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Love storytelling in all its forms. Video games, culture, making things. UI / UX @ Strange Scaffold @underskinnyhrt from Twitter. https://vaida.me
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SUPER excited that TMNT: Tactical Takedown, the game I've been doing UI/UX design work on, finally has a demo out!! You can go try it!! Feel very lucky to be working with all the cool people at Strange Scaffold who are putting so much effort into it. Let's go team!!

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #1614: Put down the thesaurus. Your readers don't need a wide variety of different words for the same thing. They want different IDEAS.

submitted 5 days ago • 38 comments

Can someone make the 5 million dollar obra dinn-like. I’m tired of looking for one. I don’t want silly The Witness puzzles. I want 5 million dollar obra dinn. If you’re a publisher I don’t want to hear the excuses I want 👏 action 👏

submitted 19 days ago • 42 comments

how timely; the lecture I gave today was on "finishing being the most important skill", and encouraging new devs to make multiple smaller games as a way of learning how to tackle larger ones. (I'm at 52 releases I've worked on, I think, though the large majority aren't commercial).

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

It’s time for the Milk Hotel to choose a side

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I thought The Gorge was so good. Scored by Nine Inch Nails, the creature and environment designs, and the fact it's romantic sci-fi horror? It feels like someone went all in on a concept and that makes it so enjoyable!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The time has come to be reckless, desperate and beautiful. Virtue’s Heaven, a game about violence, friendship and humanity is going to come out on May 20th, 2025. Play the demo and wishlist the game on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1929860/...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Hey bluesky! We're hiring for a few positions! Come work with us on Project D :) -> halfmermaid.co/jobs 🌟 Senior Character Artist 🌟 Cinematic Manager 🌟 Senior Environment Artist (European timezones) 🌟 Level Designer (European timezones)

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submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

I'm not good at captions but I made this and it was fun :) #b3d #blender #cafe

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Codec by Lese is a free Virtual Effect Audio Plugin for Windows, macOS "Codec degrades sound in the most common way we hear today, through internet compression algorithms" https://lese.io/plugin/codec/

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

We're back from break! And our❤️for games is indie-scribable! 😎👉👉 Fancy a date? Consider yourself sorted this August! 🤗 Sign up to our ✨newsletter✨ to be the FIRST to know more. Indie pinkie promise :3 https://gigf.eo.page/newsletter #valentinesday #indiegames #glasgow #GIGF2025 #love

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Please, please archive your work. Please. I’ve recently been saving lots of my essays as pdfs just so the Internet doesn’t suddenly delete them all (this happened to a whole load of blogs I wrote for The Independent years ago). I don’t want you to wake up and suddenly find your work gone like I did.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

so excited to discover Peripeteia is releasing into Early Access in 4 days!! i played the demo late 2023 and it was unlike anything else. "Indie stealth FPSRPG/immersive sim in cyberpunk Poland" you don't need to know anything more

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This Is Where The Stars Died - my new non-linear narrative sci fi wargame influenced by the Matrix, Arthurian legend, Terminator, 40K trollish-delver-games.itch.io/this-is-wher...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

learning how to use #bitsy! thinking about existing in an environment while i recreate a sad painting in bitsy 3d... #gamedev

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I made this procedural puzzle game a while back but never finished or shared it, so I decided to amend that 😁 You can play it here: mattstark.itch.io/landflip

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

Today releases 'Afterlove EP' for #SeriesX|S, #PS5, #PC, and #Switch Developers: Pikselnesia Publishers: Fellow Traveller Reveal Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoh6_gN9q24

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

ABYSS X ZERO work-in-progress: In between dungeons, you'll explore large open fields, with roaming giant creatures, like this one! I'm now working on the procedural animation system that allows it to walk on any type of terrain elevation, react to the player, etc #gamedev #lowpoly #indiegame #AXZ

submitted 12 days ago • 75 comments

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 - Canada Gouache on aquabord, 8"x 10"

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

been thinking a lot about how knowledge and progress are framed in school, you're taught about antiquity (woo!), middle ages (boo!), then finally the renaissance and enlightenment-- and now we're in the modern era! we're obviously super-enlightened! except... it's just not that at all?

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

still think about how the games press actually covered art games and queer games & it led to some kind of cultural Moment in the early 2010's. and then people across the board largely capitulated to the violent right wing reaction against that stuff & it has remained basically underground ever since

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

I am happy to announce my first book is officially out 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟵𝘁𝗵! This book will be of great interest to all aspiring game developers looking to work in UI/UX and beginners looking to grow their careers. Available at Routledge(use 𝘋𝘐𝘚20) and Amazon! #uiux #gamedev

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

good words on social media, anxiety of spending time well, and a concept I hadn't come across: communicative capitalism - 'democracy that talks without responding’ thetinynarrative.substack.com/p/the-anxiet...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments