for the next month im going to be (attempting to) document the first conversation i have each day in the form of a bitsy game! if you'd like to follow along and get a little peek into my life you can do that here itch.io/c/7100323/da...

reading articles about the postal service in victorian england and...fucking yikes this sounds bleak.

Is this my sign to open blender and make a low-poly rat? [reads earlier post] well dang

Glad we all agree about this point

brb gotta make this game so i can play this game

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alice is missing is a very cool game that gave me so many feelings knives to twist! but i do not recommend leaving 5 min before the end. (i had to pick up my dog it was not optional) (ty @thebetteradversary.bsky.social for running it!)

what a shame :( red dwarf had such a huge impact on teenage me.

new game alert! celestia puzzle prototype now on itch definitely still in development... first it was a little too hard, now it's a little too easy, but we've made a lot of adjustments to the overall design over the course of the project which are nudging it in the right direction (hopefully!)

this week's 2d art offering: pixelized creatures! this lil friend dares to ask, what if a chicken was also an electric kettle? if you're curious to see more, i'm posting all my assignments over at www.tumblr.com/atinyinferna...!

victorianists! any idea what these abbreviations in an etiquette book stand for?

Adding heated rivalry to the list. First half was pretty regular but then they started twisting the feelings knife and I love a good knife-twist. No more quality entertainment please I need to Work.

I'm glad that the younger folks in my class are reading about GG and all the other 2010s nastiness (not that it really went away) but... also I wish they didn't have to.

You can now sign up for the in-person or virtual event for our discussion about organizing in the games industry. I'm pretty excited about this panel, there are some really wonderful and smart folks on it. www.haymarketbooks.org/events/781-g...

They even nailed the art style 🥲🥲🥲 I’m so excited for this!

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If you haven’t seen this bizarre, incredible, fever-dream movie yet imo your life is simply incomplete

played agricola (2007) for the first time today & experienced the board game equivalent of reading great expectations and thinking "yknow this classic novel is actually pretty great, who knew!"

The funniest possible thing happened last night: Me, to @babaloga.bsky.social, breaking a dog biscuit: ok THIS time I’m not going to— [immediately bashes the exact same spot]

nyc is constantly changing, but then there's things that just seem to be eternal. today's entry: first encountered jonathan toubin absolutely crushing andrew wk in a dollar-bin record dj battle at housing works way back in 2009(?) and just got tix to his ongoing soul dance party for next week.

yesssssssssss at last

task: get doors in this bitsy game to go to a different room if foo == bar. should be easy, i figured. 2.5 hours and a missed dinner later...

So far the best part of the Super Bowl is everyone booing at the ai and betting ads

Babylonian incantation bowl with drawing of the demon it's intended to drive off. Drawing done by Billy, age 3.

Cut my knuckles on a dog biscuit - the universe is keeping me humble 😓

algorithms doing their job: i know all about the city's snow removal/cold weather emergency plans, but was completely unaware of the superbowl and olympics until yesterday.

One of the strangest jobs I’ve done was “fire blood cannon from inside a puppet” for a show at the Whitney so just FYI muppet people, if you need a puppet cannoneer I’m available.

I’m taking an art class this semester! This weeks sketch assignment was to draw a creature based on a designed object (basically diy Pokémon)

Wishing the miscreant who stole my chicken bowl out of the school freezer a very uneven microwave heating experience >:[

Well deserved success for an incredible game

Deltarune: also good. It’s turning out that things people recommend are largely good? idk how to feel about this.

How is it STILL the same month?? I don’t understand.

Ok ok you all were right, andor is great

The best part of brainstorming project ideas is taking wildly different games and making them kiss.

literally any time i take a break from programming for more than a single minute

personally i packed an entire narrative arc into the last week things that happened on weds feel like another lifetime, linear time no longer has meaning

session 1 --> session 3

Signal boost.

Immeasurably satisfying to look back at my work from the semester and realize that my first game and last presentation were - coincidentally - about the same thing, right down to the specific mention of brother ant.

Every time I watch moonstruck I find something new to appreciate it. This time, the plaintive shopgirl at the bakery and olympia dukakis’ sheer range of disgusted expressions. Seeing it with a big crew @boshis.place giggling along made it even better! 🌕

maybe this is just the monkey's paw delivering on those "precedented times" we were asking for.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

at some point i started saying "missnake" instead of mistake as a bit, but then it stuck, and honestly? it's a lot easier to deal with a missnake than a mistake.

Waking up to news of illegal us military actions in Venezuela isn’t how I wanted 2026 to start.

top slot has to go to this perfect 90s slacker time capsule

"Everything the GM “Gets To” Do is Something the GM Must Do" had me tearing up a bit ngl 🥲 ty for standing up for us overburdened dms who "get to" have all the fun of fleshing out vaguely written scenarios

According to my records I played 89 different games this year! That # includes board games, video games and RPGs and is probably incomplete. Next year I’m aiming for 100 😎

well, 1/20 is a start i guess! (it's actually embarrassing that i haven't played consume me yet)

today is my birthday! the xmas/bday combo is always a bit hard for me, but this year im mostly feeling happy about all the changes the last 365 days brought me. new work, new routine, new people -- all things i've wanted for years, and so this birthday feels like an optimistic one.

Merry Xmas eve from me and my dog who does NOT want to be in a photo 🙅🏼