going on a bit of a vacation away from social media for a bit (used to do this back in the twitter days) probably won’t be back until August at the earliest! see ya!

show me a cool physical media game

Thanks to all the Ridge-heads who grabbed a copy of One More Win, my Ridge Racer Type 4 fanzine. Physical copies are now on sale permanently at www.rocketbooks.shop!

My biggest pet peeve is that there's a ton of scam websites that are "Free QR Code Generator"s then the QR code stops working after a few days and then redirects you to ask you to PAY to re-activate it. I made a page on website for making ACTUALLY FREE QR Codes. Enjoy. konig.games/QRCodes/ #QRCodes

It's emotionally taxing to see an industry you love and have spent twenty years dedicating a career to implode.

if you have your own physical media collection, you can do your own version of the Criterion Closet where you stand in your basement by yourself and saying "oh wow, In the Mood for Love, what a film" to absolutely no one

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

still in the middle of unpacking my home office so here’s some of my physical collection

i always buy discs whenever i can so this news stinks collecting is part of the hobby

people talk about the tattoo but honestly tresspasser’s physics based gameplay is something that’s still cool to play with today, imo

play it and find out

-without using AI. *cough*

@ardbegatron.bsky.social @asoulliard.bsky.social this was the encounter i had myself muted for the entire thing lol

The Saint of Bright Doors (2023, @vajra.me chandrasekera)

marathon posting i’m now the world record holder for the farthest knock shot with the spud gun (please clap)

ngl somedays i wish i could be a marathon steve

Howdy I'm the sheriff of #makeaterriblecomicday

semi-related: i played with a bunch of people in matchmade squads last week that were new to the game and each reported being absolutely hooked (one had allegedly gone from level 0 to 42 in one day?) but each agreed that it was so overwhelming and confusing at first — Steves in their own right

found Steve1989MREInfo’s reddit account

just read that 1047 games (Splitgate dev) is paying real world $$ to players that refer friends to their new multiplayer game absolutely wild manoeuvres

me, before i press play on “Caligula: The Ultimate Cut” for Mother’s Day movie night:

as a parent i am subject to a lot of children’s media good lord let me tell you that “the pout pout fish” is a disaster of a movie it was just a total slog — couldn’t hold the attention of my kids

Don't forget to look up

After Roottrees launched I wrote a long technical blog post about how it was built that people seemed to enjoy: eviltrout.com/blog/2025-01... I’m pretty sure I will do the same for The Incident at Galley House. Hopefully peole will find it interesting.

labyrinth.os is the dungeon (labyrinth?) crawler you've been waiting for. give it a look!!!! esp if you're a fan of etrian odyssey, shin megami tensei, etc~

Before we head into the weekend, a heads-up that Ubisoft Toronto is hiring for four positions at the moment: • Producer • Team Lead Level Designer • AI Programming Team Lead • Senior Gameplay Animator Check out toronto.ubisoft.com/jobs/ for more info!

little catapillar guy doodle

imagine buying a pro sports dynasty and then saying “nah you can’t play next season and by the way you’re all fired” boils my fuckin wig, man

you’ve tamed your last impala

probably a long shot but if anyone is looking for anyone to be a “friend of the pod” i’m open to it i don’t want to be on the podcast, just a friend /of/ the podcast

Today marks the two year anniversary of my last layoff! After running the studio's Queer employee group for ~6 years, it stung a little harder to be laid off the day before Pride weekend. I'm grateful to have worked on several projects since — and am looking for more work!

i really don’t think i can even bring myself to play marathon tonight too many people who worked so hard to make it are now just… not going to be part of making it anymore

For your perusal: Skin Deep is 40% off for the next two weeks and it contains what I believe to be some of my finest work store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

watching the teams working on bungie, as a player, take big swings was inspiring and, selfishly, a treat it’s a shame knowing we’ll never get to see them do this again

market conditions, external factors, etc mean there will never be another team or experience like destiny, at such a scale and storied tenure /ever again/ that also says a lot about games in general that’s almost too hard to bear; we are never going back to the Golden Age of This Decade or That

Yeah: go back 2 D library!

idk how you unfuck the economics of game dev, but big studios constantly going "we just can't afford all these developers who we pay like 60% the market rate for engineering roles w/ comparable experience at comparable non-game-dev companies" doesn't reflect well on studio execs' basic competence

man i absolutely hate this

Went to see Jenny Jiao Hsia's talk at A MAZE. this year but she was running late, the room was full so my curatorial instinct kicked in: I opened my laptop, saw I still had the slides from last year's hyper talks, asked Ian "do you want to give it again NOW?", he said yes, the rest is history

the irony of reading a medium post about psychological safety in the workplace and then noticing the sole illustration in the article is AI-generated my brain just shut off and i bailed out

Front Mission 2's window color configuration menu is still the most romantic thing i've ever seen in a video game

Hey! I'm looking to talk to some game devs who are caretakers (parents or otherwise) about balancing responsibilities for a story at Mothership. If you're open to chatting, pls reach out via DMs here or the email in my bio. Shares appreciated, thanks!

marathon posting took 5 tries but we did co-evo 2/5 finally thank GOD they took out the exfil requirement for the S2 version of this contract lol

you artsy mfs better check this out

LinkedIn is predictably stuffed with blog posts about how curious (and / or “embarrassing to AAA”) the success of meccha chameleon is and like bro it’s $7 and everyone is streaming it right now that’s it! it’s cheap and fun! yet LinkedIn lunatics keep wasting tokens thoughtposting on LinkedIn.