Todays small bit of salvaged joy comes from cleaning out the closets and bagging up a bunch of stuff for donations, then finding my old narwhal kigurumi and spending the rest of the evening chillin in that 🦄🐋

Wrote a little layoff survival list on LinkedIn, sharing here for more visibility #Gamedev #Layoffs #Gamejobs

Today I learned cats can take miralax so that is a game changer

Hold fast, fellow job seekers. I heard back from a couple places I applied to back in June this week. Seems like everyone is super backed up. Wishing everyone the same ray of hope soon. #GameJobs #GameDevelopment #LookingForWork #GameDev

Good article. Burnout is hell and it's slow to recover from. Some resting, some low stakes creativity helps. But man it's been hard to get excited about going back into the fire. I miss when I could push myself physically, creatively, mentally. loadbearingtomato.com/p/burnout-an...

my has wife asked me to stop my running Werner Herzog commentary during our Donkey Kong Bananza playthru

Obsessed with this photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos guy.

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

my favorite's the little turtle in dark passage. good level too, classic #lowpoly

Nothin like sitting down to watch the wife genuinely enjoy one of my childhood faves: Spyro 3. Lamenting the changes to these Very Good gems of original assets just a little tho. Very round and splorpable (the remake is pretty good tho) #spyro #retro #retrogaming #lowpoly

Emotionally taxing day, but look at this funny face

I found this article on adhd in #gamedev, and it definitely tracks with different on the job lifehacks I've found, plus gave me some new ones! schellgames.com/blog/neurodi... And author is right, we are powerhouses under the right conditions and expectations! #gamedevelopment #adhd

Uhoh, so i performed the same job summoning dance again, and the orc boyar shouted he already saw that dance? And now some boars appeared to the north, south, east, and west?

One day I will make a massive video essay about why Spyro 2 is bad actually (i know, i hate saying a game is bad, but it's beyond the pale just how aggravating and time-wastey so much of it is. Every level pains me) and this opinion will sink my career, but this is it, this is the hill I die on

Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go! Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.” Ahem. *takes a sip of water*

I performed a job summoning dance, but it did not please the orc boyar :/

yes uvw-cwa.org

The Necromancer's Tale released today! It's a story-rich RPG that I've been working on for over 5 years(!) store.steampowered.com/app/1315320/... The game is set in an alt-history 1733, with the player getting sucked into black magic and necromancy.

manifesting another job with another hot garbo idea: Hot Garbo. Clean All the Things. The grimy, crusty environments. Collect leavings. Smelt them down into new scraping devices. Tired of wet cleaning games-I wanna chisel... uncover some demonic summoning symbols in a grody house of horrors.

Ah shit, I didn't shitpost yesterday but I still don't have a job....... Ludonarrative Dissonance.

Oh, I got an idea...

If you enjoy Bloodborne you really owe it to yourself to read EM Carroll's WRITHE (it's free) emcarroll.itch.io/writhe

we squandered an amazing opportunity in the 90s to ship scratch-n-sniff cards inside game manuals to incorporate more of the 5 senses into videogame experiences. Visual. Audio. Olfactory.

I'm so tired, I was gonna make a shitpost about a game you play while you sleep, then I remembered pokemon sleep exists

My idea of a #cozygame is like, Hollow Knight. Or Elden Ring. Vaguely sad and moody, evidence of past atrocities written in the landscape, but there's good folk who show up for each other #gamedesign

Hooooo MANIFESTING for this one, folks. I hate this process lately. Can't help but get emotionally attached to a very small number of good looking openings, knowing it'll take some substantial amount of luck to even be seen

Dark Nyx is currently looking for a volunteer Japanese Cultural consultant. Retweets are appreciated. #gamejobs #gamedevjobs www.linkedin.com/posts/dark-n...

Like a murder of crows or a pod of dolphins, a group of game designers is called an **argument** #gamedesign #gdsp shitpostin til I find a job~

#gamedesign shitposting everyday until I have a job Low poly, crunchy art style dungeon crawler rpg with full motion video cutscenes and NPC intersction. Done in VR with the 2D cutouts for objects and characters. Had enough of gritty low fantasy in this genre tbh inject whimsy. Make it about frogs.

Our Queer Analog Game Studies Special Issue is now LIVE. Kaelan Doyle-Myerscough on PbtA as queer platform, Brandon Blackburn on solo journaling games, Susan Haarman on queer domesticity in Yazeba's, and PB Berge & Percy Hornak on lyric games and trans life. Check it out! analoggamestudies.org

Fr tho, I really like the little pedestals in Wind Waker that you can fill with silly garden decorations and flowers More games need "pointless" customization/player expression like this. Games that aren't strictly about being cozy or gardening need this #gamedesign

Something I do not miss about work machines

This is an Orc City feed now

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Hey guess what. There is no ethical genAI

Orc city witch orc orc city witch Ten ten games on your orc Nintendo switch #orccity #memin #memes

You bring up Orc City, and everyone wants to talk about the knuckle deep blood soaked earth, never the walkable historic downtown, the reliable public transit, including well maintained trainlines. Great nightlife, family friendly.. No one wants to admit orcs have a high urban standard of living smh

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "Haha," said Gandalf, hitting his weed pen for the eighteenth time in the past hour. “Hahaha. Fuck."

Low Poly Day winners have been announced! www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/15...

Going indie for games or books is entirely too scary for me. I'm too "fidelity" pilled to not dump a bunch of money at having top quality assets, not to mention I'd have to deal with marketing. That might change sometime out of necessity, but it'd be more than full time job worth of work.

Was too overwhelmed by loud noises last night to #gamedesign shitpost, but I'm back in it. A game that just bombards you with light and noise and sensory input until you explode. Art. #gdsp

#gamedesign shitposting everyday until I find a job, here we go. Weed smoking girlfriend dating sim. You may have up to 3. And yes, they are your girlfriends.

#gamedesign shitposting every day until I find a job. Ideas are cheap and so am I. Here's one: cat simulator: sleep 18 hours, incorporate awkward siaxis/gyro controls to angle your tongue around to clean your cat bod. Hygiene is important. So is marking territory and yelling at rivals

New free game idea: Call of Duty Postmodern Warfare

The story I’ve been mentioning about the vampires fighting, I have the cover for it! I will link the fiverr account in the comments. I’m hoping for a late July release!

Free videogame high concept: Wizard open world survival crafting sandbox. Create and hide your tower/lair to guard your wizard secrets, gather material components, all spells must be cast via voice command. Steal from others. Wizards work alone, but 'prentices are welcome.

Pre-orders for my newest book, Blight, are available! It's the sequel to Cascade, and if you like revolutionary politics, chaos magick, and giant bone tentacles, check it out: mybook.to/blight (1/2)