Frenzy is a pixel art demake of the Far Cry genre, with an original story told from an ecofeminist perspective. Now you can watch the opening cutscenes and play the first mission in the just-released demo! semioticblocks.itch.io/frenzy-missi... #screenshotsaturday #solodev #indiedev

After several weeks of polishing, debugging, and otherwise stressing out the first demo for my game Frenzy is finally here! Good to be done but now I'm even more stressed 😅 #gamedev #solodev #indieddev semioticblocks.itch.io/frenzy-missi...

Trying really hard to finally get a demo set and ready, and I'm wondering how much bugs at the level of "the birds don't pause when you pause" really matter 🤷‍♂️ #indiedev #solodev

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score

Just realized I need to get some files off of my old laptop. Digging around trying to find it (and its AC cord) feels like this:

I want to see this new Paul Thomas Anderson movie.

Just started Assassin's Creed Shadows and it's cool, but really, is the Animus Hub thing really necessary? What it is means is if you bought on Steam (which I didn't), when you start the game you go from that launcher to another launcher (Ubi Connect) to yet another launcher (the Hub). 3 launchers!

I feel oddly guilty when I ask objects to off themselves in Gamemaker. Part of me is like, "no, obj_control_title, you have so much to live for!" #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

So hot today. I wish I could wear a t-shirt and shorts to campus but that's something only tenured profs can get away with 😅

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

Whenever the Toronto Air Show happens I think back to when I saw a plane crash at an air show when I was a kid and had PTSD dreams about it for years afterwards but it was the '90s so I was just kind of like, "oh well" 😅

My barn find from the Kops Records booth at the #CNE. The jacket is ratty but the record is flawless. You can't get this on Spotify!

I'm having to include a unit on medieval manuscripts in the course I'm teaching in the fall and I'm debating telling my students about that time when I got kicked out of medieval school.

I'm getting irrationally annoyed at all the good people in my Bluesky feed that are posting interesting articles to read while I'm trying to work. Please refrain from doing this for the remainder of the day. (Also, yes, I shouldn't be checking my feed while working, thank you)

Working at a coffee shop on my dying animation sprites, I realize that if someone had a look at my File Explorer they'd think I was putting together a snuff film or something #indiedev #solodev

Random book history fact - the stuff that was used to make paper in the early days of print was literally called "stuff" - that was the technical term.

Random book history fact - the person whose job it was in the manual days to get the printing press to actually print was called the "puller" - mostly because they had to pull a lever to get the press going. Pulling to press, as it were.

From the results of a user survey in the Feb. 1984 issue of Compute! Magazine. Modern discourse (including the Mini console line) says old 8-bit computers were just game machines but the reality was very much different than that. Even a lot of us that loved games mostly made our own games.

Horizon Forbidden West talking to me, "if you kill the rebel leader, the rest will leave, and the outpost will be yours!" Me, with Far Cry brain, "okay, but if I want to kill everybody, that's still an option, right"

This morning I unclogged a toilet with a plunger for the first time and I really wish real life had achievements/trophies you could unlock because this deserves one. For the first time in my life I relate to a Drake song.

I've literally heard "Bad Medicine" by Jon Bon Jovi playing somewhere four or five times in the last few days, and I'm starting to think that the universe is trying to tell me something about my psychiatric medication through the medium of Jon Bon Jovi.

Playing Horizon: Forbidden West and it cracks me up how much this scene plays out in the first act: [Aloy runs into an old friend] Old friend: Hey Aloy, nice to see you! Aloy: [frowns] Out of my way, I'm important. [Old friend leaves, sad and/or angry]

For today's #screenshotsaturday here is the mine that is going to be the setting for the final shootout in the game's opening mission. I really want to make artisinal mining a core theme of Frenzy (it's a really awful thing despite the benign name). #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

Reddit has its pluses and minuses but I'm glad that the r/FuckTedFaro sub exists because it's hilariously niche and also true.

