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If you fux wuth Beatdown City Survivors PLEASE leave a review ASAP! We're still in launch week and hitting 50 would be HUGE for discoverability. Once we hit 50 I'll do a raffle for something cool. We're 11 away.

hello! all of my #playdate games are on sale in catalog! • rowbot rally — my loving, experimental story game — is just $10! • HEXA — an addicting match-six logic puzzle game — only $5! • cloudburst — an on-line weather app?! — just $3! and more!! running until 06.30.2026. play.date/games/search...

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT📢 Geneva Heyward: How Games Influence Kids to Create Games are a gateway to writing, visual art, and music for young learners. Geneva shares what they've learned teaching grade school students through a games lens. 🎮 #GDoCExpo

A world-class education is now completely free — MIT has opened its entire vault of more than 2,500 courses to the public online. source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2026). About Us: MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT Open Learning. 😊

our Yarn Spinner+ version for Unity is on sale at 50% off for another ~30 hours! assetstore.unity.com/packages/too...

As of 3 minutes ago, it’s my birthday. I made the mistake of opening social media after an otherwise good day and would like to not doomscroll, so if you want to give me a present, fill my feed with good, exciting, or uplifting stuff you’re doing or working on or looking forward to!

Janet's new demo is part of Next Fest, and we have absolutely zero GenAI. If we wanted slop we could make it ourselves, thank you very much! store.steampowered.com/app/2168480/...

Isn’t it great how, just a week later, a bunch of brilliant acquired studios are being shut down or at risk of closure? 😩

Obsession with the quarter and short-term shareholder value is one of the quickest ways to gut all long term worth from your company.

I swear to god if Xbox kills three great Indie Studios instead of literally *any other plan*, they’re demonstrating some severely bad business sense. The market is hungry for new categories right now. You should be empowering your small internal studios, not shuttering them

Saw two movies in theater this week. The Amazing Digital Circus was a much better cinematic experience than whatever the heck they were trying to do with Masters of the Universe.

Finally documenting the “business therapy” process I’ve used a few times to help companies balance their mission statements, activities, and culture. Derived from the work of a lot of smart people, thrown together with the power of ADHD, and validated by different smart people.

Since I was in Canada on Friday, catching up on Summer Game Fest, and love the dichotomy of “Now, more than ever, players want weird stuff from small teams”… “Now here’s a bunch of things that took a decade to make and a bunch of remakes of games from your youth”

I learned the other day from someone that the Chinese name for America is “beautiful country”. For phonetic reasons.

Everyone is celebrating Pride month but Orlando does it in October for historical, practical, climatological, and Halloween reasons.

and here... we... go gayyyyy shit! get'chur gayyyy shit!!! step right up, step right up, and let's have some fun

Broke: Follow me on LinkedIn Follow me on X Follow me on BlueSky Follow me on Insta Woke: Follow me into the sea

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Met some great poutines this week.

300k in three days for Mina. That's a solid run for a Kickstarter-funded title.

About to enjoy an excellent panel with some lovely speakers. Having expert voices from the games field speaking directly to people building AI tools and infrastructure is one of the strongest ways to minimize damage and maximize benefit from these technologies.#GameDev #AI

There is something so wonderful about explaining why a certain thing is the way it is in America to someone from any other part of the world and seeing the horror on their face as they try to wrap their brain around our contorted systems. “I…I don’t understand. Why?” #America

Enjoying my brief layover in Montréal before my next leg of travel. 😋

En route to the Maritimes! Looking forward to kicking off the week this evening. If you'll be at UNB Fredericton over the next few days, or at XP Game Connect Atlantic later this week, feel free to say hi, especially if you're showcasing anything you're working on! #GameDev #IndieDev 🇨🇦

Just a bunch of sharks and rays and fish doing their thing.

Looking forward to spending time with Canada's Atlantic game devs next week in Fredericton and Halifax! Keep an eye out for me, and swing by my talk on Friday to learn about all the ways Xsolla can help with the business side of your games!

Oh hey, my little GDC fireside chat with Emerson from @tetrastudios.bsky.social and James from GoldFire Studios is up on the youtubes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiwF... #IndieDev #GameDev #GDC

I still have so many business cards from Japan to go through and I leave for Canada on Tuesday so June is going to be a lovely backlog month 🤣🫠

Oh hey, my little GDC fireside chat with Emerson from @tetrastudios.bsky.social and James from GoldFire Studios is up on the youtubes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiwF... #IndieDev #GameDev #GDC

The grand count for business cards I received at BitSummit 2026 is.... 1136. That is SO MUCH PAPER, y'all XD

A website update so small most folks probably won't notice it, but a very specific group of folks absolutely will www.stellamaris.games

I have no idea how this was only ¥3800.

Back in the states, and reorganizing my bags before my final flight home, so here’s all the gifts I grabbed in Tokyo:

On my way back to Haneda airport after pulling off my first visit to Tokyo, as a ridiculous exercise during my layover. First up, here was the plan:

Three things I immediately miss about Japan: 1) Airport security 2) Airport shop prices 3) Orderly stress free boarding processes But hey. America. It may not be cheap, efficient, or look pretty, but we get it done 🤣

Back in the states, and reorganizing my bags before my final flight home, so here’s all the gifts I grabbed in Tokyo:

On my way back to Haneda airport after pulling off my first visit to Tokyo, as a ridiculous exercise during my layover. First up, here was the plan:

Me, realizing my 13 hour flight tonight is in a middle seat, asking the ANA desk if they had any upgrades or aisle seats available. ANA attendant, explaining there were no aisle seats, but there was a window seat in the exit row. (You know, the clutch one with no seats in front of them?) 1/2

I asked chatGPT to do a super quick just like “hey go and grab handles for this stack of 1000 business cards I scanned in at Kinkos and match with a social handle” and it immediately replied “I’ll treat this like an OSINT-style profile…” *thinking* and I have never hit stop so fast Jesus Christ 🤣🫠

The next time I have a deadline I’ll just get on a ln east bound plane and pull a Superman

Just had the best conversation with an Arkansas man in the check in line at Itami. He was clearly uncomfortable with social interactions, but I am wired from 4 days of conference. Until he opened up and he spent 30m bashing how One Angy Man and a cadre of assholes are ruining a country for funsies.

I love that, after my 8 hour layover in Tokyo, my flight to New York takes 10m. Time zones are great.

First time flying *back* from Japan, and can confirm, like most other countries, Japanese airport times are Reverse America. Check in took 40m. Time from check in to gate was like 5. Oh, unless you pay in America, in which case you get door to gate in like 8m because #capitalism.

I have layover at HND from ~2pm to ~11pm, so if any friends new/old/future want to hang out in Asukusa, Ueno, or Akihabara, let me know #BitSummit #Tokyo

A special thanks to all of my friends who could have sworn they had seen me at BitSummits past. I think you collectively manifested something because despite this being my first time here, halfway around the world, I felt surprisingly at home. 🙏

🪲❤️🪲 #Beetols #BitSummitq intarsia.studio/bsummit

Here's what I look like for #BitSummkt Day 3! Find me on the floor, near Starbucks, at Pop Pizza @ 7pm, or by river until late if you wanna chat about • Help you need • Building games and studios with intention • All the things Xsolla does • Your favorite Persona 4 character and why it's Chie

#BitSummit day 2 was another good one. Reconnected with lots of old friends, and made many new ones! Still a lot of folks I've yet to meet, so on we go to day 3!