Environmental Storytelling (tm)

Roasted Garlic Mayo

"How am I not myself?"

If you’re unfamiliar with Bandcamp Friday, it’s a day when Bandcamp waives their revenue share of sales, so artists take a much larger cut of the profits than usual. It’s a wonderful way to support musicians!

“There was a line of children waiting to get treated by medics.” ICE did this. Trump did this. Republicans did this. “Centrist” Democrats who have caved on anti-immigrant bullshit for years did this. Abolish ICE. That’s the minimum.

In case you missed it, BIG HOPS is coming out January 12th on Steam, Switch, and PS5! #indiegames #nintendoswitch #ps5

In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.” zeteo.com/p/venezuela-...

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Finishing out my winter break with another Art Institute of Chicago sketch visit. This one is “Matar Dolorosa” from the Workshop of Dieric Bouts. This black and white sketch doesn’t do her justice, but I had a worthwhile time on this one.

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I stylize raymarched clouds? 👀 These past few cloudy days inspired me to play around more with clouds again ☁☁☁ #gamedev #unity3d #madewithunity

Intentionally killing innocent people is always wrong. Wherever in the world it happens. You might think everyone agrees with this simple moral principle, and yet far too many people, on far too many different sections of the political spectrum, try and make exceptions to it.

If you make products on the internet watch this video. This video connected for me that Wikipedia is doing the Design Anarchy (adbusters) approach and it worked. perfect thing to watch first thing in the morning and think about all day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0...

Still lookin'!

Now for the bittersweet part of any launch day as a freelance worker, with the game out, I'm out looking for work again. So, need a UI/gameplay programmer, a top-notch senior/lead QA Analyst, a technical or educational game designer? I'm open to freelance and full-time positions, hit me up! Please!

We don’t want AI slop. Stop sending us AI slop. Stop wasting our time with AI slop. It doesn’t sound good. It’s antithetical to our core values. You didn’t even make it. Knock it off.

Pebble Watch is back, and it's still the absolute best smartwatch for Android.

In a couple hours Battle Suit Aces will be out. I'm really proud of what we made, it's a great game with a great story, great card battling, and breathtaking music and art. So excited for you all to play it! store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/...

Famous American citizen Wernher von Braun.

god I hate naming things

Hey, entire non-US games industry - @kyleor.land is good and trustworthy people.

Both options highlight green. Which one turns off data collection?

Why are so many AI people trying to get into hobbies they absolutely despise? "Fuck reading just give me the summary", Fuck art just make it for me", "I got ideas but fuck actually writing" like??? Maybe just find something you enjoy doing and do that?????

🍒 CHERRY RUSH starting this Friday! 🍒 First run: BARBUTA Cherry at 8am PT / 11am ET by @graygooglitch.com!

🍒 Whoa, what's this?! UFO 50 is available right now on #NintendoSwitch! #UFO50 #IndieWorld

my has wife asked me to stop my running Werner Herzog commentary during our Donkey Kong Bananza playthru

just tried to explain the donkey kong family lineage to my wife and i sounded like a maniac

New friend in #BigHops

Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌 DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!

Ordered! Very excited about this, @bobbylox.bsky.social ! Congrats!

There's a sale on, so you can pre-order the book I've been working on for ~$19! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-game-d...

Spreading my wings a little bit more with hand-writing UI shaders in Unity. I WOULD feel bad about how hacky this process is if only Unity's docs were in better shape. 😅 The additional work here is invisible, but I can't help but do another post showing "pRoGrEsS". Making a game in UGUI is wild. 😸🧶

Expanding on a recent jam game (Smash The Oligarchy), and focusing on animation and vfx (card damage and destruction). This kinda work can be pretty satisfying. :) #gamedev #vfx #screenshotsaturday #sundayIsCloseEnough

You had me at "follow-up to Manifold Garden" 😎

Only $100 away from our first stretch goal!

As someone who doesn't have full ADHD, but definitely feels like it from time to time, this realization was transformative for me. Once I started understanding how my brain can fight against me, I started working with it on that level, and I saw improvement I didn't know was possible.

I'm trying to imagine a Democratic president saying openly and proudly that he would be sending federal agents to target the 'Republican Power Center' in Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. We would be in the midst of a civil war before he'd finished saying those words.

Chicago-land friends, if you know a high-schooler who wants to go from gamer to game developer, check out the summer camp we're having at DePaul University! Deadline for application is June 20th and we're offering full scholarships www.cdm.depaul.edu/academics/Pa...

This last week is a real demonstration of how capacious, yet flattened the word "violent" is in our political discourse. Political assassinations are obviously, clearly violent. But the same word has been used all week to describe protestors damaging objects--not people, objects.

"Bluesky is dead" Meanwhile on Bluesky:

The judges, lawyers, and clerks of this country moving quickly in response to Trump’s haphazard lawbreaking are one of the things keeping America America. I wish I could buy them all cookies.

Just finished the demo for this and holy cow is it the real deal. Gameplay is fun and crunchy and there is SO MUCH incredible art packed into it. I also like that it makes you keep adding new things to your deck. I wonder how the full game is gonna deal with deck bloat/pruning later on.

legitimately I do not understand why more billionaires don't fund media passion projects if I had eleventy billion dollars I would absolutely be doing shit like "I will give you people a hundred million bucks to give me a world class KOTOR remake" or funding romcoms based off my fav romance novels

Congrats, Chris and team! Fuck ya!

It's finally here! Introducing, DeckStacker: A card engine for Unity games! This is designed to be easily plugged into a Unity project, using UGUI, and will get you up and running on a card game, super fast! It's free (MIT) and you can download it on my itch page: ilikepopsoda.itch.io/deckstacker