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!

Alright gang, there's a Senior Level Designer opening on my team. You know the drill. 👇 Please pass this along and AMA* jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions...

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?

We’re so freaking back. Videogames. Board games. Role playing games. I wanna show case you at ALT: GAMES 2026! Submit in the cheeky link. Successful applications will be paid an honorarium. If you love me, please read the webpage. All the info is there. Link: powerhouse.com.au/alt-games-ca...

I used to make loads of art and post it online. I miss having that kind of free time :(

The only wrong answer to the question of who your favourite ninja turtle is, is to not have one.

i wonder when was the last ever time someone told me they were taping something off the tv…

Just threw out three full spindles of unused blank cds/dvds and i feel a bit depressed about it

Inspired by a Twitter trend from last week, I'd like to present cool indie games I've reviewed over the past 7 years that still have less than 1000 reviews! A thread! #indiegame #indiegames #indiedev #indiegamedev #steam

Sometimes I miss making games and websites in Flash…

Palworld beat Nintendo, the world gets a lil more normal.

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1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

My God, sometimes updating things in Unity is a wild ride… I’ve had to roll back my local build so many times!

Everytime I listen to i_o at the gym it makes me so emotional. His posthumous album Warehouse Summer just hits so hard for me even 3 years on… open.spotify.com/album/0feKW6...

My son just turned 6 and loved PAX as a surprise Saturday birthday present. Turns out he’s got his Mum’s skill of getting all the free things!

It’s the little things that make me happy, like achievement hunting irl

PAX Aus day 1, let’s go

Ain’t no party quite like an AGDAs party.

Met so many cool people already and only two days into the week. Loving GCAP this year, especially after missing last year!

Stoked to be back at GCAP after missing it last year. Great to see all the awesome things happening in the Aussie gamedev space. If you see me around come say hey!

Eek just realised the GCAP app was different so I missed a bunch of invites and DMs till just now 😬

All Unity devs - read this, vulnerability in certain Unity builds across a bunch of platforms - Sounds like a relatively straightforward fix with version specific patches to rebuild and redeploy.

I just drew a quick lil cowboy ant in pen this morning, for no particular reason. I’m pretty happy with him.

Getting my head around cancellation tokens and awaitables in Unity at the moment. In that great Dunning Kruger moment where I have it working, but I don’t fully understand what’s I’ve made haha.

Hitting up a different kind of book to what I usually read. Found this one hanging out on the bookshelf and couldn’t resist the cover, no idea what I’m going to be in for here…

This is art

Yeww! Just hit 1k days, you’d imagine my Japanese would be better than it is haha

Red food dye is the worst thing for me. I get a 10 minute rush of intense energy, followed by a day of headaches. Anyone else cop this?

Oh wow the triceps and shoulders are protesting greatly today!

Yesterday was my first day back at the gym, but now today is my first day back in the DOMS 😭

So it turns out this card game I was working on back in 2018 was way closer to finished than I remembered. All it needed was a rule book to be finished…

Any of my Bluesky gamer peeps gonna be at GCAP in Melbourne next month? I’d love to meet ya’ll in person, I’ll be there all three days :) Super keen, especially after spending last years’ in hospital instead!

Someone asked to take a photo of my hair as a reference for their hairdresser today and I’ve never been more flattered. I should have grown my hair out years ago haha.

Pretty amped for Don Broco tonight. Had em on repeat all week. It’s my first live concert since all the surgeries. It’s been a long road but these little moments of getting my life back feel pretty great!

This is so perfect. You smooth off all the rough edges and, for me at least, all the sense of achievement and purpose I gain from playing a game fades away so quickly. I feel that disrespecting that players time is unnecessary grind, or meaningless systems that block progress, not difficulty.

Haha Gog’s back to school campaign- aimed at the parent being able to game while the kids are at school.

Oh ho, got my little randomised world spawner guy setup, with weighted spawns for my lil monsters and rare random harvestable bushes… my lil world is coming alive.

French fries in Japanese is probably one my favourite Japanese loan words.

Had a good meeting with VicScreen yesterday to run over our revised timelines. Had some really food insights into the state of the local market and other investment opportunities.

Got up bright and early this morning to help Ash get set up for a great show today. Such an awesome spot.

How good is making up little names for little things. Like my friend came up the word ‘mepple’ for that little trip run you sometimes accidentally do when you’re walking.

I’ve played enough puzzle games to know that my wife clearly has a colour coded lock somewhere around here and I now know how to open it if I could just find it…

I'm not sure how visible these are without digging, so if you're looking for indies to follow and support, check below 🙌🏻 Indie Studios: go.bsky.app/EbnyA2d Solo Indies: go.bsky.app/46HSs4C

Ahh yes I can see it now - the crowded corporate office where at every cubicle people are yelling at their computers instead of just yelling at the printer.

So, this album is a roguelike concept album. You’re meant to download the tracks play em on shuffle with a long cross fade. They all have the same name, and you can download both official and unofficial expansion packs with even more tracks to enrich the experience.

Oh yay, I had only recently just played the old DS Chibi-Robo and loved it.