I think I may look into voice acting classes in the new year 🤔 Having a speed impediment kind of dooms my hope for it, but any hobby that gives me an excuse to overcome that impairment is kind of exciting. It's why I like public speaking

Working away this weekend on some free updates to my 'Tile Builder' #UE5 plugin☕️ - Updated support for 5.5, 5.6 and 5.7 - Search bar - View modes for how the tiles are laid out (Inspired by how the foliage mode does it) - Fixes to bugs

Enjoying a brew out today while working on my archiving tool for work ☕

Also, finishing it with this much health and no heals? My heart was POUNDING

Just beat Lies of P + The Overture DLC! What an incredible game all around, with a DLC absolutely worth playing. I ended up doing two back-to-back full playthroughs which is pretty rare for me. It felt like Lies truly solved a number of my biggest gripes with the genre. Bravo

For the first time in years, I'm being asked to give a lecture / workshop to some aspiring game dev students! It's been almost half a decade since I last taught, and I am excited to give back to the next generation 😭

Thanks work ❤️

My little team at work will finally be hiring again 🙏 Will have details soon!

Beat Diablo 4 recently, and I'm torn on it. I don't really love the open-world style. Monster placements felt so arbitrary and plentiful that the world storytelling was a mess. The main story was okay, but the PC felt like a side-character. At least the tone was gritty?

My #GDC2026 Game Preservation Roundtable proposal, co-moderated by @borman.bsky.social, was formally accepted! 🥳 Too long has there been a complete lack of collaboration and communication between Industry and Institutional Game Preservation groups. It's time we start to fix that.

My D&D 5e / 5.5 character sheet web app is coming along! Considering it's my first time exploring JavaScript and React, I've learned a ton and I've been having a ton of fun The background image is just a placeholder, but I do hope to add a theme editor later on

"Tribal Knowledge" This is one of the biggest pain points of my job. Game Preservation suffers massively when groups keep knowledge in their heads and don't write it down, or don't document *where* they wrote it down Never trust what you think you will remember. Write it down

I was going to dye my hair back to Brown and be done with hair dye for a while but...

My main vibe in D&D tonight

Just met with the GDC advisor and my good friend @Borman18 to discuss considerations before resubmitting my 2026 Game Preservation Roundtable Proposal. Fingers crossed this gets accepted as it would be a fantastic opportunity to folks to get in a room and start talking 🤞

Progress so far on my free online D&D character sheet tool built in React with Typescript - Most numerical things are dynamically calculated - Skills have a Proficiency / Expertise' tri-state checkbox First time doing web-dev and boy it's been a mountain to climb 🙃

I started a new side project: A free, no account required, online D&D character sheet editor with all the bells and whistles you'd expect or want: Auto-calculating fields, data linking for items and spells, etc It'll be a while, but it's a fun project to keep my skills sharp

2026 is looking ever brighter for Game Preservation. My proposed Roundtable at GDC 2026 has moved to Phase 2! I couldn't ask for a better friend to join me for this @borman.bsky.social Now to try and make it the rest of the way 🤞

My Friday night homework I will either cook, or be cooked. It was nice knowing y'all

For my fellow game developers out there, a starter tip for preparing your games for archiving: Write down the list of software & tool versions you use, their respective download links, and even an offline copy of the installers if possible. These are needed for reconstitution

I want to try a Ren Faire next year 🤔

Sunday study session at the library

I'm already in weekly 2 D&D campaigns, but now I have a new character idea and want another campaign to play them in 😭

My sister team is hiring for a U.K-based Senior Build Engineer to drive, improve and expand the capabilities of the PlayStation Studios Build Services team. Check it out and hit me up if you have questions! careers.playstation.com/senior-build...

Finished the first season of Vox Machina yesterday. A really fun ride and as a long time D&D fan, it was a special treat trying to guess which spells were which, and how the underlying mechanics were getting used Percy is absolutely the most similar to the kind of chars I play

The new D&D 5.5 Unearthed Arcana rules for the Artificer are wild. I've always wanted to monoclass one, but felt the limitations were a bit stifling. While it seems pretty strong now, I like the player agency of it I think an Artillerist Artificer is in my future

The true BBEG of Runescape

I am once more in the interview process for the Vice Chair position at my local anime con, but also for the Director Of Safety position! Here is to hoping 🤞

I'm thinking of doing Gamescom next year 🤔

My #PAXWest2025 talk on Industry Game Preservation is complete! I hope all who attended and listened to my stories enjoyed it! It's a messy, complex and often bureaucratic world, but it is where I call home

Celebrating the end of Day 1 of #PaxWest2025 by playing OSRS for the first time in the hotel room

Visiting some friends to talk about game preservation

This is going to be a fun weekend! #PaxWest2025

15 hour drive from Calgary to Seattle almost complete! Stopping in to Vancouver to see family before continuing south Visited some caves on the way!

Y'all, it's time: I'm starting OSRS this week I've spent years on-and-off playing RS2 / RS3, but these days the game has gotten a bit much for my liking. After the news of the boom in popularity for OSRS, I can't help but miss the old days I'll see y'all in Lumbridge

This will be in my presentation somehow, somewhere

PAX West this year marks the first time I'm giving a presentation not targeting developers specifically While it's still a bit dry since it's focused on the reality of game preservation as a job and not just "Let's look at cool stuff", it's been fun playing with the formatting!

It took a few years, but my unofficial team shirt finally arrived 👀

In just shy of 2 weeks, I'll be at #PAXWest talking about Game Preservation in the industry, stories from my time preserving games for Electronic Arts and PlayStation, and all manner of tips for getting your foot in the door! I am both super nervous and super excited 😁

Omw to volunteer at #Animethon2025 If you're in town for the weekend, come say hi!

We all know the legendary aesthetic of the PS2, but did you know there was a 'Tool' dev kit variant that is the size of a PC? 👀 A fun discovery at work by a good friend of the team. I didn't even know this variant existed, let alone in Blue!

Good news: I'll be speaking at #PaxWest2025 on "Wait, I can Preserve Games for a Living? - A Behind the Scenes Look"! Come learn what game preservation looks like in the industry, the challenges faced by your favourite developers, and what skills might get you in the door!

What could this be I wonder? 🤔Maybe more information will be coming soon

Spending the day with my boo

Guess I'm doing another Palworld playthrough! I still wish desperately that they would expand the base building radius. It is the primary reason I stopped playing originally as it really ruined most of the ideas I had for base designs

In a week, I'll be back in the sunny lands of San Diego! It's been a few years since I last visited, but I'm excited to meet some colleagues in person for the first time, see the workplace again and enjoy some local culinary delights 👀

Going through my yearly speedrunning obsession reminds me how much I loved platformers growing up, and how much I loved the Crash and Spyro trilogy remasters What I wouldn't give for Toys For Bob to do a Jak & Daxter trilogy remaster 😭

Guess what my team did after renting a van and driving it to one of our offices 👀 It is an honour to be able to get a hold of these pieces of PlayStation's history that have spent their lives on shelves and in boxes. We're new to physical preservation, but this is a start!

The things you'll find on shelves

We're off to #GameConCanada! Repping the Horizon franchise today