Stein Makes Games 🔜 GDC, GodotCon

Bennett Foddy (Getting Over It) held a talk yesteday about his unconventional games - "Why Did I make this"? #gamedev #gamedesign @foddy.net www.twitch.tv/videos/27148...

Overview of GDC meetup events. Unity Daily Talk and GameMaker Meetup.

#GDC 2026 has meetup for #Unity and #GameMaker, but I can't find any for #Godot 🥲

How did you do it? Raycast finds location on texture and samples it for transparency?

You can tell it's an indie game because it's
Binding of Isaac
not
Binding of IsAAAc

It's a good day to see the top of steam dominated by a banner for a Godot game

René Habermann - Bippinbits: Don't ship the wrong game! YouTube video by GodotFest

He presented it in English at GodotCon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki-I...

Subnautica looking creature

Nintendo suing US government over tariffs
aftermath.site/nintendo-tarif...

Childrens homework Bugs make me feel: fine When I see a bug, I say: nothing

Long day debugging

0 attendees, 0 speakers, 0 sessions, 0 partners, 0 countries

Wow, this year's GDC is gonna be wild.
(The website froze)

Big if true

Play Vikings On Trampolines at @dayofthedevs.org this weekend in San Francisco on March 8th.

🎮 Event: bit.ly/dotd-sf-2026
⭐️ Wishlist on Steam: bit.ly/vikingsGame

Slay the Spire 2's concurrent Steam players just hit 179,456, the highest ever for any roguelike.

When StS1 first launched back in 2017, it had 193 concurrent players.

That's a 92,982% increase, meaning StS3 is on track to hit 166,861,777 concurrent players by 2035. 💪

AAA could never

The Spire has finally reawakened. ⚔️

Slay the Spire 2 is out now in Steam Early Access!!

New characters, enemies, environments, a co-op mode & more await you in this sequel to the iconic roguelike deckbuilder. Join the journey now to be a part of the Spire's next evolution!

Slay the Spire 2 - Slay the Spire 2 is out NOW in Early Access!! - Steam News The long-awaited sequel to the iconic roguelike deckbuilder is finally here. Learn more about what the brand new game has in store!

Slay The Spire 2 is out in Early Access, peaking at >260K concurrent Steam players.

The great success is #MadeWithGodot!
store.steampowered.com/news/app/286...

We need you! GodotCon 2026

We are looking for volunteers to bring the community together to celebrate GodotCon 2026 in Amsterdam.

Want to help? 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/1iW7...

Stopwatch paused, max time reached

Incremental idle games be like

GDC Festival of Gaming

Heads up in case any other mutuals are heading there and wanna say hi: I will be at GDC.

Fellow Dwarfeloper

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

Sellimg games to Indonesia now requires age rating

Age rating now required for Steam games sold in Indonesia, alongside Brazil and Germany.
store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...

Gmail infobox: Why is this message in spam? This message is similar to messages that were identified as spam in the past.

Apparently

#godotengine newsletter (nodeletter) filtered as spam by gmail

GMAIL YOU RASCAL! Why you put the anticipated godot nodeletter in the spam folder?!

One Game Publisher Is Pushing Back Against AI Art With Contracts That Ban It: 'It's Cancerous' - Kotaku Hooded Horse won't work with developers that use gen AI

Not every game company is hopping onboard the AI hype train. Manor Lords publisher Hooded Horse bans gen AI art in its contracts.

"If I sound frustrated, it's because, like, honestly, all this thing has done is made our...
https://kotaku.com/hooded-horse-gen-ai-art-ban-4x-strategy-steam-2000658179

I was so incredibly tired of all those sound generators that can only create retro sounds... so I created my own!

It's a work in progress and it'll be part of a new project but enjoy some sounds I've made. Each of these took a minute tops! ✨

In accordance to me going to GDC, I represent a studio of:

✅️ Less than $100.000.000 revenue.
✅️ Fewer than 100 employes
✅️ Conducting business on fewer than 10 planets

GDC Festival of Gaming banner, March 9-13 2026, San Francisco California

I'll be at GDC in a week's time! 👋
Any conference veterans got first-timer advice?

> Watch Youtube
> Ad for game
> AI generated fake "gameplay footage"
> AI voice-over describing the fake game's vision, as if a gamedev speaking.
> "We put a lot of heart into this"
🤨

Evolution of game difficulty: As games moved away from coin-based arcades who profited from restarts and into player homes, the financial incentive became to reach a wider range of difficulty, overall easier.

Rating from GameFAQs, study by TheEconomist.
#gamedev #gaming #retrogaming #arcadegames