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Smiling photo of me and Keza who is holding their new book, Super Nintendo

Photo of people sat playing on N64 consoles at RCade in Glasgow Scotland, a retro gaming cafe. The walls are lined with retro posters, figurines and neon lights.

I spent the evening celebrating my gorgeous friend @mackeza.bsky.social and the launch of their book.

SUPER NINTENDO IS OUT TODAY!

I've seen just how much love, care and passion has poured into this over the last few years.

Everyone who has ever loved a Nintendo game should read this.

Ever wonder what making a real commercial game actually looks like? I'm sharing the behind-the-scenes here 👉 https://gael.dev *Let's connect!* - About me: https://gael.dev - About my game, Silent Corruption: https://violetbeam.dev/ - Email: hello@gael.dev - Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gaelth If I were to start my game today, this is what I would do

If I were to start to make my game today, this is what I would focus on first, and how I’d organize all my ideas and my workflow.


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#indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

CfP: 30 Jahre Pokémon – Medienwissenschaftliche und -didaktische Perspektiven auf den international erfolgreichsten Medienverbund [15.03.2026] - Paidia Im Jahr 2026 feiert das transmediale (Medien-)Phänomen Pokémon sein 30-jähriges Jubiläum. Was 1996 mit einem Game-Boy-Spiel begann, hat sich über

#Paidia hat aktuell gleich zwei laufende CfPs!
Der neue ist für eine #Pokémon- #Jubiläumsausgabe von @lewaldromahn.bsky.social und @florianhesse.bsky.social !
Beitragsvorschläge mit medienwissenschaftlicher und/oder didaktischer Perspektive auf Pokémon sind herzlich willkommen! #gamestudies #CfP

a video game with a map of the world on the top of it Alt: Lemmings video game. Showing a level with entrance, goal and Lemmings all around.

The very first Lemmings by Psygnosis (Amiga). I laughed so much during the music and the first level, i still remember the tears in my eyes.

Both Europeans and Americans responding and contributing to developments at the Danish convention Fastaval played no small part in producing the modern "chamber larp" and "freeform larp" movements in the 2000s. What started in US SFF fandom became a true international game design dialogue.

A copy of the book ‘Ancient Egypt in Video Games’ edited by Jennifer Cromwell

Always exciting to get the latest delivery off @dgb-history.bsky.social’s ‘Video Games and the Humanities’ conveyor belt!

Without a Dawn is a great gem. The "Strange" game series as well.

The Baldur's Gate 3 key art image with a picture of The Last of Us TV show director Craig Mazin in the bottom right corner

A Baldur's Gate TV show is the next video game adaptation from HBO, with The Last of Us' Craig Mazin at the helm again.

The show will continue on from the story and characters in Baldur's Gate 3. Larian is not involved.

(Read more at Deadline)

@pitstop-audio.bsky.social CEO, John Sanderson highlighting the role audio plays within game development at the Game Dev Essentials event back in September. Certainly food for thought, don't see audio as an "afterthought".
Full story here:https://buff.ly/XOfvyYD

#indiegame #indiegamedev #gameaudio

Aethos A New Sci-Fi Metroidvania Game For The NES

Wishing TheRetroBro the best of luck with the Kickstarter for AETHOS, their new NES game! 🚀

Check it out 👇
www.kickstarter.com/projects/des...

#NES #homebrew #nesdev #NESmaker #indiegames #gamedev #ファミコン #同人ゲーム

What questions do you have for Suda51? I'll be interviewing him LIVE tomorrow on the Kinda Funny Gamescast!

Youtube.com/KindaFunnyGames

Emmanuel Guardiola and I talked to Rudolf Inderst (@gamestudies.bsky.social) about our book Video Games and Mental Health on his podcast New Books in Game Studies
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

You can now listen to the episode in the link below!

newbooksnetwork.com/video-games-...

Gaming stocks are dropping today after Google's rollout of Project Genie, an AI tool that lets users create and explore virtual worlds for 60 seconds. This is the result of a market that does not understand how video games are made. Allow me to suggest that the Street read Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

Linux gaming developers join forces to form the Open Gaming Collective An open-source gaming alliance

#Linux gaming developers join forces to form the Open Gaming Collective | #OpenGamingCollective #PCGaming | www.theverge.com/tech/870159/...

