Yes yes yes.

For non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

I am seeing folks still planning travel to the US for events. So a reminder that this was what they were doing to White travelers last year before they'd really ramped up the ICE/CBP kidnapping/torture/murder machine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/05/09/n...

Indie #gamedev would be perfect if I could avoid these moments, 1/x: You suspect that parts of your game aren't good enough, but you don't know which. You'll rebuild a perfectly OK feature while leaving in something show-stoppingly bad.

Every time I see hyaluronic acid mentioned, I imagine a hyaluron as an especially gormless-looking proto-mammal.

BREAKING: Staggering scenes as brave Iranians stand up to their illegitimate government in Tehran... um, hang on, I'm being told this is actually Minneapolis. Forget I said anything...

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

Cocktail concept: - Passion fruit liqueur - Honey - Lemon juice - Hot water ➡️ Thot Toddy

How to tell if a game has commercial appeal before investing years in its development? @zarkonnen.bsky.social has gone through a super interesting project mockup validation approach over the past few months and I highly recommend reading his findings 👇 zarkonnen.com/mockup_valid...

An in-depth post on how I used a series of mockups posted to social media together with @metaroot.bsky.social to pick my next game project, Biomechanoid Repair Shop. zarkonnen.com/mockup_valid... #gamedev

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Billionaires' vast wealth acts like a fleet in being - the mere threat of them using it to influence politics means that they get to influence politics for free.

Mods are asleep, post blobby Qing dynasty cats

Joyeuse Année 2025

Von Schattenrätseln bis zum Almauftrieb-Adventure, vom Hexen-Roguelite bis zur Natursimulation: 2025 hat die #Schweizer #Games-Branche etliche spannende Indie-Titel hervorgebracht, die ganz unterschiedliche Genres abdecken. 🎥 youtu.be/TVxwN1Hv9tc?... #SwissGames #SwissIndies

What I got up to in 2025: zarkonnen.com/2025

This obtuse thing popped into my mind earlier today and I had to inflict it upon you all. #history

Biomechanoid Repair Shop (2028)

Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.

Could we bring back the Fuegian Dog? I'd love a legally distinct domesticated canid. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuegian...

Brief trip to Manchester - was going to take a Humourous Series of photos of me pointing at bees, but it was very, very wet. So just the big one at Picadilly.

Never mind the fog of war, thanks to AI we now have the slop of war.

This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money. Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

Just as medieval nobles had no shortage of people telling them that they were pious despite their wars and mistresses, so does the modern CEO class have no shortage of sycophants assuring them that they are very intelligent. The desired virtues may change, but the nature of power does not.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

The Horses stuff is very tiring because so many in games like the idea of games being “art” when it suits them, but revert to “nooo games are fun toys” when it makes them uncomfortable.

Welp, I've now bought it on GOG and am downloading it for archival purposes because come on.

So at this point, I am of the belief that there is a conservative group in the background emailing companies and trying to get them to ban the game.

Doing more Biomechanoid Repair Shop research AKA being sick.

Hey all, do I have any UK based concept artists following me (or who knows anyone) who would be up for a long term 22 month contract working on Dragonwilds at Jagex? Remote with a very occasional day in office in Cambridge. Development experience and fantasy genre work is a must. Mid level role.

NEW: Indie studio Santa Ragione is facing closure after its surreal horror title, Horses, was barred from Steam ahead of its upcoming December release The studio behind Saturnalia and Wheels of Aurelia said Valve has yet to adequately explain why an early version of Horses was blacklisted in 2023.

It turns out to be difficult to write a #cyberpunk noir plotline when in the real-life US, there are masked men disappearing people in broad daylight. Like, the crooked cop character is going to look like a paragon of due process no matter what I make them do.

As for what Edifice is: A narrative-action game about Mui, a young adventurer called to a mysterious Monolith at the end of the world, as many have been before her. Touching upon themes like legacy, impostor syndrome and how we want to define ourselves Here's a lil vid from the prototype we sent!

#Gamedev blog on recreating the HR Giger "sausage casing" effect in my pixel art game: zarkonnen.com/biomech/saus...

#Gamedev blog on recreating the HR Giger "sausage casing" effect in my pixel art game: zarkonnen.com/biomech/saus...

Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

Weird thing my brain does: get stuck on a song and then slowly replace half the words with "crab". Some kind of mental carcinization. Currently: 🎶 If you go to Crab-borough fair Parsley, crabs, rosemary and crabs Remember me to one who lives there For she once was a true crab of mine 🎶

"What we are offering is the ability to make any cartoon character fart and say bad things, and all we’re asking in return is the surrender of your career, dignity, and sense of worth in those most human of endeavors, such as art." thehardtimes.net/blog/opinion...

Doing a panel on game production at the Swiss Game Hub on Dec 11: www.meetup.com/game-develop...

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

Starting to play around with the strudel.cc live music platform - strudel.cc#JDogbigiWzEg...

In my new game, Biomechanoid Repair Shop, you play one of those shopkeeper side characters in a #cyberpunk story, shown in just a scene or two before being gruesomely killed off. zarkonnen.com/biomech/a_ne... This could be you:

So I've started working on a new game. It's called Biomechanoid Repair Shop, and it's basically Papers Please meets David Cronenberg. I'll be regularly posting about its development, starting today: zarkonnen.com/biomech/a_ne... #gamedev

Foggy sheep!