Up past 2 AM looking through old family albums to see the hidden page with the photo of naked Russian-Canadian folk-Protestant protestors, with a diversion of finding my great-great grandmother’s baby head being used as an example in a phrenology journal. Filled with post-Xmas pre-new years spirit 😆

New blog post (and email newsletter): azhdarchid.com/designing-fo...

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

After multiple days of being responsible and using up leftovers, I just spent two hours making dashi, tonkatsu, and finally katsudon. My inability to do anything in moderation has never tasted so good.

Steal, sneak and persuade your way through the simulated city of Fortuna. 🏛 Watch the new gameplay trailer and sign up for our Alpha playtest: store.steampowered.com/app/2946850/...

Advent of Code Day 1 beginning with “the elves have discovered project management,” as the in-universe explanation for it being 12 days this year instead of 25, is unbelievably good.

My high school Macbeth had a dramatic sword break, via strong magnets holding the blade to the hilt. One night the actors messed up the choreography and instead of back of stage, the dull but very heavy sword flew into an audience member’s face. I’m realizing now how normal that sort of thing is 😅

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

do yourself a favor and dont even hate-watch that shit this year, man. go see a movie. edgar wright's new thing is in theatres. demonschool is out in 2 days, birdcage is out tomorrow. play something from your backlog. tron 2.0 is $10 on gog. catch up on some tv. do groceries. whatever.

"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied: "Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀

Do other folks have nightmares about the shitty parts of game dev, even long after the fact? Layoffs, project cancellations, terrible leadership. They suck enough the first time but my brain just loves to relive them instead of sleeping 🥲

I am so excited to spend my commute listening to coverage of Fëanor’s bullshit. As Kawa pointed out, our emergency go-bag currently contains my copy of The Hobbit, but not my passport. So this is great news for me specifically.

Its officially that time.

Extra baseball has meant some extreme measures to try and actually make dinner before 10 pm

Please channel Forrest Best and end up stealing home off a single

It says a lot about the quality of my memory and also what baseball is like that only now, after 6 innings, have I realized that I was watching a replay of yesterday’s game and not the live game. Yesterday’s game which, to be clear, I did watch live.

Played this with @procgenkawa.bsky.social to round out the night and it hit my highest compliment, which is that it made me exclaim “video games are good actually!!!”

Spent my Halloween evening watching the game. This is all I have to say.

Rooting not just for a Game 7 of the World Series, but another 18 inning game that goes so long on Saturday night that the clocks fall back at 2am before it’s ended and everyone gets tremendously confused about what time it is.

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So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

So my bonus bit of #procjam content for this year is going to be the Lunch Hour Generator - five videos, five little tasks you can do in your lunch break, and at the end of the week you have something you can enter into the jam. I hope it helps encourage a few people to give the jam a go!

Gaming stuff: Crusader Kings 3’s “All Under Heaven” is out now. I helped consult for historical accuracy and design on its representation of medieval Southeast Asia (and Siberia). Check it out! A fantastic expansion for a fantastic game. www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/crusad...

in the netherlands major league baseball is called Honkbal Hoofdklasse

Has anyone checked under home plate for a secret envelope yet?

*crying*

The baseball commentators have given me a new quest: acquire a zagnut

[camera pans to an empty bullpen] “which chair throws best?” BROTHER LMAO

My favourite thing about all these very long baseball games is just how filthy nasty the uniforms get. Give me a bunch of exhausted dudes staring into the distance, covered in dirt.

Love to come out of my office and be told “it’s bottom of the 12th and it’s maximum baseball”

PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else! 🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st 🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam

The people asked and we've delivered. Presenting... the Columbroguelike. www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Co...

If you think Roguelike celebration is unhinged, you haven’t been to the post-con zoom chat, where currently we are peer reviewing calculations of the mass energy of a dango that is 7*10^16 calories

Roguelike Celebration slides continuing to hit

Hey if you're attending Roguelike Celebration, I'm giving a talk in about an hour, watch it live on the @roguelike.club stream at 6:45pm Eastern! I'm giving a little lightning talk on an underused mechanic for deckbuilders

I'll be speaking in just under an hour on Building Story in a Roguelike World! Catch me live at 1:15pm Pacific Time by visiting the Roguelike Celebration website or tuning in at www.twitch.tv/roguelike_con !

Just had the honor of presenting my talk at @roguelike.club! Slightly more erratic than I wanted, but it came from the heart. Before replays are up, here's my favorite slide:

There are so many great talks today but right now we’re starting a personal fav, we have Dennis Greger who has worked a ton on reality TV talking about the design process - great when I know so many designers inspired by reality TV but from the outside! Currently relating to story sifting, hell yeah

This is in about an hour and every talk Younès has given was an instant all-timer, come check it out!

Thank you @jbrew.bsky.social for adding the Brooklyn Interpretation of karaoke to our collective community toolkit.

Of course the @roguelike.club audience is made up of the kind of people that can be asked “what’s your favourite SQL variant?” and instantly start slamming chat

what I expected from @roguelike.club : "10 ways to generate a dungeon!" what I got: existentially terrifying hypergeometry

Amazing talk from @colewehrle.bsky.social right now about Oath and the way it models faulty memory and fills players with regret as they live with their choices, and how this fits with history building as storytelling. So many insights, this is gonna be a must-watch. Games need more regret.

biblically accurate soccer ball by @zenorogue.bsky.social at @roguelike.club

Powerful start from @zenorogue.bsky.social - sharing the arcane knowledge behind making HyperRogue, a non-Euclidean roguelike. The question isn't why make your roguelike non-euclidean, it's why *not*?

I know so many people who are huge fans of Cole’s work (Root, Oath, Arcs) - very hype for this talk!

permadeath is good for you, actually! join us @ roguelike.club

The 10th Roguelike Celebration is now LIVE! Pick up a ticket, pay what you can, and join us for a full weekend of amazing talks! We have a whole online chat space that's bustling and full of secrets, we have breakout rooms to chat with speakers, please come say hi! ti.to/roguelike-ce...