Fascists really can’t help themselves. Someone left a comment on my Raph Koster review where I was complaining about the limitations of evo-psych thinking and how game design textbooks next to not read like Jordan Peterson wrote them.

I require assistance because of a protected characteristic (ass that will not quit)

Cleaned my PC yesterday and the largest unwanted files were German and French packages for Veilguard. Thanks.

dirtworld is only for sickos

There are sooo many types of games you could make. There’s really no excuse for making a solo project based around doing things you don’t really like doing.

We had no drummer last night so we played over drum loops and this came out. I guess it’s ok to sound like Pigeonhed when nobody I know knows Pigeonhed.

just about to check out Cracks Where the Light Gets In... a historically-themed Roottrees-like (?) with some interesting ideas. Come and say hi! www.youtube.com/live/LhK40r9...

does anyone have any recommendations for a free [or one-off purchase] equivalent to Chorldly.io - i.e. something when I can write song sheets and place chords in the right place? I struggled by with using google docs tables for a while but it's not really sustainable.

"I have to use AI to make art or no one will take me seriously" Punk this is HP Lovecraft's original drawing of Cthulhu

I know we have come to a moral consensus on alt text, but have you also considered that the things I share are not that worth understanding, and also I am lazy and always very tired

Me trying to do a relatable standup routine: “so you know when your parents used to keep their hash in one of those little Kodak film canisters”

Not enough of a Nirvana nerd to know what this means

Have you considered making bad Art? It's literally better than making nothing and crying about it. No AI needed. There's all kinds of mediums. If you don't click with any of them make a new one up cuz that also is Art.

Banned from the kebab shop for playing New Order on the baglama

Who else up exploring a hostile fungal realm

Played the first 20 minutes of Space Marine and it’s certainly juicy. I don’t enjoy games making you use parry mechanics but at least this one has big clear signs when you need to do it (the need for which underlines why I don’t like them in the first place)

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Credit score dropped because they added an ex to my account, even though we haven’t had linked finances since 2020. They should do a Black Mirror about this

loot that drops after defeating me: -3 different pairs of glasses -lucky dip of mystery pills -notebook full of half-finished song lyrics which make you say “wtf is wrong with you?” -fake bald patch which was actually a prosthesis

Instead of flowers for my mum’s funeral, we are doing a collection for a local arts charity. If you’d like to help us with it, you can here: www.artsedex.org/donate?fbcli...

Now they don’t just want to make the Torment Nexus anymore. they also want the author of Don’t Make The Torment Nexus to help them make the Torment Nexus.

One of the most frustrating things about autism “awareness” for me - both from allistic and autistic advocates - is the implicit idea that we no neuroplasticity, so how we are is locked and everyone just needs to deal with it.

maintenance mode

There is an actual argument that this curse actually worked.

I regret to inform you that the Ritalin goes owie in my tum tum

"minds smoothed by the wash of the net like pebbles in the surf" is a really good line

Today I played one of our patreon's demos - a melancholy but amusing game about delivering pizza in a desolate post-collapse town. I mentally classified this as a "very @jacobgeller.com game". I hope the team finish making Speedza, and I hope Jacob plays it someday www.youtube.com/live/kD8s7QG...

I just looked a 4 near-identical cross-platform integration app builder things to try and find something that would add scheduled future livestreams to a google calendar. The one that said it could do it didn't actually work, and the others only did others things that no-one would need.

Dear ex client. You have employed a whole ass producer for your tiny team and yet your new hires are still pinging me for access to a Google doc. Make it stop.

I have two projects in need of a publisher and a BUNCH of very cool devs who would like to have jobs. If you're a publisher and want to see my deck and my material (one project is very far along), hit me up

Been a while since I made a new shirt which is only funny to ten people in the world, eh

just doing some casual anarchism and pretending its game dev videos

15k people have watched my game mechanics video now youtu.be/nkLmjJK3vOw

One day I’ll make a dystopian story about a world where your head explodes as soon as you have a million dollars, but the twist is that there are actually no negative ramifications of this and it’s actually hopepunk

Cute Games Club is such a gem of a channel, you should check it out! #gamedev #cutegames www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoFk...

Five days until Underboard launch! 🐱 #indiegames #underboard #roguelike

Wise people; should I worry about my PC being this close to a radiator pipe in an older house?

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Trying not to be a bitch, but you really can post the most Game Design 101 stuff on LinkedIn and have people who have had senior roles in multiple companies pat you on the back for it. You love to hear it when it's coming from a "thought leader" and not your own staff. Hmm.

I don't think I should be allowed to do creative direction

the weirdest people click on my videos

Heard you was talking shit

there's a new 40 minute video essay about game mechanics, perfect for your lunch break. as I said to someone in the comments, I think *thinking about the definitions* is more helpful than actually having them... www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkLm...

the way to tell Canva isn't made for game dev is to search for "medieval buttons"

I made a meme

I went to an event last night where someone was using the holocaust to rally people toward pro Zionist sentiment, and I sort of had to just sit quietly because of the way the rhetoric was structured to shield them. Very uncomfortable, and lots of useful idiots patted them on the back for it.

About to do a first impressions of an indie fantasy action RPG, including a steam page breakdown. Pop in if you're interested in that sort of thing: www.youtube.com/live/edjQemP...

I’ve been playing Hearthstone again recently; Burgle Rogue is really fun at the moment

My 2025 talk 'Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game' is now also available in text format, for those who like to read instead of watch: rystorm.com/blog/gyms-zo... And if you haven't seen it yet, there is an all new video too, with bonus material on the history of Zoos!

Hello folks. I’m planning a video at the moment about the meaning of “indie games”. It’s not intended to be a strict definitional thing. I’m more interested in introducing the audience to discourse analysis and showing how different groups mobilise definitions for different reasons.