Did you know? @didyouknowgaming.com

Just to clarify on & respond to some messages we received recently; - People asked us to move our social links on the site to a more prominent position. Functionality is our focus, we are unlikely to move things if it distracts. - We are addressing tags to improve their functionality. - X sucks.

Interesting email came through... They already responded with, essentially "lol no" - perhaps a debate will productively bring about an opportunity for change. I doubt anyone involved in the discussion will have a clue what they're talking about, however.

In case you missed it, a new @didyouknowgaming.com dropped today on newly translated Gamecube facts, narrated by @dazz.spriters-resource.com , written by Dr. Lava and edited by yours truly. Funnily enough, the Gamecube released 24 years ago today (Japan time). www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGhd...

Well, it took a while but I'm happy to say that things seem to be stable once more! Everything barring data submitted after midnight Eastern last night has been successfully restored and the sites are no longer running at a crawl. Thank you all for your patience!

Completed Death Stranding 2. Loved every moment.

Now that the big project of remastering the Spriters Resource is done, it's time to maintain the huge influx of new contributions, then take a break. Hello to all the new followers, love to all of the kindness from old friends, and apologies if you haven't heard the word but we kicked the ass.

Today I'm reminded of my experience getting WiFi on a flight for the first time. Everyone was so excited, but the flight attendant reported it wasn't working. People were audibly angry and complained, asking for refunds. They didn't even know they were getting it, but were angry it didn't work.

Did a good job

Prelaunch beer to calm the nerves. Heading back on shortly to finish writing up a few bits so I don't have to during the launch! Celebrate!

6 hours. Live in 5. Don't forget to follow us on Twitch for the live celebration! twitch.tv/TheSpritersR...

10 hours to go. You might all be excited, and so are we, but it's impossible to express all of the emotions of today. More than anything, I just hope we can make your lives a little brighter :)

Exciting!

I love it when a plan comes together.

It's finally time to announce that the new version of The Spriters Resource and its sister sites will launch on August 23rd, 12pm EST / 7pm BST! To celebrate, we will be streaming on launch day, so be sure to come along and say hello. More info can be found on the home page.

We will have an announcement for you later. It's good news.

Had a small break while Dazz attended the Timeless Convention in Liverpool, but progress is still going steady. We will be performing some tests over the next 2 days, the results of which will determine what comes next. If all goes to plan, expect to hear some news on Saturday.

On the cusp of incredible things. Publicity has always been my weakest skill - I hate vaingloriously pushing my shit on people. But I think I've learned a lot this last year. I've heard a lot too, and after 25 years of proverbially punching myself in the face, I'm starting to evade the fists.

Hanging out in Liverpool for Timeless Convention. Seems like a really lovely city!

We threw our logo up over the airport of Norwich on wplace, Dazz's home city. Why not check it out? wplace.live?lat=52.68426... Seeing all of these sprite recreations across the globe is crazy - and our traffic jumping 30% even more so! If only our new site was out, it'd be easier for people!

Seeing people redraw sprites over the world map on wplace is craaaazy. People from my home city using my website without knowing I'm from the city, people expressing their passions on a global scale... What a beautiful experiment!

whenever I chat as TheSpritersResource on Twitch, people are always stoked, but none know I'm involved in DidYouKnowGaming as well. weird being called a legend or famous by people cause I don't feel it at all.

UPDATE: We're very close to completion of our migration script. New site is complete & ready for deployment once the migration script is complete. We have to finish migrating our log and code to merge users with submitters. No guarantees, but... maybe a month to finish? Expect more news soon!

I will never get over George Miller's filmography. Made the Mad Max franchise, then decided to move on... to make Babe, and then Happy Feet, only to return to Mad Max again.

Boundless, the shitty attempt from Unbound to continue stealing their authors money but under a different name, has ceased. It's over. Still never got 99% of the money for our book. Still dealing with getting remaining stock. Still pissed off. I'll get back to not being angry with the world soon.

Well, apparently Boundless is shutting down, not that Unbound authors are actually learning this information directly. I guess I need to get moving on finding new homes for Gender Euphoria, Who Hunts The Whale, and Things I Learned From Mario's Butt.

