update: I have just figured out what “Destial” stands for

accidentally only beige food for dnd tonight

"Isometric games don't exist" is a guide with 40 detailed charts about perspective in videogames. It teaches you everything about isometry and what all the other game perspectives & projections are and how they work. You can download it for free on my itch page cyangmou.itch.io/isometric-ga...

We are very close to the end of a three year DnD campaign and I just spent three hours making sure I have contingencies for "they fuck it up in expected ways" and "they fuck it up in unexpected ways".

I have reached season 4 of Supernatural and I am all in now.

Unwinnable subscribers saw an excerpt of this last month, but here's the much, much longer convo I had with Autumn back in December about cultural criticism, my process, and a long, ongoing battle with alienation from my own taste and craft. A little rambly, apologies unwinnable.com/2026/02/11/a...

It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future. mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...

The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential! gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...

finding a good place for this in my Dwarf Fortress headline scrapbook

I finished Ancillary Justice and really liked it. It’s more action/space opera-y than I typically like but has such a unique and excellent protagonist. This is the third Ann Leckie book I’ve read and I didn’t like the first two, but glad I gave just one more try.

treating my insomnia by curling up in a dark room watching a scary found footage horror film (incantation) is best/worst idea simultaneously

My favourite game subreddits are factory/automation players. They are either “I’ve maxed out my VU so my UPS is now 500k/min here’s a 41,089 building blueprint you can paste 12 times but use these 7 optimization mods so your CPU doesn’t catch fire” and “i made a disco ball with conveyor belts”

today I learned that the guy who adopted The Story of Your Life to screenplay (for the film The Arrival) was also the guy that wrote Dionaea House

After killing scores of plants during the pandemic, last spring I trued again with just a single basil plant. Instead if trying to keep her alive I neglect her until I think it’s going to die and then drown it. Here’s yesterday/ today. She’s so dramatic. Lost like two leaves.

Sometimes I worry that I have lost my love of reading or that my attention span is broken from social media and electronic devices, and then I finally pick up a book and read it start to finish in under 24 hours and remember that I don’t read because I have stuff I need to get done.

Hey yall. As you've seen here - unfortunately a large portion of the ivy road team was laid off today, myself included. We're all looking for work! Gonna do a quick thread about those who were laid off today and why you should hire them:

I decided to draw strawberries with my new coloured pencils and halfway through looked up a video tutorial on coloured pencils because I remembered there was some technique for smoothing (it’s solvents brushed on top) and part way through the 30m video turns out the example project was strawberries

been enjoying responding to each new genai tech reveal with a slow, drawn out, "yeah but it still can't make scribblenauts"

yes, okay, very funny (light spoilers for very late game in promise mascot agency)

I watched two episodes and need to know if pluribus ever atones for its crimes against romance readers / authors

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starting to think that a foot and a half of snow was an underestimation

Time to share my mild take again that The Looker is the better game with a way better payoff store.steampowered.com/app/1985690/...

This year's Polaris game design papers are up and our group worked on Mechanical Comedy in Games, as in games where the comedy comes from players performing the jokes. Really pleased with what we learned (and glad I thought to pitch the topic). polarisgamedesign.com/2025/mechani...

me whenever I delete my satisfactory save and start over

Can't Stop, Won't Stop! ✨ Gravity Well is looking for an experienced, creative, and technically capable designer to help develop large systems that bring players together and make them excited for more! Check out the Systems Designer role here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...

I regret to inform7 you ma'am but your son is dead. Your son is found in the Grey Hallway. The description of your son is "a poor soul who died in these hallowed halls." The son is wearing a backpack. The backpack is openable and closed.

season two and the only two female characters I can name are their dead mom and their dead girlfriend, it is aging wonderfully

all I did today is play ballxpit and watch Supernatural

yesterday was perfect weather, unseasonable warm, all ice and snow melted, so of course I decided to wait another day to run errands long story short my neighbours brought out the skiis

Running out of horror films, I could use some recommendations. What’s an obscure horror film you absolutely loved? (I mean “obscure for horror fans” not just “obscure for film watchers”, bonus for female directors/casts and body horror but I watch any genre)

the internet: it's so easy to install mods for minecraft a baby could do it me, a veteran game developer who got started with modding: I need a phd to figure this out

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

Really glad to see Baby Steps get the recognition I think it deserves - really a masterpiece. Especially pleased to see it recognized in narrative, where I think it’s easy to overlook because of the surface level humour. www.gamedeveloper.com/production/b...

I can’t speak to the rest of the student noms, but I played Poco and it is delightful, a point and click adventure game with a lovely mix of whimsy and grotesque. Free on steam too: store.steampowered.com/app/3454610/...

happy brunch day

friends! acquaintances! help! i'm looking to hire a game designer (living in the Netherlands) to help build games in The Hidden Folks Universe, starting with a sequel to the indie hit game Hidden Folks. know someone who's a good fit? pls forward this, ty! hiddenfolks.com/job-opening/...

did you know you shouldn't rub your eye when there's montreal steak seasoning on your fingers?

managed to get through the whole holiday season without downloading a single game engine or dev tool to play with

new lifehack is to go art supplies shopping with a professional artist who also has a teacher discount

Making a stupid owl and bothered by the fact that it is not anatomically correct and trying to decide between following the kit (two cartoon wings and a little tail) and being accurate (needle felting each part of the wing as it folds and running out of felt). Anyway great activity A+ entertainment

Since I love procgen / high systemic story generator games, I decided to finally pick up Rim World. But I did not like it, which did not make any sense. So I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out why and made a little graph.

(you can’t make me think about the new year) also today I finished a felting kit my aunt gifted me. I love embroidery and have been interested in some more textile art so this was fun/cute to learn from. I can see a bunch of ways of combining it with other techniques, like stumpwork and beading.

(pretending it’s not nye) just finished reclaiming a piece of furniture I was going to throw out - an ikea kallax that I’ve had for 10 years - in an effort to continue to reuse / mend rather than buy new and very pleased with the results, next is making a woven mat for the top & a black back board

celebrating the end of 2025 by doing art while listening to the fall of the ptolemy empire, eating korean fried chicken and waiting for a new years resolution to be delivered (a set of adjustable dumbbells (may regret this))

this jigsaw puzzle is making me crave donuts so badly

"Always exercise care when cleaning the CrushBlade™️" I get that these are instructions for my new blender but it has real Orphan Crushing Machine / Torment Nexus energy.

It is criminal that Meet the Feebles is not available anywhere for streaming.

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

they called our coworker “a dial tone” and that’s when I learned to never cross a professional writer