Jon Remedios
@jonremedios.bsky.social
Toronto based game designer/developer.
SSMP. Marc. Gone Vroom. A pile of digital trash that's disappeared.
Working on new stuff. Still missing Miitomo.
SSMP. Marc. Gone Vroom. A pile of digital trash that's disappeared.
Working on new stuff. Still missing Miitomo.
Reposted by Jon Remedios
I worked with the irrepressible @jonremedios.bsky.social @tylermakesgames.bsky.social @rainysector.bsky.social @bravemule.bsky.social to write a paper on why permadeath (and other forms of loss in games) appeals, and what we lose when we try to paper over it with metaprogression. Check it out!
It's the Polaris 2025 reports! They've come! They're here! It's a bumper crop of five, count'em FIVE papers! We got comedy, we got death, we got cringe, we got trust... something for the whole team.
Piping hot game design knowledge and insight await:
polarisgamedesign.com/reports/
Piping hot game design knowledge and insight await:
polarisgamedesign.com/reports/
January 22, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I worked with the irrepressible @jonremedios.bsky.social @tylermakesgames.bsky.social @rainysector.bsky.social @bravemule.bsky.social to write a paper on why permadeath (and other forms of loss in games) appeals, and what we lose when we try to paper over it with metaprogression. Check it out!
The new reports from @polarisgamedesign.com went up today! I had the pleasure of attending this year and got to work with some pretty nifty people on a pretty nifty paper about loss and pain in video games. Fun stuff!
polarisgamedesign.com/2025/embraci...
polarisgamedesign.com/2025/embraci...
Embracing Player Pain: Designing for Permanent Loss
Loss and death are important, some would say essential, parts of the human experience. It's something that we all must, in time, come to accept in our lives. Why is it so hard to accept in our games?
polarisgamedesign.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:49 PM
The new reports from @polarisgamedesign.com went up today! I had the pleasure of attending this year and got to work with some pretty nifty people on a pretty nifty paper about loss and pain in video games. Fun stuff!
polarisgamedesign.com/2025/embraci...
polarisgamedesign.com/2025/embraci...
a resounding "duh doy"
Former Bethesda exec Pete Hines claims subscription services are undercutting developers
Former Bethesda exec says subscriptions undercut devs
Pete Hines believes 'short sighted' decision making in service of subscriptions has left developers out in the cold.
www.gamedeveloper.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
a resounding "duh doy"
Reposted by Jon Remedios
It's my absolute pleasure to present to you our labor of love: Poly Fighter!
We are HeartLoop Games! ♥
We are HeartLoop Games! ♥
New studio. New game.
Step into the ring with Poly Fighter, a single-player roguelike fighting game where every run reshapes your style.
🖊️ Sign up to playtest: bit.ly/polyfighterplaytest
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilkn...
Step into the ring with Poly Fighter, a single-player roguelike fighting game where every run reshapes your style.
🖊️ Sign up to playtest: bit.ly/polyfighterplaytest
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilkn...
Poly Fighter - Reveal Trailer | Roguelike Fighting Game
YouTube video by Poly Fighter Game
www.youtube.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It's my absolute pleasure to present to you our labor of love: Poly Fighter!
We are HeartLoop Games! ♥
We are HeartLoop Games! ♥
Ah yes, we all must make a choice between: pathetic coward, horrible monster, or oblivious buffoon.
September 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Ah yes, we all must make a choice between: pathetic coward, horrible monster, or oblivious buffoon.
Important context! I think the allure of this mythological Clair Obscur team is in response to how publicly dysfunctional the game industry has been (i.e. layoffs)
It's nice to imagine that great games can exist outside of a broken model, but trading one lie for another ain't helping anyone.
It's nice to imagine that great games can exist outside of a broken model, but trading one lie for another ain't helping anyone.
Expedition 33 was made thanks to a small internal team and a BIG team of outsourced devs. Most big games, and many small games, are made this way!
If you don’t know a ton about outsourcing in game dev, People Make Games has done a phenomenal job covering it
youtu.be/bm7KUE1Kwts?...
If you don’t know a ton about outsourcing in game dev, People Make Games has done a phenomenal job covering it
youtu.be/bm7KUE1Kwts?...
May 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Important context! I think the allure of this mythological Clair Obscur team is in response to how publicly dysfunctional the game industry has been (i.e. layoffs)
It's nice to imagine that great games can exist outside of a broken model, but trading one lie for another ain't helping anyone.
It's nice to imagine that great games can exist outside of a broken model, but trading one lie for another ain't helping anyone.
Came back to social media (literally yesterday) to search for a little spark of hope/joy in video games — oops!
May 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Came back to social media (literally yesterday) to search for a little spark of hope/joy in video games — oops!
Had a brief existential crisis. Finally set up an account I've been sitting on for two years.
April 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Had a brief existential crisis. Finally set up an account I've been sitting on for two years.