We've not posted a clip of the new mobile browsing experience in a while. As you can see, we're nearly finished! Please enjoy this short demonstration of the mobile experience, including site app switching! Still no firm release date. Potentially only a few weeks though! Exciting!

Turns out, people are just scanning Norman Reedus's face in Death Stranding 2 to bypass age verification. Should we have connected?

As part of our relaunch celebration, we'd love to hear from influential pixel art & gaming space creators, giving space in our launch stream to share words about what Spriters Resource means to them! Let us know who you'd like to see join us. Let's make the launch an event to remember!

Our new site avoids DMs stored on our server by passing emails anonymously. This, I believe, avoids us providing contact in place of email providers. Does this pass responsibility onto email providers? It would be seemingly impossible to maintain for them, as it is us as independent webmasters.

The UK Online Safety Act has to be one of the worst, most ill-considered ideas we've put forward in a fair while. The reasons it is ridiculous are plentiful and exceptionally easy to establish. Considering safety is in the name, it is grossly unsafe.

Sign the petition, write to your MP and spread the word I know it seems like a losing battle but I got to hope if enough of us make our voices known before the country gets excised form the internet we might be able to save a little bit of our freedom petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

The UK Online Safety Act has to be one of the worst, most ill-considered ideas we've put forward in a fair while. The reasons it is ridiculous are plentiful and exceptionally easy to establish. Considering safety is in the name, it is grossly unsafe.

Incredible gig tonight @cheekface.bsky.social - thank you so much for joining us in our humble city of Norwich. It was an extreme delight!

Just saw super man. Was a super movie.

Having a chat on MAGG's Twitch, talking some games and stuff, come along, say hello, etc. www.twitch.tv/middleagedga...

Having a chat on MAGG's Twitch, talking some games and stuff, come along, say hello, etc. www.twitch.tv/middleagedga...

An enlightening day hearing from authors who published with Unbound. Things are moving forward to find some justice, with some members (myself included) forming a committee to bring evidence against them. Not entirely sure I can speak publicly, so apologies if I don't mention this for a while.

For those who don't know, websites have a thing called "robots.txt" that essentially tell search engines how to browse the site - preventing them from hitting the dark mode button on every page, for example. Many AIs just straight up ignore it. It's becoming a big fucking problem.

What even is this show anymore?

When YouTube started we followed ideal standards from TV. Over the years, creators took the worse parts & ran with them. Now shorts are so far removed from standards it's unsafe. On TV, "Don't try this at home" is vital. Online, algorithms push the same behaviour to kids & almost encourage trying it

When YouTube started we followed ideal standards from TV. Over the years, creators took the worse parts & ran with them. Now shorts are so far removed from standards it's unsafe. On TV, "Don't try this at home" is vital. Online, algorithms push the same behaviour to kids & almost encourage trying it

Well, so far, sweat and tears have gone into creating the new Spriters Resource. I'm sure the blood will come soon enough.

I was so excited for 28 Years Later... Felt like a huge fucking whiff to me. Started so strong as a film then it felt like they gave up on the editing half way through. Just failed to hit any of the beats for me.

Opinion: How much forewarning do you think we should give before the relaunch? We will need to close new submissions, and prevent user data change, before we process the change. Will still be several weeks from now, but we want to ensure it doesn't hit as a huge surprise.

Tried walking to the office to stream but found myself sloshing along, after my physical form turned liquid. Apologies.

Say so long to the old icons for our 4 sites; we have designed new icons for the sites on our renovated version. Farewell to the "a letter on a colored square" era of favicons. You served us well for almost 15 years!

Looks like the rise of the "ban teenagers from social media" commentary is coming. People who make these policies really need to define wtf they are talking about. What the fuck is social media? A forum? A video service? A chat room? A comment section? Blogs? Livejournal? Fucking Habbo Hotel?

Still no ETA, but we've hit a major milestone in our revamp. No more adding of features. Now we need to finish some scripts to move our old content over and populate our tagging system. Some minor tweaks will be made along the way, but we are definitely relaunching this year!