I wish I was working on a project that could hire Hazel

Me: wow why am I so tired right now? Brain: could it be because of instead of sleep you watched four hours of bulldozer repair videos? Me: no, that can’t be it

EA deal has me wondering if we're gonna find out surprisingly soon what the shape of the games industry looks like with most of western AAA gone out of business Scary time to be in this industry from a job standpoint

(final thought as i'm swiftly slain by a band of ninja assassins) kind of a crazy amount of ninjas to hire for this

What if every TNG character had a signature maneuver? (thread)

“Snake, I’m on my second account. Contact me when you have the general intelligence”

I think it’s a sure sign that becoming super rich does something to your brain that not once has a billionaire shown off their dedicated cheese house.

THE MEME IS REAL

Elvis is the rare celebrity of yesteryear that if anything would fit in even more today because he was super into self defense and being high on drugs and talking to a crooked President and dating a teenager, he’d 100000% have a crypto thing going on

dudes rock

In a few moments... we begin! Come join us! #NZGDC #NZGDC25

To add a point to this: if I were to guess everyone (even those who really like GDC) was hoping Covid would kill it. The current state of the world is finishing off what we thought 2020 started.

God I wish they'd invest in better Public Transport Infrastructure instead of AI shit.

“I have done narrative design in a certain way for a while.” - @davidgaider.bsky.social “A thousand years.” - @liamesler.bsky.social “Twenty years.” - David

keeping it in the group chat

Don't overthink it. I sure didn't. Here's a blank version.

I strongly believe in the breadth and influence of independent art, to grant us oblique angles on the world and ourselves. But also every indie game is somewhere on this spectrum:

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

the Sea Peoples did nothing wrong.

Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way

last chance to give me INPUT on the #gamedev industry for my #GCAP25 talk! I've received so MUCH good stuff! I want MORE THOUGHT. I AM HUNGRY FOR IT! Send me your opinions. You can be totally anonymous. I don't mind if you're Australian, New Zealand, or anywhere else. I want all input. Please?

Hey, #NZGDC! This is tomorrow!! Come see me yell about the neat things that DREDGE did with @yarnspinner.dev!

They totally buried the lede here, you also need to spray your face with chrome paint and scream WITNESS ME or else it doesn’t work.

I would never eat a goose

What in the…

At a time when trust in the media is already in freefall, it’s an outright betrayal of public responsibility for a national broadcaster to be an *active participant in fueling even more distrust* by bending to political influence. ABC cutting its own legs off, in this climate. atrocious stuff.

Hypothesis: we can get people to take climate change preparation more seriously if we rephrase it as Godzilla Prevention and Preparation.

do a flip

♪ Get that weakarse bird shit out of here ♪

Contractor: so how'd you want the tits? Perky? Big ole cans? Iowa state legislature: the what Contractor: me and the boys was thinking perky Iowa state legislature: this is for the war dead? Contractor: okay writin' that down as perky

I'm at #NZGDC from tomorrow, where I'm talking about how Yarn Spinner was used in a tiny little indie game called DREDGE! I'm also keen to chat to people about Yarn Spinner - you should book a time with me to talk dialogue systems! Yes, you! fantastical.app/desplesda/ya...

WE FUCKIN DID IT BABY

Move over “realistic gravity doesn’t feel good,” we have a new best example of why game designers have to temper the idea the realism is what the players want 🐐

Monitor Lizard

My theory is: 1. UBM realises the US and industry state makes the conference untenable. 2. They’re hoping to make up the numbers with aspirational devs and students. 3. Eventually pivot into a consumer show with a dev focus component like Devcom (or whatever it renamed to) is.

Them: yeah they were having organ failure. Me: oh but they’re ok now? Them: yeah fine now. Me: that’s good, which organ out of curiosity? Them: I forget, one of the ones you need. Me: oh right not like any of those unneeded organs.

Alien: Earth (N. Hawley and others, 2025)

The Expanse can be divided into two time periods, BC and AD. Before Camina and After Drummer.

DHH is on the board of directors of Shopify, which is Ruby Central’s biggest sponsor Either she doesn’t know what she’s doing or she’s lying. Or both.

oof, what a disappointing way to end more than 15 years of open source work. (summary by @duckinator.bsky.social at pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...). good luck to the remaining RubyGems team, and it’s time to focus my energy on new projects that I’m truly excited about, like rv.dev

Getting coffee and there’s some dude reading the newspaper. The front page is about how there is now a Super Salmon Vaccine, which I feel I should get because I don’t want to be a fish.

Me: Ok I’m off to the game dev meetup, hey phone how about some cheery music for the trip? My phone: sure thing, here’s Burying the Dead from the final episode of Clone Wars, you know with the super sad ending for all those characters you loved. Me: *falls apart*

I am still in awe that Paradox tried to run their usual DLC policy (which works great for modular grand strategy games, but not so much narrative action games) on a niche series that has been in stasis for over twenty years. Good that they backed down.

ever since microsoft's layoffs in early july, the two zenimax unions have been fighting for impacted employees following the cancellation of the elder scrolls online studio's unannounced mmo. they've won laid-off workers more time (aka more pay), better severance, recall rights, and saved some jobs

The Game Worlds launch party was great, sucks to have to run to catch a plane. Gotta say though ACMI, these biscuits taste terrible.

Very funny to see billboards for power companies in Melbourne that are basically saying “proudly greenwashed electricity, brought to you by Tasmania”