Just remember: 1. as long as there are people, they'll always want to play 2. as long as imagination and critical thinking continue to operate, we can devise an infinite number of ways to play Everything else is just clutter on the road and the question of the current system's sustainability.

Cash is punk. Convenience tools are surveillance tools. Use more cash.

Had a friend ask how I can talk to strangers so easily. It’s actually easy: 1. Presume you’re already friends and adopt those vibes. 2. Say what you’re going to say, then say one more thing. - How’s it going? - Great! (1 more thing:) I just got a killer deal on this jacket I’ve been eyeing! etc.

Lot to be said for third spaces and the shared expectation to socialize with strangers within them.

Making friends in Boston continues to be so much easier than it was in the Bay Area. Like it’s just so ridiculously easy here it’s bananas.

I talk about mine all the time: do not under any circumstance give me a limp, lifeless ponytail option in a character creator. I would rather not have the option of a ponytail at all if it can't be well-animated and floofy. Actually jk, this is important and high-stakes 🤔

Caught up to current with The Pitt and wow this show is excruciating to watch in real time (in the best way)

Now imagine what being surrounded by sycophantic humans for your entire life does to your brain.

procedural generation saves neither time nor money and is not something people do to save budget on a project

An unthinkable situation compounded by a bureaucratic nightmare. My thoughts are with Mike and his family.

I think I’m going to need a second weekend to recover from all the things I’ve ended up juggling this weekend and I haven’t even started on the normal things like laundry, groceries, etc. 😅

OPPORTUNITY Narrative Lead - US - focus on Narrative design Not affiliated. Shares welcome gamejobs.co/Narrative-Le...

since "what is a cozy game" discourse continues to swirl, I'll drop what I think is the definitive word on how to think about categories like that

Great day with great folks 😌🥰

When Halsey's album "If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power" came out, I didn't shut up about it to my friends for prob 3 months straight. I'd loved Halsey since "Gasoline" but then she dropped an album produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and it's peak. Put on good headphones and treat yourself.

BREAKING: Nearly 1,000 faculty members at NYU are on strike. The union for non-tenured faculty, @CfuUaw, was optimistic about reaching an agreement this morning. But after giving the university a 3 hour extension, the two sides could not agree, and the strike is now on.

Welp.

wild how this administration has made every American traveler root for the TSA

It's St Patrick's Day you know what THAT means GET SOME IRISH VIDEO GAMES INTO YOUR BRAIN this isn't a paid post, I just think you should go check out a TON of class games

once you learn how much training data images of women come from porn, it illuminates so much. this is more than bad to look at, it's the rot of misogyny in full display. arxiv.org/pdf/2110.01963

Actually I’m coming off a migraine, I’m in postdrome, and don’t want to deal with discourse so I deleted that post but anyone else should feel free to make the same point without tagging me 🫩

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

God, this reminds me 🤦‍♀️ : when I applied to my MFA in Digital Arts & New Media, IF & glitch work were part of my submission, but so too were some spatial hypertexts! Can you imagine making e.g. a Miro that you find beautiful enough to submit it as part of admission to an art school?? The audacity!

Poking around with doing some glitch art again has me revisiting some of my old stuff and realizing that it has ONLY existed on Flickr for a decade and a half and I'm REALLY lucky that didn't bite me as hard as it could have.

Game Narrative Kaleidscope Podcast #3 - Mary Kenney (@marykgames.com) ND and senior writer on Spiderman: Miles Morales and Marvel: Wolverine talks to us about the long shadow of online harassment, creative sparking, and writing from a place of love. www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...

Just an update—the picnic table area’s still open in Yerba Buena, the fence has an opening by the stone stage.

The Inventory has reopened! Poker Night back and looking better than ever. Play poker with four video game icons, hear their banter, win their stuff. ♠️Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3897800/... ♦️PlayStation: store.playstation.com/en-us/concep... ♣️Nintendo Switch: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

It's international women's day if only there was a starter back of amazing Black & Femne Developers to support ✨✨✨ go.bsky.app/88aYGTF

It's my first year not attending GDC since 2013 and I expected to be feeling a lot more FOMO about that. Maybe it's the distance now that I'm not based in SF, maybe it's because so many of my friends aren't going, or maybe it'll kick up next week, but I'm genuinely surprised at my lack of FOMO.

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... If you’re Canadian please sign it. If you’re not, please share ❤️

It’s true. Gratitude journals too, alas.

Hey folks, I'm speaking at GDC again this year! Catch me at my panel on Thursday. Myself and a handful of other extremely talented veterans will be talking about narrative design and writing. Veterans Q&A for New Writers and Narrative Designers schedule.gdconf.com/session/vete...

I just realized something about white folx and their attachment to the word “ally.” For many, “ally” is shorthand for “not racist.” It’s how whiteness signals its values, how you prove to yourself and others that you’re a “good” white person.

[Food] Well unfortunately the food my brain has latched onto and become obsessed with this month seems to be chocolate oatmeal cookies with peanut butter chips. So now I'm starting the process of Ship-of-Theseus-ing them into something that's healthy enough to eat them as often as I want them.

The big ROMchip stream starts in under an hour, funding the premier open-access all-readers journal of game histories! Tune in at 3 ET to see me play Cosmology of Kyoto, the 90s city-roamer of Heian creepypasta that genuinely warped my teenage brain and sent me to the Hell of Game Design Weirdness!

Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda 40 years ago today on February 21, 1986. This commercial has lived rent-free in my mind ever since. "Yeah, go Link, yeah! Get some!"

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.

when live service games get shut down a week after they come out because there aren't like one million concurrent players, i'm always like, dude when a game comes out it takes two months for me to hear about it and then maybe six for me to play it. and i'm IN the industry.

Wow.

Caves of Qud is so fucking good

One thing that I think gets lost in some of this discourse is that we wrote the Stochastic Parrots paper in Sept-Oct of 2020 -- more than two years before ChatGPT was released and the AI hype really took off. >>

I think the people positioned to fund games are really sleeping on how many people are struggling to make friends IRL after COVID. A year ago if you’d asked me where to put money, it would have been IRL connector games (something like Pokémon go but smaller/with less infrastructure)

Happy Valentine’s Day!! ❤️ Valentine’s Day is actually my favorite holiday! Love in all its forms is one of the most powerful forces in our world and I’m grateful for a day to celebrate that and share love with people close to me! Hope you and yours have a wonderful day full of love and gratitude ❤️

Our feature tutorial/artist for today is this excellent set of notes on SKIN TONES by @deluxepeach! #conceptart #gamedev #animationdev #gameart #tutorial #indiegame #comicart #characterdesign #illustration

"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women." 😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that! "Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate." Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!

Pondsmith et. al. 1988

We are seeking more PoC applicants for TTRPGirls! *banging pots and pans* If you are a woman or femme of colour, apply now for any of the 6 incredible games we're running live in March. We want YOU to be part of our event! *scream from the rooftops* tally.so/r/Pd9a4x

Age verification? I accidentally brought so many of these home in my hair at the end of my shifts that I still find them around

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