Went to see one of my faves (Billly Crudup) in High Noon on stage in London. A good play, but one that massively reinforces for me how hyped I am for a time (any day now) when American artists can have any other subject to talk about.

Really disappointing to see this from the recipient of the prestigious FIFA Peace Prize

A crucial piece of the canon.

The big traitors twist has some edge cases that make me nervous on a design level. On a storytelling level, I’m not sure the show needed more ambiguity. A potential over-correction to a balancing issue. Or there’s a cool twist coming.

I’ve never been up high in London on NYE.. my god. A blanket of fireworks. Have a good year folks.

The most terrifying new years I ever had was in the Netherlands. A generation will grow up never knowing that fear, but still in possession of all their fingers

Well, 2025 fucking sucked, lol. I take some comfort in feeling like I at least did the best I could in some really shitty situations. To continue this naive idiot’s metaphor, I’m hoping th3 game picks up on level 2. Happy new year everyone.

So im gonna need all of you who want to support my sweeper dreams to follow this. Teaser coming soon!!

Looking at a very crowded London bar, I visibly shuddered. Jonathan Ross tapped me on the shoulder, asked me what I wanted, and bought me a pint faster than I’ve ever seen a human get served in any bar. Never underestimate the power of light entertainment.

Dug avatar 3. Consistently surprised people are consistently surprised that these movies about community, acceptance, beauty and badass fights click with audiences. ‘It’s just a rollercoaster’ is a phrase that somehow underestimates both the power of character driven stories, and rollercoasters

As a bit of a boring fanboy when it comes to the play, I really really went in expecting not to love Amadeus the tv show. The bastards did it. I am become Salieri. I will now age terribly while building resentment for Will Sharpe and his excellent performance.

One of the most underrated design skills in games is graphic design for things like decals and fake branding for posters/stickers/flyers/books/props/signs/displays. We take this stuff for granted and yet they are very much a world building detail that adds so much more life to environments.

Watching various design trends and aesthetic tastes align around where my next thing is going, steepling my fingers and cackling like a very low stakes super villain

Same vibes. I posted today and lost a follower. Negative impact posting. At this rate I run the risk of zeroing it out

Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question: Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends. Make. Friends.

Great game which commits to a tone and maintains it beautifully. Excellent character writing too.

End of an era (the era where the slightest bit of Twitter celebrity meant I got sent a pretty reliable supply of free tea and tea adjacent paraphernalia.. as my star now fades, so my tea budget must increase)

Made a visual effect today for the next thing that was so gross I felt the need to apologize to mother in law when she passed by my screen. So that’s just right then.

Hi new folks, my name’s Mike, next year I’ll begin talking about the next thing I’m making, for now I’m taking a short break from being interesting.

Almost all writing advice is bullshit — if it doesn’t help you, ignore it. If a piece of advice lights your fire, lean in. There are no rules. Anyone asserting that writing must be a certain way is an amateur.

Having cooked and eaten the traditional Christmas dinner, we now move onto the traditional Christmas walk, folllowed by the traditional ‘Mike does some coding while half watching Strictly’

‘Pre-peeled’ sprouts, my arse

Big props to whichever licensing company got rights to _specifically_ the Jim Carrey Grinch movie this year. You absolutely licensed the crap out of it in the uk.

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

Yes

Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.

If Joseph Kosinski wants to direct it, I’ll watch it

Literally the second day of getting hired as a graphic designer 20 years ago I got the ‘don’t you dare forget to collapse down the layers’ talk.

‘everyone in gamedev is using AI’ the business dumdums are using it to generate decks and write bad copy. They think it’s good because they think their basic lore ideas make a good game. that’s it that’s who is using AI

In-laws asking me for my thoughts on indie scene drama feels like an important signifier of popular cultural acceptance of games as art. (My answer was a bit… robust, so I’ll not be sharing on here)

One of the most infuriating things about this gen AI nonsense is innocent people having to declare that they don't use it. And the accusation has become a cudgel: produce something that someone on the Internet doesn't like, be it a piece of art or a written work? The accusations come flying in

A beautiful time of year, as we gather around the fire, exchange gifts, and fix loved ones computers. No, windows, I don’t want any AI help with that.

It would seem that the internet has misunderstood my previous statements on the matter, so please allow me to be crystal clear: there are no ancient curses present in our games. [thread]

Fuuuuck that was a banger year (with one notable exception ;D)

The fuck is going on in east London today with the hundreds of cyclists? That’s more near collisions and kids getting hurt than I was expecting to see on today’s coffee run

The heroes who keep the lights on

This is an important video on a lot of levels, but specifically it’s fascinating how the level of global complicity and support required to prop up apartheid has increased in the digital age. And how distributed and diffuse the infrastructure is. youtu.be/Ybj10537yi4?...

Oh hey. The games we made. They’re like cheap and stuff. You know what and where Steam is, yeah? You’re familiar that there’s a sale on this time of year yeah?

“We don’t have to be kind, anymore” is a sentiment that seems to be manifesting explicitly and implicitly all over the place. An alarming number of people seem to be relishing the opportunity.

Got so invested in today’s creative job that I missed like 5 indie game discourses. I am indie gaming’s ill informed second cousin, invited to the wedding out of politeness

Having a good time working on the next game today. It’s kinda turning into one massive learning project and that’s always where I wanna be. Maybe a product comes out the other side?

For anyone in the Manchester / Northwest area who likes my art, and wants a 'behind closed doors' sneak peak at my first indie game project, check this out! 5th of FEB 2026. cultplex.co.uk/Cultplex.dll...

Excited to officially announce something I’ve been working on this *entire year* - GODMOTHER. We accomplished the seemingly impossible feat of writing an original screenplay and actually getting it funded 2025! Follow @ watchgodmother on Instagram for updates. collider.com/dee-wallace-...

Generative AI: worsen your reputation and mildly lower your productivity in one easy step.

You need to get into some mediocre but decent creatives. Thomas was alone is a mid tier puzzle platformer elevated by great voiceover, it-

This is very good advice. Spread your bets on which of your favs sucks. Because one of them definitely does.

"tyrannosaurus rex" is kinda one of the craziest called shots of all time if you think about it some dude in 1905 was like 'this was definitely the most badass dinosaur so I will name it as such' and 120 years of research and new discoveries keeps proving him right.