We're in the Guardian too! RELOOTED is basically mainstream!

Hell yeah! We're in @theverge.com

Murmurant Games is registered! Say hello to a new narrative game studio :) Murmuration is emergent coordination in flights of birds. It's social movements without leaders. It's narrative complexity from honestly motivated characters. It's simple game mechanics creating a living world.

RAVEL is jamming in Cape Town again! Zine Jam: ANALOG 10am to 5pm Feb 28 Makers Massive. Bring your stationary. Bring your old magazines. Bring your friends. And jam with us. It's FREE but rsvp so we know how many folks to expect... www.quicket.co.za/events/35986...

For this you must own your IP. Do not give it away. There are people with wonderful work who own none of it and survive from gig to gig. Braid the long tail of your work into a sustainable career.

I hold my rosary tightly as rock back and forth chanting: "People are allowed to dislike what you like. People are allowed to dislike what you like. People are allowed..."

@freelives.bsky.social you know what you need to do.

Soon...

I just refered to the unused front door versus the default entrance door as the 'door jure' and 'door facto' so I can confirm I still have my sense of humor.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

A gloriously dumb take from a He-man review. At first I thought it was specifically about scifi-fantasy like Battlestar or Lexx or Star Wars... but by including Alien Earth they have crossed into absurdity.

If it's not being adopted then it's not useful. It's been forced into absolutely everything; there is no one who hasn't had an opportunity to test AI tools.

It used to take effort to make an image this stupid.

It's the lying that really grates my carrot. The ig account is about "conscious sustainable feminist" products. Added irony, @procreate.com is anti-genAI as far as I know.

Whenever I read "in an AI-driven world" I know it was written either by a mindless and soulless automaton, or by an AI.

This is the future I want.

What is a core game loop? Exploring the concept of a "core game loop" in tabletop board games and roleplaying games, why it benefits players, and how it can become a compulsion loop: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/core-game-... And a few of my slides from a recent public library class...

Looking back and on 2025 and froward to 2026. Successes, sequels & Sun Runners. Plus some schemes... www.patreon.com/posts/successes-sun-147459942

The world of Sun Runners is dystopian but the story is about building a solarpunk community in opposition to the corpo-feudal capitalism. Sure, your body is under the control of an AI supervisor in your skull and you're as far from Earth as it's possible to get but uh you can do it? #gamedev #renpy

Concept: Depression Quota Once you've used up your allotment you have to wait until next month to be depressed again. I believe this method will revolutionise treatment.

My novel was published. Created a tv show and completed development. (Unproduced) Was lead narrative designer at a game studio before resigning. Have a house. Feel more certain of my skills than ever. Feel less certain of my career than ever. Good bye 2025.

I get such a kick drawing with Coco. She named this monster "Johnny McCally" - muppet movies are leaving an impression on both of us ♡ Is there a @johnnymcCally on here?

The aliens from Arrival are sending a message.

Cut off the tip of my left index finger. Everyone is poking fun at me while I can't poke back. Merry Christmas ☆

For too long I thought Feliz Navidad was a young popstar who happened to blow up over December.

18th century air bnbs had better vibes.

Exactly. I hadn't even been thinking of prose vs game categories.

I used an llm to pull out all the non-english words in a chapter to make a glossary. It failed confidently. I wanted an AI that could spare me rote tasks so I could spend more time creating. How could any curious scifi writer resist experimenting?

Ok yup this is the good take backed up with reasoning and principles.

Hey @dislekcia.bsky.social

A nice synergy of @obsidian.md and @renpy.org.web.brid.gy - use the dev directoy as the vault and the canvas feature for flow charts with the scene .rpy files + game art, without duplicating files in multiple locations. Open .rpy in your code editor or within Obsidian.

I'm trying not to be mad about AI all the time but my *god* Notion's choice to weight their buttons this way makes me mad.

Meanwhile a game that released with genAI assets (now removed) is everyone's goty.

This approach is fine. LLMs have been so forced into every tool that they're hard to avoid. It's better to have folks declare they used chatgpt for grammar or fact checking, or to suggest edits or something than take an all or nothing approach.

Here I am, making little games about traveling around a desolate planet of dystopian mining colonies.

This book is filled with odd and awful and dated stories with the occaisional bit of casual racism... But this story is gentle and wonderful. By Wendy Eyton, illustrated by Charmain Veitch.

I am a serious person with serious ideas. Please take me serious.

Not to out myself, but I thought Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 was a jrpg that broke through.

Listening to a podcast on Ramanujan, and I wonder how many advancements were lost because English weather is so shit?

Citizen Sleeper is a phenomenal game. It was delightful talking about it with 3 Bit Design.

This saying always bugged me.

Best review of The Unwoven Warrior - which is 60% off today on the Mirari Press site www.miraripress.com/product-page...

My journey into solo game dev has been characterised by my ambition constantly staying ahead of my ability.

Did you know there's an audiobook app INSIDE the fnb app?!

Last night's Makers Massive meetup had the best talks in a while. From a deep post-mortem on DD:rewind to a lovely look at games as poetry and ending with the recipe for horror cliches... insightful, inspiring, fun.

I couldn't come up with clever patreon tiers, so I went with weird. www.patreon.com/4188767/join

Thoughts on this? One way Disc E discourages over-optimising/strategising is by making failure rewarding. Why chase the right outcome when you can chase the wrongest?

Working on something new and it's getting weird.

My first solo dev work was with RenPy, then I fell HARD for inky. And yet I'm back at RenPy suddenly as though called by siren waifus. But the the weird thing is... I'm BETTER at RenPy now despite 5 years not touching it. Odd.

What a delightful and very cool animated short from DoodletmeGO youtu.be/z0AUrwl3-DI?...