Ah, the demo's live for In The Black - a very Expanse-inspired space combat sim. I figure a few of you might be interested in that!

We took a break from krumpin' last week but we'z back for a mega session! 4 hours of community dakka, krumps an' talk about the new stuff coming to @speedfreeks40k in Orktober including da Deffkopta 💥 Krump wiv us on twitch now! twitch.tv/wiredp

“Add to the mix an absolutely blistering score by Nine Inch Nails and Tron: Ares stands out as one of those sci-fi experiences people will return to again and again over the next ten years.” Hey…uhm…guys. This movie rules.

ok it’s time

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Xbox 360 Dollars Per Year

So BioWare needs to finish Mass Effect by end of 2026 and then promptly resign. Thats the Paragon action.

Have you given our making-of documentary a watch yet? 👀 bsky.app/profile/okom...

@osamadorias.bsky.social taught me the fundamentals of this some time ago and the very next visual I made was so good and useful that we ended up converting it into an in-engine overlay for use with our dev tools Highly recommended reading ⏬

Fun fact, my story contribution to this anthology “AEON” is built off of an abandoned game idea that formed the a tiny part of the basis of Citizen Sleeper including the name (“Aeon Sleeper”) If that kind of deep cut sounds interesting, back this book! 👇

If You're Not Shidding and Farding Out Your Doodoo Ass, You're Not Paying Attention

Quick heads-up: presskit() has been updated. Patch-notes are very short. - Fixed a few minor bugs. - Removed all functionality depending on discontinued applications ( distribute(), promoterapp ) - Now uses https exclusively. If you want to update: dopresskit.com - fully backwards-compatible.

You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate. It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

The one time we got the smoking gun of undeniable ideology that mapped neatly onto american partisanship in political violence was J6, and we decided it was too scary to treat it as such, so now we return to deciphering memes of school shooters like medieval peasants panicking at an eclipse.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

We've teamed up with @saltstonestudios.bsky.social to announce The Hearth & Harbour, set in the world of The Pale Beyond 🎉 Lead a rundown restaurant in this narrative adventure, using food to create bonds that will impact your customers, and the city at large 🤝 🍽️ bit.ly/HearthHarbou...

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

I’m sorry but let me unbury this lede: *the genAI industry is literally the financial engine that is powering the fascist regime in the United States* I hadn’t even made this connection and now I’m even more horrified by this tech than I have ever been. Boosterism == fascism, literally

Come listen to me yammer on about the new episode of A Life Well Wasted, the future of the show, and the other thing I’m working on.

It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

Moving straight through. #3

If you see this, post a monster

Knocking out two waves at once. #4

Counting down the last smokes I have. Making a game out of it, because I consistently finish those and have a completionist mindset. So here goes. Let’s beat this fucking boss. Smoking #5 now.

Started this game late last night and already one of my Calicorns got hurt...I know this game is gonna wound me...cant wait!

To celebrate the release of Herdling, we've put together a bundle of all Okomotive games with some very attractive discounts, check it out! 🥰 store.steampowered.com/bundle/58145...

The state police killed the Ferguson protest activist leaders. Every big photo you see of the protests where there's a black activist on the front lines - those activists were murdered later. This is Edward Crawford. He was murdered after this was taken. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Revisiting The Door Problem With Liz England - Game Developer Podcast Ep. 53

Having a lot of conversations recently about @playrematch.com and it’s being a footballer sim and not a football sim. It fundamentally changes the way I approach it as a game. I wonder if @robzacny.bsky.social or @cado.bsky.social or @gameonysus.bsky.social have any opinions after their stream.

We’ve published our second Mini Dev Update! This one’s about volley priorities and the current meta. Read more here: www.playrematch.com/post/mini-de...

the thing about "just make it exist, make it good later" is that unfortunately three key challenges in game development are 1. deciding what should exist 2. deciding when to make things good 3. deciding what 'good' means

This is perfection. Even better with sound.

i've written a dozen articles about this but vonnegut cuts to the heart of it

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3047750/... Epic: store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/herd... PS5: store.playstation.com/de-de/concep... Switch: www.nintendo.com/de-ch/Spiele... Xbox: www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...

High key, REACHER but just Captain America beefing through a bunch of fascists would rip as a tv show.

Quitting smoking is a bitch

If you just really want to hear me explain why so many publishers are just utterly useless now, here's a talk for you.

This is. Numbingly incompetent and deeply, darkly hysterical

1/7 This is Showrunner AI, a startup that just a few weeks ago got Amazon funding to become the “Netflix of AI” as reported by Forbes, Business Insider, NBC News and so on. Frustratingly, no news outlets asked or researched the data used by Showrunner. Well after some digging here’s it is👇

Getting caught at a Coldplay concert really does suck…

'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel

The first phase of the BF6 Beta has passed. What are @lubwub.bsky.social’s thoughts? Read here: open.substack.com/pub/nerdybit...

And for everyone who prefers to read in paragraph form rather than in threaded posts, here’s an unrolled version. open.substack.com/pub/nerdybit...

I really dug what I saw in the Battlefield 6 Beta, but I cant shake this feeling of enshittification that has slowly encroached into multiplayer shooters. My biggest and longest standing beef comes from the obnoxious scope glint that every single sniper sight inherently has now.

Struggling recently because I used to be able to write about games without much friction, but now it’s not so easy. I podcasted for years, I’ve become a professor, and I just find talking about my thoughts so much more efficient for me hyperstimulated brain. I miss writing, but should I just record?

I’ve had the third-person, cover to cover motion restricted Hybrid, from 2012, stuck in my head on a weekly basis for over a decade because I can’t shake how cool it was to have movement so limited. I’ve found no comparisons. I live for these conversations.

🦬 Herdling comes out August 21! A grand alpine expedition with a herd of loveable beasts. Brand new from Okomotive, creators of the atmospheric and acclaimed FAR games. ➡️ See the new trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvho9b_hq8Y

writing is thinking, drawing is thinking, telling stories is thinking. i understand the earnest impulse to get rid of "the boring stuff", but even the boring stuff is thinking. depriving yourself of time to think about things is sad, but depriving kids of time to think about things is just cruel.

So…about the whole Coldplay Debacle: if they had just acted normal nobody would have cared. It got shared because they acted like they were up to no good. I guess what I’m getting at is, most of us don’t care if you’re rich. It’s the fact that so many of you act like fucking villains.