It’s so weird that not so long ago, like, less than 20 years, the progressive feminist position was gender de-segregation in sport and other male dominated spaces. Then the terfs came along and convinced the mainstream that the most progressive feminist position is that women are weak and feeble.

huh what could this be for

I’m not a fan of politicians trying to make people angry for votes by claiming there actually IS a “war on cars” (there isn’t — if anything there’s been a war on every OTHER way of getting around since the 1960s). A politician just made the claim on LinkedIn. Here’s the reply I posted. #UrbanTruth

Spent the morning making it so when you re-enter a zone, if no new "zone" / overworld music has played, it starts the track off in different spots. Pretty small but really helps keep any annoyance at bay when you're going in and out of an area!

it's kinda fun zooming all the way out on big screens while editing

Red should mean stop. Full stop.

A friend... cityofnone.com with @noelfb.bsky.social

I have so many things to say about this bullshit, but my overriding reaction is “congrats, you played yourself.”

nothing makes me more satisfied than my little-box box

Horsey Game is released at long last! Behold my magnum flopus! store.steampowered.com/app/3602570/...

I feel like I'm improving at channelling the 16-year-old-me energy that made the original Jumper

building playtest level

I don't think anything is more exciting to me than a whole 2010-"fuck it, this is cool/important to me, we're making it"-coded indie game, made by a team-up of two of the most notable indie devs still standing of their dinstinct waves of indie devs, over what is basically a decade of work.

Abandoning self-hosted php forums continue to be a mistake

"it's just performance" ... well you're getting mad about it sooooo

I talked about this in a video. Wearing a 'Fuck Nazis' hat out in your community is performative. And that is good. Performing as a person who cares about your community is good. It's like last year when people were complaining about virtue signaling. Signaling my virtues is good!

Who’s your Super Bowl halftime performer? Wrong answers only

Really interest statistic about Winnipeg. Surprising that we're more car free than Vancouver, but also in line with the general underestimation of my city and what life is/can be like here.

in a month, it won't be possible to purchase or download the software that opens thousands of beastieball's most valuable, labored project files. 😅 i was going to make a joke but all i can think is "why"? a generation of artists grew up with flash... what a profound waste...

a very important addition to the moveset: the scooch

I thought the money from me alone would've been plenty to keep Native Instruments around 3 more years at least. My Fantasy: Fabfilter buys them & then makes their own DAW that's a licensed skin of REAPER but it's Fabfilter beautiful & it has Izotope RX built into every audio region. & world peace.

the Cave Story mockup that almost came out officially. I worked with the Cave Story publisher Nicalis for a few months developing a pixel art but higher resolution version of the game. Pixel approved! Here's also some upscaled sprites, showing options #pixelart

canadians while voting for libertarians and higher police budgets: damn look at what’s happening in the usa glad that ain’t us

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

game design is about super-positioning and becauses learning how to make a level that is secretly seven different levels at once, overlaid on itself, so people w different approaches can find their own way through learning how to make a level that gives people a "because"...i went this way BECAUSE

Big news: Canada changed their citizenship rules and now if you've ever had a direct ancestor who was a citizen, you are now automatically a citizen too! www.canada.ca/en/immigrati... I've been sharing this around, and I know a few people who've discovered they're now Canadian citizens!

This is tomorrow!! A huge honour to have my music performed by the @wpgsymphony.bsky.social, alongside a bunch of other great pieces

👀👀👀

that's goddamn right blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...

wellllpp

heh heh heh, let me add you to my rss manager....

making video games over here

Carney promises 2026 will see huge economic growth that will absolutely not include you

I am begging Steinberg to make Cubase run on Linux (even though it'll probably never happen)

Living with Windows has always been a calculus of how useful it is professionally vs. the amount of unbearable shit you gotta disable with a script and I think we reached a tipping point where it’s majority unbearable shit.

I think the way for artists to combat ai slop in 2026 is to lean hard into showing process & WIP. No ai user is going to generate days or weeks of work in progress images & post them because they want to entirely slip the work part. Embrace the process & let everyone see it.

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

there was a period in the old indie days where we would put like “more games!” menu in our games where we would be like “if you like this try these!” and just list the names of your friends games or other indie games that were similar the player might enjoy. might be a cool thing to bring back

Related: drawing of Kirby by programmer Hiroaki Suga

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Please…. I’m begging you… if your game has a dialogue choice… and all the answers say the same thing in a different way…. You can just remove the dialogue choice……

I've seen lots of acceleration due to the use of AI: acceleration of inequality, acceleration of climate catastrophe, acceleration of slop, acceleration of trust collapse, acceleration of scams, acceleration of model collapsed acceleration of misinformation, acceleration of drought

This. Spec work of any kind is anti-labour and should not be legal. Also it isn't something creatives can just "not do," there are tons of artists who need the work and can't pass up the chance. It's a catch-22, needing change by the very people it benefits... or government regulation, please?

can't get enough of this. By Hiroo Isono

New areas necessitate new enemies! Spent a couple days futzing with this guy cityofnone.com with @noelfb.bsky.social

I'm not super up with the discourse, but, is the difference between AAA and indie / whatever just the difference between who is labouring vs. who owns the IP?

as a game dev turned theatre nerd turned back into game dev I can absolutely confirm

I'm hoping for more articles on this situation, because we cannot stay quiet: www.gamesradar.com/games/simula...