Thank Goodness You're Here's developer says it was trying to design a game normally before realizing "we're s**t at video game design"

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Thank Goodness You’re Herewas probably the biggest surprise of 2024 for me.

During the ‘Independent Games Summit: Teabag in First: How ‘Thank Goodness Youre Here!’

Putting cigarettes in fish mouths in Thank Goodness You�re Here

What does that mean?

Well, it’s all we knew how to do.

Full disclosure, we’re shit at video game design."

Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 screenshot of J.J. Hardwell standing with a handgun and looking warily at the shadow of Evil J.J. looming behind him

We don’t like other games, so these typical patterns and affordances couldn’t easily be applied."

It’s been a big year for northern England-set games, with ourAtomfall reviewabsolutely lauding the Cumbria-based apocalypse.

Key art for Atomfall showing a character in the English countryside looking at a nuclear plant some distance away

Cat Detective Albert Wilde screenshot of Albert the anthropomorphic cat who wears suit driving his car

Balatro

a dude holding a gun cowers against a wall as the shadowsof raptors can be seen coming for him

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dialogue between Henry and Hands on a horse

Three Pokemon Journey Together cards leaning against the Elite Trainer Box from the set

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle screenshot of Indiana dressed as priest, looking over a book

A Pom-Pom style Oricorio seen in the Pokemon anime series.

Marketing image of a person cuddling a Pokedex-size Flareon plushie.

A screenshot from Good Boy, showing the Good Boy space rover looking at a flying creature, surrounded by a lush landscape.

GTA 6

Star Wars G1T4-M1N1 Droid on a pavement

Frendo in Clown in a Cornfield

Ghost of Yotei Collector�s Edition and Standard Edition with pre-order badge

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in The X-Files

Cult of the Lamb

Articulate box, cards, board, and tokens on a wooden table

The cast of Thunderbolts standing in an elevator during the trailer for the upcoming Marvel Phase 5 movie.

Logan Kim as Hershel and Lauren Cohan as Maggie in The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2