Tom Champion

✨ "How a small indie hit #1 New & Trending with a Steam Demo: Lessons from a horror game" – Helen Carmichael ✨ "How we grew a niche indie game to 120k wishlists" – Jarvs Tasker ✨ "You matter as much as your game" – Steve Stopps ✨ "A publishers perspective: what actually happens inside an indie publisher?" – Ross Griffith ✨ "Accessibility for indies" – Harriet Frayling ✨ "Insert Credits Here: VGEC and passing the cultural test" – Jacob Heayes

Thrilled to announce the indie game marketing/biz event – IMPACT! Indie Games – is back for 2026!

May 21st, StrangeBrew, Bristol

The first talks are live, below!

And tickets are now available! luma.com/ky59amg7

#gamedev #events

MIGA!

Had a dream that Christopher Walken lived near me and I was in his flat. He needed help with his brother, who was a master tailor but too sad to get out of bed and had to do all his tailoring while horizontal. I tried to help, but after a while, I had to leave, which made Christopher Walken cry.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

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Thank you!

Oh, sorry, it literally says it on the poster.

Is that Jerry Stiller as the garbage man?

This is fantastic.

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Mayfly is a story-rich quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England

Coming Q3 2026 🤞
Wishlist now if you haven’t already:
store.steampowered.com/app/4057470/...

#gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d #horrorgame #quiethorror #wishlistwednesday #gametrailer #promosky #storybased

And to all 750k Eurogamer YouTube fans, thank you so much, you made the last 13 years of my life the best I've had so far! I'd be honoured if you'd follow me to Platform32 where all the good stuff will continue, starting today with an epic 6 hour (!) Requiem stream! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVTW...

This sucks, sorry Ian. :( You're an excellent dude, and I'm sure whatever comes next for you will be equally excellent.

Made an annotated version of "Something Big Is Coming" for all of you to enjoy. I hate this guy's writing so much
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qw6k5...

Something Big Is Happening Something Big Is Happening Matt Shumer @mattshumer_ • Feb 10 Think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren't paying close attention. The stock market was doing great, your kids were in school, you were going to restaurants and shaking hands and planning trips. If someone told you they were

It took just one weekend for the new, self-proclaimed king of open source AI models to have its crown tarnished. Reflection 70B, a variant of Meta's Llama 3.1 open source large language model (LLM) - or wait, was it a variant of the older Llama 3? — that had been trained and released by small New York startup HyperWrite (formerly OthersideAI) and boasted impressive, leading benchmarks on third-party tests, has now been aggressively questioned as other third-party evaluators have failed to reproduce some of said performance measures.

Keep being sent this completely nonsensical hogslop. It has multiple egregious lies, which is appropriate because he’s a fraud. Back in September 2024 he falsified a bunch of benchmarks to hype up his open source model. Article is total dogshit. I should annotate it venturebeat.com/ai/reflectio...

Google and Microsoft offer lucrative deals to promote AI, but even $500,000 won't sway some creators Tech companies including Google and Microsoft are paying influencers hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote AI products.

Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...

We've done a new game! If you like one or more of:
* Tower defence
* Scottish Space Dwarves
* Retro vibes
You should check this out right now!

The hometown newspaper that I read as a teenager through Watergate and Vietnam and made me crave the life of a reporter is now being butchered by a billionaire who had $75 million to bribe and flatter a president and his wife but nothing to save journalism, an bulwark of the republic itself. Got it.

Oracle * @Oracle X.com The NVIDIA-OpenAl deal has zero impact on our financial relationship with OpenAl. We remain highly confident in OpenAl's ability to raise funds and meet its commitments.

My “the NVIDIA-OpenAI deal has zero impact on our financial relationship with OpenAI” shirt has people asking me a lot of questions answered by the shirt

Well done! If I tried the same thing, the drawer would probably burst into flames.

I have successfully sprayed WD 40 onto something. My DIY work for the year is complete.

Remote work 2. Exact same people exact same problem

Native Americans intrigued by Trump’s claim that ‘landing boats’ doesn’t grant you ownership of the entire country Native American leaders have expressed sudden and intense interest in Donald Trump’s legal theory that a country does not automatically own land simply because “some boats turned up a few hundred y…

NEWS! Native Americans intrigued by Trump's claim that 'landing boats' doesn’t grant you ownership of the entire country newsthump.com/2026/01/19/n...

hateful woman JK Rowling - "Iran appears to be unusually full of Gryffindors"

[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard

Three months here. Probably the first Christmas in 30 years I haven’t had a drink. Happy Christmas!

I'm going back to bed

Opened bluesky and immediately found ten things that made me simultaneously sad, angry and terrified. What a world.

This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.