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i think the biggest fundamental Thing turn-based rpg devs can do to improve their combat is to consider turn economy. there's a lot deeper nuance you could take into this, but on the surface level, everyone who's played an older game has felt this: why use poison when the battle is over next turn?

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FY2024 was the most profitable in history for the video game industry It also saw the most layoff waves, and highest known layoff headcount in recent history. Lets do the math. Who wants to guess where all the money is going?

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

Fuck This Bravely Makes Me Want To Default. Should I ?

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I’m gonna be loud about it If you see few games being announced or games not being what you expected - you can blame the massive layoffs that have occurred in the last 2.5 years

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It’s incredibly noticeable how often ‘and an army of outsourcers outside America and Western Europe’ is left out of these team sizes. That’s the part I find real uncomfortable.

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The perception of cheaply made games by like 1 dude minus all the contractors that blow up hurts us because when we ask for a real budget, someone says "well I saw an article that this other game cost $60K to make and sold 1 million copies" and that ends the convo

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there is something intangibly gross in how asian features are so frequently used for artificial, machine personas it's almost as if in popular imagination asian features are associated with a sort of controllable autonomous programming, but no soul.

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✨🦋✨ 5.BRAVELY DEFAULT #ブレイブリーデフォルト #BDFFリマスター #bravelyweek25 @bravelycollabs.bsky.social

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OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT

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bravely default hd will save me from my job hunt crashout

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i am a journalist

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🚨HUGE News🚨 🐸BIG HOPS is a froggy platformer with deep movement, fresh tongue-gameplay, where you use powerful veggies to grow paths forward! ✨Free demo out NOW 🎮Coming to Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 in Q4 2025 💰Our publisher dropped us, so we're KICKSTARTING (links below)

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ancient friends

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The electrician they sent is wearing high-waisted pants.

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

Get in, losers

submitted 17 days ago • 71 comments

The 5 Worst Jobs in Omelas (You Won’t Believe #1)

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水ポケ

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If you’re not burned out on “deprofessionalization” discourse yet @pushtotalk.gg has a great chat with @brkeogh.bsky.social up that digs into more nuance. Some of that nuance is yeah this whole deprofessionalization thing would suck a lot less if we had universal health care and basic income!!!!!

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If you liked or hated my takes on ‘deprofessionalisation’, I went into a lot more detail in this great chat with @pushtotalk.gg for his newsletter. Connected what’s going on now to what I observed in the Australian industry in the 2010s www.pushtotalk.gg/p/gamings-gr...

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

synth mouse

submitted 201 days ago • 19 comments

tomorrow! RSVP sold out but you can still come anyways!

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rendered Gil, our main character, to look Fly as hell in celebration of completing our capstone project! play our finished game here :3c catacne.itch.io/fish-outta-w...

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Couldn't be prouder of our graduating seniors, their amazing games, and that we get to throw their showcase @wonderville.nyc ! Come see! RSVP here: withfriends.co/event/232236...

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happy mothers day 💐 #gamedev #indiedev

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figuring out how to put a game build on steam is perhaps the scariest thing i've ever done but i did it and i'm literally so brave for it

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THANK YOU AAPI IM GAMING FOR THE FEATURE!! Avitium, the FULL GAME, will be released soon on Steam so stay tuned! or play it now using the itch link from this post!

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Us because Avitium is releasing on Steam soon (psst.... its on itch right now: studio-mik.itch.io/avitium)

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Avitium by @mikstudio.bsky.social is a turnbased RPG and card battler. Uncover the truth behind a collapsing kingdom through trick-taking gameplay and combat! ⚔️ Play on #itchio: studio-mik.itch.io/avitium 🎮Proudly showcased at 2025 #GDC For fans of: Inscryption, Slay the Spire #aapi #avitium

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once i release my current project (4 days!!) i'm going to have the most glorious reboot to my portfolio site known to man

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social

submitted 36 days ago • 107 comments

pretty much! this result was not an endorsement of labor, it was an utter rejection of psycho politics www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

Been looking at and saving the stories I'm most proud of after being laid off, just in case. I'm scared for the future but reminding myself that I did all this work, not Polygon. I hope I can keep doing it. I'd like to share some, starting big: www.polygon.com/23485977/vid...

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

Wow the Persona team is cookin again

submitted 38 days ago • 4 comments

House of Reps is pretty much in the bag for Labor which is great, but it's looking REALLY good in the Senate for Progressives, too! We're looking at Minority Labor Majority with Greens in Balance Of Power Again. Hopefully this means we get some decent discussion on Climate policy. #auspol

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As video game journalism outlets steadily disappear, we don’t just miss out on coverage of indie games that need exposure to succeed. We also lose important industry watchdogs. Fewer reporters means less scrutiny of labor conditions and industry practices, shifting even more power to AAA publishers.

submitted 40 days ago • 5 comments

It takes an extremely big business brain to destroy your beloved gaming brands right before a hot new console launch AND the most highly anticipated video game of all time

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polygon and giant bomb dead in the same week is just unfathomable

submitted 40 days ago • 48 comments

Support independent games media. This page will be regularly updated, so please let us know if we're missing anyone. 🔗 www.sixoneindie.com/indie-games-...

submitted 40 days ago • 100 comments

gamedev dot txt

submitted 41 days ago • 58 comments

finally just got hit by a 9 year old curse from my past self

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once uve developed a game like 80% of the way it should just finish the rest itself as a treat for u

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one of the best pieces on the modern internet ive seen

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stay zetsy 🍊✨

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Today is two years since my book THE VIDEOGAME INDUSTRY DOES NOT EXIST was released! I'm still really proud of it as, I think, one of my best academic works. And I'm really thrilled with how much game researchers and especially developers have engaged with it. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

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