Starting this thread a little late, but coming to you live: The Critical Game Design Graduate Conference 2026!

Look, the NYTs does suck. But the Hanif article is actually good and you should read it before quote-posting it for the headline.

Okay, I have figured out a workflow for Typist that will let me ditch MS word for 95% of my work.

Been playing Marathon a lot...

The algorithms might be done with Chico's Rebound but I'm not ready to shut up about it yet! It's like an action-packed puzzle Arkanoid with a zelda-like dungeon connecting it all! It's unique and I'm really proud of it Thank you for helping me share and boost it ❤️ #indiegames #gamemaker

Between conference prep ending and proposal defense approaching, I am getting some time to work on GPU code again. I finally got to compare the renderer I wrote vs. the one I was using to explore engine dev The performance improved by ~400%? When from 4k sprites @ 60fps to about 18k sprites.

I am always shocked the ImGui is one of those pieces of software that _just works_™.

For a moment I thought this was a Destination: Void post

The lack of tools to debug gpu pipelines on macOS is truly wild. I am starting to wonder if the unpopularity of MacOS in game dev historically has more to do with tooling instead of api performance.

I’ve now had the displeasure of helping someone debug a cmake file that was generated by someone else using Claude. I don’t know what the future holds for programming but I do know that the Cmake folks are safe.

As usual you should both support sex workers' rights and if you consider yourself to be current on either tech or politics and don't follow anyone in that field, you are very likely behind the curve -- the issues they face are the issues the rest of us will have put in front of us in short order.

Some of my favorite illustrations from the safety manual of the plane I am on:

Had an absolutely wonderful time this year at #SCMS26. Grateful to have spent time with so many folks known and new! Also thank you to all the folks who attended my talk; I deeply appreciate the time you gave to hear about my research!

Thanks to everyone who came out! You can read the full paper here: gameartsinternationalnet.itch.io/

Very excited for #SCMS26 this year. I’ll be presenting on retro game development this Sunday and wandering around looking lost the rest of the time. Say hi!

I have finally found a new slideshow style after receiving enough complaints about my old style to change it.

The easiest way to make something longer is to do it twice.

This may single handedly sink the one workflow that redeemed python for me: openai.com/index/openai...

Getting ready for some dice rolls:

Literally it’s just this again:

@prefect.io is everything I wish I had when I was maintaining an app using Airflow

Some thoughts on Marathon: - Bungie still knows how to make good feeling FPS games (no surprise) - the visual language is both super fresh yet deeply nostalgic for the y2k consumer electronics era product design - the loot system feels good but currently pretty shallow

Hard same.

My main issue with the well-meaning “rigorous engineering” AI folks is that I don’t know of an example where the an industry has chosen rigor-on-principle over economic gain.

I have flown out of O’Hare 4 times. My flight has been delayed all 4 of those times.

Whatever happens, it’s the best looking fps in the space and I’m tired of pretending it’s not

Regular reminder that there are no secure hosted services.

New from @midimyers.com, a take we’re quite honestly sick of having to argue. www.mothership.blog/you-know-wha...

CFP: Sounding Things: Props, Material Culture, and Accessories in Popular Music Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2026 Abstract Length: 350–500 words Editors: Kate Galloway, Paxton Haven, and Mike Levine Full call here: drive.google.com/file/d/1mfyd...

The billboards I saw when I lived in Boston felt excessive. But someone in a personal vehicular just hung these in a bag on the door of my house. I live in a village of ~1000 people about 40 miles from where this performance is happening…

What is going on with Apple's UI teams lately?

I am beginning to believe all these c++ replacement languages are what groovy was to java. Except Rust, rust is scala.

A really lovely little game: danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper

Originally my first middle name was going to be Hearty, but a close family friend was diagnosed with terminal cancer so I was named Henry after him. The second name, Gray, is my mother’s maiden name. Coincidentally me and my brother have the same initials despite two different names.

This argument has been made before and you can easily see how flawed the reasoning is:

honestly this is the easiest profitability layup ever and its hilarious any executive responsible for this chain of events has a job

Kindly sell your soul! It'd mean a lot to our team! <3 Super excited to share what we've been working on with our pals at @questiongames.bsky.social !

If you branching pattern looks like anything other than this, you have a problem.

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org

The amount of times I sit in a call with a dreamer and their dream game is basically "everything from my favorite six games smashed together into perfect harmony and there was endless flawless content and it has graphics everyone likes" and I have to explain that making feet go on stairs is hard

For the most part getting older has been rad. I love having white hair crop up in my beard. The exception to this that now if I eat too close to bed time I have vivid nightmares.

Literally all of the sites I used to go to for programming news have devolved into this:

it doesn't

I feel weird emphasizing to students that “market research should be based on middle of the road competition” whenever there is news like this that’s the result of execs expecting every game they release to be the next Overwatch.

Something worth noting is how low they score managers in the broader category applicability analysis. The conversation around AI and work has always been an issue of managerial perceptions of what one’s work is (e.g. that historians create a product of rote memory, not a process of historiography).

<spiralling in a good way>

Abandoning self-hosted php forums continue to be a mistake