sincerely, rob dubbin

putting this poster up all around my game-design workplace

(shared AI video of the Teletubbies eating a hiker that wandered into their territory)

Okay so it turns out that video was fake, but it resonated because this kind of stuff happens every day

some people will have definitely happened

Coming soon: Starfriends: The 5-Star Game About What Everyone Else Thinks A play-anywhere fusion of Wavelength, Letterboxd, and Apples to Apples, for friends and strangers alike.

you might've heard the workers of @kickstarterunited.org are on strike to preserve a 4-day work week and set livable pay minimums. everyone deserves rights like this and we stand with those fighting for them! per their wishes, our campaign continues, in solidarity
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...

Coming soon: Starfriends: The 5-Star Game About What Everyone Else Thinks A play-anywhere fusion of Wavelength, Letterboxd, and Apples to Apples, for friends and strangers alike.

you might've heard the workers of @kickstarterunited.org are on strike to preserve a 4-day work week and set livable pay minimums. everyone deserves rights like this and we stand with those fighting for them! per their wishes, our campaign continues, in solidarity
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

two posts from comedian tom walker in juxtaposition — one is the classic post that says “KOKO: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor” and the other mentions an upcoming twitch stream where tom will play the game Unfair Flips, which was inspired by him flipping coins on stream

fanning myself at the revelation that the year of the coin flip and the koko jealousy-professor post came from the same person @tomwalker.bsky.social

i wrote about consume me for @theverge.com ✨

blocking simulator

It is of course helpful to remember that in the Trump regime, every accusation is a confession. Antifa might not be organized, but the Department of Homeland Security sure is. George Soros might not be paying professional protesters, but right-wing media personalities are bankrolled by Trumpist billionaires. In the case of Ben Shapiro, that’s billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks; for Rumble, thank Peter Thiel. This is to say nothing of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, or Elon Musk’s X, or the Daily Caller itself, which is funded by Charles Koch. Indeed, the memo’s description of the environment that leads to terroristic violence applies cleanly to the entire right-wing ecosystem. But perhaps the most striking accusation-as-confession is this paragraph from the national security presidential memorandum: This political violence is not a series of isolated incidents and does not emerge organically. Instead, it is a culmination of sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence opposing speech, limit political activity, change or direct policy outcomes, and prevent the functioning of a democratic society. What is this but an elegant encapsulation of the past 10 years? It describes everything from the removal of Jimmy Kimmel from the air to the Libs of TikTok pattern of incitement to Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist to Fox News’ defamation of Dominion Voting Systems and its employees to the celebrity worship of people like Kyle Rittenhouse. What is this entire anti-terrorism memorandum if not an admission that terrorism works, and that terrorism has secured the White House?

a verge feature story with the headline / subheadline of "Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America / Identifying faceless ICE agents. Mutual aid for jailed protesters. Calling JD Vance a fascist. The war on ‘antifa’ is a war on free speech, and it’s just getting started."

"What is this entire anti-terrorism memorandum if not an admission that terrorism works, and that terrorism has secured the White House?"

wake up babe @lopatto.bsky.social and @sarahjeong.bsky.social banger alert www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

summoned by this episode description like a shade to a Ritual

new york city indie games are on a real heater right now

BALL x PIT Demo Update is LIVE on Steam!

🗺️ Base Expansion
👫 New Character: The Cohabitants
💜 Twitch Integration
🏐 New Balls & Evolutions
🌀 New Passives
🏛️ New Buildings
🏁 Leaderboards
🛠️ Balance, QoL + Fixes

All demo progress carries over - full game drops Oct 15!❤️‍🔥

this is what life should be about. the other horse shit shouldn't be happening.

Speaking of said winner and other winners I would take it as a personal favor if you would try out excellent games made by former students, such as:
CONSUME ME
store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...

DESPELOTE
store.steampowered.com/app/2367820/...

BABY STEPS
store.steampowered.com/app/1281040/...

@puzzmo.com just launched a free mini crossword by Brooke.

🐸 bonus: it's amazing

🍕 double bonus: it will teach you how to solve full-size crosswords

🍔 triple bonus: even if you are a crossword pro you will love this mini, each one is exquisite.

play it ⇢ www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

2 years ago: @stfj.net says puzzmo will never run minis
6 months ago: @orta.io and i brainstorm how i might design a mini that could change zach's mind
today: @puzzmo.com's first mini

join us for 30 days of minis that teach you how to solve crosswords. start here:

www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

Puzzmo Mini Crossword #1 is by brooke. It's a 5x5 grid, and the number 6 in the grid is a different color than the other numbers.

For the next 30 days, we're running a series of free mini crosswords created by our puzzle editor @xws.bsky.social to help you become a better crossword solver. Solve the first puzzle here, and check the replies every day for the next one!

👯 Puzzmo Mini Crossword #1: www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

important to note you still get all 50 games even at 25% off. it's not like a UFO 37.5 situation

damn….. recently broke my abacus. going to be a big pain to replace it too, it was really obscure. hold on, ok wait i’m getting a dispatch from my personal spy satellite network. holy shit. holy shiiiit this is such amazing news. i’m sending a team in right away

i feel like i dont truly want me [wind blows mysteriously]

art is a kind of video game

just called schumer’s office at this number and also talked to a polite human there. if you’ve got a new york state zip code, this is the moment to remind him and the people who work for him that there’s no such thing as an acceptable compromise that caves to this admin’s persecution of trans people

Coming soon: Starfriends: The 5-Star Game About What Everyone Else Thinks A play-anywhere fusion of Wavelength, Letterboxd, and Apples to Apples, for friends and strangers alike.

our new game, in brief! friend 1 gets a card with say ★★ on it, friend 2 pulls a ★★★★ card. then you draw a topic, maybe “animal,” and pick one (1) animal you think friend 1 would rate ★★ and friend 2 would rate ★★★★. guess right and win their card(s)! on KS soon: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...

sticks and stones can kiss my ass / thanks to bio-active glass

My friends made a game to play with friends!

Coming soon: Starfriends: The 5-Star Game About What Everyone Else Thinks A play-anywhere fusion of Wavelength, Letterboxd, and Apples to Apples, for friends and strangers alike.

our new game, in brief! friend 1 gets a card with say ★★ on it, friend 2 pulls a ★★★★ card. then you draw a topic, maybe “animal,” and pick one (1) animal you think friend 1 would rate ★★ and friend 2 would rate ★★★★. guess right and win their card(s)! on KS soon: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...

imagine if flipping a coin also had a batshit zachtronics-like system for building elaborate chain reactions around the result. now, imagine that same game had the jokes and thematic chutzpah of universal paperclips, bc it was written by the same person. now imagine there was a demo. well guess what

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