The danish for spooky (or uncanny) is "uhygge" - not cosy

I've been pretty excited for Sea of Rifts as a big fan of Sunless Sea and Dredge! Love to assemble a motley crew.

Oh hey, my great-granddad was a keeper on that lighthouse

The lakes poets would all do great on bluesky, except Wordsworth, who'd be a LinkedInfluencer

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

Here's a shot I worked on for the #Dinolords 🦖 #closedalpha 👾 #trailer 👀 I don't really have anything smart to say about it, I'm just generally mostly glad with how it turned out. 😄 #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #games #rts #arpg #3d #fun #steam #dkgame #medieval #vikings #dinosaurs #england

Finished Saint of Bright Doors yesterday (everyone should listen to @catacalypto.bsky.social's book recs) and he makes a formal move about 3/4 of the way through that made put the book down for a minute. An incredible, terrifying novel.

We just released the demo for Sea of Rifts, our systems-driven naval roguelike RPG! Take the helm as Captain, assemble a motley crew, and engage in tense, ship-to-ship combat as you explore a shattered reality. RimWorld meets Sunless Sea, with a dash of Dredge thrown in ⛵🐙 youtu.be/qh2nfllI8fg?...

OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE* WHAT 😱 Mind Diver is our first game. We're a tiny team. I'm crazy proud of our work: an intimate game we dearly wanted to exist. But we've had almost no press and few streams, so THANK YOU for the words-of-mouth 😭 *in Recent Reviews, but still, wtf🫣 #gamedev #steam #games

As Long As You're Here is out now!!! We've been chipping away at this game since 2018, so for most of my adult life I've been meeting weekly with some of my closest friends to work on it. I think we made something pretty special about a topic close to our hearts, so please check it out!

Our emotional narrative game from the POV of a woman with Alzheimer’s is out NOW! ❤️‍🩹🎉😱 Get ‘As Long As You’re Here’ (and review!): tinyurl.com/3935hep4 So much love & hard work has gone into this game for years. We hope the experience will stay with you ❤️ Share this & help us gain visibility! 🫶

locked in for this one, I'm absolutely convinced it will rock my socks off. an emotional story about dementia by talented and kind Danish game devs. buy and review day one!! only way to do it really

It’s launch day and we’re at the top of Popular Upcoming! 🥹❤️🎉 Wish us luck - we’re pushing the button on ‘As Long As You’re Here’ at 4PM CET! 🎉🎉🎉 Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3309750/...

We had a fun one on Sea of Rifts where the player character could have a Disco Elysium moment and abandon their own ship

Regional elections going on in Denmark right now, and there's a marked difference between the left-wing parties' positions (affordability, environment, solidarity with Palestine) and the right's (more parking spaces)

The Scunthorpe Problem strikes again!

Sea of Rifts, the game that I did icon design and a bit of concepts for, now has a free demo! If it sounds like something for you, go try it out 🙌✨🦑

Announcing that Rhythm Doggo has a steam page now! It'd be super helpful if you wishlist it! store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/... Key art by @1neila1.bsky.social

If you just caught Alexander Birke and Sofie Kjær Schmidt's amazing talk on tech art for Sea of Rifts, make sure to also check out their newly released demo that's part of this year's Roguelike Celebration Steam sale! store.steampowered.com/app/4083620/...

In about an hour I'll be presenting on procedural keepsake games at @roguelike.club!

This is a very Danish topic for sure!

RS for #dkgame

The captain-your-own-ship-and-crew -in-eldritch-waters game that I did icon design and a bit of concepts for, now has a demo! If it sounds like something for you, go try it out 🙌✨🦑

The Sea of Rifts is a cool ass idea turned into a cool ass game, made by some cool people. The demo is free, so why don't you head over to the steam page and check it out! 🏴‍☠️⚓⛵🛥️.....🚢 ⁉️ #games #gamedev #dkgame #captain #fun #pirate #ship #steam #demo #roguelike #rpg #indie #indiegame

Something interesting about the lack of intentionality/authorship when it comes to GenAI. If you were designing a nightmare where an operator was reliving a failure in a subway, this could be interesting. But that's not what it is, because there isn't any intention behind these

What's it like inside your head?

We just released the demo for Sea of Rifts, our systems-driven naval roguelike RPG! Take the helm as Captain, assemble a motley crew, and engage in tense, ship-to-ship combat as you explore a shattered reality. RimWorld meets Sunless Sea, with a dash of Dredge thrown in ⛵🐙 youtu.be/qh2nfllI8fg?...

I really like Kitfox's recent push to group these games together under the megasim/sickos game umbrella. There's something really useful in defining a game "genre" in terms of the feelings you want to evoke in the player, not just pure mechanics/aesthetics

If we're doing unhinged, the deaths of Ann Quin and B S Johnson were the worst things to happen to English literature in the 20th century

CHOTINER: So you're attending a No Kings protest today. ME: That's right. CHOTINER: But according to Steam, you've played over 450 hours of Crusader Kings 3. ME: Okay, well- Now hold on. That's sort of unfair. CHOTINER: Oh? ME: Sometimes I play as a duke or a count. CHOTINER: I see.

the dark, satanic mill of the present is the data center, perhaps more heinous than those blake encountered because they are now built to produce nothing but their own effluent

Twice!

EXTREMOPHILE is probably the best book I've read this year and, if you're quick, you can make it the best book you read this year

I have a theory that when designing a social simulation / generator, it can be useful to keep in mind a story you’d like your system to be able to organically generate. not every system should generate the same story but I have a short list of high-salience interesting stories I reach for. (1/2)

#gamedev 🎮 #dkgame : Yesterday I went to the Danish bi-monthly event "Dev ➤ Test ➤ Repeat" and took some pictures and played some games. If you are in or around Copenhagen, come be part of it next time! It's free and you get pizza! mads.blog/dev-test-rep... #indie #games #copenhagen #denmark

Sea of Rifts, my current gig, is very much a sickos game and this quote is a much better worded version of how I describe my narrative design work on it (I usually say I get the player to do the hard work of constructing a story for me)

Authority - Jeff VanderMeer

William Gibson voice:

Keir Starmer teams up with suspicious, abusive neckbeard and disgraced customs official, Mark Carney, in a new podcast which promises to be as shitty as you're imagining it to be.

Decided to take the "Big Switch" prompt for #inkJam literally and make a game with... A big (light) switch. Took some time implementing it in Godot, but happy with the tech - now to write the damn thing

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Decided to take the "Big Switch" prompt for #inkJam literally and make a game with... A big (light) switch. Took some time implementing it in Godot, but happy with the tech - now to write the damn thing

worldbuilding: it's easy and fun

All the -OTUS initialisms sound like one of Immortan Joe's kids you only find out about in the Mad Max game

Today I made an important contribution to humanity: uquiz.com/gaDdV2

Reading The Name of the Rose and someone should make a game based on it! Maybe set it during the reformation, that's a bit more accessible than poverty doctrine and you get the rise of printing, and Germany is a bit more interesting than Italy... maybe shift the perspective to a layperson...

And the rest was made up by some victorian guys who couldn't get into the freemasons

There's no reason to take any reporting about Tyler Robinson at face value right now. Countless officials, law enforcement agencies, politicians, influencers, and reporters have been wrong, hoaxed, or caught making things up. Social media is making us all crazy and stupid.

We are making a game. It’s about rebellion. And birds.

Reaching out to my union to ask if it's legal for my boss to make me work the day after Silksong comes out