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It's perfect.

We're officially in talks with Story Kitchen and Evan Spiliotopoulos about making our long dream of a Broken Sword movie a reality! We hope you understand that we can't go into more detail about any of this yet, but here is the Variety exclusive that just went live 🍿📽️ variety.com/2026/digital...

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

9pm: yawning 2:12am: time to become a scholar on uncontacted tribes

New one about record shopping in the 90s, how intentional discovery used to be, how algorithms have taken that away from us and why we should probably start putting in the work again. (It's about games eventually, promise) Accidentally made it free. Oops! Go: newsletter.hitpoints.co/374-blue-note/

The last time I was turned down for Arts Council funding, they sent me a model application for a project to demonstrate what they were ideally looking for. The model application was by me a year earlier. And was also turned down.

Impeccable Netrunner vibes from Martin's new game. The fast combat sneaks a really clever design past you. Try the demo & back it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha... Good luck with the Kickstarter @sharkbombs.bsky.social

Releasing a new tool today: Blendo Localizer For managing localization text assets. Loads CSV or JSON files. This is a cleaned-up version of what we used during Skin Deep's development. Free Download: blendogames.itch.io/blendo-local... Source code: github.com/blendogames/...

Yeah, there really is a book for sale on Amazon called Infinite Jeffs, where they replaced all the words of Infinite Jest with the word "Jeff". It's 25 bucks. www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jef...

So 5pm is when a blue tit flies into our house through an unknown entrance, and we all run around like that Irish family chasing a bat.

I'm proud, excited (and a little bit nervous) to announce that CROWNBREAKERS will launch on Kickstarter May 12, 2026 - 4:00 PM CEST (Central Europe Summer Time). www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha... #gamedev #kickstarter #indiedev #deckbuilder #turnbasedthursday (a day late, I know...)

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

Mein Pferd brennt #ReplaceHeartWithHorse

Absolute nightmare fuel

FINE, if it's the law Fawlty Towers Star Trek TNG Blackadder Red Dwarf The Day Today I'm Alan Partridge Black Books 30 Rock Inside No. 9 Battlestar Galactica (new) Ugly Betty Community BoJack Horseman Better Call Saul The Curse

It is, today, the 55th anniversary of that gift to satire James Arkell, whose solicitors wrote to Private Eye on this day in 1971, prompting everyone’s favourite reply. You may know the story, but I put it to you that you cannot hear it enough. We begin with that initial letter... 🧵

Crowd! I'm looking to spend some € on a spot of game design help. I need someone to spar with & help me build and flesh out Crownbreakers content: Cards, Stickers, Relics, Levels, Enemies, Bosses, Quests etc. Anyone think of any fitting #gamedev #indiedev folks that are freelance and available?

Can't stop laughing at the perspective on this Vinted photo

Wouldn't you believe it. NOWHERE PROPHET made it to Game of the Day on the Apple app store. That's pretty dang neat!

illustration, dreamcast magazine (1998) archive.org/details/drea...

This packing insert from a robot vacuum looks like it should be guarding a temple somewhere.

Game idea for the Crystal Maze, if ever I heard one (from this excellent article on space toilets) mceglowski.substack.com/p/lets-talk-...

I have to say, Charles Cecil & gang at Revolution Software have done a great job remastering their old Broken Sword games. It's nice to see and a lesson to all devs - IP matters. Even in 20-30 years. You-never-know. Keep your IP. Anyway, new Kickstarter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/rev...

Time to pop down to the Red Lion for 3 pints

Happy Easter.

Signing my daughter into the kids club before the exercise class, vs signing her out again

As long as you've registered with all 118000 apps in advance of your journey, you're all set! 👍🏻

Reposted with ALT cos its funny . How using an algorithim to select photos for your news article is going:

🐈 New comic: You Have Cats?🐈

If you add more people to a software development project it will slow it down, not make it go faster.

No, I decline to know about boy kibble, the viral meal slop trend

The Last Guardian (2016)

A Manchester school used AI to deem which books to ban their children reading, then reported their librarian as a safeguarding risk. The list of books banned is absolutely ridiculous, as is the idea that books shouldn't be upsetting.

Transfer Point is a point-and-click adventure game for Macintosh. It was made in World Builder and MacPaint, and it fits on an 800K floppy disk. It also has an egret. Coming soon for most web browsers, or as a download to play on your classic Mac. robotspacer.software/transfer-poi... #MARCHintosh

Good morning

"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."

I’ll save you a click it’s public speaking

My pals at @revolutionsoftware.bsky.social and ASH have put together the Curious Odyssey sale on Steam. There are loads of discounted story-driven games, including a few I worked on (Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet, Unforeseen Incidents & Mutropolis). store.steampowered.com/curator/4589...

I've just had an amazing idea

Was just listening to this and started to wonder - assuming General Levy was *not* in fact an army General at the time of recording - who is the highest-ranking serving member of the military to have a credit on a UK top 40 single? [not a quiz, I've no idea yet] www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fm2...

This is still one of my favourite movie reviews www.capalert.com/capreports/s...

Ohhhhh nooooooo my 6yo's primary school is advertising British Science Week activities with a slop poster. It's going to take all evening to pitch a firm response that doesn't make me sound insane 😬 but I genuinely think it's damaging to kids creative instincts to normalise this stuff around school.

Long shot but has anyone had a good experience with a UK medical negligence solicitor? 🫤 Reply or DM fine!

School went with "decorate a potato" for world book day, alors, mein amis, zis is famous détective Montgomery Bonbon @misterabk.bsky.social