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Okay! 1x Design resource thread coming up! 🫡 For context I've been a UX Designer for ~7yrs and working in games for 4. I'm constantly learning / finding stuff and no magically perfect unicorn ninja design guy but this is some stuff I've found useful! Feel free to add your own stuff in replies! ✨

gonna start telling people I’m 2 bi 4 ai

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Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

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"We've been quoted for many a line, and we come with an 'Aggro Tone.' We talk very honestly about world events and all this kind of stuff. We cuss. We tell people to eat shit. We have a very direct approach to our community—and our community loves it."

and ill say it again

Happy birthday to one of our favourite memes 🙂‍↕️

Talk slides for my NZGDC talk "The Complexities of Mechanizing Romance" are up. There are 153 slides, and that was after I edited them down ✌️ drive.google.com/file/d/1THnG...

I had a lot of questions from people asking how we organized Communion, how much it cost, etc. Well, I wrote a how to guide! Read here: drive.google.com/file/d/1bzlz...

A very peak part of Melbourne is getting to enjoy @itsstevi.bsky.social's various joyful reactions to spotting magpies / crows / ravens 😌

Hello friends, we know many folks are wondering: will there be a Frosty Mini this year? TL;DR - no, there won’t be a Frosty Mini showcase this December. If you care to understand more about why you can continue on reading this thread, otherwise, thank you and we hope you’re having a great day!!!

We're Visai Games! 👋 We made Venba, an award winning narrative cooking game. As outsiders to the industry, we found our following in twitter but logging into it now means coming face to face with a lot of South Asian racism. If you like Venba, Follow us here so we don't have to login to twitter!

I love trains and gelato and noodling around Melbourne 😌 (📸 GREAT photo of me by @itsstevi.bsky.social)

Any @continuemag.bsky.social fans spotted our Frosty colouring in page in the back yet? 👀 Pleeease tag us if you post your work! We can’t wait to see! #FrostyWillContinue

It's very important that we attain this 🙂‍↕️

Beating my I ❤️ pigeons drum: did u kno all city pigeons are feral domestics, rather than wild pest species? Yes! Pigeons are our oldest domesticated animal, & less than a century ago we largely just abandoned them! How they live now is OUR FAULT! Be nice to pigeons! They are just trying to survive!!

. @jessmwoodward.bsky.social loves whomever so bring her treat 🙂‍↕️

Penguin Colony has a new vibesy asf Launch trailer! As we approach our launch on the 16th!!! The trailer features the instrumental version of ‘Ātete’ a song I wrote for the end of the game. youtu.be/7YT3AM70BE8?... Go give it a watch!!

Dressmaker is a masterpiece.

Set up completed 👁️👄👁️ see you tomorrow food fiends ❤️🍔❤️🍔❤️🍔❤️🍔❤️🍔

Sup Melbourne 😌

Fresh news, hot off the grill: Burger Bois will be at @paxaus.bsky.social! Come visit us at the @nz-code.nz booth to design delicious and/or horrifying burgers and nab a free #FoodPic polaroid #paxaus #indiegame #steamgame #cookinggame #cozygame

As of this morning, Tuesday of MIGW 2026, Self Care Vampire is out of playtesting and live on iOS and Android 🥳😨 iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/self-... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Communion ruled and I had a great time 😌 huge shout outs to @aucklandmakes.games and @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social for making it happen 🥰

Reminding my friends i can fight but its so they take breaks and are nice to themselves 😌

NZGDC peeps I keep forgetting I have stickers! So if you see me and want Hatch Dragons or other cute stickers hmu! 🥰

I kinda can't beleive we and our delightful dev teams pulled this off?!?! Have a freshly baked showcase with 4 new @midnighters.games published titles revealed alongside 2 live demos, a suite of fresh trailers & some news from our pals 🔥 Get wishlistin' folks 📯

Announcing Vroom Room, the ultimate cozy idle toybox simulator! 👀 Watch toys zoom around the room 🚗 Take the wheel whenever you like 🛋️ Explore cozy, handcrafted spaces 👯 Chill with friends, unlock rare toys 📖 Fill your encyclopedia 🚸 Wishlist now: midnighte.rs/vroomroom-st...

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Can't make it to PAX Aus? Pop into @acmimuseum.bsky.social on Friday 9th October - Burger Bois will also be available to try at the @free-play.bsky.social Showcase at ACMI! 🥳 gamesweek.melbourne/games-week-s...

Ima be helping some Mischief Makers and Burgering some Bois at PAX Aus this year 🥳❤️ come on dowwwwwnnn

If shauns not gonna post about it then I will! Go buy his unc slop store.steampowered.com/app/3832490/...

Due to various circumstances; I've been a bit AWOL online and therefore very disorganised re:conference season. BUT I am in Auckland (already 😇) for NZGDC and then over to Melbourne for PAX (& an extended hang) and keen to see people! 🥰

Come play some of the coolest games from ANZ at ACMI in Melbourne on October 3 & 4 🎮 We're showcasing 20 games across the weekend as part of a free Game Showcase! Big thank you to our 2026 sponsors @nz-code.nz and strangescaffold.bsky.social, without their support, Frosty's showcases don't happen 💙

It's that time of year again! Submissions for the Game Awards edition of Day of the Devs are now open! Good luck! https://www.dayofthedevs.org/submit

"due to their open views about gender, sexuality, and politics" what views are those, polygon? which ones do you consider controversial? let's hear it.

🏳️‍🌈Have a queer or queer-made game releasing in 2027? Our Qweerty Game Dev Microgrant is accepting applications! Recipients will receive up to $2,500 to finish funding their game. 🗓️ Apply by October 11th Thanks to zPride for helping make this possible <3

screen aus has funded a new cohort of australian games!! really happy to see night shift: 1999 in the list but all sound like bangers.

Ed Sheeran liberal zionist horseshit is actually super common in the games industry too

If you want to know how the “mentorship program” went ask why the future class ended

FREAKON BACK WWW.FREAKON.COM.AU

Well shit I guess I do gotta be excited for Guild Wars 3

Lotta audacity in the air today