Here's some more Caribou Trail reviews we're proud of (overall 92% positive!): "the best history game i have ever played" - Don Tobias "A beautiful game with a touching and heartbreaking story." - LilKarma "un chef-d'oeuvre de poésie et de tension" - Koroh "Best kind!" - Plastic_Bert

Anne Hathaway has the most theatre kid energy of any star I can think of.

Citizen Sleeper, why you gotta do me like that? (Alleged good ending that turns arbitrarily into a sad ending.)

I'm writing an interactive fiction in the second person, as one does, "you do this, you say that"... and it occurs to me what kinds of possibilities that opens up for the identity of the first person. Who is the "I" that's talking to "you"? I'm going to try something out...

Thank you so much @cgameawards and what an honor for us at @CompulsionGames, shoutout to all nominees and Canadian game makers out there ❤️🥹 Best Art Direction Best Soundtrack Best Narrative Best Audio Design Best Console Game Game Studio Of the Year Game Of The Year

So who-all's gonna be at Narrascope? (Albany June 13-14)

Dictatorships promote the worst people: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

There are a lot of business books that could have been an email.

A student asked me how I broke in, so I wrote a blog post: complicationsensue.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

The kid who plays young Clara in House of the Spirits, Francesca Turco, is amazing. We'll be seeing more of her, I bet.

B'ys, ye should play our little game The Caribou Trail (store.steampowered.com/app/3065030/...)! The Steam player reviews, well, read'em: "A beautiful game with a touching and heartbreaking story" "touched my heart 10/10" "incredibly moving" "hits the feels" "💔" "Firewatch" "Edith Finch"

"a brilliant tribute to the Newfoundland Regiment" mobilesyrup.com/2026/05/14/t...

"Every once in a while, a video game releases — usually an indie — that instantly becomes a “must-play.” www.consolecreatures.com/the-caribou-...

Luke Plunkett nails my Mixtape letdown: aftermath.site/mixtape-revi.... The characters are lovingly drawn, the bespoke gameplay can soar. But ... *where* are we? American Graffiti felt real because it was a keenly observed love letter to Lucas's senior year in 1962 Modesto.

Alex: why do LLMs make up answers? Why don't they say "I don't know" when they don't know? Lisa: think about the guys that build them. Alex: oh. Ohhhhhhhh.

When we need to distinguish two characters, we joke about putting a hat on one of them. It's the easiest and cheapest way the artists can do it. I'm rewatching The Expanse S4 E9 where they do literally that for 2 versions of the same character. (It's an sf show.) The pros at work, people.!

So it turns out "mole" as in "mole sauce" comes from the Nahuatl "molli" meaning "sauce." So if you have mole sauce on the Avon River (however unlikely that may be) you are having sauce sauce on the River River.

My friends are rightly irked by AI hype. But it can be truly useful. It helped me code a basic game in Godot, and puzzle functionality in Twine. It helped me extend wifi to a second location. It is not reliable, or creative, or a panacea, AT ALL. But it knows things I don't, & that's handy.

Just watched a charming documentary about Ravens with atrocious bland wall-to-wall synth music. We have music sliders in video games. We have multiple languages in TV and film. Give us music sliders in TV and film!

I realized my essay about why Ophelia is pregnant had fallen off the Net, so here it is in my blog: complicationsensue.blogspot.com/2026/05/by-w...

The term "86"-ing someone came from Chumley's, a speakeasy at 86 Bedford Street. When you were 86'ed, you were outside looking at the front door rather than boozing it up inside.

I love living in a city that's really a village.

I'm working on a visual novel. I'd forgotten what fun it is to write when you have no production limitations. I can fill the trees with ravens. In pyjamas. And teeny tiny top hats. Singing "Put the Blame on Mame." Costs just as much as having two convenience store clerks hanging around talking.

I wish @preply.bsky.social wasn't so incredibly hostile to its users.

Me estoy diciendo que ¡tengo acento Argentino en espanol!

South of Midnight just won a Peabody, the oldest major electronic media award in the US. Which is amazing! "Because there are stories, and then there are stories that matter," as they say.

Lisa and I wrote this game, b'ys... www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-eX...

I'm speakin', here! At 2:45 on Sunday, June 14, I'll be giving a talk at Narrascope about what I've learned about taking criticism, mostly the hard way. More about the conference: narrascope.org.

Quebec's housing tribunal just ruled that all landlords must allow pets because not allowing pets is a violation of the Charter of Rights. Y'all have a housing tribunal down there?

I keep running out of stomach room in New York.

Kudos to the team at Compulsion Games for the BAFTA! It was a long hard road David started us on eight years ago, but y'all brought it all home. Bravo!

I love how Zohran's millionaire tax announcement has the Succession music, or what you get when you ask a composer for "as close to the Succession as we can get without a copyright violation." www.instagram.com/p/DXKlAiMkeAr/

Good news: Claude (ai) helped me figure out a huge problem running a remote voice recording session, where every time our actor got guttural, he disappeared. Bad news: the problem was also ai, where noise suppression software was interpreting throatiness as noise.

Goddess bless the Hungarian people, and yeah, even Goddess bless Orbán for quickly and graciously taking the L. Autocracy is apparently not on the march. Phew.

Central Park has signs warning New Yorkers not to go out on the lake when it's frozen, and ladders because we know you, you're gonna go out on the goddamn ice anyway, aren't you.

Does seem unfair that the Artemis astronauts have been required to RTO.

I've been messing around with vibe coding in Claude in Godot, Python and Javascript. 1. This is a fantastic resource for someone who hasn't really coded since RAM was measured in KB and cell phones were bricks you could defend yourself with in a street fight.

Is it possible to have an itty-bitty waist AND a round thing in your face? I submit to you, sir, that this is a pernicious and unnatural standard.

I'm listening to Carl Orff's "Mars" segment from his "Planets Suite," and hooo boy did John Williams pillage^^^^^^ get a lot of inspiration there for his music for Star Wars.

Tea Party protests: hundreds of thousands. No Kings: millions. NYT, WaPo front page today: 🦗🦗🦗🦗. These are I Have A Dream, anti-Vietnam War march numbers.

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

If you are looking to name a character of a certain age, check out this here handy chart. E.g. 83.8% of all Deborahs in the US were born 1949-1968. 3 out of 4 Lisas were born 1958-1977. 98.8% of all Harpers were born 2005-2024. i.redd.it/7jng95urxkrg...

I started using Claude to teach my daughter and me Godot, and my Lord, it is a thousand times better than trying to learn from tutorials. Yes, AI cannot come up with fresh, meaningful creative content; it's not built to do that. But what I've seen of *analytical* uses of AI, wow, it is powerful.

So apparently the people of Albany, NY really do call themselves "Albanians," presumably with some self-awareness and maybe even a cheeky grin.

Ah, the age old question: are Chinese takeout leftovers better cold or hot?

CIBC will let me include a "gracias!" in an e-transfer, but not a "¡gracias!" Calice!

More adventures in transmedia theory, everyone’s favorite! You know how in comics, the gutter, the space between the panels, is where meaning gets created in the mind of the reader? That old Scott McCloud thing from Understanding Comics.

Fascinating Bloomberg piece about how AI is used as an excuse for downsizing, but isn't usually the real reason: > “We’re restructuring around AI” is a growth signal. “We over-hired during the pandemic and revenue softened” is an accountability signal. /1

Cooked my own granola, and it tastes fabulous. Unfortunately I know how much sugar I put in it.

Okay, you went to GDC. What did you learn that surprised you?