Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀

Hello newskies! I'm Dan, a game designer currently hailing from the Seattle area. I have lots of schipperkes, ADHD, and many (mostly crafty) hobbies in varying states of hyperfocus or neglect. Favorite game: Journey Color: Aqua Album: Paul Simon - Graceland Cocktail: Red Hook Dinosaur: Amargasaurus

Honestly I was just thinking the other day that a—maybe the best—possible fate for Beyond Good & Evil might be to just publish the world bible and let fans tell stories in it. Imagine an extended unofficial canon, fan games, a TTRPG system? (Heck, just imagine all the new furry OCs)

Alex le Mesurier is looking for a Narrative Designer to help build the foundation for his psychological horror game, Untold Cases: Lot 42. 🛰️ Remote, Freelance 📆 One-month contract, 1500$ USD ⚖️ Flexible hours ⤵️

Bryan Johnson is like if your foot fungus had a substack.

Bluesky has ten kinds of user: those who can infer a joke and those who can't.

For the first time in ages, one of my absolute favorite games is on sale Seriously, its a damn meme at this point how much I talk about this game:

The absolute GALL of these mf kotaku.com/now-that-the...

Bluesky has four kinds of user

sparkling layoffs

Sure seems like the only move is to keep asking for more time and only ship when that stops working. You're getting laid off either way.

Oh hey look at that the AI bubble already burst in China finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...

"Good night, Arkane. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning."

This is devastating news. Eric was so talented and absolutely killin it with his work (and he was from Toronto/Scarborough!) Way too young aw man 😔💔

Many Americans reacting to this with "I hope this doesn't happen to us in November" and like, no you dumb fucks he's saying this shit because he wants to give YOUR GOVERNMENT cover to interfere further.

"So, at the end of the day, they're wanting you guys to head out." Reminder that modern American police are a straight-line evolution from fugitive slave posses.

I've seen a lot of love for Mass Effect and Dragon Age over the last couple days, with good reason. I love both of them very much, and they'll be studied for years to come. But I want to take a second to talk about a different BioWare experience: Playing Jade Empire as a terrible person.

We started getting our first mates applications the night we launched this, and even beyond applications we've had loads of support (and compliments 💚) Why not treat yourself to some dev help from some proven tools/engine/systems sickos from down under? We're so keen to help you make your vision 🙃

Humanity is a group effort.

One thing I banged the drum on HARD at Blizzard and people seemed to just not believe me: gamers want to know the people behind their games. "But teams led by divas are terrible." Yes. Do MORE "meet the devs". "People who end up in video game press are insufferable" Yes, do MORE "meet the devs."

We have near final results from Brazil, 99.8% reporting: Lula 51.76% Bolsonaro 48.24% In 2022, Lula beat Bolsonaro's father by 1.8%; so he has nearly doubled his lead. Also, if you followed this thread & enjoyed it... be sure to follow me: I'll be tracking 700 US elections at once in 9 days!

As devs, it's frustrating to see fans rallying to "save Mass Effect" rather than calling for more work from the creative teams that made it. But most fans couldn't name a single ME dev. Given the nature of game dev work, I wonder if there's a "where are they now" piece worth writing.

Okay, Folha called it, it's official. A hearty GO FUCK YOURSELF to every last living fascist

With the caveat that the count is far from over.

Comedy = Tragedy + corpse run

Hey this seems like solid news

Is this Loss

I vote we call it the Apple L

Wow, Mike DeWine is a *coward*.

Day two! Simplifying my setup a bit

There's nothing like narrative going, "These characters are like this," and design going, "And they do this thing," and animation going, "And they do it this way," then FX is like, "And it looks like this", and everyone starts going full sicko mode because they're falling in love with it together.

Subnautica 2 continues to be very pretty and pretty crashy. <3

I'm not even using the vibe-coded version (afaik), why is the Epic Store client making my GPU fans spin up??

Finally, we can defeat tabs once and for all

Having spent almost 15 years in a "cost center" discipline... Oh no. Oh dear.

💥LEAVING META SHOP SALE💥 20% OFF EVERYHING!! As most of you know, I will be leaving Meta platforms on the 30th. To celebrate leaving a crummy place, I am running a huge sale!!! Everything is on sale!! I have tons of new stuff and freebies with every purchase! www.etsy.com/shop/Meggles...

my BB boy 🥹

Congratulations to @4shley.bsky.social: in his first show, Loki won Best in Group! (under 6mo puppy)