Welp. I thought I was a rehabilitated man, years clean at this stage, and all it took was seeing @patstaresat.bsky.social start a Stardew Valley run and now I'm jonesing again. Time to set up a farm and plant some cauliflower I guess

Buenos dias? In this economy?! My dude, best I can do is buen día. Only got the budget for one. Can't be handing them out like candy anymore, damn.

🎉 My 🤏 bite-sized metroidvania is OUT NOW! 🎉 Play it now! ▶️ tinyurl.com/pac9j3su I strived making short but densely packed game. Please enjoy! 🙇 If you play, please give it a reviewing! 🙏 The first 10 REALLY count! #indiegamedev #metroidvania #pixelart #retro #solodev #gamedev #unity #noai

Their memory haunts me in Winter

The dolly zoom is probably the best camera trick with regards to the density of how much it communicates. I'd go so far as to say the dolly zoom is better at communicating than the Dutch angle.

My Most Wonderful Card of the Year. I absolutely love cards that play with the concept of discarding and that have you playing value analysis games with your own hand. Brewed many ideas with this one, one of which got me to Mythic this year.

This. It's my main gripe with post-apocalyptic media in all its forms is that it most often pushes the message of "yeah, everything is fucked, but you know what makes it worse? Fuckin people, amirite?" and it's just not fucking true. Our species-wide instinct is to build communities and society.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Language-wise there's a very interesting thing happening. When folks try to flaunt genAI they say "we're big into AI", usually trying to bring ML under that umbrella. In the quotes from Vincke, there's more specific mention of ML tools rather than AI, as if trying to distance one from the other

This. I've seen a lot of the "-punk" movements forget that it's not about The Thing™ being cool, but rather about The Thing™ having been perverted into absolutely fucking sucking. Sure, cities and tech in Akira and Ghost in the Shell look cool, but life 100% fucking sucks in them.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen Was joy to his mighty heart Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves: "It's pretty but is it Art?" poets.org/poem/conundr...

picture of the staff who operate this bluesky account

Big shoutout to Edd for working on this. UIDB is an incredible resource for reference work, research and experimentation

Blue Prince (2025)

Images that go hard AF

🎲✂️ Hi people! What advice would you give to someone who is trying to learn how to start their own publishing company? The rough idea is to try and create not only a publisher for local game designers, but also a localizing partner to help out designers from across the globe. #boardgames #bgdev

And it fucking rules.

Ads in the States: "Don't let chlamydia stop you. Live life your way with Chlamyxil" Ads in Peru: "Yo, they rob your ass? Here's how you can block all your banking apps before they hack your phone" It's fun being back home

Love it when a Wikipedia warning matches the real-life situation. Why, yes, my beloved country's political crisis has indeed gone on too long and can't be navigated comfortably.

When Neo finally gets his power to see the Matrix for what it truly is was actually a metaphor for getting a piece of this fucking ham loose without it ripping to pieces because of how it's folded.

This is an example of a logical fallacy called a false dichotomy. There are not "basically only two positions", with regards to pretty much anything. Approaching debate that way is reductive, dismissive and intellectually lazy. Also, the concept of barriers applied to opinions is fucking stupid.

What the architecture for my turn-based combat system is feeling like. I started trying to make sure systems were extensible, sober and with clear responsibilities and at this stage it's becoming more and more "yeah, fuck it, I'll couple these 4 classes together"

Execs don't like it.

Sunsets over water bodies > sunsets over regular ground

> Open a website on my phone > Deal with the cookie bullshit > "Better on the app". No. > Wait for megabytes of more bullshit to load > Lower right corner obstructed by useless chatbot > Embedded videos displace or overlay over actual content. Not enjoying the current state of the internet.

Referring to it as the Human Centipede of content is the appropriate nomenclature. People who care create art, document history and prompt reflection. Machines regurgitate and spew.

Waking up and heading for the coffee pot like

Gonna be streaming myself attempting to power through this, one sidetrack at a time. Come on down, say hi. #gamedev #indiedev www.twitch.tv/amonjerrotv

This year I've read both Play Nice as well as Press Reset and I gotta say, Schreier as an author excels at chronicling and piecing together the many loose threads that make up the reality of the intersection of the internet, business and game development.

I can already see someone firing their accounting department, "vibe working" a financial statement that is full of hallucinations and then being ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED when the IRS audits them and fines them hundreds of thousands of dollars. Stellar work, Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...

> I've grown a lot as a programmer. I think I'll make an RPG turn-based combat system. He said, foolishly. Days later as he juggles state machines, he curses at the sky loudly, hoping in vain his shouting will break through time and reach his past self.

The search for pictures with Final Boss Energy™ continues

Hey we're at Roc Game Fest @rocgamefest.bsky.social this year! Come swing by! Tomorrow 11am-5pm at THE SHED at RIT.

I accidentally triggered the hotkey to slow down a Youtube video from normal playback speed to 0.75x speed and, let me tell you, it completely changes the experience of watching video essays. It's like listening to a drunk guy at the bar slurring their way through a cohesive argument. Beautiful.

Remember kids: we're all family here until the shareholders want the stock price to rise by 2.5%

Not a single card in the Arena's Through the Omenpaths has flavor text. I realize the set was made to port the cards from the paper Spiderman set to the digital client because of a complicated rights dispute but the fact they didn't bother to flesh out the in-universe counterpart card stings.

The world is fucking crazy rn. So here's a shot of dawn over Honeoye lake. May it refresh you as it did me.

Cook for the people in your life, and cook with them as well.

This video is about the history of Oops All Spells, the players who made it, and the players who love to hate it. ft @faultedform.bsky.social and @boshnroll.bsky.social 🎥: youtu.be/dOs3_9aJ56I

Case in point: this example of the Torment Nexus. I'm pretty sure this is beat-by-beat an episode of Black Mirror

From yesterday´s stream, I began development of an Inscryption-like movement system. I wanted the nodes of my map to be quickly editable and verifiable through the inspector, so I extended the Unity Inspector with buttons to create nodes and automatically link them together. #gamedev #indiedev

Hey all, starting my prototype development stream! We have the basic gameplay down already so now I'll be working on addressing playtest feedback and beginning the development of the new mechanics I want for next playtest! twitch.tv/amonjerrotv Please say hi!

en la cama, tal cual "durmiéndola", y por "la", jaja, bueno. digsmos. La mona.

I think the worst part of looking for a job after graduation is having to log into LinkedIn. I can't wait to not have to open that stupid fucking app anymore. It's filled to the brim with people being just the absolute worst.

Ayo, they saved the bees?! LFG

Talking with Dani, we were trying to remember what came first in the book of Genesis and she goes: "nah, dude, he modeled the scene first then did the lighting. God's Blender tutorial." Best analogy I've ever heard.

I've been feeding ham to a local stray cat and now he's here, every morning, waiting. When I see him, I feed him. Have I trained him to wait for the ham or has he trained me to feed him? Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Ran into this wall of a post on my LinkedIn feed where some AI guru was rambling about lines of communication and how AI simplifies it and I can't. I hate how much bullshit just casually floods that platform

I just got a flashback of how owning a gameboy had me analyzing the properties of different kinds of batteries for charge potential when I was a kid. Wild times. Arguing with store owners over how I need my AAs to be alkali cause the regular ones won't last me through a dungeon in Link's Awakening.

Talked to a nutritionist over the week cause your boy is trying to lose some weight for health reasons and she told me "dude, like half your weekly caloric intake is from beer" which is the weirdest way I've heard anyone call me A Really Rad Dude™ before.