new vlog: I liked the Louise Bourgeois exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery vt.tiktok.com/ZSy9c4oxY/

lil level design thing: I didn't like how these two walls met at their corners, felt thin / weak / implausible? but no room left to resize anything seriously... took me a while to realize I could just thicken the facade with beefy columns, also win some continuity across the facade too

new vlog: how to enjoy summer in Aotearoa New Zealand vt.tiktok.com/ZSyuKGWSW/

new blog post: notes on quest design in Dread Delusion, a very good indie first person RPG / Morrowind-like www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/11/drea...

The biggest day in esports has arrived. Q-UP is out. store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...

saw this on tiktok and it changed my life youtu.be/gHEsv9zs3mQ

lol someone sent me a gift card but the gift card vendor email didn't say who it was from and looked so suspicious I inspected the raw email auth headers and double-checked the raw html and I lowkey spiraled over clicking the "redeem egift" link or not

this 0.2 second cheek skin bounce effect had a higher budget than most indie games

watched natural born killers. the style has aged really well, feels like anime sometimes, araki esque

video call scenes in tv and movies are definitely worse than phone call scenes

On Saints Row we had a debug npc named Skinballs (lol) that was literally just four spheres wrapped in different shades of skin texture so we could test lighting for different skin tones during development. But teams need to plan for that kind of testing with intentionality, and not enough do.

is “baseball is stupid / weird (complimentary)” a mainstream opinion? I haven’t been following it much, beyond ohtani / this world series stuff / that guy with the huge ass

norwest bank (designed by louis sullivan), horizontal view, broadway, owatonna, minnesota, 1988

just learned “glitch” comes from Yiddish + 1940s radio culture en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch?...

Come work with me!

 We've opened the search for a full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Game Arts at Pratt Institute. 

A good match would be an artist, game developer, or educator with an active creative practice in indie games, game studies and theory, playful coding, or art games.

damn I should've taken the physics class in high school. now I just have this random useless fake physics spider-sense cobbled together from making video games

meals are unnatural. most animals are snacking creatures

New Game: Egg terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg

my main competition is also tiktok. and I also lost this competition instantly

👀 look at our 14th annual lineup for Nov. 22, making some new games JUST FOR YOU (if you come here) Jana Romanova @nicole.pizza (Crush House, etc) & @okremiok.bsky.social (Pikuniku, etc) @alt254.bsky.social & @chouxsalad.bsky.social (Metagaming, Triforce, etc) Julián Cordero (despelote, etc)

hand modeled a tree out of brushes (it was painful) but I think the level needs the visual contrast, maybe needs some shrubs too

silent cartographer discourse made me quadruple the map size into a giant island thing. only the beachhead has a near-final flow so far, still trying to resolve the rest of it

Coming in Spring 2026: Oeuf, a 3D physics platformer where U egg. Wishlist innit. store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/...

making “pibil” (yucatan bbq pork) wrapped in banana leaves from our backyard

the only cool thing about halo was how the suit was constantly jacking him off

the guys who love that AI FPS video are the same guys who whine about puddle reflections and vagina bones

it was a bit painful to build the trim and align the textures, but now I can just copy and paste until there's a level

Reminder: Spooky Express is OUT NOW! 🚂🧟🧛 Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania. Steam: s.team/a/3352310 itch: draknek.itch.io/spooky-express iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id673842... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

at the New Zealand doctors / nurses / teachers / firefighters megastrike marching down the main street in Auckland

*screams*

new vlog: Kauaeranga Kauri Trail (Pinnacles Hut Walk) in Aotearoa New Zealand vt.tiktok.com/ZSUGQsa4v/

lol the other day I had to be the one to scold rude tourists because all the new zealanders were avoiding confrontation

"Return of the Obra Dinn" is seven years old this week. For this not-particularly-special anniversary, here's a re-cammed and narrated timelapse of (nearly) all character creation, object modeling, scene posing, and general 3D work for Obra Dinn from 2015 to 2018: youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s

getting all bricked up

enjoying The Wise-Woman's Dog, 2nd place in this year's Interactive Fiction competition - you play as a dog in 1280 BCE and there's copper merchants and everything. play online in your browser -- ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...

I'm helping with level design on @sleightofhand.game ... the idea of this stealthy trainyard map is to contrast compact metro stations vs. long train tunnels vs. platforms where you duck into / beneath carriages #blocktober

The 2025 Interactive Fiction competition ended this weekend, with results being posted. I wanted to list my favorite games I played out of it – even if you haven't been paying attention, I think you owe it to yourself to try these. azhdarchid.com/the-2025-int...

I'm proud to announce the start of the Quake Brutalist Jam 3, featuring a custom near total conversion mod www.slipseer.com/index.php?th...

planning a little overnight hike. dinner will be leftover spaghetti bolognese. breakfast will be spicy miso ramen. also pictured: snacks

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

some New Zealand language stuff has been easy to adopt, like saying "garage" like "gair-edge", or talking at half my normal volume... but I think I'm never going to be ok with saying "serviette" instead of "napkin", it just feels wrong

Thread on what it took to port Rift Riff, made in Godot, to iOS and Android. 🧵👇 #godotengine #gamedev

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

dog spinner www.pigenpalace.com/dogspinner/

tearing into the mod files for the mysummerdog addon and finding the funniest UV unwrap ive ever seen in my life

saw “monica” by daniel clowes at the library and started flipping through it… and then I had to sit down and finish it immediately. love that bottom left panel

just made poke at home for the first time… so much better than average rando office chump lunch poke. and it’s not hard to do. strongly recommend. take control of your life

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...