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Video Games Person / Queer as in mission statement Working on INOCULATE. Previously at Nerial
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new blog post: turned my gdc 2025 level design theory talk into a blog post www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/05/spac...

New Blog Post! Summary: A naked man keeps beating me up in Morrowind, and I just think that's neat sandboxdunes.neocities.org/posts/TheUnf...

polygon and giant bomb dead in the same week is just unfathomable

the figureheads of the UK anti-trans movement are (mostly? almost all?) cishet people, & the overwhelming majority of lesbians support trans people, going by polls. but the first group think they get to decide what a lesbian is

i have ten pages left but the whole thing is basically like this, lmao. "we're exiling trans women from society for being men and we're exiling trans men from society for being trans." you guys i found where 4chan migrated to

New blog post about Blue Prince and the difficulty in talking about the "Metroidbrania" genre as a whole. Also I give the genre a new name because like.... ew sandboxdunes.neocities.org/posts/Metroi...

Newwww blog, this time a Devlog on INOCULATE! Specifically on how I represent / gamify individuals' ideological positions and the concept of political alliances. sandboxdunes.neocities.org/posts/Devlog...

Desperately need the explanation for how Sony managed to fumble FromSoft twice in the exact same way (Demon Souls -> Dark Souls + Bloodeborne -> The Duskbloods)

New Post! On Tactical FPSs, Cop Fantasies, and HOLE sandboxdunes.neocities.org/posts/InTheH...

Updates! 1. I have a blog now! called *Sandbox Dunes*. Expect a blend of design and material analysis. Two posts are live already, one on the Necromorphs of Dead Space and the other on the Zone of Stalker 2 Find them here: sandboxdunes.neocities.org/info/all_pos...

imagine a game where you (gay) and kurt russell (gay) are trying to be the first to reach the south pole. food is running low. also kurt russell might be a monster who wants to assimilate you. do you kiss?? this dilemma is called gameplay

I made INOCULATE for the Global Game Jam last week and I think it's neat! Spread and reinforce leftist ideology amongst your users, while banning those who intentionally spread Misinformation. Mechanically inspired by nu-Deus Ex hacking mini games + Mini Metro finnjc.itch.io/inoculate

Me every time someone does something cool with Realis

Hello! I have something new coming out soon. It's a big collection of some of my favourite little games from the past decade or so. Here's the steam page! store.steampowered.com/app/2824580/...

For the past couple of years I've worked with a team of students and alumni of the NYU Game Center on a collection of original essays about games. We call this collection S Rank, and we just released our second volume. You can download it here: s-rank-zine.itch.io/vol-2

"If game designers are to have any success combating toxicity, we must acknowledge that our own design choices are often the underlying systemic cause. And that it is our responsibility to change them." Read the Featured Blog by Rhys Frampton #GDBestof2024

🐝 Introducing Shutterbug 🐞⁠ ⁠ We're so excited to be introducing the excellent Shutterbug to the NVM as part of our Illuminate The Play Christmas program ⁠ The browser based bug photography game centres around taking pictures of insects when venturing out into the woods thenvm.org/illuminate-t...

Hello Bluesky! Gurn Group and I made a game for AGBICJam. Come check it out: