Momin Khan

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

I still absolutely love watching Kevin's videos about specialized details that almost no one ever cared about before (and even fewer care about now) and I will continue to do so. It's more important than ever.

very nice talk by @maggieappleton.com. the demo at the end is a lot like the thing I am about to open source that lets agents in the terminal spin up arbitrary HTML pages that talk back to the agent

while you port and emulate games, I ported Jira to my PSP

Huge congrats to Mark for releasing Desolus, check it out!!

Nidhogg 1 is a Daily Deal on @steampowered.com right now. Grab it for 65% off and try out the new update with improved (rollback) netcode, controller support, and more! store.steampowered.com/news/app/944...

Reminds me of my game jam NIGHTRUN (with @zackfrankmusic.bsky.social music) foolmoron.itch.io/nightrun

Two more federal equity deals with private companies were announced in September. That brings the total to 34 companies, almost triple the number at the start of the year, explain Cato’s Tad DeHaven and Chad Smitson. https://ow.ly/CeZG50ZWu5e

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one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

Been working on this for the last few months, Bezi support for Unreal 5.4+ is now available in early access! Free subscription if you get in here www.bezi.com/unreal

Not only am I speaking on Sunday, I will be ANNOUNCING MY NEW GAME, so maybe an incentive to get a ticket?

It's not too late to join in. In fact, here's a code for a free ticket (normally $50): ti.to/GDoCExpo/202... Code is good for the first 10 people who use it, grab yours quick!

DEV INTERVIEW👾 South of Midnight is a third-person action-adventure game. Players take on the role of Hazel, who learns an ancient weaving power to explore the Deep South mythos, cleansing "Stigma" and defeating "Haints" - physical manifestations of deep-rooted sorrows and trauma. 🎮 #GDoCExpo2026

post inspired by the blood dungeon launch and how nice it is that once someone has made flywrench you don’t even need to know anything and youll get nidhogg 1&2, wheel world and now blood dungeon without any algorithmic help necessary

The VOD for my BSC2026 talk "The Root of The Root of All Evil" is now available! It's the spiritual successor to last year's "The Big OOPs", so if you enjoyed that one, join me for one more adventure into the history of computer science: computerenhance.com/theroot

Blood Dungeon is OUT NOW on Steam, Xbox Series, Windows Store, Game Pass, Switch 1+2, and PlayStation 5! RTs very much welcome. I love you. #boneup blooddungeon.com youtu.be/rmbXDEdb6Y0

🚨 AMNESIA FORTNIGHT IS BACK, BABYYYYYYY 😎 In 10 days, we're gonna put on the best damn game jam the world has ever seen, and we need YOUR help to keep our indie dreams alive! Get notified when we launch on Aug 31:

Blood Dungeon launches August 25th on Steam, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch 1 + 2! Blooddungeon.com #boneup

𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝗕𝗲𝘇𝗶 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀++? Tomorrow at 11 AM PDT, Momin Khan, the engineer behind Actions++, is hosting a live demo covering what changed, why we changed it, and what you can now do in Unity. Join us: discord.gg/VtVAmcqe7?ev... #gamedev #indiedev

If you’re not stalking TypeScript PRs, you might be surprised how much you can do with the API in nightlies (and even in 7.0 stable), so here’s a tiny demo that I think hits some of the highlights. 🧵

BIG HOPS TOGETHER is out now! - Play the 15 hour adventure with 8 players - Pick up, carry, and throw your friends - Tongue swing from other frogs - Steal items from each other's backpacks - Story progression and collectibles are shared - 40% off for the next week Link below ->

I'm sorry but Fahrenheit is just such a good temperature system, it's always exactly how a person feels. 0 is too cold, 100 is too hot, the surface of the sun is 9999

And a Baba is You board game 🤯

So, uh, personal announcement. I am now suddenly unemployed. I am currently looking for a data science/machine learning/AI job in the SF Bay Area. If you're interested, let me know! In the meantime, I now have *plenty* of time for blogging lol.

News time! 🚨 On August 9th our Steam version will transform to become BIG HOPS TOGETHER. - Play the full adventure ONLINE with 8 players - Pick up and throw your friends - Tongue swing from other players - Steal items from each other's backpacks - Story and collection progress is shared

Why'd they have to skewer me specifically

Hi everyone, today me and 22 others at Double Fine were hit by layoffs today. All the people who lost their jobs today care so much about the games they make and the people they work with. If anyone is looking for a tools SE with 7 years of experience and who brings baked goods on Mondays lmk.

Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

Wheel World is currently 40% off on @steampowered.com . Here's what it looked like before it was 40% done: store.steampowered.com/app/1497460/...

Well designed policy

Blood dungeon......good

Little sneak peak on the game I'm working on. Some cool concept art and gray boxes, if you're into that sort of thing! #gamedev #indiegame

Chicken Fiesta steak salad

@cwpat.me Is the dragon design in OotSS a reference to the eyes statue in void stranger? 👀

@ludumdare.com @distraction.engineer FYI certificate seems to be broken for ldjam.com ldjam.com

Blood Dungeon is a platforming autoshooter coming to Steam, PS5, and Xbox X|S later this summer, but you can play the steam demo right now!

It's complicated but this definitely starts way before the engine, at the concept and overall art direction stage. It used to be that you had to compromise in artful ways to achieve a concept. But modern engines let you just do it. Concepts need to be given much more weight nowadays to avoid this.

I went to Steam to buy Mina the Hollower but the autoplaying trailer turned me off so much that I clicked away and ended up buying this for $4 instead

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

The harsh lesson from this is that for many games, gameplay doesn't actually matter. Community, perceived value, and especially status in the community are much more important to players. Gameplay is tertiary or even optional. Successful games are fashion brands, not interactive experiences.

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There’s also an entire conversation to be had about real-world events for video games which I think are entirely necessary if we’re really going to be part of the culture — games must be cultural objects that people meet and mingle around, culture relies on community which cannot be purely digital

Ok ok ok new video game discourse: Forbidden Solitaire is really good

@keijiro.bsky.social Hi Keijiro! Are you doing any shows in Tokyo from May 8-14? I'll be visiting and would love to see you VJ live

LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT Forbidden Solitaire is out now! We are immensely proud to release this awesome game made by two veteran indie studios and we hope you really like it. Steam: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj GOG: tinyurl.com/2s3sv45j Itch: tinyurl.com/3k4bjt8m Please share, many thanks! #indiedev #FakeOS

If you made a web game for #ldjam this weekend, share it on NG with the #ludumdare59 tag! We'll be showcasing a bunch of entries.

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

biggest rush in game dev is when you finally get the input glyph UI sprites automatically swapping based on the current input device