This BBC article was nice to wake up to this morning! All photos were taken at our recent Indie Showcase (part of NottsVGE) in Nottingham, and @debugmag.com events manager Alex Hunt is quoted about the importance of championing indies. I truly love that we can continue to host these showcases 🥰

Nottingham video games developer making retro Game Boy games

Alex Hamilton grew up loving retro gaming and now he makes games for the discontinued Game Boy.

bbc.co.uk

So I’ve worked in marketing for about 15 years now… I was explaining to a friend in detail what I do, and he said “basically you tell people that things exist.” And, honestly? Highly accurate.

Keep going. You’ve got this

Looking for starter kits, lists, or straight up recommendations for video games PR folks. We recently went monthly with @debugmag.com and I want to cover as many great games as possible. All regions and languages considered!

No, I don’t want literally everything to be hot honey actually

Even though it can be tiring, I am so grateful that I am able to travel around the world with my brother Nick, talking to game developers about their work for @debugmag.com There aren’t many people who can claim such fulfilment in their work, and I don’t take it for granted! Next month: Germany

This is basically my life from now onwards, isn’t it?

I truly feel it’s time for disruption, and I’d like to be disruptive with you

We made a Limited Edition “Liquid Debug” magazine to celebrate our 3rd birthday There were a total of 50 produced, they’re individually numbered, and every penny goes towards our free indie game showcases Here’s the details: teamdebug.com/issue/15se

Who’s up for coding a game for this thing?

I already regret also posting this on X

Debug Magazine@debugmag.com · last mo.

Looking for a pixel artist with availability for an “Amiga Demoscene” piece in the magazine

You know how Develop:Brighton is a big conference with a small showcase… What if you, ya know, flipped that around? That could be interesting to see

I don’t want to get too ahead of myself, but the cover of Debug #17 is quite possibly the coolest thing ever 🤩 I’m super excited about what we’ve got planned over the next twelve months!

If you’re in Brighton for Develop, do not let yourself miss BITs!

Brilliant Indie Treasures@brilliantindietreasures.com · last mo.

Two weeks to go until Brilliant Indie Treasures showcase 💎 50 new indie video games for you to play. Join us all at the Leonardo Royal Hotel Brighton Waterfront, 4pm-8pm Wednesday 15th July. Tickets available on the door only, with limited capacity, £4 entry.

Doesn’t MVP stand for Minimum Viable Product? 👀

I would absolutely love to follow a game from the ideas and prototyping stage, straight through to release and even post-release in real time. Definitely something which @debugmag.com could do!

It’s a really unique form of sadness when someone who made something you really enjoyed as a kid turns out to be a terrible person

Preparing some arcade games for a thing. Only real hardware allowed!

Might have to rethink putting this table here

But does it have *tasty* artificial colours or flavours?

I’ve just been going through a monster collection of gaming magazines (every EDGE and Games TM, plus others) and one of the best parts has been seeing all the old adverts from when I was a kid ❤️

There’s nothing quite like getting home at 4am after a full day of international travel

I’ve just paid £14 for a burger at Copenhagen airport, and I have so much regret

This next issue of Debug is mostly being written in Sweden

After working hard for almost four years to build @debugmag.com I’ve come to the difficult conclusion that I simply can’t do it anymore without some extra help. When things go wrong, as the founder I quite rightly jump in to fix them, but that takes valuable time away from editorial work. Cont…

Can anyone else not stand wearing a watch? It’s so incredibly overstimulating

The local polling station is directly outside my bedroom window

I’ve been trying to delete (or even pause) an advert on Instagram for over a week now. Every time I pause it, a few hours later it unpauses itself. When I delete it, I get this error message. Meta support is non-existent. They are basically stealing money from me at this point, bleeding me dry.

Big sigh

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 3mo ago

Paste ends the games coverage that gave so many writers their start aftermath.site/paste-games-en...

I’m feeling a little emotional tonight, but it will pass… Sometimes you put every fibre of your being into something, give it all you have, and it still doesn’t work out But that doesn’t mean it was pointless, that the work didn’t matter, or that the people who showed up didn’t feel something