cleaned a substantial amount of good out of Rupert's eyes this evening and I must have cleared a duct or something because he's absolutely full of beans now where he usually is just chilling in his perch

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

Quick update on this: out now, free to play, with an optional developers commentary pack you can purchase for a fiver. Wildly generous!

Quitting my day job to become a cat photographer

She's a Jacob Gellar fan

Reading more Robert Harris at the moment (Fatherland) and I'm genuinely surprised to find out he's happily married considering the big divorced guy energy of all his protags

after around a billion year hiatus I played a bit more of Blades of Fire this evening and honestly it's rad as hell. Been chasing a wee granny who lives in a giant beetle through a swamp then I made a massive fuck off sword.

Cat tax

it's completely crept up on me but Set Yourself on Fire is out in a couple of days. I played the demo of this AGES ago and thought it was an excellently written and really kinetic visual novel. Get this on yer wishlist ASAP

see how the placeholder art in Slay the Spire 2 is way, way more charming than any AI nonsense folk have been using

The cats choosing to act up ten minutes before bedtime after a whole day of chilling is incredibly funny but also quite annoying

Ridiculous beast

“Hugh, you SOB!” IMO the interactions between Hugh & Diana can be presented to be more genuine. Pragmata is visually amazing, and the hacking gameplay is refreshing & challenging. Lots of respect to Capcom for taking risks to introduce something new.

got a code for Aether and Iron, so been playing that this evening. A cool mix of visual novel and turn based tactics. If you like Disco Elysium and Citizen Sleeper I reckon it'd be right up your street.

bit of boring housekeeping, but I've finally decided to set up a patreon. No special bells and whistles involved, just if you like my work and want to contribute to it, there's an option now:

NEW VIDEO: The Steamworld games are brilliant. Image & Form's tantalising, genre spanning shared steampunk universe is full of great little ludic treats, but with the future of the franchise looking a little shaky, I wanted to take the opportunity to bang the drum for some true indie treasures:

This is why I'm so fundamentally against any form of AI, it encourages laziness and a lack of care. Calculating medication doses is the easiest fucking thing in the world you just need a calculator and the BNF, and if you can't do it, that's what the pharmacists are there for

Really funny how Rupert's laziness overwrites his nervousness, in that the only time he lets me attend to his eye boogers is when he's installed in his perch

bit of boring housekeeping, but I've finally decided to set up a patreon. No special bells and whistles involved, just if you like my work and want to contribute to it, there's an option now:

just played the demo of Pragmata there, wow that's a concept executed pitch perfectly. Incredibly fun game.

NEW VIDEO: The Steamworld games are brilliant. Image & Form's tantalising, genre spanning shared steampunk universe is full of great little ludic treats, but with the future of the franchise looking a little shaky, I wanted to take the opportunity to bang the drum for some true indie treasures:

Don't talk to me before I've had my coffee!

Problem with a lot of social media apps these days is they over complicate things I just want a chronological feed and the ability to post about my gay little video essays

Cats randomly going through phases of hiding from me, just chilling and actively harassing me. The inconsistency is winding me up lol

Production has started on the next video, should be an easy edit aiming to have it done by Saturday

Why do they call it Metroidbrainia when Search Scratchin' is right there

Cat Tax

Yelled a bit too loudly at my cats for scrapping and now Rupert is hiding from me 😭

Sol Cesto just hit 1.0 and they've done a massive overhaul of the whole game. Well up for digging into that in a bit more depth when I have time, but that new intro animation is proper good

Kreachers

I want to but I have a job application and projects to finish first

Our very stupid and annoying "Pope" is at it again. He should drive his dumb little car up his own fucking ass. Fuck you! - The President

Sunday

Seen both cats eat, drink and shit this morning, which is a relief and also now I know which one of them is doing the absolutely honking mega turds (it wasn't a surprise)

trying to assure myself that adopting the cats was a nice, normal thing to do but i'm sick with anxiety at the moment and I really don't know what I'm doing with them

Lalita keeps eyeing up the crawlspace behind the washing machine. Girl, I just bought you a teepee.

Went out for a leaving do last night, we ordered what can only be described as a mile of food

When you're left to starve because dad was out partying all evening

Played a bit of this last night, a really fascinating momentum based platformer, forcing you to move with extreme intent if you want to get anywhere. Excited to dig in more

love this book

gotta say though brilliant comic timing on shit like this coming out of the woodwork just after my work stopped paying overtime

surprise £250 invoice can I get a hell yeah

When there's mince for dinner

The siblings having some quality time together

The guilty look of a man who ate his sister's breakfast AND THEN ate the back up breakfast I prepared for her. Foul beast!

Love Lies Bleeding (2024) Dir: Rose Glass

They're back in the crawlspace again but they stayed out and hung out with me first thing this morning which is nice. Progress!

Thanks Rupert. Perfect place to sit