John Poje

Watch as a massive crack forms in the ice on Lake Erie.

An impressive view captured by GOES-19 earlier on Sunday.

YouTube video by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Carved in Stone: Bringing the Picts to Life

TWO videos in a week?!?

For those following Carved in Stone, @stoutstoat.co.uk and I did a talk for @socantscot.bsky.social in December, exploring how we made the book & the enormous questions and conundrums involved!

🏺 #archaeologysky #historysky #ttrpg #picts

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imagining an inform7 game that leads with “Humans are a kind of hydrocarbon.”

take a moment to think about how different this looks from video game grass. what do you notice?

door inset as part of a circullar window

Doorway, Brussels.

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[as I behold the great Cosmic Shark swimming at the center of creation] they should have sent a bigger poet

They moved a historic house in downtown Erie today from one street to another, and the timelapse from Erie News is so cool. Despite rain, it took about seven hours.

play everyone else’s confounding entry too, they’re good! confoundingcalendar.itch.io

also, i wrote about making hexes in puzzlescript: jpojecp.itch.io/hex-pivot/de...

Hex Pivot by John Poje A pivotal puzzle

my puzzle for the confounding calendar is out! it’s got hexagony innit jpojecp.itch.io/hex-pivot

Midwinter Springtime by pap4qlxxlevb Play in your browser

The Confounding Calendar has returned! Each day this month there'll be a new small puzzle game at confoundingcalendar.itch.io
I really enjoyed the second game, Midwinter Springtime by pap4qlxxlevb: pap4qlxxlevb.itch.io/midwinter-sp...

The 5th annual Confounding Calendar starts today! Check out the first game of a month-long puzzle advent calendar · Thinky Games The community has made lots of tiny puzzle surprises, and they're being curated and released one at a time for you to enjoy on The Confounding Calendar homepage. It's all on the web and totally free.

The Confounding Calendar started yesterday! Check out the first game in this puzzle advent calendar!

SOUP ROOMS by Kite Line, KIRA The latest in SOUP-like room tourism technology.

Huge thanks to everyone in the SOUP GROUP for their support, enthusiasm, and incredible patience with me on this project. SOUP ROOMS literally would not have been possible without them.

More SOUP-like experiences will be arriving from us in the future.

Stay tuned!

kiteline.itch.io/soup-rooms

SOUP ROOMS is a collaborative minimalist art-game featuring over 100 ROOMS created by cool and talented indie devs from around the world.

Admission is free of charge, and you can even make your own ROOMS and SOUP-like games to share with others!

We hope you enjoy your stay.

LINKS BELOW!

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Spindley Q Frog (@SpindleyQ@gamemaking.social) Attached: 1 image Alright, behold Montsweeper: an unholy cross between Minesweeper and the Monty Hall problem! https://www.information-superhighway.net/montsweeper/ Choose a door! A different door ...

gamemaking.social/@SpindleyQ/1... someone made monty hall minesweeper

The side of an woman's effigy tomb showing the bottom of her dress and her feet (she lays on her back). The dress is depicted as many wiggled folds of fabric, and we can see the soles of her small shoes.

slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes

A young person with braided red hair rides a spotted brown horse through trees, a determined look on their face. They have a brown cloak, a yellow tunic/dress, and black leggings. They're carrying a water flask and a leather book satchel. Whatever message they're carrying, it's clearly urgent.

Carved in Stone is HERE!!! @archaeonado.bsky.social called it “the best book on the Picts ever written,” so you should definitely check it out over at www.stoutstoat.co.uk/carvedinstone

🏺 #picts #archaeologysky #rpg #ttrpg #indiettrpg #dnd #pathfinder

The Confounding Calendar returns this December: a new tiny puzzle game surprise each day of the month, taking submissions now · Thinky Games The most puzzle-packed Calendar around is back for a 5th year running: The Confounding Calendar is a big community event that takes place every November-December and involves everyone getting together to make bite-sized, single-level puzzle treats that are then slowly released over the course of a month.

The puzzle-packed Confounding Calendar returns soon!

lime cardamom rolls tho

level progress diagrams of all of the maps from The Ultimate Doom - check the thread linked more more details

was just reminded of an old great thread on Doomworld: the Doom level progress diagram. it was created to address the age old question about when a map should be considered linear or non-linear www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...

it’s never a good sign when a software developer starts talking about human nature

I have a #thingthursday for y'all. An old taillight. Back when they used marbles.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

The photo shows an Acheulean biface handaxe knapped from dark grey flint with a creamy-white cortical layer, shown against a black background. The handaxe is roughly tear-drop shaped with a pointed tip and rounded bottom. There is a fossil shell centrally displayed on one face, identified as the Cretaceous bivalve mollusc Spondylus spinosus. Above the shell to the right is a small rectangular museum label. The toolmaker has knapped the flint in such a way as to retain the shell in a central position. Measurements 79mm x 35mm x 132mm Weight 0.375kg. Collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

Something beautiful for the weekend!

An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!

The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker.

West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University

#Archaeology

A young person with braided red hair rides a spotted brown horse through trees, a determined look on their face. They have a brown cloak, a yellow tunic/dress, and black leggings. They're carrying a water flask and a leather book satchel. Whatever message they're carrying, it's clearly urgent. On the left of the image, there is a quote: "It's basically the best book on the Picts ever written. By starting from Scotland's environment and incorporating lessons from archaeology, history and art, this brings the Picts to life more effectively than any other depiction I've yet seen." from Dr Adrián Maldonado, National Museums Scotland.

Pre-orders for Carved in Stone are open!! This book is gorgeous, and I am so grateful to use it (and the artwork!) in my videos.

You can pre-order from @stoutstoat.co.uk here: www.stoutstoat.co.uk/carvedinstone

Thanks to @archaeonado.bsky.social for the endorsement!

🏺 #archaeology #ArchaeologySky

the pipe organ is admittedly very vampire-esque

saturderror?

does the level select screen make visible any buttons that close the game? could it be a button focus issue rather than a crash?

Shards of red and orange plastic 'glass' laid out on a black background.

Not sea glass but fragments of plastic car tail lights, indicators and brake lights, probably washed into storm drains after heavy rain, eventually making their way to the sea. #oceanplastic

A poster at a conference. With a scarf attached to it in several colors.

Neat thing at this conference: a librarian crocheted a scarf based on how many emails they sent in a year -- posted with their permission.

Linear Bee by John Poje Decipher the bee dance

My Confounding Calendar submission is part of the January bonus games! I wanted to do something with the pun “linear bee”, and this year’s color palette fit perfectly. jpojecp.itch.io/linear-bee