went to do some maintenance on Dyebreaker 002 and was struck by how amazing it is to have made an honest to goodness arcade game, in a lineup like this. between donkey kong and monkey ball! my videogame!

How It feels to have a job/exist in the games industry.

have been thinking about this a lot lately. writing code is one of the few things AI can substantively help with, and so many of the people hyping AI are tech industry coder types

i played the demo a few weeks back and it was stunning. play this ASAP

what a FILM oh my god

added a giant cursor shaped like a hand to my CRPG

usually at home in @wonderville.nyc, Dyebreaker Cabinet 001 is taking up temporary residency at @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social in Prospect Park, along with Kung Fu Kickball by @whalefoodgames.com go see Marty Supreme and then get heated with other ball-centric sports

you live in a boxcar *one time* and they call you "the boxcar children" forever

🎶 welcome to the hotel Normal Hotel 🎶 checkout with the clerk 🎶 that's how hotels work 🎶 plenty of room at the hotel Normal Hotel 🎶 we won't keep you here 🎶 that's a crazy fear

Displaying Team USA Olympic figure skater Ilia Malnin on a CRT brings out a lot of the artist-intended details that get lost with pure pixels, this is why so many of us retain vintage hardware

i often think about this review

all the kinds of modern Indie Games: -"roguelike" (slot machine) -feelings -unlock/tech tree simulator -"god we hope northernlion plays this" -crunchy first person shooter -morrowind built by a single lunatic

Announcing RAT GAME! 🐀 1 Chef vs 2 to 8 rats - who would win?? A comedy horror co-op game where a team of rats secretly tries to ruin a restaurant while another player tries to stop them…

important #gamedev skill: booting up your prototype, running in circles and free associating experts call this technique "a massive waste of time" and it's a vital part of my process

The free demo for Clover's Quadrants is now live on Steam!!! Link in the replies. The demo has 21 select puzzles from the first three chapters. Expect about an hour of playtime.

COOL BOARDERS UEP SYSTEMS 1997 PLAYSTATION

i realized my game idea is actually two ideas and they're in conflict. i split them out into separate projects and now all these big questions i had are immediately cleared up because i know the priorities of each project unfortunately i now have twice the projects with the same amount of free time

They should invent a toddler who is chill

Lil collab with @batfeula.bsky.social to start the year 📖

on the UFO 50 discord theres a bot command called /randomforme (random for me) thats a daily randomly picked UFO 50 game. i've been using it as a warmup and watercolor practice for some weeks now, so i'm gonna start a thread of em, starting with Day 1: my man, Jangi (Rakshasa)

a very important addition to the moveset: the scooch

I hope they make a billion dollars

I also fervently hope that we can build a better country out of this: a living wage for ALL people. Universal healthcare. Prison for the Nazis in this administration. Free college. Nationwide public transport. Dragon Quest X in the West. Let's use our imaginations!

we need to put all remaining members of the SCTV cast in cryo freeze until a cure for death is invented

it’s a very Colorado Kid memory but i remember sitting on the ski lift talking with my friend about the characters we planned to make. poring over nintendo power screenshots til it came out. sometimes playing split screen but mostly taking hour-long turns until the sun came up. doodling mags

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this meme format is taking over my life

As the Highguard critical convo makes way for whatever's next, this @leadergrev.bsky.social piece is worth (re)reading.

Dragon Warrior (NES - 1989)

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Finished is better than terrible #oldknees

Here's a press roundup for Perfect Tides: Station to Station, 1 day after release. A lot of really kind words! meredithgran.com/perfect-tide... Thanks to everyone who has been talking it up so far. Word of mouth makes a big difference to a game like this.

a JP Brammer column will have you thinking seriously about the topic, no matter how absurd, then blindside you with asides like "the combustible form of the former kings of this planet who in this very breath propel a Toyota Camry through Akron, Ohio"

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

makes my fucking blood boil

we will greet them as liberators

I've had enough.

the eternal question: do i enjoy listening to machine girl or do i just really like neon white

exile: does anyone want anything from the store kreia: the arrogance to consider the store will have "anything" astounds exile: ok does anyone else want anything from the store mandalore: i require a coke, to ensure performance in battle kreia: actually i will also have a coke

when I was 8 or 9, I got really into the poetry of e. e. cummings, so I got a book of his work from the library and copied a bunch of the poems down. my mom found them and thought she had accidentally raised an avante-garde modernist fourth grader and freaked out

another MIVS discovery i really enjoyed this year. lovely skating controls and beautifully done (except those invincible geese that one-shot you and kill your momentum!)

magfest chiprave in the sphere??