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He Won the Biggest Award in Indie Games. Then He Did It Again. (Patreon)

Published:
2026-04-17 11:00:15
Imported:
2026-04

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This week on Post Games:

Act 1: What Is a "Solo" Game Developer in 2026

Act 2: Making Titanium Court One Hour at a Time

Patreon Bonus: AP Thomson's Titanium Court Book Club (Coming 4/27)

Act 3: The News of the Week

Guests:

AP Thomson: designer of Titanium Court

Closing Song: "Backbay Shaws (Lyrical)" by AP Thomson

Act 1: What Is a "Solo" Game Developer in 2026

Meet Ap Thomson (CanvasRebel)

The award that changes the lives of its winners (Post Games)

Consume Me (Steam)

'Consume Me' Wins Grand Prize, Nuovo Award at the 2025 IGF Awards (GDC)

Titanium Court wins Seumas McNally Grand Prize at 28th annual IGF awards (Game Developer)

Minit (Steam)

Memento (Wiki)

Welcome to Grey Alien Games! (Grey Alien Games)

The Game Editors (https://thegameeditors.com)

Act 2: Making Titanium Court One Hour at a Time

Titanium Court (Steam)

Beglitched (Steam)

Swap Sword (Steam)

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (Wiki)

Bejeweled 3 (Steam)

Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure (Wiki)

FreeCell (Wiki)

A story I wrote 15 years ago about my late-grandfather's FreeCell obsession (The Escapist)

LGBTQ+ Pride Flags (Human Rights Campaign)

Downwell (Steam)

David Byrne’s Career of Earnest Alienation (New Yorker)

Flood by They Might Be Giants (TMBG)

All Hail West Texas by the Mountain Goats playlist (YouTube)

The Bob Emergency (Secret Base)

Patreon Bonus: AP Thomson's Titanium Court Book Club

AP and I recorded a bonus episode that digs into the story, themes, and gameplay twists spanning the entirety of Titanium Court. It will be available on Patreon.com/PostGames beginning April 27!

Act 3: The News of the Week

NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Chris Plante (NYU Game Center)

This Week in Video Game Links

Baby Steps Developers React to 7 Minute Speedrun (IGN on YouTube)

Deleted Saves, Issue #2 (Some great stories in here!) (Deleted Saves)

How A Human Beat The Impossible Run In Spelunky 2 (Xanagear)

The best singleplayer levels in first-person PC games (Jank)

The Exit 8 movie is even better if you play the game first (The Verge)

Press Start: Video Games and the Climate Crisis (Climate One)

Romeo is a Dead Man says don’t debate fascists, kill them (Mothership)

What the war in Iran means for people who make and play games (Mothership)

Left 4 Dead’s Graffiti Is So Memorable Because It Was Made By People—A Whole Lot Of People (Aftermath)

Free Game of the Week: Neverway Prologue

From the Steam summary: "After quitting her dead-end job, Fiona starts over on a farm and becomes the immortal herald of a dead god. Make friends, fight through horrors and pay your debt in this nightmarish life sim RPG." (Steam)

What Else I’m Enjoying

Ben Kingsley’s Taskmaster Cameo NO ONE Expected (Or Witnessed) | Channel 4 (YouTube)

Lena Dunham Is Still Trying to Figure Out Why People Hated Her So Much (NYTimes)

Chris Fleming: The one thing young people should reject if they want a rewarding life and career (Wild Card/NPR)

Song of the Week: “Backbay Shaws (Lyrical)" by AP Thomson

This is a treat! AP shared one of his original music demos. The song doesn't appear in Titanium Court, and yet fans of the game will find it very, very familiar.

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Comments

Goositrous

Where I get video game news: I’ve listened to every episode of Triple Click, Besties/Resties and Post Games. End of list. I live in a strange alternate reality where video game discourse is universally thoughtful and nice and everyone just kinda knows everyone else. Also, do you think you could just get John Darnielle on the show and ask him what he thinks about video games?

Sandy Lester

I love Jon Bois videos so much but didn't expect to hear about it through my videogame podcast!

Lindsay B

It kind of blew my mind when Chris was on the Panic World podcast earlier this year, like, all my favorite digital millennial journalists know each other? 🤔

Brett Bates

News sources for me (44-year-old dude): Kotaku these days for traditional “daily” news; Aftermath for more in-depth work; and then social (game folks on Bluesky, friends, coworkers on Slack); and, finally, a boatload of newsletters: Game File, Superjoost, GameDiscoverCo, Pushing Buttons, Post Games (!), Crossplay, Hit Points.

Frank

My games news: blogs for a long time (RPS and a bunch of long-defunct ones, like TIGSource), podcasts more recently (post games, the game business, indieventure, and 1-10 episodes of all the others) and a few newsletters I fail to keep up with (game file, direct subscriptions to developers). Steam's new calendar is a nice way to follow new releases, too.

Brian Bautista

For so long I felt like the only freaking person that played Dicey Dungeon, crazy listen to AP mention it. DD totally changed my design trajectory. I'm not even sure what I'm doing without it.

James

The only video game news sources I actively check each week are Post Games, Triple Click, Besties, and Game File. After that, it’s pretty much the Apple News video games topic algo. Would love other newsletter recommendations along the lines of Game File.

Tikwid

My main sources come from The Worst Garbage podcast network with shows like Into the Aether and Videogame Podtimism, Girl Mode, and Dot Zip. Really anything that crew touches is pure gold to me. Remap Radio is also on top of the list primo-sh*t. Basically the only media I consume on a daily basis is games journalism. All the way from Minn Max and Giant Bomb to Skybox Critics and Mothership, down to little weird-beard outlets like Sasha's Retrobytes. I also listen to Axe of the Blood God, Besties/Resties, VGBees, and Retronauts. Thoughtful people discussing gaming is my lyyyyyfe! It seems like it would be time consuming, but my ADHD brain loves *content* baybeeee. Big shout out to Stephen Totilo's newsletter as well. And small self-promotion if you'll excuse it, it's not news, but some folx might be interested: gAmeDHD.com where we talk about neurodivergence and video games.

Tikwid

I think - and hope - that Titanium Court is gonna sell like hotcakes. The demo I played was so so juicy. I need it in my veins.

Jaconian

Video game news audio format: I'll get from Post Games, Triple Click, and The Besties. (100% want to find other podcasts that feature women and poc to help diversify what/how I hear about games). Video game news "other": What people/developers post on Bluesky, either in the Following or Discover feed.