I went so far as to do sobel filtering on the paper to make little ridges where the paper folds stack up. It’s one of those almost invisible #gamedev improvements that you feel 😆

Lightning Rod Games@lightningrod.bsky.social · last wk.

A puzzle game about communication. A love story about distance. A world you can fold. A Fold Apart: Recrafted – coming soon ❤️📃 #indiedev #puzzlegames #screenshotsaturday

As a studio owner, it would be irresponsible to have my team spend a week making FREE DLC just because I think it’s cool as fuck... We are totally not going to release FREE DL for a puzzle game this week 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/4756010/...

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I backed the Fangoria Compendium kickstarter and it's cool to see the book finishing up before Halloween. Not sure if I'll get it before then, but still excited.

I can't wait for people to see this on a bigger screen. All of the art, across hundreds of scenes, was changed to make it look great on modern machines. #gamedev

Lightning Rod Games@lightningrod.bsky.social · 2w ago

Making it work takes patience, communication, understanding… …and occasionally folding reality in half ❤️📃 A Fold Apart: Recrafted – coming soon! #indiedev #puzzlegame #wishlistwednesday

"What is certain, however, is that a vast sum of our money will be wasted, countless Torontonians will find themselves profoundly inconvenienced for extended periods, and, eventually, a cyclist will get struck by a car. But at least the congestion will be worse." spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto

After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...

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I should do a video about the A Fold Apart #gamedev process and data layout to show all the weird hoops we needed to jump through to: make the Unity editor run without totally bogging down, let the team work on the same parts of the game at the same time, and make the runtime work with <1.25GB RAM.

Lightning Rod Games@lightningrod.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In #Unity3D, you need to worry about dependencies. If a scene references an asset, it will get loaded into memory (EVEN IF HIDDEN). We broke our game into hundreds of environment-only scenes that can be dynamically loaded, and then made tools so we could work without creating dependencies. #gamedev

Terrifying how close this came to being another massive tragedy www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Belleville synagogue shooter had means to carry out 'mass casualty' event: police chief | CBC News

The Belleville Police Service said on Thursday that the man who ambushed and seriously wounded an officer near a local synagogue Sunday had the means and motive to carry out a "mass casualty" event an...

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One of my favourite games of the last decade is coming back!

Lightning Rod Games@lightningrod.bsky.social · 3w ago

A Fold Apart: Recrafted is a story about distance, communication, and finding your way back to each other — one fold at a time ❤️📃🫶 Coming soon! #puzzlegame #indiedev #wishlistwednesday

Revealing a new Indie Game Dev speaker event in TORONTO! Presentations and Q&As with the creators of: 💾 Inscryption 🗡️ Slay the Princess 🌟 In Stars and Time 🔎 The Incident at Galley House Tickets are just $10 for this fantastic lineup on Oct 24! Reposts are very appreciated!

A LOT of work has gone into this. On most platforms, it will release as a new game, and we're working to make sure that owners of the original A Fold Apart will be able to get it for free. Please signal boost if you can!

Lightning Rod Games@lightningrod.bsky.social · 3w ago

A Fold Apart: Recrafted is a story about distance, communication, and finding your way back to each other — one fold at a time ❤️📃🫶 Coming soon! #puzzlegame #indiedev #wishlistwednesday

To honor Tim Curry's memory, we are making Brütal Legend FREE on Itch.io, for 666 minutes: itch.io/s/199277/the...

Brütal Legend | The Tainted Coil shall rule forever! by Double Fine Productions

A sale by Double Fine Productions, 100% off Brütal Legend

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Double Fine@doublefine.com · 2mo ago

It was hard enough losing Dolly yesterday. ☹️ And now, we cry a sea of black tears for our very own Doviculus: The irreplaceable Tim Curry.  May these beloved legends rest well, as we carry their spirit forward~   🩷🖤

Welcome to Maple Town! 🍁 Echo Generation: Midnight Editions is free on Epic Games Store from today through July 23 And if you're looking for more, Echo Generation 2 is available now on Steam and Xbox Enjoy~! ✌️

Do we have a term for when auto-complete or grammar check make useless or incorrect suggestions? Nuisance prompts?

