Don't miss your last chance to pick up merch from our official @gdocexpo.com collection! The event may have wrapped up, but you can still support GDoC with the official tee, pin, tote, and poster of this year's event! theyetee.com/gamedevsofcolor
I run @Intelligame.us (pronounced "us"), diving deep into narratives and connecting games with the real world. #ThoughtfulPlay For work/opps: josh@intelligame.us https://linktr.ee/intelligame
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Don't miss your last chance to pick up merch from our official @gdocexpo.com collection! The event may have wrapped up, but you can still support GDoC with the official tee, pin, tote, and poster of this year's event! theyetee.com/gamedevsofcolor
probably the realest thing ive ever seen posted on that website
🥲🥲🥲 you're the best, Natalie! The kind words mean a ton, and it does feel so necessary...so incredibly glad for the opportunity and the work this org has done over all 10 years.
Thank you so much for being a part of it! Looking forward to the next season, y'all :D
TY, got it from the fantastic @zaravarin.bsky.social ! They nabbed it from here: www.steady-hands.com
(also thankful for some real great allies out there doing the work too, but that's besides this point, lol)
Just feeling....really thankful to be able to stand for something like this and make space for people of color right now. I may not post much, but I hope the work that we're doing out here speaks for itself.
AND our Steam Sale is still up and running, and you should go nab some great games: store.steampowered.com/sale/gdocexp...
The Expo's over for the year, and we'll slowly roll out the talks over the coming months on our YouTube channel! But you can definitely still check out our fantastic GDoCExpo Direct: youtu.be/MdR1mv_GGPw
Another year of @gdocexpo.com completed, and I think this was one of our best yet. Stellar games for our Direct showcase and Sale, and phenomenal talks. It was a honor to get to help lead as Head of Curation this year. So proud of the team, all our participants and community. So, so good.
We worked SO hard on the show this year...thanks so much for the kind words.
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
Spirit Swap, our puzzle x VN game is on sale! hotfix patch coming today! Only $15.99 for unfettered joy by queer, trans people of color (and some cis and white people too! I can‘t be sure about the cis part tho sorry) to zone out too and forget your worries! #indiegames
This Sunday is my first ever Subathon to help raise funds for this school year. A few gift subs can go a LONG way towards helping me going back to school, especially during Twitch's Subtember event!
A lil ✨Career Update✨ I've had my first book feature this summer! - Video Game Design for Dummies. It's a super introductory book to the world of #gamedesign. It contains a small snapshot of my career, alongside other talented game designers. what a fun surprise. This copy was at Books A Million
Big news, fellow wizards 🧙 @jakefriend.bsky.social's Scrabdackle has charmed its way into the Six One Indie Showcase with a brand new trailer 📽️ Check out the magic and help spread the word, the adventure into the world of Scrabdackle is just beginning 🗺️ 🪄 bit.ly/Scrabdackle
What 1000xRESIST is not: ❌ a game with combat ❌ an emotionally cozy game ❌ a super quick story What 1000xRESIST is: ✅ a doomed yuri simulator ✅ a game that will break your heart (and maybe not put it back together) ✅ a story you won’t forget anytime soon Get it for 30% off right now! ⬇️
The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
an amazing thing about disney caving instantly, like the table of tech billionaires recently telling trump what a great and handsome leader he is, is no amount of wealth leads to freedom from pressures to do the wrong thing. it's separate, a choice people make. all of you are better than all of them
📢SUSHI BEN RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT📢 An interactive anime adventure written by the creator of Hatoful Boyfriend! 🍣 Save a struggling sushi bar 🌟 Star-studded English and Japanese VA cast 🎣 Silly minigames 🖥️ Playable on PC Flatscreen & VR Coming to Steam Sep. 18th Ahhh!!
Sushi Ben is coming to PC TOMORROW! 🥳 Today at @gdocexpo.com I talked about superfans, and how they can supercharge your marketing. The guy who put like 50 tuna in his house from @sushibengame.bsky.social is still a legend to me
That's it for Day 2! 🥳 There were so many great conversations, insightful talks, & incredible games! Were there any standouts for you? We'll see you back here tomorrow, with Day 3 kicking off at noon! #GDoCExpo2025
Hey puzzle game and VN lovers! Spirit Swap is on sale to celebrate GDoC Expo! We poured our heart and souls into this game AND two of us are trans and trying to escape the US so if this looks like your jam… Please grab it and hopefully give us some runway for a very expensive move. 💕🙏🏼📢 Thank you!
Me, yesterday: Ooh, Hades is cool. I'd play it again maybe, get ready for Hades II, but I don't have it on Steam Today: wellllllllllllllll shit
ANNOUNCEMENT: Detective Instinct will be launching on Steam and Nintendo Switch... November 26th, 2025! 🤩 Uncover the story in this DS-inspired adventure game about a mysterious woman who goes missing on a train 🚃 Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2689930/...
