Game Development

Jonathan Blow did a long interview on the Full Time Game Dev Podcast about the state of making indie games in 2025. Blow states that it's the hardest time in games that he's seen since he's been a professional dev.

Reports have come in from Polaris, the newer offshoot of Project Horseshoe. The reports are all on topics I'm interested in, so I'm excited to get more time to dive into each. This year's reports included:

The GDC 2025 State of the Games Industry Report has arrived, but it's nowhere near as representative of the industry as Matthew Ball's incredibly thorough report.

Radical Confidence is a breezy entrance to the self-help isle that is part memoir, part confidence advice guide. Bilyeu invites you in for a cup of tea to tell you the story of her transition from shy geeky Greek girl to co-founder of Quest Nutrition and Youtube sensation.

In Big Potential, Shawn Achor continues his explorations into what makes us happy and successful. He argues that a focus on individual achievement limits us from achieving the "big potential" we can reach as part of a "star-cluster" community.

Common wisdom holds that if we just get that promotion, lose a few pounds, reach our goals, then we'll be successful, and happiness will follow as a result. Shawn Achor argues that we've got that backwards: success follows happiness.