With Astra and all the fad about "One-shotting" games, the number of slop games will likely continue to grow at an increasing and rapid pace. Could this provide impetus for Steam to finally do something about curating showelware? #gamedev #pcgames #steam #ai

my stone age 4X strategy game comes out tomorrow, August 26th, at 9am PDT! i've been working on this game for 4+ years, can't wait for its launch 😅 wishlist on Steam! #gamedev #indiegame 🎮

Writing this felt real. After all the years, explaining on paper the reasons for making a game such as this helps put things in perspective. Check out our dev diary about the tribal and nomadic nature of the game! #gamdev #indiegames #pcgames

Bad Cog@badcog.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We just release dev diary #2 on our steam page! Learn about the dream behind the game. How our fascination with early human societies helped us build a strategy game with no kings, borders or conquest. #gamedev #indiegames #pcgame store.steampowered.com/app/2447370/...

Some procedural terrain, very early. Small clan, looking to settle and build their city in a huge world. Summer prototypes! #procgen #gamedev #indiedev

Ithaca has made it to the second round in @blueoceangames.bsky.social's Rising Tide Challenge. If you could spare the time to create an account and vote for us in the RPG/Fantasy category, it'd be greatly appreciated! blueoceangames.com/challenge/vo...

Off to a good start... #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev

It is an ageless gigantic tree! #gamedev #indiedevs #pcgame bsky.app/profile/badc...

Bad Cog@badcog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Clansfolk picking berries among the mooses. Moosesses? Meanwhile, the other clan explores the surrounding area. Wishlist on steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2447370/... #gamedev #indiedev #pcgame

Most beautiful place in the world for casual summer #gamedev Not the most comfortable, but beauty trumps comfort any day.

On the 14th day of our road trip to Ithaca,we meet @zblabc.bsky.social from @badcog.bsky.social for a very interesting conversation. Thank you <3

So, designing a Steam Dev diary as a hub announcement. How does this look in the amount of text and pictures. How long is too long? This amount of text, 1-3 pictures? bsky.app/profile/badc... #gamedev #indiegames #design #art

Bad Cog@badcog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are honoured to share with you our first Dev Diary! Read more on our steam page: store.steampowered.com/news/app/244... #gamedev #indiegame #steam

Any creativity boosting tips? I know a legend about Dali, that he would fall asleep with coin in hand over a metal pan. Do the moment his hand let go, he would wake up. I need something less... invasive. What are your tips for lateral thinking? #gamedev #art #process #cinema

Okay, I just made a first couple of Steam page Hub announcements. I still can't decide weather Steam's logic of identifying images based on dimensions in pixels is the greatest idea ever or amateurish recipe for disaster. #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev

I've been trying very hard to get the colors, light and all the shader details just right for our game. What do you think? #gamedev #pcgame #procgen

Bad Cog@badcog.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hi! #PitchYaGame Lead a tribe of nomadic hunter-gatherers trying to survive in a simulated ecosystem. -give tasks to clans -gather, craft, equip -manage rations and inventories -design and use art -preform shamanic rituals -meet mythical beings, some friendly some not

How a gamer uses a game: opens, plays for 5 hours, closes. How a game designer uses a game: opens 40 times during 5 hours, plays for 5 minutes, tweak something, never close. #gamdev

So, designing #tutorial for a game. Any tips and tricks? I have a feeling nobody reads anymore. I'm afraid to put more than a couple of sentences on a screen at any one time. What helps with encouraging reading and retentnion of info in tutorials? #gamdev #indiegame #pcgame

Added a ledge trip mechanic. Originally, it was a bug fix that teleported the player upwards when they hit the edge of a jump. Now, if they jump too low, the player has to react and land carefully or crash. It's a small change to make mistake recovery more fun and thrilling. #indiegame #gamedev

So, if you play a game a day, you can play 365 games a year. If your game-playing age is 60 years, lets say. You can play ~22,000 games in your lifetime. About the number that comes out on Steam in one year. #gamedev #pcgames

#gamedev #indiedev #stats I firmly believe that any designer working on a parametric game could benefit from understanding how to quickly do simple calculations in software like #R, #python or #excel and producing visualizations. This is easy to pick up and immediately rewarding. 1/5

My second ever pixelart! A stylized veduta of my home town. Loving the flow! #pixelart #gamedev

He knocks glasses off I fix my pair, he strolls on "They are by now down." #haiku #gamedev bsky.app/profile/zbla...

žBla@zblabc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A friend just knocked his glasses off a counter. I shrugged and fixed my pair to my nose. He just walked away on his business. - "They are already down." Bro is zen. #mindfulness #zen #gamedev

A friend just knocked his glasses off a counter. I shrugged and fixed my pair to my nose. He just walked away on his business. - "They are already down." Bro is zen. #mindfulness #zen #gamedev

My first ever pixelart! I have never tried it in my life, testing a program my friend built for drawing. It's amazing! I do not take commissions, sorry. #gamedev #pixelart

So this is an encouraging development. #science #physics arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions

One of the site's moderators described the new policy on social media.

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bsky.app/profile/zbla... It is the same for shapes. #comics #lineart #digitalart Look at Charlie Brown, or Linus. One curve of the cheek has a slightly different angle and it goes from "perfectly describing the character of the actor while preserving it's consistency" to "amorphous blob".

žBla@zblabc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It always amazed me how making a tiny change on a value or two can have a huge effect on the look and feel, when it comes to digital art. An artistic direction can seem a dead end, but tweaking a few values can rescue the vision completely. #gamdev #indiedev #digitalart

Testing posting in QHD+. How does this screenshot look if you open it on flhd (1920x1080) display? #gamedev #indiegames

It always amazed me how making a tiny change on a value or two can have a huge effect on the look and feel, when it comes to digital art. An artistic direction can seem a dead end, but tweaking a few values can rescue the vision completely. #gamdev #indiedev #digitalart

So, technical question. #gamedev #techsupport On a laptop with 2560x1600 native resolution, if you want to take screenshots or record video to display in 1920x1080, your best bet is to change the resolution for the display to fulhd before taking screenshots?

There is nothing quite like laying out your shader properties before wiring everything up. Makes me feel like a very special type of nerd. 😜 #gamedev #indiedev #shaders #amplify

Deaths in traffic per 100K people in 2026

A beast that moves by launching itself through the air and rolling when it hits the ground