Today I was productive as fuck, finally feeling well enough to work again! Knocked out a ton of //TODO: Make this better from the code base haha.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed. (mine may be the wrong vibes to be fair)

I am that kind of sick where you stay in bed and occasionally make pathetic little involuntary noises while trying to curl up and die.

Bonus marks when the expansion fit in the original box.

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So my son said they had ‘space ice-cream’ at school and I got a sudden flashback to these…

Damn illness, go away! I’ve got way too much to do

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First day of NextFest wishlists 😲 Thank you to everyone who downloaded the Hocus Focus demo and wishlisted the game. It means the world to us! Support #indiegames ♥

Just did a 2v2 session of W40k Speed Freaks. It’s such a perfect Orkz racing game that has criminally flown under the radar. This game needs marketing dammit… steamcommunity.com/app/2078450

Working through milestone reports is quite a job…

New profile pic from our lil fancy photoshoot :)

As a Stephen, I’m going to start pronouncing all ph’s as v’s. Elephant, morph, uphold, peephole, elephant, no word is safe!

Just got to have a good chat with the singer from my fav band and got kinda star struck

Okay so maybe three coffees this morning was a bad, bad choice for me…

I am finally getting to see one of my all time favourite bands live tomorrow night, The Dear Hunter. Pretty amped about this gig, though I really wish they were headlining instead of supporting.

Gen z barista today said to me he only played the classics, retro games… then followed it up by saying you know like minecraft, call of duty. 😦 After that the wind me away as dust.

Finally hit up Schedule 1 earlier tonight and its got me hooked nice and early.

Trying to come up with some fancy boi way to handle mixed behaviour overrides for my customers that can be added through a lil scriptable object. Think I finally have a good pattern, but so many possible options…

A little trip down to the market earlier today and picked up this big old box of fruit and veg for $35.

I am such a paper prototype convert now. Using Miro to build and remote collaborate on them (along with some lil rng websites in the bg) has been pretty good. Next game jam I will definitely be doing the whole game on paper in depth first.

Finally watched Wonka, what a great film. I hadn’t realise Paul King had directed it - a few little Mighty Boosh references sneaking in were a nice surprise.

My wife’s started getting into whittling. Love this lil guy.

Garden shop got me feeling like I need to go slay some Naga

bought my first manga on a whim while in a country town bookstore.

Ahh this is why I have just been stuck shy of the payout threshold for ages…

Sometimes I look at a massive shelf of books and imagine what it’d be like if only I could magically absorb them all at once. I come up with the worst superhero powers…

So I rediscovered Beat Saber, but I played it too late and now I can’t sleep.

I have a lot that no-one remembers, but this was one of my more obscure all timers on the C64 back in the day. (it was between this and Adventure Game Construction Set)

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Still waiting for confirmation around NDAs but a game port we worked on, for a property that I have always loved growing up, just shipped recently and I can’t wait to talk about it more later. 🎉

Moved my business into a co-working space and I don’t think I’d ever go back to a traditional office ever again…

A solid week of building out Asana templates and processes, my brain is tiiiired

This cover of the Bully soundtrack is perfection. vt.tiktok.com/ZS548TGmB/

What other game genres are named after the OG game itself? I can think of Sokoban, Roguelike and Metroidvania. I guess Doom Clone before FPS came around. Any others?

I think my paper prototype is ready for some testing. Feeling pretty happy with what I ended up with

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Hotel bathroom mirror light reflections, giving me android eyes.

I’ve decided to try and make a little paper prototype/ boardgame for the supermarket segments to more rapidly test adding mechanics before spending so much time coding features I may drop. I am so surprised how quickly it just all fits into that format perfectly!

Using safe for home swears around Declan, inspired by napoleon dynamite, has resulted in a boy who says ‘Oh, dang it!’ unironically

Merry Christmas ya’ll! 🎄 May all your games ship bug-free, and all your ideas be winners.

Managed to smoke three chickens, carrots and apricots today. Ready for Christmas:)

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I caved and ordered myself a Japanese import copy of Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Lived cause I want it on PS5 and it’s literally nowhere else to buy after I saw like one copy in an EB Games when it first dropped.

Calling all narrative people - please please please send me all your guides for quest + narrative diagram / tools for capturing my story and pairing it with gameplay in a way I can easily communicate to others and eventually hand over to a proper narrative designer.

I swear when I buy games, my brain thinks I’m also buying the time to play them. Lies! lies!

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An entire weekend of gardening and I feel like I’m barely touching the sides of this garden, curse you spring weather!!

When there is so much to do, why do you just feel like doing nothing instead?