Austin Auclair

It’s a miniature “Ark of the Covenant” made of brass. Fits in the palm of your hand. You lift the lid to find the log sheet within.

Found a “Raiders of the Lost Ark” themed geocache but sadly my face didn’t melt off when I opened it.

Eep! My next book has a cover, and it’s the eerie Gothic gorgeousness of my dreams. It’s also available to request on Netgalley and Edelweiss! Here are some of the tropes you’ll find inside. Which one is your favorite? I’m a big fan of men facing consequences, personally.

Used to see other troops at summer camps being marched around in full uniform all the time and felt bad for those kids.

My scout troop (I’m an Eagle, bitches) was all military families and it actually was great because the last thing any of the parents wanted was to militarize anything about the experience.

It’s going to be 60 degrees here tomorrow. I should go find a geocache. I haven’t found a geocache in months.

That’s really cool, Cameron!

A store with a sign that says “ADULT NOVELTIES - BJORK ALBUMS - MAGIC POKEMON YUGIOH - AIRSOFT GUNS”

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

Share a pic of the tower you made!

Yo! I have a guide for Madness in Murderworld should you ever return to that bad game (you shouldn’t): blog.patientrock.com/20130414x-me...

I don't know what game this is, but importing the Space Marine 2 character models into it was genius.

Building a crossword where all the answers are abbreviations just to funnel my hate into something.

Detritus Lost in deep space, your cargo vessel has suffered a catastrophic hull failure. The engines are offline, the AI is silent, and there’s no sign of the crew …and that’s just the start of your problems. ...

I needed a break from interactive fiction for a little while but jumped back in to finally play the IFComp winner Detritus, by Ben Jackson. I really like how clean and confidently it implements Twine and it has my brain buzzing: ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...

Too much talking, not enough doing.

(I really gotta use a different screen recorder. Unity’s stinks.)

YouTube video by Austin Auclair Nanjemoy - Core loop implemented!

Got my core loop implemented! Can cut grass and swat incoming biting flies. A million, billion more things to do.

youtu.be/aLFq1VkBwCw

DMV game developers! The library system has been thrilled by how well you show up and wanted to do more events with us. We’re going to visit different branches throughout the year. Come show your games!

With apologies for what is going to be a fairly long thread: I thought it might be fun to look back at the favorite articles I wrote, by year.

Note, this isn't necessarily my favorite ARGs / experiences? It's more focused on writing I'm particularly proud about.

The dream: games don’t have to be forever and the people who make them get to live to make the next one.

Murderworld by PatientRock A mutant-powered superhero text adventure.

The Interactive Fiction Database Awards for games released in 2025 are open for voting!

✍️ The list of categories: intfiction.org/t/2025-ifdb-...

🚨 Seems a good reason to play my game, Murderworld, and see if it's worth a vote in something! patientrock.itch.io/murderworld

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

This rules.

gradient.horse

I actually think it works great. It was more jarring that he was suddenly wearing a shirt. For that part, maybe his arms can be raised and moving downward like he just finished putting it on while off camera.

Scale up to most cities. My disdain for Washington, D.C. haters is you can always tell that someone never ventured out of northwest.

A map. Farm Road runs from the lower left to top center, where it meets Healthcare Blvd before running down off the screen to the lower right.

fig.1- economy over time

Two pieces of paper (card stock because I like how it holds color) with four squares each. The squares are green grass drawn with colored pencils. The squares will be tiles on the ground of my video game.

Perhaps the most important sprites I’ll ever draw for my lawn mowing game.

a glorious rat coin purse

twitter comments that range from "oh! so contradictory - laugh & cringe" to "so curious to know who would want this - any ideas?"

twitter must be dead dead cause someone posted a rat coin purse that would have 2019 twitter losing its collective mind and most of the top comments are bots saying random words or people not nearly amped enough about the rat coin purse

hey, #knitting folk: Do you have a favorite self-striping rainbow DK or worsted yarn?

This was the first time I’ve done a game jam with other people and shout-out to @jhaddock.bsky.social and @chrisklimas.com for leading the way! I think we landed on something super fun.

My only solace is that I’m so far behind on episodes (because I insist on reading everything) that it will be ages before I have to grieve.

((Thank you both so much for teaching me so much about my favorite superhero soap opera!))

GOBLiiNS6 by Pierre Gilhodes

Ooooohhhhh shiiiiiit! Gobliins 6 is out???

pierre-gilhodes.itch.io/gobliins6