The life of a Narrative Designer! Sometimes I emerge from the trenches of my imagination and people talk to me about what I do. ;) #indiegamedev #gamewriter

Ah! Thanks so much, Gabe!

We think so! lol but of course we do.

First Moon of Mercury - Dev Diary: Narrative Design - Steam News We take a deep dive into the narrative design of First Moon of Mercury with Heather Jackson.

"I work in Miro, coming up with the shape of the story in a flowchart... Miro really helps to visualize the plot, especially since games rarely follow a linear beginning to end flow." - @hjacksonwrites.bsky.social

Read the full dev diary: store.steampowered.com/news/app/400...

#GameDev #Indie

ohhh we've got some stone-cold stunners, folks
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Our interactive media side of the company is hiring a producer!

If you are based in Ontario, Canada and looking for remote work with a small team, we'd love to hear from you.

That's what they ended up doing.

There was a bit of toilet trouble on NASA's Artemis 2 mission to the moon It wasn't their No. 1 problem, but it was a problem for going number one.

So, the game we're currently working on has you solving puzzles/problems on a space station... 🤔

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A screenshot of a Slack conversation. Lennard at 4:15: @here did someone just log into the steam account to play warhammer lol? It kicked me out of substance painter [screenshot of Steam error indicating that Lennard had been kicked out of Substance Painter because someone was playing Total War: Warhammer III.] Evan at 4:16: yep my son just did I will go inform him that he's gotta wait Lennard at 4:16: lol thank youuu. Tell him im playing warhammer tn in the real world and touching grass. after 5 is chill for him to hop back on

The day in a life of an #indie.

#GameDev

London, Ont., connection to historic moon mission as Artemis II prepares for launch | CBC News Excitement is building in London, Ont., as Artemis II prepares to launch on Wednesday, sending astronauts, including Canadian Jeremy Hansen, around the moon. Gordon Osinski, a Western University professor who helped train Hansen, said the mission is both thrilling and nerve-wracking, marking humanity’s return to lunar exploration for the first time since 1972.

Good luck to the Artemis II team today! And to Jeremy Hansen in particular, a Canadian from London, Ontario, where some of our team members are from.

This will be the first time humans have been to the moon since 1972.

Learn more: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Thank you!

There are some really great games coming out of Canada and it's fantastic to see them highlighted. More of this, please!

If you haven't already, go check out the other nominees: canadiangameawards.ca/en/nominees

Canadian Game Awards nomination laurels for best mobile and best VR/AR. The Elsewhere Electric keyart of a person in a lapcoat with a handheld device, and a person in a hazmat suit stand behind the logo.

We are thrilled that our asynchronous co-operative puzzle game has been nominated for both Best Mobile Game and Best VR/AR Game for the Canadian Game Awards!

Thank you, judges.

#Canadian #Indie #GameDev #VR

BepiColombo BepiColombo

We don't really know how or why Mercury formed. It defies many of the patterns we've come to expect.

The joint European and Japanese mission BepiColombo plans to change that.

Learn more: www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Homepage Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

Dr. Sarah Gallagher, one of the scientists we consulted for First Moon of Mercury, is part of the team that just launched The Institute for Earth and Space Exploration at Western University.

Congratulations, and we can't wait to see everything they get up to! 🔭

Learn more: space.uwo.ca/

After 4 years of work, solo dev breaks down in tears after opening Steam and learning his game made $250,000 in a week: "I feel like I really don't deserve this" "I don't know why people are so nice. I don't get it, man"

THIS.

Give me more gaming stories like this. :D

Playtesters are the best.

Inside the world's largest telescope: it's progressing fast! YouTube video by ESO Chasing Starlight

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Our latest Chasing Starlight production 🔭🧪

Photo taken looking down into a black‑walled cylinder, at the bottom of which sits a large satellite with black panels and golden surfaces. On top of the spacecraft, we see the blue, shiny lenses of 26 large cameras. The cameras are mounted on a five‑stepped platform and arranged in four rows of six cameras, plus a top row with two cameras.

Welcome to the Large Space Simulator! 🌌

Our terrestrial planet hunter, Plato, has been placed inside this ESA chamber for a series of vital tests under space‑like conditions.

Discover how it is like inside Europe's largest cryovacuum chamber here 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
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Nah. Nothing weird at all. Nope!

This looks beautiful!

Banded sea star!

We have a team member who can't stop raving about this game. 😍

Just us?

#CME #SpaceWeather #VideoGames

But, there's hope. There's always hope, and that's what we wanted to focus on:

the world working together to overcome the crisis.

If this happened today? Entire power grids would fail, oil pipelines would break, and the major internet cables would fry. Anything with copper? It'd be flooded with a direct current and overloaded. Satellite and dependent GPS systems would go down.

Chaos.

What was the Carrington Event?

In 1859, a coronal mass ejection (CME) from our sun resulted in a geomagnetic storm colliding with Earth. There was so much direct electrical current in our atmosphere that telegraph machines worked without being turned on. Electricity flowed down train tracks.

In short? Absolute and utter chaos, destruction, and a break down of society world-wide.

What if something like the Carrington Event happened now?

That was the question we decided to pose for First Moon of Mercury! So we talked to astrophysicists, astronomers, climate disaster specialists, and sociologists to see what they thought would happen.

Game Developers + Cheeseburgers sponsored by Vast Green Country, Games by Stitch, Astro Scout, KO_OP. Toronto 2026. A polygon cheeseburger on a bright pink gradient background.

We are delighted to be sponsoring the inaugural GDCheese event today. We hear it's sold out! Toronto is coming in strong.

Who will we be seeing this afternoon?