Join me on Sunday for a stream featuring some local indie games!

Next week Thursday! We're prepping for upcoming game jams with a Speed Meet at White Owl - jump into some structured meetup activities to say hi to new folks, chat about game jam stuff, and cowork in between rounds 🎆 pigsquad.com/events-list/...

Now THIS is a power glove. #rhythmgames

Hanging out for coworking and chatting about PIGCON tonight if you want to come by and work on stuff, hang out with folks, and discuss plans for 2026! pigsquad.com/events-list/...

Forgot to take a selfie, but I believe this state #8 in which I've used mass transit 🚍🚆🚇. Hard to beat a bus that goes directly from the airport to the hotel!

oh hey, shout out to the event photographers for capturing me in my natural habitat (the rhythm arcade)

✅ see Shovda make an impossible romhack look easy (and BeeKaay make an impossible romhack look hard) "So we're just gonna roll straight into Thumbshredder?" I laughed. I thought she was joking. But then Thumbshredder also demolished live in no time

#adgq2026 progress ✅watch a run live ✅play in the rhythm arcade ✅play pinball in the other arcade ✅play a local indie game ✅buy merch from The Yetee ✅awkwardly greet a streamer I recognize ✅get spotted on stream

Let's goooooo (to bed because I only got three hours of sleep before my flight)

"Oh, so this is a Perler bead emergency." The craft store owner nodded knowingly.

Dang, now this is transit advocacy. We gotta make one of these for PRGE

I just learned there is a found footage horror movie called that is all about a streamer and his chat (Livescream, 2018) Obviously I am watching it immediately

Applications are now open for the Spring 2026 Wondercab Residency! Have you ever wanted to see your game in the arcade? Consider applying! Deadline is January 31st at 11:59pm wonderville.nyc/wondercab-ap...

The GDQ break channel that @marlowedobbe.com and I made for a jam just got merged! If you're watching #AGDQ this week, keep an eye out for it. I think it turned out really fun. Donations reduce the HP of the foe, and when defeated, a new one spawns. So stoked to see it in action!

Some bucket-list-worthy 2025 highlights (🧵) Game Dev: * Showed a game at MAGFest * Showed a game at Portland Retro Gaming Expo * Gave a talk about alt control * Fulfilled a Kickstarter * Built a custom arcade cabinet * Rented an actual office for coworking with gamedev pals

If YOU would like a free list of my favorite weird indie games I played in 2025 I have compiled the best of the best of my monthly game recommendation newsletter I write for @pigsquad.com!!

wait I just spotted another "are games art" discourse I thought we settled this. Games are not art, but you can make it art with this neat trick Remember to set isArt to false on deinitialization. Otherwise your game unnecessarily consumes art energy when not running

Happy Holidays, everyone! We'll get some more events on the calendar soon. Until then, have a great end of the year :) If you want to keep chatting with community friends in the meantime, feel free to say hi in discord.gg/pigsquad 🌲

The WHAT

Oh man there's some great stuff in here

I like yule log videos, but every year the options get more and more drowned out by AI slop. The good internet does still exist though: Today I found a whole channel of Norwegian campfires. www.youtube.com/@NorwegianFi...

This is a perfect example of how "stringly typed" can come back to bite you. Having a table in the DB for plan types might seem silly when there's only two or three types, but it would prevent errors like this

Played Bit.Trip ReRunner for a bit tonight after not touching it for a long time, and I was immediately reminded of my burning need to build an alt controller for it. Don't let me do this, I have so many other things I should be doing right now but THE POTENTIAL

Super MAGFest 2026 schedule is out, and within the first hour on day one it already lives up to expectations

Our last stream of the year is on Thursday! Community members will be playing and live doodling the events of a role playing game, and our supporters get to decide what the theme is. If you want to help, pop on in and make a suggestion! www.patreon.com/posts/146010...

great conversation starters for a first date: - what's your favorite Linear A inscription? - how did you learn Linear A? - would you like to establish a written correspondence in Linear A?

The Banana Panel: an LED display of the information most relevant to me, NextLevelBanana. - Current weekday and date - Next buses at the stops near me - Stats for the PIGSquad Advent of Code leaderboard Still need to add weather, but then I'm out of ideas. Any other fun public APIs I can use?

I just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/5 and that was one hard-earned gold star I tell ya what

If you're in PIGSquad and doing #adventOfCode, join our leaderboard! (It's not a competition. It's about making progress together!) ... I'm a puzzle behind because I got distracted by discovering the API

The OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital & Extra Life silent auction is live! Items provided by our community will be available on this site through the evening of our Year End Showcase on December 8th, ending while we're at the event 🎉 Check out the auction here: bit.ly/pigsquadauct...

Tree 2025

Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it. Everyone, give @skatunenetwork.bsky.social your money. They deserve it.

Scrolling through an asset pack of bathroom fixtures. You know, just everyday objects

Happy holidays, everyone! Note that we're talking about lots of cool stuff coming up in 2026 via the virtual PIGSquad Town Hall event Wednesday, December 17th at 7pm! Details online now :) pigsquad.com/events-list/...

You can now go into the shed AND back out again

Hello, fine folks! We have a surprise special announcement stream tonight at 8pm PT to announce something really big. Feel free to hop in and hang then 🌟 www.twitch.tv/pigsquad

I've hesitated to talk about my farming sim cuz it's a BIG game and I have a habit of not following through on BIG ideas*. But I've gotten enough momentum to feel I CAN follow through, so I'm excited to start sharing my progress. *ADHD

Since getting laid off I've gotten serious about making my "farming sim". You play as the ranger of a derelict state park, pulling weeds, building trails, and picking up trash. And other stuff ofc, but as of today, you can do all 3 of those things! (all art is placeholder pls do not judge the art)

Me and who

Microsoft Bob

This Thursday! It's Feedback Night! 🗣📝 Bring your game out and set it up or just pop by to leave some notes to help along the development of awesome local games. All ages / free / wooooo! Details here: pigsquad.com/events-list/...

It's crafting season (Anybody got any extra bottle caps?)

Desert Bus wheels… down? Watch now! desertbus.org/2025/ @desertbus.org #desertbus2025

Last chance for you to get your Cubepig Castle shirt, designed by @marlowedobbe.com and printed locally! Sales end next week Tuesday and we're shipping first week of December. Pick it up before it's gone and support the PIGSquad nonprofit 🏰⚡😍 pigsquad.com/store/cubepi...

Hey, it's us!

Tonight starting at 6:30pm! Come kick off the jam and hang with dev pals! We'll also have a special presentation from our friends at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospitals and extralife on their Therapeutic Gaming Program, which we'll be supporting when the jam is over at the Year End Showcase ❤️

We used to be a society

HUGE IF TRUE: Since I got laid off it's time to run a sale on my ko-fi shop! Enter code CAPITALISM to get 25% off everything - games, zines, stickers, and pins! (Tis the season to mention they make great stocking stuffers for the nerd in your life) #KofiDiscountChallenge