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IGF award-winning game developer. BJJ purple belt. Retired online community leader. Inline vert skater in a previous life. Gifted kid to adult ADD pipeline. Leftist, feminist, antiracist, anticolonialist South African learning constantly. he/him
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Announcing Spooky Express! Plan the train route for the world’s spookiest theme park! Pick up the monsters & drop them at their destinations. But be careful! Don’t let them bite the passengers or you’ll have a grave problem. store.steampowered.com/app/3352310/...

Three new bosses have taken up residence in the tower and wait to be challenged! We updated Upupa Bird Ninja with new content, improved visuals and a plethora of QoL tweaks. Take up your blade again! Play over on clockworkacorn.itch.io/upupa Full devlog at clockworkacorn.itch.io/upupa/devlog...

Take your medicine in our game SIDE EFFECTS hirohun.itch.io/side-effects @mrpootsley.bsky.social and I made a game inspired by Buckshot Roulette at a game jam #indiegame #gamedev #horrorgame

Where's Wally but with sounds! We made a 'hidden sound' game with Pressure Cooker Studios in a 2-week jam. Give it a play here: hellostudiobo.itch.io/finding-father

its right, but i am not sure how its feasible for education system to enforce a need to think when the outside world does not

To think that this is some near future problem, instead of the rest of the world's experience of the US for basically the entirety of my life so far, is just another example of how little the US gives a shit about knowledge, compassion and cooperation as a society.

applying for jobs again

I saw another case recently where an LLM told a vibe coder it made some tests and was giving back all sorts of telemetry, but it turned out the tests didn't exist and all the results were made up. Chatbots will say shit like "ok I'll call 911" and then not do it bc they don't know what "doing" is.

Someone I hadn't seen for a while was surprised when I wore a mask to go shopping. Completely understood my logic, but ended up deciding "I don't want to live in fear on my holiday". It's alarming how effective that right-wing bullshit line was... Is wearing a seat belt "driving in fear"?

bnuy!

ADD: There's only 15 minutes before you've got to go do something else, you can't get stuck in... Meds: That's still 15 minutes more progress that you won't have to do later, go!

If there were no NDAs all around I could tell you about twenty projects in the last five years alone that followed these exact steps except for "and it all came together beautifully". If anything can be learned here, it's not that they found a writer on a writing site and a musician on a music site.

Men are not constantly being told “you’re bad,” they are constantly being told “LEFT WING SJWS THINK YOU’RE BAD” by conservative propaganda. There’s a huge difference.

flying my bad guy kite all the way home for #screenshotsaturday Demo soon! Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/...

IVF vampires reclaim their birthright.

Polygon wrote a whole investigative piece about a tiny game from South Africa being cloned. That piece, and the fact that people were taking our problem seriously helped us deal with the feeling of having your work stolen in such a personal, intentional way. www.polygon.com/2012/10/12/3...

🌜The House is finally open 🌛 The Horror at Highrook is an occult card-crafting RPG 🕯️Uncover the dark secrets of Highrook Manor 🌙Manage your team of investigators 🔥Summon Ancient Demons www.youtube.com/watch?v=drjG... store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/...

Grant is a fucking sweetheart and deserves so much better than this.

We're asking our friends to adopt penguins! Find out why. penguins.terranil.com

I have finally done it. Made a self-contained tooltip system with zero magic numbers that's resolution independent and works for in-world and UI targets.

working on a little word game! piCROSSword - a mix of picross and crosswords this is essentially the alpha version, so i would appreciate comments and feedback (dm me or post here!) tombrinton.com/games/picros...

Not the original question, but a publisher asked about my experience with procgen puzzles last week and I got to hold up my copy of Procedural Generation in Game Design and say "Literally wrote the chapter on it".

81% of kids in South Africa can’t read for meaning by age 10. In countries like Norway? Just 6%. Streetlight Schools is proving that low-cost, high-quality education is possible. They’ve already brought the cost of excellent education down to a fraction of what the government spends. [1/5]

TSLA making a 400M net profit propped up by 595M on environmental credits should be a bigger headline that gets people to massively tank the stock but rationality is no longer applicable in this vibes market.

The Electrifying Incident is OUT NOW on Steam and itch! Featuring the monster from A Monster's Expedition in a brand new sci-fi setting! Explore a mysterious facility, manipulate the electrical hazards and find a way to the source of the problem.

I couldn't just make a regular golf game, so I added some enemies #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Just read that ND people often have Justice Sensitivity. What. The. Fuck? Oh, having a keen sense of injustice is a bad thing? We're too sensitive to things being unjust? Neurotypicals fix your Justice Complacency or die.

I just sidled up to my wife to whisper "Willems did a Speed Racer episode!"

So in the midst of the chaos and joy of Eastercon, @ngjeannette.bsky.social and I have set up a charity auction: Genre Creators for Trans rights in the UK and South Africa as a small personal response to what's happening in the world. You can bid on cool things here www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans

Congratulations people who "wanted politics out of games", you made gaming the most political it has ever been, well done

The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration. We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.