Golden Drake Studios

The best games of 2025 give a glimpse into a better world — where artists can invite audiences into their memoirs, where AAAs are thematically ambitious and small teams can sculpt epics.

This is also my 100th(!!) proper video on YouTube, a milestone seven years in the making
youtu.be/tJ4X6FsLn6Y

made this weird building/farming game in 15 minutes where you interact with the world by typing

elij.dev/experiments/...

YouTube video by David C. Drake Eärendil the Mage #24: Defeat of Jagar Tharn | The Elder Scrolls: Arena on Arch Linux

I finally finished my first full playthrough of The Elder Scrolls: Arena! 🎊 youtu.be/xLSJqHkEtMU Some of you may enjoy the Monty Python reference at the 40 second mark. 😁

Want to sample Arena's gameplay? You can now play as my character, the High Elf mage Eärendil: www.nexusmods.com/tesarena/mod...

Godot Engine developer gives update on OpenXR integration

Check out Godot's new update on their OpenXR integration project announcing major OpenXR features that are now production ready!

www.khronos.org/blog/godot-o...
#openxr #godot #game #engine #spatial #anchors #android

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.6 dev 6 – Godot Engine Feature freeze is here; time for one last round-up!

Two development snapshots in one week? Such speed! 🚀

#GodotEngine 4.6 dev 6 has arrived, and with it comes the feature freeze. Join us for one last round-up before beta:

godotengine.org/article/dev-...

Painting of a small dragon flying across the sky with a mountain in the background, a forest below. Text reads kamakru.com. Signed Katie Croonenberghs 2025

“The winds diverged here to sweep the land like a whisper, and sometimes like a shatter. To the North the trail led, to the skies that grew with clouds and ominous hush. But beyond that was the reason, the place to lie at journey’s end.”
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"Northwest Winds"
#watercolor #dragons #painting

Old stones, rain, and a chest someone left behind.
#CallOfSaregnar

YouTube video by SODAZ Fallout Operation: Sunburst [Fan animation]

SODAZ uploaded the full video for his Operation: Sunburst fan animation. It's pretty amazing if you're into Fallout: New Vegas LORE (and even if you aren't).

youtu.be/Z0wL6DXIvoc?...

The Diner at the end of the Galaxy is out now on Steam! Turn an abandoned trading outpost into a bustling establishment and serve the denizens of a post-apocalyptic galaxy!

Get it at a 10% launch discount! store.steampowered.com/app/2577420/...

#indiegame #pixelart #gamedev #cozygaming #gaming

Peek-a-boo with an octopus and her eggs 🙈

MBARI researchers used ROVs to study pearl octopus (Muusoctopus robustus) mothers nesting near warm seafloor springs. Unlike other deep-sea octopuses, their eggs hatched in under two years. The extra warmth boosted metabolism of the moms and their broods.

Half-Life 3 when?
No idea.
But you can relive the Half-Life vibes in Wizordum… kinda.

Launch Trailer 🎥

The truth is buried in lies.
My Father Lied is out now—a story-rich puzzle adventure steeped in mystery, madness, and Lovecraftian dread.
Can you uncover what your father hid from you?🌀

store.steampowered.com/app/2488850/MY…
#IndieGame #MysteryGame #Lovecraftian #PuzzleGame

I love the nods to Zelda II in this beautiful game. 🗡️

This is what I would call a "first pass" at a new area. I plan to come back and add details, maybe move things around a bit. But all the main elements are there...

#ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev #CRPG #Lovecraft #Dreamlands

Mohamed Mesbah and Don Quichotte films present "Still Playing", a documentary about Palestinian game developer @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social's quest to loudly tell his people's stories through games, in a world where the violent powers that be have decided his people cannot have a voice.

YouTube video by Golden Drake Studios Colossal Cave Adventure (1976) — FOSS gaming on Linux!

Our "FOSS Gaming Extravaganza" continues with a look at the text-based game that launched the entire adventure genre: Colossal Cave Adventure! How many of you have played this classic work of interactive fiction? youtu.be/Wxg4iP3XDKE

Here's the link and some of the sweet thematic beepage. Seems to be expanding from the initial proof-of-concept into what might hopefully be a full lil game.

jordanly.itch.io/the-elder-sc...

The world lost a genial man, a genius communicator and a supreme artist. I lost a friend - beloved Drew.

Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (1996) was a fantasy arcade beat 'em up with light RPG elements by Capcom and a sequel to 1993's D&D: Tower of Doom. Two years have passed since the defeat of Deimos, the big baddie in Tower of Doom, but now a new evil threatens conquest. (a dragon's thread)

#GodotEngine 4.5 has finally arrived! 🎉

With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone!

godotengine.org/releases/4.5/

Super early look at Kenney Creator, my new modeling software for indies. It'll feature many blocks and tools to create any sort of model - aiming for a Q1 2026 release! ✨

On 2 September 1973 J.R.R. #Tolkien died aged 81. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is the best-selling book of the 20th Century, and is joined by seminal works The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.

He may have died 52 years ago but his influence and legacy lives on in us all. Namárië. #BookSky

YouTube video by David C. Drake Eärendil the Mage #22: Dagoth-Ur | The Elder Scrolls: Arena on Arch Linux

TES III: Morrowind is my favorite game, so it's fun to see how Dagoth-Ur and the rest of Morrowind were presented in 1994 by the first #ElderScrolls game: Arena! 🌋 I also enjoyed dropping audio "Easter eggs" here and there throughout this video. 😁

mac ! ✌️🍎

what other tech should I turn into cute robots?
#lowpoly

taking the subway (City of None with @liamberry.ca)
(metro map still wip / doesn't have art yet)

Releases · GoldenDrakeStudios/golden-drake-linux Arch Linux for gaming and game development. Contribute to GoldenDrakeStudios/golden-drake-linux development by creating an account on GitHub.

Golden Drake Linux v1.2, a new and improved release of our custom Arch installer for gaming and game dev, has arrived! 🎊 Try it for your next #Linux install and let us know what you think. 🐧 Release notes and ISO available here: github.com/GoldenDrakeS... 💿

Work continues at Games That Weren't, and we have another huge discovery! The long-lost god sim Populous for the #NES has been recovered! A full conversion lost for 33 years - now you can finally play it today! 🌍🎮

www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/03/popu...

YouTube video by CultureScape Why Prey & Dishonored Changed Immersive Sims Forever | Raphaël Colantonio (Arkane Founder)

Had a fun interview with CultureScape.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GICS...

Old Sanctuary
First creation of the year... no I'm not late 😅
#pixelart #artpost

YouTube video by Golden Drake Studios Moria (1983) — FOSS gaming on Linux!

Let's play the roguelike Moria, as dwarf warrior Durin, on Golden Drake Linux! ✨ Moria is a simple text-based dungeon-crawler, much like its predecessor, but offers character creation, a starting town, and other extensions and improvements on the minimalist RPG framework established by Rogue. ⛏️