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The Marsh Gorgon

If IGN has layoffs, nobody in games press is safe. If Microsoft has layoffs, nobody in platforms is safe. If Ubisoft and Bungie and NetEase have layoffs, nobody in game development is safe. If the Romeros get their funding pulled, no studio is safe.

It's rough out there, right now.

sewer quest

I think people these days are more impatient when it comes to learning new skills or honing their craft because the internet lets you see other people's results all the time

Makes people feel like they aren't going fast enough instead of focusing on the process

Being a micro indie isn't just making games...

🎮 Game Dev
📈 Business
📢 Marketing

You're gonna need a hatstand.

I self-published Without a Dawn in May. I made zero compromises, and I couldn't be happier how it turned out: store.steampowered.com/app/3145620/... 💛💚
Unfortunately, I've had very little luck with exposure, including the gaming press. 😩
#visualnovel #gamedev #steam

Not a pure stealth game but the stealth gameplay in TLOU2 is really good, especially on higher/highest difficulties and when fighting human enemies. However, although you can use stealth a lot of the time there will be scripted all out combat at times.

Version Control - the kind of lesson you generally only have to learn once.

Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.

A stylised computer terminal

Beep Boop

an employee wanted sign that reads, "Join our team. Now hiring: MEAT."

Good morning to job hunting 2025

a person 's foot is standing on top of a plastic bottle of water . Alt: A persons foot is rolling back and forth on top of a plastic bottle filled with frozen water

Np! I can't remember who taught me this method (I think it was someone on the internet) 🧊🔥I just stumbled across this GIF with a frozen water bottle method that could potentially be a somewhat less intricate / cumbersome approach. I have not tried it yet but will do so next time we have a heatwave.

Something that is really efficient for cooling down your entire body is an ice cold footbath. The blood cools down and circulate through your body. I sometimes do this when working from home and it is the most efficient method I know of.

A treehouse high up in a tree on a sunny summer day. The treehouse itself looks like it is falling apart and the crude plank-ladder leading up to it looks quite rough and unsafe.

Treehouse Hazard

Cynicism is a dead end. You will only end up bitter and unhappy.

Screenshot of a post from the PC master race subreddit. It says "Man please stop dodging me I'm trying to conserve minuscule amounts of cpu/memory". Below, a photo of someone banging their desk with the text "When I try to end a task in task manager just for the app to jump to another spot causing me to end some other fuckass app"

If you hold CTRL, it will pause Task Manager so the processes don't move around when you're sorted by resource usage

🇵🇸

Mockup visual of a smartphone with the digital Dark Fort demake. The text says “7/7” and “DIE ALONE IN A DARK FORT” followed by the url http://darkfort.caffeine.computer

Horrid 7/7!
Enter and perish in a DARK FORT by your digital lonesome with this free demake of the solo dungeon crawler that later became MÖRK BORG. Developed by Caffeine, based on the Pelle Nilsson original.
darkfort.caffeine.computer

man, I love Berserk's soundtrack

The New York Times: laundering genocide so people might try wordle

This is exactly it. If you want the next indie hit, fund stuff that doesn't look like it'll be the next indie hit. 99% of it won't be the next indie hit.

A crude drawing of an imp-like creature with a long pointy nose and ears and a strained grimace, standing awkwardly with their hands behind their back. It says "Happy birthday to me! (Kiki)".

Happy birthday @kikimora.games ! 🎉 🎂 🎈

You know I used to hate drawing cities but I’m just learning to have fun with it and I think I’m getting some maybe slightly good results from it?

quick mushroom doodles

+1 show me your cartridges

Foliage is coming along nicely #GodotEngine

3D render of what appears to be a vintage LCD display showing a building with tentacles and an eye.

Testing some wall tiles with windows/doors.

like and subscribe if ur dreams are like this

#godot #gamedev #indiedev

Dead stroll

Started doodling a Cool Skeleton, who then got mummy wraps, and a whole vibe sort-of emerged from there. I like 'em, kinda Tomb Kings-y! Could do with some colour I think

#sketch #doodle #fantasy #verycoolskeletons