Douglas Watt

Sorry for the quiet! We're back, and our first 2026 event is tomorrow! We'll be talking to developers about topics for the new year, as well as showcasing some art and games!

Tickets cost 1500 yen.
January 23rd. 19:30-21:30
Location: Institut Français Du Japon - Tokyo
#gamedev #meetup #Tokyo

I'll try to get permission to share the creations! Last time was as much performance as it was papercraft, and it was a total blast of a good time!

The great folks at @tokyogamebridge.bsky.social are holding another event!
It's our second Gamecraft Paper Jam: Make a game pitch using papercraft! Fee is 2,000 yen to cover space & materials. BYOB! Only room for 24!
Sign up form:
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#gamejam #papercraft #Tokyo

Been working hard to get this setup over the last 3 months! So glad it's finally happening!

Tokyo Game Bridge continues! We're doing a session with ファミキャリ (Famitsu Career) and some other guests on improving your job hunting. If you're in Tokyo on the 26th, drop by! 日本語の方ももちろん大歓迎！
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#gamedev #Tokyo #TGB #ゲーム開発
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Little reminder: The NPO I co-founded, Tokyo Game Bridge, is throwing their first concert tomorrow night! If you're looking for nice tracks to vibe to on a Friday night, I hope you'll check it out!
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#gamedev #Tokyo #FridayNight

The Tokyo Game Bridge, of which I am a founding member, now has a linktree! Would you please keep it in mind?
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Reminder, Tokyo Game Bridge is holding their first papercraft game jam later today (Saturday)! We hope to see lots of people there!
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#gamedev #gamejam #papercraft

I'm going to be there! Should be some silly fun: come up with an idea to pitch, but you can only pitch with a presentation where you have to handcraft your visual aids in the specified time allocated!

Really happy to have been a part of this! And really happy for the next event, the craft game jam later this month!
#gamedev #gamejam #Tokyo

From the #TokyoGameBridge pizza party kick off in #Roppongi - Thanks to all. Next event 3/27 ! #GameDev #gamedevelopment #gamemakers #gamejam #gamedesign #tokyo

Community Linkup! An event for the game dev communities! #tokyogamedev #TokyoGameBridge #tokyogamescene #gamedev

Hey, Japanese government! Rice prices are up 70% year on year. It's time to take action and study French history. That is, unless you're gambling that modern Japan has forgotten how to rumble. But I think that taking that gamble would be a very bad idea.

Hey, any #artists out there who work in MagicaVoxel? I'm looking for someone for a game-based single level non-commercial art project, and need to find someone who can prepare some environments in MagicaVoxel (or other tool with same final aesthetic) #gamedev

New year, mandatory new post. Year too new, got nothing to say yet.

I wish I could go to every indie dev who is looking for funding for their game and tell them "make them pay full price"! It doesn't matter if you can make the game without any investment. Professional work demands a professional payment. No discounts for passion.

YouTube video by Asher Zhu A Slime simulator - what if you feed it soda? (Physically correct)

Really loving the design here, and hope we will eventually get a deep dive about how optimization is done, @vuthric.bsky.social!
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YouTube video by DoodletmeGO Fantasy Haircut

Remember, even if you are doing #characterdesign, there's some twist you can still add to make your designs standout more:
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#gamedev

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Pizza, the one thing in my life that never lets me down.

Funko Pop using an AI that caused Itch.io to be taken down (if even for a short time) is the kind of dyspoopia I knew we were living in, but it's still disappointing that it happened.

Ya, the whole reason for doing the Last of Us Part 1 project was to train up new people, who then got assigned to the multiplayer project that then got canceled. So they spent all that time training a bunch of people who they then let go. Wasted effort.

Visa Japan’s CEO says disabling card payment for legal adult content is “necessary to protect the brand”  - AUTOMATON WEST President of Visa's Japan subsidiary Seetan Kitney reponds to inquiries about Visa being unusable on legal adult content platforms.

Really hate that payment providers are allowed to act as de-facto censors. Until a law is passed that mandates that digital payment providers must process transactions equally, just as cash is mandated in person, then this shit will only get worse.
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The new lawsuit news from Japan today. Man I wanna comment, but I'm going to bite my tongue out of professional courtesy. Most simply, Machida-san now has a responsibility to explain things clearly to the backers, from the earliest stages. #gamedev

Yea, I think the issue comes from the difficulty of balancing blocks/parries/counters in a way that skilled players can't trivialize game content but doesn't punish players with less perfect timing skills. If your initial response is to just to make it less fair, revisit the white board!

Reminded myself of the PS1 GitS game today, watched @catsuka.bsky.social's upscale, found new avatar.

Hey, #gamedesign people: Just a suggestion, but unless your whole game's theme is "silly hard", maybe don't make multiphase boss fights with only 1 heal, minimal telegraphing, and unblockable/unparryable attacks, esp. near the start. Not naming names, but there's more than 1 game this applies to.

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My first smartphone was an iPhone 3G, bought in 2008. It's been 16 years since then. I managed to go 15 years with never dropping a phone in a way to crack the screen. Somehow I've managed to do it twice this year.

It still amazes me that, after almost 13 years in the game industry with more than 6 titles released, the thing I'm most satisfied with having been a part of is the soundtrack to The 25th Ward. Yamaoka-san asked me for some track name suggestions, and he accepted them. #gamedev

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Ended up having a meeting canceled today, so it was time to reach Phase 5. The factory grows. Alas, no way to use a digital time crystal to give me more play time.

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Haven't done the social media thing in a hot minute, mostly been in white label land. Gonna try again, let's see how it goes this time around!