In that phase of marriage where you casually tell your wife “i have sewage ass from the recycled garbage vomit factory“ after getting gassy on mushrooms and garlic or whatever

There really isn’t enough discourse around idle/incremental game design. Seems pretty clear the genre (I’ll lump them) isn’t taken seriously — unfairly imho.

Blippo+ [@blippo.plus] is the exact piece of art we need right now, in the dark days of the enslopification era; it's fun to watch, you can tell it was fun to create, it's anti-commercial, art for art's sake, the perfect vaseline-covered-eyes aesthetic of vaporous memories and fever dreams, BUT --

Every time a $14.99 game is 10% off on Steam

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Part 2 of this podcast went up this morning! You can find the transcript and a link to YouTube here, but it should also be available in all the normal podcast places. Thanks again to @boxdragon.bsky.social and @pengonauts.com for joining! my.playful.work/probably-des...

Something ominous about the infographic ending at September 2001 in Röyksopp's video for "Remind Me" (the video was made in 2002)

Good news everyone. Tonight I’ve birthed (1) new VHS copy of Richard Stanley‘s ”Hardware” into the world. Feel like I’ve sanctified myself through this act.

might say fuck it and make a joneslike

Do yourself a favor and subscribe to @hdh.me's new game design podcast, Probably Designed -- it's got a STACKED first season; episode 2 just dropped with @pengonauts.com from Star Vaders and @boxdragon.bsky.social from As We Descend discussing lots of things, including RLDB card pool design!

OMFG i can't get this into my hands fast enough. the art. dead

ok still no clue how to make construction paper texture but i am starting to figure out how to simulate risograph/screen printing (godot, visual shader graph only)

i'm a simple man; i just want to know how to make a photorealistic construction paper shader, how hard could it be? 10 hards?

What game(s) would you add to this collection to keep the vibe going?

Turns out there was an earlier form of snail mail

street counter, dos (1993) www.mobygames.com/game/544/sup...

What is the worst file format of all time?

Photoshop is such a hunk of fucking dogshit (15 seconds to create a new blank 8.5"x11" 72 dpi document on my machine with 64g of RAM), but ungggh the muscle memory, I have been using this stupid thing since like 1994 and there are just enough muscle misfires using Affinity Photo 2 that drive me nuts

art for art's sake (TRADEMARK)

I learned something in Blender. One down, eighty-five million to go

I'm finally watching Yanni - Live At The Acropolis

the prototype flywheel is finally starting to gain some momentum -- prototype is fun > work on prototype > prototype is more fun > work on prototype more > etc

Made a new mini-zine: CREEP ZONE (Nutritious Treat is my zine nom de plume)

TFW when u press the big green launch button on Steam

I suggested a He-Man character design to Mattel in 1983 and they basically told 7 year old me to eat shit. (I told this story on Reddit a long time ago, but I think it's worth dusting off.) By god Slinger will one day see the light of day, even if only in video game form.

Fantastic video. I really think @bippinbits.bsky.social and Jonas are two of the most dialed-in thinkers about the intersection of designing x selling games right now. A key point made in the video is that you can design fun that generates appeal, instead of approaching these things separately.

i'm sorry but the Hokuto no Ken fighting game absolutely fucking rips

the most fiendish dark ux pattern of all time is joystick on the left, buttons on the right. (ah, for righties, at least)

HEAVEN NO HELL (Michael Deforge), fantastic book

new burial, bless burial.bandcamp.com/album/comafi...

Poker card divinists, what does this portend?

Omg they’re gonna literally do this

I drank one White Russian AMA

we need to start a “non-slop seed vault” of books, records, etc. weird little used book stores, it’s your time to shine

li’l pepper is so real for this

If you like to concept and model/texture guys like these (M.U.S.C.L.E., He-Man, other weirdos) ... hmu ... and/or please share if you know someone that does!

If you like to concept and model/texture guys like these (M.U.S.C.L.E., He-Man, other weirdos) ... hmu ... and/or please share if you know someone that does!

Collage minizine is a popular choice at this year’s Zine Camp and things are getting messsssy

When we “played” TTRPGs as kids by making up characters and then … doing nothing with them … and then making more characters, we were all expressing a yearning for the as yet unearthed but still archetypal expression of theorycrafting roguelike builds

The Next Generation but every episode contains a subplot of Troi counseling a crew member suffering from sycophantic holodeck psychosis syndrome, imploring them that “although I sense they feel real to you”, their girlfriend is “just a bunch of high dimensional matrix multiplication”

Got a fancy new stapler and assembled some TTRPG zines this weekend (Vaults of Vaarn by Leo Hunt: graculusdroog.itch.io)

I think dystopian scifi may have wildly undershot the idea of chatbot psychosis

You only truly understand shareholder capitalism when you realize an Ouroborus also has to shit.

WE'RE SO BACK (Innovation perverts)

There should be a meme format that is the squirrel who says "I know him, and he does" from Pavement's video for "Stereo"

This. AI art is meant to literally devalue/decost the work of creatives. It’s ultimately a jaded exercise in “cost center elimination”, dressed up in a thin patina of “democratization”. The fact that legitimate artists’ work is being called into question is a feature - not a bug - of gen AI.

Come on y’all this ain’t hard

If there’s a better movie than Barry Lyndon, I’d like to know about it…

Reverse Turing Test where the tenuousness of your grasp on reality is measured by being exposed to sycophantic chat bots