Oh hey it’s the first signs of spring.

Baffled by how little Ghost of Yotei has been celebrated for its order of magnitudes improvement it made over its predecessor and its open world peers when it comes to its fluid blending of storytelling and exploration

Forza Horizon hitting the same ‘in case of emergency: Japan’ button as Ass Creed

This absolutely diabolical Texas switch

Game execs looking at the tech sector reporting zero returns from AI initiatives

Duolingo’s decision to fully skin their conversation practice as a random phone call baffles me (a social anxiety riddled mess)

My dog out here FaceTiming like me mum n dad

GOOD MORNING BLUESKY Have you heard?? We're just 8.5k away from hitting our initial funding goal!!! Please give us a pledge if you've been thinking about it, we might be able to hit 100% within 24 hours of launch!!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann...

I have absolutely zero regrets for this impulse purchase

new blog post: turned my gdc 2025 level design theory talk into a blog post www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/05/spac...

I often think about how one of the GBA Castlevanias had an amazing synergistic magic system where you combined cards to modify your moveset and one of the end game combinations is just… Gun

New Mission Impossible movie or new Dumb and Dumber?

Scenes of a Molly #4

As much as I love a good Mario it’s always exciting to see one of the rest of the cast get a shot. Feels like the team really gets to shake off some of Mario stylistic baggage and go wild. DK Bonanza is giving me Warioland energy and I am eating it up

“We continue to prevent generations in the style of individual living artists, but we do permit broader studio styles…” Meanwhile that particular studio’s broader style:

the perfect Technical Designer interview

LOAF

“..the main purpose of my games wasn’t for them to be consumed, but rather for them just to be made.” So lovely. that human urge to just will something into existence

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpG8... Watanabe playing the greatest hits. Absolutely sobbing, I’m 14 again watching the CNX promo reel on repeat just to glimpse the cowboy bebop snippet

Scenes of a Molly 1-3 #dogsofbluesky

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

Hang on a second Veilguard almost sold two million in three months and is deemed a failure?

Chinese Ai vs US Ai - feels like an appropriate time to share this scene from the show (2018)

What is this genre and how can I find more of it?

-squints- did a Danish person make this map…?

Listened to @99pi.org ‘s mini on Smellovision just in time for the news to break that Sony is letting us smell the mushroomy world of The Last of Us! www.eurogamer.net/sony-shows-o...

You can check out the resulting video here—and I’m so dang glad it exists. Long live Bass Reeves Can’t Die. youtu.be/69Ukg2BqIk0?...

Having an existential crisis by the fact I reviewed these movies the same. One is definitely better than the other but the scores are CORRECT

My fave movie, game, tv show and book of 2024

Our building association has floated the idea of buying out our houses and it has prompted a physical Facebook comment thread that updates every other day in our letterbox. The natural progression of people rebuilding their vinyl and dvd collection

Heya folks, do I have any mutual indie developers who have included #accessibility features in their released games they would be interested in letting me reference in my book on building better accessible games?

Skip-skip-skip-sk…. Sob

Also, if only there was a clue to know how long…

RUDE

I don’t post often and when I do it will very likely not be about my work at Playdead. Partially because I’ve fully embraced the PD air of mystique but also because we got a dog recently and she is my goofy muse

Cool cool cool cool cool

Gonna have to get this guy to sign an NDA

Hello #gamedev bluesky. I’m Simon, lead game designer at Playdead. It’s lovely to be here while the clean car smell is still pungent