they are the sweetest maniacs

alexi: you know mexico did not look great in the group stage rebecca: when you say not great, do you mean how they won all 3 matches and conceded zero goals

One of the first times I drew our squishy little magpie

"BECOME A GREAT ARTIST IN JUST 10 SECONDS" The award-winning game/glitchy art program @smestorp.bsky.social and I made in 2013 has now been rereleased on Itch for modern OSes. Try it out!, and make sure to tell any friends you want to play a weird prank on mermaidindustries.itch.io/become-a-gre...

indo pro role #pixelart

Check out Renaine on Steam and don't get shocked ⚡ #IndieDev #GameDev

👀👀🦊 gamesdonequick.com/schedule/66

I love when 868-Back makes me feel like a genius completely by accident

eggs do not lay eggs

FLOCK, if you're not familiar, is 3D open world game with an AMAZING birdwatching guidebook mechanic that does the opposite of outstaying its deeply joyful welcome

blog post - advice on how to write about indie games mightyvision.blogspot.com/2026/06/advi...

maps! are fun to make

just because we literally burgled all your resources for decades you think some of it is yours actually ?? this is why poor peopl eare bad, Crime also is bad,

Eggs do not lay eggs

If you’re one for video games, 868-BACK by @smestorp.bsky.social is, among other things, about this kind of hostage situation. You’re a retired hacker coming back for one big job; the tech world has gotten worse, and you’re too old and chronically ill for it realistic ways. finji.itch.io/868-back

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

video game shop of the year (from 868-back)

I wrote about level design readability: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

sound designing for Bad Magpie sometimes be like tip tap tip tap tip tap splash swim tip tap tip

extremely specific highly qualified search term probably refers to extremely generic and hallucinated result, which wikipedia defines as patronizingly simple idea some examples of patronizingly simple and wildly incorrect result:

This crossed my path again, and if you like predator, give it a read! Maybe my favorite writing about the film.

I bet it feels good as hell for a hacker to do this tbh

bekah, earlier: "is Haaland left footed?" our 15yo: "I think he's left footed, or right footed"

ok so 868-back will probably be my goty but why is that pink guy smiling like that

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

#picotron tip: press shift-ctrl-R to reload a single code tab without resetting the program state. // 0.3.0e fixes the crash that happens if there's no tab to reload

the great human design skill is learning to consider what COULD be rather than deciding what WILL be

front mission 3 / psx square, 1999

two minutes turkish

Happy #Juneteenth! 🗃️ blackpast.org/african-amer...

RIP Bobby Prince. this 1993 clip of him explaining the Commander Keen menu music is amazing. worth a watch even if you don't give a rip about Keen. source link below.

this is why stores like steam have a "AI disclosures" checkbox - its not so you can "vote with your dollar", its so they can delist all the stuff they've been selling (and keeping 30% of!) that people didn't actually own after non-AI-boosters regain a litigation foothold

Pouring one out for the king

RIP Bobby Prince. His music legacy will live on, making inspired music for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, countless others. A true legend. And such a nice man, great musician, wonderful, fun-loving man, nothing but happy memories of him. A loss to the world.

maps!

868-BACK is out! if anyone likes turn based games and exquisite whole cloth design, i cannot more strongly recommend this and Michael Brogue's other work.

868-BACK is a computer-hacking roguelike strategy game inspired by dungeon crawlers — but the dungeons are computer servers, and your weapons are illicit software tools. AVAILABLE NOW on PC! Play the free demo 👾 store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

BEEP BEEP my piece for a recently concluded game of art telephone. the full gallery will be up my website in a day or two

i drew them

Warm weather is finally here! Where are you hanging out on Vertumna? 👀☀️ Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, a narrative RPG with card-based battles!

Blood Dungeon's demo is the best 2010-era freeware game you've ever played www.jank.cool/blood-dungeo...

maps! are fun to make

i wrote about the world cup adamatomic.com/copa.html

you so much as think about circling back and we will have words

Help me brainstorm: what could @itch.io to help developers during Steam Next Fest?

i wrote about the world cup adamatomic.com/copa.html

10 días después sigo atrapado en esto. El hecho de que su estructura no tenga *nada* que ver con la plantilla estándar de "elige entre 3" y el "branching map" de Slay the Spire es un tortazo a todas aquellas propuestas que no paran de perpetuar este sobadísimo diseño en pos de las "buenas prácticas"

i pressed the "less problems today for even more problems tomorrow" button again. we have less problems now id ont know why i s everyon complaing

How it feels to use .slash in 868-BACK