You: oh wow Joshua you cooked so much for Thanksgiving yesterday, I bet today you just flomped at home — Me: Cinnamon scrolls. You: What? Me: Cinnamon scrolls.

1 AM, and finished. 🫠 It's a wrap on Thanksgiving 2025, I made seventeen different dishes (not plates, there were maaanyy more than that) themed around Louisiana and New Orleans specifically including gumbo, sweet potato pie, and cornbread. So tired. So sore. So stuffed, but glad to have done it.

Valiant effort by the piece of shit garlic press to survive until the very last clove for the very last dish before cracking and sending metal pieces all over the kitchen. 🫡

Zee bird is in the oven. 🫠 I have cooked everything else except for green beans, which will be done at the end. And then I have to figure out how to reheat seven dishes all at once. 🤣

Prep Day Two: cooked all of the pies (so, so many pies) and did the other make-ahead prep that could be done today. Tomorrow is cooking the things that really can't be done too far in advance and, of course, cooking the turkey itself. I am very excited though, this is going to be sooo good.

Prep Day One: I cooked the two non-turkey mains for Thursday (the flavours will develop over the next two days and be delicious by Thanksgiving), dry-brined the bird (such a gross process), and made a compound butter for turkey-slathering. Tomorrow will be baking and making sides.

Turkey get! Just picked up my very expensive, fresh gobble-gobble from the Queen Victoria Market, and the rest of the day will be spent cooking the mains that will benefit from having flavours develop over two days and dry-brining the bird tonight. 👨‍🍳

Nominations are now open for the Steam Awards and I’d love it if you’d consider nominating Alcyone: The Last City for "Outstanding Story-Rich Game." At nearly 250k words long, I think it qualifies! store.steampowered.com/app/1074830/...

Beef gyudon with pickled ginger, fried egg, togarashi, and spring onion over sushi rice.

Hosted thirteen people for Thanksgiving last year, wanted to avoid that size again, am still doing that many this year. (I’m not complaining, excited to do it, but it’s a lot of work). Finalised the menu and it hit me that it’s less than a week away. I’m going to be cooking three days straight. 😵‍💫

Authentiqué carbonara (just with fresh linguine instead of spaghetti as I don't like the latter), I managed to grab the last of the guanciale from the grocery store. 🥳

Wicked: For Good was really, really stellar — besides one very specific choice by the director that you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about if/when you see it — but I liked it more than the first part by far. (I’ve seen the Broadway show a bajillion times in four different cities.)

It lives!!!

Is birthday. I don't usually do much, but I had a smol party last night because this has been a frustrating year & I wanted a day for myself. Today my partners gave me this, because months ago I was saying I wanted to figure out how to make & program tiny robots. I am loved, and I am happy for it.

Hi friends, my birthday is coming up — if you have something to spare, please consider donating to Tanya, who has been a bright light in my life for almost a decade now. www.gofundme.com/f/chip-in-to...

In honour of my birthday this weekend, enjoy a present from me: a 10% discount on Alcyone: The Last City & DLC on ALL platforms. This goes through from NOW until Monday the 17th at 2 PM AEDT, so now is a great time to grab the game if you haven't. Find out where to buy HERE: alcyonegame.com

This guy… www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Anyway, as of about two hours ago, it's my seventeenth anniversary of living in Australia. (I genuinely swore I have been here longer than that, good thing time isn't real anyway.)

"What would you do if you won the lottery?" "You'd suddenly hear a screen adaptation of Sabriel by Garth Nix was coming out."

Nearly ten years later, I get an email from Kickstarter that someone has filled in their backer pledge for GX Australia. My friend... I'm afraid that you might have missed the convention...

I have some opinions about "Protect Mardi Gras" and assimilationist queers not wanting to rock the boat when we have literal fascists taking over. logbook.joshuameadows.com/protect-mard...

I got asked about my thoughts on making indie games in 2025 and I swear not every response I provided was so curmudgeony. 😅 www.superjumpmagazine.com/the-state-of...

Would anyone who’s a whiz with Illustrator (and/or vector-based illustration generally) be interested in some logo design work? I have a mockup and some specific ideas for what I want, but my Illustrator skills are totally abysmal and I’d rather pass this off to a professional artist.

I made sloppy joes from the canned stuff — a flavour I haven’t had since I was at least a teenager. Compared to the homemade ones I did a few months ago I am pleased to say that the recipe I used ended up tasting about identical to the canned sauce, and I’d dare say mine was even a bit nicer.

It's that time of year where I make a nearly two-hour round trip out to the US food importer to be price-gouged for things that cost a few dollars back where I grew up. But! But!

Me: do you want a donut? Ryan: oh yeah, let me put some tea on first though. Me: can you not be aggressively British for five seconds? Ryan: dunno, can you not be aggressively American for five seconds? Me: WOW, let me get my ASSAULT RIFLE and FLAG and then ask me that again.

I’d say other things about the last 24 hour hours were it not for the "free speech absolutists," but it’s deeply funny to me to have a great outcome in NYC at the same time another architect of our current problems checked out early. Typical Republicans, leaving before the consequences hit them.

