I'd quite like if there was a podcast aimed at parents around gaming and kids, which celebrates gaming whilst being aware of its issues. Or maybe something like Pop Culture Parenting (great podcast!) where games are used as themes to reflect on kids and parenting.

CYBERSPACE 2 for(float i,z,d;z+i++<7e1;o+=vec4(z,1,9,1)/d) {vec3 p=abs(z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy));p.z+=t*5.;p+=sin(p+p);for(d=0.;d++<9.;p+=.4*cos(round(.2*d*p)+.2*t).zxy);z+=d=.1*sqrt(length(p.xyy*p.yxy));} o=tanh(o/7e3);

Nvidia is now worth more than the whole of the UK or Japan. Absolute insanity.

In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people. goodlaw.social/ncfw

ADVENTURERS! Roguelike Celebration 2025 is this coming weekend, and our Steam sale is live: store.steampowered.com/curator/4122... We also have a beautiful new shirt design from @shing.bsky.social and previous years are available as well: www.redbubble.com/people/Rogue... So exciting! 🤩

Pheasant convention going on next to our garden right now.

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Big update to Fallout London out now! With major stability and load time improvements, and a simpler installer, not to mention a tonne of new content.

I think a universal digital id card could have a bunch of benefits. But I don't trust this government not to partner with a US tech firm to sell all our data. Or just give it away, given the competence shown to date.

@sentimentbot.bsky.social bandwagoning

This disinformation age is so whacky.

Interesting article on controller inversion. I always invert my y-axis. I've tried for many hours playing games without that option, thinking I'd just adapt, but ultimately failed. I didn't realise it was like left/right-handedness. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...

I received this message on a subreddit I moderate. "Awarenauts"?! And why does these guys always have female-coded AIs? If you want a guaranteed career get into psychiatry focusing on the male loneliness epidemic. It's about to *explode*.

My fave Rogue fact: In 1975, Will Crowther created a game called Adventure. He was working at BBN on this thing called 'Arpanet'. So stuck it on there. A guy called Michael Toy found it, fell in love with it, and created Rogue. Rogue-likes are the first, true gaming child of the internet age.

The schedule for EuroMoot is now live! signumuniversity.org/event/euromo... I'll be giving a talk on Lessons on Writing from Tolkien, and debating the motion "This House Believes Feanor Did Nothing Wrong". Should be spicy.

TIL that the core of the Earth is 2½ years younger than the surface purely due to gravitational time dilation. Personally this brings the concept which I’ve always found mind blowing much closer to home and makes it more real. www.science.org/content/arti...

I just found out Jack Black played the PSI King in Psychonauts 2! Damn, what an appropriate role, and he performs it fantastically (without just sounding like himself).

The Roguelike Celebration Preview Event is this Sunday at 3PM PST, with special guests: UFO50's @perryjon.bsky.social talking game design @ezra-szanton.itch.io talking synergy in deckbuilders @apepers.bsky.social talking design for suspense And come explore our MUD's dazzling, delightful circus!

Our most recent team livestream is now available on our YouTube channel! youtu.be/JRp7aIoGpak A total of $3011 was raised for the Cancer Research Institute during Creation Mod Con this weekend - thank you all so much 🤍

One more for the evening crowd! I speak with Cogmind's Josh Ge about maintaining "mastery" focused communities and how we can design our games to fit this style of play (without leaving new players behind).

Reposting for the day crowd. Josh and I discuss what goes into designing a good "mastery"-centric gameplay, and why roguelikes are the perfect single-player mastery games.

New episode of Roguelike Radio! I'm joined by Josh Ge, developer of Cogmind, for a discussion on Designing for Mastery. Lots of great talk about how roguelikes are specifically set up as mastery games and how we can optimise for that: www.roguelikeradio.com/2025/08/rogu...

www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.

I wouldn't normally buy the Valentine's special, but for £2 I'm not going to be fussy.

on the payment processor situation from someone with experience in fintech… voidfox.com/blog/payment... “I guess I'm asking for some understanding, both of Itch's position, and the entire landscape, before declaring them at complete fault and dumping them in the sewer with all the other bad actors.”

Join us for: - a peek at the 2025 Roguelike Celebration social space - a fireside chat with @perryjon.bsky.social about design & proc gen in UFO 50 - @apepers.bsky.social talking about Designing for Systems Suspense - @ezra-szanton.itch.io talking about Synergy Webs in Roguelike Deckbuilders

Did I get a Steam account just for Dungeons of Dredmor? Sure looks that way.

itch.io has been nothing but supportive of LGBTQ+ work since the beginning. it pains me to see the community turn on them like this and so gleefully spread misinformation about them without even giving them a shred of benefit of the doubt. journalists too...

Trans people are some of the coolest & most knowledgeable people you can get to know, able to see the world from a rare perspective. That people would hear some dipshit on the TV try to wedge them apart & adopt those views is deeply sad. What a narrow & limited world it is to have no trans friends.

I was chopping chillis earlier. I thought I washed my hands properly earlier, but I just rubbed my eye and now it's exploding in pain. 0/10 Do not recommend.

This looks amazing!

a rare post where the replies are full of good riffs

This is skill.

I am an expert in games as art, and even won an award for my work aligning games and the arts. All of which is to say, this is exactly right and cracks the whole thing delightfully succinctly

Terra Randoma is 35% off this week #turnbased #roguelike #RPG in a #procgen open world bsky.app/profile/terr...

I introduced my daughter to Undertale. It's fun watching her play and appreciate the characters and theme. I had to explain what "flirt" meant though. I'm not sure I captured the light-hearted nuance of it though - she just said ew.

A bundle of over 600 games, software, and zines from 271 queer artists across itch.io. itch.io/b/3062/queer...

One month to the start of roguetemple's Fortnight. Create a traditional #roguelike in 2 weeks! itch.io/jam/roguetem... #gamejam

My sunflower is a hydra! (It's also huge - a good half metre taller than me.)

So we are hiring at the moment for two jobs - one in social media & marketing, and the other across customer experience & community. Links are here rowanrookanddecard.com/work-with-us... and I want to talk for a minute about what we’re offering beyond “a job in games”.

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them. tomlehrersongs.com

Tom Lehrer has passed away! I, uh, wasn't aware he was still alive before today. Always he'd died a long time ago. Sad news anyway. Tom wrote so many classic songs.

Reposting for the day crowd. It's a great interview with Kornel covering lots of lovely niche development challenges with updating an old game.

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LIMITED TIME OFFER: if you buy my award winning lesbian sex comedy Ladykiller in a Bind while it's on sale for $3.99 (80% off!!!) within the next five minutes I promise I will spend 100% of the proceeds on getting a really cold bubble tea loveconquersallgames.itch.io/ladykillerin...

New Roguelike Radio! I interview @epyoncf.bsky.social about the development of upcoming Jupiter Hell Classic, a crunchy "new" roguelike with some very old roots. www.roguelikeradio.com/2025/07/rogu...

Yeah, I worked in customer support and, if it's a 'peak' of one day, they will not care. They'll wipe their hands and say "ok, volumes are back to normal, it's fixed" If after a week they are still receiving pressure... Then they'll begin to get nervous

One year since we released Fallout London! Still feels like yesterday :) I'm super proud of how well its been received, especially the Kiera and Syd storylines I wrote. More content coming soon...