Kai Nyame 🌱 🐑

a woman wearing headphones and glasses is smiling while sitting on a bed . Alt: a woman wearing headphones and glasses is excitedly giving a thumbs up

Since now DICE is done and people are talking about GDC, I guess I need to start hyping up #WhatAGameDevLooksLike for that week (although of course you don’t need to be at GDC to participate)!

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

Do you have a consistent base color palette (or sub-palettes for seasons) for this world?

It's been over a year since the last major update but I hope it's been worth the wait!

GB Studio 4.2.0 includes over 180 changes, improvements, new features, and bug fixes, making it the biggest release so far.

Available today at: chrismaltby.itch.io/gb-studio

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Hierarchy examples of nested control nodes that define specific scaling behaviors (scaling/aspect ratio for UI to meet intended UX is the bane of my existence in all game engines)

I am researching some workflows and would love help if possible.

If you are making a non-NDA'd game in Unreal, Unity, or Godot, would you mind making a fullscreen timelapse recording of yourself working for 3 hours, at 3 frames per second? That'll be about ~18 minutes of footage.

Any game is fine!

Idea: an open-source Super Smash Bros game written in #Godot and people can raise PRs to add their own character of their own games to it, including links to their own games.

We were scheduled to participate in #ゲームダンジョン11 today, but due to the heavy snow causing train disruptions and the risk of being unable to return home, we’ve had to cancel our participation.
We sincerely apologize to everyone who was looking forward to seeing us 🙇
#東京ゲームダンジョン11

Thinky Direct 2026 - Open Submissions Last year at Thinky Games, we ran our very first Thinky Direct, sharing some amazing new trailers, reveals, and announcements with puzzle fans around the world. It was such a joy to organise that we're bringing it back for 2026! The Thinky Direct is a 30-60 minute digital livestream event, all about showcasing amazing upcoming thinky games - games that are generally about solving puzzles and careful reasoning, rather than fast reflexes or dexterity. We loves games that make you scratch your head, ponder interesting problems, and declare "aha!" when you discover the answer. We expect Thinky Direct 2026 to happen towards the end of May. This year, we're opening up submissions publicly so that we don't miss any great upcoming games. In particular, we're looking to feature exclusive trailers, content updates, big reveals, and exciting announcements! Please note that all content must be exclusive to this event. Previously released trailers or videos will not be accepted for inclusion in the showcase. We partner up with the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase, a Steam sale organized by Draknek & Friends, to reach gamers on the Steam platform. If your game is accepted to the Thinky Direct and is eligible for the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase, it will be included in both. If you think your game would be perfect for showcasing in Thinky Direct 2026, please let us know about it! Of course, to keep the event focused, spaces are extremely limited, so we're unfortunately not able to accept every game that is submitted to us. We are nonetheless incredibly grateful for any submissions we do receive, so thank you for taking the time, and I hope we can support your game in other ways if not through the Thinky Direct. The deadline for submissions is 23:59 UTC on February 28, 2026. We will respond by March 14, 2026. The event will happen around the end of May, 2026 - specific date TBD.

Dear all thinky game devs: we're running another Thinky Direct this year, and this time with open submissions!

Thinky Direct showcases exclusive trailers, announcements, and reveals for upcoming thinky games!

➡️ Submit your game by Feb 28:

GGJ 参加者の皆様、お疲れ様でした！
今月18日に秋葉原でGGJで作ったゲームを展示しませんか？
Tokyo Indiesは日本一参加のハードルが低いゲーム開発イベントを目指しています！
事前登録不要、会場内の空いているところにパソコンをポンっと置くだけで展示可能です。
開催情報はこちらに👇️
bsky.app/profile/toky...

Shout out to all the amazing Black game developers, media, and creatives across every part of making games. I’m rooting for y’all year-round.

Go follow Black folks making games. We’re often ignored, then imitated. Tag some Black devs below and follow the ones you don’t know yet.

Prepping our #SteamNextFest coverage over on noclip_2 and the @noclipvideo.bsky.social Crewcast for later this month.

If you're an indie dev planning to have your demo as part of the event, feel free to reply here, in my dms, or send me an e-mail (in bio)!

A tween cheatsheet for Godot, going over sequences, tweeners, transitions, eases, an example, killing tweens and other usefull methods

I'm officially going ✨part-time✨ to make more free interactive guides for Godot!!

You can support me on Patreon and get early access and cool rewards 😎

To celebrate, I made a free tween cheatsheet in 8 languages, available here:
www.patreon.com/posts/tween-...
#Godot #GameDev #Indie #GodotEngine

Definitely a good portion of my mutuals who run tiny indie studios (and are therefore always on the hunt for admin-dev-tools) would love to see it! If I get some time later in the month I'll make a thread about it if you haven't gotten around to it by then 👍

Keep up the great work and take care!

have you done a thread talking about the promotional section (eshop/steam/itch) export features of the launcher yet?

Hello #gamedev! I’m looking for 4 testers to try out my project.

Take a look 👉 marketingforgames.com
If you’re interested, DM me! 💚

#indiegamedev #gamemarketing #youtube

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Incredibly relatable.

A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:

www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...

I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

there's a short window of time to do it but the reason people use new year changeover to rethink goals and who they're trying to be is you can actually respec your character stats without penalty if you do it soon, button is in the bottom right of the level up screen the UI doesn't highlight it well

Screenshot of some GodotSteam tutorials

If you're playing around with #gamedev in #godot these days, remember to check out our #tutorial section!

For instance, we have a whole section of contributed @godotsteam.com articles - thegodotbarn.com/tutorials?ta...

All free and open source ✨

What was the level design process like for BIG HOPS and what tools did we use?

Question from Terri V on Bluesky
#indiegames #gamedev #bighops

Edit image button

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

Always love a @richtaur.bsky.social tier list :)

"Mystery-est Dungeon" 😆 love it! @warkus.bsky.social

Hello everyone! Just want to remind you that the deadline for BitSummit submissions is December 31st (submission fee: ¥2750). Late entries are open until January 16, 2026 (¥5500). Looking forward to seeing your games! For more information visit bitsummit.org.

Catching up with game announcements. It's always strange (and wonderful) to see elements of games your friends have been hinting about for years suddenly out there in the world. I love that click when a long-ago obscure comment clicks and you're like "Ohhhh that's what that meant!"

I still think about these all the way from Kansai. Hope everyone is having a great time tonight

Nominations are OPEN for the Black in Gaming Awards!

Know someone shaping the future of gaming? Nominate them.

Nominations: Now live
Voting: January

Nominate using the link: app.smartsuite.com/form/smdpdo4...

#BlackInGaming #BIGAwards