Alec Meer

Small Cat is 5 today.

A fine accomplishment, given she sailed to the very edge of death twice in that time.

More Zoid customisin' to keep myself sane in dark times

"and that's how Peter Mandelson's underpants resulted in the UK being briefly governed by bauble-faced christian transphobe, mental illness denialist, disabilities defunder and NHS privatisation enthusiast Wes Streeting, in a short period of chaos before..."

Life goals: just trying to survive until Slay the Spire 2

oh *my*

e.g. quite a few languages aren't built to easily convey gender ambiguity. Which is obviously a huge and sensitive problem in some cases. But you're dealing with *the ancient legacy of language* rather than a cultural issue. Difficult.

The last mile of dev from the narrative side involves dealing with a tsunami of questions from translation teams.

On the one hand, it is a massive headache. On the other, it's a keen insight into how the world is gonna interpret what you've done, and some surprising cultural variances.

Re last rt: mingled pride and sadface to see fine folk leaving the website we built in order to escape corporate bleh, in order to escape corporate bleh.

It's like the end of The Wire.

I like all these people a lot! My confident prediction is that this will be a lovely website.

Perfect. No notes.

There was a planned but unreleased red version of Ultrasaurus for the 80s Zoids Euro line.

Red Zoids are best, ofc. Therefore I've been busy.

Cannot make this cat angry

Tbh I am unnecessarily defaming her. She always tells me nicely first

really hope things work out for you guys. It's hell on a plate

my life is shockingly hard rn but mad little projects like this keep me going

I also picked up a Zoids holy grail, the enormous if desperately slow Ultrasaurus. Involved a 90 min road trip to a very a strange house, then a day clearing a gruesome, inch-thick layer of someone else's dead skin cells off every part, plus disassembling the dead motor.

I loved every moment of it.

blood

back on my Zoids bullshit

Love to be closing a major videogame while my neurodivergent 7yo has completely stopped attending school.

One of these weeks I might actually leave the house again.

My favourite bit in Stranger Things S5 is when the baddie uses a complicated psychic spying plan in order to discern that a character who has been in a coma for months is in.... the local hospital.

Happy Christmas one and all

I really love Pluribus

N.b. by follow up I do not mean sequel - only that this is Wot We Done Next

yeah, this art is prob the best thing that ever came out of Transformers tbh

Funny that Saros shared a stage last night with the superb-looking Total War 40K - which is a game I'd very likely have been writing for had I not landed the Housemarque gig. Sliding grimdark doors!

YouTube video by PlayStation Saros - Pre-Order Trailer | PS5 Games

Returnal follow-up Saros is a wee tiny bit delayed til April, which is great for all sorts of reasons. Here's yer pre-order trailer.

youtu.be/xmsc_GokLPI

Saros' story + writing is by me & Housemarque's excellent narrative team. We're nearly there now - can't wait.

He's even funkier looking, but yeah he's much much closer to a Transformer in function

Omega Supreme retrospective The strangest and most singular of early Transformers

A Million Robots returns, after the most hectic month of my life. And we're looking at The Big One.
millionrobots.beehiiv.com/p/omega-and-...

Yeah, I wanted to go into that (and his speech patterns) but the word count had already spiralled. They did preserve that robotiness in his personality, which has helped his mystique endure.

Omega Supreme retrospective The strangest and most singular of early Transformers

A Million Robots returns, after the most hectic month of my life. And we're looking at The Big One.
millionrobots.beehiiv.com/p/omega-and-...