new haircut feedback: he: i wouldn't have noticed a difference if you hadn't said anything me, playing it cool: yeah, i didn't want a big change he: well, if that's what you wanted then it looks good the penalty is death, right? or is death too good for him?

idk what is up with this game but it needs to be a little less creepily accurate to real life, what the heck how does it know??! #tomodachilife

as the author notes its so tiresome that we're still talking about this -- but nevertheless im saving this link for when someone inevitably tries to argue for why it's actually ok to watch the show, it's no big deal, don't get mad brah, etc etc

we're hosting a watch party for @gameworkerscon.bsky.social may 22-23! it's a free, online conference by & for workers organized by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. please use the qr code to rsvp! there will be snacks, swag, park hangs during breaks, & we can learn how to build worker power together.

We are about halfway thru application month! To all the RPG folks, indie game devs, larpers: I know you’re out there, please bring your awesomeness to flame con!!

my last project got critiqued for being too "insider baseball" bc i said i was influenced by a twine game from 2012 and it took a week but ive decided to count it as a badge of honor

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The daily bitsy series is complete! 19 regular games + 1 reflection piece. Getting personal at the end was hard for me, and I'm not 100% on the final product but overall I think this is a good entry in the proud "making your personal life everyone's problem" indie tradition. Enjoy!

i drew some boots and then literally had a dream about procreate brushes 🙃

Fun to stumble across art that looks just like my vislae’s house (a rambling four story building in which every room is right under the roof so you can hear the rain). Apparently Roman is from Edinburgh?

writing: hard music: hard art: hard code: hard why everything gotta be hard? ☹️

@nyugamecenter.bsky.social contract staff are on strike, now we’re all getting a lesson about the history of union organizing in the us

#bitsy project update: we're up to day 16! days 13-15 were fairly basic games about conversations i had while out with my dog, so for day 16 i was excited to do a game based on the hollow knight soundtrack. art and gameplay (such as it is) was fun but the music was truly a delightful challenge.

second #bitsy TIL of the day -- or maybe more like TIrealized: the tune code is based not on notes but on solfege??? this is fine w me but i wonder why they didn't go with the scale notes. (music ppl please chime in)

#bitsy TIL: need to hold a note from one bar to the next? you can't do it in the tune editor but you CAN do it in the code (that last note just continues merrily out of frame)

makin a rat game we're calling it....rat out of hell 🐀💨🔥😈

Me: I'm gonna take it easy with today's game. Me: [spends two hours making a 12-screen pixel art flipbook-style animation of a page turning]

10 days of daily #bitsy down, definitely a bonkers project but i've learned a lot & made some games i'm actually proud of! some fave bits: - choice ui in #2* - retracting leash in #4 - code hacking in #6 on - music in #8 - pixel art in #9-10 * also a secret ending bc how could i not?

🤔do we think the precipitous dropoff in itch views is because ppl are: a) not checking email on wknd b) not checking email on spring break c) over the novelty of getting daily emails abt tiny goofy games

Hahahaha. Ha. Please fix this I don’t wanna go back to the k12 mines.

control seems like a great game but it put way too much distance between the severe geometric look of brutalism and its soviet-inspired, anti-romanticizing philosophy and now ppl keep saying they want brutalist this&that when what they probably mean is just plain ol' "modernist"

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 >:[