Bundle of Joy, my video game love letter to Dads and early parenting, is currently on sale as part of Steam's Autumn Sale! If you like Wario-Ware minigames and heartfelt storytelling, then this is the game for you (even if you hate kids, I promise)! Check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/3138370

Late to school, needed to go home and get a comfort hoodie, but maybe it was worth it...? Trying to bear in mind that moments like this don't really matter and that the important thing is that our kiddo feels heard and comfortable and understood. hope it helped.

Wow… Adams is out. I can only image what the campaign office must’ve been like.

It’s my youngest kiddos birthday. It’s wild to think he’s been keeping me up and squealing from endless tickles for 3 whole years. Happy bday buddy.

Absolutely agree with this take. Also fun fact: Fay Jones, the artist of Stasis, the only card she painted, was the aunt of Richard Garfield.

I forgot that game dev is a long and kind of tedious process and that even in prototyping I get hung up on small details all the time... Just spent most of the morning making geometry of a ruined house roof, but haven't spent time mapping out where it'd go in a level.

This headline quote was written by ChatGPT, I swear: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Being anti fascist is considered terrorism now.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Submissions to the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC are now OPEN through October 24, 2025! Please send us the weird shit you're working on! More info about the session and where to submit can be found on our NEW website here www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

Consume Me AND Baby Steps out. I’m trying to get some of my own work done over here… jeez.

Today feels really off: -typically docile kiddo had morning meltdown at drop off -bike chain popped off during morning commute -students couldn’t understand how to play skip-bo -routine coding took unusually long -voice cracked during a phone call with a client Something’s definitely up…

Garbage take here by the good ol’ folks at “both sides” news.

Looking at the new GDC deck and just feeling like... this isn't for me.

If you're like me and are trying to teach "observer pattern" programming techniques for game designers and need a good, practical, well-scoped game example for students to discuss and learn from, then might I recommend @turnfollow.itch.io's A Good Gardener: turnfollow.itch.io/a-good-garde...

This pilot experiment PAID FOR ITSELF. Ireland spent $105 million on artists providing them basic income, and saw that drop to $72 million after accounting for economic impacts, then with $80 million in psychological wellbeing impacts, that dropped to -$8 million.

Finally feeling like i can settle into a work groove now that the semester has fully started and I'm done with a big family trip that loomed over September. Hoping to get some dev work going for the next prototype, write some blog posts, and record a couple video talks/tutorials.

I'm incredibly ecstatic that we reached $100,000 for the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle. With just 2 days left to go, please RT and support the bundle, and let's push it as high as we can go!!! Thank you for the support!! Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

I am embarking on the return cross country flight with my two kiddos. We depart at midnight. I have no idea how this will all work.

I’m entering my mid century Americana novelist phase.

Oct 18: IGDA NYC's 🎮✨ Game-A-Palooza! ✨🎮 We'll transform Hana House in Brooklyn into a celebration of 50+ #NYC indie game devs! Play new & upcoming games! Tickets are just $5, but are ONLY available in advance: gameapalooza.love Thank you @mayorsoffice.nyc.gov for your support! #NYMakesGames

At a fancy todo

Going on a 5-hour redeye flight with my kiddos tonight and I've been stress dreaming about this moment for the past week. Send me patience and strength.

This is truly wonderful news!

Teaching all this programming has me wanting to prototype some new systems for ink/godot. Been thinking a lot about how I’d really love to have VO in the next game, though it might break my brain and bank. But I want to design some dialog resources that could handle that if it came to be.

Congrats to all the contributors! Can’t wait to dive into the new features!

Well f'n deserved.

I've been reading Boy Mom by Ruth Whippman (recommended by my partner) recently. Not only has it really made me think about my students and my boyo at home, but it's so timely given the abundant discourse about "speaking to young men" and capturing their political/ideological attention.

🎶 The best part of waking up is rejection in your inbox 🎶 🎹🎹🎹

GREAT IDEA

This explains it better than I can

Once again, for ppl in the back: Your Hollywood “idols” are mostly capitalist pigs.

One of the many reasons I deleted my IG about a month ago.

I hate how my running app can’t record treadmill workouts. Anyways I just completed a 5K at sub 9min pace. Feeling good but also want to work on slowing down for longer distance.

I really need to stop looking at indie game discourse and feedback on reddit. but probably not for the reasons you think.

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

This is a supremely good take about why giving proper credit for indie games production and demystifying the solodev rhetoric around games is so desperately needed. Cc @joeyschutz.bsky.social from our previous convo :)

New personal trigger: Seeing someone check out Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow from the public library.

I literally just wrote a whole thread about this misrepresentation.

In celebration of the start of the school year, I wrote some reflections on coming back this fall and having an AI discussion with my students: www.essay-games.com/blog/back-to... I also cover some initial topics in my coding and design classes this semester, while looking ahead to the Fall.

In celebration of the start of the school year, I wrote some reflections on coming back this fall and having an AI discussion with my students: www.essay-games.com/blog/back-to... I also cover some initial topics in my coding and design classes this semester, while looking ahead to the Fall.

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight. I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open: emmkid.info

First day of kindergarten and 3K.

My book, Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun, is out next February! It is a lively cultural history of the world's most beloved video game company, drawing from 20 years' worth of reporting and interviews. Pre-order here: linktr.ee/super_nintendo

Go check out Leon's amazing Twine game. It seriously packs a punch.

The Last Survey is included in this incredible bundle and I am deeply honored to contribute to this great cause.

My talk, "Re-learning Narrative Design Lessons from Children's Books," that I gave at @narrascope.org is now online! youtu.be/lR2gz8HaOyg?... I really loved putting this talk together, and I might re-record this as a more polished lecture for my own YouTube channel in the coming weeks.

My talk, "Re-learning Narrative Design Lessons from Children's Books," that I gave at @narrascope.org is now online! youtu.be/lR2gz8HaOyg?... I really loved putting this talk together, and I might re-record this as a more polished lecture for my own YouTube channel in the coming weeks.

Really glad to see Jess move away from Partiful! If you're an organizer, consider following her example!

It’s hard not to observe the massive police presence for the Caribbean parade in Brooklyn today and think about the massive amounts of overtime payouts.