I still feel bad for the spun out studios because they’ll likely need to conduct their own furloughs/layoffs while they seek project funding or acquisition. That kind of thing is heartbreaking. GDC 2025, I hugged a sobbing CEO who lost his biggest client and had to do layoffs almost immediately.

We’re 5 days into Next Fest, Pioneers! Thank you to everyone so far for playing the demo, sharing your feedback, or leaving a review. It means a lot to us! With only a few days left, we've shared another deep dive that talks about the Wonders, and why they matter in the game 👉 bit.ly/4uHJS7P

"This is a kids' game, and it's layering multiple currencies atop one another to obfuscate the cost of things, as well as using pop-ups, timer bars, and "buy" buttons to offer temporary boosts and, generally speaking, remove the game's in-built friction."

I've been playing games for 40 years, writing about them for 20, and I'm here to say parts of Roblox need to be legislated out of existence

This platform is a disgrace, and regulators need to act.

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You know it's real when the launch trailer appears... Only 5 days until Echo Generation 2 is out! 🔥🚀 #EchoGeneration2 #deckbuilder #turnbased #turnbasedthursday #screenshotsaturday #CGA26

Cococucumber@cococucumber.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to premiere the 'First Look' at the Echo Generation 2 - Launch Trailer at the Canadian Game Awards 🏆🍁 ⭐ Wishlist Now! ⭐ store.steampowered.com/app/1115990/... www.xbox.com/games/store/... #EchoGeneration2 #indiegame #CGA26

I wonder if the weather on Google street view affects housing prices.

#tbt to some #gamedev prototyping. Gravity, folding, and pushing/dragging blocks.

That sucks. I was so touched when Paste named A Fold Apart as one of the best 40 games in 2020. It was a bright spot after a project that had been incredibly draining.

Bryant Francis@bryantfrancis.me · 5mo ago

Fucking hell. Pouring one out for Paste Games—one of the best and most consistent sites for criticism in our time. It took chances on new writers and kept indie coverage alive while other sites lost resources. Short-sighted to abandon it like this.

Time sensitive: They need a web dev to help save their site!

Kate Sánchez@ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 6mo ago

LMAO But Why Tho? Dying because of a shitty developer is not what I had on my bingo card. We have 48 hours to figure out what to do for a new host and find a developer to help us.

@justinling.ca Great event tonight!

I still can’t get over the km long ramp at Confederation GO Station in Stoney Creek for people with mobility issues.

Ancient jokes are still THE BEST! 🤣🤪

Longtime college friend of mine, Mike Prinke, was among those laid off at Epic Games: he has been fighting terminal brain cancer, and now he, his wife, and kid, have no income or health insurance. Sharing here in hopes it can reach the right people on their behalf. #epicgames

I have done versions of this, prefaced my presentations saying that the visuals were placeholder, and still had people ask “so is this what the final version will look like?”

Jaws Slayer 🎃@jesawyer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.

Happy Persian New Year! 🍎🧄 Learn about the holiday and make your own Haftsin with fun physics! Made in part by Kitfox programmer Mehrdad. Play in your browser: muadibbm.itch.io/haftsin-maker

I’m so angry about this. I get that bureaucracy can be a nightmare but this is insane. It’s already nearly a decade behind schedule (with electrification promised in 2017, 2024, 2027 IIRC). Kicking something down the road 10 years is like planning to do nothing.

Jack Hauen@jackhauen.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New: Ontarians could be waiting another decade or more before they can hop on an electric GO train. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...

I lament how paper flipping never captured properly in GIFs because it happened too fast. I'll make a slow version to show it off because this new lighting looks so good and it looks even better in motion. #gamedev #gameart

So curious to see this. I learned about bitcoin in its first year, and the name “cryptocurrency” threw me off because it didn’t sound like real currency. I didn’t think any nation would give up its ability to manipulate its own currency or allow a shadow economy to develop.

Ben McKenzie@benmckenzie.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