After a decade in the games industry, I'm finally on my way to Tokyo Game Show next week for the first time ever 🛫🗼 Who else will I be seeing there? What should I know before I go?

This giant head is literally the largest reason I don't contribute more to #opensource software in the evening. So if you are waiting on a review from me on Agones particularly, just know that I may have lost my lap and access to a laptop to a snoring boerboel.

In our recent @discord.com Developers talk, we were joined by several fantastic product folks to step you through how you remove the development rate limits on the Discord Social SDK. Check out the recording below 👇🏻 youtu.be/AlGrtgnCFc4...

I forgot to post these photos from #devcom a few weeks ago. Just another awesome game server implementation on top of Agones! 🥳 Definitely seeing a bunch of Karpenter combined with Agones these days 🤔🔨

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Thursday 12pm US PST I'm hosting two of our product team members on the Discord Developers Server to step through the requirements for removing development rate limits for the Social SDK Communication Features. Come join and bring your questions! 👇🏻 discord.gg/discord-d...

I think I'm trapped in Gamescom. Is the game trying to leave? I've left before. I think? Maybe I never left

It's day 214 at Gamescom. You've become fused to a game controller. Your physical presence is in quantum singularity between the Radisson and the Business Cafe inside the convention centre. All you can say now is "Trade pass?" as you pass through turnstiles for eternity.

Do you need a Discord Duck? Come to my #Devcom talk! bizcommunity.gamesco...

Need more YouTube content? Want to see my face more? 😆 Today we launched the @discord.com Developers YouTube channel! We've got tutorials for your Discord server, case studies with studios using the Social SDK, and 2025 GDC talks 👇🏻

Excited to be sitting down with Ashley Cook from Facepunch Studios to discuss how and why Rust implemented Discord’s social infrastructure to bring Discord features to their game at #devcom in a few weeks! Details: 👇🏻 bizcommunity.gamesco...

Check out (and pls share) our GIG Guide to Gamescom! thegig.guide/gamescom Whether its your first or fifteenth time at the show, we've put together a helpful document to navigate both the event and the city of Cologne. Featuring tips, tricks, advice, and discounts!

I fell over and now I seem to be attempting to build deb packages for Hyprland.

👋🏻 I'll be at #devcom, speaking at "Powering Social Connections: Discord’s Social SDK" (details to come!) and at #gamescom 📨 DM me if you want to chat about Discord and/or the Social SDK, OSS, backends for multiplayer games, Agones, or we can just share pictures of dogs 🐕.

#HugOps to our @github.com friends It's my fault, I was trying to deploy something tricky today.

What are you doing on Thursday? Are you a Unity developer? Then come join us for "Building Games with Unity + Social SDK" in our Discord Developer Server with ‪@antontesh.bsky.social‬! See you there! 👇🏻 discord.com/invite/d...

🎮 Alumni Weekend is almost here! Game dev talks, design deep-dives, and career-leveling convos—for free. 🧠💥 🔥 Don’t miss this stacked virtual conference w/ speakers from across our alumni network. 🕹️ Sign up now → buff.ly/T3BXfib #GameDev #IndieDev #AlumniWeekend2025

🚀 12pm PT today (in 2h ⏱️): @discord.com Social SDK Eng team presents "Powering Player Connections: How Discord's Social SDK Boosts Your Game"! Learn how the Social SDK integrates your players' friends lists & social graphs, and the benefits you can get! discord.gg/discord-d...

I'll be presenting "Introduction to the @discord.com Social SDK" at the @igda.org Foundation - Alumni Weekend - this weekend! 🥳 It's a free virtual event (although donations appreciated!) www.igdafoundation.o... I'll be on at 7pm Pacific ⏱️, but it runs all day Saturday and Sunday.

Putting a call out for more approvers on Agones development If you've ever wondered what it takes to become an approver, it's actually not that mystical a process! It just takes time and effort 👇🏻 github.com/googlefor... DM me if think you are close, or you have questions!

New @discord.com Social SDK Guide just dropped for managing Voice Chat with the SDK! This is a fun one, since you have to setup a lobby first! Check out the guide for details 👀 We promised this to be published "after GDC" - which is still technically true 😆 discord.com/develope...

