I did! A splendid game. Some mechanics reminiscent of Obra Dinn, but set in a spooky manor in the late 19C against a backdrop of magic and Irish folklore.

A rough Monday for getting anything done because I just want to play @blakemanorgame.bsky.social . I think I know whodunnit!

Reading the Bible and genuinely asking my youth minister about its contradictions. The answers were never satisfying.

"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"

counterpoint!

the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

POV: You trust the process

Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/3241560/...

#gamedev #indiegames

Frankly, I expected better from a FIFA Peace prize winner

everyone is announcing their demos for Next Fest and no one is putting their damn steam pages in the tweet!! put the link in the damn post!!! you are getting a fraction of the clicks to your page for wishlists as you could be getting!!!!!!! knock it off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

more like adobe inanimate

the secret to game design is spinning on chair at least twenty minutes a day

Got a really crazy art coming up in the next 7-8 years. Stay tuned.

me working on my game:

MN > ICE

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Steam Winter Sale 2025

Our upcoming game The Hearth and Harbour is fully 2D, but with some neat tricks we’ve made it look 3D. Ethan, our environment artist, did this with a special type of texture called a Normal Map. (Thread! 1/7)

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant.

Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.

I played through HORSES last night (via Epic, lol). Is it messed up? Absolutely. It’s a very adult game, both in its themes and experiences.

Every time I’ve hit “Search the store” on Steam today, it autofills with trending games, the top one being Slut Squad.

Where does Steam draw the line?

This is a fantastic interview in general, but the realness of this particular answer stopped me cold

if you haven't entered the fallout modathon yet - what are you waiting for!?

with incredible prizes including a FULLY PAID TRIP TO LAS VEGAS up for grabs, your homemade creation could end up being the next big thing! ☢️

visit.nexusmods.com/fallout-m...

game design 101

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.

The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

Game dev is so hard. I used to see new indie games come out and think things like, “Neat, maybe I’ll check that out!”

Since I’ve been seriously working on my Shadows game, my response is always, always, “HOLY SHIT YOU FINISHED MAKING A WHOLE-ASS GAME?! AND YOU FUCKING *RELEASED* IT?!?!?!”

For all the new folks landing in @bsky.app, both #indiedevs and players alike, I made some starter packs a while back that you might find useful 👍

🔸 Indie Game Studios - go.bsky.app/EbnyA2d

🔸 Solo Indie Devs - go.bsky.app/46HSs4C

🔸 Indie Game Publishers - go.bsky.app/DAoKtHj

I missed that you stepped away.

My suspicion is that you’ve somehow run out of papers to grade, miss it, and so are trying to educate Bluesky. Now everyone’s mad.