Ted DiNola 🔜 GDC

Oh no, GDC is only a week away. Time moves too fast.

They Thought It Was Burnout or Aging. It Was ADHD. — New York Magazine A wave of midlife diagnoses in women is revealing the disorder’s hormonal link.

While I’m not a woman, as a late-diagnosed #ADHD have, the stories in this piece are highly relatable.

After decades of just “being weird and smart and late for stuff all the time”, and struggling hard as I entered my 30s, the diagnosis, and learning how to handle it? Life changing.

Pombon

Pombon again

Inside of me there are two wolves.

Pokémon Fire Red setup screen. Oak’s grandson has been named “BALLS”

I have never aged a single day

I have noticed that I am installing more Next Fest demos each day than I am playing. This will surely be a problem.

Well, Vampire Crawlers is my jam.

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Our next game is Verminsteel!

You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun

PLEASE go wishlist it, it'll make me really happy and help me stop low-key panicking and stuff: store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

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@jacobjanerka.bsky.social My hopes have been dashed. 👋

I finally started watching Starfleet Academy, and I kinda love it.

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Tribes 2. The only thing missing was the Shrike, but feature creep is evil XD

Scoreboard from a match of Midair 2

Played a few rounds after work. Amazing how that muscle memory kicks in; you've nailed the feel! 👏

We're two weeks out from our annual GDK@GDC. Come hang with us 🎤

Good lord, next fest has over 4000 demos this year. *4000+* What.

Rainbow Legends Demo on Steam A territory-control roguelike deck builder where the side with more tiles at round’s end deals damage. Seize ground, place structures, shield your core, and unlock builds with card shapes, factions, a...

Ok I leave you with this game's trailer music. Like damn that goes hard. *jams out*

Ok that's enough Next Fest exploring. I'm going to sleep. Night, Bsky

Midair 2 on Steam Midair 2 is a fast-paced jetpack fps set in a futuristic sci-fi universe. Use movement and physics to your advantage, outwit your enemy from every angle, you'll never look at a shooter the same way ag...

AHHH SOMEONE MADE A TRIBES-LIKE!!!
They even have a spinfusor clone.

Watch this space? Always a long shot but some smart folks I work with are taking swings to help build better channels.

The worst part of Next Fest is I have Mewgenics and Cairn sitting in my library, taunting me. But like, demos. New things, from new folks.

When we released ROM back in 2015 there were something like... ~200 games per month released on Steam? I think last year we saw over 20k things pushed there.

More folks making games than ever, and discovery tools have just kinda sat there...

Treeplanter on Steam Create and enjoy a peaceful interactive woodland throughout the changing seasons. 🌲 Treeplanter helps plant trees! For every copy sold, we plant a real tree! 🌲

Someone made Summerhouse-But-Trees. This is so chill.

Steam's recommendation engine is woefully unequipped to deal with this year's flood of Next Fest demos.

Spent more time with Everything is Crab than I expected to. "What if Spore's evolution phase was a rougelike?" Dig it.

Zero Parades, for people who liked Disco Elysium and thought, "You know what? I could use more Disco Elysium". Wishlisted Immediately.

Gambonanza on Steam Gambonanza is a turn-based chess roguelike, set on a tiny board with higher stakes. Master tactical twists, invest your winnings and discover new rule-bending Gambits, tile and piece combinations. Fac...

Ever since Balatro, people have been Balatroing things.
You have Balatro for coin pushers. Balatro for roulette.

But now there's Balatro for Chess. Which is just a sick, disgusting thing. How dare. I lost an hour to the demo.

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Much better choice

One of the best things about next fest is catching up on the progress of things I caught at MIGW years ago. Some amazing stuff!