i forgot that character creation in battlespire is basically variations of "your dad"

this month i've focused on writing wiki articles for 19 pc games from 1997: anything from franchise duds, like the elder scrolls spinoff 'battlespire' or ill-fated maxis 'streets of simcity', to sublime art games like theresa duncan's 'zero zero' or chris marker's 'immemory'. i kinda love this era

just published 'SO WHAT ARE U INTO???' on itch.io. it's a little experimental sim where you build a town filled with little guys that make friends and start gangs. it's like having sea monkeys that fight over cool hats #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev hypertelex.itch.io/sowhatareuinto

the 'big three' mental health outlets working for me atm - drink chai in cafe and write about games - walk up a big hill in middle of nowhere - listen to music / gigs what are yours?

Home stretch for developing my latest game, 'SO WHAT ARE U INTO???'. Here's the main menu music that I made this evening - #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

i love trawling gay geocities via geocities.restorativland.org. it's so weird to see a little window into queer people developing a comfortable online outlet, being sweet, vulnerable, horny or completely feral over 25 years ago. i guess all these people are mostly in their 70s now

attempting to explain the hd-dvd/blu-ray format war with the same wistful register as an old man remembering the days of betamax

playing and writing about the game 'koala lumpur - journey to the edge' (1997) which isn't very good but features a big titty muscle demon with a bubble butt for no particular reason

nothing to post or announce just hope u are having a good day tgit

the bananas in pyjamas scared the shit out of me as a child. i disliked them immensely. they have no reason to exist. the lyrics distressingly say that they aim to chase and capture the teddy bears. they are filled with potassium and hatred. they must be destroyed

saw the mountain goats. fucking great. double encore. people whooping and cheering and singing along to acoustic ballads about dying, collecting knives, playing dnd. five stars

spent the weekend writing an adventure game and morrowind fangame that recreates the morrowind dialog ui from scratch in the form of a purely text-based adventure game. coming along well! i haven't written interactive fiction in ages #gamedev #indiedev #morrowind #indiegame

creating a 2026 music thread to keep me accountable on all the music i am desparately catching up on. if you like alternative, post-punk, neo-psychedelia it might be your thing too. check it out:

came across a pretty incredible collection of recordings of live shows over the 80s and 90s from a guy that went to over 10,000 gigs and recorded them all. life goals tbh archive.org/details/@aad...

"easter tuesday" - the day where all the health conscious colleagues at the office offload all the chocolate eggs they recieved as gifts by dumping them on desks, breakroom counters, kitchens

thank you to whichever nsw bureaucrat justified the costings to get power plugs into mariyung d set intercity trains. i am a train guy only specifically for this one thing now

Getting back into geocaching. You find little caches people have hidden at GPS co-ordinates and write your name on it. There's like a million of them around. It's a nice excuse to go for a hike

on a 1997 game binge so playing the LucasArts game Curse of Monkey Island

bimbo husband? that sounds freakin awesome! who wouldn't want a big titty bimbo husband who is (looks at news) oh. no. no, not like that

doing a capitalism at work

obscure thing that AI killed: the "i forced a bot to watch 1000 hours of X and it generated this humorous script that is obviously just a joke written by me" meme

being social and connected comes really hard to me, idk if its an avoidant thing. its like a full time job. you blink for one moment and then realise you haven't reached out to anyone in months

staving off the void by playing, researching and writing the article for Laurie Anderson's 1995 game Puppet Motel. it's a shadowy fever dream of early interactive multimedia and part of a surprisingly large genre of "musician makes surreal experimental cd-rom in the mid 90s"

trying to find the confidence to pull a singlet off. it helps with PT and drumming

Getting back into writing articles for 90s games. Finding obscure ones is fun, but nothing beats moving down nazis in Wolfenstein 3D

i love DILFs (dreamlike and intruiguing lynchian films)

doing some soundtracking stuff

Morning for it!

having a manic episode and discovered threejs so tinkering around with an idea for a game where you take a charter flight across the world in the 30s idk

RISING festival program and ticketing is out. Heading down to Melb in June to see Wednesday and Cate Le Bon, and Tortoise, Stereolab and The Beta Band on the side. There is so much music to look forward to

spent the day redoing my little photography/gig diary blog to be a bit more interactive. it's been fun having a little outlet for all my photography stuff and been fun to design it like a gig poster gigdiary.neocities.org

used the long weekend to start a little social sim / incremental game called SO WHAT ARE U INTO??? where you create a town of guys who have weird interests, start gangs and fight each other over them. there can only be one Hat Gang #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #indiegame

Fired up my old iPod Touch which is still working despite having not touched it since about 2014. Dream pop jumpscare

I'm obsessed with shitty 2000s dance-punk; an offshoot of my favorite genre. It's annoying and danceable and reminds me of mainstream rock radio, watching Video Hits and playing FIFA games as a kid. Welcome recs to make this playlist even worse open.spotify.com/playlist/48C...

morrowind on the bus

you can still visit the sydney monorail website. unlike the monorail itself, they never took it down for some reason www.metromonorail.com.au

such a good feeling when your fav band are returning to australia after six years

starting out a website that collates all the weird links, cool sites and memories of the internet i've saved up over the years - part time capsule, part aggregator, part research. why not, right? whatwebwas.com #internet #webdesign #website

imagining a world where mobile browsers never took off and web design continued to use sprawling exploratory newspaperlike layouts

saw TOPS. they were really good onstage and fun to see an intl band play at an intimate venue like a suburban cafe. cop if you like magdalena bay style sugary pop with a seventies soft rock bent

when life gives you nothing, make nothingade

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Incredible and inspiring! I asked ChatGPT to create a caricature of me based on all the data it harvested about my personal life and here's the amazing image it came up with

robyn sexistential tour dates sexistential tour sydney robyn sexistential tour gay robyn gay icon??? how many gays at robyn tour should i go see robyn if i am gay what does sexistential mean will i find god at robyn tour 2026 is robyn god

me praying for capital gains tax discount reform

is it normal to get intrusive thoughts but for things your brain has dormantly stored for 20+ years like this 1987 dinosaur vhs music video i almost certainly haven't seen since i was like 8 years old but still know the lyrics to somehow youtu.be/fNeAINi9omo?...

wow they finally made a horror game about my sex life

I'm caffeine intolerant due to autonomic dysfunction and order decaf anyway because I have no self preservation instinct. It backfires 3% of the time and I accidentally drink a real one and freak out. This doesn't stop me from continuing to order it every day

people from other countries love it when you, an australian, call them mate. its like free camaradierie. everyone enjoys it and it takes no effort