Scott Brodie

Congrats Xalavier! What a lucky kid to have you as a dad. Happy for you!

Deleting the App?

Would be glad to participate if you’d have me!

new game !! out now ! this one is called

✨ WIZARD'S FOLLY ✨

adamatomic.itch.io/wizards-folly

🏰 Rebuild lost ruins !!
🍄 Create NEW fungus PROBLEMS
📈 HI scores ??? - Refine your builds and your MIND
🧱 Inspired by Falling Block Jam, which didn't start yet !! oops

"We've had to evolve." The long-awaited first games from ProbablyMonsters indicate a surprise change of tack "After we got done with Destiny 1," says former Bungie CEO Harold Ryan, "I wanted to try to have a bigger impact on the…

"After we got done with Destiny 1," says former Bungie CEO Harold Ryan, "I wanted to try to have a bigger impact on the industry."

About 4 hours into Wheel World, and I’m really enjoying it. It doesn’t necessarily do anything unique mechanically, but it shows how far a focus on moment-to-moment feel, simple but well-paced progression, and solid art can get you.

Did something scary and kind of wild today - showed off an internal, press-exclusive presentation LIVE on Kinda Funny while Greg and Blessing asked questions and pointed things out for the audience.

Amazing conversation and so much fun. What an honor!!

I am still figuring out logistics (and Rami has kindly offered to help a lil!), but I’ve been putting together a means for game devs to present GDC-style ‘talks’ on @playwatchlisten.bsky.social. When it’s public, devs will be able to submit a topic for consideration, and will be paid for their time!

So true. I feel like #1 might actually be “struggled in school (except for that one subject)”. I meet so many people in games that were far from straight A students, but are savants at their one or few things.

Sony's Bend studio, which canceled a live-service game earlier this year, is laying off 30% of staff today (around 40 people), Bloomberg News has learned. The studio has been spinning up a new project following the cancellation.

TMNT: Tactical Takedown, a turn-based, Strange Scaffold take on the iconic universe, is out RIGHT NOW!

- 20 evolving levels📍
- Turn-based beat-em-up action ⚔️
- Irresistible soundtrack 🎵
- Kick a mouser off the dang planet 🌎
- Only $17.99 💵
- Please share!!
store.steampowered.com/app/3229100/...

TMNT: Tactical Takedown will be $19.99 (with a launch discount) on launch day, May 22nd!!

I don’t want to live in a world where you’re not fast traveling by Mode7 cannon fire

Activate the Power of Play this Earth Day - Xbox Wire This Earth Day, we're showcasing games that not only entertain, but also educate and inspire you to think about your impact on the environment.

Nice mention for WATC alongside some other stellar games news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...

The goal is iterative development, but capturing your intent and learnings as you go has valuable. Honestly it’s been most useful to me 5 years down the road when I’m looking to update an old game or remembering why we did something.

Creating a comprehensive GDD early in the project is definitely an antiquated process. Even more so for solo or small teams. However I have found that developing “1-pagers” as I go, and then collecting them in a central source of truth for other disciplines and external partners has been valuable.

Last night I was asked to reshare a talk I did back in 2017, which didn't get filmed the many times I gave it.

Let's do it as a thread. I've not done an informational thread on here before, interested to see how folks like it.

(forgive obvious stuff, it was ever so slightly fresher 8 years ago)

Metroidbrainia is a top-tier genre name. I will not be silenced.

How To Design Collective Decision-Making Systems JC Lau, Elaine Gusella, Ian Schrieber, Daniel Cook 1. What is this all about? If, as Sid Meier has famously said, “a game is a series of interesting decisions”, then a co-op game is a series of intere...

We published this year's Polaris game design papers. Some of the best game design writing for senior designers on the entire planet.

Our team worked on designing collective decision making systems. polarisgamedesign.com/2024/how-to-...

#gamedesign #gamedevelopment

Reposting this guide from twitter because I COOKED here. (and still refer to this at work even now!)

Gamedevs, post your first shipped game and your last shipped game.

YouTube video by IGN Project: Robot - Reveal Trailer (Studio Behind Ico & Shadow of the Colossus) | The Game Awards 2024

I needed this youtu.be/g7duXPcEYb0?...

YouTube video by Jonas Tyroller This Problem Changes Your Perspective On Game Dev

I really appreciate Jonas Tyroller’s design perspective and video content. Highly recommend this video in particular youtu.be/o5K0uqhxgsE?...

A better version
1. Have a mental image of the experience you want.
2. Build a system.
3. Roughly tune it to show hints of the experience you desire.
4. Playtest it yourself.
5. Can *you* spot opportunities that support the experience?
6. Reveal the experience via feedback, culling, amplifying

Indie dev follow thread Let's GOOOOOOOOOO!

Comment below 👇 if you're an indie developer or content creator covering indie games and follow other cool people who have commented

let's get a bit of a follow train going 🚂💨 I want to see lots of cool arty stuff in my feed :D

Hey there. It’s odd to be back on social media but so far Bsky seems worth a shot. Lots of game devs seem to be here, and hopefully we can capture some of the game design knowledge sharing that used to happen.

Hi! I’m Scott Brodie, Design Director at Sony. Prior to that I ran an indie studio, Heart Shaped Games, for many years. Thanks for this thread!