Thread on what it took to port Rift Riff, made in Godot, to iOS and Android. 🧵👇

#godotengine #gamedev

Almost 200 pages of game dev resources including:

🧑‍🏫 pitch decks
📢 marketing
🎨 art assets
🖥️ programming tools
🗣️ conference talks
🔎 job searching/careers
💰funds and more! 👾

In-house engines are on the rise, AI tools are multiplying, and
@godotengine.org just hit 5% adoption in AAA 🚀

These are just a few trends covered in the 2025 State of Game Technology Report developed with Perforce.

Read the full report 👉 ter.li/3bgafs
Join our webinar 👉 ter.li/ql0rxp

People’s memories and judgement are unreliable, especially under pressure

The Checklist Manifest covers the research to add checklists in hospital surgeries that significantly reduced complications when used 📖

This looks like a better version of my #gamedev toolkit megadoc and it's community funded!

Check it and help contribute 👀

Finished Boss Fight Books Shovel Knight! 📖 Really great insight on their creative process and collaboration as a team.

But this page hit pretty hard on how close they were money wise and wondered if there was an alternative. Eg funding, grant or even an advance

#gamedev

Looking for a games job?👾🔍

Many game companies host their job openings directly on platforms like Workday and Greenhouse

I made a tool to search for jobs on these platforms with Google X-ray and shows roles posted directly from the companies themselves!

labsofaweso.me/find-a-job/

#gamedev

🕹️ Going to be busy for a while 😅

Did you know that the 1998 Tiger Electronics Pokedex has unique monochrome sprites that have never been extracted? I was considering making a Pokedex app for the Arduboy and trying to dump the ROM. Would anyone use this? Or even want to help me with reverse engineering?

Reliving my childhood in a smaller form factor 🕹️

Another FPL season, another FPL feature to support in my WhatsApp bot 😅!

Managers are now displayed and points accounted for ⚽️

#fpl #premierleague

This looks like a lot of fun if they get it out to market!

Open source, repairable and modable portable pocket PC 👀

youtu.be/89pAwl55HJw?...

The new "fun" meta of job applications with referrals www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Quote: "According to hiring platform Greenhouse, while external applicants have a 1 in 200 chance of being hired, those with referrals have a 1 in 25 chance."

Web Games on Reddit is a thing apparently 👀

They have Hackathon coming up with cash prizes!

redditgamesandpuzzles.devpost.com

#indiegamedev #gamedev

New chair upgrade thanks to the sales!

A lot wider than I expected so just about fits in my office. But damn, does it feel good to sit in 😄

Another huge update to my game dev notebook 👀👾

- Careers section with job boards, salaries and tools
- Voice acting
- More business and market tools
- Tags for game jams and new to games/industry
- Games Con archives
+ more to existing sections!

stevenyau.co.uk/game-maker-t...

#gamedev #indiedev

Massive update to my game resources megalist! 👾

- Game pitch templates
- Publisher and Funds lists
- Games industry data
- Engine and rendering learing resources
- Art tools and resources
- Pixel art fonts
- UI assets packs

+ more at stevenyau.co.uk/game-maker-t...
#gamedev #indiedev