Our takes on Leisure Suit Larry are now 7 and 5 years old, and it still makes me happy that people are positively surprised by them. :) www.reddit.com/r/adventureg...

And deserves more.

Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.

Show off 😂🤣

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Bruh

One issue generally overlooked in the whole screenwriter vs gamewriter, discussion is time. Beyond anything to do with training, ability, style etc is the amount of time screenwriters get to invest in a script. Whilst there are time pressures on any writer, the vast amounts of script that- 1/9

But Mark, you said we'd be living in the metaverse soon, so we get virtual smart glasses there, right? As NFTs, right???

Look, I'm over the moon for Team Cherry's success but "a few contractors" is a hell of a way to dismiss the 80+ artists, programmers, audio technicians, QA, and other developers who helped bring this project to life. If you count VO and the orchestra, the credits are over 100 names. Like... c'mon.

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

Off to the Devcom speaker reception to meet old and new friends.

My talk is ready. Almost. It's too long. Let the shortening begin. Looking forward to devcom as a whole. :)

this situation is making my heart heavy and my blood boil. i am tired of roving bands of bigoted, cruel fanatics throwing witch trial after witch trial and every pillar of our society yielding immediately. if i ran itch, idk if i would be able to come up with any better plan of action than this

King replacing staff laid off with AI they built and trained is absolutely abhorrent and disgusting. Garbage behaviour from one of the biggest mobile developers in the world. mobilegamer.biz/laid-off-kin...

Yeah man can't imagine why your girlfriend is mad that you made ChatGPT pretend to be a woman that you would use to talk to about your relationship problems

For the last 24 hours Twitter has been full of people mocking the everloving shit out of this “fantasy author” for trying to dunk on one of Hideo Kojima’s best creations: FAT MAN. If you’re wondering why everyone is making Orc City jokes, this is why:

My 3h podcast about Old Skies. It's in German, but it includes an interview in English with @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social - thanks!

And thus our nod to Spaceballs in our second Larry game from 2020 has become a hot and current pop culture reference.

It's Schrödinger's fun. There and not there at the same time. arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

Yeah, I like JRPGs. 𝗝ust 𝗥eally 𝗣oorly designed adventure 𝗚ames

can agree with this www.reddit.com/r/adventureg...

When I cast #Superman, I needed to cast Clark, I needed to cast Lois, but I also needed to cast that special onscreen chemistry between two actors that can’t be explained. That’s the thing David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan brought to this movie together.

("Art" / "AI")

GameStop CEO before and after Trump's tariffs lmao

A good chunk of the Gen AI argument is based on the same flawed discussion that there's been around skills for far too long. A fundamental lack of understanding of what an idea is. Visual art is not just 'a picture'. Having an idea about a single moment in a story isn't writing. Thread...

Episode 29 of my Adventure game podcast is about "Rosewater". Featuring an interview in English with @grundislavgames.bsky.social. adventurepodcast.de/folge-29-ros...

Let's give Francisco the best possible engagement here (since Rosewater is really great).

The reason society has broken is kids are watching 'Mr. Beast' or 'Kai Cenat' and scrolling Tiktoks instead of sitting down to constantly watch endless TV reruns of Stephen Chow's SHAOLIN SOCCER.

GDC. The great developer conference in San Francisco. More like the once great conference. Take a seat. I've got some things to say. Gotta say this was my last GDC for a very long time.

Aloy's story is about fighting back against the apocalyptic effects of hubristic tech CEOs whose greed and short sightedness destroyed civilization

wait THAT'S ME

incredible exchange, @marisakabas.bsky.social

I see people saying this sort of thing often, and quite frankly it makes me sad. The truth is, more people are making good adventure games now than were ever made during the “golden age” of the 90s. For example: 🧵

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

Rosewater getting a <30 second mention in a video with hundreds of thousands of views got me a nice little spike in wishlists yesterday! Word of mouth really is make or break for indie devs!

The only successful type of game going forward is the kind I make and like. All other types of game are doomed to fail because players don’t like those games, as demonstrated by the commercial failure of one specific example, Game X. Don’t be an idiot, be a clever person, like me.

burn, metaverse, burn

It's very funny that the AI bubble isn't popping because it's bad at every proposed use case and sometimes gets its customers sued, but because China said "here, you can churn out the bullshit way cheaper"

This is especially disheartening because like diversity, I thought we'd finally made headway in making people see how important this job was

this is the shit that gets me about conservatives - how does it get more conspiracy-adjacent than "the president's three billionaire pals are personally invited to watch him become president'

5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree:

Hope the EU virtue signals the fuck out of Meta.

Episode 27 of my adventure game podcast: "Loco Motive"! The episode itself is in German (as usual), but it also contains an interview with Adam from @robustgames.bsky.social in English. adventurepodcast.de/folge-27-loc...

Have you met Drova's Dashing Dudes yet? They love to hang around farms, gardens, and towns, just keep an eye out! Interacting with them is always worth your time, even if you just get to pet them 🐾 #indiegame #pixelart #RPG #Dova

Yeah ok, I’m doing this. Here is some advice for aspiring game writers. Do not come into games wanting to be a game writer with the attitude that all you are going to write are the cinematics. Fact: a game’s story is not about the cinematics. 🧵