So after several years of investigation, it seems there really is no source of funding for Game Boy homebrew, except for the recently established you-know-who.

I don't really see much room for competitors. So my advice would be to not look for funding from a third party, do it yourself.

Next up in our music game series: a big profile of Sound Fantasy and Electroplankton creator Toshio Iwai, based on a three-hour call with @radishgames.com.

Also in the main story: archival photos showing the packaging for Iwai’s canceled Super Famicom game Sound Fantasy.

My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.

Fuck cancer.

Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...

Interesting Iwata Asks from around the Nintendo 3DS launched. Miyamoto, Iwata and Itoi talk about the failure (or not) of the Virtual Boy.

The comments about it being an expensive toy and not a gaming platform seem appropriate given the recent news.

www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Iwata-...

If you read one thing today, make sure it’s this truly excellent piece from @asharangappa.bsky.social

That Venn diagram is everything.

asharangappa.substack.com/p/making-sen...

piracy is a morally correct choice in a world where prices increase in inverse relativity to job prospects. you deserve access to culture no matter what side of the poverty line you're on. buy a used video game console and jailbreak it, learn to torrent, install soulseek. art is for everyone

"I'm gonna dump all my pent up angst and infodump material into a blog post about Itch/payment processing" I say to myself. It ends up like a million words, oops.

but well, I got it out of my brain: voidfox.com/blog/payment...

Stop Killing Games made it to 100% required signatures.

Now, I'd like to make it perfectly clear: If you have not signed, yet or know someone who hasn't: DO IT NOW!

The more buffer the petition has, the better!

www.stopkillinggames.com

if you're in Europe PLEASE consider signing the Stop Destroying Games initiative. the deadline is July 31st 2025. it aims to create legislation for publishers to stop killing the games you pay for and to provide an end-of-life plan for live-service products. thanks!

eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...

This rules for a lot of reasons, but especially because it dispels the myths that A.) old games were never political and B.) games like this are just stories, they aren't "about" anything. Should serve as a reminder to anyone writing about games why we should be close reading 'em.

How does ROLLBACK NETCODE work, why is it so difficult to program, and why is it the gold standard for fighting games? A whirlwind tour of different solutions #pixelart #gamedev #AnimationVERSUS

The setup: you have a video game with couch co-op and want to add online multiplayer. Easy, right...?

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Phew! 44 fonts for GB Studio and retro dev! A variety of styles and sizes and with .ttf files too!
2bitcrook.itch.io/44-game-boy-...
#pixelart #gbstudio

I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development

localthunk.com/blog/balatro...