It's our turn! Songs of Silence is officially hosting this week's #TurnBasedThursday ⚔️ Fellow indie devs: drop your turn-based games in the replies. Fans: like, repost, and wishlist the ones that catch your eye. Let's celebrate our genre together 👍🔁💖

TOMORROW! Reggie Fils-Aimé in conversation with Joost Van Dreunen 7pm - 8:30pm RSVPs are sold out, but you can catch this event LIVE at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter Watch former Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aimé, in conversation with esteemed NYU Stern professor Joost Van Dreunen

Carnage Infernational Featuring: @cybrlich.bsky.social /// Michael Overton Brown /// @strangescaffold.bsky.social /// @direkris.itch.io /// Playables

PRE-RELEASE GTA 6 COVERAGE: The entire global economy rests on this revolutionary piece of art POST RELEASE GTA 6 COVERAGE: Here's where you can find the most early-game Orbs

Nikhil Murthy’s Syphilisation (2024)

Playoffs time

Magic: The Gathering Arena devs are unionizing to deliver generative AI and layoff protections 'We know the workers that make the game can and should be treated better.'

This one hurts a bit. We don't have pop stars in video games because you go to a pop star when you're 14 years old and you want someone to say what you feel but can't express. People go to games when they want to turn off their brain and it kills me.

For something I'm working on, does anyone have any good recommendations for Game Design 102 books? If Koster and Schell are 101 and something like Uncertainty in Games or Game Narrative Kaleidoscope are more 301, are there books for someone who's not starting at zero but still in need of guidance?

Late-breaking announcement: Reggie Fils-Aimé in conversation with Joost Van Dreunen Thurs. April 30th, 7pm - 8:30pm 370 Jay Street, Room 202 Join us for a special event from two experts in the business of video games! Ltd. public tix available at 11am EST TODAY! RSVP: reggienyu.eventbrite.com

It looks like an eight year old Japanese kid and a mid-20s Czech guy have started a Pokémon match in this airport. The Czech guy’s friend is providing him with support.

I’m going to be in Bristol next week (Monday to Wednesday) for the Festival of History Heritage in Games! I’ll be speaking about my research and locating longer histories of play, and I’m also on a panel discussing the use of history in digital games 🎮 www.tickettailor.com/events/brist...

Waiting for a marketplace buyer to show up, whom I suspect is no-showing… so why not start a thread about a Vancouver monument I traipsed to last weekend? I’ve been waiting to post these. This is the old (outdoor) Polar Bear enclosure in Stanley Park, which was part of the long defunct zoo.

Join us today, Thursday April 23rd, for another edition of RPG bookclub! We'll be reading Amanda Lee Franck's YOU GOT A JOB ON THE GARBAGE BARGE! See you there!

Excellent recontextualization of advertising photos by Richard Prince

Honoured to be in great company at the IGDN Indie Groundbreaker Awards! What Should We Have Tomorrow? Has been nominated for Game of the Year and Graphic Design, and owes a lot to @lostwaysclub.itch.io who was responsible for the graphic design and game consulting. www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers

Okay, this isn't a live-service game. It's a small, $15 regular 5v5 multiplayer game. The only DLC is a $5 'supporter pack' that gives every character one more skin and the soundtrack. It's exactly what people have been demanding because they HATE live-service games. And then gets punished as one!

If you want to make a game about resisting, it should be as crunchy as possible because organising is hard.

we're hosting a watch party for @gameworkerscon.bsky.social may 22-23! it's a free, online conference by & for workers organized by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. please use the qr code to rsvp! there will be snacks, swag, park hangs during breaks, & we can learn how to build worker power together.

This would go hard in a taekwondo gym.

My college is hiring a full time game design faculty, with a strong union! please share around, link in reply. $85k-100k Salary Benefits and retirement matching Design, Programming or Art disciplines Seattle Area

I was not ready for part one of Angel Down. I don’t know if it’s the book to start a vacation with but those bullets have flown straight through the book’s trenches to lodge directly between my eyes.

