Nothing quite hits like waking up early to file your taxes for a country you dont live in any more, having to pay 100 of said countries whole ass dollars for the filing service only to be told the IRS wants one (1.00) buck from ya boi. Mornings to cherish.

perfectionism is so often seen as a permissive ability to create or drive something towards perfection, but in reality, it's a crippling inability to let go of anything imperfect it's an obsession, it stagnates you, and gets you stuck on things you shouldn't be

Trans Day Of Give My Game Visibility Please And Thank You

I remember how reading The Crucible in school made me viscerally angry. The portrayal of the antagonist's unfalsifiable accusations struck a nerve. I hated the book and having to read the sanctimony and backwards rhetoric. But that taught me to listen for it and, through discomfort, art enriched me.

It absolutely has been at least 70 weeks. I remember I started seeing it happen in droves in late 2023 and early 2024. It hasnt slowed since.

We are so excited to announce that Bait & Tackle won Best in Game Design at RPI GameFest this past weekend! We were also nominated for Best in Show and couldn't be more honored. Thank you to everyone who stopped by to show their support!

My greatest nemesis is opportunity cost

Doing what those bozo execs think is impossible, you can buy my 100% AI-free solo-dev game right now. I made all the code, all the art, all the little growls the goblins do when they get big mad. (its also 25% off for the steam spring sale 👀) store.steampowered.com/app/2741830/...

I had a vision

Hey all, the MS-GDD students of RIT are hosting a playtest between 11:00am-1:50am tomorrow on-campus in the SHED. If you would like to playtest the latest build of Ember's Oath, feel free to stop by! And be sure to playtest the other games as well! 😀

Is this maybe the wildest possible urinal config? Absolutely blessed view. Absolutely cursed layout.

I'm not huge on vibe coding. I get the appeal though. But I feel this article by Wired on COBOL's legacy echoes what I feel we will be saying about vibe coding in the future. I can easily replace COBOL here with "programming" in general with regards to vibe coding. www.wired.com/story/cobol-...

I'm very sad Secret Agent didn't get best picture. OBAA is fine, I guess, but I do feel there were far more deserving films on the list.

Something I value greatly, and that I think contributed to my love of games, is that in the household of every member of my family there is always a well-worn deck of playing cards. Lost count of the number of afternoons I've spent playing cards with my brothers, my mom or my dad. All well spent.

It is vitally important for innovators like Floyd to be recognized by Wizards - Forgetful Fish is an example of using MTG as a canvas that deserves to be lauded, studied and written about. Recognition like this validates the notion that it is worthwhile to reinvent the wheel.

Train Dreams is a beautiful movie, holy shit. It's the runner up to Best Movie for me, right after Secret Agent which is in a league of it's own.

If you have a weird question and you: - explore its perspectives in writing, you wrote a novel - built some rules to present it and people can use them: you made a game - you exhaustively focused on a single aspect of that question: you have a scientific paper

Jumping on that return to vinyl bandwagon with some Opeth

I have no evidence but also no doubt that this was why they were shut down. Their ideas were too bold; too dangerous, even. They spoke aloud the words forbidden. Jokes aside, it is an absolute tragedy that things went down like this. The industry has seen better days.

Things that drive me up the walls: In Excel the parameter order for SUM.IF is test range, test criteria and then sum range. The parameter order for MAX.IF is max range, test_range and then test criteria. Really messes with my muscle memory this

the video game industry is a mess

I found the skeet by SWS strangely inspiring

Damn. Marty Supreme pretty good. Soundtrack go hard. I think it's a big critique of the idea of American Exceptionalism and giving the billionaire the "I am a vampire from 1601" line was flat genius.

Sam has done a lot of analysis on how Magic has acted as a canvas for formats which can become games of their own like Forgetful Fish. This is fundamental to the discipline. Analysis in this vein is critical to helping designers understand that games can spawn games. They can become the toolbox.

Day 8 posting my weekly work until I can land a job. Jam game working on; another mini-RPG that uses 2D renders of 3D Sprites. Finally got to use my character design. I am a Fullstack Godot Coder; 2D/3D Artist/Animator Check profile for full skill/project list. 🙏 #godot #indiedev #gamedev

Mental image of the day: Velociraptors standing on one leg to cool off like flamingos.

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A bit of advice: if you're condemning a group for their rightly condemnable actions maybe don't add the clause "omg you guys, you're making it so hard to benefit from the thing I really want" if you want to appear sincere at all. But kudos for being so transparent, ig.

Hell, if anything, I'd say the mannerisms and physicality of the character are much closer to RFK

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.