ICYMI: There is still time to submit your proposal for #Ludo2026! Please find all info on our website, and feel free to spread the word, of course. #gamestudies #ludomusicology #gamesound #gameaudio #vgm

Buchempfehlung für heute: Tabea Widmann. The Game is the Memory. Prosthetic Witnessing in digitalen Spielen als Erinnerungsmedium um den Holocaust. #HolocaustStudies #GameStudies

Stop Killing Games final verified vote count for the EU petition is just under 1.3 million The team running the Stop Killing Games initiative have given a status update on the EU petition vote count, and it's good news for everyone involved.

Stop Killing Games final verified vote count for the EU petition is just under 1.3 million
#StopKillingGames #Gaming #PCGaming

You are absolutely right, this one is located in Seligenstadt :)

Picture of the arcade video game Daytona USA. Connected up to 8 players. You can see 8 seats, driving wheels and flashy yellow signs with the games name on it.

In a retro museum in Germany, they've even expanded it to 8 players, which is incredibly fun.

Richmond Audio Safari Library by sci.fi.ku A library of wild locally caught Richmond noises

Any #gamedev folks need audio assets for your game?
I participated in RVAGJ first ever audio safari! We went to the Main Street train station and recorded a bunch of sounds! I personally contributed ambience and EMF recordings! Free to use! Check it out!

#gameaudio

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Book cover for The Philosophy of Role-Playing Games: Art, Inquiry, and Ritual by Albert R. Spencer. The cover features a flat-lay photograph of tabletop role-playing objects, including colorful polyhedral dice, a sword hilt, chainmail, a leather pouch, a candle, embroidered fabric, and an antler. The image is framed by a white border with the title in red text at the top and the subtitle and author’s name at the bottom, set against a blue stone wall background.

Promotional banner for The Philosophy of Role-Playing Games. Against a blue-lit stone wall background, large white text reads “The Philosophy of Role-Playing Games: Art, Inquiry, Ritual” by Albert R. Spencer. A purple circular badge at upper left reads “PIR” with the words “New Title Offering.” The overall design is moody and textured, evoking a dungeon-like stone interior.

Critical hits, collaborative worlds, and the rituals that bind us—Albert R. Spencer’s The Philosophy of Role‑Playing Games brings philosophical depth to the tables we gather around.
PiR is recruiting reviewers for this title. Step into the party.
📩 pir@uvic.ca
#Philosophy #RPGStudies #GameStudies

EFGAMP keeps growing! We'd like to welcome:

Video Game Culture (DE)
@hi-score.bsky.social (DE)
Video Game History Museum (HR)
IVIPRO – Italian Videogame Program (IT)
@umbradynamics.bsky.social (UK)

to the European network for game preservation, archives, and museums! 🎉
efgamp.eu/2026/01/19/u...

Batman – “Batcraft parts” For Jon Ritman, playing Knight Lore for the first time was a revelatory experience. As he later told Retro Gamer, when he first saw Ultimate’s isometric 3D platform adventure game, his jaw hit the …

Jon Ritman was amazed by Knight Lore, and set out to make his own isometric adventure. Ocean got him the Batman licence to use.

With Bernie Drummond's art and some forward-thinking gameplay ideas, he would do much more than just make The Dark Knight Lore.

New post on Batman (and Head Over Heels):

🎮 6 Tips for Designing an Open-World Game 🎮

Check out these six great tips from Nathan Kellman, a Game Design Skills instructor and veteran designer, to help you shape an immersive and engaging world for players to explore. 👇

2026 shaping up to be a wonderful year for #indiegames.

Check out our Starter pack featuring games releasing this year (hopefully).

#gamedev | #indiegamedev | #solodev

I totally get you. Basically, the same for me. I played Yager back in the days. Spec Ops The Line was a great game. Though the intensity it had. The newer games, not my thing.

Yager was well known in the german regions. In fact, the development studio of the game still exists today: Yager Development. Situated in Berlin.

Vielleicht ist Été (hier wird Montréal "malend" erforscht) und auch Dordogne noch spannend.

A range of video games books on a set of shelves at the Video Game History Museum in Zagreb, Croatia.

Some of the gaming books that visitors to the Video Game History Museum in Zagreb can have a look through, including offerings from @davecook.bsky.social @simonparkin.bsky.social @scully1888.bsky.social @jazrignall.bsky.social and even myself. Nice.

Hey game narrative designers, wanna work on something for Meow Wolf with Devon? Yeah. Yeah, I think you do.