Crosshair Pack has been updated! 🎯 It now includes separate SVG (vector) files for each of the 200 crosshairs in a light and dark color scheme. Also adds a new glow effect, and the missing outline tilesheet! kenney.nl/assets/cross...
Ioannis Karavas 🔜 Gamescom
@karavas.io
My name is John (Ioannis), an experienced software engineer from Greece 🌞🌊 , trying out my luck in Game Development. I promise I'm not that shy- just under multiple NDAs :D
A friend wanted to go see The Odyssey, so I joined them. "As Nolan intended" is not a thing here. - IMAX is a 2,5 hours drive from where I live - Local cinema had a blown front woofer I reckon - The "fix" for the issue was setting the rest of the speakers to 150%. Movie was a good 6/10 for me.
Spam emails now feel like a breath of fresh air. I guess *I have money in the bank* to be able to afford that payment and I'm not aware of it!
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!🦕
Missing around ~30 books that are not relevant but this is how my total looks like if I buy all the audiobooks I've listened to related to Game Design/Development/Games. I really want to do this though. Perhaps step by step and a re-read!?
Spider-man and Odyssey playing in the Cinema, and suddenly we have too few cinemas in Greece...
New post is live: Is Networking...Making Friends? Lotsa folks often seen networking events as a way to hopefully make new friendships. But that's not the case for everyone, some rather keep it business-only. So here's to different perspectives and hopefully we get to understand each other better!
Is Networking…Making Friends?? — Hi! I'm Neha
It’s been a humid summer and it got me thinking about friends/communities and how the games industry gifted me with some of the most amazing friends in my life. It just so happened that I met most of ...
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It’s November 19th- you’ve finished work and you’re about to start GTA VI... but PSN is down. Good thing you bought physical- OH. www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/07...
PSN Was Down for 6+ Hours, But All Services Now Up and Running
"Thank you for your patience"
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There's a lot of things I like and don't like in corporate environments, but the one thing I can't stand is turning on the laptop *to do work* and having it be unresponsive because... updates / virus scans / whatever IT decided it should run. Also, windows laptops are the worst I'm sorry to say.
Know that feeling of curling up with a good book and shutting out everything else?! Well...that’s what *this* beauty does to me. I just want to switch everything off and just go through this... gamehistory.org/e3-history/ Amazing work.
Revisit E3 like you've never seen it before | Video Game History Foundation
The Electronic Entertainment Expo was the biggest event in gaming. These new collections in our digital archive will let you experience E3 for yourself.
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I finally managed to grab a copy of Curse of Monkey Island boxed <3 I’m amazed at the fact they localized the manual… in Greek!
This is deeply emotional for us.🥹 Scarlet Deer Inn, our dark medieval folk tale with physical embroidery, is OUT NOW on Steam! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us on this journey. ❤️ Steam: store.steampowered.com/app1553260
Review: The Mermaid's Mask (Switch 2) - A Stylish Mystery That's All Killer, No Filler.
Review: The Mermaid's Mask (Switch 2) - A Stylish Mystery That's All Killer, No Filler
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Me, booking meetings for Gamescom: Learning more about the company, the people, if they are a good fit, messaging them about what I'd like to discuss and being as kind as I can be, because peopl's time is *very important*. Invites I get be like:
...so that's "A Playful Production Process" by @rich-lem.bsky.social. One of the best books on game development I've read! It really feels like invaluable knowledge, and the timing was perfect too- trying to properly plan our production and test whether it actually works before pitching our game!
Ioannis Karavas 🔜 Gamescom@karavas.io · 3w agoAs a #gamedev I need to “touch grass” a bit so I’m going to the beach to relax and cool down… My relaxation:
As a #gamedev I need to “touch grass” a bit so I’m going to the beach to relax and cool down… My relaxation:
So I wanted to try out how well my Macbook plays FFXIV. I swear to you, I've pressed this button at least 6 times now.
After rewatching .hack, I had to start SAO again. At some point while watching I wondered if there is a game that follows the original story of the anime in Aincrad… There is. It came out yesterday. LOL. Mixed reviews though :( store.steampowered.com/app/2244210/...
Echoes of Aincrad on Steam
Step into Aincrad, a world of beauty and danger where every battle could be your last. Create your hero, choose your gear, and master combat by building synergy with your partner, leveling up, and unl...
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Proud to announce you can now pre-order the Levelling The Playing Field 101 Video Courses. Practical, focused 101 video courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - €40 (excl. VAT) per course, with bulk & group discounts! courses.ramiismail.com
Levelling the Playing Field - Courses by Rami Ismail
Practical, focused courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - by Rami Ismail.
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100% there with @dark1x.bsky.social One thing I’d add: GIFTING. It’s very hard to gift a game online and even when you do, it doesn’t really feel like giving a someone an actual thing. I don’t think I’d be the gamer I am today if an uncle hadn’t gifted me a physical copy of FF8 when I was 9.
Digital Foundry@digitalfoundry.bsky.social · last mo.With just three paragraphs in a blog post, Sony signals the end of physical media for PlayStation. It's the lead story in the latest DF Direct Weekly: youtu.be/vcpjiMcAyoU
It’s hard for people to understand I believe. Before focusing on learning more about game design I also thought I understood what it meant just by what I saw. Boy was I wrong. The more I learn the more I understand that for years to come if not always- games worth playing will be human made.
Megan Fox@glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 4w agoRV There Yet was made in less than two months as basically a gamejam game with whatever the studio had lying around, and it sold like a billion copies Meanwhile AI boiling oceans can make... bland web games that have no gameplay?
I've got a lot of screen real estate but nah. This just feels more appropriate. thanks @maxkriegervg.bsky.social
after the latest game industry news I have a bold new gaming platform idea: Instead of everyone buying expensive hardware, we build shared local game terminals in social spaces! A physical place full of game machines!!! WE'LL CALL IT " THE ARCADE " 🙃
One with a disc drive and support for PS1,PS2,PS3,PS4 and PS5 game discs.
What kind of PS6 could justify a $1,000 price tag? | Opinion
It will cost twice as much as its predecessor and won’t have a disc drive; faced with diminishing returns on graphical updates, how will Sony drive excitement?
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In case people forgot, Nintendo sold limited DIGITAL copies of their own game to boost sales. If this is going to be the future, we need to do something about it. I can’t describe how wild limiting “copies” of a digital game is. mario.nintendo.com/news/super-m...
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Get the latest news about Super Mario games, the Mushroom Kingdom, and more at the official Nintendo site for all things Mario.
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