Sure is tempting…

Oops, bought a Japanese Sega Saturn (It was so so cheap, I had to)

I know we're all sick to death of AI, but let me do one more complaint (just one, I promise... for today) This is really scummy of Adobe. "Use AI to generate Alt text!" Ok, that's kind of useful. "But it'll cost you". Right. Of course. (I know my Adobe tax covers it, but that ain't the point)

I just came across these MegaDrive cartridge dioramas (neat!) and saw this Street Fighter one... which made me remember this awful Snes controller one I had as a kid. Quality control didn't exist back then, ya see (I still liked it)

Interesting… it feels like there have been a lot of British voices in RPGs recently. I just assumed it was a trend or a stereotype for medieval themed games to use Brits now?

We're reuniting with @ant-workshop.com to bring you Into the Slimy Mines, a tower defense roguelike with a card twist! You can expect... ⚒️Intergalactic Mining Dwarves 🦠Hundreds and thousands of Slimes ⚒️Did we mention the Intergalactic Mining DWARVES? youtu.be/9MPBCESan6Q

Well the screen burn is definitely getting worse… always temporary… but serves me right for buying second hand and trying to save money I guess?? I don’t want to spend hundreds more…

Random whinge about Twitter/X... There was so much good stuff on there, still indexed by search engines, which now all lead to dead ends as everyone blitzed their accounts. I know it's the least of his crimes, but regardless, thanks Elon 😡

Put-this idea-in the oven-for a while Leave it there C’mon Leave it there C’mon Leave. it. There.

Some more life drawing as I was discussing it yesterday and realised I haven’t done any in a while. Great perspective poses from line-of-action.com

The very official end of Flash. Kind of sad! It’s doubly sad as Adobe won’t have anything to replace it but will have more AI tools…

I've seen some things made with Decker, I didn't know it was a toolset. Also, Mmm, old MacOS System 7 nostalgia.

EARTH MUST DIE is OUT NOW. Starring Joel Fry, Martha Howe-Douglas, @alexhorne.bsky.social @misterabk.bsky.social @benstarr.bsky.social @5teviem.bsky.social Tamsin Greig, Don Warrington and LOADS of other people. It's cheap | good | funny, check it out. store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

"You MUST buy Earth Must Die, out today on Steam!" Is the kind of thing VValak would *probably* say. It was an absolute blast working with @danthat.bsky.social and the SizeFive Games team on EMD, so I did this quick VValak sketch to celebrate. (The style is sooo quick to draw, it's really pleasing!)

Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit

Testing reality-bending visual effects for my game! #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev #Steam #WishlistOnSteam #SteamGame #ActionAdventure #IndieGames #GamingNews #PCGaming #GodotEngine

One other Earth Must Die thing from the archives - because I love seeing other people's WIP stuff, and I think it's good to expose what a mess games are for the longest time: Here's what EMD looked like when @mikerose.bsky.social agreed to give me money, and how it looks now. Never give up.

Discussing localisation and it made me think of this example in Panzer Dragoon Saga. The translation is fantastic, apart from this meme (from a time before memes had a name) - which really threw me out of the world, which is a huge shame. But hey, whacky South Park humour! Oooooh!

It costs less than a pint in London! Lasts considerably longer too.

Pretty good double rainbow 🌈

Earth Must Die🌍💀launches January 27 on Steam! - Brand new game from THE @danthat.bsky.social - 8+ hour adventure, designed to feel like a playable cartoon - Fully voiced, with cast including Alex Horne, Joel Fry, Martha Howe-Douglas, Ben Starr, Sally Beaumont store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

Pause the video to see which character you are! (They're all good, so win-win) Just thought I'd put this together with the artwork I made for Neo Geo November :)

I might hold off playing Sonic Mania again and wait for this :)

It wasn’t nostalgia blowing things up in my mind, it was an amazing place 🥲

Takes about 5 mins, they’ll probably ignore it anyway but no harm in adding your voice

If you're interested in further Earth Must Die updates, I should let you know that will be incoming SOON, hopefully. Until then, we need like a hundred million billion wishlists, so please please please pop over here and wishlist it, thank you: store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

Of course, Maraoke fans are well versed in their Sega history already, thanks to Joel's incredible 'Hey Ya' re-write. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcbL...

Currently dealing with a 7.4GB Photoshop file and I get the feeling Photoshop wasn't quite designed for this... (15 minutes to save the file. Wheee!)

I’m not even working today and I’ve had to do tech support. After every “why does this happen?” question my response was “this is why I don’t use Microsoft products” 😐 Happy Monday all!

This is a really good article - really demonstrates AI as a platform where no user can have a creative voice, because that voice can only ever be the voice of the machine or the voice of what came before it.

Last minute Link Attack in Christmas NiGHTS. 487 isn’t bad… one year I’ll reach 999! Anyway, Merry Christmas for tomorrow everyone!

my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

UE Environment Artists and 3D character modellers - where you at? Got a really cool game that needs help in the new year - if you know anyone - holla! Reports appreciated 💃

Don't put off making what you want to make because you're "not ready yet" Not knowing how to do something and then doing it anyway is how we learn It's how we surprise ourselves. It's how we discover what no-one would have encountered by doing it "the right way"

Seeing these two side-by-side on Steam makes me appreciate the original character design more. The new one is so... generic. I guess that's a problem with aiming for realism: real life is boring!

I haven't had to do this trick in a while, but if someone sends images within a Word file (shudder) you can chuck it into a file extractor like it's a zip and get the source files. It's a neat trick that I don't think everyone knows :)

In terms of UI I can often hear a variation of “it’s more immersive, because it has less UI” But was Persona 5 audience any less immersed because of its wild interface? Was there a lack of immersion with Baldur’s Gate 3?

Saw this thing advertised on eBay... and for some reason I really want to take you for a ride? (🎵 do do do do do)

Life hack: Do that Friday desk clean super quickly by spilling water over EVERYTHING (oops)

I’m really glad we’re now at a point where we are making re-remakes… (I’m sure it’s not the first either!)

A game about an emotional journey delivered through sound and light. I did the key art and logo on this one and it was fascinating to try and capture what's in the game... it's not your typical game - and I love that! We need more of this: store.steampowered.com/app/3387310/...

This shows the amazing character art, but pay attention to the background on the top. Hand drawn parallax on those tunnels… amazing work

Woke up stupidly early so I did some life drawing of twisty poses. All with SFW undies on to save your soul

Welcome to Halcyon Dynamics! In your new role you'll be expected to process digits efficiently and build a small well-motivated team. Don't overthink it; they're definitely just digits. A narrative-driven incremental management sim. store.steampowered.com/app/4218750?...

This seems to happen at least once a day with Photoshop. GOOD.

I just accidentally hit the print option and I was greeted by an old... well, not "friend" exactly, but someone I haven't seen in some time. It's nice not using printers anymore.

Every year. Until I die. (Christmas NiGHTS time!)

Here's everything I made for NeoGeoNov in one piece. I had a lot of fun making this and there are so many other characters I'd like to add... but that will do for now. This one includes a bunch of tweaks and fixes I wanted to do. I'd love to sell this as a poster (Hello SNK IP lawyers!)

it's december and the moon is right www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt0d...

Here's everything I made for NeoGeoNov in one piece. I had a lot of fun making this and there are so many other characters I'd like to add... but that will do for now. This one includes a bunch of tweaks and fixes I wanted to do. I'd love to sell this as a poster (Hello SNK IP lawyers!)