This week, I'm officially an "expert" aka "curator" on the Ludocene Game Discovery/Curation App. Joining many other talented designer friends. Hope you'll use my "expert card" to assist you with finding interesting games to play!

I'm invested in the NYC Mayoral race like I live there 😅

Hell yea New York! Y'all did it! 🙌🏾 Good news all around today

A few additional ways to support our friends and "cousins" in the Caribbean via additional orgs, for this week and on the road to recovery. . This is ALSO a good time to support game creators from the Carribbean. Show them some love. Names in 🧵. Share ppl you know below too Images via Walkgood IG

One of our members is involved with this project. We're looking forward to playing the demo!

📢My Services are OPEN! I've begun offering services for Game Design, Culturalization, & Team Management. Reach out if: ✨You're creating interactive media. ✨You want to elevate your product, experience, or team ✨You want to bring more cultural authenticity into your work. Links in 🧵

Make sure to celebrate when you roast your sweet potatoes and they have that nice crunch to them. So satisfying.

Passed these around at a rally in LA. Commit to joining the upcoming General Strike to collectively PAUSE business as usual, actively halt the flow of money, and support growing mutual aid systems for sustained strike. @generalstrikeus.bsky.social

Sometimes I hold my kitchen knives in my mouth like Zoro while cooking. Frees my hands sometimes 😆

Was trying to finish more of Silksong before Ghost of Yotei dropped but alas. Might eek out an hour session before switching games. Still working my way through Sword of the Sea too.

Let’s go with a new trailer! Have you played the demo yet?! No? What are you waiting for?

Some positivity to your timeline

🎉🎉 we've got a new trailer up! Love the atmosphere and musicality on this one. Thanks to @virixdreamcore.bsky.social magic for the musical treatment.

It's time for a Rising Star update - with music!!! 😤😤😤 Here's a teaser of Go for Broke!!! by yours truly + @memodemo.zip

Along with the recent book feature, reminder that I'm offering ✨Consultation/Contract Services✨ 🔸Design Consulting/Contract (Systems/Combat/General) 🔸Creative Team Management 🔸Cultural Design If you're looking to take your team or game to the next level, get in touch! . Details: buff.ly/G6AWGbU

A lil ✨Career Update✨ I've had my first book feature this summer! - Video Game Design for Dummies. It's a super introductory book to the world of #gamedesign. It contains a small snapshot of my career, alongside other talented game designers. what a fun surprise. This copy was at Books A Million

Yup, going to go ahead and cancel this Hulu/Disney+ subscription. Barely using it lately anyways. And ppl wonder why they keep seeing One Piece flags going up. ✊🏾

Saw Iniko perform last night. Powerful performance! Their tour is called - "Awakening The Empire". Perfect title for what their music evokes - to tap in, connect, and get big.

There's something very satisfying about playing a good game of Tetris at the grocery store - fitting all your items in one bag with precision. making sure that the bread is at the top, so it doesn't get squished lol.

Great genre fusion and a dope trailer. Looking good @heartloopgames.bsky.social

Just touched down in Seattle and I'm immediately going to my old, fav bakery, Fuji Bakery in Chinatown. 😋

I know what new-new that I'm playing this week! Sword of the Sea 🙌🏾 I feel like @giantsquidstudios.com makes games for my taste lol. Beautiful games that feel great to play, but imperfect with a few flaws. Always worth your time though.

It's official. I'll be headed to PAX West next week! Good timing with my recent new Consultation/Contract Offerings: 🔸Design Consulting (Cultural/Systems/Combat/General) 🔸Team Consulting 🔸Gamification If you're looking to take your team to the next level, get in touch! . Details: buff.ly/G6AWGbU

i'm in this bundle for Concoct a Bad Day Remedy microTTRPG. def support this bundle and @gdocexpo.com ! #GameBundles #SupportBundle

I keep thinking about how in the Kirby Air Ride 2 direct, Sakurai started in last place on purpose, then used all of the mechanics in the game to win first place. Enjoying every moment of it. The game looks like a ton of fun.