“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys
It's almost time for Game Devs of Color Expo 2025! ⌛ The countdown begins, with less than a week to go until the expo! What are you most looking forward to? #gamedev #GDocExpo2025
Oh NOOOOOOO guess that's my end of the month plan LOL
Me over here holding my head in pure confusion Was very much not on my bingo card at ALL (but I don't hate it, to be clear)
It was only last month that a guy mad about covid vaccines fired 500 rounds into the CDC building in Atlanta, btw
1. If passengers book a flight from the EU and it is canceled or significantly delayed, they are entitled to cash compensation — $300 to $700. In the US, flyers were supposed to get similar rights soon. But those plans have been scrapped by the Trump administration. Here's how it happened. 🧵
I did this (because my name never popped up on the Atlantic’s site) and there I am. With two of my free/low cost games. Lemme repeat. Two of my free/pay-what-you-want tabletop role playing games are there. I… why? Literally anyone explain why.
This year's Summer Games Fest presentation was really concerned with how few people made a lot of those games, huh? It feels kinda fucked up. Not just because they're often misrepresntating the real size of these teams, but because I think it's playing directly into a new(ish) flavour of dev hate.
It's about 20 hours (eastern time) into the first Friday of the month, which of course means I gotta ask you: Did you see that a new Indiepocalypse came out today?
Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight. I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open: emmkid.info
Damn, Emma...so incredibly sorry. 💜
I am once again asking you to stop sending us money. But we do need your time. ⏰ zohranfornyc.com/events
CHICAGO!!! We’re out protesting at the Broadview Detention Center (1930 Beach St) where ICE is detaining and deporting our neighbors. We’ve scared them off once today. Come by and help us do it again.
People really refuse to understand how short the distance is between these firings and the harm being done to communities
Gotta love it... sheesh.
The tariffs led every European shipping to temporarily suspend service to the US altogether until they can get systems up to coordinate tax collection on a huge volume of packages. In the meantime, that leaves no shipping options except a transatlantic courier service.
10/10, no notes
the WORST
The Palestine Games bundle that we put Spirit Swap in is live with all proceeds going to Gaza relief efforts! 400 games! Please support it if you can and get yourself awash in games by people who also care, good people of the world!
I genuinely have NO UNDERSTANDING
10000% TF is this
I seriously have no damn idea...like, I thought it would be bad, but THIS IS WILD
genuinely, TF
Part of me is annoyed at myself for letting this Israeli racist colonel get under my skin. Part of me thinks we should in fact normalize telling genocidal war criminals to "fuck off" on television. Full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0c...
JFC these fucking tariffs
🚨Announce! Hype!🚨 Order Automatica has a new trailer, new demo, new art, and a new publisher! OA will be published by @betterpubpro.bsky.social - they're really cool and have been helping me a lot : ) Check it all out on the steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/2105840/...
These same oligarchs plan to offer cryptocurrency tokens to displaced Palestinians in exchange for the legal right to convert the land into commercial real estate.
Here's where to find me this weekend at Rose City Comic Con in Portland!! I'll have my Star Trek stuff, Game Changer prints (and hopefully stickers) and all my regular stuff! Commissions are available! Come find me at Booth I-42 (map below) beside the wonderful @jazzylea.bsky.social !
the palestine 2025 charity bundle is live!! it's a huge bundle of very cool games (Coffee Talk, Extreme Meatpunks, Spirit Swap, Roto Force, Moon Hunters...) and the proceeds go towards providing direct aid in Palestine my game BOSSGAME is included too!! check it out!! itch.io/b/2979/play-...
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
Incredibly grateful to @pcgamer.com for sharing about our Games for Palestine charity bundle. Thank you so much for the coverage!! ❤️ www.pcgamer.com/games/you-ca...
The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant is offering $15,000 USD to traditionally under-supported game developers working on thinky puzzle games. If this is you, we invite you to apply! Deadline: September 28th grants.draknek.org
his entire statement is excellent, and thanks to @atrupar.com as always for quality clipping and quoting. idk how you keep up with it all, man.
As part of his administration’s war on “woke,” Donald Trump has asked the American public to report anything “negative” about Americans in US national parks. But, the public has largely refused to support a worldview without inconvenient historical facts. From our friends at @theguardian.com:
Yarn lovers are facing higher prices, delays, and supply issues as new U.S. import rules take effect. With parcels under $800 now taxed and many postal services halting deliveries, several beloved European yarn brands have already paused shipping to the U.S. 😿 Read it: 👉 archive.is/lxp1v
Also, if you're a small dev, publisher, or PR person, please check out our announcements page and learn how you can essentially build press releases through our site so we don't have to spend all day regurgitating writing into news form! www.rogue.site/announcement...
