the speedrunning community was as toxic and as much of a boys club (if not more) as many others not too long ago, and the transition to it being a more queer-positive and inclusive event wasn't inevitable. GDQ's shift has been really meaningful and it's a lesson for what a lot of other spaces can be
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
marking my hesitant return to bsky to announce that avitium will be showcased at CIGS this year (come see it!!! i'll be there!!!) AND has a page on steam now!!! wow!!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3721560/...
Quit doomscrolling and fish that PSP or 3DS out of the closet: No Phone Summer means this is the summer of the retro handheld, Willa Rowe writes. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...
OKAY HERE IT IS
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LABOR IN THE USA AND WHAT IT HAS TO DO WITH THE MODERN GAMES INDUSTRY
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I haven't fleshed it out into a full article, but at DiGRA last year I presented this talk which was a Marxist analysis of the tendency of (indie) developers becoming publishers after a big hit. Maybe of interest to the current discourse I'm seeing around publishers
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Just absolutely staggering. If even Brenda and John aren't safe from this brutal capitalist recklessness, nobody is.
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YAYYY glad you enjoyed it lol (also tysm for the shoutout!!)! it was sooo much fun watching the artist for this project put the faces together lol i think just the visuals put this one into one of my fav shorter games i've worked on
yes!! i just played this one by @megken.dev while catching up in my feeds after months of QGB work haha. every bubble face is my best friend now. some prolific folks in my itchio feed: celia14, jamwitch, jsmonzani, iamroarke, antoine-foucault
i got fully knocked out for mine! they still numb you if you're awake but you can apparently feel them tugging it out from like a pressure sensation, which i didn't want to be awake for lol 😵💫 admittedly for me all four of mine were like In My Gums so they were like "yeah you're going to sleep" lmao
happy fathers day to the father that STEPPED UP kazuma kiryu
porwiigon!! ✨💾
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This is a wildly satisfying watch.
i think the biggest fundamental Thing turn-based rpg devs can do to improve their combat is to consider turn economy. there's a lot deeper nuance you could take into this, but on the surface level, everyone who's played an older game has felt this:
why use poison when the battle is over next turn?
games industry layoffs
FY2024 was the most profitable in history for the video game industry
It also saw the most layoff waves, and highest known layoff headcount in recent history.
Lets do the math. Who wants to guess where all the money is going?
Fuck This Bravely Makes Me Want To Default. Should I ?
I’m gonna be loud about it
If you see few games being announced or games not being what you expected - you can blame the massive layoffs that have occurred in the last 2.5 years
It’s incredibly noticeable how often ‘and an army of outsourcers outside America and Western Europe’ is left out of these team sizes. That’s the part I find real uncomfortable.
The perception of cheaply made games by like 1 dude minus all the contractors that blow up hurts us because when we ask for a real budget, someone says "well I saw an article that this other game cost $60K to make and sold 1 million copies" and that ends the convo
there is something intangibly gross in how asian features are so frequently used for artificial, machine personas
it's almost as if in popular imagination asian features are associated with a sort of controllable autonomous programming, but no soul.
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5.BRAVELY DEFAULT
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OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD
MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT
bravely default hd will save me from my job hunt crashout
i am a journalist
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a stylized 3d render of a kid drawing at a table, surrounded by ancient fish and sea creatures of the devonian and silurian.
ancient friends
A white and black cat standing on two legs touching a plug socket.
The electrician they sent is wearing high-waisted pants.
Doodle of an orange cat driving a little red and yellow toy car.
Get in, losers
