why is it always "grow your business"? why can't it just be "find a nice comfortable equilibrium for your business"?

The Cost of AI alextardif.com/AI.html

Done a cool post! 4500 wishlists for Pin-Crawl is suuuuper amazing, actually can't believe it!! Also, some news about a demo?! store.steampowered.com/news/app/351...

With a Supreme Court ruling on the horizon, Marriage for All Japan's "Yes! To Marriage Equality" campaign has expanded to all 47 prefectures. Last week, they announced a petition, an exhibition, and a documentary series. Read about it in my latest piece for @unseenjapan.com:

Hmmm, I wonder what caused these holes to appear in the shoji?

It's ABSURD that this is a game from the director of Ikaruga and is one of the best rail shooters I've ever played and it has... 1 review listed on metacritic??? www.metacritic.com/game/night-s...

Konami's #Gradius II bible is everything a person could want to receive. Especially if that person is me, or @porkface.bsky.social.

Announcing Pin-Crawl! A rogue-lite dungeon crawler with a pinball twist! 💥 Bop and bounce your way through a weird & wacky dungeon 🌟 Shoot magic with yer flippers 🔮 Aim and Dash 🔌 Power up with Spells and Runes! 🎨 Handcrafted tables with beautiful pixel art store.steampowered.com/app/3514920/...

Made this with custom quad rendering in @gamemaker.io #indiegame

the sheer desperation and brazen dickweed energy of "disable for 30 days" on flaccid AI nothingness

Been doing a map or two of Star Fox Command before bed recently. Really love this route. Some great boss fights (good job @rhodjp.bsky.social) The final fight is also one of the rare rail line level in the game. And I love how vague it is about whether Dash ruling Venom is a good thing or not.

Without stating your age post your favorite film released the year you turned 18.

Have to wonder if Space Sardine will get the 'real animal' treatment. #StarFox

Alright, got my thoughts out on Star Fox for Switch 2 youtu.be/ALiBYFOtU5w

Chuckie Egg on the BBC was my life at age 6 and the sound when jumping is amongst my favourite all time game sounds. What a treat to read this!

Feeling extremely fortunate to have been able to see #EddieVedder in Kyoto tonight. Incredible, personal set with the intimacy of a bar room but the energy of a stadium.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCpY... This was a really lovely watch. Thanks, @jon.gvg.io! (especially pleased to have the touch controls singled out... a not-insignificant percentage of my twenties went on getting those right (with a lot of support from @selfresonating.bsky.social).

Mad good clouds on the way to work. #Kyoto

If you ❤️ “retro” games and Megadrive / Genesis in particular, check out what Alone in the Dark creator @frederickraynal.bsky.social has launched on Kickstarter: a brand-new spinner controller for SEGA’s console and Fred’s classic game Popcorn with an awesome new 2P sequel, Popcorn Duel. Link below.

New Rhythm Tengoku coming out almost exactly 20 years after the original. Unbelievably hyped. Also that means I've been carrying one single game cartridge in my bag, everywhere, for *two decades* now.

GOOD purchase.

Fantasy Zone turned 40 over the weekend. 🥳✌🏿

I really don’t like it when people build something up by tearing something else down. If that’s your best way of recommending something, I’m not very inclined to check out whatever you’re trying to boost.

Avec une bien belle photo de l'AFP pour célébrer ce prix @ocornut.bsky.social

holy moly how am i only just now learning about Brebeman. this is one of the sickest music games i've played in forever there's a demo, the game is like $10. play Brebeman!! store.steampowered.com/app/3349980/...

Titanium Court is just the right amount of so much aftermath.site/titanium-court...

DEMO LIVE!!🚨🚀 Wild Blue Skies is playable right now at Steam Next Fest. On-rails shooter action. Branching paths. Boss fights. Bowie's confidence. Roe's standards. Thorne's ego. Chuck's wholesome energy. It's all there. Go play it. 🎮 store.steampowered.com/app/1921490/...

Our game AWAYSIS has its first major Steam demo up! We've done a lot of custom physics work to bring something somewhere in between a fully-physics based experience and something more responsive of something more Nintendo-like, its a sweet juicy middle! store.steampowered.com/app/3334760/...

Somehow we've reached a point where only negativity is considered sincere. Sincerely being happy for people, or excited about things, or grateful for your industry peers - it's not accepted anymore. It's become entirely Us vs. Them, and your position shifts based on how much negativity you bring.

🎨 Not been feeling well for the past few days so doodled some Bomberman to cheer myself up 💗

Dusting the amiibo today. #NotAEuphemism

It seems there is some hardware I simply can not resist, so today I added another near-mint condition #GBPocket to the collection. #GameBoy

Downloading the Virtua Fighter 5 REVO beta on Switch 2. It's really actually really a thing. #VF5 #Switch

Genuinely the first 'swear word' I ever learned, before i understood what a swear word was.

This post just so I can write choc-émon. #Pokemon

Snow Day! #Kyoto #Japan

General rule for all game-critical UI and text: if you personally think it's obnoxiously large, make it slighty larger than that.

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

Would I miss it if the internet disappeared tomorrow? Of course but I'd also vote for it to go.

Today I noticed the bongos in #Bananza. They didn't have to put the bongos in. Or give them a little start button. Or make them bouncy!? They didn't have to add an extra bongo track in the audio that comes in when you're near. But they did.

Just got boxes of final US and UK editions of my book. I'm so thrilled about this, I truly worked so hard on it. "Anyone who cares about interactive entertainment will be delighted by this book." -Tom Bissell It's out next month - pre-order and book tour links through here linktr.ee/super_nintendo

Each object in Melkhior's Tower now has a weight property. This is to facilitate Sir Stamperlot's special ability of strength. #melkhiorstower #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart More info here: bitglint.itch.io/melkhiors-to...

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I've overhauled my puzzle level generation so a level is now "grown" like cell tissue in a triangle tessellation. New elements can be inserted anywhere, and the whole level deforms to make room. This makes it easier to control topology and create paths that loops around areas. #ProcGen #GameDev

Wonder what AI discourse would look like if big tech had the wits and humility to just go "this is an LLM, it's really good at associating and extrapolating representations of data" rather than "here is the next evolutionary step in intelligence, we don't know if it will save or destroy our species"

Kyoto? Snyoto more like! (This 'joke' works better when spoken, but still only questionably worth posting.) This is north Kyoto, not central Kyoto which has no settled snow at time of writing. Please enjoy the photo anyway... or... wait.... the snowto? (sorry.)

2025, then. I'm late to this excellent party award: Kunitsu-gami. Human nature laid bare award: ARC Raiders. Made specifically for me award: DK Bananza DLC. Most confusing 80 hours award: Monster Hunter Wilds. Strangest absence award: Mario Maker Mouse Controls.

Received 'Destiny Game Deluxe' to add to the #Nintendo #BoardGame collection, replete with seemingly unopened pieces.

Annual traditional run through of Christmas #Pikmin. I wish there were new missions released for Pikmin 3 every week, forever. Come on #Nintendo ;)

Happy Xmas! My present to you is to remind you (as I was just reminded!!) that this year Hiroshi Iuchi (Radiant Silvergun, Ikaruga, Sin & Punishment) released a new rail shooter developed with M2 - NIGHT STRIKERS GEAR (PC and Switch)