Nickkk

Doubt is the best QA tester I know

I want to play because i fucking love games. I want to build because i fucking love games. BUT making games is a parasite on play time, and playing games is a parasite on dev time. I'm in toxic love triangle with the medium itself, and the clock runs only one way

If i die bury me under a mountain of confused emails and outraged forum posts. Anything is better than the clinical silence of a "polished" game that says absolutely nothing. If everyone "gets it" instantly, you've designed a toy. Give me the confusion. It’s at least honest

If they aren't confused by your vision, you're playing it too safe

If you call yourself a Game Designer, this history is mandatory reading. 🔗 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗦! ▫️𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗨𝗠 link: lnkd.in/d83fxn4N ▫️𝗗𝗘𝗩.𝗧𝗢 link: lnkd.in/dMKgBa7K

"If you can dream it, you can do it" Great quote but in gamedev, it only works if you have a plan. Game Design is an engineering discipline, and documentation is our blueprint. Here is massive history of how we learned to capture those dreams on paper. nickkeepkind.medium.com/the-big-histor…

Every new era brings its own hysteria. Humans survived the camera, the digital painting, and google. So i guess what i'm trying to say... use it. Don't use it. Whatever. Just don’t turn it into an excuse to lose your conscience

Hot take: disclosure gets pitchforks, silence gets a pass. Secrecy IS the tell. If AI helped, say it. Drafts, previz, iteration - fine. Humans shaped the work? Pay them, credit them, get consent! Half the mob never reads credits. OTHERWISE YOU’R JUST OUTSOURCING GUILT TO A MODEL

The current crusade against Ai disclosure is fascinating. See a desperate fetishization of "purity" regardless of the output quality. It is peak 2025 comedy: a witch hunt that exclusively punishes the witches who volunteer to be found

Read our full argument on why this toxic myth needs to die. 🔗 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗦! ▫️𝗗𝗘𝗩.𝗧𝗢 link: lnkd.in/gcX9DRBp ▫️𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗨𝗠 link: lnkd.in/gsZ3_vP7

The worst part about solo dev isn't the grind. It's how our industry fetishizes the suffering. That "lone genius" myth is just a fast track to burnout. We had a long talk with my mate programmer about why this lie is killing great ideas, and we wrote it all down.

We’ve also set up an itch.io blog page — and if you’ve got a minute, show some love to our page out there. That tiny push helps indie projects a lot more than you’d think. Give a look, share it, or join the test: itch.io/blog/1067086/w… #indiegames via @itchio

Want more context on the game and our design goals before you sign up? The full announcement post's is below: 🔗 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗦! ▫️𝗗𝗘𝗩.𝗧𝗢 link: lnkd.in/gfKk-iDr ▫️𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗨𝗠 link: lnkd.in/gDmK3DNq

Our team has been heads-down for a year. Time to show our work!🗣️ Private alpha for Space Is Limited is OPEN. A 4-player competitive TBS fusing the strategy of Civilization, world-building of Carcassonne & deck-building of Hearthstone. Sign up below. forms.gle/LLLcJM16YLnh85…

@seiko_dev Glad to hear this 🫂

@NickKeepKind Thank you for the interesting article! I had read the Japanese translation of “Gamers' Brain” once before, but I couldn't say I had truly internalized it. Hearing about it from a different perspective is very valuable!

記憶のしくみについて「記憶と脳」を「客とホテル」になぞらえつつ、ゲームデザインで気にかけるべき所を解説する記事🙏

Here's the links to check it out! 𝗗𝗘𝗩.𝗧𝗢 link: dev.to/nickkeepkind/t… 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗨𝗠 link: nickkeepkind.medium.com/the-case-of-th…

It's almost a crime how we design complex systems and expect people to remember them after a week off. Player memory isn't a save file. I ended up treating this thought like a proper investigation, and this article came out of it.

How does Game Design decide what goes on this card? nickkeepkind.medium.com/how-does-game-… 「なぜ」への答えを常に持てィという話。まぁ言うてノリで盛る事もありま > プレイヤーはある要素が目的もなく存在したり「思いついた」という理由だけでメカニクスが追加されているのを驚くほど正確に見抜く はい