Literal blizzard :O

At 5.15pm GMT today, the Earth will be at perihelion, the closest point to the Sun in our annual round. This should be the start of the year. Happy new orbit, everyone!

If you are interested in game urbanism and the cities of video games, do join me tomorrow (Dec 17, 17:00 CET) for the live *Designing Cities for Video Games* course presentation, and an intro to the subject. [A Q&A session will follow.] Reserve your spot here ⇢ www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-...

It is very windy. I do not like it. End of post.

New games studio Last Arrow has opened in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear led by industry veterans from Sumo Digital, CCP, and Electronic Arts www.gamesindustry.biz/new-games-st...

Rugby World Cup draw the other day - small chat, draw balls, bish bash bosh done. Football world cup draw, not sure if possible to be further up its own arse :D

My brother at this year's COP summit doing vastly more important work than me sitting on my arse making a videogame ;) youtu.be/ZEcY6eiqFy0

My daughter's class had homework on Plato's Cave. Parents in the WhatsApp group were panicking it seemed too hard. I said just hand something in and tell the teacher she's only seeing the shadow of the *real* homework. Got nothing. No laughing emojis, no HAHAHA. I'm fucking wasted on these people.

Mere hours left to grab sweet #ProjectZomboid merch while also supporting Doctors Without Borders! www.makeship.com/shop/creator...

Here is my amazingly in-depth VTM:Bloodlines 2 initial review after 6 hours. Kindof into the story, I guess? Interested to see how that develops. Kind of hate the combat, think the game would be better as a straight narrative experience.

Get ready to hear me rant about start up culture bleeding into indie dev, and why we should be making our dream games! 👀

After months of work, I finally finished this illustration... this is how I died, from insomnia. #ProjectZomboid

If Britain were becoming North Korea, wouldn't we have a better trade arrangement with the Americans?

I do not wish to "reclaim" the Union Flag or St George Cross. I was quite happy with the situation of us being a nation of non flag wavers. The Union Flag is for the roofs of Minis, tea towels, and tourist tat and the St George's Cross for sporting events. Other use cases are cringey (see: America)

I did not think through the implication of this phone's name when I bought it.

Hi folks, happy to say these are now with me. If you'd like to buy one they're £10 including UK second class postage. If you're not in the UK get in touch via my site to let me know where you are and I'll work it out for you. All details and how to pay: www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...

I have arrived. Cider is pink because apparently ordinary English cider is not good enough for the metropole ;)

So then, is anyone going to be around the Develop metropole hotel this afternoon / evening?

Second angle. Dust storm on Mars, in Kitten Space Agency. No unreal. No unity. BRUTAL framework. Volumetric with atmos scattering including atmospheric layers such as ozone etc. full solar system scale.

I am not old enough to have done this but this example is super-easy to read anyway.

Hello and welcome to the traditional annual Andy arrives at the station ridiculously early and proceeds to slowly descend into madness over the course of Develop.

Dog assisting with gardening by sitting on and immobilising me.

Presumably somewhere, someone is getting the person due to turn up "between 8am and 2pm" first thing in the morning and getting it all out of the way nice and early. I wonder what that experience is like.

@callum.uwu.biz Perhaps had you followed me back, you would not have had to write "i don't even know where to find you these days" in a LinkedIn message. :P

Nice day to be up on the top of the Penines :)

Please be aware of our current disruptions to services

Also a shout-out to all my fellow devs who aren't doing the "weakly justify what is blatantly a lovely sunny Mediterranean holiday as a business expense" conference thing.

So then, Atomfall. Have really enjoyed my time with it so far. Stereotypical Cumbria hits the spot nicely without feeling overly idealised or twee and instead just feels comfortably familiar to someone who lives just over the Pennines.

I look forward to watching the Defunctland video about this in around ten years time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I firmly believe that one of the greatest innovations of the 21st Century is properly delicious-smelling washing up liquid. As a kid, I thought the future would be hoverboards and jetpacks. As a middle-aged man I am delighted to discover it's apple and rhubarb flavour Fairy liquid.

Second mow of the year completulated. Marginally less broken than last time. Wisely picked the hottest part of the day to do it, again.

Ok. I have posted an update to the gofundme, bumped the number up a scary amount. Really I need to sort the main fundraiser page out too but I’ve been going at things for twelve hours now, alternating between house and usual dad stuff and I need a sit down. I’m shattered. gofund.me/ecddc7af

I have run out of tea four days early so will now have to drink the oridinary guest tea like some kind of pleb. These are the sorts of daily struggle we face as indie game developers :(

One year it'd be lovely to ease gently from one season to the next rather than chaotically swing from 'need the heating on' to 'open every window in the house and spend no more than 5 minutes outside'

Well, we've officially begun Free Gym Membership Season in Newcastle on account of today being the first viable day to finally mow the lawn.

I reckon NaturalMotion might have something to say about the use of the word "revolutionise", here.

Looking forward to trying out Avowed but, I'm afraid, in a head to head contest between that and the pirate Yakuza game... <3 Majima ;)

I AM GOING TO SPEND ALL DAY ON THIS TO ACHIEVE MAXIMUM CUTENESS

Very sad to hear this. I had the pleasure of meeting him some years ago. He was extremely kind and generous with his time to speak with and encourage a nobody like me, and that's to say nothing of his considerable talent. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Curious lack of Valentine's cards and gifts on my doorstep this morning. Clearly something is broken with the postal service my end.

31 million? *looks at own follower count* Clearly something is broken my end, then.

Costa food prices are hilariously over-priced. Literally no idea who on Earth is buying this stuff. It's like, 3 quid for two slices of toast there (extra for a tiny pot of jam to spread on it).

Just going to take a moment to compile a list of peers who used to follow me on Twitter but have elected not to do so on Bluesky for use when I enter the evil stage of my game development career.

I've never understood why David Lean cast Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia instead of Bridge on the River Kwai.

Well I hope you've all been enjoying these power cuts as much as I have.

My unpopular gaming opinion: (whispers) I don't think the Steam 30% cut is particularly unreasonable.

My first painting in many many moons, The Red Queen's Off Her Head...

Bit nippy, innit?

Dogfood advert which claims to be super knowledgeable about dogs and that's why their dog food is so great: I know,. let's start the advert with a loud doorbell noise.

So it turns out that I do not host nearly enough guests to justify having bought the normal tea bags.