bandcamp listening parties are good

on the train back. thanks everyone who came to my talk and liked it and everyone i yapped and caught up with

who the fuck's this guy

yay wheee

hello im in brighton now for #developbrighton. i'm doing a talk at 4pm today in room 3 about how i make games the industry hates and why. come watch it or don't

my train appears to have cloned itself

hot tip for everyone: if you're being subtweeted about holding racist views and refusing to engage with anti-racist texts, do not reply to said subtweet demanding the public evidence that you hold racist views and refuse to engage with anti-racist texts

sure lad

check out this spam email i just got

have you ever seen one of those awesome double column poems that give you different readings depending where you look and thought "damn i wish i could make an overly convoluted game that's just like this." well guess what. i've just made the engine for you stanwixbuster.itch.io/stereotome

creasing because if this was in the uk this would literally be recording a crime

TOMMY???????

LOOK AT MY CHILD

by @brkeogh.bsky.social @mahliann.bsky.social @marcuscarter.com the book i wish i had when i was starting undegrad, and what i will be subsequently recommending to every undergrad

by Andreas Malm while reading this i was at a conference where the keynote was a fukuyama-like "it looks like continuing with the current economy and fossil fuels will kill us. oh well!" and this was about as close to a pure antidote as you can get

as a curiosity, here's the split for the a maze. awards last weekend presented without comment

got to the part of children of hell development where i have to start drawing

yeah by definition many of those presenting are gamers and nothing else (in relation to games). this bit isn't even an exaggeration, particularly in the early years where presenters introduce themself as a gamer speaking to other gamers, not /makers/, because there's zero cultural knowledge of it

>start phd writing >do other shit for a minute >come back

found out which building in trafford's on fire

gamer wandering around manchester for the first time turning up his nose at the yellow tram you have to press a yellow button to enter

i can never turn off the steam friend notification thing because a few times a week i'll get a popup like this

trying to place a house on top of my towncentre in a 90s rts with a very literal english translation

hey gang, i'm doing another talk at @narrascope.org this year. if you like listening to me being annoyed at things that are mostly inconsequential this is a discord stream for you

burger king boys love

by Robin Wall Kimmerer i've seen this described by indigenous people as "nothing groundbreaking if you're native", but that doesn't stop the prose being absolutely gorgeous. i am also some white dude

anyway that's the shot. here's the chaser