I've been VORACIOUSLY playing and cannot recommend enough @iridiumstudios.bsky.social 's People of Note and @outerloopgames.bsky.social 's Dosa Divas -- you turn-based RPG sickos need to get in on this, you can even get them in a bundle on Steam! store.steampowered.com/bundle/72037...

laughing extremely hard at the phrase "this is Gundam like it's been seen before," choosing to believe that's somehow not a typo

continuing my journey through Famous Sci-Fi That I Never Got Around To... finished Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep on the plane and... goddamn. now that's how you do some fuckin good ass space opera sci-fi. turns out there is a reason it won every award back in 1992!

EWR ✈️ LAX

SFO ✈️ EWR

my friends @iridiumstudios.bsky.social finally finished their amazing musical RPG (go play People of Note!!) so obviously for the launch party I had to make custom DDR charts for some of the songs from the game (honored to have DDR legend DukAmok play my charts at the party!!)

here's to twenty years of Neil banging out the tunes... and the original website is still live, may it live for another twenty theagilerat.com?action=Photo...

Hello please pay me to write your game. I am so good at it. You will like the work. I will work with you on budget. You can DM me. Bye

LAX ✈️ SFO

Absolutely incredible. We're utterly stunned. Thank you for all the kind words and Accorgion GIFs

tonight’s sidequest: the gang learns to DJ (ft. @annacwebs.bsky.social & @khalexie.bsky.social )

Oh hey look, a new game by the people who made one of the best games of 2024 and one of the most thought-provoking, affecting game narratives ever (I'm talking about 1000xRESIST and more of you need to play it)

i want to cry. my first game. i've seen this trailer dozens of times and it still amazes me every time. so excited for you all to get to know Mesa and Santana, and all the other strange characters we're creating in this equally strange world. thank you so much for your excitement. 💖

i don't believe in posting through it or centering my Diaspora Feelings over what my family and friends are living through in real time so i will refrain from expanding this into a whole thread of angst. please donate to mutual aid efforts in lebanon www.chuffed.org/project/1719...

wanna take a moment to celebrate my dear friend @shslovak.bsky.social!! the game she’s poured her heart & soul into is out today. she started as a junior writer & has finished development as a force to be reckoned with. play The House of Hikmah to experience her incredible writing! s.team/a/3451680

If you need to distract yourself for a few hours, no better way than diving into this darkly comic, hopeful sci-fi classic, even if you could not give one iota of a shit about football:

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

who else up peopling they notes

IT'S FINALLY HERE! After so many late nights and challenges overcome, People of Note is OUT NOW, for $24.99 (+10% launch discount)! It's available on Steam, PS5, Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, and EGS. On behalf of Iridium Studios, we sincerely hope you love it. store.steampowered.com/app/1626170/...

I'm almost finished with People of Note, a new musical (!) turn-based RPG with heavy Final Fantasy vibes. Very strong combat, good puzzles, and way too many puns. It's out today - if you're into turn-based RPGs you'll probably enjoy it store.steampowered.com/app/1626170/...

Happy Eve-le of Note!

okay the new Hiromu Arakawa anime absolutely fucks, she is fully back in Fullmetal Alchemist mode, 10/10 first episode, everyone go watch Daemons of the Shadow Realm (despite the terribly translated name)

tonda ros not fucking around with a blue prince sequel simon's gonna gun the red guard down

my friend's office had Who's Your Favorite X-Men as their office question of the week and the answers inspired me to make art so here are The X-Men According to Matte's Coworkers

New pinned! I’m Luca, a Narrative Designer and writer who has worked on games like Borderlands 4 and currently Grave Seasons. I like horror, a good laugh, and space cowboys. In any order. I’m open to any contract work, so just shoot me a message if you’re interested.

KOA ✈️ LAX

gym day in hawaii with my nonbinary lesbian rabbi the congregation that lifts together uplifts together

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

apologies to ashkenazi charoset but I just made sephardi charoset for the first time for tonight’s seder and this shit SLAPS, I am never going back (I also added dried apricots and mangoes because no one can stop me)

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter! 55 Player Classes 150+ NPC Classes 29 Factions 20 Example Moons of Realis GMing and Prep Guidance Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

this bop has been very deeply stuck in my head for the last week for Reasons that will become clear at the PoN launch party

LAX ✈️ KOA

Mass Effect 3, on the condition that I also get Drew Karpyshyn and his original planned outline back.

today at gamedev hike club we didn’t see any whales but we DID befriend a tortoise (her name is Nomad)

I’ve been looking forward to this, even before I was cast as Synthia’s voice actor, for SIX YEARS!!! Stunning singing by Amanda Angeles! 💙💛

I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

classic LA experience: went downstairs to find a short film shooting in my backyard

We all seem to have forgotten one of the most truly delightful and surprising indie interactive fiction drops of the last decade. 17776 is ostensibly about football, which is why at first glance I thought I wouldn't like it. But it really makes me smile, and the world could use that right now.

Per current discourse on #wizards and #wizard fiction: Seems a good time to menttion that if you're looking for other-series options, you can pick up the first nine #YoungWizards novels as #ebooks in a bundle. (Unless you're in the UK: we can't sell to you due to Brexit...sorry.) bit.ly/YWNMESET

(Inspired by the great @premeemohamed.com) If you have a podcast, or an interview series, or a conference that has anything to do with spec-fic, sci-fi, superheroes, horror and the writing thereof: My book, VILLAIN, is out May 19th, and and I would love to talk about it! + I am weird and smart.

fixed it

when you really think about it, the true value of video games is in laying off thousands of the people who make them at regular intervals in order to increase shareholder value 🥰

Honestly if you want to support me during this lay off the best way to do that is to donate to my fundraiser for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!!! That would be the best way to help right now. tilt.fyi/ZPj3g06cos

I have been impacted by the layoffs. After dodging 4 in my career it was bound to happen. The feelings haven't hit yet. Still processing honestly. I have a lot of thoughts and tea that I cannot say of course. If you need a 12 year QA Veteran or a junior designer, let me know I guess.

People of Note teamed up with some of the hottest names in tabletop to bring you a custom Actual Play in the world of Note! Starring Matthew Mercer, Aabria Iyengar, Erika Ishii, Jason Charles Miller, Ross Bryant, and Rashawn Scott, check it out now over at Good Time Society!

It’s me, I’m that one friend

I read The Mists of Avalon when I was eight because I was going through an Arthuriana phase. Years later I mentioned it to someone and they were shocked that I'd read something with so much sex. I was very confused. I'd just skimmed past all of the sex parts because I didn't understand them!

a passel of possums

oh, this? why yes, it IS the limited edition evangelion unit 01 trader joe’s mini tote bag, thank you for noticing

EXTREMELY important point, this isn't to demonize or blame porn, it's about biases and stereotypes. it's the way these models reach for porn when the prompt is simply "woman"