Tom Granger

Slop vs. Art If you can push a button and get content, then that content is a commodity. Its value is next to zero. Counterintuitively, that's my biggest reason to be optimistic about Al and creativity. When hard parts become easy, the differentiator becomes love.

Love is the enemy of slop.

A nice, candid write-up for a cool project by @cannoneyed.bsky.social

Coding agents are mostly fit for solo work right now, but they do bring so much opportunity to solo devs with the ability to summon tools and build creative pipelines.

cannoneyed.com/projects/iso...

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Advantages of working from home.

I pre-ordered this on Laced back in July and it arrived yesterday, just the perfect amount of delay to enjoy diving back in. Thanks for those LPs who came after.

#expedition33

btw if you too are learning piano, can I remind inkle fans that this exists:

Exactly yes. The depth of that relatedness is also a matter of both context and opinion; to me there's a whole spectrum.

Except with electric scooters, naturally.

Are you perhaps saying it's all about the journey?

There is, and always will be, value in walking but maybe it is also useful to have more transportation means?

Unless your metaphor is about electric scooters of course.

Thank you. I did raise an eyebrow, it can now finally rest.

A bare-bones implementation of the ink for a "database" style game. A bare-bones implementation of the ink for a "database" style game. - database_game.ink

I've been saying TR-49 took 9 months to make - while this is basically true (we began after Expelled when live), turns out the first code was actually 11 months ago. It's here:

gist.github.com/joningold/7c...

... and it's the basic ink for creating a text-indexed database. TR-49 grew out of this.

Yeah

"Order and disorder." probably my last take at #genuary26, uses a 3D pathfinder to go from neatly ordered stacks to a random layout. #genuary2615

BTW, I'm available for freelance work (2 days a week for now).

HIRE ME, I'm GOOD (& CHEAP! 😁)

also ok with collabs, mentoring, Q&As, AMA...

Yeah I'm sure it's a difficult exercise every time. For the record, it definitely took me more than one sitting (but so does reading a book). In this case though, sittings were frequent and close together. I predict that the game will do great on mobile (also a delight on Deck but smaller audience).

Congrats ! In contrast, the only thing that surprised me about the launch is the Steam price. It could be 25% higher and still feel like a bargain.

Please feel free to make more experiments and excuses to learn other stuff.

I was lucky enough to contribute, in a small way, to a project that turned out to be my favorite inkle game to date.

You are lucky enough to have not played it yet. If you are into narrative mysteries, do yourself a favor: don't read reviews, jump in as uninformed as I was.

See you in 6-8 hours😉

J'ai pensé au film "Die Theorie von Allem" de Timm Kröger!

How?!??!???!?

You Should Be Very Excited for inkle's New Puzzle Game TR-49, a new game by inkle Studios set to release on January 21, 2026, features a World War II computer and an archive of lost books.

There's a new puzzle adventure coming on January 21 from
@inkle.co: "A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret." We've gotten to try TR-49 already... Let's just say you'll want to wishlist this one ASAP. #indiegames

punishedbacklog.com/inkle-tr-49-...

It's great! As someone with no mister experience I was also naively taking this for granted. Maybe consider setting correct expectations for new users in the SS1 frontend and/or while unboxing to avoid getting more of those frustrating uninformed YouTube reviews.

YouTube video by inkleStudios TR-49 - Official Trailer

🚨⚠️ Release Date Disclosure! ⚠️🚨

TRAILER: VIDEO EVIDENCE, see below. Please watch, assimilate and share.

DESIGNATION: TR-49
GENRE: NARRATIVE DEDUCTION / AUDIO_DRAMA
DATE: 21st JANUARY
PLATFORMS: iOS / PC / Mac / Deck

This is what we know, so far.

GLSL Web CRT Shader

I’m releasing my GLSL Web CRT Shader as open source.
blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/01/04/g...

Have fun with it! 😎

Happy new year, take care. You have a community's trust; for 2026 please take all the time you actually need to ship RR products.

Make a Bond film casual

BlackEye

a wizard is never late nor is he early he arrives precisely when he means to .. ALT: a wizard is never late nor is he early he arrives precisely when he means to ..

Happy holidays, take care!

An Amiga CD32 exhibited at the Science Museum in London. The game in it was Zool.

A text above it reads: "The release of this console was announced in the Science Museum on 16 July 1993. By adding external hardware, such as a keyboard and floppy disk drive, owners could turn the console into a home computer. Although it was popular in Europe, sales weren't enough to save Commodore from bankruptcy in 1994."

I also learnt that the ill fated Amiga CD32 was announced in that very Science Museum (and that it was "popular in Europe", for some definition of popular I suppose).

Amiga box of the original Monkey Island game, 2 floppy disks and the Dial-A-Pirate disk on display at the Pirates exhibition of the National Maritime Museum in London. I also have all of these at home, which is sadly not the case for the rest of the artifacts shown in this pretty cool exhibition.

Monkey Island (🐒🏝️ for short) randomly spotted today in a London museum...

...Twice !?!

- 🐒🏝️ 2 Special Edition is playable in the Power Up exhibition at The Science Museum
- 🐒🏝️ 1 is part of the very serious Pirates exhibition at the National Maritime Museum (right next to Sid Meier's own Pirates!)

Tinytron 📺 Easy DIY 1.69" mini TV desk toy that plays videos over wifi or microSD

Can't stop tweaking Tinytron 🤗📺

- fixed longer videos support
- jpeg files + slideshow mode with customizable timing interval
- unique AP SSID (useful for workshops!)
- updated doc: V1 rev boards, non destructive cable mod

🙏 @onemore.bsky.social for your contributions!

t0mg.github.io/tinytron

⚠️ TR-49 -- an archive of books that don't exist ⚠️

We began investigating through a simple prototype - before we built the machine.

The "game" has moved far, far beyond this now. But the old prototype is "playable".

You may find it revealing.

❗ www.inklestudios.com/tr-49/pinboa...

Yes, build one this weekend! 🙂
Also did you know it supports screen mirroring and has a cool web UI ? Watch the presentation video I apparently made way too late :)

I found out why the Tinytron assembly video has 10x more views than the demo video :)

hackaday.com/2025/11/30/t...

YouTube video by Tom Tinytron ESP32 Mini TV demo

Made a showcase video for my Tinytron project :) youtu.be/HspYfg55T3A

Are you still outside?