Happy three years to this lovely man. I've been continually impressed at your heart, inquisitiveness, patience, and intelligence. You have been a rock that's made me feel supported and loved, and you've done that while still making space for my other partner in our shared lives as well. Love you. ❤️

I dreamed last night that I baked a sour cream and strawberry cake — something I certainly have no waking recollection of knowing about, but lo and behold I searched and it is indeed a thing. I don't bake much and get nervous when I do, but this was absolutely delicious. Thanks dream Joshua!

Hypothetically speaking, if someone watched enough hobbyist maker videos about 3D printing robots at home that they become obsessed with making tiny self-articulating ones but don't know much about soldering or programming Arduino boards or how to get started, how would they get started? 👀

i have about two million followers across three platforms. statistically, about 20,000 of you are in the top 1% in terms of wealth. if any of you feel like leaving me your home in a walkable neighborhood when you die, that would make for a very heartwarming social media story.

Vlas: did you get McDonald's last night? Me: why? 👀 Vlas: I saw the bag in the trash today. Did you get nuggies? 👀 Me: wow Vlas you can't just accuse someone of getting ten nuggets and a quarter pounder at 2 AM and then watching Burlesque starring Cher and Christina Aguilera. So rude. Vlas: 🤔

What’s going on the US right now really highlights the naiveté upon which almost three centuries of civilisation there rested on the trust that people in power would ultimately do the right thing and act honourably. Zero framework for what to do when over half of them chose not to for decades.

Oh wild I can’t believe Joe Biden is still forcing websites to take down things the government has an issue with like during a pandemic when they asked platforms to take some responsibility about misinformation — oh, he’s not president anymore and conservatives are just hypocrites? Nah, couldn’t be.

Went to a MIGW event tonight and the entire time I was itching to go home to get back to work on this current concept I’ve been doing this week and I haven’t felt that way about a project in a very long time. That’s a nice headspace to have. My design document is also now over ten thousand words. 😵‍💫

In case you missed High Score this past weekend, the videos from the event have gone up exceptionally quickly (!!) and you can see them in a wonderful playlist on YouTube; the one I was on specifically is here: #highscore2025 #VMDO #MIGW www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Mv...

My interest in the new TRON movie did a physical, visceral reversal as soon as I saw Jared Leto is apparently in it? Don’t know how I missed that news up to now but yeah, my desire to watch it just inverted and crawled back up inside of my body.

Hey everyone, check out this really cool gameshow I took part in alongside my good friends ✨@chrispydev.bsky.social & Pen✨, created and run by @joshuameadows.com Watch me as I do my game designer thing and test the limits of a game where I don't know the rules 😎 youtu.be/gnw7MxMgWVI?...

Just a reminder, if you're attending High Score at ACMI this weekend, I'll be in Cinema 1 at 11 AM for the panel "How to Speak Dev and Influence Designers" discussing Alcyone's music amongst other things! Not in Melbourne? There's livestream tickets available still! www.vmdo.com.au/high-score-f...

Me: it took me a week to edit this video with my eyes misbehaving, I'm not doing another fucking thing today Me: *does an Alcyone bug fix release, tests and uploads it, laundry, tradie appointment, prep for the conference tomorrow, and makes another robot 3D print model* See, not a fucking thing.

Yo! I'm taking some time this month to just do a bit of extra promotion work for my video game. And to kick that off: 🚨MATCHMAKER DUNGEON HEART HAS FULLY RELEASED AND IS CURRENTLY 67% OFF ON STEAM RIGHT NOW🚨 store.steampowered.com/app/2507570/... This should be a fun month. 😁

NEW VIDEO! I challenged three devs to play a board game, but I didn’t tell them the rules beforehand. Their objective? To pet the dog. youtu.be/gnw7MxMgWVI #gamedev #boardgames #digitalgames #MIGW

Alcyone: The Last City is on sale on all platforms from September 30 to October 7, 2025! For the full list of where to purchase it, check out alcyonegame.com and thanks tons for your support!

Also Jared Kushner buying EA is genuinely the only way I could imagine EA getting any worse. Can't wait to see it stripped for parts and bankrupted so parasitic vultures can get another yacht!

Today I learned that the British dude who does cute hand puppets and sings silly songs with them apparently decided for whatever reason years ago to interview a transphobic psychologist over "detransitioning children" AS THE PUPPETS so everything is awful and this is why we can't have anything nice.

I've been catching Vlas up on Stranger Things so he can see the last season with Ryan and I. After a few episodes I wanted a midnight McDonalds run to which he said "you have been watching too much American decadence." He got a strawberry shake and said "I regret to inform you that I enjoyed this."

Scotch fillet steak with the best mushroom peppercorn sauce I have ever made, legitimately, it's better than anything I have had in a restaurant. Sides are roasted chilli carrots, mash with butter peas, and garlic sautéed spinach.

Wow Second Life's graphics are really getting good lately

Anyway I'm going to quit writing and game development and go back to my first joy, making tiny robots.

Oh wow, I haven’t viscerally regretted doing a macOS update since the Snow Leopard days but my god was this an instantaneous mistake. (It’s dogshit on iOS/iPadOS too, don’t worry, but it’s particularly ugly, awful, and broken on the platform I use for my work and productivity. 🙃)