The worst part about making a paper prototype is... making the paper prototype.

Spending some time today to make a paper prototype of the mini-game I've designed for my RPG. Excited to play through it with kids and get their feedback.

The last year, and in particular the last 4.5 months, has been really hard but things are starting to turn around and have had a few pieces of very good, welcome, news.

Today's amusing bug: Test enemy just committed suicide by repeatedly targeting itself and using it's melee attack...

Really excellent write-up on one of the biggest mistakes our industry keeps making again and again.

Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 6d ago

If knowledge if power, why are game companies setting it alight?

As someone who has been caught in the shifting sands of the games industry churn, I'm eternally shocked by how many studios will reject a 16 year veteran with experience across indie and AAA, multiple shipped titles and a host of different titles and experiences without even an interview.

From the mind that brought you "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "A Light in the Attic" comes a new vision of horror... The Twistable Turnable Man

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · last wk.

Chloe Zhao's THE TIGER IS OUT, coming 2028

"You know what this shield needs? Rocket engines" 😎️ Yeah, okay!

FINAL FANTASY XIV@en.finalfantasyxiv.com · 2w ago

The Evercold teaser site has been updated with the info revealed during the Fan Festival 2026 in Berlin keynote! 🌐 sqex.to/evercold_web

Excellent post-mortem thread from Jim here. I think a lot about how we, as we learn to make games, trend towards being risk-averse, but how that also deprives us of deeply interesting and sometimes experimental experiences born out of plain old Not Knowing Any Better.

Jim Rossignol@rossignol.bsky.social · 2w ago

One thing I never did was a post-mortem of Sir. Perhaps this is as good a time and place as any to talk about some of that. It started in 2010 when Channel 4 had some money to spend on making educational games. For some reason they asked me. ->thread

And now we play the waiting game...

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I can't help but hear Samantha in Dungeon Crawler Carl as though she's being played by Nadja from What We Do in the Shadows. I really hope they cast her for the adaptation that's in the works.

My youngest daughter has wanted to try Japanese Cloud (Souffle) pancakes for a while so today I tried my hand at making them. They're not the prettiest because I didn't have enough fat in my steel pan and they got stuck, but I can confirm they are really fucking delicious.

The curse of being omni-capable in your profession is the ever present urge to say 'fuck it, I'll do it myself' and just dig yourself the deepest hole.

The last year in this industry has been tough as hell being unemployed and seeing more and more colleagues join the ranks. I've absolutely felt this way and that's a big part of why I've thrown myself into my personal project and tried to focus on all the good in my life. But it's so, so hard.

Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · 3w ago

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

tfw email goes ding but it's not the ding you're waiting for

I mourn the loss of physicality in games. While it's more convenient to consume digital media, the experience of interacting with physical media is part of the experience.

...in recognition for her efforts in laying off mass amounts of workers to preserve the interests of corporate shareholders.

VGC@videogameschronicle.com · 4w ago

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has been named as an advisor to the US Federal Reserve on 'Productivity and Jobs'. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-ce...

The richest and most powerful people in the world, both financial and political, are the ones who have the means to save the world. But they refuse.

Game developers do the longest, most complicated magic tricks.

Time for a thought experiment: Let's say you're a big company in the technology space and you want to get a slice of the games market. You make a big investment, then invest consistently over time and beg acquiring creative resources to support that investment.

So this is solid proof that the people making this technology are clearly aware of how easily it can be manipulated and exploited in a way that is directly harmful to everyone that interacts with it, including minors. Sure would be nice to have working courts.

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social

Unreal 6 blueprint news got you down? The newest article on No Right Answers is here to tell you that Game Engines are Disposable. www.norightanswers.net/posts/game-e... #gamedesign #gamedevelopment #norightanswers

Look, much as I like seeing a good node graph it really doesn't tell you anything. Yeah, that's a lot of nodes but like back in 2016 I did this. Is it more or less impressive? It's, uh, both.

igor.sarzynski@srznsk.bsky.social · last mo.

btw

While it's not officially ranked, it's wonderful to see Starlink: Battle for Atlas on the list. The team was absolutely thrilled to get to work with the Star Fox IP for our crazy big little game and it remains a highlight of my career!

Game Informer@gameinformer.com · last mo.

With Star Fox on our minds, we decided to revisit our ranking of the games for the first time since the release of Star Fox Zero in 2016. You'll never guess what we put as number one! Unless you guessed Star Fox (2026). If that's the case, then you nailed it. gameinformer.com/b/features/a...

Just watched one of my dogs, briefly, forget how to stairs. Part way up the stairs.

Gord's awesome and makes cool things that you could, and should, be enjoying right now.

Gordon Little@gord.games · last mo.

Hey it's the @itch.io Summer Sale! You can get ALL MY STUFF for cheap cheap cheap. DRM free. DLC free. Own it forever. No subscriptions. The only thing that auto-renews is your enjoyment. itch.io/s/190989/sum...

No, wait, I've heard this one before. It goes "Take your gun NFT from game A to game B!"

Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · last mo.

Tim Sweeney says only hope for new games is to 'connect to economies of other games'

Looking forward to watching this one because back in the day I was a beta tester for Galaxies. I still have these relics floating around too...

/noclip@noclipvideo.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️ The "Jedi Problem" in Star Wars Galaxies is infamous, but what's the real story behind the legend? Famed designer @raphkoster.bsky.social talks to @jeremybjayne.bsky.social about what this remarkable game design challenge can teach us. WATCH HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAv0...