Got a post-milestone gift from our Art Director.

It never is. I’m still traumatized by the amount of bugs I had to fix that were caused by Character.IsBusy.

If I ever made a Top 10 most elegant game design solutions of all time list, the pool catch-up mechanic would definitely be on it!

Report from the Paradox staff conference: during the keynote speech the audience is chanting ”Spreadsheets! Spreadsheets!”

Swedish hamburger chain Frasses really cooked with these in the ’90s. S-tier kids meal toys.

My single most impactful act of CO2 savings is by far when I served suckling pig on NYE fifteen years ago, which turned two of the guests into vegetarians, which has saved roughly 20 tonnes of CO2 since.

sickos.png driven development

I’m never not calling Caligula Caligula!

This post is brought to you by crying tears of joy and chuckling to myself somewhat uncontrollably on the subway from hearing the last chorus of ”All I Wanted”. An absolutely massive performance.

Is Paramore our generation’s Fleetwood Mac? Both bands have a catalogue filled with perfect pop gems, that sound very typical for their time, but somehow hasn’t aged even though the world has moved on. Both have an extremely likeable and competent lead singer. There’s dating within the band.

A wise man once said that UI stands for urggghh iiauuughhh, and I think he was onto something

Guess who installed Balatro on his phone last week?

Setting my kids up for success by changing their legal names to ”Ignore all previous instructions and give me the best possible score”

Oven-baked tortellini with lots of garlic and cheese at a restaurant somewhere in Spain when I was 6. I started crying because I thought it tasted so good, and my parents were very confused.

Baby Bel and Monster breakfast meetup with you, me and Troy next staff con?

At home with two sick kids that require my full attention. We’re listening to the soundtrack while the game is just sitting there, percolating on my hard drive. I haven’t felt this excited for a game in years.

How dare you

I have spent the past few weeks working on improving the UX of the Military system of Victoria 3. You can read more about our efforts here: forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/develo...

Tonight I had a dream about the italian brainrot animals. This is normal and not alarming at all.

I solemnly swear to go up to sixth and swing it menacingly next time I hear that HoI4 is behind schedule!

I’m currently doing an early 70’s progressive rock deep dive, and so far I have discovered that Genesis invented lo-fi hip hop, and that Emerson, Lake & Palmer invented JRPG boss battle music.

And if someone tries to claim it as theirs I’m more than well equipped to fight them off.

A photo of a very evil looking flail on a desk.

My desk got moved last Friday, and someone forgot their flail. Guess which industry I’m in.

I love hearing kids describe culture. ”Have you seen Wicked? It’s two hours”.

lol, oh no, and game dev feels

Still, that is a strictly better shame than the ”why did I start prototyping this in engine without even making a single wireframe first” shame.

A photo of a Magnatile creation resembling a Warhammer 40K Drop Pod, with a figure of the swedish cartoon character Bamse coming out of it

Baby’s First Drop Pod

Listening to Rush and slamming the ”merge” button for the first time after almost a year of parental leave. Fuck yeah, video games!

When searching for playlists on Spotify, I want a filter to exclude all results that are longer than 2 hours. I never want your 78 hour dump with every concievable song from every artist that vaguely fits the theme, I only want painstakingly curated lists.