drajjon (Alexis)

P.S. "Once Upon a Galaxy" is our card-drafting auto-battler with bite-sized games and real strategic depth. Build a team out of myth and fantasy and battle at your own pace vs. real opponents. Cross-platform play on Android, iOS, and Steam. No AI art, no-ads/no-pressure free-to-play. galaxy.fun

oh Steam Guard why do you make sign-in over VPN so painfully exhausting

60s 20❤️

Strengthening my conviction and upholding factual reality 😌 Vs Why is everybody so wrong about everything? 😣

Thank you everyone, for helping make Once Upon a Galaxy such a smashing success in 2026. As the year begins to rollover, it’s time to reflect on where the game is today and share our plans for 2027. galaxy.fun/articles/roa...

i remember sitting among the empty cubicles at my dad's office on the weekend, typing "game instruction manuals" into DOS word processing programs with ASCII-art illustrations and printing them on the loud-ass dot matrix printers

my experience is chair-rolling time is 10x as efficient as debugging time i do a lot more chair-rolling and a lot less debugging in my old age

Fierce guardian familiar

ah yes, how i spent my childhood: typing in games one line at a time :) (the only part of this story that didn't ring true was biking to buy the magazine- we had magazine subscriptions, an endless supply of typing material!)

gonna beat the UX trends to the punch and release an app composed entirely of circles

Faith, no matter in what or who, is good for two things- first, to be an anchor when you are tossed around in the storm, to be able to ground you and give you the strength to persevere. Second, to help uplift those around you, pick them up, dust them off, and help them thrive. That is it.

The real downfall of posting was when restating obvious facts as novel observations became a reliable way of building a big following. So many accounts now just post various equivalents of "did you piss? try washing your hands!" and the comments are all stuff like "wow! good idea!"

How do we solve for shovelware, genAI-edition? Don’t count on Steam solving this for us. Will external curation solve this? Influencers create a whole new can of worms.

Overheard at CostCo: “you don’t need a Snoring Buddy*, I’m your snoring buddy”- random mother *apparently some toy?

Life works best when you treat it as the improv show it actually is

Funny thing is they were taking my money without irony Wish I’d had the foresight to ask if their shirt would be legally admissible as evidence if I refused to pay 🧐

The real question

Discord really nailing it's "gamer" audience with aim-trainer popups

HOW DARE

“This is really not designed to be *used*,” I say to myself for the tenth time at the AirBnB Why are so many things in life not designed to be used?

If you're serious about game development or design, PLAY OLD GAMES I can't overstate how many good ideas are sitting there waiting to be discovered. Sometimes it's not even stuff that was there at the time, it's only there now looking from a modern perspective.

I have seen new people enter the ZZT community this year. That’s not nostalgia- that’s the staying power of engaging simplicity. 

too much of education focuses on "preparing for the workforce", which really means "preparing to work long grueling thankless hours with no autonomy". lots of educators push back against this but the system is, broadly speaking, "working as intended" :(

look at this monstrosity of a controller RIP era of tech innovation

I was thinking about atproto more and had a thought: no one needs to know or care about the protocol. we just need to normalize the idea that it’s bonkers to allow any company to own part of your identity it’s like how you used to lose your phone number if you switched carriers. that sucked

…now where DID that box of eyeball stuff go….

**horizon intensifies**

Oh wow, no way

Like no seriously about a dozen things just fell like dominoes and i need to get back to work now see you in 2 years

I just aligned my entire prototype game design with the thought “broken wand == wand of breaking”

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...