gunslingers starting their work week with a 10 minute standoff

*kisses you on the lips* so Dwarf Fortress is a procedurally generated, deeply immersive colony sim where the player manages a colony of dwarves *kisses you again* Similarly to Caves of Qud, Dwarf Fortress has been in development for more than a decade *kisses you a third time* and used askii art f-

"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend." @mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

let game

hey there! I'll be streaming Caves of Qud in about 5 minutes with @fractrans.bsky.social and @unormal.bsky.social, and we'll be going through the Reanimated Monster Mash mod jam 2025! come hang out, peruse the beasts, and enjoy the vibes! youtube.com/live/LmmCumv...

Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied: "Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀

Although I love all of what @loccorocco-art.bsky.social has drawn about Caves of Qud, I'm especially fond of how he looked at my snarky Issachari dialog and thought, "that's gay teasing" and drew it so it was

Met a Halloween moose today

jpeg artifacts on my aura

Getting my Halloween costume together for tonight :)

It's always a good time to get your mailing list off of the site that actively funds transphobic writers, but now is a particularly good time to migrate, while you can still take your customers' Stripe billing tokens with you and not have to get people to reenter payment

I worked on the Torment Nexus for five years. Here’s why the project has lost its way. | New York Times (Gift Link)

we gotta hyper optimize so we can fill the new headroom with new frog opinions

Thanks to everyone who watched my talk at @roguelike.club yesterday! Slides / links: codeberg.org/librarianmag...

roguelike celebration is a good conference

it would be great if after a character died, your game made a .txt file which is just generated ascii art of their bones.

None of this tech grift bullshit is truly inevitable despite what they keep trying to say.

Thank you @jbrew.bsky.social for adding the Brooklyn Interpretation of karaoke to our collective community toolkit.

Roguelike Celebration (2025)

If you want cons to be smaller, cheaper, more accessible, and less corporate- consider checking out @roguelike.club this weekend, maybe even buying a ticket! Even if proc gen isn’t your fav, I think it can be inspiring to see this type of event in action, and we can only keep doing it with support ❤️

i made another trans ghost

Excited to announce that I will be speaking at Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club this year! www.roguelike.club/event2025.ht...

Join us this Halloween for a five-day-long modding jam for Caves of Qud. Take part in the joy of creation and distill Qud's beautiful monstrosity into a creature of your own making. 🎃 Sign up here: itch.io/jam/caves-of... 🧟‍♀️ Chat about the event in the Kitfox Discord: discord.gg/hpUJFdKHdd

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

In simulation game design it is important for one area of the simulation to be inexplicably overgranular (because it was a pet interest of one of the designers) and thus become a key part of the system's signature expressivity

the Caves of Qud finale episode of @eggplantshow.bsky.social has been scheduled and I'm just vibrating as it slowly crawls toward us

caves of qud is a rare and excellent example of living earth fiction. the world ended long ago and it's fine* *mostly

i feel like it is imperative as a society that we bully the tech bros harder

My sole advice as an author is to write with confidence. Imagine how much more convincing it would be if instead of They Might Be Giants it was 'They're Giants'

Transgender,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

LaTeX based game ui engine

can someone say it

finally manifested astrally but it's my worksona. fucking banish me

Can you believe this schedule? www.roguelike.club/event2025.html Join us in our carnival-themed MUD space on Oct 25-26 for this incredible lineup of speakers and talks on all things roguelike!

when you test your localization subsystems a little too hard

my gyre: Wide my falcon: Unhearing my blood-dimm'd tide: Loosed ROUGHBEASTCON: 1

caves of qud

Excited to announce that I will be speaking at Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club this year! www.roguelike.club/event2025.ht...

Roguelike celebration — loveliest community, most inspired virtual conference space, greatest juxtaposition of in-field and out-of-field topics if you haven't been, come this year! October 25-26 🎲💫 if you have, welcome back! see you there

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I'll be giving the talk "Roll for Reminiscence: Procedural Keepsake Games" at Roguelike Celebration! Super excited to share work I've been doing on this topic!

omg the talk/speaker lineup for Roguelike Celebration (@roguelike.club) 2025 looks sooo good: www.roguelike.club/event2025.html So obviously one of the most vital events in videogames right now, I really hope I can make the time to attend this year.

when you finally learn to design shit it turns out there's basically only one way, that works across all domains, which is to be able to imagine all the ways a thing could be in order to pick the one it should be

i explained this more while i was fighting these bills in tx, but the Manhattan Institute is the think tank creating this legislation. the article used to be titled “unmasking protesters” and the photo used to be of a brown person with a scarf on their head 2/5 manhattan.institute/article/trum...

[sighing wearily] caves of qud

youre all infinite wells of perversion and vice

The way the violence/non-violence, armed/unarmed questions are often framed is irrelevant and misses the point. Every movement that has ever gotten anywhere has to grapple seriously with the use of force and figure out ways to face it AND any push for liberation collapses if relying on force alone

my solution to this problem is to destigmatize cheats

the only difference between "accessibility option" and "cheat" is how you frame it, frankly. one of those funny things that's funny to say because it sounds absurd on its face