Mike Cook

Mario running at speed with a red prohibition sign around him.

Japan's biggest charity speedrunning event won't have Nintendo games because Nintendo couldn't help but Nintendo www.eurogamer.net/japans-bigge...

Hoping to finish these little guys off to a good enough standard to submit them to AGDQ 2026’s prize pool.

Hahahaha sadly not

Crochet sure has come a long way since PAC-MAN.

Wait really?

ou est le balatro prochain?!

UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double - Research Professional News Trends across research councils prompt warning that system is “overstretched or broken”

UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

ok so this is sort of like if breath of the wild had been made by sokpop. and i mean that in the best possible way it could be meant. it's so fun.

"With thanks to Reviewers 1, 3, and everyone else who contributed to this work."

to win the next election, we need a torment nexus built by the left - my latest for the guardian

and @florencesn.bsky.social! thank you for sharing and playing :)

GMTK Game Jam 2025 Streaming Submissions Mark is streaming GMTK Game Jam 2025 games here - https://www.youtube.com/@gmtklive Submit your game on this form to have it be considered for the stream. Please only submit once! Games will be pick...

While I'm here: if you made a game for #gmtkjam don't forget to submit it to Mark's form for his official game-playing streams: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

orbo by Jon Topielski use your orbit to move around

It's still early days but orbo is probably my top pick from everything I've played so far. A single button game, lovely graphical style, very peaceful and frustrating in equal measure: jontopielski.itch.io/orbo

I'm always going to use pico8 for sure, Godot will just be my unity replacement :) I think I'll probably use C# for Godot - unless GDScript is recommended?

New Game: Portal Panic! for #gmtkjam

You've been captured by the local Wizard. Again. Connect runes, open portals, dodge magic energy beams and see if you can find a way home!

illomens.itch.io/portal-panic

Critics claim gender clinics are seeing an excess of trans boys. But new data suggest otherwise Some claim ‘social contagion’ is driving teenagers who were assigned female at birth to identify as transgender and seek medical care.

I'm glad this specifically names and discusses the mechanisms of societal transmisogyny and harsh policing of transfemininity under patriarchy, which results in transfems staying closeted for longer. While the number of trans men and women are roughly equal, trans women tend to come out later.

that would be a great idea!

op RatLo - GMTK 2025 by walfie rat loop sokoban (GMTK Game Jam 2025)

Extremely smart Sokoban + loops game here, made in #pico8. One for @draknek.bsky.social's Thinky Third Thursday for sure.

walfie.itch.io/op-ratlo-gmt...

No it's time for ARE. GAMES. ART.

I designed them all in a two-hour haze yesterday haha. And yeah a couple are completely ridiculous, I was having second thoughts about rebalancing them yesterday and I feel I probably should have done haha.

I'm enjoying PICO-8 too much right now but it's time to pivot to Godot for the next big thing.

slap some vaporwave over this and upload the 1 hour loop to youtube

Ok so the softlock on the final level that I didn't think would be that big of a deal has now hit at least four people so: make sure you don't accidentally jump out of the top of the level! There's no way to reset (eep).

It’s extremely good, absolutely sure to make the top twenty!

If you're waking up on Monday morning in the UK and logging onto Bluesky: mute the term 'disco elysium' now and thank me later.

hahaha i didn't realise this was an existing meme

This game kicks ass. The concept is simple and clean, but the execution is completely flawless. bsky.app/profile/tetr...

they asked me "how is it going"! what was i supposed to say.