Robert Yang

debating disco elysium (again) isn't the worst discourse tbh. I'll allow it

Solaris even though I often fall asleep in the middle, but when I wake up for the end it works better

also watched the sexy tennis movie and I was surprised how good that was. like a legit live action sports anime that wasn't made for kids. imo even the few crumbs of gayness were Enough

watched Magic Mike 3 on the plane and was really surprised how bad it was. I will defend Soderbergh Solaris and even argue Magic Mike 1 for Criterionization, but this one was a mess, I really hope he did it just for the money

new vlog: at the @free-play.bsky.social video game conference in Melbourne Australia… day 2!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSSyAtpv2/

did you know it’s winter in australia right now

NEW: Earlier today, Mastercard denied playing a roll in the Steam and itch.io purging NSFW games.

But Valve now says Mastercard communicated concerns indirectly through payment processors and banks.

kotaku.com/mastercard-d...

now back at @free-play.bsky.social game conference day 2… starting the day with a @frostygamesfest.com panel about their successful first year + how to promo your local games community

itch.io/t/5149036/re...

Mashina is out now! store.steampowered.com/app/3395930/...

new vlog: going to a video game festival @free-play.bsky.social in Melbourne, Australia vt.tiktok.com/ZSSS9oGrf/

just for the weekend!

good turnout for my talk so far

I’m giving a game design talk in Melbourne in about an hour! see everyone there. more info at www.freeplay.net.au

enjoying Melbourne so far! and I haven’t been bitten or poisoned yet

a disembodied mouth superimposed atop a phone, yelling the logos of mastercard, visa, and paypal

Inside the mass call campaign to stop video game censorship

aftermath.site/steam-itch-p...

We're hiring a Lead Level Designer to shape the world of #Kenshi2. You will own the layout, pacing, and environmental design, helping to deliver a deeply reactive non-linear survival experience

http://lofigames.com/leveldesigner 

#GameJobs #NowHiring #LevelDesign

lol just got tsunami alert in the airport and it was just hundreds of phones going off

Angles 2025 The Angles conference returns for three days of talks and events at Science Gallery Melbourne.

Freeplay Angles starts tomorrow! Conference sessions run from midday to 5pm, Thursday to Saturday. If you can't make it to all three, individual day tickets are available. Catch you at Science Gallery soon 👭☠️🔮

events.humanitix.com/angles25

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

I’ve only been to gamescom once and I found it overwhelming but I loved the city and drinking those little test tubes of kolsch

2026 might be the beginning of the end for gdc? are people still going to travel to the US?

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page!

Wishlist... Future? No Thanks!
👉 futurenothanks.com

another primer to what’s been happening this past week. thanks to all the journalists who’ve been covering this

watched The Long Good Friday... good movie. loved the upside down shot, and bob hoskins certainly knew how to take a shower wow

oh oops I legit forgot to double entendre sorry

new vlog: going on a waterfall walk in New Zealand vt.tiktok.com/ZSS6uLhGF/

yeah I do agree Mouthwashing should've done more!

re: Itch indexing confusion -- it was reasonable to assume a public page is searchable, and then to search for a game and find it missing and assume the worst. It'll be clearer in the future.

I do think this suggests we need much more clarity in dev dashboards about each project's indexing status. I've been using Itch for like 10+ years and I never knew what these indexing requirements were? Currently this feels buried in the docs, and honestly, it's a wall of text