My latest essay for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is live!! My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹

Vaccines are one of the coolest things that humanity ever created. Right up there with agriculture. Providing immune systems with a training dummy has dramatically extended and improved life for the past couple hundred years. Amazing. Imagine just saying 'Nah, Imma give tuberculosis a title shot"

I’ll end this with something I’ve said before. Art has value. It’s an essential service. What we do, is one of the most important jobs on this fucking planet. Do not undervalue it or yourself. Ever. Fight for it. Trust me, you will never regret that. 5/5

this is fine #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Every trans person out there, every single one, exhibits more bravery and integrity every single day simply living the life they're meant to live than every conservative politician pushing disgusting anti-trans laws into effect, and every craven liberal who's too chicken shit to stand up in defence.

Since it's around the corner, I made a Tekken Father's Day card. I tried using two separate mechanics at once. This allows Kazuya to move his hands and Heihachi to descend when the card is opened.

I made an inspirational greeting card with a spinning Ken Masters. So to all those frustrated out there: "Don't give up because I am... Shoryuken do it!"

I wore one of my Giant Bomb shirts today

A great review of Birds by @cypayseur.bsky.social in Locus! Not gonna lie, I'm a little shook right now.

Take flight with "Birds, Vibrant and Wild," a new story by Owen McManus. kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...

If someone in authority tells you to delete history, destroy books, erase scientific data, deny evidence, ban access to information, don't. Just don't. Back that shit up in fifty thousand places. Protect it. Keep it safe. No one on the right side of history ever burnt a book.

Test video of this game I'm working on. A lot of test and placeholder graphics, but the look is starting to come together. The crt effect compresses pretty poorly. #Godot #Indiedev #gamedev #gameart #pixelart

Still working on this game in the Godot engine. Lots of custom shaders and some 3D smoke and mirrors. #Godot #Indiedev #pixelart

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JANUARY 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up ~30 stories by @jelliclejay.bsky.social @amygriswold.bsky.social @ideofmarch.bsky.social @marissalingen.bsky.social @bpladek.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @srinivassimo.bsky.social @mimulus.bsky.social & more! www.patreon.com/posts/123315...

I was wondering what sort of bastard you would have to be to sign up to be an ICE agent? And did they know when they made the job that only bastards would want to sign up? Seems like maybe they knew.

I linked to the original post, but I never really posted myself that I have a story in this issue of Kaleidotrope. I think you should drop everything and go read it! kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/... #scifi #cyberpunk

The Winter 2025 Kaleidotrope features fantastic new fiction by @helendecruz.net, Ire Coburn, @lindseyduncan.bsky.social, @kashinggiwa.bsky.social, @amygriswold.bsky.social, Laney Gaughan, Megan Branning, Owen McManus, @devanbarlow.bsky.social, Toby MacNutt, S. Cameron David, and Tara Calaby!

i've made over 900 fonts. you can buy them all for commercial use for $19. h e l p ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pa...

Still working on my 2D pixel art game that is secretly a bunch of 3D polygons under the hood

I'm Owen and I do #gamedev and #gameart , but this is a painting. Enjoy!

Would you, by any chance, like to see what stories and poems are in the Autumn 2023 issue of Kaleidotrope, coming very soon?

3D print of the Neon Noodles robot