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Managed to balance social life, family time, personal time, and a little solo project work all within the span of two whole ass days. So obviously, I gotta jinx it.

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My indie game for 15 seconds! (16 days into solo development). Nightcrawlers is a co-op survival platformer about latchkey kids in grunge-era PNW battling rain, bullies, and the supernatural (while falling off everything in sight).

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Had an impromptu first playtest for my solo game project last night with my target audience — adults who only play games with their kids. Even with placeholder art, and loose debug setup, my accessibility-forward locomotion had them exploring areas out of curiosity— just to see if they could.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Holy shit. Violet Grohl fronting Nirvana and absolutely killing it was a mid-apocalyptic gift.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

My small studio crushingly had to lay off half project’s team before the summer as the industry violently reconfigured against our will. This last week, most of that team was recruited by huge AAA studios and publishers. I’m so very VERY happy for all of them, and miss them greatly.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Venturing into “solo” deving a game after 20 years in AAA humbles you hourly. There’s stuff that’s invaluable working a team that you almost have to unlearn. It’s also easy to rabbit-hole into new skillsets and operating at the par of seasoned peers that you just can’t rush.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I respect any videogame that tells me the world is ending but lets me go fishing

submitted 34 days ago • 200 comments

Genuinely love the back half of Twin Peaks S2. Stopping after Episode 7 this round to watch ‘Fire Walk With Me’ really maximizes the impact, and softens a lot of the big critiques — you really get to sit in the tragedy, and then take in all of your faves trying to move on together.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Never wanted a slice of pie and a cup of coffee more in my life.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Josh Ruben is one of the best people on the planet. No one deserves to lose their dream home, but people as kind and genuine as Josh and Lauren especially don't deserve this. Donating to a Josh Ruben GFM? NO PROBLEM. www.gofundme.com/f/show-love-...

submitted 45 days ago • 12 comments

Bookended my holiday break with a couple bed-worthy viruses, and am definitely not ready to start work tomorrow. But I did complete over 20 feature prototypes for my personal indie game project in less than 2 weeks. Little victories.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Gamedev PSA: This free UE5 Root Bone generator plugin is a lifesaver. Great for fixing Mixamo models to work with Root Motion. No messing with (crashy) reweighting your non-final assets. Spent hours the hard way. Fixed my issue in seconds. www.fab.com/listings/340...

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Was not ready for What We Do In The Shadows to end. I could watch them do stupid shit together forever.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

I know Microsoft would never break feature parity with their flagship console... But if Indiana Jones on PS5 had dualsense haptics, and a 40 FPS quality mode, l'd double dip at full retail.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

When you just wanna read some stolen documents, but the Nazis are going apeshit, and you have to escape armed with nothing but El Kabong.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

The Great Circle out-Indys the last few Indiana Jones movies by a landslide.

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Skeleton Crew has all the ingredients…

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

let me be very clear that if you’re making the “the democrats should distance themselves from trans issues” argument now, you would have been on the side of “maybe AIDS is simply what gay people deserve” in the 1980s and 1990s

submitted 84 days ago • 14 comments

Accidentally recreated movie magic in Star Wars Outlaws. Wrong movie, but queue John Williams either way.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Outlaws isn't without its paradoxes. The ship gameplay is great; it's curated to be experiential in an overall Star Wars sandbox. But for the Trailblazer being centered in the story as a special ship... it is absolutely sauceless in appearance. VERY Star Tours.

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

They really marketed Outlaws as this bleached, Disneyland/Galactic Starcruiser-ass depiction, but once you ditch Kay’s cosplay box art look… This game oozes atmosphere.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Finally actually playing Star Wars Outlaws for a considerable amount of time. It’s actually very good Star Wars experience that lets you spend far too long playing with anemic systems that are FAR more interesting and engaging on it gets going — like all Ubisoft RPG-likes.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Zero doubts Netflix has internally discussed whether or not they could get away with renaming it “Hot Frankenstein”.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Every time someone repeats the totally incorrect myth that "CGI" is cheaper than practical effects—it's not and that's a ridiculous statement—'because "CGI" isn't unionized,' they're unwittingly giving ammunition to studios who are arguing that unionization would be bad for the industry (it's not).

submitted 98 days ago • 4 comments

Also… I never thought I’d be say this with sincerity… Peacock does ad placement well. Props to the grizzled, dusty, Old Media company for respecting commercial stingers, and not overstaying their welcome.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Finally watching Hysteria!, and it’s way better than I expected. Campy, spooky, but earnest. Bruce Campbell is acting his ass off.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Game UI is forever cursed to not have its own award category despite literally every game requiring it, but being niche enough as a discipline that who would we even trust to jury for it

submitted 98 days ago • 43 comments

A bunch of incredulous, self-aware, genre-loving junk food. Like Evil Dead or Army of Darkness — but for Teen Dramedy and Kung Fu movies.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Finally getting to the haziest memory corners of my X-Files rewatch. This wasn’t even the most surprising alien in this episode.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Celebrate the Cinema of November

submitted 100 days ago • 16 comments

MY THEORY: There are no bad movies where one of the characters is a late night horror host. #filmsky #moviesky 📽️

submitted 102 days ago • 7 comments

I honestly don’t think Americans understand how much their day to day lives depend on federal civil servants and now is the time for professional commentators to write op-eds explaining

submitted 101 days ago • 121 comments

Thelma was such a wholesome, endearing delight. boxd.it/DOou

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Just a lil water under the bridge from my walk today for the timeline.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

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Since I got a couple of new followers I want to share this doc with game job search resources again that I'm maintaining. Just in case anyone is looking rn. Please share this around and let me know if you have any additions or feedback! docs.google.com/document/u/0... #GameJobs #GameDevJobs

submitted 165 days ago • 8 comments