24hrs later I’m still thinking about the giant diesel-punk cannon I might pilot using punch-cards and (squints) …a vinyl record player.

Sam Read-Graves 🌿🎮@readgraves.com · 2d ago

Operate a colossal dieselpunk artillery machine, calculate firing. - Calculate range and position from battlefield - Operate strained hydraulics and gunlay - Deliver devastating fire through a giant war It's called IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator. Would you obey High Command?

It is so incredibly funny to print this full, unedited, and entirely accurate @seamas.bsky.social teardown in you article DEFENDING Rod Liddle

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

I hope you're STRAPPED IN because we have a bumper Kickstarter update for you this month! 9️⃣ We've now got NINE people working on the game! 🐈 55+ cats 🐝 BEES??? 🐑 The most perfect roly poly you could ever see AND MORE! Read here!! 👇 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann...

Update 25: Storm before the Storm ⚡ · Crescent County - a witch-tech delivery adventure

We don't know how but we've ended up with HEAPS of stuff to show off!And we're pretty confident there's gonna be EVEN MORE to share next month! Wild! Take a deep breath, drink a glass of water and let...

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Operate a colossal dieselpunk artillery machine, calculate firing. - Calculate range and position from battlefield - Operate strained hydraulics and gunlay - Deliver devastating fire through a giant war It's called IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator. Would you obey High Command?

KIM KITSURAGI - “You need to get your shit together.” YOU - “But I don't wanna get my shit together!” KIM KITSURAGI - “Then the world will turn away from you, and leave you behind.”

Hello. Later today we'll be linking mailing list and discord members to an early closed demo build for our hot air balloon game (Windows build) Please consider signing up if you like aeronautical transportation, penguins or saxophone solos #gamedev www.spacelionstudios.ie/mailing-list/

Ten years ago, it started with a game jam. Since then, we've poured all of our love and craft into every single pixel. Now, it's finally here: a wordless point-and-click adventure in a prehistoric world full of dinosaurs. Theropods launches August 20th!🦕

my god it’s true, I’ve been making a videogame with @amypearson.bsky.social and @johnwordsworth.bsky.social for over a year

John Wordsworth@johnwordsworth.bsky.social · 5d ago

Went through the exciting steps of setting up our Steam Partner account today - we will soon be able to start talking about the game we have been making for over a year! Very exciting - can’t wait to start talking more about it.

Went through the exciting steps of setting up our Steam Partner account today - we will soon be able to start talking about the game we have been making for over a year! Very exciting - can’t wait to start talking more about it.

A bit like how Cameron, Osborne et al were absolutely clueless in the EU referendum campaign, because they had never had to campaign *against* the British press in full rend-and-kill mode, and that meant there was nobody to very publicly beat the fuck out of their opponents on their behalf.

On any project devs/designers can return to a particular line of code or implementation that THEY put in and still need a good 20 mins to work out why it was done that way. Imagine an entire new team attempting that with the entire project. Destroying teams is pure vandalism.

Chris Kerr@kerrblimey.bsky.social · 7d ago

As someone else put it to me earlier this year when discussing the Xbox layoffs, it's like picking away at the threads in a blanket until the whole thing unravels. www.gamedeveloper.com/production/-...

This IS good news! Thimbleweed Park is so good. Played it on mobile but it FELT like cracking a chunky old Lucasarts box and firing up the “house” 486 (complementary). It doesn’t rest on nostalgia though. Fantastic puzzles. Sparkling writing. A joy.

Octavi Navarro@octavinavarro.bsky.social · 7d ago

Because the world needs some good news sometimes... Thimbleweed Park is back in 2028! With the original team! 🥳🥸🤡 www.grumpygamer.com/twp2_announce/ Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/4932120/...

our indie game: - hand drawn by Celeste's pixel artist - music by Disasterpeace - made on our own game engine - a slow-burning horror RPG - meet (or date) 10+ charming characters - fast-paced combat - customize your playstyle with crafted items and combat abilities

Hey all! I'm currently on the lookout for a freelance UI artist with experience in Unreal 5. Stylized art preferred as it's for Crescent County! Lmk if that sounds like YOU or SOMEONE YOU KNOW 🌟 #gamedev #indiedev #gamejobs

Layoffs hit Double Fine today, and I'm sorry to report that I was one of the ones hit. If you need a game designer with tech chops and 2+ decades of experience, here I am.

I think this says a lot about how art makes us feel and how we engage and interact with it. What resonates and what doesn't. Also, there's that classic saying: You have your whole life to make your first season/movie/whatever, and six months to make your second.

I really enjoyed the Odyssey and I think it’s great that some people really didn’t enjoy the Odyssey because critical discussions that force you to interrogate your own reactions to a thing are NEAT. This is how we grow.

So, for some reason, we're still talking about a movie no one likes and will tank at the box office to the tune of three quarters of a *billion* dollars in less than two weeks for having 15min of minorities in it? Cool. Here's my review of it. filmfreakcentral.net/2026/07/the-...

The Odyssey (2026) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

****/****starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theronscreenplay by Christopher Nolan, based on the epic poem by Homerdirected by Christopher Nolan by Walter Chaw The bookshelf of m...

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Hello. Perdu the Penguin and I will be flying over to Gamescom in a couple of weeks, and we'd like to talk to you about our new Hot Air Balloon game. Find me on the ol' meettomatch or head for wherever the karaoke is.

I think this is one of the cruelest, ultimately self-sabotaging decisions you can make as a company. Why on earth would you stop employees finding happiness and fulfillment in the act of creation, widening their worldview and skill sets - and being able to bring some of that back INTO your studio.

Chris Kerr@kerrblimey.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: I spoke with multiple video game developers and a U.S. employment lawyer to learn more about restrictive side clauses that often prevent employees at major companies from pursuing hobbyist work or personal projects. In an industry renowned for creativity, why are we stifling it?

NEW: I spoke with multiple video game developers and a U.S. employment lawyer to learn more about restrictive side clauses that often prevent employees at major companies from pursuing hobbyist work or personal projects. In an industry renowned for creativity, why are we stifling it?

Developers discuss the pain and prevalence of side work clauses

How an industry renowned for creativity is actively stifling it.

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Kind of adjacent to this discourse is the amount of popular tv dramas recently that display an almost pathological aversion to conflict and complex, complicated characters. All issues resolved in the space of the episode. Assurances that everyone is fundamentally decent. Nothing left hanging.

@jawless-fish.bsky.social · last wk.

theres this one tumblr post ive seen talking about that phenomenon but w fiction writing that I think about often

Literally what fandom discourse has turned into I fear.

Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12

If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.

I fucking love Eizouken! It might be my favorite depiction of what it's like to be a creative in any collaborative artform. The whole show radiates pure warmth of both love and commiseration for how hard it all is, yet we just can't stop. Also, every project needs a Kanamori.

SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

Seven-Part Pact

A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.

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As Johnson discovered to his extreme cost, after he made it clear he thought he was PM on merit, had a personal mandate and he didn’t have to listen to a lot of complaining media whiners.

These are all great rules articulated far better than I ever managed. We initially only went with Fall Guys : Ultimate Knockout to give us some legal wriggle room in case Universal were in the process of reviving long dead stuntman tv show The Fall Guy.

Hannah Flynn 🐀@itshannahflynn.bsky.social · last mo.

Let's talk about naming your video game! This is something I come back to with teams over and over again. Naming is really hard. A decent name is hard to find, and a bad one will really make it hard for people to remember your game. Here are some tips.