Bea Livesey-Stephens 🔜 GDC

If you want to play AT LEAST an 8 on the wokeometer I urge you to back Date Knight @dateknight.bsky.social , the game where you date mirror-pronoun knights www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...

A promotional photo of a crochet plush toy character Pip Pepper, wearing a yellow hard hat and a sweater, looking towards the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco at dusk, which is visible in the background over green foliage. Hand-drawn cartoon characters are integrated into the photo: on the bridge tower and suspension cables are a brown deer, a small yellow mouse and a red snake with a construction hat. There is also a purple squid on the far right on the sea-level. Text at the top of the image in a large white, 3D text font with a thin black outline and shadow reads: "Pip Pepper Goes to GDC ‘26!" Below "Pip Pepper" is a small green sign with a black border that says, "PARK PLANNER". The text font is bold and yellow with a thick black outline. On the right side of the image, there is a grid of four white blocks with logos for the: GDC Festival of Gaming with date and location March 9-13, 2026, San Francisco, CA bubble sort studios x GAME DEVS OF COLOR , POCKET GAMER CONNECTS SAN FRANCISCO SUMMIT 2026, VERTICAL SLICE. On the bottom right corner, text in a smaller white font says "Thank you", next to the logo of the "iGDA Foundation". Text below that reads "for making it possible" with a small heart icon.

Pip Pepper goes to GDC 2026! 🌉🐤

We are excited to share our dearest tiny bird Pip will attend the Game Developers Conference (GDC) through March 9-13, 2026, in San Francisco, CA

Thank you to @igdafoundation.org for making it possible 💙💛

🔽 We’ll be Showcasing at the following local events:

today is such a good day. what a fucking cool industry filled with the most magical people 🥰

WE HIT 7K ALREADY?????

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you know what that means.....

so excited to be judging A MAZE entries this year - SO many cool and beautiful works to immerse myself in and share with you all 🔥

The heaviest thing you will ever carry is the version of yourself that everyone else wants you to be.

Maintaining a thread during GDC is extremely hard! Everything is a mile a minute. I’m gonna do a recap when I’m home

For example, imagine we're playing Dungeons & Dragons. We're 20th level, we've got a ton of cool magic items, we've defeated archliches and dragons. One player has decided to open a coffee shop, and the other players want to join in. We haven't touched the dice or brought up XP in five sessions. Someone points out that, while we're still playing the same game we were before, it no longer has much resemblance to Dungeons & Dragons as defined in the rulebooks.

i wrote a blogpost about a game's precipice, the moment when the players of a game need to choose between the fiction and the rules
www.patreon.com/posts/152789...

Cari shared this in the GDC accessibili-buddies server, thank you so much for putting it together! There was also a “building for player expertise” set of microtalks which wasn’t billed as accessibility on the agenda but it was very good (thank you @designermonicat.bsky.social !)

literally how do ISAT and How To Train Your Dragon have the same score? (I do love HTTYD to be clear)

tweet by wokeometer. text id: In Stars And Time: Time-loop RPG derailed by all-queer cast's pronoun parades and aroace faith crises. Official score: 7/10 🦠 Found family sermon over swordplay.

ISAT is only worth a SEVEN on the wokeometer scale?????? im so sorry everyone. i have failed you

Lisette Titre-Montgomery, recipient of the Gerald Lawson Award for Achievement in Game Development

Lex Roberts, Eric Dybsand Scholar award recipient

In partnership with the BIG Foundation, we'd like to proudly announce Lisette Montgomery as the recipient of the Gerald Lawson Award for Achievement in Game Development, and Lex Roberts as the Eric Dybsand Scholar award recipient, both recognized during the #GDC2026 Festival of Gaming!

For those interested in the academic research of role-playing games, we have just released our latest issue of the International Journal of Role-Playing (17!).

221 pages of work, all for advancing knowledge about this medium.

journals.uu.se/IJRP/issue/v...

Really loved your talk!!

Compliments 💖 You deserve to hear this

I made a random compliment generator today because I wanted to make something nice :)

A white mesh bag with several bulbs of garlic and some individual cloves on a kitchen counter.

I, a published writer, editor, and university instructor, learned today that a “clove” of garlic refers to the sections and not the entire structure (“bulb”). This has enormous ramifications for my recipes

That’s mindblowing to me - I’m now remembering how many people own Wanderhome through itch bundles without purchasing the game itself

if we reach 10k by Friday the 13th I'll release day three the same day.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...

It's a lighthouse!

born to die
forced to produce culture

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations!!!

The Outersloth Contract | Innersloth - Creators of Among Us and The Henry Stickmin Collection! Hello!

💰THE OUTERSLOTH CONTRACT 💰

We just released the FULL contract and terms that all our games sign!

We hope this challenges the status quo of what you see out there.

In a nutshell:
💸 Pre-recoup 50/50
💸 Post-recoup 15/85
💸 Terms after 7 years

www.innersloth.com/the-outerslo...

Thank you!

Not at #GDC but I’m #WhatAGameDevLooksLike

Writer, editor, Narrative Designer and DEI Consultant for 10+ years. A very hireable one, still seeking work a year after Monolith’s closure. ✌🏾

A lot of scary things are going on in the world, and I hope that by taking part in #WhatAGameDevLooksLike next week you can create a little moment of camaraderie and joy. It's a tiny act of resistance. Despite all the nonsense in this industry, you belong here and you deserve to be celebrated. 💜

we're two away from 200 backers and over halfway to 7k!!

hint on finding the secret knights on day one will drop once we reach 7k..........

it's op flashing a millenial peace sign under an awning. they're in all black with a gold chain choker, wearing transition eyeglasses that are half-darkened, like a real step-dad

selfie of op in their sabres jersey, damp-haired and sleepy-looking

op is doing a tarot card reading dressed in black and red and gold, with very dramatic makeup

hello, my name is leyla and i'm a (very hireable) producer/pipelines pervert based in baltimore county. this is my fifth year in game dev, where i've worked in AAA and start-ups, and i am most certainly #WhatAGameDevLooksLike.

JC has pink and purple hair and is wearing sunglasses, a black sleeveless hoodie, and a silver necklace with a pizza charm on it. She is in front of a bunch of flowers that look like they are exploding out of her head. The sky is blue behind her.

This is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike! I’m JC, I’ve been a gamedev for 10+ years in AAA/indie, and I am currently lead producer and (NEWLY MINTED) COO at my studio, @twirlbound.com! I love making cool stuff with cool people, developing sustainable career paths, and of course yelling (lovingly) about Jira ✨

Zelle has her hair in a braid, has on maroon glasses, and is wearing a blue cloak and plastic armor. She is in front of full bookshelves.

This is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike! I’m Elizabeth Zelle, a game dev since 2008 working at places like Volition (RIP), Bethesda, and Amazon.

I love leading and growing #gamesUR teams, empowering devs to make more inclusive games, and my weekly d&d sessions (that we’ve kept up for over 6 years!)

a trans woman wearing a black and pink dress smiles at the camera and stands against a white wall

Hey folks! Not at GDC this year but I am #WhatAGameDevLooksLike!

I'm a queer, nonbinary trans woman & founder of Lookout Drive Games. I'm currently the director/lead writer of our studio's upcoming game, a queer love letter to Cowboy Bebop, Bitter Silver: store.steampowered.com/app/1906930/...