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joelaclark.bsky.social
- game designer & engineer 🎮 - available for freelance work 📑 - independent 🕺 - Kansas City📍 - made blaseball ⚾️🩸 - has 6 cats 🐈‍⬛ - he/him 👽 joelaclark.com
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my tiny driveway is an urban wildlife sanctuary. get a load of our new friend this year

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

free advice for game developers: try to make the next smash hit video game, such as grand theft auto. if you do, you'll be making more than just a video game – you'll be making millions of dollars

submitted 27 days ago • 183 comments

hard to focus on work when this guy is staring at me the whole time

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Not for nothing: if you live in KC (or even of you don't!) and want to support non-AI generated local reporting on LOTS of stuff, including local politics, arts and culture, @thepitch.bsky.social would love to have you.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

anyone I know gonna be at/around Summer Games Fest?

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

balaseballatro

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

random guy spent 10 minutes admiring my purple flowers can you blame him

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

my wife just suggested mixing Gin and Emergen-C as a cocktail…

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

blue prince is all i want to think about rn

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

so you’re tellin me that my Imaginary IDs aren’t gonna work anymore? horseshit

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

i’m pretty sure that if you make healthy meals in a cast iron skillet, it stores nutrients and makes all future meals healthier. don’t fact check me

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

every time I write alt text for an image I feel like I’m aiding AI to do better image interpretation/generation

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

the two jerks on the right don’t usually get along but they’ve set aside their differences to get optimal daytime naps

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

DO NOT CHALLENGE ME AGAIN

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

In Blaseball’s expansion era, we had a snack that we never brought out called Offshore Clams, which would allow top earners to avoid the weekly Eat the Rich tax. After that we planned to introduce Onshore Clams, which everyone else could use to fight back. We could fix this

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

princess minecrafte

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

princess mononoke in imax is going to change me

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

it itches my brain! so much so that I have cultivated no other skills

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

new office vibes

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

the simple formula for a jacked baseball summer: - 10 push-ups when your team scores a run - 10 squats when your team allows a run

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

the coffee shop where my wife and I met is closing soon we went this weekend and sat at the same table as we did on our first date, almost exactly 4 years since we met thank you, Mother Earth!

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

another year where I didn’t get sick at GDC. I’d like to thank Emergen-C, I’d like to thank water, I’d like to thank masking in planes, and of course, my producers

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

god I miss my cats

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

a waymo flipped me off

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

anyway, I’m alive and well in SF

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

heavy turbulence on my flight today, and I was listening to Promises (pharaoh sanders/floating points) during it & oh boy I was dead sure that i was done for. the power of music to make you feel things huh

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

i’m sorry to announce that i’m back on my bullshit

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

my power flickered and I thought nothing of it, but apparently it happened all over KC, and the water pressure also dipped. i think time skipped? that’s my best guess

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

anyway I’ve been freelance for several months now and there’s deeefinitely headaches with it but i love love the sense of freedom it’s given me

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments