One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.
What so games studios can just SUSTAIN? BE SUSTAINABLE? Do other studios know about this?
⛓ She is hellbound. Follow her, for we have such sights to show you...
Introducing Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival! A single-player horror experience like no other, coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.
Wishlist now at hellraisergame.com
Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:
Here are Geoff Keighley's prices for being in his Summer Game Fest.
$250K for 1 minute at Summer Game Fest.
$550K for 2.5 minutes.
Our prices for the @gcxevent.bsky.social Game Showcase: $500 for 90sec - 5min.
No strings attached. Come to our show. We want to be a part of your success story!
As always, the only real lesson you can learn from "how were they so successful" for any game that was super successful is "good for them". You can find some learnings of stuff to try carefully in the stories of small successes, perhaps. Lots to learn from failures, though.
WIP Paper Chrono Trigger
Gesso Ready Vignettes No. 9 & 10
Lucca’s Telepods & Fiona’s Forest Campfire
made from bristol paper, cardstock, sketchbook paper, & toilet paper
The European League of Football kicks off Season 5 today!
LFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#ELF25
Science fiction is not a tableau of prediction. It is an abstraction layer for examining the current paradigm in the human world, with deniability to evade trained shame and dictum. It is not a vision for the future, just as what "thinking robots" are evolved each century based on current technology
Viv is 100% correct here. Your options are always one of three:
1. Do not make an indie game.
2. Get funding, usually by making something that fits a very narrow and useless definition of "safe", and subsequently losing agency over your production reality.
3. Have another income or means.
ok but for real if you want to make a really good indie (or AA) games the number one way is "be financially comfortable via other means"
blue prince guy owned a popular website generating income, toby fox was a successful musician...
frankly if we had a UBI youd get SO MANY GOOD GAMES
Kow Yokoyama, cover art for Guide to D&D, 1987
Kow Yokoyama, cover art for Guide to D&D, 1987
Panic has paid out over $1 million to Playdate developers on Catalog
I Photoshop the Cat from Flow into a Magic card until I don't: Day 23
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
Rekord bei geerbtem und geschenktem Vermögen Im vergangenen Jahr wurde geerbtes oder geschenktes Vermögen in Höhe von insgesamt 121,5 Milliarden Euro registriert. Das ist ein neuer Höchstwert in Deutschland.
Linnemann: "Leistungslosen Wohlstand gibt es nirgendwo."
Nirgendwo:
In the 148 pages of my 'Of Cities and Games' ebook you can find articles on civic narrative, how to imply size and scale, urban structures, horror towns, Thimbleweed Park, and much more.
Download the PDF via @d6learning.bsky.social here: www.d6learning.com/game-cities-...
oh hELl yeah
Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063
"anarcho-communist? oh, no, you misheard me.
I'm an arachno-communist. I believe we shouldn't have private property, and also the only legitimate form of government is THE SPIDER"
Time to sell 150 million consoles:
Nintendo Switch: 94 months
Nintendo DS: 86 months
PlayStation 2: 133 months
From launch date. Shipments sourced from company data.
#MILKSHAKE
You can hold the cat in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
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Experience doesn't exempt you from the fundamental realities of creative work being unpredictable.
Experience tends to make you better at dealing with "failure", maybe better at recognizing it - but it doesn't mean you can avoid it. "Failure" is an important part of the work in any creative work.
BREAKING: Amazon is closing its facilities in Quebec and cutting more than 1,700 jobs.
The moves comes after workers in Quebec successfully formed the first Canadian union at the company last year.
The workers were expecting Amazon to make a contract offer this month.
David Lynch taught me that you don't have to understand a movie. You can just experience it.
Sega has filed new trademarks for 'Ecco the Dolphin' 🐬
The franchise's last game was released 25 years ago
