I asked GDC if I could kill someone on stage and they didn’t even blink

THEY SPOTTED MY STAGE DIRECTION 🫣

here's the moment from IGF rehearsals yesterday when @karriebear.bsky.social stabbed Andy Schatz onstage for the first time with the full confetti blood effect, and i knew it was gonna be a special night

the IGF awards mean a lot to me! i've participated in them over the years as a judge, juror, dev, and above all a fan. what an honor to work on the ceremony itself with @teddydief.com and @karriebear.bsky.social, who are both absolute powerhouses, to celebrate these games and the folks who make them

hey gdc: come to the picnic tables in the park in the next ~hour if you want an ass-kicking* *free STARFRIENDS deck with bonus disc

My entire goal was to make it a love letter to the IGFs and ALL indies best community on earth bar none

CRYING thank youuuu 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️

TONIGHT I HOST THE IGFS DO NOT MISS OUR OPENING VIDEO THAT IS 10X THE INSANITY OF OUR ANNOUNCEMENT VIDEO Witness the brilliance of @teddydief.com & @robdubbin.bsky.social’s show writing!!!!! 6:30 PM, #GDC North Hall, and LIVE on Twitch: twitch.tv/gdcfestivalo...

IGF AWARD REHEARSAL @karriebear.bsky.social @robdubbin.bsky.social

HI #GDC Find me Monday reviewing portfolios, Wednesday ON STAGE AT THE IGFS, eating pastries, or in line for boba. LETS DO THIS

our tire lost the fight against a loose bolt but we made it to GDC!

That’s a wrap on final pickups for IGF Awards! Huge thanks to Strangely Compelling for lending us stellar equipment. It will be an IGF show to remember with @karriebear.bsky.social at the helm. Been an honor co-directing this show, and writing with Karrie & @robdubbin.bsky.social SEE YOU AT GDC

🔥 GDC AWARD SHOW HOSTING DREAM TEAM 🔥 IGFs and GDCAs are gonna be so unhinged, just you wait come through if you’re at #GDC or watch LIVE on Twitch to watch me and @sammaggs.bsky.social throw down on Wednesday and Thursday at 6:30pm!!

this is the moment that gamedevs everywhere crumble under the weight of their own GDC ambitions godspeed everyone 🫡 rest assured that no one is ready lol

The stuff we are doing for the IGF Awards is 100x dumber than this video we made to promote it. Really proud to be directing this chaos with Karrie 😌 See you at GDC!!!

I'm delighted to join Game Makers Notebook to chat with @caraellison.bsky.social! Cara is SO prolific, from Rockstar to The Guardian to a novel to Ghost Town. Such a thoughtful career retrospective and I'm still thinking about the lifechanging power of people saying "who don't you just do it??"

okay for the first time this year i'm legit bummed to miss gdc

one of my faaaaaaaavorite lines

Still cannot believe I'm hosting the IGFs at GDC this year. The IGFs are THE show I've looked up to for my entire career! But I'm not doing it alone! I've assembled collaborators and presenters who I deeply admire and are the ones making the indie dev community the best damn community on earth

someday I will stop beating myself up about every single thing I do, and I will get everything done so much faster without nearly as much self-inflicted pain and anxiety and stress and depression .........BUT UNTIL THEN--

🚨 @karriebear.bsky.social is hosting the IGFs! 🏆 ALSO, I'm honored to co-direct the show with Karrie + co-write with her & @robdubbin.bsky.social 🤍 We have fun. We expect you, too, will have fun, even if you lose! #IGF2026

the minute that I got the IGF hosting invite, I thought "please let @robdubbin.bsky.social be available so i can hire him". his jokes about knitting are off the hook!!!

honored beyond belief to host the IGFs this year!!! i'm gonna get real STUPID on stage, join me 💖 #GDC

the mafia awaits 🤌

"The Prestige" by OFK OUT NOW Feelings of love, trust, hiding yourself. So proud our game-band has a life of their own, and I'm proud as hell of this song. 💸 Steam gave us today's DAILY DEAL!!! Our game is just $5 so get it!!! Listen: ofk.cool/prestige Get the Game: ofk.cool/steam

I'm in Vegas next week! Not *at* DICE but haunting around the general area / off-site. Hit me up if you're there? ✨

A very belated work update: I’m writing Warren Spector’s next game! I’ve been contracting with OtherSide Entertainment since July. From creating my first immerse sim with Pacific Drive, to jumping in with the originator of the genre itself. This new adventure is gonna go places!

