Lazy Sunday

I think there's some solid obvious answers to this question but there's one in recent years I always end up thinking about

Always been interesting to me that Stardew Valley, a game with a real thread of strange folk horror weirdness running through it, inspired a generation of indie games that only emulated the surface level aesthetic and nothing deeper

Games shouldn't cost $100. Games should in fact cost £2, come on a cassette tape, only run on a 20kg computer that you could only buy in Britain in the 1980s, and be made over the course of six months by two 19 year-olds known only as "The Whizzy Brothers".

finally

A little "Metroid Tactics" pixel art mockup thing I did way in 2020. Still looks cute, I think! #pixelart #ドット絵

Really good trailer for a fantastic game.

how it feels to try and take two cats to the vet at once

"We're like a family"

Watching Celebrity Traitors UK and getting wound up at Stephen Fry saying, "As the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes, once said-" Sherlock Holmes isn't real. You can't do that. It's like saying the greatest long distance runner of all time is Sonic the hedgehog.

Seeing people having an absolute blast playing Hades 2 while I'm still trapped in Silksong purgatory (holy hell the game is so long it just keeps going)

graphic design is my passion

Seeing people having an absolute blast playing Hades 2 while I'm still trapped in Silksong purgatory (holy hell the game is so long it just keeps going)

rough draft but i was inspired

Working on a master classification system that will put an end to art game discourse once and for all

Was super cool to chat with Joe @ the Software Engineering Daily podcast about Cassette Beasts, making games and Godot and such! If you wanna listen, check it out here:

if I have to obey this many US laws I want to have a vote

Feels like we're at a point of total cultural apocalypse where "Steam games with pronouns are banned from sale in the US" feels like it has a non-zero chance of happening by the year's end.

I'm at Act 2 of Silksong and this continues to be relevant

fighting flying enemies in Silksong:

fighting flying enemies in Silksong:

Happy big game drop day to Team Cherry, the smartest people in the game industry!

Although our team isn't attending this year, I'm glad that we've been able to rep Brighton game devs at Gamescom this year with a Cassette Beasts banner at the ukie stall!

hell yeah

Might be unwise to do gaming discourse but a recurring sentiment I still see online a lot that I think is just *so* off the mark is this idea of: Dark, difficult, oppressive games = right wing Cozy, soft, wholesome, nonviolent games = left wing

Might be unwise to do gaming discourse but a recurring sentiment I still see online a lot that I think is just *so* off the mark is this idea of: Dark, difficult, oppressive games = right wing Cozy, soft, wholesome, nonviolent games = left wing

Hey #ScreenshotSaturday here's a snippet of the epic explosive arcadey action that awaits folks at PAX in just over a week in Rogue Eclipse! Featuring: 🕹 Tight Flight Controls 💥 Merciless Armadas to Blast through 👾 Epic Boss Fights to Overcome #pcgaming #gaming Wishlist Here! bit.ly/4bRLumD

Genuinely happy that the 7 year long development time was spent working at a leisurely pace, spending time with their families and flexing their creative muscles - with no pressure to expand their company, deliver sooner or read a single reddit post. Smartest people in our entire industry.

Think there's a good chance there'll be a big Silksong announcement at Gamescom ONL - just spotted one of the Watcher Knights at Cologne Bonn Airport, can't think of any other reason he'd be there

I don't think I'll play Kirby Air Riders but I am having fun watching the Nintendo Direct purely as a Smash throwback. They should just just make Sakurai give presentations on games they don't even intend to release - just give me semi-regular livestreams where he says things like "Gooey is here"

Think there's a good chance there'll be a big Silksong announcement at Gamescom ONL - just spotted one of the Watcher Knights at Cologne Bonn Airport, can't think of any other reason he'd be there

This is utter madness

They should do MAGfest but in the UK

The people pushing for this are organised and aligned on messaging - it feels like if we want to stop this before its obvious intended end goal we're going to need to get organised, too

The people pushing for this are organised and aligned on messaging - it feels like if we want to stop this before its obvious intended end goal we're going to need to get organised, too

The UK must immediately recognise Palestinian statehood. There can be no two state solution if there is no viable state left to call Palestine.

Opening twitter to see a viral "AI-invented pixel art game style" that is 5 seconds of conveniently fixed camera angle AI video and not, despite description, anything resembling playable game footage

🚨 SURPRISE TRAILER DROP! 🚨 We just dropped a new trailer for Rogue Eclipse as a part of the Offbrand Games Showcase 😎! 🕹 Tight Arcade Flight Controls 💥 Merciless Armadas to Blast Through 👾 Epic Boss Fights to Overcome Enjoy! #ScreenshotSaturday #pcgaming #gaming Wishlist Here! bit.ly/4bRLumD

Hey, the panel I was on gets a shout-out in the latest Edge newsletter! Happy that someone got a kick out of me waffling on.

Thank you to Alex @ GIbiz for including - in this well-written article - my headshot of me cradling my massive cat like a baby

You know what, a Zelda movie being a family adventure movie starring child actors in is probably the best outcome for this. "Big budget movies aimed at kids" have exclusively featured adult characters and have primarily targeted millennial adult nerds since the mid-2000s and I'm putting my foot down

You know what, a Zelda movie being a family adventure movie starring child actors in is probably the best outcome for this. "Big budget movies aimed at kids" have exclusively featured adult characters and have primarily targeted millennial adult nerds since the mid-2000s and I'm putting my foot down

❎🎨Breakout’s Reliable Leader! Trixie | 15 | Trick Racer Brains of the group and passionate Fashionista, her trusty intel on other teams and strategy tactics are second to none. #oc #characterdesign #xfiredash

Really enjoyable mini-doc on the origins of Psygnosis. It's rather sad to see how UK had a thriving independent northern game empire in the late 80s - early 90s that stretched from Liverpool to Newcastle and Dundee - mostly gone now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcQW...

By *sheer* coincidence I happened to bump into TJ Davis - the utterly legendary singer from the Sonic R soundtrack! 🔊Now playing: Can You Feel The Sunshine?

By *sheer* coincidence I happened to bump into TJ Davis - the utterly legendary singer from the Sonic R soundtrack! 🔊Now playing: Can You Feel The Sunshine?

I'm on a panel at Develop: Brighton on Wednesday chatting about indie games and the like - if you're around the conference this week and want to meet up / say hi / talk about Cassette Beasts, give me a buzz!

Short termism - driven by profit now vs worry about the costs later - is destroying everything in politics and business.