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wildgate is pretty fun. it is not really sea of thieves in space, but it IS an entirely fresh-feeling game that happens to perfectly scratch the “be a space pirate” itch for me.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

i would like to apologize to every person I ever silently made fun of in my head for “doing pilates.” i have been taking beginner classes and holy fuck. i think these women are 99% muscle mass? absolute powerhouses who could overthrow tyrant kings. meanwhile, i can barely get the machine to move

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

truly think the major marker that someone holds trust in a group is that they’re asked to manage the tongs and tend the grill at kbbq. not like they aggressively take the tongs, but rather the tongs are given to them, if that makes sense. the meat tongs of ultimate trust

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

about to boot up an extraction genre game i haven’t played in a long time, the Southwest Airlines boarding experience

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

It appears the local population has developed a sort of folk religion centered around the ritual kicking of my ass, specifically. I shall stay on to study this unique culture more closely

submitted 144 days ago • 10 comments

i was always a measly microinfluencer as far as Known People go- a mere 34k on twitter and 45k subs on youtube. but man, it was horrible. i've been really enjoying the quiet of bluesky; just a nice quiet space to make my memes and jokes in peace without it becoming Daily Discourse.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

every time i play an extraction shooter and use the fancy new gun i just looted, this is going through my head

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

i think the most powerful archetype on any game dev team is someone i will call Associate Producer Girl. AP Girl is femme, between 20-28yo, and the entire team is dumping their emotional labor onto her. not only is she usually excellent at her job, but she also has enough intel to destroy anyone.

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

one of the hard parts of being a game designer parent is seeing poor game design and staying in my fucking lane. “this local egg hunt requires toddlers to complete a 16-step scavenger hunt to get a goodie bag! wait why are all the kids crying in front of the prize table?” i am staying SO quiet rn

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

recently took my daughter to a birthday party where "Elsa" and "Anna" made an appearance. my daughter, who is Frozen obsessed, asked me the night before if I thought Elsa would remember her. after all, she has read every single Elsa book. i did my best to explain what "a parasocial relationship" is

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

every night at bedtime i sing disney tunes to my almost-3yo, a rapt audience who just wants to hear "mama sing one more." thank god all that drunken karaoke in my 20s paid off

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

hey, i find info about topic X is hard to find on our team. i know there's a confluence page for it, but i don't read confluence. there's an email distro & meeting series about it but my religion forbids meetings and i am illiterate. there's also the local pigeon carrier network, but i hate pigeons,

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

blue prince is an excellent game, and i think it is a very good example of "art clarity > fidelity." there is an alternate timeline out there for this game where every room was rendered in detail & it took 3 more years to ship it. it has a style that is unique & clear, and that's all that matters.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

more companies should grovel over inane things, it's very charming actually (i just... exchanged my rug for a smaller size)

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

when you need sicko level productivity on a monday afternoon

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

trying to plan my almost-3yo's birthday party, and she is fully princesspilled right now. i am fascinated with the narrative design hoops these companies go through to A) avoid disney IP issues and B) explain why the princesses are at a public park

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

i am always happy to be on a team that complains. a team that complains cares about making a great thing together & they care enough about each other to complain in the first place. it's hard, but it's good. i am much more concerned about a quiet team, which speaks to fear, apathy, or ignorance.

submitted 39 days ago • 10 comments

hey so uh one of the main Nintendo Switch 2 Direct streams completely ate our trailer due to I guess technical difficulties?? so if you guys could share this it would mean a lot 😅

submitted 40 days ago • 56 comments

writing to turbotax to ask the important question, on behalf of everyone: is there gamepad support yet

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

i have watched cinderella with my 2 year old a lot this year. i think a lot about this guy. a random horse turned into a sentient human being. able to scream, cry, contemplate his existence, write poetry, enact revenge on his enemies, study the blade etc etc. but back to a stupid horse at midnight

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.

submitted 47 days ago • 51 comments

deep in the bowels of epic games there is a guy named steve working on some random functionality update to some desolate corner of the unreal engine. there are approximately 8 million AAA gamedevs around the world secretly reliant on steve's update roadmap. god help us all if he takes extended PTO

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

I don’t know that I agree with this assessment of the gulf between academia and industry, but I recognize faults in both. So instead I’m going to ask, what would it mean for academia to be a “productive, open-minded partner”? What does the success case look like (for game designers)?

submitted 49 days ago • 13 comments

GDC was great. it’s always nice to get a reminder of why i do what i do for a living— it’s not the work, although the work is fun. it’s the people.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

thanks for coming! 💖

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

if you wanna hear about all of my life mistakes, come to my GDC talk tomorrow- it’s called Read Your Lead’s Mind! schedule.gdconf.com/session/read...

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments