It’s now the second day! And I’ll be helping out with demoing Project Lexa again! It’s a cool narrative puzzle game about deciphering a glyph-based language after your ship crash lands on an alien planet. Fans of Chants of Sennaar (and similar), don’t miss this! Exclamation marks!!!

I’m so drained I plopped on my hotel bed and mindlessly turned on the TV and now the World Cup qualifiers have been playing for the past 20 minutes.

I don’t think I was emotionally prepared for how much people would like Lexa at PAX. Very happy right now. ;_;

It’s the first day of PAX East! If you want to check out Project Lexa as well as a bunch of other great indie games, come by PAX Rising — Booth 13097!

Bodes well when your feet already hurt the day before the convention starts.

Soon. 👀

[Gets in an Uber to get to the convention center] Oh, right. Boston drivers are insane and actively try to crash into each other.

to all my blueskiers who DONT use twitter anymore, the games lead engineer since 2017 got officially laid off as of this. this is such bullshittery from epic, especially since theyre pouring their money into UEFN, 3x creator payouts at the start of the season, and WAY too many collab rights.

POV: You just brushed your teeth and your cat loves the smell of mint.

you dont see Morgan Webb acting the fool

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

Leftfield submissions are now open for 2026: airtable.com/appIQDFmYU3o...

i'm rebuilding my game data editing tool depot to be a standalone app, and adding in tons of features that came out of deep use of it by myself and others the past few years. follow along on itch here: kylekukshtel.itch.io/depot

I talk and talk and talk about how anticommunism is deeply baked into the American psyche, and still, at a time when old people and sick people and disabled people are having their lives snuffed out in Cuba because of a blockade this country imposed, it's still "but Lenin was bad actually" discourse

We're bringing Project Lexa to PAX East as a part of PAX Rising! If you're going to PAX East in March, come by the PAX Rising booth to play our demo. Read our blog post for more info!

Hey, hey! We're on this list! Project Lexa is coming to PAX East as a part of PAX Rising! Excited to head back to one of my favorite shows again, this time as an exhibitor of a game I'm working on!

It's the Steam Spring Sale! Pick up my games at a slick discount. store.steampowered.com/search?devel...

Some say that making a smaller game or simpler game are ways to cut down on dev time. This is also true. But if you're making a game of any size that has any sort of consistent production methodology, a good way to make everything take longer is to change standards and pipelines in production.

Real Christheads know not to confuse this for I Am Jesus Christ, which is a *different* Jesus simulator that had a trailer on IGN and is coming out this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw0W...

Walking up to my cat while I chomp on a cigar after this post gets four likes: “kid, I’m gonna make you a star.”

Please enjoy this video of my cat snoring.

Because I am old, I've been through a version of this discourse ~11 times, but here's the rub: everyone goes through a phase of needing to intellectualise their enjoyment of video games. Eventually you arrive at a point of giving no fucks. A lot of games *aren't* thematically deep. Enjoy them anyway

Another day, another bugfixing session where I have to wrestle Unity UI and TextMesh Pro into submission.

Steam page people.. please help! The little 🔎 on Steam pages (awards section) is killing me To do with image sizes (I think) but nowhere does Steam give you recommended specs partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/pa... - Who knows what the max is before this happens? - What size do you use? - Thanks 🙏

midtown aerial south, virginia beach, virginia, 1985

It's rough when an award show omits talking about people deeply tied to their industry and their losses, doesn't it Geoff? I feel like there's some kind of lesson here...

Watching the Oscars / AEW counterprogramming play out on my Bluesky timeline is very fun.

folks if the LA times is acknowledging covid as an ongoing mass disabling event it is definitely an ongoing mass disabling event

I got my first COVID-19 infection at Xmas 2021. It eliminated my sense of smell. In the last four years I've only partially regained it. My memory is also much worse than it used to be, and every description of "brain fog" I've read is very familiar. And nobody talks about it! #LongCovidAwarenessDay

We are at “wearing shirts from booths trying to offload merch at the end of a PAX” state of doing laundry.

Conceptually funny since the original 2600 was well known for having the worst version of Pac-Man.

I won’t be going back to Spotify, but I’ve been trying to use Apple Music and it kinda sucks? It’s kind of impressive how the former standard bearer for digital music has just kinda crumby UX now.

"Virginia General Assembly Passes Historic Legislation to Allow More Than Half a Million Public Service Workers the Freedom to Collectively Bargain" bluevirginia.us/2026/03/virg...

Weird watching someone on The Pitt get a procedure I literally got today.

The "Print" option on the right-click menu in Chrome is right below the option for "Search Google for [Selected Text]" and sometimes I'll misclick the former when aiming for the latter. This is how I almost printed a full page that only had the words "shia labeouf arrested."

I would suggest this is a more valuable Steam chart, from SteamDB. Releases dramatically grow each year but the number of new games getting more than 500 user reviews does not. steamdb.info/stats/releas...

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

You don't understand, those are my emotional support middle-aged men talking about video games podcasts.

still the definitive image of many Pokemon in my head

huge fan of the Pokemon TCG artwork by Keiji Kinebuchi

Finally booked a place to stay in Boston for PAX East after dragging my feet and both Hotels dot com *and* Airbnb make a big deal saying, "oh yeah, we include taxes and fees when we list prices. You're welcome." Thanks, I guess? Good job clearing the lowest of bars.

New Release: Magpie (v0.1 - Sorrow) Magpie is a visual livecoding tool made in Picotron! Make little art performances in crunchy 480x270 resolution, by writing Picotron code. It runs in the web, on desktops, and on Picotron itself. This is an early release. Get it here: illomens.itch.io/magpie

it's ✨covid brain damage ✨ either literal — covid infections — or psychological. pathological risk-taking and self-destructive behaviors can be a symptom of repressed trauma. and extreme cognitive dissonance ("this is wrong, against my values, but i'm doing it anyway") is self-induced trauma.

America should have a legally-mandated siesta.

The Lexa translator UI with all of the elements and gizmos turned on can't hurt you.

A big draw of the game-design-by-A/B-testing type thinking is that it absolves you from having to form your own opinions & taste. It allows you to outsource the most difficult part of any creative endeavour: actually believing in your vision.