A big draw of the game-design-by-A/B-testing type thinking is that it absolves you from having to form your own opinions & taste. It allows you to outsource the most difficult part of any creative endeavour: actually believing in your vision.
no hate to the developer but "what if disco elysium was based on dnd 5e" is maybe the least appealing a video game pitch could be for me
Ear doctor: Don’t use Q-Tips
Me already imagining putting a screw driver I found in the driveway in my ear when I get home: I womt
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before "content" there was "art style" and not enough people are suspicious of the latter. the idea that artistic particulars are just an interchangeable, contextless layer you slather on products is deeply rooted in the way we think about games.
I have a demo! GAARL is a single screen arcade-y platformer roguelike about climbing chains. My name ended up in the acronym (Gabe's Action Arcade RogueLike) but Pancelor also put a lot of work into this. It is playable in the browser, check it out!
matthewlacker.itch.io/gaarl-demo
enchanting
I'm "on the left." That means I edit st*netoss comics to make them even more epic and I pepper phrenological and trans eradicationist terms into every sentence
what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"
holy fuck
the most annoying guy you've ever met either has nohello.net or dontasktoask.com in their bio
new blog post: how to make a successful indie game
ivysly.com/blog/how-to-...
it was just strangely jokeless throughout as well though, so i kinda expected it to be building to something but it was just like, a weird twitter thread told in simpsons format. the man coach was northernlion
i saw a new episode half by accident like a week ago. homer and bart go to man camp to become better men and then it just ends. i thought it was building to a second act about them taking away the wrong lessons or something but no theyre just nice to marge now. the lack of a punchline was so bizarre
guy whos stealing ivysly clout
the worst part of how people talk about the beginner's guide is while yes it's definitely a game about it's ending, it's also just a very good anthology. the individual 'levels' are really great, and I wish people would talk about them more. I think people are too scared of "being davey" to do so
adobe Animate EOL email
Adobe is evil.
I use Animate to build AIR apps. nothing else does this. so now there’s no way for me to access my OWN WORK after they pull the plug?
this should be illegal.
an abstract photo collage with tangerine peel, bird's wing, ink drawing of a man, old photo and other stuff. a small title sais "tropic of dinosaur"
Tropic of Dinosaur IS OUT!!!
It's a being walked simulator about aging made of clay, tangerine peel, sigarette ends and children's obscene drawings
Go check it out in the first issue of Game Poems magazine along with other beautiful games👇
Thank you for playing and sharing!
a dream i had
Tropic of Dinosaur (@bulboka.bsky.social)
"This game poem is a reflection of my own aging, excitement about the past, about life, the world around me, my anxiety about how I’ve been living my life"
Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2026/01/14/t...
man this is a real all timer post
prison abolitionist who argues they should replace it with Mr Beast
be the sick person you need to be.
A purple kitten in a world full of blocks and spikes, with a single star in the sky.
What Roger Ebert – as well as many of his critics at the time – didn't realize is that it is not the visuals or music or storytelling that make a game art – the gameplay is the art. Spikes & Kitten by Sylvie sylvie.website/spikesAndKit...
wrote about Horses, which should be defended against censorship, and also is a game I think is bad :) www.wired.com/story/horses...
sorry to some folks, but if we want games to be viewed as consequential art and not products - eventually game development at large is going to have to move past the realm of linkedin, forbes 30 under 30, how to market your game, professional business conference stuff and into something else.
the prisoners are restless this time of the year...
i think the prison is helping them
wishlist panoptique: store.steampowered.com/app/4100350?...
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