idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet

The OTHER project at CDPR's Boston studio is hiring a Lead Writer. (FT, onsite preferred) Come work with a very chill and creative team on Project Sirius ✨️ jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CDPROJEKTRED...

I could have watched this cutscene for 2 hours. So good. @foddy.net

Bugs and Drugs (1978) released on the PLATO mainframe by Mark Gorback, Dave Tanaka, and Paul Alfille is an early edutainment RPG. Targeted mainly towards medical students, players explore a hospital "dungeon" fighting diseases with fists or with medicine! (a deadly residency thread)

A bunch of games to check out for trans day of visibility checkpointgaming.net/features/202...

🥚🍳 boshi's place is in town with syzygy at GDC! 🥚🍳 We’re partnering with syzygy SF on thursday, march 20th for a night of free-range indie games from the east AND west coast! no GDC pass is required! (only 2.99) 6-11pm | Syzygy SF 395 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103 Tickets and details ->

If you’re at GDC and just so happen to get inspired to apply to that company you were too afraid to apply to…just do it. Spend 5 minutes talking to the folks at those companies and realise they’re just big nerds. They did it and so can you.

If there’s anything Caves of Qud and FromSoft games should tell us, the problem is not the lore but the dump. Turn your lore into little treasures! Let the folks who don’t care have a duller experience. That’s life!

Look at this beautiful Citizen Sleeper vinyl!! ❤️🎲🦾🎶 @jumpovertheage.com ✨✨✨their thoughtfulness extends to every aspect of design beyond the game itself! Check that transparent slipcover!

Citizen Sleeper 2 is out today! I’m a massive fan of the first game and the sequel is absolutely fantastic too! Roll the dice and fight the clock, make connections and hard choices, protect your found family and find yourself. ✨🐈

You will see many important ways to help and donate to the people of Los Angeles. Here's one I don't want overlooked. LA's Fire Department I'm the child of a firefighter and I've seen the immediate danger and long-term trauma of tragic events. Consider giving to LAFD Foundation supportlafd.org

2. AirBNB is partnering with 211 to offer free housing to those impacted. If you need housing assistance and are in the impacted regions, please region out to 211. If you have a property, and you can host, please go to AirBnb and sign up:

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LA/SOCAL: mutual aid LA network (MALAN) has created a non exhaustive list of resources available for those evacuating or looking for animal boardint tiny.cc/malan-fire

The first Conference on BIPOC Game Studies is this September. We would love to have you involved! If you're interested in submitting, please get your pitches in by January 18. More information here: conference.blackgamestudies.com/index.html

I recently saw an amazing Navajo rug at the National Gallery of Art. It looks abstract at first, but it is a detailed representation of the Intel Pentium processor. Called "Replica of a Chip", it was created in 1994 by Marilou Schultz, a Navajo/Diné weaver and math teacher. 1/n

Finally played 1000xResist and Mouthwashing! ✨💙 totally my jams

Submission is open now. Your invitation to submit your work until Jan 31, 2025 for the 14th Int. A MAZE. Award. We're very excited to play + discover your works. award.amaze-berlin.de🦩#indiegamese#arthousegamese#altctrlr#playfulmediai#immersivetheatrer#indiedeve#mbbfundeded

That's actually the opening to the mantle cavity. Their mantle isn't their head but their torso. Cephalopods don't have the head-torso-limb body plan like we do. Instead, they have the torso-head-limb body plan. See these horrifying but educational drawings by @dannastaaf.bsky.social

We’re expanding our writing team! Looking for a 💫 to join us on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet www.naughtydog.com/greenhouse/j...

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Excited to finally get to share what we’ve been working on! youtu.be/o7TVPoxwi74?...

For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets and sent to one another over thousands of years in Mesopotamia, going back to more than 5,000 years ago. They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.

I love how "Darmok and Jilad at Tanagra" has, itself, become shorthand for a certain idea.

Wow. Beautiful. Games and game dev too.

Our GDC Scholarship returns for 2025 ✨ We're raffling all access passes to mid-career game devs of underrepresented genders. Special consideration given to those who are also a studio founder or community/grassroots organizer in games. More info & application options: pixelles.ca#gdcensemble

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

An addendum: another reason I dislike the word "content" is it turns art into something *pushed* on you rather than something you *seek out.* Acclaimed animator Don Hertzfeldt sums it up better than I can:

Taps the Desk, as he's read this a couple of times in the last week.... If someone says writing barks is easy... they are doing it wrong. It's such a kneejerk thing to say and it just isn't true. I have read bark sheet after bark sheet that's derivative and unengaging. Where the writer has gone-

one thing I tell my team often is people insisting they want a “realistic” story are rarely seeking that at all — the complaint often means we missed the mark on making the surrounding fiction BELIEVABLE, which is different (tl;dr Tieflings are not real, but they can be believable - see chart)

Los Angeles, come out to IndieCade this weekend! It's free! It's at the Music Center! It's always my favorite game event. www.latimes.com/travel/story...

"The History of the Commodore 64 in Twelve Objects", posted weekly from November 1st, 2024. (On the occasion of my new book.) Object #3: "We promise you won't use the Commodore 64 more than 24 Hours a Day" - advertising What C64 ads do you remember? www.jesperjuul.net/c64/history/... #c64

saw this in a group im in and once again librarians are the fucking S tier class of what it is to be a good human

"Outdoor games" c.1512-1515 www.nga.gov/collection/a... Incredible, the outfits, the absolutely indecipherable game rules, the little bunting belt, the huge queue of people waiting for their turn to do... something.