I can't believe Hollow Knight Silksong is actually real. 😅😁 The way big fans have been clamoring over any hints of news these past few years, I thought it may never see the light of day.

I'm very excited to play Sword of the Sea from @giantsquidstudios.com next week 🐬 #SwordoftheSea @mattnava.bsky.social

I've opened up a series of Consulting and Dev Contract offerings for the upcoming season. Chris knows what's up! If you are creating products with a cross-disciplinary team (games or not) and looking to elevate what you're building, reach out. Details in the link below~ 😉

Dunno if y'all saw 👀 but we released a slick highlight reel from our BiG Byte Game Jam! Featuring some of the fav games from the jam. All the applause goes to @elijahsbrain.bsky.social for leveling-up all my ideas and then some. My first response was "this is slick!" True story youtu.be/fNR5AAXJ0Sw

I learned a lot more about Donkey Kong than I ever wondered about from this mini-docu. Like DK's dad being the antagonist in the original game. 😲

Dabbling in UEFN this week. Send help lol

Working with your intuition is like the Wonder Twins. Just gotta trust the guidance and hope it works out somehow 😅 I know y'all remember the Wonder Twins shenanigans. . Made this for our ongoing Intuition 101 course. Check it out here: www.oraclejamie.com

I remember seeing this at GDC and chuckled. Looking forward to playing

📢 More Release News Today! I helped to release a new online course! "Awaken Your Inner Oracle" is a mini-master class on the why and how of following your intuition to lead a more fulfilled lifestyle. It's basically a life cheat code.😉 Let's dig into it 🧵 Sign Up here: tinyurl.com/intuition2025

⭐❗New Release! Been using substack for a while but haven't actually engaged with it...till this week! Our spiritual wellness-focused substack is up with its first major post. This one is a channeled reading about what the next half of the year will look like. open.substack.com/pub/jamielee...

Kindfolx came out on the 15th! If you like deck builders, you should grab it NOW.

This is probably the best "Sonic-like" I've played. If you're remotely interested, picking up indie games in their launch week (and reviewing them) is *massively important*

This is it. Many iterations of 2D MegaMan and 2D sonic games, all culminating into one new, speedy, action platformer. Looks so good. Congrats on the release fam. Looking forward to playing and watching the speed runs lol.

Wooooo! what a busy game day. Results from our recent game jam, Advent Neon released, Sunken Stones released. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Feel like I've been waiting on this game to be finished for years now. Excited to check out the full experience!

Gonna be a wild time, no doubt

LIVE NOW!! Let’s see how many demos we can get though before this weather decides to ruin our fun lol 😭💖✨

2nd stream of the week! hype

Tomorrow 7/15, after 5 years of solo dev, KindFolx my dungeon-crawling deckbuilder where you explore, make decisions on the fly, and fight your way through the center of the city in real time launches! WL: store.steampowered.com/app/1408730/... Reposts Appreciated! #kindfolx #gamedev #indiegame

We're working on our post Jam newsletter now! Featuring jam highlights, updates on other projects, and curations from culture-focused entertainment we're into lately.

Some good design thoughts today

🔔Weve got TWO Game Jam Stream for y'all next week! Playing games from our recent BiG Byte Game Jam. Tune in with: PlayersXProtags on July 14th at 5:30pm pst /8:30pm est And @madmadameem.bsky.social on July 15th at 4:30pm pst/7:30pm est Gameplay, commentary, vibes Links in 🧵

I'm still going through the games from the jam myself. There's some clever ideas from the teams!

Judges are wrapping up their decisions on the winners of the BiG Byte Game Jam, but you still have a chance to play all the games over at our itch_io page! itch.io/jam/big-byte...

Wild first experience playing Peak last night. We did 2 runs, 4 hours of play time, and almost completed the final volcano (kiln?) level on the 2nd run. I ended up becoming the designated poison tester, running into THREE poison bushes in the 3rd level completely on accident. 😆😭 Epic save in🧵