Peter Vashtorr Baikun

I've been thinking about making this thread for a bit now, ever since I was added to a game creator Starter Pack by @aceottorney.bsky.social, which has led to some people following me. Bear with me though. I appreciate the follows, but I have to admit I feel slightly conflicted at this point.

#samandmax20th Season One’s second episode, Situation: Comedy, has a puzzle sequence where Sam & Max do improv during a sitcom taping. This turned into one of design director Dave Grossman’s favorite puzzles of the season. (Share this thread for a chance to win a game key!)

RIP Walter❤️

The passing of Eric Bauza is a major loss to the world of voice acting and animation. An incredible generational talent who should've been doing amazing work for decades to come. Not just a voice actor, but also a great animator who fought for the rights of the creative people within the industry 😭

Me talking to someone and trying to say plasma pistol: "Pistol Pastel..." 😅

Games are good. ❤️

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

If you're an EA employee impacted by the cuts and want to speak confidentially, please reach out. Email: chris.kerr@verticalslice.news Signal: kerrblimey.43

Hey Scottish voice actors! If you're interested in auditioning for this, DM me for the deets!

📣 INDIE GAMES DEVS! 📣 If you have a demo in Steam Next Fest and do not use gen AI, drop it in the comments below. I will repost! Let's create a thread where players can actually find our games! (Image courtesy of @kanaratron.bsky.social)

People using AI to reverse engineer games to then turn around and publish clones is straight up theft. Why is anyone pretending otherwise? The only thing genAI is good at making is fucking talentless thieves. Prosecute the lot of them. Sue them to hell.

Next Fest was already a bit of a pointless exercise for 90% of devs. Now the AI slop has made it entirely pointless for 99% of devs I don’t really know what Valve can do about this, but I think it’s fair to say that we pay them well enough, that it would be nice if they’d bloody do *something*

platforms like itchio and cohost and bandcamp show us conclusively what rentseeking middlemen want us to believe is non-obvious... if you let people support the people they want to support and get out of the way with your ads and your algos and your bullshit they will do it bsky.app/profile/joew...

The fact that we have to be afraid to market our games because of AI theft is a condemnation of every executive who has pushed for this cancer in our industry and art form. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Let's put a banner on it... Come Monday, FOLLOW THESE STEPS will be a part of #SteamNextFest! 🎉🎉🎉 Wanna chill and build colorful things? 🧩 The demo is out right now: store.steampowered.com/app/4002220/ Give it a try and put it on your wishlist! #indiegame #puzzle

Today's awesome albums for me: Fontaines D.C.'s Dopamine Chamber, with strong songs Demolition, Tongue, and You Miss Me. The return of sample kings The Avalanches with No Bad Memories.

Tenebris Somnia is out today and I had a great time with it. The surprising mix of 8-bit pixel graphics with full screen high-def live-action cut-scenes works extremely well. Great performances from the actors who only had one spoken line in the entire game. Creature design = 👍🤩 Review in Dutch!

Support D&D and MtG workers UNIONIZING!! 💪 Sign the petition by Oct 13 to add your voice to the demands so Wizards can see that the community supports their employees being compensated fairly and protecting against AI: actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

"Too bad, make it work": Unionizing staff describe crunch culture and creative oppression within Wizards of the Coast www.rascal.news/too-bad-make...

Remember when I asked if "Australia Did It: End-of-the-World Railway Defense Business" would be superior a title to "Australia Did It" & y'all agreed & I said I'd go talk to the publisher about it? Oh, before I forget: launching November 10th! Please do wishlist :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBFl...

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

do you or have you worked at a place like this? what’s been your experience of it? how are mandates enforced? get in touch privately, securely, and anonymously (if that’s your preference) via signal (nathangrayson.666) or proton mail (aftermathdotsite@proton.me). my DMs are also open

Never been a more moral time to be buying indie games instead of the Big Boys. It's like getting your coffee from the locally owned cafe on the high street instead of a massive bucket of watered down piss slurry from EvilCoffeeCorp that burns down the rainforest. Buy indie, they have your back.

A new (and ultimately paid for) independent website about games and the industry! Adding this one to my list to keep an eye on. There's also the added bonus of free pitch decks and design documents being added every once in a while, really damn cool! Congrats Chris!

Hi, I'm looking for Japanese to English translators to work on Genki's Kattobi Tune. If you're willing to help just reply to this post or DM me on Discord, my tag is "ferzy" #retrogaming #PSX #PS1 #psxdev #retrogames

it's a machine that makes you stupid, folks

Heck yeah, one of my fav writers writing a comic for one of my favorite space stations. I'm already sold on it. 🤘

A wonderful game that snuck under the radar, and eventually under my skin. Love the rhythm music action for the battles and it is jampacked with over 150 different songs. Combined with a fairly deep story about live and death, it has become one of my highlights of the year. Ofc, Review in Dutch.

Great beat em up getting more heroes! Heck yeah!

If there is one game(series) I can't get enough of it's the @twopointstudios.bsky.social titles. And with the new expansion out today I've had a lot of fun the past week. Like all their other expansions it adds new gameplay elements and exhibitions, but in this case even rides! Review in Dutch.

same with the AI flag in the video itself, ESPECIALLY for music

Hey indie games enthusiasts! This is a small reminder that all of our little games are currently on sale at absurdly low prices 🪷🧋

This is why I love indie games, and follow indie devs. ♥️

Need more developers making these decomps to take stances like this, so tired of lazy assholes vibe coding their decomps because they don't give a shit about their own product.

Where is my mind?

So, this week I got this in. Months ahead of the proposed delivery period. Very happy that I managed to fund it on Gamefound, and love the quality. It's a great game and I love playing it. Deckbuilders are definitely my thing. And yes, I signed up for the Ascensions Lord of the Rings already.

I got an email from this guy yesterday. He's going to be at PRGE, probably networking and fishing for more interviews. My plea to any developers or industry people he approaches: Please don't accept his requests. Please don't enable hate. Everyone else, please be civil. Preferably just ignore.

Whew. Listen.

Folks, I'm happy to announce my next game will use up all water, destroy humanity in a global blaze, & lose $8 billion weekly. IPO starts at a 20 gazillion euros valuation based on me counting the amount of zeroes wrong. Upon checking the prototype I realized bigger number is better. Supersentience.

Are you or have you ever been a narrative designer (as your official job title)? I would like to interview you for a video! Pls reply to this if you’re interested ❤️.

Loved the first one, definitely worth checking out. I am sure the sequel will be even better!

Awwww hyphenonline.com/2026/09/28/r...

This is an older post so I would like to clarify I am still looking for work! Any little bit would be a huge help, whether it's for games or something else entirely 📧 hunter@hrpixelart.com 🎨 www.hrpixelart.com

My friend Molly is working on a beautiful project, with some incredible animation. If you're into dinosaurs, and you should be, you need to keep an eye on this. And check her Patreon, of course.

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

Co-streamer applications for our upcoming Fall Online game showcase are now open! 🤯 Airing on October 16th - our MIX Online Showcase will include exclusive trailers and updates to exciting indie games releasing this year and beyond. ➡️ bit.ly/MIXFALL26CS

When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1.

The attention to detail, even the slight loading lag between camera positions is perfect. Love it. Really want to watch this movie as well.