Kai McGilligan Oliver

Sending up a flare to the gaming community 🎇🎆🎇 : Any vfx / tech / shader artists interested in jamming?

I'm 99% certain we'll be making a mechs-meets-pinball concept come to life this Nov!

Art by ledgem ledgem.itch.io/whimsical-ro...

#gamejam #serendipity #pinball #mecha #mech #robots #gamedev

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I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is

- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals

it needs to be stopped, post haste

It's not over. Steam isn't allowing games with 'mature themes' in Early Access. Call, email, letter PayPal, Stripe, Mastercard, and Visa. Do your dailies.

Curious about gay giraffes and quintuple-gender fish?

Biominoes will reveal the wonders of nature - in all its queerness - in this small but mighty board game, selected to go to Queerness And Games Conference 2025! @qgcon.bsky.social

#gay #LTGB #queer #queerecology #boardgames #gayanimals

Showing a trailer at gamescom can cost $500k+, but you can see our game trailer for free 📚

You have a case to solve, your memories reset each day, and two mysterious guides are vying for your attention... Who will you decide to remember?

📚 store.steampowered.com/app/3239830/...

invisibly slapping a scarlet letter on artworks, based on an internal set of tags deliberately obscured from the user base, that now can be used to completely cut off your income and audience, is an indefensible choice for a publisher.

@francinedulong.bsky.social

Keep up the pressure! #SaveSpeech

Well said!!

THIS IS HUGE! The FIRST 100% effective HIV PrEP drug, Lenacapavir, is APPROVED AND GOING GLOBAL. The makers are providing AFFORDABLE access to the drug in the United States AND beyond, signing ROYALTY-FREE licensing agreements with SIX generic manufacturers to produce AND supply it.
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Itch.io follows Steam in removing adult games It’s Tumblr all over again.

Is this the twilight of "creative freedom"? 😭 Itch.io is now removing adult games, pressured by payment processors. 💸 Founder stated "compliance" overrides content, prioritizing profit.
💔 This echoes Steam, leaving indie devs vulnerable. I see this as a chilling precedent: when money dictates art, t

📢 ISO of Devs Affected by Itch 📢

If your game got:
• Deindexed
• Removed
• Payouts turned off

Especially if you make Adult &/or LGBTQ+ #IndieGame or #VisualNovel, I want to talk to you.

🗣️ Please reply below with how you were affected. This is for a #Journalism piece.

🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁

Ooi are these games listed easily via a Google search?

Over the past decade, I've been booted off of half a dozen different digital sales for selling queer and adult work. Itch is the one place that has never faltered. Losing the ability to sell uncensored work there would be devastating.

I run a monthly oneshot session for exactly this reason! It puts the emphasis on me prepping a game every month, knowing rules etc, but I've found it a great way to try new systems + have more casual yet consistent play, and it doesn't matter if too many people can't come or not, just reschedule!

QGCon is actively fundraising and looking for sponsors! It's a PWYW conference dedicated to queer games studies. They are raising money to make sure they can pay their keynotes and provide travel grants for speakers:

bsky.app/profile/qgco...

YouTube video by Accursed Farms The end of Stop Killing Games

The Stop Killing Games initiative is giving up because of a relentless campaign of misinformation and verbal abuse largely directed by PirateSoftware/Thor, which has completely tanked their momentum and burned out its founder.

youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo

It's a great concept :)

He Who Watches is in this Next Fest!

🧩 It's a first person puzzle game about walking on walls and discovering secrets.

Check out the demo below!
store.steampowered.com/app/2381760/...

In the fourth century, the Chinese poet Su Hui wrote a reversible poem in five colors of silk, designed to correspond to a star gauge for reading the cosmos. Her poem had nearly eight thousand possible readings. Su Hui sent this poem as a letter to her husband who was far away. Upon reading Su Hui’s poem, the couple reunited for life.

When you find out the bar was set, met and never surpassed 1700 years ago.

@backyardzoo.bsky.social banner and game description is an immediate follow :D

they are trying to outlaw being transgender in this country and this is just the first step. they were never going to stop at sports. they weren’t going to stop at bathrooms. they want a trans genocide. it is so important to spread awareness of this

CWA Statement on eBay’s Syracuse Closure Announcement eBay subsidiary TCGplayer has abruptly announced plans to shut down its authentication center in Syracuse, N.Y., eliminating the jobs of hundreds of union workers who have been bargaining their first ...

This morning, eBay subsidiary TCGplayer abruptly announced plans to shut down its authentication center in Syracuse, NY, eliminating the jobs of hundreds of union workers who have been bargaining their first contract with the company.

cwa-union.org/news/release...

Take Two removes praise for its LGBTQ efforts from its annual report, scrubs diversity references Game File combed the latest annual reports from Take Two and EA, finding numerous fine-print changes. Some serious, some not, some seemingly in reaction to Donald Trump.

NEW: Take Two's recently filed annual report removes all references to support of DEI, drops prior boasts about awards it got for supporting LGBT workers, and omits prior mentions of work to diversify talent pool with scholarships

No comment why, but we can guess!

www.gamefile.news/p/take-two-d...

#SenatorMurphy gives Homeland Security secretary and dog-exterminator Kristi #Noem an absolute spanking of epic proportions..

exciting new project

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

In response to the Polygon and Giant Bomb news, I created an indie and worker-owned games media starter pack.

I’ll keep adding to it, so suggestions and recommendations are greatly appreciated. Please share!

Let's take a look at the reasons why you might get laid off while working on a game, shall we? Your game doesn't do well, which, sure. Harsh, but understandable. Your game is called a success by Microsoft. Microsoft then lays you off. You help make a game as successful as Marvel Rivals. You are then laid off. Your studio gets acquired for over $60 billion dollars. You are then laid off. You endure executive pressure that forces you into making games your studio isn't good at making. It doesn't go well. You are then laid off. Someone decides your portfolio needs to be aligned/reorganised/restructured to become more flexible/agile/versatile under economic/industry conditions. Meanwhile, your CEO might've spent $2 million on vintage cars. You are then laid off.

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