Putting the “find out who you are and do it on purpose” Dolly quote in the game design book

Big Boss Gives Thumbs Up at Computer

Alt: Big Boss Gives Thumbs Up at Computer

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You just gotta watch Quinns Quest. This is an absolute treasure on every level. I don't even play TTRPGs. But I think everybody doing something in games should care about what is happening in that space (as Quinns argues!)

Quinns@itsquinns.bsky.social · 12h ago

Quinns Quest Season 3 drops in November. It'll contain the most ambitious reviews I've ever worked on. FAQ available now on the Patreon! 🪚🟩📺 www.patreon.com/qquest/posts...

anyone asking me if I am going to a game event which isn't within a 20 minute drive of me is wildly overestimating how much money I am making, lol

reflecting on my video from this time last year about Game Loops - which is still one of the best performing vids on the channel - I have decided to Choose Violence by deliberately misusing a software engineering lingo in a way which 50 year old nerds won't be able to resist correcting

this is a conversation I would overhear from my game designer coworkers after asking them how they want the door I just modeled to open

Raj Patel@rajio.bsky.social · 2d ago

Gamedev can have a little door discourse as a treat

YEAH YEAH

Necessity is the mother of invention

finally found a catchy collective noun for my fans

Look at this rascal

lovers break up and forget about eachother

Dan Hon@danhon.com · 4d ago

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.

This game is good I tell ye

Indiana-Jonas@indiana-jonas.com · 5d ago

New key art for Bibidi Bibidi just dropped (three weeks ago)!

Having a lot of fun doing Kung fu spoon animations this week store.steampowered.com/app/4209800/...

can you imagine?

*spooky Vincent Price voice* making love is forever, friendship never ends

lol LinkedIn being like “hey maybe you know Bono?”

Really not appreciating having to dig through multiple paywalled sites to work out what’s confirmed re: Reggie Watts

Y’all clearly want more songs (the grown ups yearn for game design Sesame Street)

A thing I’ve been noticing a lot recently - a design pattern I’ve seen and liked in a few games - is when a relatively abstract and gamey contrivance makes the game feel more thematic because of the behaviour it produces.

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I wrote the bit in the book where I have to discuss what “indie” means and I think it’s prettttty good

Tell me about something that's part of the mental compost 💩🪰 (as Le Guin would put it) that fertilises your creativity. Something that is -not- the same kind of thing as what you're making.

Ted Talk Bias: the tendency for the literature on a subject to bias toward what would be interesting-but-acceptable to the sort of people who watch Ted Talks. The sort of think which is insightful in a slightly whimsical way which never really upsets anyone’s existing understanding of things.

Meow meow

Balls? In MY Pit? I think not! [check out the podcast] www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLID...

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Why do people constantly take “improbable” to mean “impossible”? Shouldn’t and Can’t aren’t the same thing? Like, there are countless reasons you shouldn’t make a multiplayer game as a solo dev. If you choose to anyway you just need to know the reasons and take accountability for it.

The new and improved Live, Laugh, Lerp() design now comes as: - trucker hat - pink tee - pink/white mug - GAMEDEV RELAXATION CANDLE! indie-game-clinic-shop.fourthwall.com/products/liv... I didn't remake the L/L/L() tote bags b/c I don't like the shape of them on this site... but maybe later?

"Live, Laugh, Lerp()" GameDev Relaxation Candle

Let the pleasant natural scent of this soothing candle guide you as you fail fast and find the fun.

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I also had my (okay) brutal metal LUDONARRATIVE DISSONANCE logo v1 redrawn by a much better logo-ist Kai Blackwell who actually does these for a living. You can get it as a tee, a hoodie, or a croptop. Because This Business Supports Goth Girls. indie-game-clinic-shop.fourthwall.com/products/lud...

"LUDONARRATIVE DISSONANCE" Metal Cropped Baby Tee

A brutal-metal style tribute to the most loathesome term in all of games criticism. Designed by band logoist Kai Blackwell.

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Hello. If you follow me on here but don’t really know what I’ve been up to with YouTube and podcasting the last year or two please have a little looksie over here for a summary of what IGC is up to in August and what happened in July: www.patreon.com/indiegamecli...

August 2026 IGC Updates | Indie Game Clinic

Hello folks! Joe here from INDIE GAME CLINIC. Here's a little update on what's going on this month, and what already go'ed on in the month b

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Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty 3D Artist: what do you mean by glass here's my reference folder with 14,379,924 images of glass cups from every era of history which one do you want

Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 2w ago

Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Narrative designer: The glass is half {playerEmotionalState() >= OPTIMISM_THRESHOLD: full | empty}. // FIXME: Tune optimism threshold