Due to rising rents and gentrification, Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse is set to take place in a 3-bedroom/2-bath condominium. paletteswap.site/dif...

Let me write this as an Atlantic piece @theatlantic.com

Videogames should’ve stopped after Minecraft

shout a secret at a stranger then follow them around shouting you won't tell anyone will you, it's a secret

band merch idea

sorry for all the bandposting, but my twin doing breakbeat slam poetry in a cheap suit *is* very Harrier Dubois coded, so technically it’s still on-brand

Sick of trying to explain that “you need to play games to be a good designer” is about tacit knowledge and isn’t just flippant gatekeeping. so I’m inventing “reflexive hedonism” as a concept, because I can do that if I want.

I do think ai psychosis is kind of funny in terms of revealing how many men are apparently already quietly going around thinking they're on the verge of inventing a new kind of math or physics

This week I’m trialling a new thing where I run through some of the content for an upcoming video as a live seminar on the Discord first. Good opportunity to check me on my BS, propose some ideas or examples, or just hang out for a little while on a Sunday afternoon. www.patreon.com/posts/160440...

This week I’m trialling a new thing where I run through some of the content for an upcoming video as a live seminar on the Discord first. Good opportunity to check me on my BS, propose some ideas or examples, or just hang out for a little while on a Sunday afternoon. www.patreon.com/posts/160440...

The amount of time it takes to get over the technical barrier to entry for gamedev really puts *certain types of people* in denial about how it’s also important that they look good too

how does this website work

I am so close to Dropout being the first small streaming platform I buy a subscription too, if Sony would let them have a PS5 app

How about we Uncle Who Works for NintendoN’T

It’s wild that my academia.edu profile didn’t have any new published work added to it in my 4.5 years in full time Lecturing employment. Next year I’m going to have my first book out, and it’s only possible because I left uni teaching and went back to working as a designer.

Oh no I hope someone isn’t making a platforming imsim where many of the cooking recipes require you to work out how to do very weird stuff to get ingredients

what are you doing on a saturday? I'm trying to merge @heartbeast.bsky.social's game dev project management model with the UK Design Council's double diamond design model, thanks for asking

Had a stomach thing which turned into a skin thing, and I’d like them to hurry up and invent Futurama head-in-a-jar tech soon please

Does anyone have a recommendation for a uk contract lawyer who can look at a publishing contract with me? Thanks

It's #PitchYaGame time! Here's Valerie, a Metroidvania with a focus on fun platforming rather than combat! Learn magic skills to help you explore the world and chase down that darn kitty.

Yard vixen is throwing it back fr

I just realised that the hoola hoop gag from the Cohen Brothers' movie The Hudsucker Proxy is a perfect example of one of the biggest barriers people have to understanding game dev and operating in game dev communities early on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G5F...

I think I might prefer streaming in the evenings. But I can’t really do it on the weeks when the kids are here, and I also tend to pack those weeks with local event organisation. Maybe we can abolish time, calendars etc? Maybe I just don’t work every other week. Who knows.

Today, kick off SGF with some old games, in the 2nd edition of the Unearthed Treasure Room, a showcase of recent overlooked games we want you to play!! Starting shortly here: youtu.be/mxIrzO7R0EU?...

*tom waits voice* ouchie in my tum tum ouchie in my soul which came first? grassy little knoll

you know there's some people who are like "yeah i used to have a stuffed toy of a dog when i was young and now i'm a vet" but the PICO-8 designer having made a fantasy console when he was a kid is on a level beyond what i thought was possible.

I’m afraid I might have written a slam poem

What I'm up to this week. Tuesday AM: looking at a series of unusual incremental games with Slots & Diapers, Astefactor and IGTAP www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNXd... Wednesday PM: join us to help live playtest the Fame or Folly 100-person leaderboards store.steampowered.com/app/4198020/...

We’ve got to stop humouring aspiring creatives who say they don’t “like” social media or marketing. You don’t like telling people about what you do? Lame. You don’t like operating in a market? Stay out of it then.

If you wanted a good idea of the level of intellectual discourse on Threads (Twitter for Instagram models) folks there are sharing the Ian Bogost “games are better without stories” article from ten years ago, pretending it’s recent, and then hammering him for not being a gamer who knows any games.

Omelet You Cook (2025) Cc: @danschumacher.bsky.social youtu.be/sg0nYhUB7CA?...

Put it in your diaries, we’re gonna break this game.

We’ve agreed for a while that mocking people’s written or spoken language is classist and elitist... I wonder how long it will be until we decide “media literacy” is dependent on a lot of the same kinds of privilege

Have literally given up tens of thousands of £ by turning down AI company collaborations this year. Still not earning a Senior Lecturer’s salary again yet, or a Senior Designer’s. If I can afford to do it, then creators with 10x the audience can do it too. Greedy amoral chumps.

I want to build the largest, most elaborate marble run and then use it to serve meatballs. People bring their own pasta and they have to wait for the meatballs. They can have as many as they want but there are 4 or 5 meatball exists and they are all 100 yards apart minimum.

next Wedneday evening we are going to try to play Fame or Folly with 100 people in a big league table [its a push-your-luck deckbuilder] www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OKz...

Someone complained one of our book reviews made us sound “judgemental”. If only there was a way you could know what’s in a book without it being filtered through someone else’s subjective judgement.

Every time a game developer tells me they don’t have (make) time to play games for reference

Problem with society these days is nobody's slamming it to the left if they're having a good time anymore

people can do whatever they want of course, but instead of posting incredibly tepid and uninspired responses to the most regurgitated discourse, you could like repost good art, or post about your dreams, or post some cool ascii art, or like song lyrics you like or like literally anything else

Time and time again it feels like the “how do I get into media type x” question is best answered by “approach it as a deeply appreciative consumer first” but people just want to skip that step, as if you can have a career making [whatever] without first becoming a true sicko

What if someone made a videogame where you play a cop who is really fucked up

feels somewhat mad to be on the short list of gamedev channels that Tim Cain watches www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4dV...

Honestly think you could massively improve the quality of viewership and discourse on a YouTube channel if they gave you a “don’t suggest my channel to people who watch this” and “do suggest my channel to people who watch this” set of preferences.

For the real ones

It’s nearly “two gigs weekend” time! Haven’t played with drums since January. Last time, someone took this pic which looks like I am channeling… something.

The only good kind of YouTube game design video is actually when @pentadact.com looks like he’s in a Placebo album