Reposted by David SmithAnna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com · 03/09/2026Looking for someone who can do rigging and animation for a some ad-hoc work on Crescent County! If you are that person, or know of that person, please reply or DM me 🙏 26155164
Reposted by David Smithroot @freshroots.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Hi, I made a steam page for my game, Soft Ruin. If it seems interesting, please consider giving it a wishlist. Thanks! store.steampowered.com/app/2882230/... 873133974
Reposted by David SmithSpelkollektivet @spelkollektivet.com · 14/08/2026Help Save the Home for Indie Game Developers For 9 years Spelkollektivet has had more than 700 game developers stay at the co-living & co-working hub, but due to new directives in the local area, the future may be at risk. Read more: gofund.me/f4244d6de #gamedev #indiegames #gofundme 2180164
Reposted by David SmithAnna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com · 29/07/2026Hey all! I'm currently on the lookout for a freelance UI artist with experience in Unreal 5. Stylized art preferred as it's for Crescent County! Lmk if that sounds like YOU or SOMEONE YOU KNOW 🌟 #gamedev #indiedev #gamejobs 19168179
Reposted by David SmithLost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · 23/07/2026From a database to a full-fledged bible! ✨🕺 We've collabed with @eddcoates.bsky.social on the Game UI Bible, a 500+ page hardback adventure through the UI/UX of loads of your favourite games 🎮 Let us entice you with a limited signed bookplate by Edd himself and more below 🔗👇 634591
Reposted by David SmithRami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 13/07/2026It's been so nice seeing the excitement for the courses.ramiismail.com program. Genuinely didn't know what to expect, but this is far beyond my expectations. I really hope it helps everyone!courses.ramiismail.comLevelling the Playing Field - Courses by Rami IsmailPractical, focused courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - by Rami Ismail. 320435
Reposted by David SmithMike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Proud to announce the next game Vampirium: 1997 Dracula is king of the United British Empire. Kill his enemies and find your own path through a minimalist immersive sim sandbox. Wishlists and retweets massively appreciated (and, you know, massively helpful) store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...store.steampowered.comVampirium: 1997 on Steam1997. Dracula is King of England. At his command, master your dark gifts to assassinate his enemies and secure his vampiric empire. Infiltrate locked-down locations, adapt and survive in living enviro... 1392501818
Reposted by David SmithMyra Cheng @myra.bsky.social · 03/10/2025AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize. 5544270
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 04/05/2026You're good at this stuff. I remember having Paper Planes burned into my head for weeks after you sent me one 110
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I would read that, I'm sure people would find it useful to have thoughts on scene graphs bundled together like that 000
Reposted by David SmithDavid H @nachimir.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Leftfield submissions are now open for 2026: airtable.com/appIQDFmYU3o... 36557
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 18/03/2026In Webdev it's always DNS. In Gamedev it's always FMOD 130
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 04/03/2026How do you handle any required Windows / Xbox Dev or have you managed to sidestep it? Windows in a VM or second machine? 110
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I'm gonna be that guy - you tempted by Linux or is too much daily stuff Windows based? 100
Reposted by David SmithJoel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 20/02/2026Premium is just £2.49 or your local equivalent while we're building out the other modes. Please consider supporting us! Our game doesn't yet pay for its own servers and that would be lovely actually. Daily mode is still free and always will be! 031
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I started building a NAS recently and ended up buying second hand drives from Europe (still spenny as fuck). Also ended up repurposing a previous machine due to RAM (especially ECC) being unobtanium. Everything is fucked 010
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 13/02/2026He should change his name to Stefan Repro after this 000
Reposted by David SmithHollie Emery 🏳️⚧️🌿 @slinkyfishy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026New Luna Abyss Steam demo just dropped! Please check it out. If you want to help a dev out, please reshare these posts: Insta www.instagram.com/reel/DUqRPIU... Twitter x.com/LunaAbyssGam... Bsky bsky.app/profile/luna... FB fb.watch/FdEr_z_UDh/ Wishlist Now store.steampowered.com/app/1933000/...instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 065
Reposted by David SmithThe Game Bakers @thegamebakers.com · 29/01/2026Time to climb! Cairn is available now. Mount Kami awaits, unconquered. This is what you trained for: fight for every meter of the climb and rise to the challenge. 20540166
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 17/01/2026I am also setting up a chonky NAS! New hardware for it was too expensive but the old pc will do just fine 010
Reposted by David SmithDan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026HEY HEY it's NEWS 'O CLOCK. 'EARTH MUST DIE' is coming out on the 27th of Jan, which is alarmingly soon! Please pop over here and wishlist it, and do share if you're able. Thank you. store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/... 10222112
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Reboot has stopped? I was thinking of going to that soon, damn 100
