I often sign off with "And please let me know if there are any questions." I pray that there are never any questions.

Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool@tanatb.housefuckinggame.com · 4h ago

i love to sign off emails with "i'll let you know if anything changes!" with the full intention of never letting them know if anything changes

This is one of my favorite games of 2026 by a long shot!

Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie@greyalien.bsky.social · yesterday

Forbidden Solitaire is still on sale this week at 25% off! "Overwhelmingly Positive". If you think you'll like it, then you probably will love it. store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

As we kick off August, I'm now 10 months into my job hunt, and the numbers are grim. I've been tracking almost every application. I've got 20 years of experience and I've shipped on virtually every platform. 121 job applications. Only 6 even made it to a screening call. I'm tired :\

I wish I could be this relaxed. Ever.

BlueSky has been very interesting for me compared to other social media platforms. My follower count is maybe 20% of what it was on Twitter, but my engagement is 10000x better. I get more eyes on what I post. More discussion. And it's largely quality too.

This is 100% the Film Production playbook that investors and execs are drooling over. Form a company to build and release a thing, and then immediately shut it down once work is complete. Spin up a new company for the next project and so on.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2d ago

Just after CEOs praised Netflix's FIFA game, its developer has reportedly been shut down aftermath.site/netflix-delphi...

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."

Spider Man was fun. And a lot more connected to the wider MCU than I was expecting

While there are certainly valid criticisms you can level against The Odyssey as a film adaptation one thing I think a lot of those who are most frustrated seem to be missing: This is going to be the thing that sparks an interest in classical literature for a lot of people. They'll want to READ it.

I'm sure this will end well. That there will be no long-lasting negative consequences of this. Nope. Everything is fine.

Catherina Gioino@catgioino.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...

Are you a small game studio looking for help taming the chaos? Hit me up! I can help!

Mike Crassweller@zoomba.bsky.social · 4w ago

As I just crossed the 20 year mark in game dev, I'm taking a stab at something new: Consulting & Advising! Are you a new or growing studio and need help building Production, QA, and operational muscle? I might be able to help. www.sixbrickgames.com

Watching that Myst-that-will-never-be trailer and going down memory lane of how Myst got me into game dev... Man, I'd love to have a shot at working at @cyan.com It would be an absolute full-circle moment for me.

I tell this story often, but I don't think here yet... Myst is what got me into making games. Myst was one of the very first games I became truly obsessed with. I had notebooks full of puzzle sketches, clues, combinations I'd tried, guesses at what things meant...

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

It always saddens me when I see someone in the games industry with tons of experience, someone I respect, fall fully down the AI rabbit hole.

Muscle memory is a wild thing. At least a few times a year, without thinking about it, I'll type in fileplanet.com when trying to enter a URL for another website. That site has been dead and gone for 14 years.

Of course it's ASU...

Joe Russo@joerusso.bsky.social · 2w ago

We all died during COVID and this is Hell.

I was once listed as a source on the Wikipedia page for Notepad (the windows app) because I wrote a blog about how if you wrote "this will break notepad" then saved the file and opened it back up again, because of a text encoding bug, the opened file would just be squares instead of letters.

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2w ago

Okay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?

Study Finds There Aren’t Enough Occasions Where You Get To Eat Rolls https://theonion.com/study-finds-there-arent-enough-occasions-where-you-get-to-eat-rolls/

I know it's fun to dunk on job app Qs, and this doesn't belong on the app but in an actual interview. I ask a question like this regularly as I've discovered a trend where a lot of folks are simply unequipped to handle new or novel challenges...

Andrew Elmore 💽@elmore.zone · 2w ago

i'm so tired man

Ok, I'm about to start my Nth attempt to get into Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader. I keep bouncing off the game early on due to the sheer volume of numbers and words flooding the screen constantly. I just want to stomp xenos guys... I don't need to read War & Peace

Thank goodness it's finally over

Sweetums just wants love #caturday

Instead of yelling “fascist!” At ICE agents, we should change it up and shout “Tiny Penis!” while pointing at them and laughing. Nothing gets to fascists more than being mocked.

Trying my hand at making an orange olive oil cake today. Will know how it turned out in a few hours!

If I ever was able to start or run a studio, one of the key elements I'd bake into everyone's contract would be a very clear clause on profit sharing. Game does well, team should do well, not just execs. I'm so tired of teams taking the brunt of the work, and getting a sliver of the reward.

I think if a project is cancelled, everyone working on it should be immediately released from their NDAs for that work so they can showcase it on their portfolios, resumes, and talk about freely in interviews. I've got a project that was cancelled 3 years ago that I'd LOVE to talk about!

✨hello bsky game devs: i am once again actively job hunting // reposts appreciated✨ i am an experienced (8 yrs) producer (ex-xbox/ZOS) who specializes in creative pipelines. i come very highly recommended. i can work in big orgs or scale startups. i'm also funny. my slack posts rack up reacts.

This as a problem of creative leadership, and if you have watched many GDC talks, or been a game developer, you will have seen this. Whenever a game ships in record time, the director is shown to make, and keep, decisions. Whenever it goes over time, you eventually hear of constant changes.