Jacob Connelly

Happy birthday! is that fiji? i think i have been to that exact same waterfall!

a small flower beams up at you, adorned in lush oranges and soft natural hues, players can move the flower up and down to answer

a photograph of idyll, a small social world designed around kinder forms of online conversation and connection. Wander around a gentle pastoral island, strike up small conversations with other passing players, and even toss out small letters into the wide open blue oceans of the internet.

The Library of Babble; an isometric interface game inspired by retro vector graphics, in which someone has written a love letter of sorts for others to stumble upon

a portrait of a game designer, reading a poem on a red stool

I'm looking for ✨remote✨ work!

I'm an award-winning unity developer with a speciality for programming and interface design, and I'd simply love to bring your game to reality! 🌱✨

you can play my current online work here:
www.gamechangersurveys.com/survey/playg...

Ubisoft open-sourced their Colorblind Tool, Chroma. This is good news for anyone wanting to integrate more accessibility into their games

repo: github.com/ubisoft/Chroma
article: news.ubisoft.com/en-gb/articl...
#gamedev #acessibility

Photo of 5 dog figurines in profile facing to the left in a staggered line. The closest one is reddish, the three in the middle are beige, and the furthest is dark grey. Each one has a cuneiform inscription on their side.

For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.

On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.

dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”

munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”

mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”

we've been working on this road trip management rpg where you "battle" against mundane things on the road for the past 5ish years and as we're new to Blusky we'd really appreciate some help reaching out here too. If you see this please RT and share the summer road trip. 🫶 #keepdriving

So many dolphins in Pōneke harbour that I had to film in landscape and still couldn't capture em all

Very happy to announce that the ChatGPT outage did not impact our work on Mini Motorways as we operate on New Zealand time. That and all our workers are human beings who use normal human being software

Eeehehehe

Years ago, I curated a small project called Meditations. It has a different game or toy, made by a different developer or creative, for every day. If you want to play a tiny playful thing every day of the year - now could be a great day to start.

meditations.games

Pingus update ✨

I've been ungodly ill and in possibly the worst physical pain I've ever experienced but @jacobgc.bsky.social is staying over and we just watched a show where two old guys decide to kill themselves by jumping into a volcano but stop first to drink a bottle of Pingus and keep saying Pingus

the last feature I helped make for Mini Motorways before shifting to [REDACTED] is finally out!!

🎦✨🎦 cinematic mode!!! 🎦✨🎦

please enjoy this scrolling break and follow some cars around Cairns 🦘

Oh hell yeah!

I’m still searching for employment in QA leadership. I have 10+ years of XP. Preferably game development but open to tech roles. Please reach out with leads. Thank you.

If you haven’t yet parsed out our riddle, ponder no more! 🐨 Introducing the Down Under Update, taking Mini Motorways to none other than Cairns, Australia! Explore this bloody good city dubbed the Gateway to the Great Barrier Reef! 🌴🐠 Cairns you handle it?!

This minimalist graphic depicts a sauropod dinosaur hanging out on some sunset-shaded hills. The text above his little dino head reads: We're hiring! Senior Programmer role available now. Apply at dinopoloclub.com

Our Senior Programmer role is up for ten more days! We'd love to hear from you if you want:

✔️ Transparent salary info
✔️ A four-day work week
✔️ To be working on Mini Motorways

dinopoloclub.com/careers/seni...

Thanks ! I loved that little place.

Rent my cute flat!

www.trademe.co.nz/property/res...

“Always nice to get a call from you, MOTHER.”

small call out that I'm looking for some short-term and/or part-time work for the next few months. can do narrative design, editing, dialogue, barks, lore, worldbuilding and pre-pro, punch-up, outlines, consulting, you name it!

We support the workers striking at Don't Nod and encourage all those are able to join our dinos in contributing to their strike fund. Direct action to improve our industry - you love to see it. ✊

Not really lol! A couple of people.

Oh congrats!!!! So exciting!

Living! It's going to be cool to experience a winter Christmas.

I had no idea. Rad !

Omg is infrared no longer a thing!? Or is it all Bluetooth now?

25 days left in NZ !!!!! Then I'm off to Sweden! So damn excited for the cold.

The DREDGE boat looking out towards a horizon

We’re delaying the mobile release of DREDGE to 27 February 2025 to ensure it’s as polished and enjoyable as possible.

But here’s the exciting part: you can play early by joining our Closed Beta starting 18th December! Join the Closed Beta here: forms.gle/d1F5YKCV16B5...

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Looking for someone to teach a beginner Unreal tutorial for an inclusive game jam, paid, 2 hours on the 14th. Send message to jam@gamerella.ca