Somewhere up in heaven, Richard Scarry is like “fuck yeah, told you so”: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

i just realized THE 17776 day is in less than a week now

doing what I do every time I get sick: make chicken soup with grilled cheese and watch horror films while the cold meds kick me into a state of semi conciousness

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter! 55 Player Classes 150+ NPC Classes 29 Factions 20 Example Moons of Realis GMing and Prep Guidance Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

not an april fool!! www.ign.com/articles/bab...

PIG AT A WEDDING is a one-page TTRPG where you must sneak a pig into a wedding and release it at the most traumatic possible moment. PDF, text-only version, and a largely unrelated dev diary here: www.patreon.com/posts/pig-at...

I decided to map all my top "I should actually make this" side projects to figure out what they have in common and surprising no one the answer is "horror" and "narrative focused"

dnd update things my players have said to describe their new curse of strahd characters: just a bunch of human dudes, world's most divorced men, rejects from the band the cure, that guy you dated in high school, the worst dude ever TM, "homeschooled", deeply closeted, goth jehovahs witnesses

"never judge a book by its cover" also apparently applies to the health/supplements shop near my apartment, which I have ignored for 10 years and only today discovered it has many of my favorite hard-to-find treats and every cooking spice known to mankind

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

The next upcoming thinky puzzle game published by Draknek & Friends is @danga.games's He Who Watches. A first person puzzle game about walking on walls, manipulating gravity, and discovering secrets. Check out the trailer and wishlist now on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/1070500/...

We're hiring a ✨Senior Game Designer✨ for a new project at Monomi Park! 🍃 Applicants should have strong Unreal Engine experience, be able to own significant portions of a game's design, and the ability to work well within a small team. Is that yoooou? job-boards.greenhouse.io/monomipark/j...

I started reading Stephen King when I was eight, starting with Skeleton Crew. Every time I finished one of his novels, my mom just handed me another from her collection. At one point I had to get parental permission to bring his books to class for a weekly reading period.

I mostly read books digitally (the endless scroll) but I like to own the best physically so I picked up some of my favourites, but this is really putting page count in perspective cause I thought The Croning was way longer than Children of Time.

dnd update: I write down quotes every game and tonight the first quote I recorded was a player saying with a resigned sigh, “ok I will go fuck a priest” and it only went downhill from there

You can tell our new D&D campaign is going great when @lizardengland.bsky.social just sighs and says under her breath says "Jesus christ"

I've written a book! Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves is the story of procedural generation - the tech behind games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. It's about how it works, the games that use it, and the art and magic behind it. Out May 7th, in bookshops: linktr.ee/next_level 🎲🔮

I try not to use social media to 'dunk' but sometimes the dunks are really, really funny so I make an exception when it brings more joy than anger to the timeline.

haha... oh no

Esse é o futuro dos videogames com o DLSS 5

they did what

best seats in the house to celebrate the end of our dnd campaign

can't believe one of the act 3 bosses in slay the spire 2 is a door

During the festival, Perfect Tides: Station to Station is part of a bundle with other IGF Narrative Award nominees. Some of these (including PT) are also discounted so it's a really good deal! store.steampowered.com/bundle/68612...

they won design & grand prize and as is now tradition when a game gets both i am angry at how good it is just real mad how dare they

them winning this award is IMO a very important statement, especially on stage at GDC

hey yall this game is great and free and on steam and kinda macabre

I'm listening to the audiobook of Dungeon Crawler Carl and I think I want to write a litrpg now. This stuff is so silly. I can't believe they even narrate floating HUD elements. I can't decide if I love it or hate it which means it is going to become my new favorite thing.

I am not at GDC this year but I am on social media refreshing constantly for the daily discourse. Please do not disappoint me.

this morning when making my coffee I mixed up my carton of milk with my carton of egg whites

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

wait no this is actually incredible youraislopbores.me

I have started a new embroidery piece and already regret the subject

squirrel running away with someone’s croissant this is a tree outside my apartment, I think this might be the same little guy who left a granola bar outside my window

dnd update: new (short) campaign, the players all arrived to perform in a Gale (from BG3) look-a-like contest, so I had them arrested for impersonating a noble and offered to drop the charges if they kidnap the pope

judgemental bee eater embroidery piece done, honestly it’s way better than my last two pieces

almost done with my current embroidery project and can get over the fact that I accidentally have it rolling its eyes at you

dnd update: my players are making their strahd characters

nyc has really figured out social media because I don't even live in the same country and I am getting regular updates about school closures

I got the smart idea of doing a small hand-sewing project without any prior experience and it's eight hours later and I have newfound respect for people who sew.

lmao

I guess that makes it family size

please can we have a day of good news for the game industry, as a treat

What a nightmare. I remember naively thinking that consumer facing genai would never really take off because of brand safety, and they go and do stuff like this

dnd update: it was our last session, and for the climactic battle the players decided to pit two powerful godlike NPCs against one another and reap the rewards once it was over. So I had one PC each roll for each of those NPCs, whoever won the roll won the fight. They both rolled a nat 1.

I started playing Lingo 2 and I had a real panic when I realized I had dropped my "H" letter and couldn't find it and thus couldn't write the word "THINK" to solve a puzzle. What a stupid game. (It's the opposite of stupid, I am too stupid for this game).

how many rules is this trailer breaking

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

accidentally only beige food for dnd tonight