BergerDev

Sheridan Game Design Student | He/him | you should play Rain World

[hey. 💜 @theheycartoon]

A little over $4K left before we can fund pre-production of our SECOND episode!
2 days left in our campaign! 🫵🏾

[Foreign Horror Movies 🌍🔪 @foreignhorrorhq]

30 years of handcrafted stop-motion and it still looks like nothing else ever made. Mad God is the kind of film that makes you question what cinema is even for https://t.co/fiA0I0woFO

[gem @gemahtreeuhh]

the grass crest shield deadass invited to my wedding

[Ruben Hume @rubenhume]

Probably one of the most original brands I’ve seen lately, indeed

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

Tiger" by Peter Klucik.

[Lance McDonald @manfightdragon]

If you have a community of fromsoftware fans, please take a moment to retweet this and share it with your community. Algorithms these days aren’t kind to a content creator who takes 8 months to make one video.

[gooseworx gooseworx gooseworx gooseworx gooseworx @GooseworxMusic]

Now that everyone's eyes are on me, you should all watch Scavengers Reign, it's really good.

[BergerDev @JoshBergerReal]

The future of Toronto as a country is proven through the line 5

[BergerDev @JoshBergerReal]

Like 2 months ago or something csm had an announcement with some Japanese text and someone fake translated to imitate the way jjk announced the final 7 chapters. i didn’t know they were right #csm231

[Iden @EdonTWT]

this was like the biggest jumpscare ever in my entire life #csm231

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

Thermobaric bombs dropped on Gaza which create temperatures up to 3,000 Celsius and are supposed to be banned under international law were used to vaporise nearly 3,000 Palestinians. Vaporise. We're dealing with world-historical evil

[The Pink King @DayalSami]

Man this episode was both intense and hilarious 😭

#primal #PrimalSeason3

[My Favorite Color ™ @MyFavoriteCoIor]

It’s Black History Month

[Miranda Parkin @mparkinb]

yolo

[CSAURAGEUL @csaurageul]

Video games will never be taken seriously as an art form because neither the industry nor the audience treats them as art, and the audience is the larger part of the problem. Games are treated as products to be made fast, sold loud, consumed, discarded, and replaced. That is why Call of Duty and FIFA sell in the billions, not because they endure, but because they are disposable and familiar.

This has nothing to do with graphical fidelity, art style, music, voice acting, or budget, even though players insist otherwise. For most people, “artistic merit” means how flashy, pretty, and expensive a game looks. Spectacle is mistaken for depth, and production value is confused with meaning.

Games are not built to be evergreen because the audience does not want evergreen. The people who revisit old titles, engage deeply with systems, or approach games patiently are a minority. Most want the new release, the hype cycle, and the spectacle, then move on as soon as something shinier appears. This is the same reason Avatar makes a billion dollars per film yet leaves almost no cultural footprint. Audiences want stimulation for a few hours, then the exit.

Art requires patience and trust, and games demand both. They ask players to learn systems, accept friction, and think. The audience rejects this. Anything slow, strange, or uncomfortable is dismissed as boring or pretentious, so risk is punished not just by publishers, but by players themselves.

Because of this, metrics replace meaning. Engagement time, retention, and monetisation become the measure of success, because that is what the audience rewards. Art asks what something is saying. Products ask how long you stayed logged in. Games suffer most here because their greatest strength, player agency, is treated as an inconvenience rather than an opportunity.

Legacy is impossible without permission to fail, and the audience does not allow failure. A bad novel does not kill literature. A bad film does not kill cinema. A bad game can kill a studio, because players demand perfection, constant novelty, and infinite support while rejecting experimentation.

So the ceiling stays low by choice. Not because games cannot be art, but because an audience trained on disposability, spectacle, and instant gratification will not tolerate sincerity, patience, or risk. What survives is not what lasts, but what sells loudly and disappears quietly.

[𝕍𝕁 ☆ @VjDontMiss]

Fujimoto officially got the most motion of any mangaka in history this insanely cool

[BergerDev @JoshBergerReal]

@q_hayashida Berger

[フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @NorthernIion_LP]

#KillAllDodgersFans

[Retro Anime @retro_anime]

Note by Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama

[Del @TheCartelDel]

DoubleFine (Psychonauts devs) launched, Keeper, their new title yesterday. I'm hearing it's a 5 star game. Unfortunately, Xbox has decided for some reason that they aren't going to promote it at all, so less than 200 people on steam are playing it. Most haven't even heard of it.

[` @dereidyth]

to suffer so much and then to stay “but we are not the story” and turning the narrative back to palestinians. greta thunberg you’ll always have my respect