I wrote about level design readability: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

Trump is immediate and bad, but we are going to have to overthrow the billionaires — the tech ones, the oil ones, the media ones, the retail ones, the healthcare ones, the agriculture ones, all of them.

the big dogs treat people like shit, the gamers treat people like shit, you’re just copping it from all sides constantly

Every day like today solidifies my belief all video game workers need to unionize. We need layoff protections, we need stability, today’s headlines are absolutely gut wrenching and enough is enough

Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.

new blog post: some Manifesto Jam 2026 notes + my submission for this year, "A Game Is A Knife"

an important skill, when directing a project, is to be able to imagine what the finished product will look like before it has been made

the opposite of "fromsoft" is "to hard". which interesting because that's what their games are

Mina the Hollower has sold 500,000 copies! 🐭🕯️ Half a million Hollowers have descended into Tenebrous Isle, and we’re completely blown away. Thank you for playing, sharing, reviewing, streaming, and believing in our haughty little mouse. The adventure is just getting started! ⚔️

“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” Shut it all down. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Tune in over the week, I'm gonna be showing these QG Creators how a Riot employee plays League! 😏😉

Yesterday I went to my first ever pride event! I've always been too shy or too busy or too afraid, but being surrounded by people like me was life-changing.

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

Pro-Tip: during Pride month if you give a queer person $100, they get $100, it really works, try it!

What goes into deciding Australia's game of the year?
 I speak to past judges @legenette.bsky.social, @nikpantis.bsky.social, @cassgray.bsky.social and Rick Salter, on how they went about judging, managing bias, and playing all of those games!

This is real btw

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

First 'Dev Diary' for Godzone 6 on our fancy forum... Just like the internet used to be. forum.godzone6.com/threads/godz...

Bought a bike AMA

Solar works by bouncing the light back at the sun. In exchange for letting it look at itself and say "oh yeah" from behind its shades 12 hours of the day (it turns off at night), the sun pays our electrical bills. But your understanding of our cosmos is good too

More 👏 jizz

Started reading The Name of the Wind - enjoying it so far 😀

trans people deserve to live, freely and openly and safely and unconditionally

Someone at work had an abundance of lemons from their tree. Score! Free lemon!

doing game dev sometimes feels like a constant succession of “step 2: draw the rest of the owl”

Blue Prince (2025)

No spoilers but I legit can't wait for you to see what my team is cooking 👀

I didn't pass the final rounds for a potential gig (totally fine!!) BUT that means: ✨I'm looking for work✨ I write nostalgic music, statisfying sfx and make sure they're well implemented! I also can help you with audio direction, scoping and budgeting! nehapatelaudio.com RTs appreciated!

I finally decided to start cultivating more and more this platform since Twitter has become a major contributor to the worsening of my mental health sooo... can I ask you to help me building back here some visibility? I make colorful maps with lots of detail, thanks if you want to share them! 🙏

Hey Aussies! I booked my flights back to Australia - I'll be back in Melbourne in October for a few weeks. Down to hang!

Witch Hat is an obvious love letter to drawing, made by someone who loves drawing and has achieved God level status with pen and ink. But it's also a story of the joy of creativity, the joy of honing a craft, that you're not born with talent but if you work hard Talent is for everyone.

I've been taking a night class outside of work recently (creative writing) and it's been pretty fulfilling having a creative outlet again. I've written SO MUCH over the past few months!

I was once catching up with a few people whose careers I respect to get some thoughts about what to do next and one of them said "You know, your next thing doesn't have to be bigger than your last thing." And it remains one of the most creatively freeing things I've ever heard.

If the new Fable game doesn't have Assassin Rush as a spell I'm going to be so sad Does anyone know anyone at Playground Games? 👀

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my parents on the moon launch mom: why are they going to the moon dad: same reason we go to your brother in Australia- some people like going very far away to a place where you die if you go outside

⏳ 2 days left! If applying to Questline: Online or Questline: Gamescom has been sitting on your to-do list… this is your sign to finish it 👀 Deadline: April 5 Mentorship, coaching, and industry connections are waiting. Apply → buff.ly/rciJGIV #gamedev #questline

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

NEW ARTICLE! NEW ARTICLE!! Ever wonder ~why~ so many Western stories about samurai all tell you a story about someone who really, really, really likes honor? Where did that come from? And why is it so pervasive? What are samurai movies really about? medium.com/@docseuss/wh...

Went on a seaside hike. Saw some gay lizards. Made a tortoise friend named Nomad.

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Because not shipping is the tier 0 fail case for game development, long ideation gets a bad rap. But for some class of design problems or ideas generally, there is no substitute for letting them steep at their own pace

How can indie save the industry when you often have to work for months with no pay to make a fully realized vertical slice to get a funding deal that takes half your profit and provides almost no marketing in many cases

🎮 #DownloadForCharity is live! Today’s featured item: the Animated Armor of Collaboration Familiar Pack for Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms, created specially to support the event. 🎥 Creators are also streaming DLC games today — check the schedule below 👇 buff.ly/EWPAtS2

don't let them have an inch when theyre trying to take miles. we don't concede on trans people in sports just like we wont concede on trans people anywhere else. period.

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everyone in the games industry understands this with no added context