apologies if i'm slow to respond to anything rn because i have received approximately fifty million messages over the past 36 hours

Hi. I've been trying but I can't come up with a good thing to write here because the thing I wrote in this steam post took most of my energy.

you've all lost your touch. it's not like the old days

Gamers

two weeks

breaking news: a bad game is not bad forever

this is absolutely true, but the irony is this is also why apple makes the best computers. they detest the machine but they want the person who uses it to be happy

give eva a job imo

you can put a million customization features in your game but unless you literally force the player to mess with it almost all of them will just go with defaults. and before you argue with me i know some of you have an ongoing email thread still called "re: follow up after gdc" that's two years old

i think i would be professionally disappeared by my publisher*

i pronounce it "balks pit"

i'm sorry what

i think the thing that bothers me the most about the gdc rebrand is the implicit push of "GDC" as a non-abbreviatory signifier of itself. it no longer means Game Developer Conference. it just means GDC. GDC means "Festival of Gaming." it's an attempted PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDSification of the conference.

more of a game director job is the same skill as doing improv comedy than any of us would ever like to admit

scratching spoken word vinyl is a great way to convince people you're way better at scratching than you actually are

oh

reminder to any dev with anxiety who obsessively checks ever since they unveiled hour-by-hour wishlist tracking: if you are scared because wishlist deletions seem higher than usual it's just because of the sale. deletions are higher for everyone. good news: the other number is even higher than that

there are a million better options for vocal synth sounds but the Voice Synth preset in Harmor will always be my go to for drafting vocal melodies for the purpose of demonstrating what they should be to other people. because it's very annoying

let the record show that NEWLY HUMAN FEELING, my recent collab with Moe Shop, references a song featuring @rj.dcellgames.com from basically the oldest extant work of mine i still consider canonical, because it samples a dixie flatline song and is thus the first thing i ever made featuring a vocaloid

like i really can't stress enough how weird it fucking feels to have a thing come up on your youtube home page that is designed specifically to target you and you alone personally

Get Fucking Wrecked

i can't believe jamie paige referenced me from 12 years ago in the recent moe shop collab and just waited for it to go off in my face like a proximity mine when i finally listened to it

if you're someone who wants video games as a medium to be taken seriously then you need to make an effort to avoid talking about them using phrases that a guest in rollercoaster tycoon would use

i directed this 1.0 announcement trailer for rhythm doctor; you will notice the word i did not use is "edit," and the reason for that is that the thing i say at the start of this trailer is 100% true (i mean. of course it is, imagine how brazen it would be if it wasn't)

something that I’ve been thinking about since DICE is that a lot of highly skilled devs are subject to management labelling them as ‘difficult’ and sidelining them simply because they point out and want to solve a problem, mismanagement which I think has contributed to a lot of failed projects

i directed this 1.0 announcement trailer for rhythm doctor; you will notice the word i did not use is "edit," and the reason for that is that the thing i say at the start of this trailer is 100% true (i mean. of course it is, imagine how brazen it would be if it wasn't)

i mean, he's right. i gotta be real the only reason the soundtracks i've worked on have been able to be the thing they can be is the full willingness to trust me to follow my idiot heart without questioning

The game Asmongold asked 'Who is this even for?' over. The answer, apparently, is 'everyone but him'.

we'll probably lose this crown the second friday night funkin gets a steam page but this IS pretty neat. anyway, gotta keep going and not think about this

i get why insomniac and marvel present the bub show is what everyone is talking about but SAROS is going to be the best game ever no matter how much sony + housemarque seem like they have no idea how to advertise what's good about it. returnal was in an identical situation and this is More Of That

deltron 3rdy 3rdy real...

i MAY have done a little bit of music for this game

90s game mags would have gone fucking ballistic trying to combine kojima releasing a credit card, a sake, the comment about "sucking" after the DS: mosquito trailer, and the name of the game "OD" into the worst possible headline imaginable

live translation is an impossible job and so i say this without an ounce of blame but i think this guy might have discovered the worst possible way to say "it's so scary you're gonna shit yourself"

sorry am i insane or did hideo kojima just announce a credit card

the else is the best tmbg album and it's not even remotely close

anyway. put gdc in chicago thank you

at this point if you're a famous guy named james the best career move you've got is working for disney and saying something conservatives get mad at

Business 2 Business is the sequel to Jungle 2 Jungle

i take it gdc nights did not do well

one of the only reasons i haven't made a visual novel is that despite loving the telling of stories i kind of hate describing action. which is funny because i have written myself into a lot of dialogue corners where a character tells a story, which means i am just doing that with extra steps anyway

what i'm getting about the last few days is maybe if they renamed palestine "jimmy palestine" it would cause some people to care more

taking a melatonin at the wrong time of day because i'm "playing the long game"

trying desperately to figure out exactly what happened to make the hr giger soap with "awakening" literally in the title something that the ad guys said "this is obviously something to target mainly at straight men" about

Hey puzzle game and VN lovers! Spirit Swap is on sale to celebrate GDoC Expo! We poured our heart and souls into this game AND two of us are trans and trying to escape the US so if this looks like your jam… Please grab it and hopefully give us some runway for a very expensive move. 💕🙏🏼📢 Thank you!

i remember being so impressed with the graphics of starfox adventures as a kid that i would argue it pushed the gamecube hard enough to rival how xbox 360 games looked, which made everyone mad at me. in hindsight i was actually right. not because sfa looks good, but because 360 games look terrible

it's really remarkable how hard Gamera goes for username word replacement jokes. it works for so many things in so many phrases. in this way and literally no other is gamera superior to godzilla

the problem with modern culture is to understand what's going on you need to be exactly online enough. being less online than that and you're confused all the time, being more online than that and you're indistinguishable to the previous group from taz the tasmanian devil

it's still going and it will not stop

:)