Absolum review: feels like a labor of love! i Don’t know enough about this genre to overthink it’s goodness, but I was a sucker for the fake beating the game (and finding the real end boss). It’s like if someone pulled a curtain and yelled, “he’s the real Hootie!” (at a Hootie and the blowfish show)

Would you rather take care of a horse or really slimy cat?

new definition: it's a roguelike if there's a floor

it‘s wonderful to be where I’ve always wanted to be (listening to harry nilsson)

My 2025 talk 'Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game' is now also available in text format, for those who like to read instead of watch: rystorm.com/blog/gyms-zo... And if you haven't seen it yet, there is an all new video too, with bonus material on the history of Zoos!

After hating game jams forever, I like them. I’m Stravinsky in my 12-tone era.

wandering in search of the trashcan that wasn’t there and finally resigned to swallow your chewing gum

when people ask me what designers actually do, i always lie hehehe

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

RIP Béla Tarr. I first saw The Werckmeister Harmonies in downtown Manhattan, a month or so after 9/11. A strange, slow, melancholy film that's haunted and inspired me ever since.

join us 2/19 for our first ever lecture series event, featuring @ellaguro.bsky.social: "What Doth Videogame? A personal history of art and life in the age of collapse." following the talk will be a listening party for liz's new album, Saint Elizabeth! rsvp here: www.eventbrite.com/e/boshis-lec...

I feel like every pitchfork review starts after the reviewer has had one drink and concludes after about 6 more

every military commander on stranger things

RIP to Jerry Kasenetz, who if I'm being honest had just as much influence on my musical taste in college as Brian Eno

my daughter is excited about sleeping in the taxi to the airport tomorrow. back in the u.s.[awkward pause].a.

Alright gang, there's a Senior Level Designer opening on my team. You know the drill. 👇 Please pass this along and AMA* jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions...

playing strife for the first time (haven’t had a chance to play with audio-enabled because kids were asleep). i am in love with these super simple abstract hub worlds (chapter 1 of Hexen 2 being another favorite, and half-life 2 roleplaying server maps).

year-end games list: Felvidek It's pretty sad story but always a bit eccentric and humorous too. It's like if the weird magic stuff they did in a "A Plague Tale" to explain "the plague" was done with a little bit more charm and a more emphasis on being historically accurate. Wished it was longer!

(true story) the first and only time i've met a known mobster, they were wearing sweat pants and playing heroes of might and magic 3 on a gigantic gaming laptop

morton feldman saturday night: "[Feldman would criticize] a student's piece as unclear, and the student would protest, "But you have to listen to it more than once," and Feldman would sneer, "Kid's 21, and he thinks I'm going to listen to his fuckin' piece twice."

my daughter asked me to search google images for “butterfly” and when the screen loaded, she clicked on a monarch and did a chef’s kiss

i will never write a story ever again!

me: i don’t feel safe with other people. like, any praise in general my brain dismisses it Therapist Who is a Caveman: me see. you am deserve love. we all am. yes. need love survive me: i guess. it’s just hard trying to function when you still got your training wheels on Caveman Therapist: wheel?

If you’re a designer in the game industry, please fill this in to help the next generation: forms.office.com/pages/respon... Because my old university is wondering: In a constrained 4-year timeline, which roles, skills, and experiences are most critical for a graduate's employability in your sector?

My coworkers trying to steer the lunchtime conversation

if a game has piano music that is supposed to represent some emotional journey of finding yourself as an attainable thing, it makes me so unhappy

Best part of arc raiders is listening! Worst part is being a horrible shot and having the ui tooltip cover so much of my inventory

common cringe memory Rare cringe Unique Cringe Set of cringe memories Now read backwards seiromem egnirc fo teS egnirC euqinU Egnirc eraR yromem egnirc nommoc

the easiest English word to read is “bed”, because it looks like a little bed 🙂

NEW INDIGO 2025 TALK AVAILABLE ONLINE! Zeke Virant (@godzekesatan.bsky.social) - Lead Game Designer at MachineGames Talk: Picking Up Things in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Video: youtu.be/n3vUWo3qsbU Recorded at INDIGO 2025! #techtalk #gamedev #gameevent #gamedesign #indianajones

arc raiders day 2 desires: - more loud robots making synth screams at me - to actually get some understanding about their looting system

Always a bridesmaid, never a priority customer or veteran

i am a rock, i am a volcano-formed mass in the middle of the atlantic ocean called lanzarote. i'm fun!

"kathy, im lost" i said though i knew she had a fever of 38.7 centigrade.

I like stone

Looking for nominees for the best spreadsheet of all time

3:​Oh my dear brother, life can put you in odd ways. It will take the ten things you love most about the world and make it such noise that all beauty becomes but the ten things you hate the most. 2:​As is the beat and rhythm of being that what you are will become thunder and then forever lost.

midlife crisis plan is still half-life 1 mod

I don’t talk about it much because the situation doesn’t really change but it’s still insane to me what an enormous amount of really talented game developers are out of work. just whole studios worth of incredible people, often people who worked on beloved games, unemployed.

It might be a losing battle, but it's not a lost cause. And sure, "Odesa" beats its drum to the standard slop toss of corpo-AAA, but at least it's not 300 million dollars of gold-painted rocks.

I can’t believe I thought my children would eat cabbage

it's getting dark, too dark to see, feels like i'm knockin' on heaven's door www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX9Z...

Looks like I'm looking for work. If anyone out there happens to have a lead or principal level design gig in Austin or remote, I'm all ears.

the great joy of this stuck in your head (some parts at least) for 3 months

Do you think Paul Simon is telling Cathy or Kathy ”I’m lost” in “America?” No cheating!

@jessefuchs.bsky.social i think Love is a bit of an outlier in the early masculine prog idea. Or as they say, and if you‘ll see andmoreagain, you will know andmoreagain. (Whatever that means!)