It's out! The game I've been working on! If you'd like a grounded but optimistic city-builder with gorgeous art, amazing music, and curiosity-provoking story alongside sustainable core loops, check it out!

IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING!!! GENERATION EXILE. EARLY ACCESS. NEXT WEEK. WISHLIST 👇🏻 store.steampowered.com/news/app/296...

Favorite non-Microsoft swaps for OneNote?

Those that back the fuck away from Omelas.

It really bums me out that tons of local restaurants suddenly have generative AI pics on all of their digital storefronts, some on in-person menus too. Even ones that previously had real pictures of their food. It also seems like, IDK, false advertising?

Lately I've been enjoying Naomi Kanakia's newsletter, especially the Erdric stories.

Please sign: A House of Commons petition to hold MPs accountable for misinformation they circulate. *It's a two step signature, you'll need to check your email to confirm you are who you say you are. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

What a time to be reading the Parable of the Sower.

If you're Canadian, please sign this! You'll have to confirm your signature via email but for good reason--this is a petition sponsored by an actual member of parliament. These petitions can lead to actual meaningful action here. Doesn't take very long, please add your support!!

Foods that seem to be having a moment: Doughnuts, sandwiches. Bubble tea and fried chicken wave has crested and begins to retreat.

Just finished The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar. I read Olga Ravn's The Employees not long ago. I think you could have a very interesting conversation about the similarities and differences between those two works.

it's time to COMPLAIN about the delisting of NSFW games on steam and itch! tell these payment processors that they need to STOP listening to these boring anti-porn thought-policing friendless tossers and START LISTENING to us instead. there is no art without queers, sluts, perverts and weirdoes 💦

nerds gummy clusters should get a michelin star

I am going to go feral

It feels surreal but the game I've been working on for ages is now out there to demo, until Monday!

The Luddites had a great phrase for what they opposed: "Machinery hurtful to commonality." It's an excellent reminder that being a Luddite doesn't mean you hate technology, but that you hate the way capitalists create and use technology to destroy community and human flourishing.

Has anyone read anything they can share about the function and impact pessimistic fiction has in society? I've seen things about utopian fiction describing its role in helping us imagine future possibilities, but less about pessimistic or even dystopian fiction.

There's 5 days left in the Bump in the Night campaign with quite a bit of money left to raise. Last time @gregpak.com came in at the end like Gandalf at Helm's Deep for a signal boost that pushed us through. Is it too much to ask for a repeat performance? :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/pau...

I would love to write the Warhammer 40k romance line please and thank you

I’m gonna say this a little more loudly: there is no “exception” for GenAI usage if you support artists, writers, musicians, the planet, poor communities polluted by the generators, etc. None. Your “silly little uses” are still exploiting everyone and fucking everything up. Full stop. Thread.

Reem told me she isn’t seeing much support 💔 can you please share and donate and help a kind person out?

We’re live!

JOCKSTRAPS is coming to WEBTOON today, april 23rd at 12pm EST!!! it's a yuriful college sports comedy written by @bettytherob.bsky.social and illustrated by me! we've been working so so hard on it for months now, i hope you'll like it!! stay tuned for episode 1! :DD ⚽️💥 [ #webtoon #art #comic ]

So on top of it being game launch day it's also "take the studio public" day! My wife and I have really enjoyed making games and now that we have more than one it felt like time to make it something official 😅 You can follow the studio account for regular news, promo, and progress updates!

Lime bike stations have started appearing in central vancouver so here is me saying: for the love of god DO NOT USE THEM. Theyre on a trial run here, are an American company, and the money you spend on that is funds diverted from public transit or Mobi which deserve your money 1000x more.

If you are a freelancer fired up about this flagrant theft of your work please know that the National Writers Union has a whole AI working group and we would love your energy! DM me if you have questions!

CWA and video game workers launch new industry-wide union anyone can join, even if they’ve been laid off aftermath.site/uvw-cwa-vide...

I think I'll be looking for a new user image soon, this one is very out of date! Please share your recommendations for artists :)

it's unfortunate that for various reasons Polaris Game Design Retreat can only be attended by ~30 people every year, but it's EXTREMELY fortunate that those people tend to write up their findings and learnings, and give it away FOR FREE, check it out: polarisgamedesign.com/reports/

Game designers, writers, and publishers: Polygon Treehouse made a sleek and convenient "No GenAI" seal PNG for those of us who still refrain from using Midjourney, ChatGPT, DallE, and all the rest of that sludge at any stage of our process! Link is here www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree:

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

Did you know you can put a pot full of water, an old lemon and orange and apple, cinnamon sticks, cloves, and star anise on the stove, and keep it at a low simmer to make your home smell festive and have nicely humidified air?

Thematically speaking, it feels a bit on the nose for the home of interesting independent genre art to be taken down by the soulless dead-eyed brand garbage factory using AI. Practically speaking I'm just furious. Fuck Funko pops and to be honest fuck you if you buy their ugly trash.

The kind of HOT Friday night I'm having: Just mumbled to myself "I'll never not want to wrap text Excel, when will you fucking learn."

Hamza is also struggling to find food and his family is starving. Please send a few dollars if you can, every bit helps 🙏🏼❤️

I need to know what's the dumbest thing each Montrealer has nearly gotten frostbite for I waited in line for the Old Port ferris wheel for like 30 mins in -30 on nuit blanche once, before I knew any better no scarf no gloves

The Palestinian-made game Dreams on a Pillow is 413 dollars and 13 backers short of respectively 60K raised and 1,000 supporters. Who wants to help push it over towards those milestones? launchgood.com/1948

🎵do🎵I🎵need🎵to🎵 tie myself to a deep sea mining drill bit🎵 🎵to stop that shit from ever happening again🎵

extremely excited to debut @aftermath.site's latest show: you are error, a @yourewrongabout.bsky.social/factually (by @adamconover.net)-inspired podcast examining common misconceptions in games and what they say about games, those who make them, and people in general aftermath.site/you-are-erro...

Oh no, I've felt a Calling[tm]. But I'm already so bogged down by passions. The dishes will never get done at this rate.

Hey! Did you all know that you can watch tons of indigenous cinema here on the National Film Board of Canada's website? Well, you can, and I thought I'd share just a few of my favorites today for... reasons. www.nfb.ca/indigenous-c...

After years away from game dev, I couldn’t stay silent about my people’s dehumanization. I made Dreams on a Pillow 🍉a game inspired by a famous Palestinian folktale about the 1948 Nakba. I’m crowdfunding it now—please back & share! 🔗 launchgood.com/1948

I need to build a website. I need to stain all my white and pine furniture with walnut stain.

too much is happening now that parallels my studies in the history of medieval medicine, I can tell you that

Conventional career wisdom from ~5+ years ago suggests that a newsletter or blog is a good step for visibility, community-building, Getting Yourself Out There, making side money. But with so much Content[tm] and new algos, is it worth starting now? Is it as essential to be known? I wonder.

Was very tired at the Super Normie orthodontist in the Rich Part of Town, ended up telling my ortho and his assistant all about how I drew butts all weekend. He politely asked follow-up questions about the studio space. :,)

This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.