highly recommend being the tall girl in the relationship so you can get things down from high shelves and have her look at you with the fearful awe people normally reserve for solar eclipses

I think man is fundamentally made of two forces: desire and regret. Each can exist independently, or feed the other, but should he cease feeling either or both, then he is man no more—simply beast or stone. So yeah *squinting* Denise, I think the mozzarella sticks sound good

Day 18 #pleinairpril

Also, Brno Transit releases in 16 hours. store.steampowered.com/app/3476880/...

"poorly disposed for productive conversations" has never looked so much like a compliment

Some kind of area

we watched The One and I don't think it's a great movie but I do think it's an excellent cultural artifact of the narrow historical window where you could get away with an unironic nu-metal needle drop

I like the local art markets they have here but I feel like they always severely overestimate how much room I have in my home for quirky pottery and hot sauces

life is so hard when your love language is unreactable overheads

one last chance let's go home.

getting voice training not for gender affirming reasons but so I can say "SOL BADGUY" with the exact tone and cadence of the guilty gear announcer

Leave it to me to be a couple/few days late for #PortfolioDay, but hey! Here's my brand new portfolio site, my biggest overhaul in probably a decade or more. Need a senior/principal/lead level, technical, or general game designer? Hire me! Let's make games together. ♥️

learned that the original design for Flinders Street Station had a gorgeous arched concourse roof with huge windows and I'm a little heartbroken that they cut that part mid-construction

High tech tangling

considering picking up Zato for Strive 2.0 and I think I just have to make peace with the fact that I will only be able to fit a fraction of this guy's kit in my head at any given time

quite literally from day 1 the blueprint was already there, and even though it tends to get left out I think Armored Core is even more important for the 'souls' DNA than King's Field, much more design and team continuity beneath the aesthetic dissimilarity shmuplations.com/kingsfield/

it's very important that if you or your partner ever make an "oooh" noise around the house then both of you need to immediately devolve into terrible impressions of Cedric from King's Quest V

telling me to watch a movie on the big screen is an op by Big Headache

a thing I've learned from tiktok that I probably should've grasped a lot sooner is that most people only have one joke in them (but it's okay if you don't see them every day)

played Arkham City recently and rather liked it, but it does feature a special kind of brain poison where every ten seconds they pipe the idle thoughts of random street goons directly into your radio earpiece and it completely destroys my ability to process any other words on the screen

wip stuff

me and my beautiful wife @cammydev.bsky.social are creating a survival horror game called Despecholia in the Quake engine. heres some lil snippets of whats been done so far :3 #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #quake

I got a couple of complaints about The Warmest Body In The Room being too dark when I released it and all I can say is sorry, my last apartment didn't get any natural light and I didn't balance for screen-glare-havers. and also I was feeling mean.

working on a new blockout

maddie has found a way to jumpscare me so hard that I audibly yell

Lorn's Lure is now part of The Megastructure Collection! A collect-em-all bundle of megastructure themed games you can now get on Steam Get it here: store.steampowered.com/bundle/69609...

making the saddest, whiniest, most pathetic crying sounds in my life because I had to play one (1) third-person shooter on gamepad

hate it when I'm at home recovering from my latest adventure and suddenly a portal opens to deliver a mysterious plea for help from a far-off land

I need those bolts to buy a bunch of extra guns I'll never use!!!!

Maddie is showing me Jak X and it's absolutely incredible to me that a series that started as a goofy lighthearted kids' mascot platformer has ended up with a soundtrack like this They played QOTSA's "Millionaire" over the intro cutscene???

if u give me 5 dollars your name will appear on a little guy in a secret room in my game ko-fi.com/brycebucher/...

the difference between modding level design and gamedev level design is that when I make something and it doesn't work, I get to go pester someone about it now instead of just shrugging and going "I guess the game doesn't like it when I do that"

Played the original Ratchet & Clank and was struck by how much combat feels largely like a series of "figure out how to safely cheese this" puzzle encounters because the act of aiming and firing while under attack is kinda not the controls' forte. It's much more of a mascot platformer with guns.

it's quite simple. phone is fake computer

skill issue, perforce

I inexpertly made a carrot cake for Maddie's birthday and then had to beg her for help with the frosting 🫡

regarding the dangers of not making your placeholders placeholder-y enough:

anybody want the train station black beans? barely opened.

maddie's showing me some awful Guilty Gear Strive meme subreddit and I think I found the only group of people who are madder about this game than Xrd players

I can't believe how much time has snuck up on me, but today is already one year anniversary of Metal Garden's release! (It's also 30% off right now for the Steam Spring Sale!!) store.steampowered.com/app/3539440/...

hotel lobby #quake #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #pixelart

how are you having trouble with the transgirl matchup. your gameplan is literally just insist on her happiness. all your normals work: hire her, give her money, buy her treats. and if she chooses you then just mash kiss on wakeup to beat all her options. how are you having trouble bro she's blushing

Maddie and I have been playing Jak II (i.e. I hand her the controller when a really hard part comes up) and for all the game's strengths, I'm fascinated by how unnecessary the hub city is. Truly the most "GTA3 had vehicles and free roaming, so we have to as well" design decision I've ever seen.

Bryce 3D Sightseeing

our video game is on sale!! rescue cats, flush pirates out airlocks, argue with decapitated heads, experience a severe dust mite allergy. it's Skin Deep!

It is important I get 8,294,400 pixels (4K) at 120 frames a second. Otherwise it just doesn’t feel real. It is ok if half of those pixels are just kinda guesses based on zettabytes of YouTube and pornhub my graphics card watched

I picked this profile pic (from the "days without cis nonsense" comic) around the time I came out, to try and pre-emptively establish a measure of defensive prickliness in a very scary world. I'm not actually very grumpy day-to-day, though. In spite of everything, I'm doing... pretty good nowadays?