ARTISTS ARE ESSENTIAL WORKERS. IF YOU DOUBT THAT, TRY GOING WITHOUT BOOKS, ART, MUSIC, TV, MOVIES, OR ANY OF THE THINGS THAT SHAPE HOW WE COMMUNICATE, RELAX, AND UNDERSTAND THE WORLD. ALL OF WHICH EXIST ONLY BECAUSE OF CREATIVE CRAFTSPERSONSHIP.

photo of the process: shot in my living room with very careful lighting on a nikon F3

gonna be selling a zine of these photos at Toronto Games Week Mart thing next sunday

shot on expired kodak vision (Remjet backing) in winter 2023

shot on a mixture of nikon f3, canon ae-1 and sony a7s composited optically in-camera, no photoshop or digital post effects used 1/18th scale miniatures with rear projection (E6 reversal film)

CGI was the worst thing to ever happen to James Cameron all of his films before he was able to fully lean on the technology were quite unique and interesting technical challenges. those physical limitations meant a lot of creative thinking the rear projection work in Aliens still blows me away

I've lost track of how many years I've been using this Annual Christmas Graphic for Jazzpunk. A Decade?? Its tradition now! ALSO a reminder that Jazzpunk is currently less than $$$4 bucks on Steam! Go buy it for all your friends an impose your sense of humor on them!

I wish I was smart enough to ingest and utilize what I'm sure is crazy good information Abrash is a legend!

UPDATE: I just got off the phone with the bank, and to get my car back, I need to pay the entire remaining balance, which is a little over $5K. I feel awful asking for any more after how overwhelmingly powerful the response has been so far(!), but unfortunately we aren't quite out of the woods yet.

Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.

If you dont make an easy mode I will hack your game or play it with Trainers (cheats) on Real Life is short enough as it is, I dont have time to die and replay the same level over and over.

I've lost track of how many years I've been using this Annual Christmas Graphic for Jazzpunk. A Decade?? Its tradition now! ALSO a reminder that Jazzpunk is currently less than $$$4 bucks on Steam! Go buy it for all your friends an impose your sense of humor on them!

Jazzpunk ($3.74) - in the most bizarre version of the Cold War to ever exist, you must guide your Fisher Price toy looking secret agent to solve (?) problems (???) by doing... things? (?????) it reminds me of the bizarreness of Lego Island, in a good way. store.steampowered.com/app/250260/J...

oh hey its every politician on earth

... also A+ character selection.

the fact that Fortnite has become its own closed ecosystem/store is really disturbing its like if people just ate Mcdonalds all day so Mcdonalds had to also start selling laundry detergent and infant formula and toilet paper, cause people would not walk to another store.

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I am so deeply sorry to be in the position to have to pull this lever again, but I just watched my car get towed away and I don't really know what else to do anymore. More details in the update & description, but if you're able to help out or share, we would be grateful beyond words.

the first person to make a Space game or movie that does not borrow from 2001 space odyssey, Aliens, Starwars, et al, will have my undying attention.

the fact that Fortnite has become its own closed ecosystem/store is really disturbing its like if people just ate Mcdonalds all day so Mcdonalds had to also start selling laundry detergent and infant formula and toilet paper, cause people would not walk to another store.

the first person to make a Space game or movie that does not borrow from 2001 space odyssey, Aliens, Starwars, et al, will have my undying attention.

2014: Bayonetta 2 2025: Jazzpunk (Though I didn’t play Jazzpunk in 2014 cos I’m a poor console pleb & we didn’t get it that year IIRC)

It was Jazzpunk in 2014, and it's still Jazzpunk now.

Keep going. Be meaner. Aim whatever lizard-brain impulse you have towards cruelty and violence in this direction.

I advocate for Better Tools, Pipelines. A lot of the tools we use in gamedev are hacked together. they were not designed with iteration in mind we have a cobbling of 3D software meant for movies, Adobe crap which hasn't been improved since 1996, + random tools. its a mess; it slows everything down

I don't know why I should have to say this, but don't punish players for exploring or for wanting to explore

Ive never seen a game capture what I personally think is fascinating about castles, armour, mail, swords, etc .. so I might have to try my hand at that someday

just a daily reminder that the Ford's Ontario Government is a poison on Toronto and seeks nothing but retribution on its citizens

I'm burnt out, man

this made my soul ache

may your Data Centers Rot in Hell

its over, baby

The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht

31: Jazzpunk I really cannot describe this game in words that will make sense, but if you want an absurd romp through a propaganda filled world that puts you in increasingly bizarre scenarios, this game is undoubtedly for you.

As soon as japanese developers started catering to the west rather than domestic markets, the whole medium suffered this happened around the PS3 era and things just started getting really bland. One of the core reasons many of us fell in love with the medium was the different perspective on life

this is the corner that traumatized an entire generation of players I distinctly remember when I first saw this, summer of 1997, playing a rented copy of RE1 in my friend's basement never had I encountered this level of peril with a digital monster. they'd all be very fun and light-hearted prior

I just threw up in my mouth its disgusting how many Porsches I see on a daily basis now. just wealth-signalling bankers who think they're high class, driving around a glorified van

good night for Co-Op games. by which i mean two were announced instead of none

something about this robot arm hovering at the top of the screen in Forest3 really bothered me. its like an itch I can't scratch

Old Lady Game is Cool been waiting forever for someone to make an old lady character

off to a good start: non-human protagonist. novel character controller. non-violent but inherently rewarding herding mechanic. doggo is approved

this is the corner that traumatized an entire generation of players I distinctly remember when I first saw this, summer of 1997, playing a rented copy of RE1 in my friend's basement never had I encountered this level of peril with a digital monster. they'd all be very fun and light-hearted prior

Hey Netflix, if Warner Bros Games Division is so worthless, just give it to me I'll make all the Peewee Herman, Police Academy, Gremlins, and All the President's Men games you cowards would never touch kotaku.com/netflix-warn...

patlabor 1 & 2 punch way way way wayyyyy above their weight. I never see them discussed in the Pantheon of important anime films, but I think they're just as important as GITS and Akira unbelievable work by Oshii and the whole I.G. staff. high water marks for the medium

the most important colour is also missing (!):

been looking up laserdiscs to acquire and I just cant even begin with this Blade Runner release...from Criterion of all places THIS is how far they've come. this looks like some back-alley 1980s hong kong street bootleg did criterion simply not employ graphic designers in the 80s? TIMES NEW ROMAN?

glad to hear the kids are sick of renting everything in their lives buy a PSP. buy a Game Boy. A Walkman. collect the UMDs, tapes, carts, or hack the shit out of it and download roms. add a backlight. no one owns it but you. it can play movies, it can play MP3s. shit used to be functional

It's got less spyware. It doesn't have a subscription. It has buttons. It generally works and if not is easier to repair. It's not as easy to get hacked. They don't get constant pop ups and ads. They're fucking right too. Tech has just become rent seeking bloatware.

A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage. Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word. A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).