2026 beginning of the year cleaning up files on my PC and found this one a friend send me when working on some code. Every developer can relate. #solodev #indiedev #development

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

Happy tenth anniversary to photographer Joel Goodman’s classic image which by rights should be hanging in the Louvre.

Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott, 1982)

fun Weird West dev anecdote: there was a decal on a gun shop that said "riffles" instead of "rifles", i pointed it out in the slack and this was the fix that came through and shipped

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

me if I do the thing now: ok that's over me if I think about it every day but put off doing the thing for 6 months, then finally do it: I am queen of this realm and deserve every comfort it can offer me, bestow upon me only praise and blessings

there's two ways work out if a new acquaintance is a rotter: - did they ignore a cat on the street that clearly wanted a pet - did they ship a unity asset with a static class called MathUtils in the root namespace

Yarn Spinner continues to look more and more interesting with every release. Built-in fallthrough support at choice points is a really exciting feature.

We can only describe our character designs as preposterously luscious! Here's a detailed look at how we created the neighbours you'll be meeting in our upcoming game, Mandrake. #indiedev #indiegames (Please do share!)

I played through Duskpunk over the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it; strongly recommended to my fellow Fallen London heads.

Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today! …Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :) Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen. blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...

At Develop 2024 I gave a talk on how we tested the narrative logic in Mask of the Rose, now up on YouTube. If you're interested in testing branching narratives with millions of possible states, but you also love dumb jokes delivered in a monotone, then hold onto your hat: youtu.be/7nxGsml1DUY?...

Tag yourself in this 1800s list of supernatural entities of the British isles

This is correct!

🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween... #halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

NUTS is the party cannon of the steam halloween thing lol

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

just spotted that cyberpunk does doom-style sprites for distant cars and characters... amazing

We have a launch date, folks. Blake Manor opens its doors on October 27th! #indiegames

I previewed Mandrake for The Guardian. Everything I heard about the game sounds delightful, a narrative-focused, folkloric take on the rural life sim with weirdness to burn. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/a...

This trailer is incredible. youtu.be/efMgfRTalT8

Hard to express how annoying this is - surely after 30 years of the internet, people who make online forms should have figured out that some people’s names (as recorded in their passports) do have special characters?? (Solidarity with my fellow apostrophe owners!)

This is a beautiful article on Fallen London. The FL team put out some of the best writing in games *every single month*, and it’s wonderful to see that recognised. (Got quite emotional to see shroom-hopping mentioned, too: one of my first pieces of work for games.) www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/iv...

I've been really, really looking forward to this. Tributary's last game, King of the Castle, was a banger and I've been waiting a while to find out what they'd do next.

As game dev I often wonder if my intuition about the Steam market matches reality. So I did a small game to test it: Guess how many reviews a random game has. You can now play it too on steamle.com

we literally invented an entire scripting language because word handles bulletpoints so badly

Tonight! Get your store page ready!

The [shipped] description of Hogslain Market in Mask of the Rose is "Likely just a corruption of ‘Hog’s Lane’, but I'd keep my pet pig on a leash all the same." Hard to get that kind of placeholder content out of a machine that can't experience true sleep deprivation, I'd imagine.

In case you missed it, we went into some more detail about Mandrake on Steam: steamcommunity.com/app/3710210/...

#Mandrake #failbettergames ...Not even a little cannibalism?

greatest to ever do it

In our first devlog for Mandrake, @chrisgardiner.bsky.social discusses the sorrows and celebrations of life in a small village. And, of course, the duck race.

Hi I did a list of my fave games from the quite frankly exhausting (and I wasn’t even *there*) SGF weekend www.theguardian.com/games/2025/j...

Yolf.

Announcing: Mandrake! You play the last of the Mandrakes, a sorcerous line of gardeners. Horticulture is a cursed practice... except to you. Your family line is steeped in the green and growing arts, so you’re able to grow such marvels as: runner beans! Cherry trees! The humble turnip! 🌳

This is a fantastic read: the history of a really surprisingly large number of tools I use every day as a Unity dev (as well as some I use every day in other, better timelines), as well as the story of what it was like to work there through two orders of magnitude.

It's back! The PC Gaming Show returns on Sunday June 8 ⏰ 12pm PDT / 3pm EDT / 8pm BST / 9pm CEST / 3am CST ⭐️ First partners announced Ubisoft, Failbetter Games, Astra Logical, Devolver Digital 📺 Join us on X, Twitch, YouTube and Steam ⁉️ Hosts and lots more still to be announced pcgamingshow.com

A cartoon for the @theguardian.com from a few years ago.

hey, so the thing we spend much of our time working on, for free, is on sale, and buying it (or contracting us to integrate it/add features/help you/hang out with you) is the best way to support us to make sure it keeps being AMAZING assetstore.unity.com/packages/too... #gamedev #unity3d #unity

Fun fact on the topic of scale: Fallen London is around 2.5 million words longer today than it was when that headshot was taken.

Game Informer is back! The entire team is returning and we can't wait to reconnect. Come join us to celebrate the best in games, the people who make games, and the people who play games from all around the world. www.gameinformer.com/letter-from-...

I played an hour of this at lunch today and it's fantastic. Inkle just don't miss.

happy Águas de março to those who celebrate

I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development localthunk.com/blog/balatro...

KOTC is two! A cracking game with some excellent writing. Worth (and I do not say this lightly) making friends for.

Looking through the source code of the Command & Conquer games that EA just released github.com/electronicarts. Some fun stuff in the comments.