this is one case where “indie” is still meaningful: AAA gets reasonable grownup treatment, while indies have to pray some artistic freedom “trickles down” to us
Ondřej Paška
@ondrejpaska.bsky.social
Making impactful games with Charles Games Based in Prague
Hey, Project C has a name! PRECOGNITION. Excited to be collaborating with newly launched @kineticpub.bsky.social on this, our wildest ride yet!
Kinetic Publishing@kineticpub.bsky.social · 3w agoPRECOGNITION, by @halfmermaid.co and published by Kinetic Publishing. Launching on PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2 in Spring 2028. Wishlist now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2771630/precognition/
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
I posted my History of Games keynote: - A materialist reexamination of the canonical game crises from a developer's POV - Thoughts on the ongoing game industry restructuring - Indiepocalypse, AAApocalypse, deprofessionalization, games at the knitting stage www.molleindustria.org/HistoryOfGam...
A History of Games Through Mass Extinctions
A transcript of Paolo Pedercini’s History of Games Conference keynote (2026).
molleindustria.org
oh yeah, million dollars flower pots, that's what's holding indie games back 😂
Making games for my hometown is a dreamjob😊 Czech out our huge update to Playing Prague (Android+iOS, Steam coming soon!)
Ondrej from Charles Games 🐝@charlesgames.bsky.social · 2mo agoPlaying Prague has 90k+ players and a 4.6/5 rating, so we just had to expand it. 🏰 2 new level packs are full of Prague’s monuments, historical figures and new gameplay, all for less than a coffee. AND achievements for everyone! Link in replies. #indiegame #prague #puzzlegame #gamedev
i run into players like this in ranked all the time
Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 3mo agoThis paper doesn't use the term "intentional stance," but it does really expose that imputation of consciousness is an act by the observer that's usually not based on dispassionate analysis of the observed's internal structures. It's just vibes, and those aren't sufficient. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514
We remember legendary author Sir Terry Pratchett - creator of the Discworld - born on this day in 1948. GNU Terry Pratchett
Six times? Probably sixty-ish 😄
a man in a black suit stands next to a woman in a green dress
ALT: a man in a black suit stands next to a woman in a green dress
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Leena 🌵@leena.reuben.games · 4mo agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
an underrated game dev skill IMO is being able to realize “this person and I have been discussing (thing) for months, and yet i think we have slightly different versions of (thing) in our heads. let’s get together and talk about that in excruciating detail”
Sad, had such fun times doing ludum dare years ago!
Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 5mo agoLudum Dare will officially end in October 2028
Like even if this all ends without an escalation from the present level of bloodshed Trump and his administration should be held accountable for the threat alone. Making this threat, on its own, is a crime against humanity.
Fresco - a first and second person action-adventure where the frescoes come to life in an ancient Egyptian temple! store.steampowered.com/app/4373620/... by #gamedev Kelonia Games #indiedev #indiegame #gaming
Yay. $100k is bankruptcy for pretty much everyone. But it’s ok cos they made steam $30k before they folded.
Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 6mo agoValve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025
Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).
When we started developing We Grew Up in War, we hoped the war in Ukraine will be over well before we finish. Our game is dedicated to all those, whose lives were affected by the war that now enters its fourth year, instigated by the cruel Russian regime.
"There is surprisingly no empirical support for the fact that loneliness is increasing, let alone spreading at epidemic rates." ourworldindata.org/loneliness-e...
Is there a loneliness epidemic?
The media claims we are experiencing a ‘loneliness epidemic’. What is the evidence for this?
ourworldindata.org
Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · 7mo agoHere's an explainer from Our World in Data that looks at some other evidence and reaches the same conclusion: if there is a loneliness epidemic, it's anywhere but in data. ourworldindata.org/loneliness-e... 9/
This game is something different, check it out!
All Will Rise by Speculative Agency is at Gamescom!@allwillrise.bsky.social · 7mo ago🚨 HUGE NEWS! 🚨 All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life. Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too! Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe... #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
The people of Ukraine continue to endure ongoing Russian aggression. From February 2 to 9, we’ll donate 100% of the proceeds from our games and DLC on all platforms to People In Need in support of humanitarian aid in Ukraine.
I think most game dev teams underestimate how damaging slow workflows are to the ultimate quality of their game. If it takes 5 minutes to launch the game and see your changes, I think your game is going to be MUCH worse than the alternate timeline where it took 1 minute
GIFT ARTICLE (no paywall). Masterpiece reporting here from Adam. He deserves awards for this. “This is my first occupation,” Olsen said as I climbed into the truck. “Welcome to the underground, I guess.”
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
theatlantic.com
I have felt increasingly out of step with mainstream Judaism over the past several years, but I cannot imagine how you could work at a Holocaust Museum and envision your role in this way. I just cannot imagine.
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
Scotland intends to grow its gaming ecosystem to more than £1 billion by 2030 as part of an initiative implemented by the Scottish Games Network www.gamesindustry.biz/scotland-aim...
We are so proud to officially announce our upcoming game We Grew Up in War in cooperation with War Childhood Museum. This narrative adventure explores the stories of children growing up during armed conflicts in Bosnia, Syria, and Ukraine. More at store.steampowered.com/app/3254380/...
Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.