Gravity Well is looking for a great Systems Designer. Job posting below. Studio website is here: gravitywell.games Hoping you'll consider joining a small independent studio that is making something new!

Writers and Narrative Designers! Portfolio reviews coming your way on Monday at GDC. Join us! We're here to help 💞

absolute dream job opening -- Narrative Designer for Meow Wolf

BABY STEPSSSSS my 2025 goty tbh

This is so cool! It's such a huge compliment that our video game would compel a person to make a bot, I'm so pleased!! Huge props to @karriebear.bsky.social and @paullicino.bsky.social for all of the actual words in the game, of course.

we finally trained ourselves into saying "donut county" but then "crow country" came out and now my household is fighting a "donut country / crow county" war

SUCH a good thread!! I'm positively beaming with pride to see so many international indies on this list: Ball x Pit, Animal Well, SIGNALIS, Threes even!! How damn cool is it to grow up on Japanese games and then grow up to create games that influence them right back 💖

I'm thrilled to join Zurich Film Fund as a jury member in the Digital Culture program! Funding for games has been incredibly bleak, so I'm excited to raise up projects at this challenging time. The grants total CHF 4.5M ($5.7M USD) / CHF 150K ($190K) per project. filmstiftung.ch/digitale-kul...

My team is hiring narrative designers again! * Entry to mid-level! * Casual mobile games with campy fun stories * Big caveat: after a few months remote, you gotta do a year or two in-office in Beijing! * Pay is low by US standards but great for Beijing or Europe www.linkedin.com/posts/alexan...

apologies to anyone who sees this and is still trying to get work done

Hello Gamedevs, There is a new Gamedev Salary Pulse survey. It’s a community project, built to gather anonymous insights about salaries & work conditions across the industry. Results will be published for free, in Q1 2026. Devs can take part here: 8bit-recruitment.typeform.com/to/n2Klg27o

This year for Game Awards fits, we showed up imho (w @karriebear.bsky.social)

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOREVER FOR THISSSSSSSSS

🎧NEW OFK THIS FRIDAY 3 years(!) since we released our game about a little band of friends - a massive labor of love that won us phenomenal fans AND a Peabody Award! Life has gotten full & busy but WE ARE HERE. Feels good to be back

we tried Taco Bell’s Baja Blast Pie yesterday and the reactions were so good it had to go on the feed

I’m speaking today at @sfwa.org’s Quasar event this weekend! Really excited to be chatting with a panel of indie creators across comics, novels, and games ❤️ @alexiswestmore.bsky.social @jessicamaison.bsky.social @joanmarieverba.bsky.social @rrookstudio.bsky.social

Kdin joined our Pacific Drive voice cast as one of my new favorite characters in the DLC ❤️

Surprise! Pacific Drive's first story expansion dropped TODAY Come meet the Harmonic Fellowship, your new family 👁️🌊 They only want the very best for you.

i'm so glad @mikerose.bsky.social is back on social media, what an absolute gift

lovely getting yesterday off of my game dev day job so i could work on my game dev prototype i am a well-balanced individual

oh dip Surprised and honored to be a GDC 2025 top speaker!! This same talk also got me an unexpected job offer out of nowhere.... which I'll share more about later 😶 If you have Vault access, the talk is here: gdcvault.com/.../Game-Nar...

i'm working my way through the games submitted for BAFTAs this year in preparation for voting, and this incredible moment in Skin Deep had my entire friend group giggling