Over 1,000 Demonstrations Held Across the U.S. for Labor Day
Join us at our Official Watch Party for #GDoCExpo 2025 in New York City! Hosted by @sharpiepls.com, organized by Game Devs of Color, & presented by NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. Catch sessions broadcast to the big screen, game stations, and space to network & mingle! #gamedev
Treachery in Beatdown City + Ultra Remix DLC on Switch in the US & Europe/AUS is on a major sale until September 2nd! 🤡 Meet terrible people 🥶 Freeze time 🤜🏼 Build custom combos 👮🏼 Beat 'em up! ✝️ Uncover a techno-christo-fascist conspiracy (?) 85% off base game 65% off DLC 75% off Base/DLC Bundle!
please call your state electeds and tell them to stand with trans people. learning about transness as a kid would have spared me over a decade of misery. this is an act of genocide, and not a particularly early-stage one.
If you tell me I should show no interest in art because of the fascism in our world, I am going to curtly let you know that (1) the fascism has always been here for me and mine and (2) people being interested in art is what is currently keeping me alive.
It's less than 100 days until October 31, so now's a great time to sign up for my 100% free newsletter, 31 Days of Halloween. Every day of October I send an email with fun, cute, cozy and/or spooky seasonal stuff to get you into a Halloween mood 🎃 Sign up here: buttondown.com/31daysofhall...
So...who else keeps finding themselves choked up while watching the new season of King of the Hill?
oh boy holy shit
🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.
Tomorrow! Here's another preview off the album with "NO STOPPING". Easily one of the favs amongst my homies, here's something to get you groovin' 💃 🎨 Cover Art by @casualrad.bsky.social
Wrote about capitalism as mechanics and Promise Mascot Agency as the anti-cozy game 💕
I didn't have $520,000 for a #Gamescom Trailer so I'm posting my Clown Tactics game here instead for free! #gamedev 🎮 #pixelart #indiegame
Just re-upping this! And for clarification, I don't just mean videogames: board, card, tabletop (ESPECIALLY SOLO, 'cause I love those) But yeah. Drop me a line!
Soooo here's a bundle you should pick up! I'm the Head of Curation for @gdocexpo.com , and a bunch of amazing people have come together to build a bundle that supports our work. Over 100 items for JUST $10 DOLLARS! So looking forward to this year's Expo, and thankful to everyone who picks this up!
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gavin newsom is basically keir starmer and american liberals don't understand why that makes him an evil fuck.
On my stream yesterday we were talking about what kind of stream or stream alternatives I might want to make for the Global Strike today. In the past I've done a "Call/write your reps with me. Coworking day" but today I'll just be in my Discord to stay off Twitch. 🍉💗
Hang out with us and hear our talks at #gamescom2025!
Would be fantastic to chat :)
Please do! Number Station looks really cool, dropped the project a follow :)
Also, even if you're not going to PAX or SLICE... If you're not going to any events at all, still, let's share good words, have real conversations. Reach out.
For context: I run @intelligame.us, and I want to help people make connections between games and the real world. To me, this means: * highlighting thoughtful games * having slower, deeper discussions * sharing who we are, not just what we make If that's your vibe, my email's in my profile :)
My chat with @qdork.bsky.social and AP went up on the Guardian. I've been crossing my fingers for Consume me to release for YEARS, and was such a joy to finally speak to them. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/a...
Hello! Are you: * Going to SLICE or PAX? AND * Showing a game that's thoughtful, has real-world themes, strong narratives, OR * Wanna deep chat interview about games, what it means to make them in 2025 OR * Aren't showing a game, but want to have a deep convo interview about games neway HMU!
BREAKING NEWS: Deputies in Evansville, Indiana sent a protester to the hospital tonight (8/20/25) during a Town Hall with the Indiana lieutenant governor Micah Beckwith.
Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
A thing I've been seeing lately in cosy gaming circles is the idea that game critics can't be trusted, especially on bad reviews. it's either "they don't understand the genre" or "my boyfriend told me IGN isn't trustworthy and I'm going to uncritically apply that to all outlets" it's very worrying
There's really something to this, especially she's not a character who gets frozen in place to enable someone else's plot or growth. She consistently has agency, which means she has multiple chances to go rancid... And still, she pushes for the light.
Playdate devs, assemble!! 💪 Me and @golosogames.bsky.social (with @palkidmusic.bsky.social on music) made Chance's Lucky Escape, which was in Playdate Season 2! We'd love to talk about it with you!
All very fair picks tbh; can't wait to have new Katamari music stuck in my head for 34 years :D
also i hate talking about this because every time i do it gets picked up somewhere, somehow and i get harassed for weeks but whatever, man. i'm really proud of the work we put into this, the research and the care and the nuance, and i will continue to share it. www.ign.com/articles/how...
Have a good three from the list you'd set your sights on? I'm Outer Worlds 2, Neon Inferno, and Time Stranger (I love a Digimon, lol)
Seems like the overwhelmingly negative response stuck a major nerve for these companies. Let's keep it up!
Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...
If you have a way with words and a mind for memes (affinity for alliteration not required), we're hiring for a part-time Social Media & Community Manager to help us out over the next few months. We'd love to hear from you! braceyourselfgames.com/careers/
Oh, this looks beautiful
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