Colin McInerney

Colin McInerney

@colin.how

Studio Head @pedalboard.games. Personal website: https://colin.how Game designer, programmer, writer, composer, fool. Wishlist The WHEELJAM Collection: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5090350/The_WHEELJAM_Collection/

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If you've checked out the WHEELJAM Collection, do me a favor and please leave a review! It'd mean a lot to me personally. XOXO

Pedalboard Games@pedalboard.games

The WHEELJAM Collection -- 22 games from WHEELJAM 2025 and 2026 -- is now LIVE on Steam, for FREE! This has been a labor of love from the community, and now you can play them all, updated from their jam versions, with one convenient launcher: store.steampowered.com/app/5090350/...

not gonna be posting much game dev progress until later this week due to it being ~refactor time~ i was going to make a big change to the item carrying system but then realized i needed to refactor the base item code first, and i’m doing it slowly so as to not gnaw my arms off in boredom

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We’ve seen a lot of devistating cancellations and closures in the last three years but this one is unique in that this happened because the US president’s son-in-law made a sweetheart deal with a foreign government that has made deals with the president, as well. It’s blatant government corruption.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

what is there to even say at this point i just want to make video games in an industry where that contribution is valued, alongside my peers, so that we can have a paycheck and some fucking dignity, man

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

between zuckerberg and sam altman each losing their companies 80 billion dollars i am now also accepting 80 billion dollars to piss away. i will start by getting plastic surgery to make my face look as punchable as theirs. it won't take much

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our level designer's been updating the space, so i made some tweaks to the book spawning to make them really get spread out

been getting robocalls for over three months from some scam lender, always from different numbers but giving me one to call. ignoring it didn't make it go away. i called them, immediately got through to a human, told them to stop calling me, and got hung up on. did it again. third time i got blocked

what i really don't get is why they'd even waste the resources calling me but i imagine all that shit is automated now, so it probably costs them fractions of a penny to call me specifically, whereas taking me off the list is only worth it if i cut into their bottom line by calling in.

i know i got blocked because instead of getting a "press 1 to be connected," it automatically says it's connecting me to an agent, and then immediately says all lines are busy, and this happens every time i call. hopefully it stops the damn calls!

our level designer's been updating the space, so i made some tweaks to the book spawning to make them really get spread out

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if you've convinced yourself it's ok if you cross a picket line (I wish you wouldn't) at least keep that shit to yourself instead of broadcasting shit that will do nothing but weaken other people's resolve and increase pressure on people who are holding the line you couldn't.

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honk honk (don't forget to donate)

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social

it’s my birthday today 😌 if you want to do something nice for me today please consider giving a dollar to The Base Mesh: www.thebasemesh.com base 3D models for games, professionally made… it’s an invaluable resource to me and i tell all my students about it! support & love for asset creators 🎉🎂🍰❤️

Demetri is one of the driving forces behind a lot of the art you've seen in Strange Scaffold's games, and is just a super swell dude besides. Absolutely check out Strange Finds.

Demetri Sofides@thelordofhands.bsky.social

I'm celebrating International Archaeology Day with the final announcement trailer for Strange Finds! Dig up ruins, piece together finds, and restore the timeline of a lost civilization. Check it out below:

nothing i write will ever be as funny or stupid as the events that have transpired here

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

if tesla makes a sentient car it will fail because it will be intelligent enough to realize that crashing its driver headfirst into a brick wall will be a net gain on society

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

sentient

the big reveal here is that we're making a sorting game that will meaningfully incorporate a topic-based dialogue system. *slaps hood of game* this bad boy can fit so much lore in it

the problem with being a capable game developer is that me playing morrowind for a week straight has dire consequences for the rest of you

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a big problem with making a sorting game is testing it, because i have a QA background and thus obsessively test games i work on. but it’s still so damn satisfying to get the books on the shelf. this took about an hour and i’m only 2/3 done, and this is just an early test!

a big problem with making a sorting game is testing it, because i have a QA background and thus obsessively test games i work on. but it’s still so damn satisfying to get the books on the shelf. this took about an hour and i’m only 2/3 done, and this is just an early test!

we’ve been working on our environment, level design, and progression mechanics this week and i can’t wait to show off more, since this’ll extend well beyond just “put books on shelf”

- bowling alley in my basement - bowling lessons - bigger basement

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social

question for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?

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OKAY. Here's how my first week as an independent journalist went down! I published 30 stories for Vertical Slice—including an interview with Ubisoft union workers on their fight against an RTO mandate and coverage of the Rockstar union busting tribunal in Glasgow. It was hard work, but rewarding!

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Replying to @colin.how

sir you ordered a single patty you should have ordered the double if you wanted to fuck it. you ordered the half-pussy.

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I’m Nessa! I’m a video game writer/narrative designer with 6+ years of freelance experience on 10+ shipped titles, including Borderlands 4 and Star Wars: Galactic Racer ✨ I’m looking for new projects, so if you’re looking for narrative on your project, check out my website: www.nessacannon.com

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Look at all these amazing free indie games! Amazing work from everyone and especially the organizers! <3

Pedalboard Games@pedalboard.games

The WHEELJAM Collection -- 22 games from WHEELJAM 2025 and 2026 -- is now LIVE on Steam, for FREE! This has been a labor of love from the community, and now you can play them all, updated from their jam versions, with one convenient launcher: store.steampowered.com/app/5090350/...

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The WHEELJAM Collection is out now and totally free! Please check out our wacky games and leave a good review! Support cool indie devs making weird stuff for free!

Pedalboard Games@pedalboard.games

The WHEELJAM Collection -- 22 games from WHEELJAM 2025 and 2026 -- is now LIVE on Steam, for FREE! This has been a labor of love from the community, and now you can play them all, updated from their jam versions, with one convenient launcher: store.steampowered.com/app/5090350/...

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My first game on Steam is out now as part of The WHEELJAM Collection! I hope you check it out alongside all the other wonderful entries! SIDELANING is a first-person 3D tower defense set inside a computer, where you build every tower from pieces scattered around the level instead of using currency.

Pedalboard Games@pedalboard.games

The WHEELJAM Collection -- 22 games from WHEELJAM 2025 and 2026 -- is now LIVE on Steam, for FREE! This has been a labor of love from the community, and now you can play them all, updated from their jam versions, with one convenient launcher: store.steampowered.com/app/5090350/...

TWO HOURS TO GO WOOO

Pedalboard Games@pedalboard.games

The WHEELJAM Collection launches for FREE in 24 hours, with a surprise bonus of 2 additional games, bringing the grand total to 22! These games were made as part of WHEELJAM 2025 and 2026, given various updates, and packaged with a launcher. Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/5090350/...

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new video game website just dropped and it’s everything! works on mobile. a thing of beauty. it’s a tv. it’s a mystery cube. it has video games.

NIGHT EYE TV@nighteye-tv.bsky.social

🌕NIGHT EYE TV’s initial form is live!🌑 Check out the site and follow our Indiegogo campaign at www.nighteye.tv!

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the stupid thing was: the consumer games press DID have unethical marketing mouthpiece relationships with the industry. the e3 / spike tv / actiblizz / doritogate conglomerate and the payola-dominated masculine corporate culture had a stranglehold on what got made and how it could be discussed --