Ben Prunty

Man fuck this

one thing I will say about the preemptive pardon bullshit is it is not the behavior of a group of people who have a definitive plan to retain power forever

Sweeney is seeing things through the lens of "growth". making niche games is sustainable. you can build studio expertise, make games people love, and stably sustain employees. that's humane game dev. i'm sorry Mr. Sweeney and his ilk can't get off on the second order derivative of that.

Wow I can't wait for this to have absolutely zero consequences for him

Watching this industry over the last 15 years has been so painful. The closest thing we have to a universal recipe for making great games is keeping teams together over time, and letting them cook. _Teams_. Of _people_. Seemingly nobody in NA games leadership has ever valued or understood this

This is our future

I feel obliged to once again reiterate that lay offs and closures are not a reaction to the economy, but a failure of leadership. Each wave of closures and layoffs should be looked upon as a consequence of greed and incompetence. If you can't keep your people employed, you are bad at your job.

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Wow I can't wait for this to have absolutely zero consequences for him.

I don't know what's going on here but I like it

Hire Max!

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You know you're on the right side of history when you're defending child murder

Watch to the end for a Phoebe cameo! (Also me)

it’s worth underlining that the amount which a modern live game is not this is directly the result of devs fighting inch by inch, for months if not years, against the guy at every corporation who demands an explanation for why you aren’t doing this at all times

Pretty sure this calls for exactly six heavily armed astronauts

Talking to adult acquaintances as a kid: there was always a moment when they realized I didn't know anything about sports but was also not academically gifted. These were the only categories of 'child personality' they knew, so they would kind of give up and conversation would get awkward.

Just discovered - career decided via twitter poll. I shall never recover from this.

-- Game Music I'm Currently Obsessed With #1 -- Reincarnated Echoes - Turbo from Vampire Crawlers, by Daniele Zandara and Filippo Vicarelli Perfect synths, incredible movement from one section to another, great chord structure. I could listen on repeat nearly forever.

Really love my hair looking like this but it's so hard to get it to stay this way. My hair is so heavy it tends to just fall into my face. Going to try different products and techniques and report back later.

Ruin a book by adding a word: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Thatcher

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

Doing a video shoot and completely forgetting how to sit like a normal human

I'm pretty sure I've said this like a dozen times before but I genuinely believe any senator or congress member who doesn't call for his immediate resignation deserves to go to jail.

"I'm a billionaire and will live the rest of my life in luxury surrounded by people obligated to always say yes to me, and I believe the world should accept some bad things happening."

As we enter a new quarter, time for an update on games industry layoffs. As you can see here we're well past 50k people known to be impacted since 2020 in over 800 incidents. with 3 months to go, 2026 could end as the worst year on record. 55% of known layoff waves in 2026 have unknown headcounts.

Tech people like this have always had a deep-rooted disdain for artists and musicians. 20 years ago many of my coworkers at Google had no qualms about pirating indie games, and seperately I remember one of them saying (regarding game dev) "if your algorithms are good enough you don't need artists"

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Even in our era of abundance, 'arcade puzzle' is is a truly underserved genre. Anyone working in this space is a hero.

I'm incredibly lucky in that I have stability thanks to my success and independence, but that is not the norm. Jobs were already scarce for composers even before everything fell apart. Now it's apocalyptic.

Currently obsessed with this incredible cover of one of my favorite tracks from one of my favorite games

"Anyone who claims to have a relationship with pop culture that doesn't resemble my own is lying for attention" is a very convoluted way of saying "I'm insecure"

I'M SORRY I SLEPT ON ALAN WAKE 2 FOR SO LONG THIS IS THE GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME

I've always believed Monkey Island would be the easiest game to translate into film. And look at Purcell's art!! What are we even doing here, man.

This is a great list

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

Thank goodness, I can barely handle having just 1 brain

Annual reminder to lock your doors

I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.