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New Community Dev newsletter! Hot n' fresh! 📰🔥 Featuring ✨ Tips for dealing with player demands ✨ Activity: how to avoid spoilers when doing promos? ✨ Resources & job posts And sign up now to get some exciting news from me veryyy soon!! (Let me advertise to u ok 🥺) thevtran.kit.com/posts/dealin...

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Hey, indies! If you kept your demos up for a couple of weeks past Steam Next Fest, I would not be mad 👉👈 1 week is not enough to sift through 2k+ demos never mind play them! (I am selfishly saying this as I played 27 but have 7 in my backlog still to play)

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

I haven't talked about work title demos, but check out: 🍵Wanderstop 🚲 Wheel World 🔫 Skin Deep ⚽ despelote ✨✨✨

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Such a good bundle whoooooaaaa get in folks!!!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Playing some Steam demos tonight, throwing the ones I like in 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

when your job involves comms

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Heya! ✨ We are looking for a Marketing & Community Manager Freelancer to help us promote Henry Halfhead 👁️ 👃 👁️ - Paid opportunity - Plan, produce and post video content on relevant social media More infos here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Thank you for sharing!

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Kitty: Not great at @playbalatro.com, but amazing if you want to play 52-card pickup! 🃏 NEW FREE HAT AVAILABLE FOR STEAM PLAYERS!

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Fresh off Spirit Swap, and I’ve got Wanderstop coming up as my second game launch this year! The animation + audio team did an AMAZING job with this trailer announcing the demo 💗🥳 Watch, get excited, and lmk what you think if you play~ (Apologies in advance if the demo gets too relatable 🥹 iykyk)

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

You should all download the demo for Skin Deep

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Wheel World is like Burnout Paradise + vibes. You should download the demo to Wheel World.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Surprise! Sayonara Wild Hearts returns on PS5 with an exclusive unlockable game mode for very wild hearts. Progressively faster, increasingly devilish, infinitely replayable: It's "Remix Arcade"! Chase high scores in random song bites with no loading. Available now on PS5. Free upgrade from PS4!

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

🎉The Wanderstop Demo is available now on Steam🍵 Enjoy your first foray into the charming tea shop, meet Boro and the pluffins, and contemplate if you're ready to stop running. Play the demo now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1299460/

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

It's officially out in the wild! I cannot stress how much work goes into these things from so many people. I have been lucky to have been a small part 🙏 Shout out to the developers, video team, Annapurna Interactive folks and my teammates for making this happen ✨ youtu.be/5XTSFLFV7e8?...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

👀 👇

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Gamers, I need your need your takes on that PlayStation State of Play. Good/bad/what you expected? What games are you more hyped for?

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Everyone who says being a social media manager is easy has never had to translate comments like “MOTHERRR IS MOTHERINGGG YASSS TAKE ME TO SCHOOL IN THE CUNTMOBILE IM LATE FOR SLAYCOLOGY 101!!!!” to their studio leads and it shows.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Big news for fans of Bluesky. I asked Valve to add it to the Marketing/External Website breakdown and they did! You can see the results here for Forbidden Solitaire. Thanks Valve! Also @pcgamer.com nice! Thanks :-) Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

ICYMI: My latest Community Dev newsletter dropped, where we talk about the mindset when prepping for social media chaos (AKA how I handled the possibility of a TikTok ban). + 21 cool community resources and job posts! thevtran.kit.com/posts/dealin...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

To all my fellow devs: I see you and appreciate you. I am grateful for the wonderful work you're doing every day despite the way the industry treats you. I am thankful for the stories you made happen, in so many ways you've been here for me through the most difficult of times. You deserve better!! 🫶

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Looking for work again due to unforeseen circumstances—reposts appreciated! Some quick facts: 📈 Indie game marketing wiz with 7+ years of XP on games like Bear and Breakfast, In Stars and Time, and more 💼 Portfolio at litvac.com 🎮 Open to indie and AA/AAA 🌎 Based in New York, open to US relo

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

It's #communitymanagerday! Here are some nice things you can do for your CM: 🔸Get them coffee 🔸Read the entire sentiment report 🔸Practice your media training skills 🔸Finish the Roadmap, please for the love of all that is holy 🔸Give them the day off 🔸Gift certificate for therapy 🔸More Budget!!!

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

The Transgender Law Centre works on supporting trans rights in areas like healthcare, employment, and immigration. They're trans-led and provide legal assistance, policy advocacy, public education. I've just donated and, if you can, I would recommend you do too <3 transgenderlawcenter.org/donate/

submitted 42 days ago • 16 comments

The Queerness and Games conference is looking for speakers and games to showcase! Montreal, Sep 26-28 😸 www.qgcon.org/cfp

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Hi Bluesky, my house was one of those that was destroyed in the Eaton fire in Altadena, CA this last week. I need your help rebuilding my life. Please read and consider donating or sharing my GoFundMe. GoFundMe: gofund.me/e69c2676 Story in thread 🧵 #eaton #losangeles

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

ATTENTION: I am starting a charity bundle to benefit victims of the Southern California wildfires. Game (and other) makers, please submit your projects so we can do some good. There is a call for submissions of projects through the 18th, please share widely! FAQ below: itch.io/jam/californ...

submitted 50 days ago • 24 comments

We can also take it out of the atmosphere. Don't give up. We don't need defeatism. We need eucatastrophy. You have to keep struggling to achieve it. Despair is the final villain.

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

submitted 54 days ago • 578 comments

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

submitted 70 days ago • 249 comments