brb looking you up in the core text

THERE ARE EIGHT DAYS LEFT TO BACK THE GAME INDUSTRY HARDSHIP FUND AND GET A LOT (127!!!) OF GAMES WHEN YOU DO do it. do it. do it. do it. do it itch.io/b/3802/game-...

me when i'm trying to write notes for my horror talk and accidentally write a whole-ass article about how truly understanding your setting often leads to the game essentially designing itself 👀

Chantal is a poet of games in the sense that she find the sharpest, the most efficient way to conjure an emotion in her audience. A lot of the time it is fear, but there are many moments of humour, intrigue, and serendipitous beauty. Really urging you to attend this talk if you can make it!

.chantal//RYAN@thoughtrise.bsky.social · 3h ago

if you're curious about designing horror games or feel like hearing my thoughts, join me this Saturday as I ramble poetic in partnership with Game Design Skills to join, hit up Funsmith Club, an online community of over 10,000 game devs, old and new: discord.gg/funsmithclub #gamedev (more below)

a handful of press quotes for darkwebSTREAMER I stumbled over and wrote down while reading through some old things i can't wait for people to play the finished game <3 it, uh, gets a lot scarier than this >.> @thewillarowe.bsky.social | @martinisupreme.bsky.social | @rinoaskyes.bsky.social

.chantal//RYAN@thoughtrise.bsky.social · 3h ago

a few random quotes slammed down <3

if you're curious about designing horror games or feel like hearing my thoughts, join me this Saturday as I ramble poetic in partnership with Game Design Skills to join, hit up Funsmith Club, an online community of over 10,000 game devs, old and new: discord.gg/funsmithclub #gamedev (more below)

a lot of people don't know this, but you should never, ever mess with moles

It's astonishing to me that The Mermaid Mask has only been out for 2 and a half weeks and we've already got over 2000 reviews on Steam... (and 99% positive!)

It’s hilarious to me that dudes are like “I need to be roided out and 6’3’’ for women to want me” when in my experience most women want to fuck astarion baldur’s gate or that Tim Curry oil slick guy from fern gully

here Gillian Anderson is at an event, and she's playing The X-Files Game (that's the actual name, an FMV X-Files computer game), 1998

ok, for no reason but just because I think it's neat here's a thread of famous people with old gaming hardware or old computers. big 90s and Y2K vibes. Let's start with Shakira, Halle Berry and Bjork using a desktop computer

illustration, interface age, magazine (1982) archive.org/details/Inte...

Hello Frands and Fans! We have some pretty cool news! D4G has partnered with @fanatical.com and we have our very own page where you can check out some of the dopest summer sells and deals! So get in besties we’re going shopping! 😏🚗 www.fanatical.com/en/collectio...

i absolutely love this game and you should play it. wildly creative. procgen things no one has ever done before i secretly really want to join their team and do some really, really juicy deep NPC and narrative procgen evolutions

Adam Rosenberg's Net-Force@geminibros.bsky.social · 2d ago

This deal is hard to refuse. I've been eyeing this game for a long time. Detective noir imm sim! store.steampowered.com/app/986130/S...

i am sick and miserable pls pet me🦌

it is so insanely hard to find asset packs without AI use these days... what's everyone doing? (yes with a Real Game budget i would love to commission artists. alas it is 2026)

It has been my great honor to paint the cover and end paper artwork for Chloe Gong's "Flesh and False Gods" trilogy, published by @hodderscape.bsky.social in the UK. Here's all the artwork in one carousel! "Eyes of Kings" 2026 "Vilest Things" 2024 "Immortal Longings" 2023

teaching a procedural text generation workshop at the Gifted And Talent Children's Association today and have never been so excited to teach a class :D genuinely so excited to see what they come up with 🥰

You think you understand computers and then you talk to an engineers and they lean in and whisper “let me tell you about computers 2”

what do you think would be worse: an endless black void or an endless white void?

i dreamed of "daughters" holy fuck. woke up with a start and sprinted to write it down. new horror creature canon just dropped i will write about them at length at some point but my dream put them in the interstice between insecta and mammalia and... oh my biblical angels eat your heart out

your friendly neighbourhood leopard

⚔️⚔️ #art #fantasy

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

Gotta hop / #furryart

do you have a recurring location you visit sometimes in your dreams?

people need to for the love of god stop doing this rad hyperdetailed art has always existed, stop tearing artists down over knee jerk bandwagon reactions

.aj RUIN Ch.O@clone.bsky.social · last wk.

How am I supposed to work like this

I suspect anyone who's worked at a major studio in a full-time capacity has encountered these clauses, which seem oddly self-defeating in how they prevent employees from bettering themselves outside the confines of the workplace—and subsequently sharing that knowledge with their peers.

yet another really, really good article out of GameDeveloper today i didn't realise how much so many people in this industry were being actively stifled in their personal projects and career opportunities like conference speaking thank you @kerrblimey.bsky.social for giving air to this 🙏

Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · last wk.

'I have been hunted down by HR reps, lawyers, and comms people:' Developers discuss the pain and prevalence of side work clauses