Kevin Simmons

The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.

Almost exactly 10 years ago, I did this...

Including one hot dog that was not discovered until the following day. #floordogs

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

The only group that came even remotely close to getting the growth of solar right back in 2009 was not the IEA or J. P. Morgan Chase or Dow Jones or BlackRock. It was Greenpeace. And even they were way too pessimistic.

you're gonna wanna see this

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Look out for weekly bonus puzzles coming your way soon!

Yeah, this is pretty critical for getting the 1 day/1 hour run in a reasonably small number of resets (took me about 30).

Emailed you the methodology, for what it's worth.

I think it does go against the developer's desires a bit, cause they've patched out the more accidental/easier infinite resource glitches that folks found in the first couple of months. That said, several other folks have found and talked about this, so it's at least somewhat known and unchanged?

I've definitely been toying with the idea of what a Loathing take on this would be. Making something similar in structure would not be difficult in our engine at all, but Tonda Ros did an amazing job combining puzzles and worldbuilding at the same time, and that's what makes Blue Prince so special.

Happy to lay out the methodology for you if you like, it's just a bunch of interacting game systems that synergize together, and that I took to kind of an extreme. It requires a couple hours of tedium, but pays off in near total freedom to build/explore at your direction afterwards.

Heh. I figured out a few things early on that made resources and the RNG a non-issue, so it became purely a detective puzzle game for me (until I needed to get the four special trophies that require starting from scratch again, that is!).

A screenshot from Blue Prince of the Trophy Room where all your in-game trophies/achievements are displayed. A trophy depicting an arm holding up a second smaller standard-looking trophy is in the foreground and a text overlay reads, "You have been awarded the Trophy of Trophies for mastering the Estate and completing the Trophy Case."

Blue Prince is incredible. So many layers to it, so rewarding of close observation. Highly recommended!

I have lingering Qs (why isn't Room 46 marked as a "Dead End" in the Directory?!) but I am probably at the end of the authored content and last night I got the final cheevo.

Goodbye, Mt. Holly!

A 2070s neo-neo-neo-noir where a doomed couple find a briefcase full of money, but they can’t find anyone to exchange it for Virtual Insulin. Also one of them is a JavaScript framework.

Getting to Room 46 is the tutorial and then the real puzzle game begins, for what it's worth.

Huh! I'd never even considered this as a possibility!

I did something like this once in high school, except I got real mad at my mom for letting me sleep in and she was super confused about what was going on.

What's the theory?

I wish fossil fuels would have been rejected -- Feels like a thing that will be looked back on with disbelief in the future (assuming there's a future capable of looking back).

AI has its remarkable use cases (AlphaFold, say), but trying to slot it in everywhere seems so dumb to me.

Sign for Indiana Dunes National Park.

“Worms. Why did it have to be worms?”

Wow, very nice, Duncan.

I turned my apartment into an escape room that only my friends can play. It ended up being an important lesson in art, creativity, and companionship. 

The video on YouTube breaks down the idea, process and technology, gameplay and narrative, and lessons learned.

Please share! youtu.be/ISbamI5ODNQ

Gah, no! What a total bummer.

This is really lovely.

Since the 2025 MIT Mystery Hunt wrapped up in January, Death & Mayhem has been working (on and off) on getting the Hunt transferred over to the archives. You can now (finally) see our archived version of the Hunt at puzzles.mit.edu/2025/ (1/N)

This came up in my reels a few days ago & I haven't been able to stop thinking about it

a watercolor comic of 'stuff in nature I always stop to look at' mossy rocks, a little stream, a tree that fell over, dappled lighting

add yours!

The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow

Blue prints

It was one of the direct inspirations for the narrative behind Shadows Over Loathing! Such a good show.