guy commissioning a bust of himself: how will you determine the shipping charges me: weigh a head of you

"I never asked for this"

here is a @jakesteinberg.substack.com with a sophisticated reminder about lore's capacity to obfuscate rather than illuminate jakesteinberg.substack.com/p/kill-your-...

Huge congrats to @blueprincegame.bsky.social winning Best Design at the Game Developer’s Choice Awards. Well deserved, and couldn’t have gone to a nicer developer. 💙💙💙

I have a new piece up at @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social — it’s about when I got hacked in Dark Souls 2, used hacker tools to unhack myself, and then talked to my hacker years later

GDC's 2026 IGF winner calls out U.S. cruelty at home and abroad

SOLAS 128, very clever puzzle game that pushes the “laser bounce off walls” so much further store.steampowered.com/app/1257850/.... See also the words of @botherer.bsky.social about it: buried-treasure.org/2021/02/sola...

There’s a great little video that explains how they fixed this one without having to change the actual graphics: m.youtube.com/watch?v=dUkL...

this is beautiful :’)

wait no this is actually incredible youraislopbores.me

reading the news

This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

I have been replaying Iji (2008). when I first played this game back in 2009 it was the coolest thing ever. I remembered it having some very 2000s edge and went in expecting it to show its age. happy to report young me was right and this is the coolest game ever

I've seen your steam backlogs. Many of you should be hosting a Previous Fest.

no reason, they just liked they way a triangle looked. it replaced their very first logo that some random guy handed their co-founder one day in 1926 and then left without ever giving his name corp.canadiantire.ca/CT-100-Logo-...

New Game : Aukeratu Turkiarra (HTML5) games.increpare.com/Aukeratu_Tur...

oh hey come on in i'll be right with you *returns to beating a lanky, awkward man in a comical hat with my walking stick* addlepate! ignoramus! not since nimrod himself has folly been visited upon poor mortality! with your misplacement of the amulet, cur, the widow's portion will be in escrow locked

Most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as: “One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.”

People say it's too hard to cook at home and I say maybe you just aren't trying hard enough

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

Times article has an incredible illustration

"Improve pace of play, free agency, and fan engagement by having a 1/40,000 chance the umpire shoots the batter" still is one of the best shitposts I've ever seen www.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

you've chosen MIDDLE II difficulty. - enemy damage is REDUCED to 90% - health potions spawn SELDOM - mana potions spawn CONSTANTLY - gym fees are MANUALLY cancellable - you CANNOT get pregnant - ULTRA GREG will not spawn until dusk

learning about game dev

Please do not confuse Horses 2025 (2026) with HORSES (2025).

good post

Most people have no idea how big South America really is

i will never cop for the new era of large language model gen ai. but the old era of advanced curated markov chain gen ai, such as drilbot, was very good. and nobody did it like Deep Leffen

Continuing to work on Glimmer. Most magical spells will sit and wait for you to pick them up, but some are a bit flightier... #glimmer #gamedev #puzzlegames

Missing from this imo is how drastically it all changes with the scale of the numbers involved. If you aren't likely to sell big numbers in the first place you're better off pricing out the people who only buy at low prices since they're also the ones who aggressively refund and write shit reviews

I love Onfim

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

immigration is good. immigrants are human beings that deserve happiness. thats it. everything else is bullshit meant to distract you from looking up at your bosses making 400x your wage.

the tactical nexus steam newsletter is worth the price of admission entirely by itself. these are all images from the same news post

Attachment issues

Me, during Zoom meeting: I want to eat the constellations. My boss (eyes turning black): You'll have to kill them first.

Playing around with a Tudor-inspired wall tile for Glimmer! Didn't really turn out the way I'd hoped, but I should be able to find some use for them somewhere, eventually. #glimmer #gamedev #voxelart

Metapost: if I want to start a dev log thread for my game, what's the best Bluesky format? Should I actually set it up as a thread (would responses show up for followers?), or should I just make individual posts with a hashtag, or..?

store.steampowered.com/app/2535390/... I'm making a game! (Again!)

store.steampowered.com/app/2535390/... I'm making a game! (Again!)

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

quite frankly, i'd recommened it even at -11% sale... yes... I'd pay $2 more! perhaps even more than that...

sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣

Two-story outhouse Gays, IL

New blog post (and email newsletter): azhdarchid.com/designing-fo...