I played Sparrow Warfare over the weekend and recorded my run with commentary. It’s a messy video and I get a few things wrong but I think I get across a lot of what is brilliant about the game in its current state. If you like card or puzzle games even a bit, you should check the playtest out.

Just a reminder - this is in just a few weeks now! Lots of other amazing people speaking about space, biology, mathematics, physics. And also me!

At Dagstuhl this summer @pyrofoux.bsky.social led a crew of us in a session called "Handmade Blaseball". For various reasons (we're all trying to find the guy who did this) we all ended up designing various physical game generators. For the curious, here's mine: mguzdial.itch.io/game-generat...

there’s just one day left for this bundle. it’s halfway to its goal. please keep sharing and spreading the word about it. every bit helps. no effort is wasted effort. thank you!! 🙏

I recently became fascinated with the Dove Foundation, a non-profit that, once upon a time ~25 years ago, reviewed video games based on their suitability for Christian families Here is, as far as I can tell, a complete list of all 77 games that received the Dove Seal of Approval

youtube has an inspiration tab now where it suggests video ideas for you based on what is already on your channel - and specifically what's popular on your channel. it ai generates thumbnails and titles for you. it's pretty terrible but not in the ways you'd immediately think.

Currently liiiiiiive on Twitch playing @alphachar.bsky.social and @martinpi.bsky.social's Sparrow Warfare (badly) www.twitch.tv/yunitex

really enjoying love2d except boy oh boy you really gotta remember to add '2d' to your search queries or you're gonna see some things

Just to break this down: what's being recommended here is that I write a summary for each student, then give it to Copilot along with my mark scheme, and all the students know I'm doing this. So I could just give them the summary and they could expand it themselves using ChatGPT + marking guidelines

instantly clocked the font before i saw the url, lmao (i work here)

tfw you gotta go to oxford

Congratulations to Dr Hervé! Her work on procedural generation and Minecraft has been really inspirational, and will have a long legacy. You should hire her - she’s an incredible researcher but also a seasoned industry game dev too!

Congratulations to Dr Hervé! Her work on procedural generation and Minecraft has been really inspirational, and will have a long legacy. You should hire her - she’s an incredible researcher but also a seasoned industry game dev too!

A look at 152 forgeries of The Great Wave made in Sloppy Forgeries at Youth Film Festival Antwerp 2024 ordered by accuracy. (a hard one — and mostly kids :) Wishlist the game ✨ bit.ly/sloppy-bs #tbt #ThrowbackThursday #gamedev #indiegame #art #digitalart #games #videogames

you: what are we having for dinner game designer: great question. i wrote some pillars to help us align on a good outcome here. you, reading: wait, this pillar is just "food must be edible," that seems pretty vague game designer: ah, that's where the secondary pillars about Edibility come into play

Heck of a choice out of the gate in Borderlands 4.

hmm. these bad things aren't funny at all.

One of our most popular tees of the year is back and here to stay, available now in the Yeteemart; TRANS RIGHTS!!! This tee features an energetic design by @kduffles.bsky.social with $6 from each tee sold donated to Transgender Law Center theyetee.com/transrights

The tenth and final episode of Neurocracy has been released! Now the game begins 🌐🔍👀 There is *so much* I want to say about how this season was a culmination of the previous two, which I'll wrestle into a blog post when I can word good again 🫠 For now, just this: thank you all so much ❤️

Strange Antiquities is out! It's the sequel to Strange Horticulture, which is a fantastically atmospheric puzzle / mystery / plant game. Big recommend from me:

Our amazing @carlota-vzgz.bsky.social was featured in the ACM Scholar Spotlight series! Find out more about her and her research here: acmweurope.acm.org/acm-scholar-...

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Delayed. London, early 2025. #filmphotography

New from me! We’ve got some fascinating data suggesting devs who *weren’t* worried about AI impacting quality are growing more concerned. Lots of nuance to dig into—grateful to folks like @mtrc.bsky.social, @hmason.bsky.social, and @brandon.insertcredit.com for weighing in!

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

Please give something if you possibly can 💜

Oil City PA Minolta Maxxum 8000i Kodak Pro Image 100 #FilmPhotography

I posted about it before but here's a longer thread - Unfathomable is a short piece of interactive fiction made for the @lithobreakers.bsky.social World Wide Weird jam. It gave me the chance to try out @spdrcstl.bsky.social's Videotome engine for the first time: lithobreakers.itch.io/unfathomable

"Where's my Breakfast?" by Daniel Arthur

Achievement unlocked! Neurocracy got a lovely mention on Rock Paper Shotgun 🤗 Thanks to @fiashouse.bsky.social for making it happen ❤️

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

i'll be live commentating a masterpiece race between @shoujo.tv and @shovda.bsky.social on Flame Fatales in a few minutes here :) www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

From the Ghoulish Graveyard to the Morbid Manor, connect every station on the Spooky express. Pulling into a station near you on October 21st 🚂🎃 Wishlist / Pre-Order Now: spooky.express

relationship with godot slowly changing from 'what a whimsical engine, these little differences sure are quaint' to 'this has been designed by psychic torturers who hate game developers'

this is sick as hell, there is nothing more peak. That 4th pic shows them set up for the bowling event where tram drivers have to knock an inflatable ball into some skittles with enough momentum and speed to knock them all down but also stop before they run into the skittles themselves.

I actually think NOW you shouldn't buy ghost of yotei.

I added @knowtheory.net’s Bandcamp Links feed and let it show up in my home timeline and now it’s like I get ads, but for music. Pretty great bsky.app/profile/did:...

Helldivers PR team I believe in you. Thread the needle. You can do this.

Following the death of the Norse god Baldur, Jörmungandr the World Serpent will emerge and fill the skies with venom, signaling the beginning of Ragnarok

I have silksong muted and I'm still getting spoilers on my feed, but this was a precious gift.

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

Come join us tonight on Twitch for the second half of our world-ending space mech drama — 🚧WARNING🚧 there's a 85% chance you get a heartache 💔

Sorry for the silence folks, but I have a very exciting announcement! ☕ 👩‍💻 I partnered with the public broadcaster SWR to do some science communication on AI/ML (in German)! You can follow the project ✨ KI & Koffein ✨ either on TikTok or Mastodon: 🦣 ard.social/@ki_und_koffein ⏲️