Need something like The Sims? Paralives has a very positive rating in early access, and even the negative reviews say it just needs more development time. store.steampowered.com/app/1118520/...

Paralives on Steam

Paralives is a life simulation game about building homes, lives and bonds. Through both hardship and success, where will your story take you?

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People who lack experience or skill at playing video games deserve to be able to enjoy them too.

Ruins, roots, that sort of thing

'the labyrinth, the light sandy ground, the sharply delineated contours of the hedges [...] almost pitch black now – a pattern simple in comparison with the tortuous trail behind me, but with one which I knew in my dream, with absolute certainty, represented a cross-section of my brain'

There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...

"HAVE I ever told you about the spark? Shooting through the black void of space at speeds impossible to imagine, knowing nothing but the dark, cold nothingness, until by pure chance it struck one particular blue planet.

As of this morning, the itch bundle officially broke 100k. This is a lifeline to our fellow workers and proof that solidarity extends beyond borders, both literal and figurative. Never let anyone tell you that things cannot change.

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 3d ago

You’ve helped us raise over 80k for laid off gamedevs in need so far, and we still have plenty of time left in the bundle’s drive. Everyone who organized this effort was doing so on their own time for the benefit of others. If these companies wanted to, they would. They don’t. We do. Join us. ✊

I recently turned down on talk on "How I always stay employed", because I said that it's a question I'm not comfortable with - largely because anything after 2022 means the answer is "LUCK". We are not solely in a skill based Battle Royale right now.

Warhammer is often about marines of space but what the people want is Fashion Skavens and they are skaven dolls and you dress them up in fancy outfits and you take them to visit your friends house and you drink coffee and you put your Fashion Skaven in your friend's Fashion Skaven house for a visit

Sharing some mountain time beauty. #rockymountainnationalpark #colorado #beauty

Making games is a business. But without people who genuinely love making games, there won’t be much of a business left. The industry doesn’t just need better numbers. It needs more passionate people in leadership, more new talent welcomed in, and more belief that games are art worth fighting for.

Just breathe. 🌲

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

INSIDE UPA has long been my most difficult book to find, but the fine folks at Animation Obsessive have now made it accessible to all on the internet (with my blessing). I'll be sharing another interesting UPA discovery on my Substack in a few weeks.

Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The book Inside UPA is a visual tour of one of the greatest animation studios of all time. With its author's permission, we've shared the whole thing online for free. Our latest issue dives into the book and UPA's place in animation history: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/stepping-i...

we can't backslide on this, crunch kills your brain, studios coming out and saying they're going to crunch like it's some reasonable expectation should be shunned

Mike Crassweller@zoomba.bsky.social · 3d ago

This might be one of the most unhinged job requirement bullet points I've seen. How are we still doing this in 2026? "Willingness to be on-call for live issue firefighting and to crunch around critical shipping periods to support major content launches."

hey I'm looking for wargames made by women, I know there's the work of cavegirl that's got some interesting stuff but I'd like more names other myself, so if you've written a game in that space and you're a girl or you know someone who fits pleaaaaase reply

Environmental Storytelling:

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

really interesting to think about this from a games perspective as well. The ideology of Realism Over All cuts against some of what makes media transformative to interact with

javier grillo-marxuach@okbjgm.bsky.social · 3d ago

so i’m doing this podcast - @mpotpod.bsky.social - and here is the biggest lesson i have learned from systematically rewatching a bunch of 80s summer movies…

Hope the folks at Cyan are doing ok, with those wildfires in Spokane! 🫂 Stay Safe!!

Cyan Worlds@cyan.com · last wk.

Over a year ago, we built a prototype for a new Myst Universe game meant for publisher eyes only. This project is NOT in active development, but we're proud of the work the team did, and wanted to share it with you all. Presenting: Project Anglerfish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNGt02yZNc

BE SO BRILLIANT NONE OF YOUR ENEMIES WOULD DARE LOOK AT YOU.

This is the first time I've "pantsed" a story, and let me tell you, it is extremely scary and extremely exhilerating. 😅

The other (much smaller) game @shoomlah.bsky.social and I worked on near the end of our time at Cyan is shown here (@ 28:07). "WhoD'nit?", a Myst visual novel / Phoenix Wright style murder mystery (and yes you would obviously be able to flirt with all the suspects!) I still really want to make this.

Cyan Worlds@cyan.com · 5d ago

Last weekend, Cyan studio co-heads Hannah & Eric attended the annual Mysterium fan gathering to give this year's “State of Cyan” address. Lots of information was revealed. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLrBSgqf1XM

I am a bit sad about bsky being much smaller than Old Twitter because of reach. I basically want to say “hey if you know anyone in the Bay Area with a line on funding that isn’t tied up in LLMs (or even just really interesting people!) who I should chat to in the next uhhh few weeks let me know”

«Prior to 1997, it was extremely difficult to build a robust model of a hyperbolic pseudosphere, but then mathematician and crocheter Daina Taimina realised that you could easily construct one using crochet.» chalkdustmagazine.com/blog/wonders...

The wonders of mathematical crochet - Chalkdust

Mathematical crochet - making hyperbolic sufaces, Klein bottles and much more

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professor Daina Taimina and her magical #hyperbolicplane/#4d #crochet for a timeline cleanse info archive.bridgesmathart.org/2022/bridges...

Math, hyperbolic planes, and crochet. This story has everything. 🧶 "In 1997, Daina Taimina, a Latvian born and educated mathematician participating in a workshop on teaching geometry, came up with the idea of crocheting a surface to represent a hyperbolic plane." www.si.edu/spotlight/wo...

"Does this engine's built-in scripting language allow me to write code using the finest and most adaptive logo-syllabic writing system ever devised in ancient Mesopotamia? If you're considering Godot for your next project, the answer is a resounding 𒀭𒈾."

Godot supports coding in Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform, if you needed another reason to switch game engines

Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any code that is not of fine quality.

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After months of chipping away this today was one of those days I pray for as an envi artist where you make a change to a scene and feels like its all starting to come together and be a living, breathing scene I was getting worried in the middle there 😂 #gamedev #GameArt

What's the best way that I can help artist friends and mutuals find work in this environment? I'm not sure what's the best course of action.

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...