I might just save this photo somewhere safe. Photo credit: @kaslin.rocks

I'm sorry, but how did I miss this video from 2024 talking about how PUBG RUNS ON AGONES???? 🤯 WHAT 🤯 youtu.be/GhYUjTxSOkE... Hey Krafton, wanna drop your logo on the front page of agones.dev/site/ please? 😀

🔉I'll be giving an online talk, doing a technical introduction of the @discord.com Social SDK at 12pm US Pacific, Tuesday 24th of June! 🤞🏻Hopefully this time, the whole internet won't fall over, and we won't have to postpone! 🔽 Sign up discord.gg/WcE3bfU3?...

I get up at 5am to give a presentation and the whole internet is broken. I feel like this is my fault somehow?

👋🏻 What are you up to this Thursday at 12pm US Pacific? Come see me present "Introduction to the @discord.com Social SDK" - an overview of the Social SDK APIs via a walk-though of how I built a Discord Terminal App (open source of course!) 💻 Join 👇🏻 discord.gg/WcE3bfU3?...

I'm in Melbourne, Australia for a spell! Hit me up if you want to talk #gamedev, @discord.com, Agones and/or #OSS! I'm also giving a talk Tuesday at IGDAM talking about my ten years in games devrel (we're not recording this one, might be 🌶️🌶️🌶️☺️). Sign up here👇🏻 www.trybooking.com/e...

🔥 Got questions about integrating moderation with the Discord Social SDK? Just published the Moderation guide, walking you through integrating and managing content moderation for your game when using the Social SDK! 📃 discord.com/develope...

I'm wasming. That's the right verb for when you do wasm, right?

The more i work in developer relations the more I start to feel like it's really handy to enjoy conflict. (But in a nice way 😁)

👋🏻 What are you doing on May 22nd? We're starting up live events in the @discord.com Developer's Discord Server (too many Discord's???) again! We'll be covering the latest news on our developer platform features, and you can meet the new devrel team 😁 discord.gg/aaGfnYJ4?...

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Now that the Discord Social SDK lets Discord friends message you in-game, we've added settings to control who can reach (or bug you? 😆) you while gaming. How much do you like your friends? 😁 we'll let you decide. Check our new design guidelines 👇🏻 discord.com/develope...

I'm still pottering on Agones while lying in bed at night watching TV 😆. In the most recent release, I implemented the new Kubernetes sidecar containers pattern into Agones. It makes health checking ✨so much✨ easier and simpler. agones.dev/site/blog...

Stupid cold. Taking a sick day. Bored already. So annoying.

No, but seriously, let's find this thing.

In response to the Polygon and Giant Bomb news, I created an indie and worker-owned games media starter pack. I’ll keep adding to it, so suggestions and recommendations are greatly appreciated. Please share!

Finally got my new KVM installed. No more moving a cable between computers for the third monitor.

Started playing Wildermyth again last night, knowing full well I'm going to end up crying when my characters inevitably get old and die.

I though this takeaway from the recent (free) NewZoo PC and Console Gaming report was quite interesting, especially in light of the work we're doing with the the Discord Social SDK to enhance social awareness and connection of game players through Discord's platform. newzoo.com/resources...

I started using Claude Code last night to help me prototype something I'll working on (details forthcoming!), and I'll admit, I'm pretty impressed 👍🏻

Wait... is modern C++ just... not very good Rust, with worse package management??? 🌶️🌶️🌶️ (Yes, i'm relearning C++ after not touching it much for probably 25 years)

Big thanks 🙌 to @embarkstudios.bsky.social for taking the lead on Quilkin (UDP Proxy for Game Servers) 🎮, as I haven't been involved, and they've done amazing work. The eBPF work is particularly impressive 🤩! Love to see a smooth #OSS stewardship transition 👇🏻 github.com/googlefor...

Another terrible photo, but I'm back again at the @discord.com booth at #GDC2025 until 1pm!

Terrible photo, but I'll here at the Discord Booth until 1pm! #GDC2025 ☺️

Sticker and pizza time with you radiant folks at #TheGIG Social ✨#GDC @iheartbunnies.bsky.social @neurotic.bsky.social @chrisdeleon.bsky.social @nessathewriter.bsky.social

New @discord.com Social SDK landed today (I even had a small part!), bringing Discord's social capabilities directly into your game -- at NO COST! This project was one item that got me super excited to join Discord, so very happy to see it be available 🙌🏻 discord.com/develope...

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I'm going to be at the booth for @discord.com Wednesday and Friday morning at #GDC2024, so swing by and say hello! Also, there are lots of sessions and booth talks to check out, details here ➡️ www.linkedin.com/pos...

So @jetbrains.com Remote Gateway has come a LONG way since I last used it. I'm really impressed actually.