Burger Bois is officially on the menu as an upcoming title in the Debut Festival 2025 Steam event! 🥳

Thanks to @gamedev.ist for celebrating devs making their first games - like us. 🫶

Check it out from August 7-11 PT!

#debutfestival #indiegame #gamedev #cozygames #steam #indiedev

We're making an ambitious cozy game - can you help us, or know someone who can?

Open Roles
🔊 Senior Audio Designer
🪄 Senior VFX Artist

Folks from diverse communities, we'd especially love to hear from you!

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The Silo is a series where they put the IT guy in charge and he thought he was being so sneaky. Just saying, it’s a pretty great show.

The RootTrees are Dead is Obra Dinn with some helpful guides to make it easier to make leaps AND juicy gossip in place of tentacles. Part 2 is the absolute best. Highly recommend!

Nintendo has shown they can and will innovate when their products aren’t meeting player needs.

The Switch is a handheld AND couch console that is easily the best console design we’ve ever seen, though the hardware is a bit anemic.

Innovation for the sake of innovation loses your audience.

So, we’re all ok with Indiana Jones bludgeoning the blind man? I spent ages sneaking around that room trying to escape it because I felt sure we weren’t meant to kill him. If I’m honest, I’m not super thrilled with all the priceless relic smashing either.

I was not prepared for how grateful people are just to hear from a recruitment team saying “we’re still working through applications, you’ll hear from us after the holidays.”

The bar is insanely low for studios providing some basic courtesy to folks. It’s rough out there.

Honored to have scored such a dazzling animation for Studio Drydock's upcoming game! ✨

The performances from the musicians truly blew me away; please hire these folks for your recording needs! (Credits below) ⤵️

Infinity Nikki might be the most impressive, most feminine game I’ve ever seen. Every UI screen looks like it was a different 20 people’s life’s work. The company has ~1,000 employees, so it might be true.

When I started a studio to make the kinds of games I wanted to make, I didn’t realize I’d still be plagued by all the silly little games I want to make, but only I would play.

The Wholesome Snack is next week, and we have something simply delicious to share with you all! 🫖✨

December 10, 2024 starting at 12pm PT / 3pm ET on @wholesomegames.com Youtube & Twitch.

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An Au law banning <16 YOs from everything except YouTube and games is a pretty big gap in their social presence, isn’t it? I just have no idea what this law is even meant to achieve, but I’m pretty sure if it isn’t covering those two spaces it’s failing at it.

Does anyone know who is encouraging artists to create custom portfolio websites for job applications? I’d like to have a quiet word…and reclaim the many, many hours I’ve lost to load times and navigation.

Congrats to all the Bafta Breakthroughs. I was happy to be part of the selection committee. www.bafta.org/stories/brea...

If you like cozy games and have any of these skills, you should definitely apply. We are building something pretty amazing you’ve never seen before and would love for you to be a part of it!

A shoutout to all the cozy game developers who have had a coworker or executive sidle up to you and say “it’s really cool…but have you thought about putting combat in?”

Well anyway, the games that brought me the most joy and made me delighted to work in this industry this year are:
GotY
Botany Manor

Puzzles
Lorelei and the laser eyes
Rise of the Golden Idol

Platformer
Animal Well

Cozy
Go-go Town
Love, Ghostie

Ongoing Games
Oxygen Not Included
Plate Up

What are the criteria for best game direction? That feels like it would be hard to quantify if you weren’t part of the team building that specific game. Explain it to me like I’m five so I can understand why they’re the same list as the GotY noms. Signed, a game director.