Austin Schwab

game dev @bendergamesco

[Bender Games (SAGE 🐸) @bendergamesco]

Tales from the dungeon #indiegames #gamedev #frog #wizard

[Bender Games (SAGE 🐸) @bendergamesco]

📢 SAGE AT 40K WISHLISTS 📢

it has been incredible to see quite the pond form around our novice frog wizards. jokes aside, we appreciate the support from everyone in the community!

ps. wishlist SAGE on Steam and join the playtests on Discord

[Bender Games (SAGE 🐸) @bendergamesco]

We just hit a huge milestone with SAGE - we have reached 𝟏𝟎𝐊 wishlists on Steam! Thank you to everybody who has helped us reach this goal. For more updates and early playtest access, come join our Discord community 🐸🪄

[Bender Games (SAGE 🐸) @bendergamesco]

Join our first playtest through Steam starting July 25th! Sign up available on our Discord 🐸 🪄 #indiegames #gamedev

[Bender Games (SAGE 🐸) @bendergamesco]

1 year progress on the village in 30 seconds
#indiedev #indiegame

[Austin Schwab @austinschwab]

@codequistador weekend-long playtest at the end of the month!

https://t.co/2MrAoIuZPR

[Austin Schwab @austinschwab]

any gamers or game devs wanna playtest?

@codequistador and i have been developing Sage for over 2 years, and we’d love more feedback if you enjoy multiplayer games and magic 🪄

[Bender Games (SAGE 🐸) @bendergamesco]

Our frog wizards are finding inner peace… what spells should they learn next?🐸

#gamedev #cozygames #indiegame

[Murdoink @Murdoink]

death stranding 3 starring danny devito

[Austin Schwab @austinschwab]

@semiDL Electronic Arts (Trip Hawkins)

[Austin Schwab @austinschwab]

@michae1becker how cool. i also learned TM ~10 years ago after hearing him speak about it so gracefully. i've been relistening to Catching the Big Fish recently, lots of gems in there

[Austin Schwab @austinschwab]

@hippowombat @HeartMachineHQ @HLBreaker big congrats! the game is gorgeous, looking forward to playing more this weekend♥️

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

Happy 2025!

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Paul Simon used to take his guitar into the bathroom, as the tiles created an echo chamber, run the faucet, so there'd be white noise in the background, then turn off the light, so his mind could hallucinate. He wrote Sound of Silence in that bathroom at 21, creativity is weird

[Mark @MarkSuperDev]

This rings true in the games industry; the inner core of the team that silently is the glue that creates magic.

[Peter Monga @petemonga]

Kiwi cam! Virtual puppet walking through a procedurally generated forest in #unrealengine #ue5

[thomasmahler @thomasmahler]

It is absolutely not a surprise to me that a lot of AAA studios have been struggling lately and my prediction is that it won’t really get better any time soon.

I know it sounds absurd, but most of the games studios out there that hit it big were at one point just a small group of passionate folks that wanted to make games together. In a lot of cases they were just friends. And if they were lucky, they found out in the process that they actually make a great team together.

Then the games they created struck a chord and now they scale up and become a massive studio. And then lots of other folks come in and demand this and that and unknowingly change the culture and the approach and then we suddenly wonder what happened to this or that great studio that always delivered in the past once they’re not delivering the same quality products anymore, even though EVERYTHING changed in their approach to making games.

I’ve compared companies to bands in the past because I think that analogy helps a lot of people understand that we’re really dealing with the same issues here:

Take the Beatles, they become successful, but now their record company tells John, Paul, Ringo and George how they should write their songs and - by the way - now they should also hire Lisa, Steward, Shane and Mary and have them be part of the songwriting team so they can produce more stuff and of course these new folks should have the same say because otherwise we might just face diversity issues - does anybody really think we would’ve gotten the same output they had by doing it this way?

No, of course not. And it’s no different for games studios or any other group of talented people that produce art together.

You have to keep that magic alive that made it all work in the first place. We’re dealing with humans here and all too often the industry seems to forget that.

[Daniel Cook (also on mastodon) @danctheduck]

So much mentoring I do is asking folks to treat themselves with kindness.

Overwork, anxiety, external and internal pressure can put us into a dark hole. We lack mental resources to be playful.

You need kindness.
So you can experience safety.
So you can imagine delight.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

The first Halo redefined console gaming in 2001, and over the generations Halo has pushed the state of the art forward with amazing gameplay, story, and music. Epic is honored that the Halo Studios team has chosen our tools to help with their future work!

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

Famous Heroes of the Kabuki Stage Played by Frogs, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 19th century

#ukiyoe #浮世絵 #nationalfrogjumpingday