Hey Boston-area folks! If you're around, come say hi to me! I'm chatting with folks about game writing, story, and other cool stuff on February 19th

Human artists, use only once piece to convince people to follow you! 5B Pencil:

My hand just tried to write 2006, instead of 2026. -not 2025. The sigh that escaped me, yall. Right now, that kind of neurological slip …hits a bit different

We are just 8 followers away from 200! This feels like a very good sign. Following the teaser page means you'll get a ping when we launch - please do sign up and tell your friends! #ZineMonth #Zinetopia

My writing is NOT too long. I just... add paragraph breaks, free of charge. See? Blame all my ADHD, plus probably some as-yet undiagnosed bonus trashbrain! It's way easier to read, shut UP! Who wants a wall of words?! Look I'll take them out, see how few pages it is n- ... ok no, it's just long.💀

There's an area of our game only visible in the editor, where Ripe Nith, a demon lord - has been abandoned by one of our frosty windows. Idk why, and... I don't want to know, really. If she's a redundant instance, I hope they never move her Long year. She's just... got a lot to think about

C'mon, academia dot edu. Don't do me like that. Yes, as w/ many: my 2025 did indeed suck in some bold new ways... but I wasn't - like, the main character, jeez. And as of YET, a chorus of masked assholes has not shown up to loudly lament my fate.

The Killing Stone, starring Emma Gregory & Liam O'Brien - comes out in early 2026. You play a legendary occult master, like Dr. Faustus. Make & break pacts with Hell, save a cursed family, and beat the Devil at his own game. You can even play in 1600s English!🕯️ store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/...

Show me how your 2025 went

We're enjoying the long dark of winter by cozying up with the demons of Vakenatt. Please come join us by the fire. Wishing everyone a very happy holiday from all of us @questiongames.bsky.social. youtu.be/InLlIww1Akc?... #yulelog #InGameFireplace #GamingYuleLog #HolidayGaming

Having a save-anywhere save/load system and a bug reporter that uploads save files to the cloud is like a cheat code for game development. I was able to load a save file from July to confirm that a change I made today wouldn't break the thing from 5 months ago.

WTF nooo. BHVR wisely has a grandfather-clause for existing owners, etc - but licensors, take a seat: If you license your precious OC: being in > one game is a WIN. This short-sighted, grabby policy which sterilizes *retroactive* competition says "don't buy the new thing, it hates the fans."

Monthly Halloween 65 December 1989

I made a huge mistake, Reader I described a demon in @thekillingstone.com as a Sexless Bronze Sunburst, and these gamers... they're trying to sex him

I've snapped, I think. I wrote so many versions of "I'm shooting you and justifying it real good" in my AAA years- ...that one of the demons in The Killing Stone is just going to compliment you too hard for the context, like your auntie losing her absolute *shit* over your preschool macaroni art

It was only a few months in, but our next game was feeling like it might be a long, hard, and not super fun road to make. So I started tinkering with something else, and it clicked much faster, and we like it more, so we're switching! More thoughts, and a little glimpse: youtu.be/GYJGmX5iGbw .

the sheer bile I'm hearing expressed, on dev & dev-friendly streams, right now ... it's almost art unto itself I am now seeing a kind of ritual... cleansing purpose for this ghastly reconstruction of 2010 A mass catharsis event. GK is a sort of collective ... cringe jesus

Hearing VAs like Starr, Mercer, Hale, etc in TGA trailers: 😍😍 Hearing random celebrity VAs in TGA trailers:

I know all you Twin Peaks fans are aware of how the falls normally look, so. Behold how badly the rain is flooding WA rn

Behold my "Horse Girl Dark Triad" Ripe Nið - the grudge queen. The quip is WIP, and there's debug info in the screenshot, but I don't care, I love her, and she can see you right now

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

If you followed me after seeing the Final Fantasy dialogue slide, here's the chance to attend a workshop from the authors of that research.

i can’t do tutorial sections anymore. i need gameplay right now. i need you to pile every system into my brain immediately. i need the video game tutorial equivalent of being knocked over the head with a crowbar, only to wake up in Cancun with one kidney and my venmo fully drained. just fuck me up

For today's Eldritch 2 devlog, I wrote a little bit about keyboards and localization. Because I'm procrastinating on making more dungeon rooms. www.dphrygian.com/wordpress/?p...

Forcing myself to record all non-voiced lines in The Killing Stone aloud. If you hate editing, try it. An utterly different brain activates; you see stuff that when silently reading, you'd skim past. And welp- TLDR: My awful self-indulgent spoken word album in 2028 will be called "Productive Shame"

We JUST debuted Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator's Steam page at the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted showcase--and you can PLAY THE DEMO TODAY! 💰Day trade as a series of weirdoes across the universe 🙏Owe a loan shark who can legally kill you 💵Short a baby store.steampowered.com/app/3642000/...

TBC friends - Erika Ishii, our friend and and former god - is in this. Decent chance that among our players, there are some fans of musicals - who'd like to see them rock out.

Big Strange Scaffold news dropping at this thing today 👀

cara rulz

Works every time

Headline's a bit misleading. They're not worried that AI will replace them because it's good, but because "generative AI trained on vast amounts of [stolen] fiction will undermine the value of writing" itself

@dphrygian.com insomnia got me, bro- but what’s left of me is yelling to an empty room, “No, we MUST retroactively rename all the work on old-school game AI to honor its frailty & charm, before history paves over it as Pre-LLM” “yes-and dynamics?” “Soft Robotics?” (foaming) “PREDICTIVE KAYFABE”

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk. please donate if you can! fund.blender.org

Too lazy to log into @permadeath.bsky.social But: highlight of my week was a dear friend's character in Call of Cthulhu getting pulped by an abomination, in a ~2006 era gaming store? (IDK, just mythos things) this GIF is a forensic reconstruction of my sad nurse girl's adjacent face, and feelings

Has anybody made an indie game discovery tool that's like ' my friend likes [ AAA/AA from 20 years ago ] so he might like [ these 10 random indie games]? I'm trying to convince people that what they want will be out there in indie but I don't know every genre 🫠

So in the 1660s and 1670s, Leibniz had this idea for a "Characteristica universalis": "a theoretical, universal symbolic language designed to represent all knowledge, making philosophical and scientific reasoning as precise and unambiguous as mathematics."

lol

Thank you, Emma! 🫀 Follow her on bsky, BG3 & voice acting nerds! One of the finest voice talents alive. The Killing Stone may be read as my barely-veiled fanfic about her making a pact with the devil to go on performing for an extra 100 years. (I'm just saying, Emma... *consider your legacy* 😈)

For about another 21 hours all our games are suspiciously cheap: 🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G... 🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H... 🧙‍♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...

How does an #indiestudio create a soundtrack for their 17th century folk horror game? Step one: Hire a badass audio team. Step two: let them be their weird, wonderful selves. @chrisrickwood.bsky.social made his own tagelharp (YES - handmade!), then he also tracked down a hurdy-gurdy just for us.

If you're on the edge let me endorse is to you - in this game you literally bargain with Demons before fighting them, and thats hella cool. Also the demons are polite cosmic horrors, so that's a bonus.

I'm going to do this again today at ~noon pacific, if you're a game dev nerd and want to join us... or just make fun of my voice acting, I guess? valid

basically all of these films were major points of obsession for me in college, and now you can watch them all just on youtube. amazing. in particular Mirror basically changed my entire relationship with film after i took a Russian cinema class on a whim and it made me change to a film major.

It's gonna be 9 years I've been with Question in January. That's by far the longest I've been with any team, and far longer than most gamedev teams survive. I love this team.

The arms race continues