All the Alpha Centauri dialog was written in a strange fugue while rereading Dune while listening to the soundtrack for Les Miserables :D

Betrayal At Club Low is a really great game and you should play it if you have not

I really liked Crawford's Art of Computer Game Design. A lot of it is dictated by the technology of the time and that dates it, unlike Schell and Koster's books which are the obvious comparisons, but it is still well worth reading.

I'm so jealous.

I don’t agree with a lot of Crawford’s assertions. I don’t think more options are always a good thing, for instance. However, I really appreciate his confidence in making them. If your aim is an introductory work, vacillating makes it hard for the reader to engage.

I like the point this game makes about decaying brutalism as an aesthetic unto itself. Is an equivalent with AAA games conceivable? www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...

I still appreciate the South of the Circle scene transitions but the prompting is at once killing the pacing of the dialogue and often frustrating me by not being what I expected to say

There's a lot in this @lewisgordon.bsky.social piece on Black and White but what strikes the most is the line between tamagotchis and the game. I would love to see a piece on the influence tamagotchis had on the industry at large. www.eurogamer.net/black-and-wh...

A giant centipede chases you while you while you climb down a massive hole in indie climbing horror game, Idols of Ash! Out now and FREE for a limited time, on Itch: leafygames.itch.io/idols-of-ash Full Gameplay Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRJt... by indie dev @leafygames.bsky.social #gaming

You tell 'em Chris.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose from Crawford's Art of Computer Game Design (1984)

Stationery comes from stationary because writing materials were one of the few things you would buy from a fixed shop instead of an itinerant merchant because the shops were located near universities.

idk why it took me until reading this to realize that I could just file down the sharp edges of my macbook kentwalters.com/posts/corners/

"Thank you for failing so completely to understand what I wrote (genuine). I will see if I can write a version that even you can understand (complimentary)."

The playoffs are now live in Hoop Dungeon store.steampowered.com/app/4250030/...

First Slay the Spire 2 and now Sol Cesto. I do not pick good times for Hoop Dungeon launches.

🌞 SOL CESTO – 1.0 OUT NOW ON STEAM 🌞 It took us nearly 3 years, but Sol Cesto is finally complete! We hope you’ll enjoy our weird roguelite and all the surprises we’ve added 👀 Please help us spread the word 🙌

I'm really enjoying the @sagarberoshi.bsky.social episode of Game Narrative Kaleidoscope, especially as I worked by Episode long ago, but I disagree with the idea that Netflix repeating plot points is pragmatic and not ideological (if that distinction exists). This is in line with who they are.

Experimenting with the idea of running save files on the title screen for very smooth game-loading ...

Hello! Are you someone in London who's interested in weird playful experiments and commercially implausible games? I've written up some of the stuff happening as part of this year's London Games Festival that I think you should check out buttondown.com/holly/archiv...

'Fun' fact: If you sort your Steam wishlist by user reviews score, it puts any game with under 50 reviews below the 80% mark, even if they're 100% positive. The store is doing its part to keep those hidden gems hidden.

Crawford here talks about dirt, which partly anticipates #killGameplay but I think more anticipates the elegance in game design debates. I don't buy code as game reification now but here you can see how, for Crawford, hardware constraints made every byte important and how that impacted design

Good morning! I highly recommend anyone who thinks they might possibly interested to apply for my job at IGN. It is a fantastic (UNION!!!!!) job working with the absolute best people. I have loved it with all my heart. You will too. www.ziffdavis.com/careers/jobs...

NYU GAME CENTER SPRING SHOWCASE 2026 Wed. May 13th 6pm - 10pm 370 Jay St. 2nd Floor From Capstone & Thesis grad projects and beyond, play 50+ student games and chat with the developers at our annual end of year celebration! RSVP here: gcspringshow26.eventbrite.com Poster by Ava Pom (avapom.com)

i will be showing some of my lil daily games here tonight! see you at dirty rectangles...

I really like @ckunzelman.bsky.social's simile of considering games without considering mass media and visual aesthetics as eating a peach down to the pit and then saying that you have found the peach even as I think I'm a little more extreme than that on this topic. rangedtouch.com/2026/03/02/9...

Reflections on the Claude Code source code leak from @techtrenches.dev “The leak isn’t the story. The code is the story.”