An excellent manifesto against coercion in game design by jp - touching on many of the ideas I discuss in my talk & concisely opening up more possibilities gist.github.com/JPLeBreton/cef…

btw people probably already know this but i am absolutely thrilled when people are angry about things being nerfed. the more trivial the change the more joy i feel. i clap my hands together and laugh like a combo of Gary Oldman's Bram Stoker's Dracula and Tim Curry's Darkness.

🌷 Calling all cozy content creators! 🌷 Since we might be in the end days of this platform, we're putting together a contact list. If you're a creator, influencer or media with a love for cozy games, please fill out this form! 👉 forms.gle/JGhaHfYgZME85V… 🎨: syl ✨ Pls RT!

i mean this with full sincerity: this is how you ship a game

The truth is: almost all AAA studios have no knowledge of modern black hairstyles, let alone know how to make them accurately. Hire a consultant like Ebonix 🔜 Black Lines of Code 🎮🖼️ and she can show you 100+ easily.

Today we celebrate the 33rd Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Microsoft is committed to engaging with the disability community & advocating for policies advancing accessibility as a fundamental right to help bridge the disability divide. msft.it/6013ghj19

"My first computer was my first husband." Brenda L Romero is in tech since she was five and in gaming for 42 years. "Here child, some demons" - at 11 she got Dungeons and Dragons 🐉 as a gift which allowed to create worlds. Brenda Romero learned Pascal and set up a computer class at

10 Minutes to go! Join Hannah Gamiel and Eric Anderson, playing Obduction, chatting, and answering some of YOUR questions! Humble Bundle's "Myst and More Redux: 30 Years of Myst" bundle helps Active Minds, a cause very close to our hearts. Get it here: bit.ly/MystNMore2

More of this, please! Most game devs are also avid players, and privately we love and praise the work of other teams/companies. We even have informal (or sometimes formal) company play sessions of games we've been looking forward to. Let's normalize making that praise public!

I’ll still be lurking here… but more likely to be posting… over there.

we can all agree that we enjoy video games but no one can make one of the fucking things without taking psychic damage so severe that it lasts longer than rock we can all agree that, right

This is a gentle reminder that I'm keeping this account but not posting here anymore. You can find me... elsewhere.

Does this app (which I refuse to call X) deprioritize or silently ban posts that reference other sites? I’d heard it does? Well here’s a test. :-)

I posted on the other site about what it was like working on proprietary game engines back in the day, and how tool/pipeline issues can profoundly affect not just productivity but also morale. bsky.app/profile/laraly…