just know that if you engage with harry potter in any form i'm judging you

these morons would instantly die in a real industry where they have to make a business work on 3% net margins

when i first start writing for a game it always feels incredibly cringe

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

It’s as easy as shutting your effin mouth! And did I mention… it’s free?!

our video game is on sale!! rescue cats, flush pirates out airlocks, argue with decapitated heads, experience a severe dust mite allergy. it's Skin Deep!

i've spent all week making a particle system & editor for our engine ^_^ the number one workflow thing lacking from Celeste was a particle editor (I painstakingly defined all the particles in code, woof)

Web 1.0: The web is for information Web 2.0: The web is for ads Web 3.0: The web is for scams

my real-time adventure game Time Bandit is on sale for like $3! that’s a steal and so is taking back what ur owed by your boss in the game. solve box-pushing puzzles, sneak around at work, fight capitalism, etc. store.steampowered.com/app/1481910/...

the first step to a good solid writing practice is establishing some kind of accountability system. the second step is establishing a backup accountability system for when you inevitably figure out how to evade the first one. the third step? you guessed it: jerking off

Ooh, big update out for Beastieball today! One of the best (and most undersold - go play it, dammit) creature-collectors around Instead of fighting, your creatures play volleyball and your team members develop relationships with each other Up there with Cassette Beasts as 'better than Pokemon' IMO

by Gwendolyn Brooks ❤️‍🩹

this morning anya taylor-joy was hit with a question that has never been asked before in the history of the universe

work music

If you want players to care about text in your game, you have to make reading the text rewarding. And not like earn currency rewarding, actually rewarding

It is important I get 8,294,400 pixels (4K) at 120 frames a second. Otherwise it just doesn’t feel real. It is ok if half of those pixels are just kinda guesses based on zettabytes of YouTube and pornhub my graphics card watched

Jesus this is insightful banger after banger.

Health Speculations Swirl After Trump Screams, ‘Fuck! I’m Dying!’ https://theonion.com/health-speculations-swirl-after-trump-screams-fuck-im-dying/

play the fucking MASH clip

pretty sure the villain of this game is going to be a vengeful JRPG final boss god that hates ogmo out of jealousy

justin trudeau truly was the himbo prime minister

congrats to all the IGF winners and noms and entrants and the people getting free wine in the vip section

world 1 hub progress so far. Is it good yet? who knows!

I think we also have to talk about how the aesthetic of gambling has pervaded so many games lately. I love games like Balatro, Vampire Survivors, Clover Pit, and Raccoon, but it does make me worried for my psyche when everything is loud and flashy and dopamine-y like I'm at a casino

The "antiwoke" guys are calling Marathon a "genderqueer shooter" and I don't think they understand how cool that sounds.

this shaft with spikes is here to teach you about stamina, but *very* early on it also had a false ceiling with the levels crystal heart in it and connected up to the theo room above, requiring neutral jumps to get up there

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

If you would like to help to make sure a lying politician meaningfully face consequences for a change, Councillor Orr is fundraising his legal expenses. I donated, and I highly encourage any Vancouverite to chip in too ! www.gofundme.com/f/sean-orr-i...

Many tidings on this blessed Mario Day ⭐ #marioday

just came across this so ill post it why not, here's the slideshow I made to concept the "wavedash.ppt" tutorial in Farewell docs.google.com/presentation...

I saw a group post this and have to say that it is amazing.

this is part of a larger mission to figure out how this game starts. I couldn't figure it out with the old system

I threw out the Jumper overworld and am replacing it with hub levels now. I like that I have a proper place for explorative play in the game now, and can be more creative with the progression between levels

well that's not equality at all then

The fact that they're doing this after making a massive deal out of excluding transgender people from military service feels like it's gonna get really funny

None of this would be happening if Mega Man Legends 3 hadn't been canceled

our 4yo now claims to be nocturnal

had some playtesting last night that revealed some pretty big problems with world 1. i have some ideas to address that today

move slow and repair things

im running out of steam making levels for world 2 so im prototyping a new enemy to add into the mix: a bird that drops egg bombs on you

One encouraging theme in last night's NC primaries is the simple fact that being pro-trans is now like being anti-ICE among Dem voters: to them, it means you're a fighter, it means you're not giving into Trump. That's a really, really good sign.

had a great story outlining sesh with a friend/collaborator last night for a future project ^_^

Still looking for my next role - if you know anyone who needs an award winning game designer, narrative designer, or content designer with technical skills and people managing experience who has been at it for 15 years and has made stuff that is taught in schools, hit me up at [email protected]

progress on Jumper today: I added autoscrollers and thought of a framing device for them. there won't be a lot of them in the game but I think I found a fun approach that still allows for interesting speedrun goal times in these levels

Where? How? These people have been pooping this stupid myth back and forth for so long that they don't even bother to provide basic evidence anymore. It's the *premise* of the article, how did an editor not ask for specific numbers and peer-reviewed studies on this alleged phenomenon?

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today i also tried adapting a level from one of my smw romhacks to Jumper and it worked really well