Weekend takeaway: Be the kind of person who makes custom extra tokens so you can play The Gang with 10 players. Well. I would, but this melted my brain. These were serious gamers.

Had an excellent time with this show last night! Just… giving people space to play in public with strangers is really powerful. Alistair does such a good job of facilitating that!

Ordered this as soon as I read the contents. Has been carried around for a few weeks and just got a chance to start. 100% of my lane so far. @add-hawk.bsky.social ‘s previous “Games: Agency as art” was top 2 influential things I read on the MA.

How does James Blake push the button every single time? youtu.be/neglkknTYB4?...

It’s basically essential I go this, right? This is all my Venn’s diagrammed.

Please can someone tell me who to blame for all modern headphones being OBSESSED with bass. Sounds like someone took the record and shoved it in a sack with some bricks and drowned it.

Okay so game design of #TheTraitors has been so much more interesting so far this series… [mild spoilers]

YES YES YES. This is also why we should talk about players rather than consumers in game dev. We need to change the discourse so that we can start thinking about new sustainable ways of being a game creator.

Even when trying not to mince words, Starmer still disappoints. It shouldn’t be just about getting these images down. It should be about why this service was ever allowed to go public. It should be about the fundamental contempt for women’s rights and safety.

This lil dude has future fan art just waiting to happen, I can sense it! (Can’t draw it tho)

Have been super enjoying this guy’s vids recently. Interesting time to be questioning what Rockstar doesn’t and doesn’t consider illegal.

Rad! Played a bunch of these on Splore this year- great to see a bundle. Mole Mole is my pick

Just your daily reminder from the labour gov. that you better Be Good on the internet.

Was great to get to show this game and for it to actually do everything I hoped it would over the course of the weekend. (Including some saying “that’s not a game!”) But especially lovely to get these kind words. Thanks Mike!

So looks like I’m done with this degree! Unfortunately that means my bad takes go here now, rather than blurted out in lectures. Fair warning.

This is everything.

“…machine learning techniques have been found to absorb biases in human language.” Shocking that something constructed entirely from whatever random words are lying around would be influenced by the content of those words. Wild that the AI “industry” is allowed self-regulation.

Some friends and I made an entry for #gmtkjam25! A game about skywriting and the perils of social media communication. My first time jamming, was an experience! megamelone.itch.io/cloud-posting

Folks I’ve been using #pocket since ‘09 when it was mainly to download stuff on the spotty uni halls WiFi and save on pre-3G roaming charges. Any recommendations on a replacement?

My parents have a new puppy. Great news, should keep them distracted from the grandkids question for a while.

Print books with endnotes can do one. Lord forbid there’s a promising reference in there. My ADHD ass has checked out by the time I’ve assembled The Claw. #footnotegang

Hey! If you're at @amazefest.bsky.social and you have time tomorrow (friday) afternoon, I'll be showcasing #WillTheManGetFrog at the open screens from 2 to 4pm! But please go check out @sosowski.bsky.social's talk first. Then tell me about it. I can't attend, but I want to know what it was like.

Does anyone else get the impression the Supreme Court thinks you can just roll up with full beard on a Wednesday morning and get a GRC with your morning coffee?

Thank you to everyone who entered The Invisible Casino at #nowplaythis yesterday. The Dealer will return today for those that missed it!

Finally got around to putting this #pico8 game I made last year on itch! It’s fun, I think the best score I’ve seen someone get so far is ~100 light years? 🚀 cdiffin.itch.io/wormhole

Heading in to see the My Neighbour Totoro stage show tonight! Preparing to be very emotional.

Wrapping up testing and tweaking the games I’ll be showing at @nowplaythis.bsky.social next month! nowplaythis.net/game/ma-game...

New update to the #steam release of this #pico8 game I worked on is out now!

Excited to see this game I composed for reach a new audience! This is not a straightforward game to localise, the commitment to supporting the project is super inspiring to see from my friend! ☺️🐸📝

This is awesome. Would be fun to see Little Nose Fight tourneys going down… @marechalbanane.bsky.social

There’s an essay brewing in the back of my head titled “Board Games shouldn’t worry about complexity as much as they do”

The President of the United States welcome a leader wanted by the ICC and officially endorsed ethnic cleansing. Now would be a good time for our government to defend international law. If they won’t say it, we will: Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.

Has anyone else retroactively bundled Super Monkey Ball into “vaporwave aesthetic” or is it just me? youtu.be/aUXDBVeCJUE?...

Week 2, term 2 at UAL. Working hard, fighting the reality I’m for-real in my mid-30s now.

Playing Portal on a console is weird (I’m playing the Switch port). Something about it just screams computer game and I can’t tell if it’s a cultural/contextual thing or something about the design itself.

Had too many “better get down there one last time before they close” moments this last 12 months. Won’t be the last.

Question: has anyone on here ever printed and subsequently played a Print & Play board game? What game? What was the prep experience like? Was it easy to get the table? How did it play?

First game I finished this year is Arranger by @furnimatgames.bsky.social! Really smart puzzle design that hides the constraints and maintains believability of the world as a space. I love how the art is integrated like a storybook to bring life to a grid while keeping game logic consistent.