This convo I had highlights the difference in what "respect your time" means in games. A lot of players want to trade time for in-game progress. It's purely transactional: 1 hour = 1 progress But I want to feel like my actions matter i.e. what I do with time creates progress, not time itself.

If kids’ schools trained them for work based on what everyone thought the hot new technology was going to be, both my kids would have spent the past several years learning about the blockchain. This is why schools don’t attempt to do workplace training: life is pretty long.

we need to have a better standard for what we take as facts and evidence of something yesterday. if you're going to survive the misinformation age you need to be diligent about verifying everything, almost especially the stuff that reinforces what you already believe.

Oh sick I didn’t realize Steam was developing games all by itself

I mean this in the most earnest way possible. If your points of reference for storytelling all come from cartoons I BEG you to read more books. There’s so much more variety out there, so much that hasn’t been distilled through 80 different hands & a single corporation’s S+P department.

What's funny is this is also the mindset you should have to make good art.

Kids would read more American comics if they were encouraged to crumple, tear, throw them in backpacks and generally beat the hell out of them. Big advantage of manga and scholastic ogns is that they’re sturdy and no adult is telling you to delicately put them in a plastic sleeve in a cool dark box.

an underappreciated skill in game design is "lying to players." games only exist in a player's mind!! you can change the nature of the game without changing its core logic by just telling players that the logic is something different!!

I'm trying to comment on this without being hyperbolic. As a manager, insisting on deadlines that you and your ICs straight up don't believe are possible almost GUARANTEES that a) their work will be thrown out or completely redone and b) you will put them in danger of burning out.

Hoping this drives midjourney into the dirt and sets genAI back a thousand years. But the real fight is going to be rewriting copyright law and redefining personal ownership. It’s happening right now and it’s a fight where corporations are emphatically NOT on our side.

People and media often say Balatro was made by 'one guy'. I feel like that unfortunately may be stoking the flames of this David vs. Goliath narrative a tiny bit No it was not 'one guy', look at the dang in-game credits

Mario Kart World absolutely rules but it is such a bummer that there's no local multiplayer in Free Roam. That was the thing my kids were most excited about.

earthsea

free advice for game developers: try to make the next smash hit video game, such as grand theft auto. if you do, you'll be making more than just a video game – you'll be making millions of dollars

休日のアニメーション習作 お嬢さん、、お父さんのバットは長すぎない？ 好きこそ物の上手なれ。 頑張れ、、、、！！ #animation #walkcycle #runcycle #sakuga #callipeg

I’ve been following this game for a while now, it looks *incredible* Go play the demo and chip in if you’re able!

I really loved Sea of Stars. It’s propulsive and focused in a way many recent 2D RPGs haven’t been and that aspect really clicked for me.

anyway here's the email I sent to jim bankoff last week. i'm still heartbroken. I have been insanely, destructively angry for weeks, and I think I will be for a long time.

*trips and drops her upcoming Kickstarter campaign on you www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia... Ohmygod I'm so sorry, at least it's just 4 little zines! No harm no foul right? Maybe you'd like to sign up to be notified when it launches? 🫶

One of the most deeply embarrassing things I’ve ever seen. www.404media.co/star-wars-sh...

Not looking great! Completely devoid of charm and color, sacrificing style and whimsy for fidelity??? For some reason???

I thought this was Joe from Princess Diaries

No thanks

"Do you know the meaning of the word foreboding?"

Sometimes I just sit and think about how the only sequel Miyazaki was ever confirmed to be developing was for Ponyo.

$80 gets you Elden Ring: Nightreign, Blue Prince, and REPO.

Do not fall for the lies of c-suites. Not making enough money for endless growth goons is not “inherently unprofitable.” Media is very challenging, yes, but the vultures want you to believe these layoffs are inevitable and necessary.

Incredible piece from Brendon, and I have to echo this bit specifically:

all the executive freaks managing successful games media institutions need to do is nothing and they still manage to fuck that up

Just devastating

I have designed a fair amount of box art, I know how it goes, but this is insanity. There HAS to be a better option.

My letter to the @theguardian.com on the META theft of our work. Will be in the physical paper tomorrow. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Truly can’t stop thinking about how the Russos have blown nearly a billion dollars at Netflix and yet the trades can’t stop hand-wringing about a $90m blockbuster that is actually making money.

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✨ New Video! ✨ Blue Prince certainly doesn’t seem to be for everybody, but it sure is for me. Here’s my review: youtu.be/W-IO4R8jxds I hope it manages to capture the feeling of playing the game in some way. 😘

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

Blue Prince is incredible. I haven’t stopped playing this weekend, it is taking up every free bit of brain space I have. I have eight pages of notes that look like the scrawlings of a mad man.

Laura is incredible!

1 - Nothing 2 - Absolutely Nothing 3-20 - Seriously, not a thing

Truly can’t wait to play Blue Prince. I haven’t been this excited for a game in a while, and I didn’t know it existed two weeks ago!

DREAD 🐙⚡

Nausicaa // watercolors and ink

Star Wars

Looking at all of these gorgeous new Nintendo games makes me feel like Pokemon art direction was cursed by the anime 30 years ago and it will never recover.

This redesign is incredible. Love how much they've been pushing their characters lately, starting with Mario Wonder

I have been waiting SO long for a game to pick up what SSX3 was doing with stringing individual tracks together into one big race. I am so glad it's Mario Kart!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pE2...

Welp, I guess this is the new normal

It just keeps going!!!