Riff Raff had hoes.

here to celebrate my favorite guys today

The results of The 2025 Adventure Game Hotshot Awards. Please congratulate the developers adventuregamehotspot.com/feature/6024... #IndieGameDev #indiegame #adventuregame #adventuregamehotspot #pcgame

anyway, people should consider making little fansites for things they like. It's just a fun thing to noodle with. I've loved seeing both @wilcoweb.bsky.social and @decafjedi.com making regular updates to their Space Quest sites wilcoweb.neocities.org/wilcoweb/ wiw.org/~jess/roger....

My latest #retrogaming video was 2 hours, 45 minutes. That's maybe a bit long for an analytical playthrough. Maybe I should split off shorter analysis videos and cap the playthroughs at an hour, or drop them and just do 20-30 minute analysis videos.

she made a pokemon fan game

I game I contracted on - Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer - has won Best Mystery at the 2005 Hotspot Adventure Game Awards. Guess I can amend my CV to "Award Winning" Narrative Designer.

I kinda have the opposite problem. I keep filling up on credits and then need to come up with questions to spend them.

New narrative analysis up: Sierra On-Line's 1988 adventure game Police Quest.

#my9games 1970s edition. They didn't have Oregon Trail in the dropdown so I went with Speed Race instead.

9 games that made me

In my twenties I worked as a third shift janitor in a state mental hospital. Briefly. It used to be a 19th century TB ward. There were dirt-walled tunnels connecting the buildings. Isolation cells were dug out of the walls down there, now used only for storage.

I've published, like, a dozen books. Mostly novels.

This Friday I'll be releasing a narrative analysis video of Sierra On-Line's EGA Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel. Is it copaganda? A procedural? Or simply boring? #adventureGame #letsPlay It's up now for patrons and YouTube channel members. www.youtube.com/channel/UCPe...

Fuck Microsoft for making me learn Linux

Melbot Studios is looking for a Story Writer to help craft wild, satirical narratives for their roguelite game with Adult Swim vibes. 🛰️ Remote, Contract 🎭 Comedy sample required 🧠 Game development XP a big + ⤵️

Chicagoans are demanding a public hearing amid concerns police collaborated with ICE. blockclubchi.co/4l5XfeO

Twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours to go

This Friday I'll be releasing a narrative analysis video of Sierra On-Line's EGA Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel. Is it copaganda? A procedural? Or simply boring? #adventureGame #letsPlay It's up now for patrons and YouTube channel members. www.youtube.com/channel/UCPe...

folks with websites, please add a button linking to your RSS feed so we can easily add them to our feed readers.

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians. We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

My latest episode talking about game design with Cara Ellison was released just a couple of days ago. Give it a listen.

all of this is about either 1. theoretical stuff that only exists in the diseased minds of america's sclerotic generals or 2. powerpoints. there's no reality in which anthropic either builds skynet or plausibly has the means to build skynet but refuses

"A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that's going on right now."

hahahahaha

AAA Games: See every solitary pore on a character's face. Count their eyelashes. Indie Games: Wanna drive a van AAA Games: Listen to your GPU squeal in agony as we simulate the blood pumping in each vein Indie Games: Let's sell low poly fetuses in space

If you like narrative analysis videos of 40 year old adventure games, interactive fiction, or godot minigames, consider supporting me on patreon. Can't find work, and I'm running out of savings. It'd be a huge help! www.patreon.com/mcoorlim

"The commons" is "shared resources held by the community" not "a commercial space where a lot of people hang out." A social media site would have to be operated by a non-profit or nationalized by a reputable democracy as a public good to be "the commons."

My Police Quest analytical playthrough drops in one week - or you can watch it now as a channel member or patreon supporter! Somehow it ended up being almost three hours long - and that's *with* me speeding up the aimless driving and gambling sequences. www.patreon.com/posts/151690...

Just finished editing my Police Quest video. Is it copaganda? The answer may surprise you.

I am an award-winning novelist who can't find a job.

To my media frands! We're working on something hella dope with Spooky Doorway's latest addition to The Darkside Detective game. If you're a fan of point and click, retro adventure games with a horror/comedic twist - then hit me up! I'll be reaching out to y'all shortly. Shares are appreciated!💖

I guess I should wrap that Police Quest narrative analysis video. Really no good reason to put off finishing it.

If you love games but don't make them and want to help the indie industry, make it easier for other gamers to find the good shit and weed through the slop. Write reviews. Start a blog. Develop a whole discovery infrastructure untethered from algorithmic tastemakers. Spread the love, spread the joy

Hire me for: Narrative design Game Writing Localization Audiodrama scripts Developmental Editing Consulting Research VA casting/direction Weird little spreadsheets Retrogaming Reviews Podcast Hosting Godot Tutorial Writing Showrunning Ephemera Narrative Analysis Anything really, I need work

I have three blogs. mcoorlim.com is general purpose - some game dev stuff, tutorials, etc. basic-code.bearblog.dev was one I ran last year for BASIC programs you could play in-browser. sgdf.bearblog.dev was a blog where I posted small games done fast. Haven't blogged much this year. I should.

For Sale: 8 Potatoes, Never Shorn

If AGI is so great then why did it get replaced by SCI? Checkmate, techbros.

Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer, a game I provided narrative design services for, has been nominated for a bunch of awards. adventuregamehotspot.com/feature/6023...

Today is the 3rd slopiversary of us having to temporarily close submissions. The problem of "AI"-generated submissions hasn't gone away and is still a huge waste of our time. House policy remains the same: #noAI stories, translation, art, or anything else.

BREAKING: SCOTUS affirms the red line isn't "fucking kids" it's "fucking with money."

I've been out of work for over a year. I apply and apply and apply... Really worried that this is It for me. Running out of savings soon, then we're on the street.

Ever been Megmogged and Owl'd?

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Godot's GitHub has increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it's a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers – especially if people don't disclose it. Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes… It's a total shitshow. #godotengine