Cape Spear, easternmost point of Canada. They built a fort here during the Second World War to protect us from the Germans. Now being retrofit to protect us from the Americans 😅

Rocky Harbour, west coast of Newfoundland. Cell reception here is *very* spotty 😅

Went whale watching this morning and saw a lot of whales. Now I want to be a whale. How do I make that happen? I'm willing to travel if there's like a clinic in Switzerland that specializes in this sort of thing.

Fun fact: when Queen Elizabeth died and King Charles took the throne, all the Dairy places in Canada had to switch from "Queen" to "King".

Starboy album by The Weeknd is my go to when the plane is getting ready to take off. The bass drowns out all the useless tips they give in case of emergency. Like, if something happens, I don't think the floating seat cushion is going to save you.

There's been a lot of this stuff obviously since Trunp 47 started but this one is particularly poignant: www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...

If I may plug a smaller title in the Steam Sale, Casino Resort Tower is like SimTower (or Project Highrise for moderns), but you build a casino tower! It's what Biff Tannen did in 1985A! You want to be like Biff Tannen in 1985A: store.steampowered.com/app/1457030/...

I feel like I want to put together a seminar or workshop specifically on the topic of crafting opening sentences for research proposals and funding applications. I see far too many openers like "since the dawn of time..." or "technology has revolutionized society..." and we need to fix this.

I haven't posted a #screenshotsaturday in ages so please enjoy this kerosene lighting effect I cooked up in my work-in-progress Frenzy (a Far Cry-style demake from an ecofeminist perspective!) #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

Clearly this facility is in need of the Bear Patrol. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

New from me, on The Guardian (!!): Generative AI is causing new, unusual problems for game developers — people are being accused of using it, even when they say they haven't. Building trust between a studio and its player base is more important than ever. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/j...

I don't tend to support large-market teams but the Dodgers really bring the good vibes. Players are classy and kind to each other, and their support of the immigrants in their community is commendable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

It's fun all the surprising roles that Lance Reddick has in various video games and it's sad that he will no longer be able to surprise as such again.

I know it's weird to seriously contemplate Call of Duty games of all things but consistently throughout their parallel histories I've always been really engaged with the Black Ops campaigns and so bored with Modern Warfare ones (I only play the campaigns, I'm odd that way.)

WW3 may be breaking out but CNN's decided its beddy bye time for its journalists or something, so you won't find out more until Jake Tapper has his McCafe and Egg McMuffin tomorrow, sorry.

There's a full professor at my school who has the same name as me, and I receive email for him *all* the time. Sometimes with confidential attachments. I never pry, and I correct the sender more often than not. Given my own employment insecurity, I think the moment is right to bill him for my time.

Whenever I hear Mother by Danzig it immediately transports me to the mid-to-late 2000s, playing either GTA San Andreas or Guitar Hero. Over and over sometimes if I kept failing at a mission!

Catching up with the Summer Games Fest trailers and, man, those two from Mundfish! Especially the one with the Queen song 😎

Getting a Switch 2 isn't quite on my radar yet but seeing the footage of the new Mario Kart which basically confirms that it's a Mario Kart version of Forza Horizon is verrrry interesting.

Students using AI is still a downer for me when I catch it. The problem is that I start to suspect that everyone is using AI. I've had a lot of great work turned in this semester and I don't want to think it was all fabricated - I don't think that's the case, but I don't like being uncertain.

So each half of the bun is a grilled-cheese sandwich? That's... a statement.

Massive respect to this guy behind home plate at the Jays game and his wardrobe choices.

On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being "well past their prime but with a slim hope of redemption," and 10 being "so far beyond the pale we need to stop paying attention to them or risk permanent mental health damage," where would we currently place Pixar?

There's a bad joke to be made about pirates and the word "array", but my brain is to tired to think of it. Oh wait, here it is: "What's a pirate's favourite data structure?" "An arrrray."

Image 1: "I just thought of a great way to optimize my code!" Image 2: "Now I'm going to have to update all my existing data structures." #gamedev #indiedev #solodev