Every day, I thread the day's indie game releases - whether they're big titles or under-the-radar games to check out. 2024 is the year of the indies! Here's a thread of today's (May 23rd)! 🧵

Galacticare is a space sim x hospital management sim - furnish and upgrade your sci-fi hospital, recruit doctors, cure aliens, maybe save the galaxy?? Brightrock Games Out today on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/494730/Gal…

You know your game has truly made it when the unhinged corners of the Internet reach out and tap you on the shoulder to share something special as a review...

Thank you for 150,000 Directors! 🪐 We're working hard on making sure the Galacticare experience is as fun as we can make it with new updates and making sure all your feedback is heard. We appreciate you all greatly 💜 Read more: blog.galacticare.com/first-week-sta…

Ohho! Unity is doing it again: Forum is getting closed and only Discussion will be used.. (which is still really broken / half baked and total downgrade - from nicely working forums) forum.unity.com/threads/update…

In nearly a decade of doing this, I've never said no to a free initial chat with an indie dev. I know other friendly games lawyers do the same. Please, if your spidey sense is tingling, get a second opinion.

The mistake Juan Linietsky makes here is that the engine isn't the problem. All the periphery systems such as file io, modding, building and QA needs additional consideration. Then general support is added on top. It's just not commercially worth it. Not when Proton just works.

like me did you think that dear imgui was cool, but not for you because you had unity's inspectors? bless you child for today the scales will fall from your eyes. let me show you how useful dear imgui is, even in unity!

EVE Online, one of my first MMO loves and still enjoyable 20 years later today. Today they announced a great new undertaking... In crypto.

Directors! Fancy yourself a loyal service bot? We can’t make real robots, so how about a Medi cuddly toy by Makeship? That’s right! Get your very own Medi to squeeze! 📅 3pm, Sept 18 🌌 Plushie makeship.com/products/galac… 🪐 Read more blog.galacticare.com/p/58166eee-bca…

A few of my personal faves from the Galacticare patch notes

This week I've been deep diving Unity's ECS framework. I must admit it is quite impressive so far, only let down by large swaths of undocumented code and features. I think what's making me sweat the most is their "Baking" pipeline - something about it has me anxious.

My last job was as Senior Stellarator Engineer at an early stage fusion startup. I was the lead design 'ideas' guy for stellarator systems - here's some things I learned about the art and science of stellarator design 🧵 First off, a stellarator is indeed a work of art:

Anyone know if there is an efficient way to throw some work at the GPU and get the result back to the CPU in the same frame? Unitys sync read back seems quite slow. Ben Sims Sherief, FYI

🚀 Congratulations to Brightrock Games for Best Strategy Game 2024 with Galacticare! A stellar achievement in strategic gaming. 🌌 #TIGAawards

Do you long to design exciting, creative and novel management, simulation and strategy games? We're looking for an experienced senior game designer to join our core team. Fully remote with plenty of benefits. apply.workable.com/brightrockgame… #gamejobs #hiring #gamedevs #RemoteWork

Some things get better with age Underlord, others more evil. War for the Overworld is ten today and we're celebrating with a new patch, fantastic new worker skins, graphic updates, a free pen and paper RPG and more. Check it out Underlord: steamcommunity.com/games/wfto/ann… #indiegames

This was the first test of the new tire model in Vehicle Physics Pro at the Nordschleife, from the point of view of the tires. Everything goes mostly well until the car almost takes off and then spins out at Kallenhard. Later, the suspension setup was fine-tuned to adapt to the

【日本語対応】巨大怪獣の遺骸を解体し、街をピカピカにする清掃シム『Kaiju Cleanup - 怪獣クリーナー』 怪獣は死してなお放射能を放出し、強酸性の体液を垂れ流し、爆発する臓器が埋もれている 様々な機材を駆使して死骸を処理し、街を清掃しよう 殉職しても、クローンが控えているから安心だ

レールガンでぶち抜かれた宇宙怪獣の死骸を片付ける清掃シム『Kaiju Cleanup - 怪獣クリーナー』発表！ 巨体を切り刻み、まとめて片付けて、街をピッカピカの状態に戻そう。 gamespark.jp/article/2025/0…