i am now older than before

Golden Idol 2's final DLC was another banger. Loved to see how many things came full circle since the first game, both in and outside the narrative

Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles illustration by Ryoko Kui (Delicious in Dungeon) for Weekly Famitsu No. 1915:

opened rpg maker mv for the first time in years and what the fuck is this, past me

I never made it far in FFT... I was a tiny baby idiot when I first played it probably gonna pick up the remake when I've got a spare, uh, forty hours

Been playing Baby Steps. Spent a good hour at The Manbreaker today. I will not be broken

This whole section really.

Lmao just hit someone with the fastest followback of all time. Happened to open my notifications when the notif was 12 seconds old

We have stuff like this too. The “make the whole thing” part of making a game is a lot easier if you make tools to help you do it (and especially ones that give you an overview of your progress / remaining work)

Completely forgot that I should post this... Crossover fanart from last year of these two glowing green arm characters

Vancouver rules, man

Unironically I think the reason people like "lore-heavy" games is because they just like being treated like an adult. Not everything is wrapped up in a nice little gift wrap box for you I enjoy the feeling of listening to someone who knows what they're talking about, and I'm starting to catch up

I thought "+1 Strength every time I take damage" would be a neat perk, but now people keep asking me to stub my toe thirty times and then help them move

you ever experience the kind of hyperfocus that a cartoon professor has? mixin' beakers or whatever?

I'm traveling to Vancouver this weekend for Game Garden! It's a really fun event and I'm excited to see how much bigger it'll be this year. Makes me so happy to see an indie event grow 🙂

You ever feel air come out your tearducts when you blow your nose

They should let you upgrade your shower so it cleans your teeth too

this Awkward Zombie comic is both very funny but also describes a specific type of power fantasy in games that I really, really, really enjoy I like when I'm playing a tactics game and one of my guys is just, like, 100% safe. It's nice to know one guy's immortal

The dev brain is just FLOWING lately. It's great. Spent an entire Saturday making a bunch of cool things, I'm so excited for people to see this stuff

always feel bad about saying positive stuff in the middle of The Times. gonna keep doing it anyway. I think people need to keep hearing positive news

💭imagining Sisyphus happy and with nice sneakers

wrote about quality of life game design stuff open.substack.com/pub/tylergla...

when cloud services hound me to pay for the 50th time

genuinely I think "guy says something that's easily proven wrong, but sounds impressive/plausible to the layperson" is the most aggravating kind of guy. there is no greater source of aggravation

im going to write the first open-world book

I have an idea for Falling Block Jam but it's kinda late to start and I'm kinda busy this week.... hmm...............

Some settings menus feel like cheat codes. I think it's when there's no UX feedback. They look foreign, like I'm seeing the Matrix

Banning espresso from my household. Too many panic attacks

being in games world gives you a leg up in understanding the stupidity of our culture while also ensuring that no one outside of that world really takes anything you have to say that seriously

Blaster Master was the best NES metroidvania. They should have called the genre CastleMasters. Or like. Blastroids

Just got Pagliacci'd when I asked google for good Roguelike Deckbuilder / Tactics games, and it suggested Cobalt Core

there's gotta be other famous shrouds besides the one from Turin, right

a small price to pay for mole inside

Slugma -> Magcargo is such a good Pokemon evolution. It just cools down a bit, so it hardens a shell, its flames die down a bit, and its overall color darkens. It's so simple! It rules!!!!

adobe / word now have this godless AI warning "this appears to be a long document? read a summary instead?" Me, at a keynote for the 8 people able to graduate from college in 2030: 🎤 "Brief. Cogent. Succinct? Three words for FAILURE. You are thinking meat. Be unsummarizable. Death to the machine"

I'm peak sleepy 😴 PAX was great but PAX is a lot

I feel like it's cheating for an acronym's full name to include a letter. NURBS shouldn't get to be "Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines", the B is cheating It's like a double-zipped language file

I am inebriated and leaving the final PAX party, AMA

Shouts out to Seattle Indies. Good energy

PAX kicks ass

First PAX in a few years where I'm not an exhibitor. Feels weird!

My wife and I just saying "Now you can use Zebra Bananza to cross crumbly crust bridges" over and over to each other, like it's an affirmative mantra

I'm ONE day into PAX and my voice is already shot

shouts out to the wizard

I wish I had occasion to say this in every conversation

If I remade The Truman Show in 2025 the only change I'd make is that it's not all streaming to one singular channel/platform. He'd have his romance and fun outings on one channel and his sleepy time on another. he'd have an onlyfans and a twitch "just chatting" stream and it'd just swap between em

It must be so fuckin frustrating to be the guard who always lies. Like you go home and you say "oh I had a bad day today, honey" but it was a good day. You couldn't get that truth out. That sucks ass dude