Jesse Vigil

Thanks for the PSA, FINALLY managed to get one because of this.

Image from work in progress on All Will Rise, a game by Speculative Agency about taking billionaires to court for wrecking the planet.

Calling all game developers working on making the future a better place, or addressing the bullshit of our current time in some creative way! Where are you? Let's connect and team up.

“You teach?”
“I teach computer age philosophy. But my students would rather watch anime”
“America.”
“America.”

BAYBAY I COMPARE YOU TO A KISS FROM A CROW

Kiss crow

Talk to crow

Right now it is your moral obligation as a human being to feel things and do something constructive about them.

I have been thinking about this all morning and I genuinely feel like making a video game in 2025 that encourages you to retreat into a fluffy world of no stakes no stress no bad thoughts or feelings is, as my friend put it, offering “unprescribed medication” as beat case scenario and SOMA at worst.

Good article by @im.giovanh.com about a "cozy" airport security game.

Wholesome games tend to reimagine labor -and reality as a whole- as we'd like it to be: beautiful, tidy, meaningful, social... but why would there be terrorist threats in this utopia?

blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10...

Dudes and dudettes this is gorgeous.

Featuring Hillary Clinton as the girl in the corner

YouTube video by Official Sweet Channel Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz - Promo Clip (OFFICIAL)

youtu.be/r8pYpii2Atg?...

Me, just now, having a drink and trying to distract from events of the day. I have Sweet’s Desolation Boulevard on vinyl. I put it on. I’ll grill a steak. I will forget my troubles. I will drink a whiskey. The music begins.

Me: that’s funny, why did I pull this record from the stack?

Me: fuck

What does it say about me/Star Wars that I knew all about a canceled movie that will never happen and was genuinely surprised to see a trailer for a real Star Wars movie last night in a movie theater?

That’s very niche but good content.

I wore my new shirt today while I taught video games in these hallowed halls today. Thank you @secretgalaxy.bsky.social and @danlarson.bsky.social for the attire while I did a deep dive into the Ducktales NES game the youths only know as the game with the music from “The Moon.”

“No One Cares About Your OC (until you give them a gameplay reason)” - long ago, in the mists of a world where magic got sad, the Narrativos Designex tried to deliver Lore before Player Agency, afflicting the EnPeeSees with the ❗️of Empty Monologues when the chosen Pl’Ayer didst not yet get to pwn.

Do, Don't Show. Don't build your systems to look like the cool things are happening, actually let your player do those cool things. Build your systems simple so the player has rules they can follow to create more surprising, emergent moments they'll actually remember.

People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.

NASA CONFIRMS EARTH NOW HAS TWO MOONS UNTIL 2083. Discovered this year but traveling with us since the 1960s, the small asteroid will drift away in 2083.

This is a Pixar movie. The little moon (Sabrina Carpenter) comes in to work-shadow the veteran actual moon (Meryl Streep). Streep is grumpy about it for the film’s first thirty mins. But by the end they’re inseparable and when 2083 comes we cry. While also learning about the need to let someone go.

Is this related to the “I love this album and I listen to it so much but I only just now found my favorite song, how did I miss this before?” phenomenon? (Aka one of my favorite things about buying and owning albums)

My careers officer never told me this was an option.

“Who is surprisingly hot” seems like something that was just on your mind, Gemini.

Mostly this is surprising to me because Gemini is routinely the most straightedge LLM

“Are you thinking what I’m thinking?”
“You think we need a few more guys.”
“Actually, Rusty, I was thinking we need a ladder.”

Take me to THAT specific internet. This one can burn.

The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.

An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.

So finish the thing.

We learned the idea of a “tease” from things we loved, but things that spent years building recognition so a tease would be effective. We loved the drama, but it’s always been something that’s earned.

I wrote a few sexy books and this is the hottest thing anyone’s written in ages.

Tell me about those grocery prices, baby.

We live in an attention economy. You have five seconds or less to grab someone’s attention. If you’re trying to halt stop a scroll you have 24 frames MAX. If it’s an established large scale property you can maybe afford the 💎luxury 💎 of a tease, but if you aren’t, say, Metroid, shoot your best shot

This was maybe one of the best campaigns I ever played in. One of the best people in my life took notice of me for the first time, convinced my pilot Anya was secretly the Princess Anastasia, and that was the last lighthearted moment as we cried and lost friends and killed fucking Nazis.