Hamish Smithers

My local pizza website is encouraging me to login to get "personalised AI reccomendatons" based on "trending items, time of ordering, and the qeather" guys what the fuck are we even doing

Was super tempted to hit up Pax and Megadev on the Sunday but instead I got tonsillitis 👍👍👍

I always feel super self concious trying to chat to game audio folks when my credentials are "one fallen-through expression of interest and 15 random game jams", so it was very helpful that every single person I met was extremely lovely and genuinely interested in my work regardless 🥹

Do not ever convince yourself you can manage going back to work on the Thursday after High Score > GCAP > AGDAs oh my god this was a mistake

Ok against all odds: we're actually so back.

Me and someone else competing in 3 club combat juggling

Ah see here's me in my real element - coming last in the 3 club combat play-offs at MJC.
(3 club combat is probably exactly what you are imagining)

That sign can't stop me because I can't read!

Ok I've had a long hard chat with the team and we think our best move is actually for MIGW 2026 to be the first one where I don't feel like an imposter. We're just going to not count this one 👍

I'll be at High Score, The Launch, GCAP, and the AGDAs at MIGW!

Looking forward to seeing you all next week!

My juggling convention weekend is over, now in rest & recover mode for my 5 days of MIGW...
Managed to perform a killer open stage diabolo act (still got it 😎) & cleaned up my 7 ball pattern a ton. Got some much longer runs but this was the cleanest I got on camera.

this the kinda shit i be doing for 30 hours the weekend before high score & gcap and then wonder why I'm so tired

They're going to psychologically profile me with this for the rest of time but man Bilewater is so good. That's my favourite area and section of Silksong thus far. Inject that directly into my veins.

I got the joy of explaining to a producer on a new project that I'm off for a few days next week for a juggling convention ahaha

Can someone let me know why progress on my little personal project has been so tough lately? Here's all the details:

1. I started it the week before Silksong launched
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To be fair, I use a 21:9 UW monitor and I still wholeheartedly believe all game developers forever have the right to tell me to fuck off and pillar-box the sides!

They had wack time portals bringing BOTW characters back in time, and for some reason, I was the only person on earth who was pointing at my TV going, "Yess! Yesssss!" Did you not see the cutscene where adult Sidon does the dumb grin with baby Sidon? Extremely stupid and brilliant!!! Again thanks!!

If the new Hyrule Warrios game does an alternate-timeline split and becomes 'non-canon', 99% of players will begin weeping themselves to sleep while I begin a celebration process all contrarians dream of. The timeline split to allow an alternate outcome was the best decision AoC made. Do it again!!!

I think itch having subpar initial communication disappointing, but does not outweigh the fact that they, a relatively tiny pc game store front, are being blackmailed by some of the biggest corporations on the planet who control - just checking, yes - all of commerce

My 2024 GOTY. Such a rich story. I think about it's writing all the time, and it's been over 8 months since I played it!

I played this last year, and I still think about it all the time. Its characters, story, and themes will stick with you long after completion. Please pick it up.

Running into strangers in Journey was magical!

Completely surprised to say that playing Nightrein with randoms has been great 9/10 times. Something about the frantic no-communication 'just ping and move' pace works super well.

And no, the game absolutely does not need voice chat. If they add voice chat, I will never play online again.

Blue Prince and Clair Obscur releasing within two weeks is very frustrating.
Also frustrating is I'm not sure if I have 10 hours left of Blue Prince, or another 80.

The same fake loyalty card, but my hand is replaced by frog detective's

This just got added to our slack as an emoji 😅

Hand holding a hand drawn loyalty stamp card. In the center is a crudely drawn Frog Detective holding a coffee. It also says "Very Legit!" and "Genuine Thieves Loyalty Card!". The number '1' is cut out.

Local coffee place has been out of loyalty cards, so I made my own frog detective one and they accepted it

To all my fellow Haters out there: the Switch 2 won't have achievements. We must all pre-order this console and continue to support the ongoing war efforts against achievements.

Roughly every 6 months, someone leaves a comment on itch for my uni game project from 7 years ago asking me to finish it, and every time I get closer to making the terrible decision of doing so

Sony is refunding it! 😌
I'm also going to steal back the wired-only controller I lent my partner when I need to work at home, and turned on the "require password for purchase" option (oops). But this is really not how controllers should work!

YouTube video by むてきまるちゃんねる -Mutekimaru Channel- ライブ配信でペットの魚にクレジットカード情報を公開され、挙句の果てに決済されてしまった件について

I'm more reminded of the 'my fish made those purchases' livestream 😅

youtu.be/pkh2u0SRWdQ?...

Exactly what just happened! I hit the PS button out of habit, as I do all the time in office, and just never considered that the controller would wake my console and communicate inputs to it while connected to my laptop, TV out of sight and never on 🙃