Everything about making video games is harder than you think.

i dunno man they’re pretty strict on who they let be their spokesperson

The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.

At some point your ability to report the truth fairly has to determine the amount of influence you can have in a free society

Non-US folks should really do this survey, the last question is about whether you’ve cancelled travel plans to the US or are reconsidering travel plans due to current policies. GDC needs to know this, maybe some talks could go online live with enough feedback? Maybe they could even lobby? Who knows!

grateful for the feedback we’ve been getting and looking forward to using it to improve the game 🙏 mike’s already got some fixes in the can and we’re treating the launch as not the end, not the beginning, but somewhere in the middle we want to make it as special as we can, and it all helps

One million years ago I had the pleasure of working on Dead Static Drive for a bit, and today it’s out! What a journey this game’s been on~ Now it’s your turn: store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/...

when @doctorvenkman.com saw this he sent me the bloodbourne redux:

accidentally murdered a gang of teenagers in my first five minutes of the game and now me and my dropkick friends are on the run, perfect game

we therapizin’ in the grouppe chat

injured myself buying dead static drive from @leena.reuben.games and @mike.reuben.games too aggressively store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/...

HEY, you know what? You could literally be playing DEAD STATIC DRIVE right now. It is out. NOW. store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/...

Dead Static Drive already got me going oh hell no

if there's a reason a lot of non-NYers and non-Americans are following this it's because we have all seen our own establishments tell us these kinds of wins aren't possible, that compromise and passivity are the only ways to unseat fascism, and we have seen that backfire in every single instance.

WHO THE FUCK WOULD RELEASE A VIDEOGAME

one thing i’m learning about me is that i like making games way more than i like releasing them

the chances of the game being everything everyone wanted or imagined it was going to be aren’t high, esp given the dev period & how excited people were about the setting & art style. i hope some folks love it! but whatever happens we’ll listen to feedback & improve, we’re in it for the long haul 🚛

ohno

thanks for the kind words on launch day everyone, i’d thank you each individually but i think i’m gonna barf instead

I never thought I would say this .. but Dead Static Drive comes out in an hour store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/...

😭😭😭

the new limited series on trad wives on QAA is excellent. two early highlights: 1) the title, Truly Tradly Deeply 2) “feminism isn’t responsible for you not having a boyfriend” open.spotify.com/episode/6QDB...

the government should give out little electric shock clickers that are hooked up to everyone who makes a youtube tutorial and we should be allowed to shock them when they don’t do it right we can time it with the specific keyframe of their sin so they can understand their misdeeds

feeling all my feelings today so I can be completely unburdened tomorrow, that’s definitely how things work

frankly i think every game launch should come with crippling period pain i like it!!! I think it’s GOOD!!! actually!!!

just heard a dad say “look do you want a happy meal or not?” and i think we’d all do well to ask ourselves that question

Election humor from the New Yorker

Toilet Time Machine is out today! Can't believe this little thing @rubyinnes.bsky.social and I cooked up is in the world in a huge way. DREAM BELIEVE ACHIEVE BUY MY BOOK. www.penguin.com.au/books/toilet...

They are destroying what SHE built. #TeenVogue

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

I'd say autoblocking AI slop peddlers is all the conversation I need to have with them. Makes my opinion pretty fucking clear. If they're not listening to that extremely definitive action, oh well. Some things aren't negotiable, my guy. "Do not fucking talk to me, ever" is all I want to say.

imagine you’re at a bar and some weenie introduces himself as the “head of generative AI at coca cola”

WE ARE 26 SUBSCRIPTIONS AWAY FROM OUR GOAL!!!!!!!!!! the-flytrap.ghost.io/chomp

Unfortunately, as depressed as I am by the Teen Vogue news, I don't have the option to subscribe to The Flytrap to make myself feel better, since I'm already subscribed. But maybe you do!

ONLY 31 NOW!!! bsky.app/profile/thef...

i owe so many video game designers an apology

this feels like that part of giving birth where it’s about to get real and you try to get up and leave and all the professionals are like “ho ho ho, i don’t think so buddy”

games writer friends, if you’re feeling a little sore about not getting a code from your pal leena yet, please reach out for one, she *wants* to throw hundreds of codes in the air but her brain is doing that thing where it goes “oh no is this like… PRESSURING them to cover it… uhhhhhh” we tina’ing!

people are playing our videogame

real talk though i think there’s a non-zero amount of people who say a game had bad writing as shorthand to say the game itself wasn’t for them, but they’re worried about upsetting men if they say “the design was bad” so they pick off the writer as the role they can get away with disrespecting

I’m not going to get cross at “bad games writing” discourse because it’s always just kind of there like a musty smell in a carpet but i would ask people to elaborate on what they mean with the highest degree of specificity they can or all our heads will explode

Rest now, brother. We have the watch. And I will see you in Valhalla. 🫡

have half-defrosted the fridge twice, replaced the seals (called “gaskets”, who knew), defrosted the whole thing for 3 days, & it’s still beeping that it can’t hold its temperature. usually at 12am-3am please buy our videogame in 2 days so i can call the fridge man and sleep through the night

court columbine, colorado springs, colorado, 1980

the divide is that bisexuals now believe le creuset is cheugy but the gays aren’t so sure

this 0.2 second cheek skin bounce effect had a higher budget than most indie games

Average anti-Bluesky op-ed: this app is solely an echo chamber for left-wing politics Average Bluesky post: baseball has taken everything from me

this is the last weekend that the game won’t be out