Mike Barrett 🦦

SO MANY NEW PEOPLE! Hey, I’m Mike! Game dev managing a lot of non programming, non art functions behind the scenes for Innersloth. Say hi! I’ve got: 🕹️ Games industry chatter 🧠 Inner monologue and commentary about my life 💻 Thoughts about games I’m playing/streaming 🐶 Dog pics

Tilly really needs a mug that says "Don't talk to me until I've slurped down half a bowl of water and thrown up most of it on the rug". It's just such an essential part of her morning routine

Working off the annoyance of not getting the deathless Bloodborne clear today, so take this. Must get stronger for chat

Oh hey look! A stream schedule! Join me tonight as I play more Garten of Banban (we left off in the middle of 3) as well as Friday, and join @bookslap.bsky.social and myself on #TeamworkTuesday as we have our own Halloween Special! You won't want to miss it!

Starting early to nail down that Bloodborne no death run today! www.twitch.tv/bookslap

Playing RE5 on "Local Only" and someone requested to join my game I'm here alone Is my Steam haunted?

The thing about game development is they want you to think it's like movies: even working on the base-line of a micro-budget you need hundreds of thousands of dollars for cast, crew, equipment, etc... Game dev can be like novels: the only budget you need is your own time and effort and a computer

But again, for a third time and wrapping up the game tonight!

Games news in 2026 Last week: you can hang dong in Grand Theft Auto This week: we regret to inform you that the video games industry is discontinuing its popular product, video games

PB is now 3! Massive improvement, and the whole game done in less than 3 hours, which for not doing a speedrun feels pretty good? Right? Right

No Death Bloodborne attempts to improve PB because dying is for babies www.twitch.tv/bookslap

For those we have lost. For those we can yet save.

Bioware was a team of humans, many of them, for many years. And they produced touching humanity in return. I choose to mourn by remembering the humanity, and nothing embodies it better for me than this blog did so many years ago www.tumblr.com/biowareaccor...

I just discovered that my new glasses came with...a second pair of lenses? Is that...is that normal? My last glasses didn't. And these are not in any way removable, I'd have to go to a shop to have them put it, which is fine. I'm just disarmed by the...thoughtfulness?

It's the second best day of the week! Now with 100% more linear horror! Playing Escape the Backrooms with @andybundy.net www.twitch.tv/bookslap

*shaking eyes emote*

🦥 HIRING 🦥 We're looking for a Senior Networked Gameplay Programmer! Help support Among Us and future titles. 💻 Remote, full-time 💻 5+ years of experience; excellent knowledge of server-side programming and C# Closes Nov 13! Apply and join our friendly team 👇 innersloth.bamboohr.com/careers/35

Next Fest was already a bit of a pointless exercise for 90% of devs. Now the AI slop has made it entirely pointless for 99% of devs I don’t really know what Valve can do about this, but I think it’s fair to say that we pay them well enough, that it would be nice if they’d bloody do *something*

Someone was brave and used her stairs (very scary) to get on the couch to see grandma two weekends ago and now thinks she’s a big girl

7 minutes. 7 minutes is all I have to spare. Finishing the main story of RE5 with @calamitynolan.bsky.social tonight! www.twitch.tv/bookslap

It's Menacing! Monday, time for some Mustache Mates Multiplayer Mayhem! @bookslap.bsky.social & I are playing through Resident Evil 5 co-op and we're near the end! Join us for the finale of the base game + the start of the DLC. In costume, of course 😉 Starts 8pm ET on www.twitch.tv/calamitynolan

TONIGHT!! We are starting a NEW game! It's Halloween season, so why not play a thematic game? We're starting Garten of Banban tonight and I'm going to see how many of these games I can finish before the end of October! Check it out! live.andybundy.net

I'm here! Short stream to practice a deathless Bloodborne clear continues! www.twitch.tv/bookslap

Hey! Stream today will be this afternoon, I have plans this morning. 2? 2:30? Something like that

Fuck a zodiac sign, who's your main in Soul Calibur?

We're continuing our first playthrough on MediEvil on Twitch! Come join! live.andybundy.net

The hunt for a deathless Bloodborne clear begins! Also I'm sick www.twitch.tv/bookslap

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is an insane game with a plot that amounts to “MMMM ICE CREAM YUM YUM” and basically only exists to further justify Chain of Memories existence. Still, glad we got through the lore dump yesterday (the VoD has been DMCA’d to hell, lol)

Special bonus stream! It's time to get the lore for Kingdom Hearts 358/2! (Alternative notification: *yawn* I wonder what Roxas is up to!?) Playing...watching? Kingdom Hearts 358/2 www.twitch.tv/bookslap

HEY! In about 45 minutes I’ll be doing a bonus stream! It’s time to catch up on the lore from Kingdom Hearts 358/2, and if you’re good maybe we’ll play my first Digimon game a bit afterwards

It's the Second Best (Spookiest) Day of the Week! Working the late shift again with @andybundy.net Playing Shift At Midnight if you'd like some spoops www.twitch.tv/bookslap

When you think of Halloween, do you think of Disco? Check out this week's Music Monday on Ballroom Disco by @grantkirkhope.bsky.social from Grabbed by the Ghoulies!

CHRIS! SHEVA! CHRIS! SHEVA! CHRIS! SHEVA! thanks Playing RE5 co-op with @calamitynolan.bsky.social PART 3 www.twitch.tv/bookslap

Make time for a Multiplayer + Menacing! Monday stream! @bookslap.bsky.social and I are continuing our spooky month co-op playthrough of Resident Evil 5! Come by tonight for ancient lasers, superpower zombie juice, and, of course, me in Chris cosplay Starts at 8pm ET on www.twitch.tv/calamitynolan

A Bookslap stream on a Saturday? PLAYING BLOODBORNE CHALLENGES?! Bloodborne no leveling challenge run Part 3 (maybe the finale?) www.twitch.tv/bookslap

It's time to get some Halloween Vibes in here! Playing Medievil for the first time. I've been told this game is up my alley and it fits the month because the main protag is a skeleton, right? Come catch me on live.andybundy.net!

My favorite part about making presentation slides on canva is how sometimes I'll tell it to do a thing and it'll say "okay, I did the thing" and then I look and it didn't do the thing. Just send my image to the back layer you jerk

CHRIS! SHEVA! CHRIS! SHEVA! CHRIS! SHEVA! CHRIS! SHEVA! CHRIS! SHEVA! CHRIS! SHEVA! Playing Resident Evil 5 co-op with @calamitynolan.bsky.social Part 2! www.twitch.tv/bookslap

🗓️ AMONG US STORY: ON GUARD RELEASES FEBRUARY 17, 2027! 🔎 live life as Guard in this dangerous narrative adventure 🔎 prove your innocence before the Impostor gets to the rest of the crew... and you. wishlist on Steam to be notified when the simulation begins 🥳

Couple of dummy thicc shooty boys

I want to get off Mr Fortnite's Wild Ride

The level of workout fatigue where the limb that always hurts *somewhat* hurts a lot more and you're *pretty sure* it's just regular soreness/fatigue but not *100% sure* you didn't hurt yourself so you just mess with it a bunch hoping it'll magically tell you one way or the other

Andy and I are facing the monsters (capitalism, also literal) so you don't have to, but you can watch Playing Shift At Midnight with @andybundy.net www.twitch.tv/bookslap

Might have to part ways with a gaming community I've been an active member (and leader, in some capacity) of since 2019 over use of genAI. Feels bad, man, but I refuse to turn a blind eye, especially when people asked me to do something about it