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91k raised! Let's get this to the finish line, we're only 9k away from our goal.

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 6d ago

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

GeoDesX health insurance does not cover bone deformation triggered in the station. You can test the limit of our health insurance policies by wishlisting. 🔗 destabilizedgame.com/SteamB #IndieSky #FunnyClips #CoOp #IndieGame #SCP #ChaosInsurgent #SciFi #Horror #Comedy

Help laid off devs!

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 6d ago

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

tempted to drop a "hello everynyan" in the official gamescom server as an introduction

the barks your narrative designer told the engineer not to worry about, because they're easy to implement:

Dan Johnson will design games for food@coil.bsky.social · 5d ago

I said I wanted barks.

Narrative design.

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

For just $10 you can get over 100 games (including one of mine that was previously unreleased) and, most importantly, benefit game workers impacted by layoffs. Support the Game Industry Hardship Fund‼️

Brandon Sheffield@brandon.insertcredit.com · 6d ago

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

finally got to watch hadestown, such a good musical i'm honestly ashamed of enjoying so many other musicals and forgetting to even listen to the songs until this year

Beatdown City Survivors is 25% off til July 28th 10AM PDT! A big thank you to everyone who's playing the game! If you own it, PLEASE leave a review! We're at 72 reviews & it would be amazing to hit 100! You can play the demo here: beatdown.city/bdcsrstm

Save 25% on Beatdown City Survivors on Steam

Eradicate hordes of monsters in this survivors style roguelite set in a rotting, destructible city that hates you. Start fires, blow stuff up, electrify water, you name it. Upgrade & craft an arse...

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Of all the Emmas that could be a narrator, Emma D'Arcy would be my top choice NGL

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

my spouse brought our cat to my desk, very briefly--and he hung on to the monitor, and I have never seen a cat use his claws to tell me to open up an email before.

hot and spicy take: I need more writers to be in engine, i've had so many people text me like ANDREA IN UNREAL?!!! like yes, it's narrative *design* not just writing

This month, five new people pledged on the IFTF Patreon (www.patreon.com/c/IFTF) at $10/month or less. Over a year their pledges fund about half of a grant (iftechfoundation.org/committees/g...). IFTF funds diverse education, history and engineering projects. Small numbers make a big difference!

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I'm helping organize this jam! It starts in January, but we're putting in on your radar in advance 👀

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 2w ago

We will be running our Union-Made Game Jam again in 2027 during the month of January! Sign ups are now open:

Claiming that there isn't a crisis is at this point just denialism, it's an extraordinary claim for which you'd need extraordinary evidence that would basically amount to saying everyone in the industry is undergoing some kind of mass hallucination.

Months of work, a lifetime of learning, but the Levelling The Playing Field 101 Courses program launches right now. Eight €40 courses launching 10 days apart, I aim to make the critical less-spoken parts of indie gamedev accessible away from expensive visa-locked hotel bars. courses.ramiismail.com

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Jimothy doodle I think we can all agree that it's rather inspiring that a wild raccoon with a shortened spine syndrome is agile and thriving out there somewhere.

Hey #GameDev, #ScriptSky & #LatinSky folks! Wanna get in on a #DnD campaign? Or two? 🤓

Teresa Jusino (she/her)@teresajusino.bsky.social · 3w ago

After running short campaigns for friends/kids I've joined the @startplaying.bsky.social fam to DM for the wider world! My 1st Character Creation sesh is TOMORROW @ 10AM PT! Create a Lvl1 #DnD character w/us & learn about my campaigns. 2 spots left! startplaying.games/adventure/cm... #TTRPGs #gaming

in six weeks people are going to be playing our game at gamescom in six weeks people are going to be playing our game at gamescom in six weeks people are going to be playing our game at gamescom in six weeks people are going to be playing our game at gamescom i am REALLY CALM about this!

it's #portfolioday again, so I thought I'd share a few projects I've been working on! - a (newly announced!) multiplayer co-op @destabilized.bsky.social - an upcoming wrestling deckbuilder & open world RPG at @flameborngames.bsky.social - credits in NDA'd indie work, and AAA titles like civ 7!

One of the things that, as lead writer, I had to bang into the head of senior leadership sometimes was that writers were not interchangeable even within a project. One writer knew a certain companion inside and out. When we lost that writer, a new writer coming in took twice as long to do the work.

Hayes Madsen@solfleet.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hey, so, I was so angry today that, for once, I blogged it instead of posting about it. Games media, especially mainstream games media, cannot keep abdicating responsibility in how it talks about these things an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/video-game-s...

Hey, this bundle of narrative games supports Take This. You should buy it www.humblebundle.com/games/narrat...

Narrative 12 for $10 Bundle

Get a collection of our favorite narrative games in this 12 for $10 bundle and support Take This charity with your purchase!

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It's been such a blast working on a sci-fi co-op these past couple of months. If you're a fan of SCP or Alien: Isolation—Destabilized is right up your alley! Getting to work on a multiplayer game in Unreal has been a ton of fun, and I can't wait to show more. Wishlist... For science! 💚🦠🌳 #Indie

DeSTABILIZED@destabilized.bsky.social · 4w ago

Explore. Retrieve. Survive. Join GeoDesX's Discovery Team in Destabilized. A new, sci-fi co-op adventure brought to you by Deviant Games. Wishlist now... For Science! 🔗 destabilizedgame.com/SteamB #IndieDev #IndieSky #SciFi #CoOp

Instagram automatically opted all public profiles into its new feature that lets users create AI images based on their photos How to opt out: 1️⃣ Go to your profile 2️⃣ Click the 3 bars in the top right 3️⃣ Scroll down to ‘Sharing and reuse’ 4️⃣ Turn off for both Posts & Reels

@blueridgehunting.com looks like such a fun game, even if it did not pan out with Six One Indie you can support them by going to their ko-fi page. bsky.app/profile/blue... If you're able to, go support this indie project!

Six One Indie@sixoneindie.com · 4w ago

Hey everybody, Kyle here with some very unfortunate news regarding our partnership with @blueridgehunting.com as a publishing partner. Very simply, financially we can no longer support the game and will not be publishing the game effective immediately. (1/3)

You don't want to sleep on this gem, Whisker Squadron ate up a bunch of hours of my time in the best way possible.

Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid)@aaronflippo.bsky.social · 4w ago

Hey if you played Whisker Squadron: Survivor and enjoyed it, maybe toss us a good review on Steam? For whatever reason, reviews have tipped from "mostly positive" to "mostly negative" in the last few weeks and it's bummed me out! store.steampowered.com/app/2140100/...

Among the layoffs was character artist Christiane Meister — a 27-year veteran of Bethesda and (as far as I can tell) one of the longest tenured women in games, period. She worked on Argonians + Khajiit in TES3, horses in TES4 and TES5, Fallout creatures, and more. (cont'd)

We can't just repost to every layoff announcement with "unionize" and not inform people of the different steps into it. You can go to @videogameworkers.bsky.social 's website right now, and sign up to be a member or follow @ckjong.bsky.social 's thread to learn more about how you can advocate.

C ✊ UVW-CWA@ckjong.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you're seeing the calls to organize the games industry but don't know where to start, here's a list of free organizer trainings you can sign up for right now. 🧵 1) @gwu-montreal.bsky.social runs monthly free in-person trainings for game workers in Montreal forms.gle/hNrEstS8BtCL...