That's what game jams are for right? Shipping games. All other game dev is prototyping, right? Right folks?

Mike W@gekido.bsky.social · yesterday

Rami dropping ALL the truth bombs in this one - fantastic read for anyone struggling to actually ship

Hey Folks! Ostranauts 1.0 Out Now! store.steampowered.com/news/app/102... #gamedev

Ostranauts - Ostranauts 1.0 Out Now! 🚀 - Steam News

The end of the plot, bounty system, and more!

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Also there is an undeniable tactile joy to index cards and sticky notes that no software will ever be able to capture.

its like yeah sorry its a system explicitly designed to protect disney and co *from* artists, its doing what its designed to do

A side project I've been working on—a curated link page of important essays on video game narrative—is now live. You can read about it on my blog: azhdarchid.com/the-game-nar... Or you can go straight to the dedicated website: www.gamenarrativereader.org

The Game Narrative Reader, Zeroth Edition

Announcing a curated, thematic link page of important essays and articles about video game narrative.

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Harpy Birthday! Messed around with creature tokens in DF a little bit and got a world where a harpy joined up with a human civilization, became a brewer and eventually a noble. The humans must like her. #dwarffortress

RETVRN but it's just shooting a firehose of federal funding for a new WPA

Vic Thorstenson@vthorstenson.bsky.social · 4w ago

Man, nobody could build a shithouse like the WPA.

Reasons I never finish anything: I am the writer and the boss in this example.

Frank J. Barbiere@fjbarb.bsky.social · 4w ago

Being a game writer is basically rewriting entire scenes because your boss watched "The Revenant" over the weekend and has decided your game should have more "(adjective)." Then when you're done, they cut that part out of the game for design/scope reasons or they watched a new movie last weekend.

honestly how do we get people to be as careful with a chatbot as they would be with a leprechaun

Summer Slow Jams plan is up, oh yeah! I've gotta do at least one again this year, let some folks convince me to actually work on a good game again.

Portland Indie Game Squad@pigsquad.com · 2mo ago

Summer Slow Jams dates & themes are live for June, July, and August! Learn and collaborate with the community to make games every month this summer 😎 🍀 Luck 💼 Inventory 🔍 Mystery pigsquad.com/summerslowjams Time to make games together 💖 Thanks to @marlowedobbe.com for this year's art!!

Thanks to everyone who came out to PIGCon this weekend! It was great to see what folks are working on! Here are the slides from my (opinionated) presentation on modular narrative design!

Come check out all the cool games and talks folks are giving! Then if you have the energy Sunday afternoon come check out my dry academic talk on modular narrative design! Gonna talk about things like storylets and ststems driven games!

Portland Indie Game Squad@pigsquad.com · 3mo ago

Tickets are live, and the presentation schedule is up now! More details & full games list coming soon 🌲 We're just over 3 weeks away! pigcon.pigsquad.com

My new alt control game, Nuclear Logistics Bureau's Typing Challenge, is coming to PIGCON! Come on by and flip some switches (and please try to avoid ending civilization). tickets: pigcon.pigsquad.com

Hyped to be giving a presentation for this! I'll be giving a (lightly opinionated) survey of some modular narrative techniques, mostly aimed at folks who want to have a cohesive emergent narrative in their systems driven games!

Portland Indie Game Squad@pigsquad.com · 5mo ago

ANNOUNCING: PIGCON, the Portland Indie Game Convention A weekend for indie devs of all kinds to learn, share, and connect May 30-31 at Norse Hall, Portland, OR pigcon.pigsquad.com See you this spring 😉🌟

The guy who makes all your favorite Dwarf Fortress conversion mods is looking for music.

Squamous@squamousmodsman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

So this is a bit of a shot in the dark but my own research has led me down so many contradictory paths I do not know where to start and i know there's a ton of gamedevvy people here so; Where do I find professional soundtracks for a project? Are there specific websites or is it just networking?

Inkle's making a legally distinct House of Leaves?!

inkle@inkle.co · 9mo ago

We don't know. What we do know is the wiring diagram works. We built it, virtually, in @godotengine.org. We fed it scans of the books we found. And the books are very, very strange. The "game" that resulted is also strange. We're hoping people can make sense of it for us.

Me and a small team just made a "Case of the Golden Idol" inspired game for @pigsquad.com's Summer Slow Game Jam. The game is called THE HOUSE ON [REDACTED] STREET. Playable in-browser for FREE! If you like it, leave a review on Itch! matthew-cavener.itch.io/house-on-red...