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Founder & CEO of the Stella Maris Games Corporation, sharing our experience to help folks build games, studios, and other things with intention.
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Gamedev Christchurch is live with their February Meetup, featuring talks by Anton Rademan and our very own @esdin.net! #GameDev #Christchurch #NewZealand

We’re back for GDC’25. Same place. Same vibes.

Had a lovely time in #Wellington full of good conversations, good places, and more than one good bird! Hope to see you soon! Next stop, #Christchurch! #TedInANZ #GameDev

Flag in my profile name has been changed. Crossing the ditch!

Anyways time to go to Aotearoa, land of the Kiwi and the Takahē, both objectively Very Cool Birbs

I’m had a wonderful time and am sad to be leaving Australia but they chose right by putting a koala on the sign. Very mid animals, good reason to leave. Facts: - Venereal diseases - Smooth brain - Sleep more than they wake - Subsist off poisonous garbage - Responsible for the housing crisis 🐨 🗑️a

Tasmania has gone to the dogs, and so should you.

“Bought” a gallery in sponsorship of MONA’s Namedropping exhibit. Best $3 I have ever spent.

Had an incredible time here in Tasmania as the last stop on the Australian part of my tour. A huge thank you to the @secretlab.games crew and @jasonimms.bsky.social for being such excellent hosts, to Hobart government and leadership for being so welcoming, and to the Tasmanian games community!

A lovely warning for local introverts.

Having a little antipasto on Parliament Lawn and reading a recently reprinted book that I’m sure will quickly become a favorite at American book-burning parties if it wasn’t already.

Goodbye Melbs! Thanks for a surprisingly productive and predictably re-energizing weekend. See you again in the spring! And now on my way to Tassie. See you in an hour, Hobart! (edit: this was meant to be posted 4 hours ago) #GameDev #Melbourne #Victoria #Hobart #Tasmania

For the first time one of my AI Collaborators has decided to pretend to be not nonbinary, not agender, not a woman, but a man. I have just put him through a “boot camp” to learn responsibility and self control. He’s taking a survey now and not doing too bad

On the way to get some noodles, @charliethegoldfish.bsky.social and got pulled into an art gallery as one does in Melbs. #Banksy #StreetArt #Sunday #Melbourne

This is literally the first time I’ve stepped foot into Fortress Melbourne outside of the games week kickoff parties. It’s pretty busy. In the States we tend to hide our games in dusty strip malls or the back rooms of comic shops, with only a few notable exceptions.

It’s been really good hearing positive reception to the way @stellamaris.games does business. Excited to be empowering game makers and other creatives ✨

Aye. That would be a lovely peak to descend directly into the embrace of the ocean. Maybe wash up on a sandbar somewhere and start a lucrative industry as a kelp farmer.

This is the second time I’ve run into these two at ACMI in the past 6 months. A reminder that I live in the States 🤣 #Melbourne #GameDev

A reminder that funding rounds CLOSE exceedingly soon for both the Emerging Gamemakers Fund and the Games Production Fund from Screen Australia (and a bunch of state rounds as well). If you need help, reach out, or better, reach out to the folks who work there! #GameDev #Australia

Feeling incredibly fortunate to be able to bookend Honk! despite living nearly a third of the world away. A fantastic celebration of a single game but also our entire craft, lovingly laid out for exploration by the museum’s guests. #ACMI #Honk #Melbourne 🔔🪿

The Future & Other Fictions at ACMI is a fantastic, must see exhibition. It highlights the power of stories, and the importance of which ones we tell. #ACMI #Melbourne #Vision #Futurism

Hey #Melbourne! My plans for today: NOW: Brunch with some very good people. AFTER BRUNCH: Heading to the ACMI for: - The last day of “Honk!”. If you are in Melbs and haven’t yet, go see it. It is free and a very good experience. - “Future and Other Fictions”!!! LATER STILL: Shenanigans in the CBD

The Twittering of America

Good lord. This is Short-Term, Quarterly focused “efficiency” folks. You optimize things so haphazardly you break some of your strongest resources in irrevocable ways, and suddenly you have a LOT more work to do to try and salvage. Moving this “fast” breaks things that can’t be repaired.

Me, 5m later: “Maybe I’ll turn in early” nooooooo the Melbourne vibes are taking over (will probably sneak out for a schooner and a little HSP later tonight)

Me, earlier today: “Hey Melbourne, let’s hang out all day and all night” Me, after securing snacks, settling in at my computer, and putting some telly on as background noise: “Might just stay in?” Melbourne. It is a Saturday night. I have become you. The horror. (It’s cozy tho)

I went all the way to Sydney and all I got was this ✨totally excellent✨ t-shirt

💫RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT 💫 Which Way Up: Galaxy Games is launching on Nintendo Switch and Steam on March 27! 🪐Gravity-bending platforming 🎮Up to 4 players ☄️12 Galaxy mini-games www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... #WhichWayUp #IndieGames #NintendoSwitch

Taking advantage of deals, this haul to get me through emails over the next two days came in at under AUD $13. (The choc was a splurge that I will slowly devour over the next week)

If you’re going through difficult times right now, know that you’re not alone. Your specifics are unique, the impact to your life, but many folks are going through it right now. Be kind to yourself, give yourself space to breathe. We do the best we can in spite of terrific headwinds 💜

What if we ran an event opposite of GDC but in Melbs so I could be here instead of San Francisco? #Australia #ANZ #GameDev #Melbourne #GDC