13 minutes of friday ramble on games about running a game studio. Touches on satire, nostalgia, art direction, player creativity and ownership, and the incremental games "boom". www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsDQ...
I made a short overview video of #picoCAD2 basics.
Check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejpm...
#gamedev #lowpoly
And hey, if you're looking for someone with 10+ years of experience in game dev as a designer, producer, community manager, and editor-in-chief, hit me up. I keep a look out for problems that I am uniquely positioned to help solve, and if you have one of those, I will likely be interested.
If you are geekily inclined, ReedPOP (whose parent company is named as having connections to ICE) is also the event organizer behind all the PAX shows, Star Wars Celebration, NYCC, Chicago Comicon, and Emerald City Comicon; read this thread to see what action you can take to voice your opposition.
“Please enjoy the museum”:
Relooted is OUT NOW!
Please share!
It is BEYOND WEIRD to wake up and not have to build the game today!
I can't thank you enough for all the support and love! Thank you for spreading the word and for playing!
That launch discount will be up all week, grab it if you want it! The Vexington Hotel awaits you...
He's back baby
This is a good thread I actually disagree with, and would posit that the issue in the quoted post is not necessarily indicative of the game’s audience, but rather with a very loud segment who is NOT the audience deciding they don’t think a game should have an audience—a very different problem.
When I was at <prev. job> and folks were working on <game>, the feedback I kept giving was that the design would unavoidably draw in an audience of primarily miserable, hyper-aggressive, antisocial players.
Sometimes this stuff is fundamentally built-into and encouraged by a game's design
UpScrolled is blowing up due to the Tiktok ban - #2 in the US right now. It's ethical social media: no shadowbans, no algorithmic bullshit, no controls on your feed, not designed for addiction, doesn't sell your data
Well, this is new...
You showed up so fast our servers tapped out.
Frustrating? Yes. Emotional? Also yes.
We're a tiny team building what Big Tech stopped being. Right now, we're scaling on caffeine to keep up with what YOU started.
Bear with us. We're on it.
This is what real looks like.
Sounds like there are some cool games at the Xbox showcase?
Too bad that Microsoft is one of the most harmful companies on the planet, and according to the BDS boycott campaign, "the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide"
Finally, if you like us, want to commit to be a part of this boycott going forward, @nogamesforgenocide.com have created an amazing resource that'll help guide you through that process.
If you can, consider making a public pledge over there:
nogamesforgenocide.com
Why We're Boycotting Xbox:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...
This hits so close to home. The professional and personal isolation both @ramiismail.com, @tamoorh.com and many more describes is a brutal, unspoken reality. For many of us, the last two years haven't just been "difficult" but a systematic stripping away of support and community.
There’s a moment in this where @ramiismail.com talks about people distancing themselves or being told to do so because of his advocacy. Most never talk about but, man, it’s so real. The last couple years have been professionally and personally isolating in brutal ways. It’s been really eye-opening.
i’ve been playing Battlefield 6 and couldn’t separate its love of destruction from the carnage I see out of Gaza every day
⭕️ Breaking: All 45 bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel arrived with their hands and legs cuffed, CNN reports. They were transferred to Nasser Hospital tagged with numbers, not names, and have yet to be identified. “Some are blindfolded, and there are signs of gunshot wounds in some cases, while others have been run over by tanks,” Nasser Hospital officials told CNN — Drop Site’s full post, linked below, details how Israel is violating the terms of the deal while falsely accusing Hamas of doing so
The bodies of 45 deceased Palestinians transferred from Israel to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis have not been identified, the hospital’s forensic department told CNN on Tuesday. https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-gaza-ceasefire-deal-hostages-10-14-25?post-id=cmgr3l8su0000356oqp7oci4i
All of the bodies arrived at the facility with their hands and legs cuffed, the hospital said. The remains were being held in refrigerators in Israel and came with numbers marking them, rather than names, according to the hospital. "Some are blindfolded, and there are signs of gunshot wounds in some cases, while others have been run over by tanks," Nasser hospital said.
All 45 bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel arrived with their hands and legs cuffed, CNN reports. They were transferred to Nasser Hospital tagged with numbers, not names, and have yet to be identified.
“Some are blindfolded, and there are signs of gunshot wounds in some cases, while others...
Phenomenal write-up of Palestinian Voices in Games by @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social. Still very proud to be supporting the initiative, and happy to see attention for it. If you want to help out, check out the link via the article!
www.rockpapershotgun.com/creators-of-...
OLIVER: "Gaza is starving is a sentence that's objectively true, but it's also slightly misleading because it's too passive — Gaza is being starved by Israel."
Coming Soon to Steammmm from AIE Seattle! ✨☃️ "The Most Epicest Snowball Fight Ever!" is a turn-based tactics game that asks you to help a group of kids use their imagination to defeat snow monsters and stave off the cold!
Wishlist now y'all!! store.steampowered.com/app/3884730/...
Ozzy Osbourne died? What were his views on Palestine? Abysmal pro-genocide pro-Zionist support? Ok then.
BREAKING: Israel killed 10 more Palestinians seeking aid at a GHF site in Rafah, southern Gaza, this morning, Al Jazeera reports.
Been learning a lot about similar topics more recently:
youtu.be/8gChu5U2NGc?...
🚨NEWS: Israeli outlet Maariv reports that during Israel’s 12-day operation against Iran, Air Force pilots returning from intercepting Iranian drones began dropping leftover bombs on Gaza.
What started as a pilot-led “initiative” was quickly approved and expanded—becoming routine.
AP article headline discussing Microsoft providing AI to Israel “for war but not to harm people in Gaza” something totally normal and possible to achieve
don’t worry everybody, Microsoft had to lay off 9,000 people today so they could literally give 100 million more dollars in AI funding to Israel
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese now also names Microsoft among 48 corps aiding the genocide. Based on the reporting from earlier this year but perhaps lends credence beyond BDS's (and my own) claim that Microsoft is complicit.
