heart-shaped pins that read "don't talk to me about ai" resting in the grass
Our team is heading to GDC next week!
You can find us drinking boba and touching grass in the park between meetings. We'd love to say hi, catch up with old friends, meet new friends, and talk about anything!
Well, *almost* anything.
If you see us around, ask for a free pin.
Tickets acquired for the LA show, now to listen to Warriors in Valour on repeat from now till October
"We hope to ship in 2026, but as we shared recently, memory and storage shortages have created challenges for us. We’ll share updates publicly when we finalize our plans!"
Welp.
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it’s coming home
[04] Minishoot' Adventures (Switch 2, 2026)
It's the answer to "what if Link to the Past was a twin stick shooter", and it turns out adding puzzle dungeons to bullet hell is awesome. I'm glad it made its way to console because I totally missed it when it came out on PC a couple years ago.
Take the bright spots in VR where you can find them! This Steam festival was meaningful for us last year and hopefully it'll help even more VR indies with Steam Frame on the horizon. And it's organized by awesome people, as a bonus.
Submissions now open:
I'd be interested!
The know everyone uses it, and people are too reliant on it to switch to anything else. But enough about Internet Explorer in 2003
Yeah, I think post-launch funding might have been there if interest rates and growth curves looked like what they did when these games were initially funded in 2020-2021. Many of the projects funded with the expectations of that time are still coming over the next two years and I'm very worried.
that's crazy, I did the same thing
this sucks. no patience for the people laughing at it, calling it concord 2.0, etc. if 2 million people pick up a game, and you have to shutter it and lay everyone off, it doesn't matter if the game is good or bad. it's a symptom of a much bigger and deeper problem.
Titanium Court and Croak, so far. Still looking for more though!
it's so good! I love the banjo kazooie one I got but that looks even better
I gasped at 60 results for "shit" in our codebase before realizing it was picking up false positives for "isHit" booleans on raycasts
5 results for "it's fine"
6 results for "ugly"
11 results for "sorry"
27 results for "it works"
I will be at the GDC Festival of Gaming by Informa in two weeks which is to say I will be in the park without a pass. Lemme know if you want to say hi!
I dunno, I'd really miss EA Sports stuff
Streaming Dosa Divas demo as part of Next Fest
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[03] Escape from Ever After (PS5, 2026)
This was billed as anticapitalist Paper Mario. I was pleasantly surprised that wasn't just about the art and battle system - it came with all the heart and charm I'd expect from Paper Mario too. It drags for a bit in the middle chapter but ends strong.
vinyls for banjo kazooie, psychonauts, and majora's mask (time's end project)
office decor upgrade complete
[02] Big Hops (PS5, 2026)
I'm a sucker for 3D platformers, but this was a great one. The level designs and puzzles keep getting better the further you play. The novel movement mechanics are the star, though, and I think we'll see people speedrunning it for years to come.
To paraphrase a friend: stay on the path, make good things. Indie has always flourished in the face of AAA distraction. Times are bad, but let others deskill, pivot to nonsense or chase impossible outcomes. People really like playing videogames. Suits forget that every 6 months or so.
Here's what TikTok has been doing to our work & art without our consent.
the dog has decided it is too fuckin wimdy to go for a walk
If studio execs believe in a future where anyone will be able to make a game with a prompt, then they should be ESPECIALLY reluctant to embrace gen AI today. Why would we get a head start on homogenizing our studio's output to be indistinguishable from the output of tomorrow's Roblox kids?
There are so many reasons these days where I’m feeling like this focus on generative AI might be one of the worst mistakes in recent human history. Whatever perceived value it could provide isn’t worth the damage it’s doing in so many areas.
before signing with @outersloth.com, i tell devs to reach out to teams we've worked with so they get a sense of what it's actually like to be with us!!
whoever u sign with, check with others! most are more than happy to chat (and don't just talk to the most successful games under the label either.)
