)sweet, Fishy will steal your heart. So happy to see this out in the world - go play it!

Extremely proud to have Grundislav Games be part of the newly launched Adventure Game Merch store! Use coupon code Lamplight10 to get 10% off all store items this week! www.adventuregamemerch.com

Fucking called it - Next Benoit Blanc movie it's a locked room mystery. (I know a thing or two about whodunits by now.) maxblizz.com/first-plot-d...

Treachery in Beatdown City + Ultra Remix DLC on Switch in the US & Europe/AUS is on a major sale until September 2nd! 🤡 Meet terrible people 🥶 Freeze time 🤜🏼 Build custom combos 👮🏼 Beat 'em up! ✝️ Uncover a techno-christo-fascist conspiracy (?) 85% off base game 65% off DLC 75% off Base/DLC Bundle!

The idea that 'AI can speed up dev cycles' would require a premise that dev cycles are long because people are taking forever to make assets (so you could replace them with shoddy slop and it'd go faster), which you could only believe is true if you've never actually tried to make a video game

It’s live! The Game Devs of Color Support Bundle is here!💚🩵 🎮 100+ items from 70+ creators 💰 Just $10 (worth ~$409) 🫶🏾 Save 97% + support GDoC programs Every purchase helps fund events, grants, scholarships & more that uplift #gamedev of color! 👉 Grab the bundle now: itch.io/b/3171/game-...

Tonight on Twitch: I'm joined by adventure game designer Josh Mandel and composer Robert Holmes for a Q&A session. Drop by around 9:30 p.m. and pick their brains about Freddy Pharkas, Gabriel Knight, and more! twitch.tv/decafjedi Fingers crossed for another special surprise guest. 🤞

Anyone who knows an actual thing or two about AI saw this coming. I welcome the bubble bursting, but I also worry about the people who are doing fantastic work in AI and may see their field tainted because of the PR stunts of absolute idiots and bad business decisions.

A good way to start the week is to find this waiting in my mailbox. Congrats, @rdansky.bsky.social !

hey if you are mad as hell about how the Unbound / Boundless publisher implosion went down, here is a small thing you can do for one of the affected authors

When I was little, we got milk from the farm and we brought containers to carry it home. We knew we had to boil raw milk before drinking it to kill the bacteria (and get a film of delicious cream on top after boiling). If you want to do things in the old way, learn what the old ways are.

Join us at our Official Watch Party for #GDoCExpo 2025 in New York City! Hosted by @sharpiepls.com, organized by Game Devs of Color, & presented by NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. Catch sessions broadcast to the big screen, game stations, and space to network & mingle! #gamedev

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

SURPRISE! I'm doing a little something different today. Presenting: STUDYING THE CLASSICS, a stream series where I play classic adventure games and analyze their puzzle design. Kicking things off with THE CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND today at 11:30am Eastern! twitch.tv/Grundislav

What is hard is to keep alive on a world you don't belong to.

Seeing the state of the world and how hard things are in general, all I want to do is dance everything away with this song #IYKYK www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxLB...

YouTubers: PLEASE stop using AI voiceovers. The most awkward, unprofessional, nasal, echoey human VO in the world is still going to be less grating and distracting than a robot that says every sentence exactly the same way and doesn't know how to pronounce a bunch of words or where to put emphasis.

Never what Miyazaki said to the tech bros trying to sell him on AI animation.

We’re in a world where using electronic payments for sex-related games is a problem, but murder simulators are okay. 😩

Remember when the prophets of digital distribution were like "everything can be sold forever because there are no shelves" 🥴

The fact that many of my colleagues including myself have developed PTSD and anxiety disorders from this industry should tell you this. Until the CEOs/stockholders lose $$$ by factoring human capital loss nothing will change. The stock market was built to fund slavery so don’t hold your breath.

I have to say, it's Wednesday and I miss @grundislav.games Wild West Wednesdays on Twitch, because they were a nice hangout while I was working. But he deserves a break after all the hard work he put on Rosewater.

the crash of ‘84 was a big part of my book (you should read it!) and yeah - it was wild projections based on no previous sales metrics (or, sometimes worse, based on movie sales). The people who paid for it were developers, while the ones who made bad decisions slinked off to other businesses

Las few days, I was packing for a long trip, flying over the Atlantic and getting over jet lag, and when I catch up with the news, the world is even *more* on fire than before. Even literally in some places. Also, fuck the games industry and how it chews up and spits wonderfully talented people.

New issue of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is live, & this is a special one. First: its mostly non-US focused content & contributors. There's a French and English interview w/ a Swiss game dev. A long read about Brazilian game history. Our first ever translation of doujinshi!

The entire Blackwell series is 70% off during the Steam Summer sale! Eight years in the making, the Blackwell series tell the story of medium Rosa Blackwell and her spirit guide Joey Mallone as they help lost and lonely ghosts pass on. Find them here: t.co/uoi1Mtx3aN