Alex the Abyssal Novelist

I've been making games full-time since 2005 and had games on Steam since 2015. Here's the number of years in the past decade that I've had a single game earn over $100k on Steam.

ZERO

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs.

This video is lowballing it.

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

An absolutely incredible add-on for anyone making shaders with Godot! Click different lines in your shader code and instantly preview the output at that point in the code.

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

Eyyyy
I had so much fun reading a few of the essays already and they're so rad! Just tiny little snippets of delicious narrative wisdom. The sort of thing too niche and too small to get featured on a conference, but insanely valuable

Anyway, mine's about writing biographies, the quick and dirty way

looking at the GDC talks for this year and this kinda sums it up, huh

Introducing The Sims Maker Program and The Sims 4 Marketplace A new in-game platform designed to support custom content creators and help more players discover their work.

The Sims 4 is now allowing modders to sell their content through an in-game shop and EA takes... 70% of each sale. I think that's way out of line and 40% above the already controversial typical revenue share for platforms. Creators deserve better.

www.ea.com/games/the-si...

ohh my fucking god

Canban board featuring all the work I have to do for Godscrown

#FeedbackWanted on this gameplay screenshot, it's not clear who played which die!

Hey #ScreenShotsaturday does a kanban board count?

I spent last night organizing the stuff I need to do for Godscrown, a lot of the big tasks are mostly finished! There's still a bit of refactor work and some systems that need to be added, but player input is right around the corner!

Thanks to the great work of a contributor, the long-requested Lookahead functionality is now available for 2D scenes.

Another key change is a refactor of Framed Follow 2D, which should make it a lot more reliable.

3D counterparts of both are in the works for a future release.

#GodotEngine

Friend's cat

Friend's cat, close up

Hello everyone, my friend needs help covering their cat's vet bill, any donation is greatly appreciated!

Please support my friend if you can!👇

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I love “cozy games” on an individual level but “cozy” used to include replaying resident evil 2 for the 5th time

now as a genre it’s starting to feel like it is locking people into aesthetic tradwife boot camp

Due to the rising cost of housing, inside of you there are now three wolves.

The modern mind is not able to comprehend how the Roman Empire was able to administer an territory all the way from Egypt to Hadrian's Wall without making use of Jira Sprint Planning.

Just reproducing the content of this post on the other site on bsky for consideration, this review that is featured on MetaCritic- x.com/andrew_east/...

Metacritic has sent a reminder email to all games site editors/publishers which is pretty strong, and great:

I feel like younger people don't realize that the internet wasn't always optimized solely to make you as angry and miserable as possible, and people are having a lot of nostalgia for 2000s internet vibes now because it wasn't like that back then

tumblr post from user threedollarsdotcom: "weve decided not to move forward with you at this position because a meteor has hit our office and destroyed the whole shit big mode. we hope your job search goes well"

games industry

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

OMG, we hit 50,000 WISHLISTS!

This has never happened to us before.

Huge thanks to everyone who has wishlisted it, streamed it, and who has kept sharing our posts to help reach a wider audience. Much appreciated.

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#steamnextfest

“…” “Got I.D. for this?” [MAGICAL GIRL LICENSE: MAUDIE, DOB: 7/12/99, WEAPON: SCARF, EXP: N/A] “Didn’t know a magical girl could be twenty-six…” “Heh heh… that’s me.” “Should have a different name for it, shouldn’t they. Like, not magical girl, but summat like… ‘weird woman’”. “…” “Got a clubcard?” “I’ve got no pockets.”

working on a comic with @mouette.moe about a NEET magical girl from leicester making shit money, fighting ghosts and dodging her tv license. coming soon !

Big ditto here.

Saying "Indies are the future, AAA doesn't matter" doesn't acknowledge the many ways indie can also be unsustainable/exploitative--and it doesn't respect the craft of AAA devs! So many cool people making incredibly cool things that couldn't exist otherwise!!
Solidarity is important.

Aah good luck!!

First of all, go checkout Piecewise by @badgameszip.itch.io!!!

Just played this game, it's super fun! If you are into daily games it's worth a look😍

Side note - I am really bad and I blame the satisfying sounds triggering my ASMR😂

#gamedev #indiegames #nextfest

hi! The demo for my second game is FINALLY out for steam next fest!!

This is Piecewise, a simple daily-challenge puzzle game about putting shapes in slots!

play the demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/4119640/...

#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev

You really do have to take dating sims/romances seriously. Not love them. Not know everything about them. Not even play them. But take them seriously. They're a legitimate, influential, long-running genre, and the lack of awareness and acceptance in English-speaking circles should be embarrassing.

the secret to game design is that as much as players may claim otherwise they all love choosing one out of three things

I've seen your steam backlogs. Many of you should be hosting a Previous Fest.