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wrote a blogge post haraiva.bearblog.dev/ten-signific...

We're making @badsavingthrow.bsky.social defeat all the bosses of Dark Souls 3, and you can donate money to keep him from leveling up. It's PREPARE TO GIVE, and it's benefitting abortion access again! Mark your calendars! JOIN US ON JUNE 6!!!

Just released a free icon pack to customize nodes in Godot! ICODOT - over 250 16x16 icons, available in PNG and SVG, in 4 colors. gleeson.itch.io/icodot

Incredible

could you do crpg like companions in a trad roguelike game? i think its a fine line with how much trad roguelikes want death to be easily accessed.. perhaps qud/hades have it right with quests and hub areas

recently was on a one hour train ride with no data and i got so much reading done. i'd like to petition the state government to block data on and heavily reduce the speed of my line for me

considering getting really into early modern history. becoming a printing press facts guy

every so often i am overcome with the desire to just do an owlcat-style pathfinder crpg but in pf2e rules. nobody is doing ones concerned with characters... owlcat r ai boosters now... i (with twelve dollars and a mental sickness) need to save pathfinder

any of these could produce individually astounding discourses when the hugos get announced. cannot wait

hey!!! in 48ish hours i'm hosting another week-long "thing jam".. it's like a game jam except your game can instead be a poem or a photo or a picture or a piece of performance art or anything else! it's non-competitive, open ended and intended as an excuse to have fun! 🤸 itch.io/jam/make-lit...

impulsively-made (tiny) new game caterwauling.itch.io/nudibranch

When you think about it, really we ALL paid the ransom together ☺️ (with the data and IP Instructure scraped from our units and students) www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

bennett foddy posted a deeply insightful comment on @sylviefluff.bsky.social’s games and i think it captures a lot why i found her games so reinvigorating to play. rather than finding rules to solve problems, why not find funny interactions? itch.io/post/14821693

making my own mixtape but it's just 4 hours of listening to bad folk punk and getting yelled at by PE teachers

I am getting back in the swing after a very busy year (so far) that has stolen a lot of my writing time, and for some reason I played all of MIXTAPE today and then wrote 2500 words about in a flurry. I didn't care for the game, but it's beyond the music to me. ckunzelman.com/2026/05/10/o...

indie game making in the early 2010's was filled people making simple 2d platformers who had bizarre elaborate life philosophies behind what they were doing. now it's filled with people making weird 3d games called Dream Explorer but every word out of their mouth sounds like a marketing executive

ANALOG MONO a lo-fi, monospace pixel font inspired by On-Screen Displays of CRT televisions and camcorders from the 90's and early 00's. ► gleeson.itch.io/analog-mono

ceaseless thanks to gideon for sending me this interview

sometimes i feel really down about the general state of how derivative stuff is (including my own!) and wonder if there's anything new under the sun... then yesterday I read my partners dorohedoro artbook and remembered q hayashida is making the most incredibly inspired stuff

going through a rough patch so im relapsing into bad habits (chronic reposting)

went looking for something in a medieval manuscript, as one does, and found these incredible wispy initials instead

another all-time tweet I am constantly thinking about

ko-fi.com/ecojak ko-fi.com/rainbowcemet... both me and rainbow could use a bit of help with our medical bills if anyone's able to toss either of us somethin

and it's up! gleeson.itch.io/analog-mono

From Amiga Computing magazine 1990

my 'imminent fashion movement of anti facial recognition masks/makeup' dial has been ticking way up lately

funniest part of any cyberattack is seeing the institutions refuse to use a term that might imply they messed up. so far have seen 'situation', 'incident', 'outage', 'issues'

running a game jam this month. pick some time in the next two weeks to make a small piece of interactive art in a small tool. 🙂 details inside itch.io/jam/smilejam

Starfox remake meeting room had a costco hotdog guy who would allow the changes and stylistic direction they wanted but would not budge on wolf being hot. Insisted it is necessary to the franchise's DNA

a bit over a week into an Evil Daily min200 Word Writing Pact with friends... already feeling the 'just sit down and start' process get easier. lot harder to put things off when u gotta Today or ur friends will be disappointed!!

can we get a light gyro controller obsession like the light mouse craze. im ok with doing strength training for my rsi but controllers have been getting so heavy... it feels unnecessary

One of the all time great tweets from the last days of Old Twitter

My annual reminder that we are both the best conference in games and the most misnamed conference in games. If you’re making weird or interesting art using procedurality, procgen, deep systemic simulation, we want your talk, regardless of what your relationship to “roguelikiness” is!

pushed a little update to DAWN CHORUS demo. nothing of consequence if you've already played it, but huge if you haven't yet! just kidding, it's a small QoL feature and uhhh... something about hyperlinks. good if that wins you over, though. blog post: haraiva.itch.io/dawn-chorus-...

forcing myself to finally learn to do pixels. learning that the solution to poor motivation / the initial hump of being bad at a thing is to let go of my need to be cool and draw the weird and stupid thing i am thinking about instead of the artsy thing. artsy comes later

in case you were wondering what stage of capitalism we're at, google search is now treating the word "crumble" as a misspelling of the cookie brand crumbl

culinary advice. do not leave meat in the same container as the red cabbage you cooked with it in the fridge. you will wake up to scary blue meat

ISAAC CHOTINER: So, this manga about the little dinosaur is called Gon? Me: By Masashi Tanaka, yeah. CHOTINER: This is badass. Thanks for showing this to me. Me: No problem.

Really good interview IMO. I nodded vigorously in agreement with Thomson here in particular, on the virtues of letting games go before we exhaust them of content completely: “I think that one of the things that games are great at is living large in our imaginations.”

one thing i rly appreciate about naarm is that if im craving a kind of food i can usually get it without needing to drive and almost certainly within an hour of... pretty much anywhere. the nuclear option is going into the city but even without doing so the suburbs have so much good stuff

I don't read games criticism just to have my thoughts reflected back at me, I want to hear specific perspectives and deeper insight. How do I make good games if I can't absorb smart(er) people spending the time to think about games?

A lot of people are sad and they’re right to be so but I am angry that the vision to profitability or whatever is so myopic that games, one of the biggest cultural forces of the planet, isn’t in there. Especially given the things I’ve seen the company spend money on in the past (and even recently).

bsky.app/profile/tyre... it's always so fucking good

I'm holding my Saros bingo sheet and here it's got 'toxic masculinity', 'military trauma', 'wordplay on thing said at start of every run'. Let's see how it plays out folks

what are they hiding from us