Tom Shea

If you want to start making games, instead of trying to make your magnum opus on your first go, please do some game jams. Ludum Dare. Something short with a fixed time limit and specs you need to follow. Learn about developing under restrictions, how to get creative in them, how to scope smartly.

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

“Eating candy corn feels like eating wax”

Yes! Good! Exactly! Do you know how many scented candles I’ve had that I’ve desperately wanted to eat?

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

i ask because I am partially responsible for some images on steam being webp and I had been convinced photoshop supported it from this

not a photoshop user, so I don't know how this stuff works. is the webp support this is talking about (helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb...) in one of those versions of photoshop people don't use because it's a subscription or whatever?

Did a game jam with friends this weekend! I did the music. Page for it is here: ldjam.com/events/ludum...

direct link to game: thristhart.github.io/ld58/

i have had some moments of genuine frustration with lingo but also some of my favorite moments in a puzzle game. what a cool game

you're so right

So I started watching this streamer whose schtick is he dresses up as a scarecrow.

It's pretty good but a little repetitive - he starts every show with hay guise

it's really good! often quite busy though

Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really.

Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are.

This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

masahiro sakurai speaking from his desk. he says "why is making a game so hard"

opening your new game announcement with this is so fucking funny and real

I left little critiques on lots of game trailers so here's a thread with the most common issues (and additional reading) 🧵

1. Don't put logos at the start. It's just dead air that could be gameplay, which is 100000000X more interesting.

www.derek-lieu.com/blog/2021/3/...

Steam :: Steamworks Development :: Beta: Wider store pages; Video support for written game descriptions Store pages are getting wider and now support uploading video files for your written description

new for game devs:
w i d e s t o r e
plus a big improvement if you like putting GIFs into your game description.
steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

Earlier this year, @steampowered.com started work to make it easier for players to find games with accessibility features. If you haven't yet, take a look at our documentation highlighting how you can display accessibility options your game supports:
partner.steamgames.com/doc/accessib...

I feel like not enough of you heard me tell you that you must read The Tainted Cup so I’m saying it again. two weird detectives in a quasi-Roman fantasy setting with the most interesting magic system I’ve seen in a while uncover murder plot while beset by… fine I’ll call them kaiju

Save 10% on Kaizen: A Factory Story on Steam Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcord...

Kaizen: A Factory Story is now available on Steam!

Build assembly lines to make toys, electronics, appliances, and more in 1980s Japan. Impress your bosses with your innovative solutions.

store.steampowered.com/app/2275490/...

Look out for weekly bonus puzzles coming your way soon!

18/28, and that was a hard earned score from my long time in the javascript mines. this is a tough one

The latest steam client beta adds UI Scale, Reduce Motion and High Contrast accessibility settings in the desktop client! Now you can make your UI big and clear on desktop as well as SteamOS. There's still more work to be done but I'm really happy we're doing it. Let me know what you think!

never feel more alienated from my neighbors than on the fourth of july. i am trying to sleep how is it possible that so many people think hours of explosions are acceptable

it’s that time of year again

Give footnotes the boot I hate footnotes, and hopefully by the end of this, you will too.

I hate footnotes, especially on the web, and hopefully by the end of this, you will too.

jakearchibald.com/2025/give-fo...

gen 6 looks how I expected it to at least

old video still of the sign outside a mall called “Pyramid Mall Plattsburgh” with a logo that is a triangle that has a palm tree or a butthole in it. beneath it another sign reads: COMPUTER PICTURES ALL MONTH

A four-zone chart used to place puzzle video games, where one axis is "use of normal logic is legal" to "divorce yourself from reality" and the other is "just keep your eyes open" to "gotta galaxy brain that shit." There are also colored blobs that paint different sectors of the chart, including "feel stupid zone," "how the fuck zone," "satisfaction zone," "classic zone," "easy-going zone," and "mind blown zone."

introducing the "puzzle compass," a certifiably correct and statistically proven chart of my infallible opinion

what games need added? let me know, because i am the authority on this purely objective study

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gamestudies

not if using URLSearchParams -- it always appends an = when turned to a string

so your options are to manually interact with the search string (something like `url.search += url.search.startsWith("?") ? "&" : "?"; url.search += string`)
or to manually remove the extra `=` from url.toString()

you are creating a copy of the search params, rather than mutating the one associated with the url object -- you want to do url.searchParams.set()

thanks again for your help here. I'm hoping that today's beta update resolves the issue for you -- would you mind updating and trying again when you get a chance?

I wouldn't recommend what I do -- which is web-based javascript stuff because I'm a sicko -- but this topic actually came up recently at the office and the best recommendation I saw was PICO-8