Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep

Hey Blue-sky! I'm working on Innkeep, a game about being a sneaky innkeeper! You get to: - Serve ale and food. 🍲🍺 - Eavesdrop on guests to learn their secrets. 🤫 - Develop a silver tongue and turn on the charm. 😏 - Sneak into bedrooms and steal trinkets. 💰 - Summon demons?? 🕯️🔥👹 #screenshotsaturday

Did a lot of interactive fiction work (writing + scripting) on Innkeep the past week and a bit. I think it might be my favourite kind of task. Looking forward to doing a lot more of it soon.

MASSIVE news for the GameMaker game engine... Starting January 1, 2027 GameMaker can be used completely free for commercial game development on Desktop, Mobile and Web using the new GMRT. gamefromscratch.com/gamemaker-go... #gamedev #indiedev #GameMaker

After enduring the frozen wastes of The Pale Beyond, Boring Dad Gaming has swapped out his fur-lined coat for an apron! 👨‍🍳 See his impressions of The Hearth & Harbour Appetiser Demo below! And don't forget to try the demo for yourself, now on Steam! 🍽️ bit.ly/HearthHarbou...

Nice little update to Bluesky that is these little links buttons. Just implemented @arabmisfits.com ones

It’s also why chose not to use self harming language and turns like “it’s over” it maybe a joke or hyperbole In The moment but say and see it enough it becomes more real. Keep your to date with what’s going on but don’t fall into the pit of that all you engage with. See nice art say it’s nice.

Baby sleep regression continues...🫠

Updated demo for Imprinted is LIVE and now also on Itch! Sift through files + restore haunted audio in a fully simulated OS. We've dropped a major visual makeover, redesigned music tools, and much more... Itch: cobaltlane.itch.io/imprinted Steam Scream Fest: store.steampowered.com/app/4442860/...

📜 Mythwright Tales is your regular-ish trip to the inner sanctum of indie gaming’s cheeriest dungeon. Explore the depths for major updates, release dates and a hoard of lil goblins busy with Steam Next Fest activities...🧵

Ooh. Looks neat.

This is a super cool project.

Want to give a boost to Lair of the Leviathan: store.steampowered.com/app/2752020/... There's tons of "old-school CRPGs" being made with AI, but the devs here are actually doing everything themselves and even commissioned the famed Dragonlance illustrator Matt Stawicki to do their cover art!

Had two medium sized but very fun ideas for ways to liven up parts of this game while in the shower and bringing my own imagination to life is so *addictive*. It’s so fun building some of my weird ideas into gameplay. store.steampowered.com/app/3979770/...

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‘Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree’s shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould’ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.’ ~Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 1751. #BookWormSat 🪦⚰️⛪️ 🖼️ B Haughton

Me blackjacking guys in "Thief: The Dark Project": Wow, this is like graduating from MIT!

went to an insanely cool yokai cosplay event today

Soon.

It's a rough time to be an indie dev, so we got to thinking what we could do about it... Announcing MATES' RATES 🍻 We're offering 12 month-long co-dev engagements where we work on whatever you need to succeed! Very permissive terms. Flat rate of US$5,000ea (+ taxes). 🎟️ yarnspinner.dev/mates-rates

Since it apparently needs to be explained again honey dears: this is all just a DISTRACTION! It is a play of MERE APPEARANCES over ESSENTIAL FORMS! We are SUPPOSED to be spending our NIGHTMARISH LIVES contemplating GNOSIS!

Looking for game devs who have been directly inspired by anything BioWare for my next video. I suspect the public likely doesn’t quite realize the extent of their influence on the industry, so I’d really like to highlight that. If you are one such game devs, pls reply to this post!

I did the math on my rough chances of getting a tenure-track job in my field of history in 2013. Best case, it was about 6 percent, so I essentially gave up on academia and pursued other things. Writing MMA articles for a couple grand a month was a wildly more promising career path.

It's Friday.

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

One of the reasons I have a DVD collection in 2026 instead of a Netflix sub. Sometimes I just want to watch Some Like it Hot, or Arsenic and Old Lace, or His Girl Friday. No time wasted scrolling through 400 variations of 6 concepts made in the last 4 years.

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Checked out a thrift store in a part of town in not usually in, and they'd just taken delivery of a batch of childrens books. Some real gems in here.

there are only two genetic modifications we should to make to cats and dogs. one is to make them live longer, healthier lives, and the other is to stop cat piss from smelling like That

If you need 10 different kinds of things done moderately well, I'm your guy!

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You might have seen the original "no genAI seal" by @kanaratron.bsky.social. I've made the icon into a set of assets in both PNG and vector formats that can be more widely used in different contexts. You can find them here: www.joramwolters.com/no-gen-ai-ico/

I don’t know what a lot of slang means now and I don’t want to know, it’s none of my business

📣Calling all women and femme writers📣 I am looking to commission around 10 heartfelt essays surrounding video game criticism. If this sounds like something you are down to do them read on and I urge you to apply. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Every gothic horror:

Remember Baldur's Gate 2? Well, it was a brilliant CRPG, and you should read more about it. Here: www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/25...

New Kaleidoscope! **Simulations, Questions, Dialogues** @sevakhusid.bsky.social talks to us about simulations. How do we encourage our players to find a balance between understanding the systems -- and being in them? www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...

the internet? we really fucked up, I think. we did it wrong and bad.

Wish someone would release patches for my vulnerabilities

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Today, Google's function is to plunder all the works on the internet and chop them up and arrange them in an unimaginably vast, multidimensional array for the explicit purpose of *preventing* audiences from connecting with those works.

The Hell's Mouth, according to the Winchester psalmist from circa 1150 www.tumblr.com/ducissateneb...

Back to working on interactive fiction elements for Innkeep at the moment. Really love this part of the work. Thinking back to 11 year old me writing my own 'Fighting Fantasy' type stuff in the mid 90s. I guess I was always excited by the possibilities of this space.

Inventory and trade screen now share their rendering code - I've got a different thing for it in mind, but I don't know if I can pull it off in terms of readability #indiedev #gamedev #vagueposting #cursed_existence

This is an incredibly well preserved Roman shoe for a woman. It’s around 2,000 years old and was found, and is currently displayed, in a Roman fort known now as The Saalburg in 🇩🇪. The intricate decoration and design is fantastic.

Not everybody at the Weary Pilgrim has a lot of chill. #indiegames