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Wallace and Gromit built this in a basement! On a bank holiday weekend! 000
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 24/12/2025*flying with the snowman when a plane gets in the way* HEY! I'M WALKIN' IN THE AIR HERE! 000
Reposted by David SmithDan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Okay this is some strong as hell maths. Can't tell you how much buying the Size Five games helps me out. If you follow me but don't own these yet, please grab them now. It's the *actual best Christmas present* to help keep my weird little company afloat. Thank you. 35738
Reposted by David SmithSebastian Aaltonen @sebaaltonen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".sebastianaaltonen.comNo Graphics API — Sebastian AaltonenGraphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe... 19474193
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Nice! Didn't know you'd written your own. Will be giving this a thorough read through! 010
Reposted by David SmithWhite Paper Games @whitepapergames.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Back in 2011, ROUTINE & ETHER ONE were ideas yet to be realised - our teams hung out on Skype, dreaming up worlds together. 14 years on, we've shared the highs & the lows and we couldn't be prouder of what they've achieved. Congratulations friends 🧡💙 #routine #lunarsoftware 061
Reposted by David SmithROUTINE @routinegame.bsky.social · 04/12/2025> Booting ROUTINE… > Initializing lunar base exploration… > Available now on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud and Steam. Only one way forward. ▌ ► Xbox: www.xbox.com/en-US/games/... ► Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/606160/R... 17824
Reposted by David Smithadam pype @adampype.bsky.social · 02/12/2025hello bsky! our game was taken down due to a false DMCA which completely killed our momentum at launch. our studio is in a very precarious position right now. please share and spread the word, steam has been little help to our situation. noplayersonline.net/statement 201220984
Reposted by David SmithChristopher Ferris @sweaterparrot.bsky.social · 20/11/2025I should be working on other things but I keep getting distracted by my "the forklift job minigame from Shenmue but an entire game of it" game idea 98214
Reposted by David SmithDavid H @nachimir.bsky.social · 11/11/2025MORSE is out now: store.steampowered.com/app/1976860/... As well as keyboard or mouse, can work with actual Morse keys too; so, backwards compatible with hardware all the way to 1844store.steampowered.comSave 20% on MORSE on SteamVanquish the Kaiser's Imperial Fleet using timing, tactics and telegraphy in MORSE, a minimalist strategy game that teaches you the lost language of Morse code. Can you change the world with the push ... 2107
Reposted by David SmithMike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 07/11/2025It’s funny catching wind that my posts against generative ai have raised a few eyebrows and pissed a few people off. I’d love to be able to give a fuck, but first I’d need to steal a million fucks from other people, and have a machine randomly assemble small parts of those fucks together for me 1038149
Reposted by David SmithXalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025What I expected from Atomfall was British Fallout. What it’s actually doing is a fascinating verb-based investigative RPG?? You “level up” by exploring, and choosing when and how you deploy information. And when that finally clicked, it produced one of my favorite games in years. Don’t sleep on it 1726013
Reposted by David SmithDan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 04/10/2025If you enjoy Size Five and want to see it survive what is a very iffy time for the Games Industry, please do three things with your Saturday: ✅ Wishlist EARTH MUST DIE ✅ Buy a game on sale ✅ Share these links where you can store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/... store.steampowered.com/dev/sizefivestore.steampowered.comEarth Must Die on SteamThese moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ... 29671
Reposted by David SmithDan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 28/09/2025EARTH MUST DIE Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE Please RETWEET and WISHLIST 19472213
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Lot of work that though, first you gotta make InFlux 2, then InFlux Redux 2 130
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 30/08/2025@patricio.io Hi, will there ever be another print run of Pixel Spirit Deck? Thanks 120
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Or maybe its Skill Issue, Must Do better. Fuck my life. 010
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/08/2025SIMD stands for Simple Issue, Multiple Dead-ends 100
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/08/2025A fish coughed its way out of the ocean one day and now I have to FIX SIMD CRASHES. MAKE IT STOP 010
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Input handling is consistently the most frustrating part of unreal to me (aside from C++ Iteration even with liveplusplus, and loading screens) 010
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 25/08/2025It's at the point now where Unreal feels too big, and that's by design 110
Reposted by David SmithAndrew Crawshaw @andrewcrawshaw.bsky.social · 11/08/2025It's the 10th anniversary of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. Here's a thread of images that very few people will have seen. Thanks to the opportunity that Sony Santa Monica gave us, we had the freedom to explore ideas, even if that meant we left a lot of amazing work on the cutting room floor... 2828376
David Smith @trigpointdave.bsky.social · 10/08/2025The riddle "what word is so fragile that when spoken, breaks it" now has two answers 010