I was telling someone that he was totally inside my brain and then unrelated I was complaining about car sideview mirror positions and, lo and behold, he has a whole thing about exactly that

@redblobgames.com

So happy to have been a part of Polaris! 💖 Go give these lovely and ridiculously smart game devs a follow.

Not encouraged by them taking on $20B in debt to service the deal. No doubt that will trickle down as arbitrary burdens on the developers, Embracer-style.

I want to be optimistic. I really do. But I suspect this ends well for nobody but investors.

Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are starting to get nervous…

Art is inefficient. Care is inefficient. Joy is inefficient. Humanity is inefficient. Don't let them take that away.

Green chips is people!!

You are amazing
Roguelike Celebration is amazing
Keep being awesome!

@techbear1980.bsky.social Hi!

easy isometric pixel art is still coming... with a ton of new features!

create anything with easymetric soon on @aseprite.org

Shit is getting pretty fucking real in Caves of Qud...

Yes! I already want to go collapse in my hotel. Tempted to try the new GDC Nights, and I know I’ll be glad if I go, but… such a nice big bathtub

In case you’re attending #GDC2025 and do not know about this; if you’re ever feeling unsafe, need assistance, or see something troubling, you can call this 24 hour hotline.

They will listen and assist however possible whether you’re at an official GDC event or simply in San Francisco for the event.

In San Francisco for GDC — my 26th!

Looking forward to many random encounters with old friends and new.

❤️

Mini Metro
RimWorld
Stardew Valley
Snowrunner
FTL
Everyday Genius: SquareLogic
OpenTTD
Factorio

No joke: The ill-considered, lightning fast adoption of these faulty technologies across different sectors of society is nothing less than a mass cult conversion. It's the Kool Aid at scale, and we're treating it like a nice calming cup of green tea

There's so much outside pressure to peel the hard rinds away and make your game fruit as broadly accessible as possible, even in the indie space. Sometimes you do just have to ignore the voice of the Product and give the Game the shape it wants.

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here:

archive.org/details/mit_...

Don't miss out on our uhh.. .[reading review] uhh... normal video game.

Now in 1.0!

store.steampowered.com/app/333640

Want!

HIGHLY recommend an oatmeal-colored (or at least multicolored) berber carpet.

Here’s what ours looks like after 20 years of high daily traffic including two dogs and countless piano students.

The thing about the Kobayashi Maru “The thing about the Kobayashi Maru,” said Jim, “is you have to remember it’s a simulation.”

Oh.

Wow.

to disable Scroll Lock when it accidentally gets turned on twice a year somehow

Never underestimate the power of small acts of kindness to brighten someone's day. #passiton

Put all the buttons back. All of you. Don't care what industry you're in, PUT THE BUTTONS BACK!!

image demonstrating rules about axes, handedness, and direction of rotation in 3D space, where you can use your thumb as the axis, and the curl of your fingers as the positive rotation direction

handedness can be a little hard to wrap your head around - it's a very elusive concept as it's mostly perceptual/visual rather than being a property of the numbers/math itself

notably though, you can use it to figure out positive rotation directions, given an arbitrary axis!

My friend just described the next three days as the equivalent of being in an airport lounge — calories don’t count, money doesn’t matter and no one is judging you for having a beer at 10am.

Yup.

You are amazing and inspiring!
Nap earned.

Hi! Ready for something other than Twitter/X. Heard this place is nice — ready to give it a try. 😁