- Q: This is Size Five Games' first game since Covid. 'Lair of the Clockwork God' was released just as Covid took hold and the world went into lockdown. Are you at all concerned the same thing's going to happen with this next release? That you were somehow responsible? - A: Yes.

Quick Q&A for you regarding this: - Q: Wow! Are you going to be in Tokyo for this announcement, then? That's amazing, what an incredible opportunity! - A: No. I was not invited.

WHAT? Like a team up? No More Robots and Size Five Games teaming up together, like in that episode of He-Man where Skeletor and He-Man had to work together? Oh, alright then. SEE YOU SUNDAY.

Also, just to be absolutely clear: this was a plot point in 'Time Gentlemen, Please!' (2009) and yes I will be suing.

...this does not make me want a McFlurry.

Me: walks to the cafe to buy a MASSIVE fuck-off slice of cake Fitness Tracker: Hey, great job! 0.5km in just 21 minutes? Have *two* fitness points and a gold star. 889 steps and 139 calories burned! Great going, champ! WOW.

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WHAT? Like a team up? No More Robots and Size Five Games teaming up together, like in that episode of He-Man where Skeletor and He-Man had to work together? Oh, alright then. SEE YOU SUNDAY.

Fights in Tight Spaces: K9 Division is out now!💥🐶 Equip Agent Eleven with your new K-9 companion, introducing a brand-new set of cards, events, and enemies. Expanding the replayability of the core game. 🎮➡️ s.team/a/3625850

Aha! It's time to wheel out the Tom Hanks/ Dan Ackroyd 'Dragnet' rap youtu.be/pT_QRKfv8H4?...

Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.

Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.

Keeper is just one of the most exciting-looking video games. It looks like a proper game, a real good proper game.

My main hope for the Mass Effect TV series is that Shepard is a rugged, handsome action hero type but then 15 minutes in you finally see him from the side and it turns out his chin goes inwards and his nose looks like a beak, just like in my playthrough and it has to restart the whole thing.

My main hope for the Mass Effect TV series is that Shepard is a rugged, handsome action hero type but then 15 minutes in you finally see him from the side and it turns out his chin goes inwards and his nose looks like a beak, just like in my playthrough and it has to restart the whole thing.

All this talk of Super Mario Galaxy 2 is reminding me of the time I said I was "bored shitless" of it after an hour, and precisely 451 Nintendo fans got VERY angry at me mynintendonews.com/2013/01/03/d...

The Game Devs of Color Expo has some of the most interesting looking #indiegames I've seen in ages, some real belters. They're all tagged in the title here, I don't know if there's a better place to find them? Anyway, a great way to spend your lunch break youtube.com/@gametrailer...

Turns out over the last 15 years my brain has been busy quietly combining the movie HOLES with the movie THE HOLE into one single weird movie about some kids digging holes in the desert and about half way through finding a trapdoor full of ghosts/ monsters. I think my version is better?

Kinda wild that, canonically, Pac-Man seems to be some sort of athletic biscuit-eating race at a haunted castle.

Sort of miss irritating the football fans a little bit. What sports are under represented in video games and yet have an obsessive, frothing fanbase to excitably annoy?

Having a perfectly normal minor crisis at work, and I'm hoping Josh can help in a reasonable and ordinary way 🤞

Me: Okay Nintendo, here we go, give me a good reason to buy a Switch 2 Nintendo: can I interest Sir in some games you've already played and a trailer for a movie?

Okay, well. Not that fast then, clearly.

Someone has sent me a book. I didn't buy it, I have no idea where it came from. No note or sender's address. If you sent me a book: thanks, I fucking love books, but who are you and why.

the dailup sound was a protection spell the computer said for us every time we went online but we thought we were too good for it. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time and now we’re fucked

TWO AND A HALF THOUSAND POUNDS PER SECOND.

@perky.bsky.social did a talk about animated trailers at Impact. m.youtube.com/watch?v=b_nH...

I have no metrics or analytics to say about how effective they are, but my take is most games shouldn't do it (especially for an announce trailer) and that they're best as a victory lap for games that are already successful.

Out of interest, does anyone know what the costs are for the glossy Saturday morning cartoon 'animated intro' that so many indies seem to use in trailers now? Where are you all getting those done, and how much for? They must take ages, they can't be cheap.

My kid has started helping unload the dishwasher which is SO, SO GOOD but also at the same time where the fuck are all the plates and the pans and the colander now

HOT.

The start of every 80s movie:

Kids today will never understand why this image is so exciting.

I'm still working my way through the incredible "Lair of the Clockwork God by Size Five Games ( @danthat.bsky.social & @timegentleman.bsky.social ). I'm enjoying it so much that I had to make a sharpie and crayon version of Ben.

WHAT. Suddenly so many things suddenly make sense. How did I not know this?

The number of video game trailers I've seen that use a fake David Attenborough voice over is astonishingly high, please stop doing it.

Really enjoyed this video by @sebastianlague.bsky.social - who is blessed with the most relaxing voice in video game development - discussing his game jam entry. An interesting glimpse behind the curtain, good stuff #indiegames #gamedev

i'm the guy who invented the spike traps that pop out of temple walls. i hate my job. every day my boss says "why haven't we killed any archeologists" and i say "they haven't invented that yet." they pay me in tomb juice. i hate tomb juice. honestly i might just start working on my big boulder idea

One of the happiest moments on social media is when Sean Murray is up to something. Always a joy.

Aah Unity. Ever the Nostradamus.

This is *exactly* what people trying to stop you from getting at Dracula's grave (eg Dracula) would say.

This is *exactly* what people trying to stop you from getting at Dracula's grave (eg Dracula) would say.

Helpful.

What if there was a place you could go to and clean out the rollerball on old mice. I think you could sell tickets to that and a certain subset of 45+ year olds would be extremely happy left on their own for a couple of hours.

Hey, hey, hey! Come on over for some CORPORATE Taxi... I had a silly comic idea placing the Crazy Taxi cabbies in the modern taxi world... Plus it gave me excuses to play Crazy Taxi again.

Just played this for 10 mins or so and it's instantly very very good.

Whenever I play Helldivers2 I am *paralyzed* with fear over being shit, being careful not to blow up my teammates or underperform in any way and honestly it's just so lovely to see that no one else that plays that game apparently feels similarly burdened.

In 2025 I will stop playing a game for a million different pissy little reasons before difficulty factors into it.

As someone who hasn't touched a Citadel Miniature since about 1989 it is very funny to me to go into Warhammer shops to ask questions and casually mention genestealers because the shop assistants all then immediately 100% of the time correct you by politely saying "Tyranids, yes."