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My nemesis cosplay

Sprite of nemesis from hades 2

New hades 2 update means a new nemesis sprite! This was the closest I had to it but I wanted to share 🖤

#hades #hades2

Hey! Really appreciate that, it means a lot!

No, Geoff Keighley—Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was not made by a team of 'under 30 developers,' and devs say repeating the myth is 'a dangerous path' SGF's fascination with small staff sizes discredits the integral work of external contractors and contributors.

Good morning. It's Saturday and I'm writing news.

"It's not hard to imagine ways in which repeating the myth of Clair Obscur's team size could contribute to worse conditions for games and the people developing them."

www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

This year's Summer Games Fest presentation was really concerned with how few people made a lot of those games, huh?

It feels kinda fucked up. Not just because they're often misrepresntating the real size of these teams, but because I think it's playing directly into a new(ish) flavour of dev hate.

It’s incredibly noticeable how often ‘and an army of outsourcers outside America and Western Europe’ is left out of these team sizes. That’s the part I find real uncomfortable.

Game dev! Gotta love it

REAL. I have misspelled "enemies" SO many times I had to check I didn't do it again just now

Sorry yall Im gonna be annoying about South of Midnight for the next month. But representation matters and seeing reactions like this reminds me how important it is to make authentic games. People want to see it and your audience will find your stories. This made me tear up.

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7. Chants of Sennaar. As a linguist by training, I couldn't NOT love this game. Absolutely brilliant ❤️

Illustration of a fairy sitting on a couch in the forest. The couch is surrounded by flowers and greenery. The fairy is wearing a white dress with a peacock feather shawl, white pearl earrings and three afro puffs. She is holding a sword steady with her palm. Drawn in paint tool sai, gdbee art 2025

[Patron of Spring]

this is you btw

This looks absolutely adorable!

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6. 1000xResist
This is a game I continued to think about long after playing. Incredible storytelling.

"One in ten respondents were laid off last year, with roles in game narrative being the most affected at 19%"

I've known anecdotally that writers were hit hardest, but it's wild to see the hard numbers. Over 3x the layoffs of business & finance

Everything you spend on itch.io goes to devs on Nov. 29 A great time to stock up on indie games

Everything you spend on itch.io goes to devs on Nov. 29

Job posting note that contradicts itself, saying, “This is a remote position; however, candidates must reside in the [REDACTED] region - you must be within an hour commute from [REDACTED].”

The number of milquetoast companies posting their jobs as “Remote” because they know it draws more eyeballs/applicants but then saying some version of, “lol j/k, please live close enough to our office to smell what’s in the microwave” says an awful lot about where we’re headed these next few years.

My goodness, there's a lot of you now!! Boosting this again!

happy ace week to all disabled aces in particular 🖤

A comic strip with two panels, the first panel is a drawing of a black dog with a red collar with the text "no need be best" written above the dog, the second panel is the same dog with the text "only good and kind" written about it.

So it goes

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