"There are no games about friendship instead of violence" I don't know, man. There's an entire organization called Digital Thriving that is all about this. Papers. Examples. Conferences. Talks. So many games. So many designers. Literally a career. lostgarden.com/2025/03/22/w...

I’ve called this tree the witch’s tree for many years. I visit her often.

Added a few more layers to my paint materials and spent some time having fun with some stencils! I think its starting to come together 🤞 #gamedev #GameArt

At long last, I have one unified shader so every surface can receive snow in a noisy pattern, limited by surface normal, blended via an (optional) heightmap, and reduced by both baked and dynamic heat sources

Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is stay soft in a world that keeps asking you to harden up. Pay attention to what steadies you — a quiet moment, a voice, a song — and keep those things close. They ain’t escapes; they’re anchors.

“Breaking news: Renowned composer Philip Glass…” *Oh no…* “…withdraws from Kennedy Center.” *Fuck yeah*

Many members of the international games industry are skipping the 2026 Game Developers Conference because of the growing ICE presence and other concerns.

I went to the weird Dune-esque palaeontology museum in Fujian (福建省英良石材自然历史博物馆) 🧵

game design is about super-positioning and becauses learning how to make a level that is secretly seven different levels at once, overlaid on itself, so people w different approaches can find their own way through learning how to make a level that gives people a "because"...i went this way BECAUSE

One of the best organizers I know in the Twin Cities has a great line, "We can't always take away the hurt, but we can take away the alone."

with all the crazy shit going on in the American Century of Humiliation, I gotta watch like 8+ hours of people making things to ground myself today. post your favorite crafting, construction, art timelapse, making whatever video.

If you’re outside of Minnesota and you’re wondering how to help, this guide is excellent. And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.

A lovely afternoon spent wandering through the botanic gardens and nerding out at the herb garden while my husband sat on a bench and patiently waited for me to tire myself out 🌼

Can you make a high fantasy elven ship in my little procgen ship builder. looks like it. #screenshotsaturday.

Oh hey, @boingboing.net covered us! Thanks!

New essay (no ads or paywall): "Letters in the Mouth." On generative AI, delegated action, and what happens when responsibility withdraws while systems keep speaking. The golem still helps explain failure when creator custody erodes. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

“Inical, Initeocal in Huitzilopochtli” The House and Temple of Huitzilopochtli - Commissioned by Trey the Explainer. This is my interpretation of the sanctuary of Huitzilopochtli, one of two magnificent chapels that once crowned the Great Temple of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. 🧵⬇️

Hey folks in the path of the polar vortex! Stay warm, be safe, and if you're out in the snow and you hear giggling, keep an eye on your keys and other valuables. Don't let the Dosadaag prank you!

If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.

Grant opportunity for all my lovely trans folks! www.upliftingtransfund.org/our-2026-gra...

TOMORROW: Join us for a knitting & crochet circle this Saturday to escape the frigid temperatures and help us make hats, gloves, & scarves for our mutual aid hub!

Minneapolis if you are cold or hungry from the march or just want to sit for a bit, some friends just dropped off chicken biryani and several liters of chai at @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social.

Your daily fortune: The future looks cloudy. Grab some cosmic glass cleaner and try again later.

[AD/gifted] We're checking out @inkle.co's brand new game, TR-49! Let's go crack some codes and be proper book nerds 👀 twitch.tv/lomadiah youtube.com/live/5VhUZo-...

One of the reasons I LOVE games/movies/anime/comics with historical figures in them (even the really inaccurate ones like Sengoku Basara or Fate) is because it spurs me on to go look up the real history of the actual person. Spent some time learning about Zheng Chenggong tonight. Fascinating stuff!

I don't know how to explain to you how emotionally moving I am finding the list of places participating in the general strike tomorrow. Hey, look, there's a place I've had lunch with my brother...I've been there on a date...we go there all the time...that's the last place I went before Covid....

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

Okay I finished @inkle.co's TR-49 (Minus the last few very secret achievements) and I can say it's fantastic... a beautifully structured mystery that weaves in audio drama, database thriller, and hypertext fiction. You must play it.

small flowers #3d #blender3d

thanks to @ricklane.bsky.social for talking to me and other modders. sorry not-sorry for the ludicrous headline quote btw credit to @asponge.bsky.social who coined “concrete murderzones” years ago to describe QBJ1 and it stuck in my head all these years

My week is dark so here is some cool videos to bright things up! I enhanced the "wobble world" effect to feature bigger shakes and affect pollution and liquids now. This will be important for narration and cutscenes! #gamedev #indiegame

Working on something new, early blockout, want to make something entirely from scratch without any concepts to polish my level design abilities 😄 #unrealengine

I run into people all the time who want to help, but don't know how to do so within their own capabilities and life circumstances. Everyone can contribute, in many different ways, and it's all needed and appreciated

There's a creative problem I've been wrestling with for about 6 months and I finally solved it by removing a single element that I'd been stubbornly insisting upon. With that one piece removed, everything else fell right into place. So satisfying.

Another in a series of humiliating losses for pen against its longtime rival sword.

some bits of wisdom from tunglr

Genius is in simplicity. This is a rule that I learned in childhood. Complex structures are made up of simple things. It is logical. The main thing is to gain experience in decomposing. That's why I show mostly simple examples on various #gamedev topics www.youtube.com/@alienmax-re...

How to get into nature.

Brain bad, but I can fix it by freezing out in the cold woods and catching glimpses of the aurora through skeletal trees

I love it when we all stay up late having fun together in our jammies with our little snacks

As someone who skates... this has my attention 👀

Last night looking south in Alaska. Crazy stuff.

Yes, but I think my framework about it is different. I feel the dread too, trust me, but I also feel the joy, whimsy, etc, because I’ve unintentionally cultivated it as an unexpectedly durable and sustainable form of resistance.

i have never wanted anything as hard as i now want to smoke the dial-up noise

I made a rock material over the weekend. #substancedesigner

museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go

Rain World (Videocult, 2017)

Really, REALLY cool free ebook of some incredible pieces of Italian Renaissance armor and such: www.metmuseum.org/met-publicat...