Back to Basics: Translating Your Invisible Marketing Foundation into Visibility Many devs love to skip all the behind-the-scenes marketing prep work that no one publicly sees. Traditional marketing best practices can seem obtuse or even useless when you do not understand the bene...

The GDC talk I did with @dtrebella.bsky.social about the foundational “boring” behind-the-scenes marketing work is FREE on the Vault! 🎉

gdcvault.com/play/1035767...

An illustrated banner for the Hidden Depths Steam bundle featuring characters from TUNIC, Fez, Animal Well, Outer Wilds, and Blue Prince

Introducing the Hidden Depths Steam bundle! 🔎 TUNIC + 4 other award-winning games that are best played knowing as little as possible.

Secrets, discovery, [redacted], [redacted], and [redacted] await!

🤫 store.steampowered.com/bundle/70688...

An AI dares to dream that she is human. You’ve been hired to put her in her place.

We’re sunset visitor 斜陽過客, the creators of 1000xRESIST, and this is our next game: Prove You’re Human.

Published by our friends at @blacktabbygames.com.

s.team/a/4533950

June beneath the 🌕 Just a little peek at a new spot in our upcoming game, Usual June!

Wishlist on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2702430/...

A Kalshi ad that says "We don't do death markets"

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

MLB scoreboard of Pirates vs Mets that reads P: 0 NY: 0 or could be seen as “Ponyo” (LET’S GO METS!!!)

An underrated Miyazaki classic #LGM

Senior Game Designer San Mateo, CA

We're hiring a ✨Senior Game Designer✨ for a new project at Monomi Park! 🍃

Applicants should have strong Unreal Engine experience, be able to own significant portions of a game's design, and the ability to work well within a small team. Is that yoooou?

job-boards.greenhouse.io/monomipark/j...

Everybody's trying to be Fortnite and if you don't make a Fortnite then everybody gets laid off, but it ends up even if you do make a Fortnite then everybody gets laid off

when the two wolves inside you are:

polite wolf: they did not ask for advice, stay quiet, smile encouragingly

realtalk wolf: don't just go solo fulltime indie without a plan or prototype or solo jamming experience of some kind oh my god please don't put your arm in a woodchipper

facade (2005) screenshot with an added “DLSS5 OFF” label graphic

facade (2005) screenshot with an added “DLSS5 ON” label graphic real world photos of Tom Welling and Anne Hathaway have replaced the game’s characters

The fox from TUNIC holding up a Nintendo Switch 2 box!

TUNIC is 4 years old today! 🎉🦊 The perfect day to let you know that a Switch 2 update is on the way! We're working hard on it - stay tuned!

GDC Thoughts and Prayers - Meredith Gran I’m home! Let’s see if I can zero in on the stuff I really wanna say. I was up for an award I was sure I wouldn’t win. I did not write an acceptance

I'm home and I've written a bit on my blog about post-GDC feelings:

meredithgran.com/gdc-thoughts...

Goodbye GDC until next year I guess.

Last day of GDC let’s go.

Zoomed in image of Mae from Night in the Woods showing mostly her big, wide-open eye.

It's Friday the 13th. Probably nothing weird will happen.

A very normal thing to need an ad for at GDC.

Local Game Community Organizers Mixer 2026 Come and hang out with fellow game development community organizers following the Local Game Community Organizers forum!

If people are at #GDC today please drop by the Local Game Community Organizer mixer today! It’s just - quick 5 minute walk away from 12:30-2:30 pm! www.eventbrite.com/e/local-game...

Thanks to everyone who came to the Local Game Community Organizers forum at #GDC. It was a new format and a different day than usual, but the discussions from everyone continued to be awesome!

In the only talk at GDC that will probably talk about how the character’s lace choker carries a seductive charm.

This is happening today, please come by South Hall 207 to discuss anything going on with your local game dev community! #GDC

Somehow despite everything we're in SF.

The poor Pittsburgh airport T-Rex… hidden away in the basement now.

Local Game Community Organizers Mixer 2026 Come and hang out with fellow game development community organizers following the Local Game Community Organizers forum!

Afterwards you can also join us for the mixer being held on Wednesday to chill outside of Moscone. Hope to see you all there! www.eventbrite.com/e/local-game...

Local Game Community Organizers Forum | Agenda | GDC Festival of Gaming The Local Game Community Organizes roundtable is for people who are currently organizing events and communities in their areas for independent or professional game developers or people who are looking...

If you're at #GDC next week join us again for the annual Local Game Community Organizers forum. It's been a challenging past year for game dev and this is a great place to talk with other organizers on how everyone is doing. schedule.gdconf.com/session/loca...

I'm heading to #GDC26 next week! If you want to catch up or just hang out drop me a DM!

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.

Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.

More info:

After watching all the shadow drops in the Indie World someone needs to explain why every game dev decided this week to release their game.

Key art for "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared" on Dropout shows its title along with its three principal puppet characters in picture frames.

one of my all-time favorite weird and wonderful shows - DON'T HUG ME I'M SCARED - is now on dropout!

full web series now; TV series (which less people have seen) over the course of the next few months. big thanks to blink industries, becky, and joe for their faith in us.

Night in the Woods' publisher says TikTok is creating and running racist GenAI ads for its games without permission. https://bit.ly/4kKnB5L

a bunch of very specifically named hardcoded boolean fields in a single script representing the entire save state of the game

"save systems should dynamically handle object IDs and automatically populate the serialized data of every object that requires save states, and then for dialogue progression it needs to-"

team cherry:
WRONG. 1400 hardcoded fields in PlayerData.cs