Dictionary of Received Wisdom #1

Got most of the world rendering and movement done for my #lowrezjam entry. Taking part of my idea that I made a bit ago. #pico8 #gamedev #indiedev

🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵 Out now on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5. Hooray!

I finished The Mermaid Mask last night - gorged through it in 2 days / 10 hours - and what a good time I had! Lovely, well-written characters, beautiful visual art, great music, animation and VO. Interesting story and puzzles. A class act. It even has good poetry! (huge fan of Sym here)

The Mermaid Mask on Steam

An impossible locked-room murder: Captain Mortuga lies dead beside an ancient cauldron aboard the world’s strangest submarine, crewed by sketchy suspects. A handcrafted point-and-click with sharp humo...

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With Big Walk, the Untitled Goose Game team returns with a funny, exciting, and deeply rewarding multiplayer adventure that combines knockabout fun with some surprisingly big ideas - and takes the hangout game to a new peak. Our Big Walk review: www.eurogamer.net/big-walk-rev...

I did it. I found the best named cereal.

Hi, we're a new video game oral histories site. Want to read the story of Shadow of the Colossus, as told by 11 people who worked on it? Or hear what Will Wright has to say about Spore in retrospect? Or see previously unreleased footage of Nintendo's Sound Fantasy? Check us out at designroom.site

Just finished The Incident at Galley House. Brilliant mystery game; one of the best things I've played this year.

The Incident at Galley House on Steam

In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery.

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This is a lovely video about finding 4 leaf clovers that our 14 year-old recommended I watch. He was right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfUF...

How to Find a 4-Leaf Clover

YouTube video by Rabbit Hole

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Hey Chris! I work at 2K on the next Bioshock, but over the last few years (with 2K's approval™) I've been noodling on a weird take on the immersive sim genre. Inspired by Mosa Lina, Scribblenauts, and LittleBigPlanet (which incidentally is how I got into game dev!)

movement in non-euclidean quaternionic space

Hello! For a potential piece on Eurogamer, I would love to know what cool little things people in and around games are working on. Not full games, but fun, interesting, weird projects or side projects. Things you're noodling around with, things you just think are neat. Replies/reposts very welcome!

oh my god!!!! there's an actual answer!!!! Google Maps does hide Brighton!!!!!!! bsky.app/profile/robi...

Robin Wilde@robinwilde.me · 6d ago

I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.

fuck this is awful. A big loss :(

Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.

Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash at age 56

Layoffs hit Double Fine today, and I'm sorry to report that I was one of the ones hit. If you need a game designer with tech chops and 2+ decades of experience, here I am.

(do play the game first!) this is a great write-up full of smart tips, many of which seem very useful in general.

Robin Ward@eviltrout.com · last wk.

It's been two weeks since The Incident at Galley House launched, and I've written up a lengthy technical blog post about its development: eviltrout.com/blog/2026-07...

feel very calm watching the discourse about The Odyssey drift past, having sworn to never watch another one of Nolan's dreadful films. (Interstellar was the last straw for me.)

good thread

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · last wk.

One of the things I find odd about UK skills and jobs policies over the last 10 years is the idea that - for young people - place is destiny. It's like we've taken the Brexit memo and double stamped it into meaning you need to stay put to be a success. The geographical footprint of the UK is *tiny*

Hey pals, one of my contracts wraps up in September, so I'm looking for new writing, narrative design, and creative direction contracts, short or longer term. Remote, most timezones except Australia. Preferably USA (I'm a night owl!). Flexible on days per week. Reach out! 💜 hannahnicklin.com

I'm really looking forward to this!

Messhof@messhof.bsky.social · last wk.

Blood Dungeon launches August 25th on Steam, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch 1 + 2! Blooddungeon.com #boneup

Info on the programme, locations etc is here www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved... - basically you and your mentee chat once a month, online or in person, each time it's a bit different because the kid is different but AE are so good at providing support when you need it

Become a mentor

Registration to become an Arts Emergency mentor in 2027 is now open. Deadline: Friday 4th September

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Hey @artsemergency.bsky.social has their call open for mentors again! You get paired with a young person approx. 16-17 and talk to them once a month, it's great and not very much work at all and the organisation is ALWAYS short of mentors who work in games

Such a lovely game. I've been listening to the soundtrack obsessively for 6 years (it's fantastic), but for some arcane reason I convinced myself that the game was not for me. Today I repaired that, and I have to say, it's an absolutely delightful experience. Try Wilmot's Warehouse if you can!

Just unboxed Wilmot's Warehouse and the components are so charming — 150 strange little product tiles, a sturdy black warehouse board, and a canvas tote with Wilmot's face on it. 📦🧠 #boardgames #cooperativegames #tabletopgaming

In the 1900 Paris Olympics, the Dutch rowing duo lost their heat because their cox was a lot heavier than the children the French used, but as the fastest losers, they got to the final anyway, replaced their cox with a random kid, and won by a fifth of a second

look mum we’re in the news thanks @schillingc.bsky.social for chatting with us! www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

‘An anthem for the co-dependent’: Bad Magpie’s corvid carnage with a side of existential angst

Going by the mantra, if you want to make someone laugh, make them cry first, the game’s developers have created a lonely magpie who fills the void by wreaking havoc

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