One of the things I find frustrating about sci-fi is that because of the American influence of it, all of the planets are called things like Zexion 5 and Danshassia 7. I’d call them things like ‘Nether Roundthorpe’ and ‘Spheresbury’. Gravity Bywell. Chalfont St Globeby. Bishop’s Goitre.
This is an absolute must-read.
Text reads: KO_OP is Hiring! Our studio mascot, a dark blue genderless humanoid named ini, is at the bottom right corner, holding their face and smiling with hearts floating around their head.
Text reads: Responsibilities - Working closely with our QA lead, design, tech, and production to understand project goals and build test plans collaboratively. - Writing and iterating on test cases for a game actively in development, with a live player base. - Paired testing with other members of the QA department, with a focus on networked multiplayer testing. Requirements - Due to our small team and a significant number of our employees being international, we require potential applicants to be able to speak English. - Applicants in Canada will be given priority, however applicants outside of Canada are welcome to submit their application should we be unable to fill the role locally. Preferred experience - Experience with JIRA, Slack, Notion and Unity. - Experience with network testing and working on Live Service titles. - Having worked on released titles for Steam and Xbox. - Experience with Xbox Cert for XBPC, Series XS and Xbox One.
Fonctions - Collaborer étroitement avec notre responsable de l’assurance qualité ainsi que l’équipe de conception, l’équipe technique et l’équipe de production pour comprendre les objectifs du projet et élaborer les plans de mise à l’essai. - Rédiger et exécuter des scénarios d’essai pour un jeu en cours de développement avec une base active de joueurs. - Réaliser des essais en collaboration avec d’autres membres du service de l’assurance qualité, notamment des essais de jeux multijoueurs en réseau. Exigences du poste - Connaissance de l’anglais (nous formons une petite équipe dont bon nombre des membres se trouvent à l’étranger). - Nous accorderons la priorité aux candidatures canadiennes. Cependant, les personnes qui résident ailleurs sont également invitées à soumettre la leur, au cas où nous n’arriverions pas à pourvoir le poste localement. Atouts - Connaissance de Jira, de Slack, de Notion et d’Unity. - Expérience avec les essais en réseau et le développement de jeux-services. - Expérience de travail sur des jeux publiés sur Steam et Xbox. - Obtention passée de la certification Xbox pour PC, Xbox Série X|S et Xbox One. Rémunération - 90 069 $ CA/année (1 732 $/semaine) - Télétravail uniquement (travail hybride ou au bureau à Montréal, si désiré) - Semaine de quatre jours et horaire flexible Il s'agit d'un poste contractuel de six mois. Lien dans la bio pour plus d'informations.
We’re hiring a QA Analyst! $90,069 CAD/year, remote 6-month contract, 4-day work weeks with flexible hours! 🫶
Apply now: www.workwithindies.com/careers/ko-o... ✨
Roguelike Celebration is this weekend which is one of my favourite game conferences (and it's all online in a custom virtual space!). I can only go to a few talks but if you like Roguelikes you should sign up!
www.roguelike.club
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
omg the talk/speaker lineup for Roguelike Celebration (@roguelike.club) 2025 looks sooo good:
www.roguelike.club/event2025.html
So obviously one of the most vital events in videogames right now, I really hope I can make the time to attend this year.
Registration deadline was yesterday, but we are taking limited late registrations in these cities! LA, Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, St Louis, Portland, Pittsburgh, Austin, Melbourne, Montreal, Brno, Christchurch, Singapore, Taipei, and London www.playdash.org/DASH12
When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
An illustration of a tiger with stripes forming the letters "DASH 12" and the text "DASH IS BACK! Different Area Same Hunt. Saturday, September 13" with a URL: playdash.org/dash12
Montreal friends: I'm hosting the DASH puzzle hunt this year on September 13th and registration is now open. Sign up here with your team if you want to join!
playdash.org/DASH12/event...
Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮
We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.
The California Fire Relief Bundle is live!! Benefitting survivors of the SoCal wildfires through the Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE). Featuring 400+ games: Tunic! Tangle Tower! Catlateral Damage! Hidden Folks! Cook, Serve, Delicious! And more! $10 minimum!! itch.io/b/2863/calif...
After a long hiatus I tried to get Spaceteam on Android working again on newer phones but I wasn't able to do a lot of testing and it looks like I broke some stuff. Sorry! I'll try to fix it, thanks for your patience ❤️
Gold Banner on Red Background: Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING! Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It
Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
I want to make a personal appeal for the beautiful new game of Palestinian gamedev @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social. As nobody will fund a game about the 1948 Nakba, Rasheed is crowdfunding via launchgood.com/1948. I've been doing production advice on the game pro bono, and it deserves to exist.
I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
For those who are mad and activated (good) my one hope is that you will look for the people already doing the work. You probably do not need to invent your own new organization or group. Find the people already doing it and join them, listen to them, learn from them.
In Portland, Oregon until Sunday!
Portland friends: I'll be coming to XOXO Fest at the end of August! Do you have any accommodation tips, and do you want to hang out?
My procedural coop escape room Blabyrinth! I had to put it on hold for a client project and now I work in AAA again to save up some money, but I’m eager to get back to it!
Yes please! And also, me too… :)
The good news is, we announced Streets of Fortuna.
The even better news is we need help to build it!
🍁Canadian, fulltime programmer
🦊Longterm Kitfox hire
👾Low starting pay, but guaranteed raises for 6 years to max of $150k
Applications due by June 23rd!
kitfoxgames.notion.site/Job-Posting-...
✈️ Flying to Epic Games HQ in North Carolina for the week!
Ok you should get an official "Welcome" email soon with direct links to the Lexicogulator and Character Creator. If you don't see it within a couple of hours please check your spam!
Oh ok just send me the email address you used and I will send you your account info. The forum has been dead for years so there's not much point in getting on there now.
Did you back the Kickstarter? If so, you already have an account! If not you would have to join the Patreon, which I have paused for now since I have a full-time job. But maybe it makes sense to reopen it so that people can still make new accounts...
I can now reveal that the game I've been working on at Epic is... LEGO Fortnite! It just launched yesterday.
youtu.be/GeKTrjGdJ2E
Looks very promising, thank you!
I organize my in-person events (eg. board games, playtests, poker, etc.) using FB but people are leaving FB, understandably. Is there a simple alternative that will send email invites, reminders, and provide a basic event page with info and a comments section? Or do I need to build it myself...
