So which one of you is responsible for arcade-dot-gov? 🤔 <looks at grok suspiciously...> #slop #gamedev

The #js13k theme is Unicorns and Rainbows this year. I think I have the rainbows nailed down, now how can I convince you that unicorns have a space agency? #gamedev #ksp #kerbal-like #javascript

Last month I created this little game with a long title that I like to describe as "What if Power-Washer Simulator, Core Keeper, and Red Dwarf all had a baby, and it was still too small to have a proper resolution". deathray.itch.io/blue-giant-s... #CoreKeeper #RedDwarf #LowRez

The Sole Surviving Sanitation Specialist of the Blue Giant by Morph

Use your power washer to clean a filthy spaceship (in 64x64 pixels)

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I left Bluesky for 7 months just because the app stopped auto-logging me in. So either I am very lazy, or needed a break. Maybe both.

My wife was gifted a water bottle monogrammed with her lab's initials... and I just realized...

If 3D card prices explode, I guess we'll have to make lower fidelity games so that more people can play them. And that might force us to instead invest in fresh gameplay to help differentiate new games from existing titles. And maybe this means smaller, innovation focused teams. Hmm...

Gif of a movie you’ve watched more than six times. No Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated, or Pixar.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 9mo ago

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

So true. If you write things no one wants to read, LLMs can help you immensely.

Gaius (from Tribunate)@gaius.bsky.social · 9mo ago

There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI

As I've wrapped up with #seaofcannons v1 for #gameoffjam, I have a few paths... - Start on a 2d rocket game - Expand on Sea of Cannons - Continue my Ultima-like - Do yet another game jam (bit jam, 7drl) - Youtube video on the making of Sea of Cannons

Finished my latest game in time for Thanksgiving. Grab a device and enjoy firing cannons at your family & friends! Highest score gets an extra piece of pie. 🥧 deathray.itch.io/sea-of-cannons #gamedev #webgames #p2p #2dwaves #seaofcannons

Sea of Cannons by Morph

Face a barrage of cannons on the dark, 2d sea

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Name ideas: Sea of Pixels, Sea of Cannons, Battle for the Ectoil Sea, Cannon Party, ... ? 🗳 The plot/lore is that you're poor ship-captain mercenaries fighting over a sea region that is flush with "ectoil", a fuel from dead leviathans. The gameplay is just pew-pew though, so it's not that deep.

Morph Games@morph.games · 10mo ago

Finally some #screenshotsaturday shots of the game I've been working on for a few weeks for #GitHubGameOff It's a 2d, #javascript, physics-based, #p2p game where you frantically fire cannonballs at each other to get the high score. It still needs a name.

Finally some #screenshotsaturday shots of the game I've been working on for a few weeks for #GitHubGameOff It's a 2d, #javascript, physics-based, #p2p game where you frantically fire cannonballs at each other to get the high score. It still needs a name.

The answer to how do we keep kids safe online isn't destroy everyone's privacy. It's not force people to hand over their IDs to access legal content. And it's certainly not ban access to the tools that protect journalists, activists, and abuse survivors. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing

It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual

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Off by a day. Forgot to celebrate.

Ian Potter@ianzpotter.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

...More gameplay involving the "Love & Belonging" and "Physiological" needs (of the character).

Best Indie Games@clemmygames.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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I decided to let myself be distratced by a game jam for November ( #GitHubGameOff ). Making the 2d waves is fun, as is re-learning #pixijs, #matterjs, #peerjs. The goal is to make a #p2p #pvp game where you fire cannons at each other. Like Scorched Earth / Worms + Sea of Thieves.

Cleaning up #halloween... Does the skeleton spider go in the spider bin or the skeleton bin?

Thinking back on the billions Facebook spent on the metaverse... and wondering why they didn't try to build a Steam/itch clone as a first step? Seems like the obvious move for a for-profit company with a giant network.

This has many of the things I love: ☑️tiny moons, ☑️weird beautifully ugly aliens, ☑️robots, ☑️procedural generation, ☑️ecosystems.

Liza Knipscher@lize.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Hi #PitchYaGame! In Biolune, play as a robot fascinated by organic life. Gather friends and resources, and cultivate evolving ecosystems where there were once deserted moons. Including seriously bizarre procedurally generated plants and animals. Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/3070190/...

I can relate to this! My #js13k game was rated poorly in part because the gameplay was slow and lengthy. I always set out to make something "fun" that will "win"... and then settle on an overly complicated game that I (and only I) find interesting.

Gleb Volkov@glebv.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The main takeaway from #js13k 2025: don't sink time into big, complex, self-contained concepts you don't have resources to finish properly. Start small but complete - then polish it as far as you can. Next year's goal: get the game to playtests and tune the gameplay from there 🚀

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

Superdetermimism: Always Has Been

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

I've completed my #js13k game: js13kgames.com/drafts/craft... 🧙‍♀️⚒️ Give "Crafty Cauldron" a whirl and let me know what you think! #css #JavaScript #witch #gamedev

I guess you can patent basically any vague thing? I hope this dies promptly in court.

VGC@videogameschronicle.com · 12mo ago

Nintendo has successfully acquired a US patent covering the ability to summon characters in a game and make them battle for you. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintend...

How it started ➡️ How it's going A witch-crafty game for #js13k has slowly taken form. #gamedev #css #javascript 🐈‍⬛

My wife really likes this show Outlander. Unfortunately it does not appear to take place in Vvardenfell.

Age verification via face scans is not safety — it's surveillance. Biometric age guessing is inaccurate, discriminatory, and creepy AF. Stop normalizing it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Face Scans to Estimate Our Age: Harmful and Creepy AF

Government must stop restricting website access with laws requiring age verification.Some advocates of these censorship schemes argue we can nerd our way out of the many harms they cause to speech,

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"many LLM users are simply just completely cracked out on dopamine. The euphoria resulting from their perceived now limitless abilities is clouding their judgement." malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...

Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

maybe it's anti-innovation, maybe it's just avoiding hype. But one thing is clear, I'm completely done with hearing about AI.

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😳🐈‍⬛ This is a tough theme. Bad/good luck, witches, night stealth, Poe, ... ? I bet a lot of games just feature a black cat character.

Andrzej Mazur@end3r.bsky.social · last yr.

Fourteenth edition of #JS13K starts now, and this year's theme is: BLACK CAT! 🐈‍⬛ js13kgames.com/2025/blog/co... Please help spread the good news to your fellow #gamedev folks, good luck and HAVE FUN! #gamedevjs #gamejam #competition #theme #black #cat #indiedev #indiegames