Anyways.

looking at the GDC talks for this year and this kinda sums it up, huh

I will personally tackle any player who decides to speak to the vicar again

“Are we the accident friends or the murder friends?” #quoteOfGame #merryshire

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Now a week til GDC. Register for the Systems Design Meetup to Meet Up about Systems Design!

Turn around, bright eyes

Plus ça change

Seth Rogen accepting Catherine O’Hara’s posthumous award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for The Studio #ActorAwards

Trying to pivot from dealing the situation with my dad back to freelancing has been rough, so it looks like I gotta rattle my internet tin again. any little bit helps ko-fi.com/O4O8CAE3

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

Two FMV creators, two methods for crafting non-linear narratives that blur the line between film & games! 📊 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social: spreadsheets & math-driven discovery systems 🔮 @theuniverse.bsky.social: spontaneity & lore-building week by week 📻➡️ podcast.panic.com or wherever you catch pods!

its not a torment nexus unless its been rewritten in rust

posting this in case my work stuff doesn't work out ko-fi.com/O4O8CAE3/

Oh yeah this is basically demo coding

North American things that baffle me: dog crates.

I never tire of this

The ridiculous amount of steps to buy and play Minecraft: • create Microsoft account • buy game in Windows store • download mincecraft launcher • create xbox account • update minecraft launcher • create minecraft profile • download and install minecraft

In my opinion the solution to all of the videogame industry’s problems is for everyone to work for the same company, making a single game so good that everyone will play it forever

* Link To The Past * Wind Waker * Four Swords Adventure * Minish Cap

Sharing that mostly for my video games moots who probably don’t know how Jennell was an important figure working in the shadow of many other celebrated game designers. She was multi talented and did so many things, I was lucky to interact with her before the world enshitified. Mentors are precious.💜

Emotional roller coaster ride of a blog post, about a stupid chemical element, and the forgotten woman who discovered it. fuckyeahwarriorwomen.tumblr.com/post/8089628...

*John Carpenter sighs, dusts off the synth*

L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat. I was furious at the railway company for their poor planning, and at the theatre owners for not foreseeing the inevitable tragedy

If you’ve ever been curious to try out Pendragon, the least well-known of all the inkle games, it’s on sale to support the fight against Type 1 Diabetes for a few more hours!

Reminder to other indie dev teams especially new teams. Most of us are happy to share advice and give feedback on publisher/funding/platform deals and terms. There are some shady predatory biz weasels that will take advantage of you as soon as your game starts to pop off. Please reach out.

Player: What size is the paper? GM: Well these are halflings so A4. Player: That’s enormous! GM: Okay, A2. #quoteOfGame

The French translation of The Yellow King Roleplaying Game is now crowdfunding:

Richard Gere, Laura Linney, and Will Patton are all fantastic in THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES (2002), one of the creepiest movies I have ever seen. It slowly gets under my skin every single time and it's hard to shake the feeling of dread it leaves behind. #filmsky #horrorsky #NowWatching

Speaking of Franco-Belgian comics: here’s a lovely article about Roger Leloup’s Yoko Tsuno. I enjoyed these a lot as a kid, and still do today. martinemussies.nl/web/yokotsuno/

Post a comic cover you love.

"low budget and masterful" feels like the highest possible compliment

It's time. Perfect Tides: Station to Station is out on PC and Mac. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESUK...

Another tool! Ink Explorer. Visualises the shape of an Ink story and lets you play through from any point, watching variables (and tweaking them), keeping track of visit counts, and letting you snapshot and restore the state. Early days - hope it's useful to someone! medium.com/@wildwinter/...

Fantastic

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

The comments :)

finally found this tumblr post expounding on how stupid owls are piraticoctopus.tumblr.com/post/6741867...

This band/album. So good, and there will never be another because a key member died after recording and before release. ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/righte...

Post a banger not in English: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4dt...

Screenshots from BRAMBLE. A game that’s a book. Bramble: Birth of The Amalgamoids is still available from @hollowpress.bsky.social Grab a hardcover copy while supplies last link below 🧌🪱☠️🩻👽

Caves of Qud mutates onto the Nintendo Switch, February 16th!

i knew i should've stayed an infinite being of pure energy; all the other infinite beings of pure energy told me but did i listen? NO because they were ANNOYING www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

I just backed www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

In a few weeks, I'll crowdfund the 20th Anniversary Edition of Play Unsafe, my book about improvisation, story and roleplay. Go here and follow the Kickstarter. (And please repost this, it really helps!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra... #kickstarter #ttrpg

watch the hit video that my wife raved: "...it's what I signed up for" get space warlord baby trading simulator today!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3642000/...