Boycotting Disney and Hulu. It’s actually so, so much easier than you might be thinking rn

Ta-Nehisi Coates has a predictably wonderful essay about the political class's reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk. to quote a post I saw on here a few weeks back, "we're gonna need a bigger Reconstruction" web.archive.org/web/20250916...

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

Pour one out for a true legend

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

Neo Cab is back on the App Store! We had to re-submit as a brand new game & unfortunately lost all of our reviews. If you've already enjoyed Neo Cab, please consider leaving a new review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If you haven't played Neo Cab yet, now's a great time to check it out - the first chapter is free!

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up open.substack.com/pub/mikelove...

Maybe the best experience I've ever had playing a mobile game. Highly recommend Neo Cab and it's possible that it's more topical than ever now.

Neo Cab has a mechanic that I think is a really nice representation of emotional awareness, and the results of healthy vs unhealthy reactions to negative feelings. I love how well it translates that feelings can not simply be ignored, and have consequences if they are. Highly recommend!

Neo Cab is BACK on the App Store, baby! If you love soft sci-fi, cozy mysteries, and/or themes of staying human in a world overrun by tech oligarchies and automation… well, have we got a game for you 💜 Chapter One is a free download- please give us a try & plz share! apps.apple.com/us/app/neo-c...

ICE is turning around now, escorted by Broadview police. Crowd is jubilant. Someone is shouting, "this is what it takes! They are turning around!"

One of the projects I'm working on is currently delayed, so I remain open to contract work. Pay me human money for: - Game writing and editing - Narrative design - Technical, systems, narrative, economy or general game design consulting on a variety of topics - Un-spaghetti your Ink - Storylets

David Attenborough: brief as its life may be, in order to protect its fragile exoskeleton the Spirit Halloween must seek a vacant commercial shell

We’re preparing Neo Cab, a game I’m immensely proud of, for a mobile re-release soon! I’d love to celebrate this. #Gamedev pals- can you recommend any streamers/podcasters (esp narrative games focused) who might want to host a behind-the-scenes “let’s play” / interview with me? Shares appreciated!

From QWOP to Baby Steps, Bennett Foddy has spent nearly two decades making physical comedies about the human body. Why does he keep circling back to walking? To understand his design philosophy, I asked him to take a long walk with me. www.polygon.com/bennett-fodd...

just imagine a world without microsoft excel. make it happen at herdling.game

The Ferry from my #pixelart webcomic Hero oh Hero!

So good to see Arkane's workers push for this! Also a great example of one of the core benefits of unionization, which is just "creating a structure for discussion and systems to make collective decisions." Always much harder to get action at scale like this if there isn't already organization.

This was an incredibly fun project to work on— especially the opportunity to collaborate with the brilliant engineering/design teams at @particle.news I built the service which takes breaking news stories, finds a theme, and generates high quality crossword grids & clues on that topic... (1/3)

i wrote an article about that stupid little question i asked a couple weeks ago, why i asked it, and how the answer to the question can be tremendously beneficial for ttrpg designers possumcreek.medium.com/does-super-m...

I ran a TTRPG session for three almost-5-year-olds, on a whim- we had a blast. I honestly can’t believe how well they did- they held their dice (and attention) for over an hour. Roleplaying is magic 🥹

Looks like next year may be the one where Godot overtakes Unity in the game jam scene! You love to see it

These guys are worse, in terms of sheer spam volume and disregard for data privacy, than any other category of spam/scam texts I get. Finally started reporting them as spam and I don’t feel bad about it at all

Time Flies is OUT NOW!! For Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Mac/PC. On sale for a limited time. Hand-crafted, delightful, short and sweet. And most of all: fun. timeflies.buzz 🪰 Spread the word!

New Sumerian myth just dropped

we may have lost kevin macleod (context in case your day hasn't been ruined: bsky.app/profile/chri... ) but Tom Lehrer was on our side until the end

Cmon bro it's foretold

Listening to Warm Focus by @hoverbird.bsky.social today and reading thingswemake.com/lettervoxd/ I've been exploring subtitles for movies and TV, and just as I read the part about this bulk subtitle database (opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitle...) this song came on: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmo3... 🤩

more and more elements of the games industry are going to align themselves with gambling in the coming years, in a normalization of market failure. it is crucial to build a new paradigm for games and it must be ideologically opposed to this one. restructuring around gambling is anti-culture.

An act of war weeks in planning but unauthorized by Congress against a country that Trump's own director of intelligence testified under oath was not close to getting a nuclear weapon.

Once more with feeling

Been playtesting Witches’ Quarrel for ages, and it’s such a polished gem at this point…. excited to see it finally launch on Kickstarter! Def back it if you love fast-paced PvP card games, strong character-driven narrative design, and progressively unfolding legacy mechanics.

Been playtesting Witches’ Quarrel for ages, and it’s such a polished gem at this point…. excited to see it finally launch on Kickstarter! Def back it if you love fast-paced PvP card games, strong character-driven narrative design, and progressively unfolding legacy mechanics.

I wish I could say I've EVER worked at a studio where this didn't happen. So many times across my career, when asked for 9 months, we'd be given 3 months, then another 3 when we needed more time, and finally 3 more when what we ended up with wasn't as good as the 9 month version could have been.

The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...

DONKEY KONG JR. NINTENDO 1986 NES

rarely does one gotta hand it to sam altman but this is a solid troll

In response to the Polygon and Giant Bomb news, I created an indie and worker-owned games media starter pack. I’ll keep adding to it, so suggestions and recommendations are greatly appreciated. Please share!

Friends, Old Skies is out. This game was a lot of work but I'm proud to have finished it. Thanks to everybody for all the support along the way. ❤️ www.wadjeteyegames.com/games/old-sk...

Here ye, Fellow Travellers! 🗣️ We're excited to announce that #LudoNarraCon will return May 1-5! 🚶‍♀️ You can look forward to: 🎮 Playable demos of upcoming games 💲 Discounts on over 170 story-rich games 🎙️ In-depth talks with devs 👀 And much more... Stay tuned 👇 🚶‍♀️ www.ludonarracon.com

So this is a thing, USA friends. www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:

Before trying to do a crossword: I'm a smart guy! After trying to do a crossword: Who will care for me, the dumbest man in the universe

Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now

cookbooks from the 1800s read like Fromsoft item descriptions

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

what i like about walking sims is that it’s all about making a space compelling enough that it’s enough for a player to just BE in it rather than it being a space to DO something in… and that’s actually really hard to pull off.

The Democratic Party’s problems are not about being moderate or left. That’s a consultant and pundit red herring The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame