it's them

btw if the ESA or any of these studios wanted to put together an initiative to provide financial relief to laid off game workers, they have ~$60M in total assets that they could allocate towards one. They're welcome to reach out to me if they need info on how to set one up.

Really hate the framing of these layoffs as a reset when they've been doing layoffs again and again for the past two years. Despite admitting they had a 3% profit margin (AFTER all their acquisitions) this fiscal year. Profitable, Just not as much as their competitors. So lay everyone off I guess

Specifically this section in the FAQ, and they do mention this in the talk as well. Individuals can boycott as many companies that are complicit as they want. asking people to boycott everything is historically not very effective, so the campaign focuses on key targets like Microsoft first.

ok but now I'm suspicious that this was actually a new season of the rehearsal

#WhatAGameDevLooksLike hey I'm Sherveen i've been in gamesa for 10 years and I do game design, tech art and production I also have been doing a lot of games organizing work recently, and I'm one of the organizers of the recently announced Game Workers Conference! Say hi if you see me around today!!

I got some flowers today! Fun surprise

Got a prototype together of this mech idea. We have a little player controller, The mech can take damage, and I like the feel of moving the legs so far

It's looking good! With the art style, it reminds me a lot of those cartoon-y fight clouds too

Making a development thread for #UnionMadeJam this year. Going to spend Monday doing some idea generation before diving into something. My first thought is doing a Lovers-In-A-Dangerous-Spacetime / Voltron kind of idea. A co-op game where you work together to operate a big robot.

Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on producing a banger first meme of 2026

I have good news for you Anna

This is a new Museum area we added to Midautumn! The exhibits can be interacted with to learn more about the town's history. However, as someone with knowledge of the spirit world, you might know a thing or two that the museum curators don’t! #screenshotsaturday

This is probably as detailed as she'll look like fully rendered

doing some quick animating while I wait for Silksong to download. Just blocked out the forms on this character for a turnaround before I go in and add some movement

I'll probably be taking a small break to play Silksong tomorrow but I'm trying to keep up a good pace of Midautumn posting so speaking of Hollow Knight, I'm here to let you know if you like those charms in Hollow Knight we added something similar to Midautumn too

Something I'm trying to do with Midautumn is to have equal strategic options for combat sickos and story sickos alike! This powerup lets you ignore damage for one chamber, so you could use this to trivialize a particularly tricky boss! Or show a specific character you mean no harm...

There is now a new Sushi Restaurant in Midautumn! Each type of sushi gives the player a temporary buff for their next visit to the Spirit World. But get too greedy and you might get food poisoning! The more you upgrade the restaurant, the smaller the chance of getting sick. #screenshotsaturday

One of the things we added to Midautumn this week is a new gardening mechanic. By returning to water these plants in between visits to the spirit world, you can eventually harvest them to permanently improve some of Robin's abilities!

We've got a new KS update going out today for Midautumn folks! This update's gonna be focused on plans for our hub areas! 🌖We've been adding shops in the hub (Bike Shop, Bait Shop, Flower Shop, Sushi Restaurant) 🌗New Museum Area! 🌔You can give gifts to townsfolk! 🌓Dig for secrets! 🌖Sidequests!

I'll also often get asked to do a lot of rapid prototyping work! This is a fun one I did recently just testing out a 2D character controller in a 3D environment with some anime proportions

Hey folks! I'm looking for some new game contracts for July onwards I can do: ✨design ✨tech art ✨production In 2025 I've simultaneously had contracts in Unity, Unreal AND Godot so that's a milestone for me! Let me work on your projects and make em cool! DMs or Email: sherveen@midautumngame.com

(horrified) we're so back

I played too much animal crossing this month and now there's a digging mechanic in midautumn

you might be onto something

this place near USC used to do the best asada fries I've ever had and they closed down after I graduated, they had a version with suadero that was so good I have dreams about it

When you're just trying to draw the cool s but have to inherit a spooky old mansion instead

POV: whoever has to open the stock market rn

It took me over a decade to find a good nasi lemak spot in the US but I done did it

I'm back in the editor after a week away and according to my notes I wanted to add a gardening mechanic today? idk maybe I should try something easier until I've gotten more rest