Adam Coster

My brothers made this silly thing for the latest #gmtk2025 game jam.

The initial pitch is right up my alley, but the details muddy things. Screenflow is Mac-only (I think?) so that seems to rule me right out of the course. And the various modules are for different editing software, but I wouldn't even know which one I'd be interested in!

100/10

He also thought it was legitimately bad, but yeah we were very relieved he didn't bother to score it

Same. Fortunately that guy was so upset by the game that he didn't even want to score it... Silver lining?

And when they're wrong, it's because wrong things are often written down, too.

YouTube video by Butterscotch Shenanigans Crashlands 2 Update 1.2: The Hardcore Scramble

We've been COOKIN' on Crashlands 2 since the game's launch, and we're excited to announce the second major updateis coming out on June 24th!

Update 1.2: The Hardcore Scramble adds new game modes, new pets, new base-building items, an expanded world map, QOL features, and a whole lot more!

yep!

You really gotta keep your head on a swivel when evaluating contracts. Even well-meaning ones!

An claim isn't more likely to be true by virtue of being simpler than an alternative. A simpler claim does, however, have fewer ways it could turn out to be false.

The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine | CNN Business If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached...

If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality...

www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...

This Enormous ARPG Is A Constant Treat Of Progression And Laughs Crashlands 2 is a delightfully daft, eccentrically long game of battling and crafting

I've been playing @bscotch.net's Crashlands 2 every evening for weeks! It's such a cheerful and engaging and constantly rewarding game to play. (And while it could have been jam-packed with IAPs, instead it simply has an old-fashioned purchase price.)

kotaku.com/crashlands-2...

Had such a great time chatting to these lads! From truly touching moments, to left-of-field indie marketing wins, hard-edged production chatter, and tales of all the college degrees none of them now use, this has every hallmark of indie brilliance in the most perfectly Butterscotch Shenanigans way.

On the #GameMakersNotebook Podcast, @trentkusters.bsky.social chats with brothers Seth and @adamcoster.com of @bscotch.net about their recent release CRASHLANDS 2, how their brother Sam's cancer diagnosis led to the original CRASHLANDS, how they solved a common indie marketing problem, and more!
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Poking the Fan - Adam Coster Sometimes a problem is a lot simpler than it seems. Give it a poke to find out!

A little parable about the importance of taking some time to investigate something in creative ways before deciding that it is or isn't doable.

lol yeah that's part of why I got off of them. Once I felt the brain zaps when I had trouble getting a refill I got too anxious about running out! It was rough even intentionally and slowly weaning off though

that process is brutal, sorry you're going through it!

LLMs do not lie. And they do not tell the truth. Their function has no relationship to fact or fiction. Sometimes they happen to be right, sometimes they happen to be wrong. But all they do is happen to.

Yeah that's Ctrl+Shift+V on Windows. But in both OSes that just tells the OS to use whatever the plaintext clipboard entry is, so you'll lose ALL formatting info. It's still usually the best option.

Pasted stuff from Google Docs is always BOLD! WHY!? | Adam Coster Google Docs makes everything you copy bold. Why? Who knows. Let's talk about how copy/paste works and how to fix this madness with JavaScript.

Have you noticed that stuff pasted from Google Docs is often bold? When it works like you expect that's because some nice developer fixed it.

Here's why it happens, and what webdevs can do to fix it in their own apps.

YEP

only FIVE more needed until funded! 🤩

YouTube video by Scott & Frogpants CORE SPECIAL: Crashlands 2 and Seth Coster interview

Seth (our Crashlands 2 game programmer) had a great interview with @scottjohnson.zip! Whether you're into #GameDev or want to hear how Crashlands 2 was made, there's something for you in here.

One nice thing about translated versions of your game is that you can scroll right by a negative review without any emotional damage.

#GameDev

Wiktionary tricked me. It showed up in Google with the definition, but opening the page reveals the note "misspelling of enshittification" 🙄

Lol that's why I need it in spell check! Now to figure out how to update the dictionary...

Screenshot of the word "enshitification" in an input field, with red squiggles claiming that it's not a word, and the menu open ready to add it to the dictionary.

Preparing for the future... going to need this word a lot!

The fact that I meet every IPO announcement with a sigh and a search for alternatives should be, I don't know, some sort of signal...

#Discord has been such an amazing service, both for our internal gamedev work and to centralize our community. Hopefully the enshitification is slow

Thanks for reaching out! We don't have very much voice over content in our games so there aren't a lot of opportunities on our projects

I appreciate it! ❤️