Steven Yau

In Netflix in No Rule Rules, they also talk about how each person has virtual 'chips' (budget) that they can make bets on decisions/projects with. Their performance isn't judged on a single outcome but from the aggregate and requires 'zooming out' from individual results.

We often hyper focus on individual results and outcomes instead of looking at our decision making over a longer period regardless of the outcomes.

Success doesn't always mean that good decisions were made yet we often quickly cite that as the reason for success.

And inversely, failure doesn't mean that decision quality was poor.

Slowly making progress through my book backlog 📚

"Thinking in Bets" by Annie Duke covers how often we wrongly link results with the quality of decisions made to get there and the need to separate decision making quality from outcomes.

Know when you are getting old: when you realise you need glasses to play video games from the sofa 🤓

Thread on what it took to port Rift Riff, made in Godot, to iOS and Android. 🧵👇

#godotengine #gamedev

Yeah, sorry. I only caught the tail end of my quoted and didn't scroll up 😅

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Training sims, serious games, education/e-learning

No tipping point for me, more of moving towards interesting projects/companies which is sometimes games related, sometimes not

Ah, saw the first post!

I've moved into games adjacent stuff and almost standard app dev

Currently using Phaser at Gather Town so game dev skills are being used there

Otherwise, the usual suspects. Gambling/slots, architecture, robotics, AI training sims, branded experiences, e-commerce ....

Out of interest, what are you looking for?

Game Maker Toolkit Notebook Gamedev Toolkit Notebook Last update: 8th Oct 2025 (Please note: This is a live document by Steven Yau @yaustar & https://stevenyau.co.uk) I wanted to keep a list of development tools and assets (b...

Thanks! I currently have it under "🧱 Building and Making the Game Learning Resources" 😄

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Along side a Marvel Snap presentation which I loved how they worked on iteration www.youtube.com/watch?v=F73n...

Would love to have more under this!

Find the Gamedev Toolkit Notebook at stevenyau.co.uk/game-maker-t...

#gamedev #indiedev

Almost 200 pages of game dev resources including:

🧑‍🏫 pitch decks
📢 marketing
🎨 art assets
🖥️ programming tools
🗣️ conference talks
🔎 job searching/careers
💰funds and more! 👾

In-house engines are on the rise, AI tools are multiplying, and
@godotengine.org just hit 5% adoption in AAA 🚀

These are just a few trends covered in the 2025 State of Game Technology Report developed with Perforce.

Read the full report 👉 ter.li/3bgafs
Join our webinar 👉 ter.li/ql0rxp

• A 5 step checklist for putting in a central line reduced infection rates from 11% to 0% during a 10 day period
• Good checklists need practice and iteration to be useful. They are reminders, not guides
• A team checklist gives them an opportunity to confer/raise issues

Read more: amzn.to/3TOz47D

People’s memories and judgement are unreliable, especially under pressure

The Checklist Manifest covers the research to add checklists in hospital surgeries that significantly reduced complications when used 📖

My own #gamedev megadoc for reference 😄

stevenyau.co.uk/game-maker-t...

This looks like a better version of my #gamedev toolkit megadoc and it's community funded!

Check it and help contribute 👀

Oh cool, this is a better format than my megadoc of something similar 😄

Feel free to nab all the resources/links from mine stevenyau.co.uk/game-maker-t...

Finished Boss Fight Books Shovel Knight! 📖 Really great insight on their creative process and collaboration as a team.

But this page hit pretty hard on how close they were money wise and wondered if there was an alternative. Eg funding, grant or even an advance

#gamedev

Thanks for the shoutout!

It's a pretty straightforward static page so all the files can be scraped/downloaded and modified for elsewhere

Is there something I can expand on to help?

@patrober.bsky.social I've fixed the location options so that it only returns results that have the location names in them :)

If you do a hard refresh of the page, you should get the latest version

You know if it's the right version if it puts the locations first in the Google Search box

Ah, I think I may have found the issue, will update in a bit

Unfortunately, there's no easy way to filter by location in the Google Query or APIs :(

Still looking for a way to only get results that mention the location but haven't found something yet

Looking for a games job?👾🔍

Many game companies host their job openings directly on platforms like Workday and Greenhouse

I made a tool to search for jobs on these platforms with Google X-ray and shows roles posted directly from the companies themselves!

labsofaweso.me/find-a-job/

#gamedev

Oh, what did you find that was untyped? I can point the PlayCanvas team towards some feedback :)

A Hyper Mega Tech handheld with Evercade games

🕹️ Going to be busy for a while 😅

Did you know that the 1998 Tiger Electronics Pokedex has unique monochrome sprites that have never been extracted? I was considering making a Pokedex app for the Arduboy and trying to dump the ROM. Would anyone use this? Or even want to help me with reverse engineering?

Reliving my childhood in a smaller form factor 🕹️