Fungi friends from a weekend walk

Let it snow! #art #animation

This week is "Cat Café Chaos"! The morning rush has begun, and the cats are in charge! Cups clatter, tails flick, and pastries vanish under the furry supervision. Compose the soundtrack to a cozy café spiraling into adorable anarchy!

In the last chapter of my design diary about Cortiça, I cover the game’s release and the currently running reprint campaign. If you want a physical copy, now’s your chance! gamesbymanuel.com/2025/11/08/c... 🎲✂️

Released my new 2 player trick taker today at Hamishcon in Warwick, UK. Look out for copies soon on Travel-Games.co.uk !!

Repping the scientifically determined 77th best videogame character of all time, Leon Sexy Kennedy

Night soil, night soil We know how to move it Gimme that night soil, night soil We can monetise it

If you’re looking for ethical alternatives, Tidal and Quobuz are high quality streaming services which pay artists more fairly and have extensive catalogues, and Bandcamp is the best way to financially support artists

“That’s not a game, it’s an activity.” “That’s not a cat, it’s an animal.” “That’s not a sound, it’s a noise.” “That’s not a branch, it’s a limb.” “That’s not a dinner, it’s a meal.” “That’s not a knife… THIS is a knife.” “Ceci n'est pas une pipe, c'est un tableau.” #boardgames 🎲✂️ 🤷

This is the book that got to start designing boardgames on my long commute to work! I still recommend it to aspiring game designers.

Doing something very very silly and unnecessarily complicated

My latest self-published game Heavenly Bodies 🪐✨🌙 is now up on the Pax Unplugged preview list!! Help fulfill my dream of thumbing-up 👍 all the games at Indie Games Night Market 2025 to the top of the list!! (We have some big competition for visibility!) 🎲✂️ boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/...

The work Postmark are doing in the print and play space is wonderful - no doubt this will continue their hot streak

Getting pretty pumped about #Crownfell : Metal Edition being sold at PAXU in the Indie Games Night Market...! Got my pricing poster ready:

How I view my cat / how my cat views me

the most relatable Pokemon yet

Hmmmmm

Wulbren Bongle intro tune going HEAVY @characterissues.bsky.social

This book is SO GOOD

Quick spooky(ish) ditty on Deflemask Mobile for the muwee prompt ‘When Midnight Rings’ - created on the Megadrive soundchip for fm & pulse wave goodness 🤘 @musicweeklies.bsky.social #whenmidnightrings #deflemask #chiptune #tracker #megadrive #sega

A total and utter hero

This week is "Into the Storm"! Thunder roars, waves crash, and the air crackles with energy. What does the storm sound like to you? Chaos, courage, despair, or rebirth? Every legend starts the same way; someone stepped into the storm.

New beetles almost ready to name, mount and frame. Available soon.

Saw some good splodes tonight

A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a gif

It's been out on PC for a couple years now, but if you haven't already played Schildmaid you should absolutely check it out. It has the rare magic of an extremely low and approachable skill floor and a ridiculously high and expressive skill ceiling. I love it.

Now that’s someone I haven’t seen in awhile

It was an absolute pleasure to meet @jontofski.bsky.social at Chester Print Fair and pick up another of his wonderful prints

I vaguely recall VIOY is one of Ea-nāṣir’s sub brands

Happy Halloween!

It took me quite a while to work out this advert for central heating didn’t show a lady holding a long barrelled revolver

It's Halloween

Show me your pumpkin friends? (I don't care what year you carved it, just that you did)

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

The amazing community in the M8 discord have collaborated to make a MASSIVE Jungle album (68 tracks! 4.5h!) which is available pay-what-you-want from Bandcamp. It’s almost worth the cost of entry just for that album cover art sydneycitychiptuneministries.bandcamp.com/album/m8-jun...

It’s that time again

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I’ve been using the Affinity suite for a good few years now and have been impressed. I’m cautiously optimistic about this business model pivot…

If nothing else, a high-quality, full-featured competitor to Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign that is completely free is *definitely* going to be bad for Adobe. I'm a big Affinity fan, and I'm glad the AI features are the only thing behind a subscription paywall. This will shake things up.

Updates for the sequence generator: - Sequence is persisted locally in your browser so you can come back to it later. It also remembers your theme setting. - History with undo. - Other small bits and bobs. mhhollomon.github.io/SeqGen/

NGL this may well be my magnum opus

the worst era for pop music was (UserProfile: BirthYear+13) to (UserProfile: BirthYear+21). that was total dogshit. everything else pretty much fine

I am proud to be a knobhead

Post something silly or you’ll have an awful November

I have never felt more kinship with Gary Larson as a creative than I do at this moment, as someone who has also drawn things where the amount of people who didn't get it also made me want to crawl in a hole and die

It pulled me into shmups and wouldn’t let me go - such an eye opener to a whole world

When your mutual has changed both their username and profile pic for Halloween

This game is SO GOOD