It is announcement day! What I have been working on the last little while at Digital Confectioners (pls wishlist): https://t.co/2HZqEQjJCn

Triarchy trailer:

🚀 The 2025 NZ Game Dev Survey is here! Huge growth in revenue + jobs shows the road to a $1B industry is in sight. PLUS Hon Dr Shane Reti announced CODE funding has been doubled 🙌 Incredible support for our sector. #NZGameDev #RoadTo1Billion

Packmates- New game coming from Digital Confectioners (where I work). The designer is Bryce Haywood, which is totally a name you will see again over the next few decades. It is a great co-op back pack survivors game I have enjoyed playing the hell out of. https://t.co/TxgsKweEve

I won an award! Endeavor: Deep Sea got the Kennerspiel des Jahres. It was a really fun trip to Berlin for the award ceremony too.

Overall, really impressed with the design, not to mention art, music, sound, story, stability, control responsiveness. And I am genuinely impressed they got away with as few database issues as they did when well exceeding previous bests.

For monsters, rather than bosses, there were a couple of areas with a monster composition a little oppressive for my tastes. Liked all the interesting side content, hope there is variation of replays.

Sure are a lot of boss fights! And the designers at GGG still good at making them. Was occasionally feeling oppressive on my wee glass canon Sorc, but the signaling is on point. The Guillotine Drops indeed!

There had been a plan to remove hybrid armours in POE2, at least the non-end game ones. I see they have returned, which means they still have 6 variants to fill up the drops. Not sure I approve, suspect it is because of they are handling attributes (and less Erik influence?).

The gem levelling system is so elegant it actively annoys me. In POE 1 I did so much math on the gem xp levelling to get a model that worked, and in POE 2 they just drop the level, and it just works. Total win.

I played some Path of Exile 2 today, which was cool to see given it was only really just started when I was still there. A couple of quick design thoughts:

It's Essen week and Alex from Boardgameco is listing his most anticipated games at the show. Endeavor: Deep Sea will be at. Grand Gamers Guild booth 3H313. Check it out if you're going to the convention. https://t.co/ONs7BAAV0T

I just backed LOOT on @Kickstarter Very cool concept for a tabletop RPG, reminds me a little of the Path of Exile card game we made for Exilecon. Looking forward to seeing the loot pools, and the game that supports them. https://t.co/R5omyX97AE

Box One was an excellent experience, thanks for making it @ActuallyNPH . Good twists and excellent production from @theory11

Mike from Board Game Rundown lists his most anticipated Gen Con releases, including 𝙀𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙧: 𝘿𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙎𝙚𝙖 🦑🐳🐠! Check out the video and look for this environmental adventure game at booth #2004! https://t.co/Ja0oGsD4tB

So proud we were able to make Endeavor: Deep Sea 💯 plastic free! #boardgame #boardgames

Congrats @jarratt_gray for the release of Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, looking forward to playing this weekend.

I turned the Artifact from @baldursgate3 into a controller! It's a fully functional wireless Xbox controller - 20 buttons & a motion sensor for simulating thumbsticks Starting my first run with it on Twitch TOMORROW - https://t.co/H1RBWnJAHx

I just backed Regicide Legacy on @kickstarter