Setup is complete and Hello Sunshine is shiny & ready for day one of Tokyo Game Show!

THE DREAM LIVES. THIS IS ALL I’M GONNA TALK ABOUT FOR WEEKS

Hello Sunshine is heading to Tokyo Game Show 2025! 🌞 For the first time, you’ll be able to play an early demo of the game. We’re so proud of what the team has been building, and can’t wait to finally share. If you’re heading to TGS, come find us! Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/3245140/

Hear Say is one of the few digital games that evokes the same manic, giddy energy you tap into when you’re doing improv exercises. whoever directed this one did an incredible job 👀

new folk horror vibes that are still so distinctly Pacific Drive — Ironwood i love you

if you’re trying to unionize and start to feel your momentum fading, take a beat to imagine what Bryce Harper would say in your position. it will reinvigorate you immediately

so well said, & we need to resist the cultural norm that urges juniors to be endlessly deferential and accommodating. you deserve to be listened to & respected as much as anyone. in the immortal words of the seattle garages (blaseball): "no one you look up to is better than you are"

they should invent an industry that isn't actively collapsing

HE DID IT 🚨

🚨EARNEST MARINER ENJOYMENT KLAXON🚨

Raleigh just barely scraping by the first round of the hr derby and then hitting more than two of his competitors combined in the second round is such a Mariner move. i won't talk about what the subsequent Mariner move would be however

hey i'm jess & i'm doing #portfolioday since some games i've been working on were recently announced! i'm a professor and narrative designer -- currently working with Red Thread Games on Hello Sunshine, and i've worked on other projects for them, Studio Chyr, Six to Start, Carnegie Hall, & more

Dustborn is now available for macOS! It runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs — but the more modern, the better, of course. The game plays beautifully on my Mac Studio M1 Max. apps.apple.com/no/app/dustb...

idk how to tell you this but there are two frogs living in this shoe. i haven’t been able to get both of them in one shot yet but stay tuned for updates

i sometimes see this going around on july 4th which always feels strange to me bc Lyn Fireemblem would not say that. she would probably say something more based. pretty sure she didn’t even believe in borders

we need to unionize so bad

idk why so many gamedevs are posting about placeholder text rn but i will share the tip from publishing that our industry doesn’t use nearly enough: typing “tk” (shorthand for “to come”) in places where text is not final makes it quick & easy to locate in any searchable documents

It's 2005 and your brother is dead; nothing to do but game. 👾Loading... Coming 2025. Wishlist on Steam here: store.steampowered.com/app/2163660/...

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

i was a narrative designer on Hotel Infinity and can attest to the brilliance & excellence of both the game and everyone who worked on it. truly some of the coolest, cleverest level design i've ever seen! you don't want to miss it

me when i’m designed in a lab specifically to piss off new yorkers

spent my afternoon making a short little web game for New Yorkers called "Don't Rank Cuomo"... it has 10 levels. it's very realistic and challenging. can YOU don't rank Cuomo? play in browser (free): radiatoryang.itch.io/cuomo

why are they doing this to me. it’s not even noon and Cal Raleigh is hitting dingers already. and i missed it

that’s me!!

And another - Dustborn, now with some good reviews after weathering a storm of right-wing grifters abusing the devs. An overtly queer anti-fascist road trip adventure through an alt-universe America. It's like a Telltale adventure (with lots of reactivity) with some light super-powered combat bits.

this notification is like ten days old but it reads like the Mariners are one massive guy whose limbs are made of smaller individual guys. “George Kirby (shoulder) and Logan Gilbert (elbow)” like if MLB teams were transformers. is this anything

blown away by how much good faith clair obscur builds w/ the player. people are (wrongly) saying the story doesn't hold your hand, when actually it looks you in the eye anytime things are confusing & says "yes, it's confusing. keep going." i'd expect this to grate after a while but somehow it didn't

Pretty sure if my graduate advisor knew this was what I was doing with my degree he'd come to my house and kill me with a pitchfork

posting late, but our GDC panel on fostering clear communication is now online! in that spirit, there's no paywall or login. watch if you wanna hear @akashthakkar.com, @zeeodd.bsky.social, @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social, @charlieartifact.bsky.social & me talk about talking gdcvault.com/play/1035075...

This update has been a huge labor of love from the whole team. GET OUT INTO THE ZONE!

EVERYONE SAY THANK YOU ROWDY TELLEZ

i work on a game called Hello Sunshine. i am pre-ordering a graphic novel called Hello Sunshine (no relation other than they both seem great)

apple tv friday night baseball commentators explaining (lying) that Cal Raleigh has the second-highest stolen strike record because he's "big" and doesn't have to "move much" to frame pitches. when we all know it's really because he has honest sincere earnest sweetheart eyes that no ump can deny

i’ve gotten to contribute to exciting stuff at Red Thread recently, including some of the materials for Hello Sunshine! watch the trailer, wishlist, keep an eye out for updates. the team is cooking up something really fun here ☀️

i'll be at @narrascope.org this year talking about creating better workflows for game narratives! this is one of the best conferences for people working in interactive narrative, so if that's you, check it out. & i hear that membership registration is discounted for the next 24hrs or so 👀

gonna start pronouncing testosterone like minestrone

happy Baseball Day to those who observe the holiday. personally i am excited to watch Cal Raleigh look sheepish for many seasons to come. also to find out if the Mariners can hit the ball ⚾

this is what i look like. if you see me at gdc come say hi and lmk if you know where to find sunflower seeds

gonna be wearing a mask for most of GDC. i know this is a huge social deterrent, but i don't have much choice due to recent health issues that have left me with severe hearing impairments -- which make conferences doubly challenging. if you know of (relatively) accessible gdc events this year, lmk!

come to our GDC panel on Monday to hear more (mis)communication GEMS from Ryan and friends 🔥🎵

i’ve gotten to contribute to exciting stuff at Red Thread recently, including some of the materials for Hello Sunshine! watch the trailer, wishlist, keep an eye out for updates. the team is cooking up something really fun here ☀️

Really happy to share I'll be at @officialgdc.bsky.social with some other amazing folks, speaking on better studio practices! Open to grabbing coffee with friends and waving enthusiastically at each other across the show floor. Drop me a line~ schedule.gdconf.com/session/inde...

i'll be at GDC! would love to meet up with gamedev friends and also make new ones -- drop me a line if you want to chat, grab a coffee, sit silently in Yerba Buena, etc ☕

incredible reporting. “He poked fun at many of the show’s nominees, and himself.” did he also arrange words in such a way as to evoke amusement or laughter, also known as joking?

they’re up to something ☀️😃

1,039 members, in fact. It keeps going up! And this is…a VERY good time to join, not just because of the cool giveaway but also because 😶

literally just gave a talk yesterday where i repeated my mantra “there’s a real urgency problem in video games these days” only to start Lost Records today & find myself saying “i can’t believe the ice cream stand closed while i recorded my 5th take of a clown standee. how could this happen. fuck.”

for years my peers & i repeatedly got the feedback that we needed to be making our personal contact information and full resumes public if we wanted work. even then i knew this was bad advice for a lot of us when i mentor recent grads now, we always cover internet safety & how to not get doxxed.

bored. thinking of taking up snoring

so hype to see this — for the past few months i’ve been working on a paper that heavily features Atari’s I, Robot from 1984 serendipitous to come across this remake now. can’t wait to play