Dan Braithwaite

@ax209.bsky.social

Game dude, art dude, and whatever else.

And we are back!!! Pocket Pixel Design returns with a new supplier, Timebomb T-Shirts and new designs. Nintendo N64, Game Boy, and Arcade Cab. For all of July use promo code: REBOOT2026 to get a massive 25% off the T-Shirts Tell your friends and grab your favourite designs now! pocketpixel.design

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Hey friends! If you are able, any donation to the action fund for us Rockstar Workers fighting our unfair dismissals last October would be greatly appreciated! We are fighting an absolute behemoth with resources far beyond our own and ever dime counts. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Support Rockstar Workers Fighting Unfair Dismissals!

Last week over 30 members of staff at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar were fired en masse in a “calculated attack on workers”. The IWGB described Rockstar’s actions as ‘the most blatant and rut...

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I got a kebab last night because I had a theory that eating a lot of salt and grease would help my horrible headache ( it did! ). The salad contained onion, so obviously I picked out every bit and binned it. But I'm all bloated and gassy because some onion lightly touched some of the meat/veg FML 🥲

Here are some screenshots of cool games by our amazing #gamedev students! These are Gunheart, Borderline and Polarity

A screenshot of a lo-fi first-person game in shades of pink. In the HUD in a pink heart (like, anatomy, not emoji) and the word "BLAM!".A screenshot of a 2D pixel art platformer, where the screen is split diagonally, showing both a fantasy and a sci-fi setting.A screenshot of a lizard? dog? -like creature in the desert, in stylised toon-shading. It looks ready to pounce! There are a land mine and a cactus nearby.
nickbell 🆗️@nick.aetheric-games.com · 2mo ago

Tomorrow is #ECGx ~ the #Edinburgh College Games eXpo! the combo end-of-year show for our #gamedev students and local #indiedev folks CodeBase, Edinburgh 5:30 - 8:00, 26/05/26 it's open to everyone - come along and try out ~30 game demos! info + free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/edinb...

Been a while since I posted here! Been working hard on my team project, One Pawn, our puzzle platforming game themed around chess! We’ll be presenting out game at ECGx next week, so for anyone coming, we hope to see you there! I’ll be posting what we have to itch.io sometime soon too!

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If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

I think everyone should be paying attention to what payment processors are doing to independent game developers right now. Games have been the testbed for a lot of the shittiest ideas going right now and you better believe this effort will broaden its goals quickly

Dominic Tarason@dominictarason.com · 12mo ago

More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy. This seems kinda significant.