such giddy joy about trucks shearing themselves in half. this is pure hater energy. @reportermatt.bsky.social
Seth Rosen
@sirrosen.bsky.social
Burned out. Nectar Vector next. Before: Game Director + Lead Designer on Pacific Drive, Designer on Bioshock Infinite, various Don't Starve things, and Mafia 3. Liked Movie. Boston area. he/him
hello! please play the USUAL JUNE demo, a game about the corruption at the heart of the Midwest, written by the lovely David Pinckney and narrative directed by me, a person who loves spooky things, puzzles, finji games, intrigue, the x-files, investigations, etc
Finji@finjico.bsky.social · 2d ago👻 USUAL JUNE IS LAUNCHING OCTOBER 28TH! Fight monsters, talk to ghosts, and get to the bottom of a mystery threatening to obliterate an entire city in Usual June, a third-person action-adventure game developed by Finji (that's us!!) Play the demo on Steam! #awesomeindiesshow #gamescom #usualjune
I can hold two ideas in my head at once. Allow me to demonstrate: “Abolish ICE” and “lmaooooooooo”
GTA is very impressive and it just makes me tired to think about the number of hours and amount of content and systems and features that goes into making something like that
cam brink showing everyone how you handle all this. real one
Loomin' Onion™@buckrawheat.bsky.social · 3d agopulled the video so you don't have to go to X we stan a towering queen who does not care for the antics of mediocre men
had a cursed idea for a friendslop game, might have to milk it
To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution
the thing about indie games is that if someone designs one single game I love, I’ll get whatever they make for the rest of their lives and pretty much always have a good time. people are so attached to ip but imo you really gotta know the creators.
Listening to a basketball podcast and I recently finished watching Foundation and I think instead of referring to players being in their prime, being young, etc, we should just say they’re in their Dawn, Day, Dusk eras
this is the first major advance in the field of dunkology in decades
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 4d agoJordan Southerland won the dunk of the contest by combining a 6 foot high jump with a dunk 🤯
Have you ever had A Strong Beer after a long and stressful day? It’s good imo, just a little tip for my followers
Nurses are absolute MAGIC. They are the heroes that walk among us… if you know a nurse buy them a beer give them a hug or a kiss or whatever they want, they deserve it all
Its seems to finally be official so ill say again, for real this time: You can jow buy South of Midnight without contributing to the genocide Isreal is committing with the help of Microsoft. Its a great game, everyone should play it. Hoping now to pick up a PS5 disk if they're still available.
South of Midnight on Steam
South of Midnight is a new action-adventure from Compulsion Games. Explore the mythos and confront mysterious creatures of the Deep South in this modern folktale while learning to weave an ancient pow...
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@deantak.bsky.social · last wk.Exclusive: It's official. Compulsion Games has successfully pulled off a management buyout and is no longer part of Microsoft. gamesbeat.com/compulsion-g...
Just watched Powers of Ten by the Eames Office, which I don’t think I’d seen before. It’s incredible: youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0?...
Powers of Ten™ (1977)
YouTube video by Eames Office
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Don’t boycott GTA VI. Fight for justice for the people who made it: youtube.com/shorts/hhIES... T-shirt preorders open now! All proceeds from the t-shirts, which are ethically made and designed by us, will go towards the fired Rockstar workers’ legal funds. bit.ly/4xLc4IP
Don't Boycott GTA VI. Fight for justice for the people who made it.
YouTube video by IWGB Union
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Is there a way in the Steam backend to see sales over a period of time, with units/rev split by sales of SKUs on non-bundle discounts and SKUs that were full price?
this is how cans come into this world and it’s how they want to go out
✨trash✨@dollarpbr.gay · 2w agoits_happening_again.mp4
OH MY GOD FINALLY!!! Turn off reskeets from individual accounts is here at last no hate but a couple of y'all reskeet some untagged shit I am not prepared to see
Oh that was my squeaky violin
Harris Foster@harris.zone · 3w agoTHE HAND SMEARING ON GLASS SOUND (?>??!!!!!)
heyyyyy IGF submissions for this year are open! If you're making a cool indie game I would love it if you would submit it! If you're thinking about it but not sure, I outline some reasons why you might (or might not) in detail here auratriolo.com/blog/2024/09...
Aura’s IGF Submissions Advice – AURAMBLES
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GDC Festival of Gaming@officialgdc.bsky.social · 3w agoSubmissions are now open for the 2027 Independent Games Festival Awards! Don't delay, the form closes on September 13th! submit.igf.com #IGF2027
it's 2026 how have we not solved the problem where calls get booked between two people and one person is stuck with a calendar event that starts with their own name and the other name is past the preview truncation. surely we have the technology for it to dynamically flip the names around per user
NEW: CWA union members have inflated a giant rat and deployed a wall of red flags representing laid off Xbox workers outside the Bethesda office in Rockville. The protest was timed to coincide with a visit from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who is apparently at the studio today.
it’s called an eclipse because the sun is on the computer and it’s playing doom and it just used the idclip cheat code people think it’s an old phenomenon but no it’s just another e-word for our electronic age, like email. thanks to id tech for letting the sun noclip the moon
i am writing a book! i’ve been talking to the creators of doom, marine doom, & america’s army, plus academics, drone experts, former military… it’s been so fascinating and i am excited to share it with you all. all that time i spent playing CS as a teen is finally paying off lol
Today's fun: the Steam Revenue Report: weloveit.io/developers/s... This is a snapshot of estimated earnings for games on Steam (using the Boxleiter Method), alongside different ways to slice the data. How concentrated are sales/reviews? What does a typical game earn at a given percentile? Etc.!
The Steam Revenue Report — We Love It
Estimated earnings for every game on Steam. Constantly updated, free, and every number is clickable.
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genuinely wondering if there's any writing out there about the way that going from sub-10 employees to sub-20 constitutes an invisible and substantial danger for many indies as the studio goes from "everyone knows what they are doing" to "fairly substantial organizational overhead becomes necessary"
Ambrosia Sky development gore thread Here's the very first time the cleaning tech worked. According to my file naming this was the 8th attempt to get a good result