there’s no hats in splatoon raiders? 🚫🧢

Can of Words 🪱 #89 08-01-26 • canofwords.xyz

there was a beauty to the jank in games (even AAA) that died after the PS2/GC/DC era when every game was expected to be patched post launch—we all were 100% conditioned to the fact that every single game we bought would have esoteric and unique controls

bee wertheimer@beewertheimer.com · 5d ago

i’m weighing in www.pcmag.com/news/super-m...

🕹️Wonderville Weekly 7/30/26: Wonderville's 2nd Annual Alt Ctrl Festival! us20.campaign-archive.com?e=[UNIQID]&u...

still waiting till they make my most popular idea from 2017

Nintendo Life@nintendolife.com · last wk.

Remember Those Epic Bowser Crocs? They're On Sale Now, Alongside More Mushroom Kingdom Clogs. (Repost)

this band I love just released their new record on NES and im like 😍 @rfcrecords.bsky.social

Can of Words 🪱 #79 07-22-26 • canofwords.xyz

every time I hear one album I think of the other

🪲🧐 @thedailycrimson.bsky.social

Can of Words 🪱 #66 07-09-26 • canofwords.xyz

are there any programmers out there who had a kid, named them Jason but then actually spelt it Json?

📈🚀📈🚀📈🚀📈🚀 Hey come check out some experimental clicker / idle / incremental games! 👇📈👇📈👇📈👇📈👇 For their final projects in my 'economics for game designers' class at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social, students made some awesome incremental games, so I wanted to do a thread sharing their work! 🧵⤵️ 1/~15

Can of Words 🪱 #39 06-12-26 • canofwords.xyz

Can of Words 🪱 #31 06-04-26 • canofwords.xyz

"Videogames may often overwhelm and titillate our senses, but relaxation comes instead from withdrawal and placidity. To relax through a game requires abandoning the value of leaning forward and focusing on how games can also allow players to achieve satisfaction by leaning back"

Ian Bogost@ibogost.com · 2mo ago

Sorry for posting, but, Nintendo games—on the rare occasions when Nintendo, a video-game company, deigns to make them—seem almost satirically infantile, as if the entire Nintendo project has now moved well beyond mere nostalgia into elaborate, pathological psychological regression.

just played 5 nonstop rounds, great fun @brin.town .....def will beat this at lunch! hs: 77 (so far) 🔵🔴🟢 beepyeah.itch.io/dotful-dodger

Dotful Dodger by Beep Yeah!

Turn-based dot hell for TweetTweetJam

beepyeah.itch.io

new level design theory: "horizontality", kinda like "verticality", how the scale / wideness / density / footprint of the level affects player movement... the further away your camera, the more horizontality you likely need to accommodate camera clipping + faster player movement + claustrophobia

Can of Words 🪱 #18 05-22-26 • canofwords.xyz

i hate this, last fall and now—it happened to me with Membrane (no where near the fan base i know) but my rep at Ninty told me to, still sold poorly at launch. Money is tight for us all & Mina is gonna be GR8 but it just sucks true DIY indies will forever suffer to triple III and triple AAA

Nintendo Life@nintendolife.com · 3mo ago

First Silksong, Now Mina The Hollower Is Causing Other Indie Devs To Delay Their Games. (Repost)

Sundays in Can of Words are “Semicolon Sundays” and feature a double definition hidden in the puzzle! 2 weeks of puzzles in the archive if you need to catch up! canofwords.xyz 🪱🪱

Can of Words 🪱 v 3.0 is out featuring an archive of past puzzles, new tutorials & UI tweaks! Thx to @bridawg.bsky.social & @torcado.com for feedback! Fri/Sat/Sun puzzles moving forward have some playful twists so great time to dive in! canofwords.xyz 👈🏻👈🏻👈🏻

Can of Words 🪱 v2.0 is out now! Thanks to @brin.town @mantafsh.bsky.social & @lawofgamedesign.bsky.social for their input! PLAY HERE: canofwords.xyz

looking for some light play testing for a new word game i’ve been kicking around for the past week——if you are at all interested shoot me a DM thx.

realizing why i fell in love with this game 3 weeks ago…..it’s basically Suikoden 2 meets Super Mario World meets Shadow of the Colossus all added into the BotW blueprint

Seth S. Scott@perfecthatgames.com · 5mo ago

fwiw if you can go in blind to Crimson Desert I wholeheartedly recommend—-for some reason recently i’ve been eyeing it but avoiding ALL coverage. I had expectations but it’s the most i’ve felt awed by a game since 2017 & BoTW—which is one of the most memorable opening 10 hours of a game ever.

fwiw if you can go in blind to Crimson Desert I wholeheartedly recommend—-for some reason recently i’ve been eyeing it but avoiding ALL coverage. I had expectations but it’s the most i’ve felt awed by a game since 2017 & BoTW—which is one of the most memorable opening 10 hours of a game ever.

DLSS 5 is FINALLY going to give Goldeneye 64 the recognition it deserves!!!!!!

My narrative-minigame-dad-sim, Bundle of Joy, is going to be one year old on March 25th! I blogged about things I've learned in the past year and some "advice" for solodevs and indies releasing their first commercial product. www.essay-games.com/blog/a-year-... Hope folks find it useful ^__^

Now that IGF and GDC is over I finally got around to writing up my postscript on IGF submissions and some of the issues we ran into in 2025. If you plan to submit your game in 2026 I recommend reading this, tbh. auratriolo.com/blog/2026/03... Here's a little spoiler:

GDC…..more like Great Dads (parents in general) Consider playing this game

Nicholas O / Essay Games@essaygames.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My Wario-Ware-like dad-simulator game, Bundle of Joy, is turning 1 in a couple of weeks! I'm trying to gather community support for the anniversary and encourage folks to leave Steam reviews. Hoping to reach 25 reviews by March 25! Help me spread the word :) store.steampowered.com/app/3138370/...

Usually "hidden" elements can bother me in games, but in this case it elevates the freedom and fun I find in every run and allows me to just playyyyy w/o overthinking. Nice work Tom!

Tom Brinton@brin.town · 5mo ago

I went with "Knight Sky" for the name. Just submitted! You can preview it here: beepyeah.itch.io/knight-sky