avery

proximate is 30% off for scream fest... wow store.steampowered.com/app/2957800/...

sometimes writing an essay feels like pulling a long uncomfortable blackhead which has accumulated over the research process from the brain. this i think is the optimal outcome

Lula Goes HARD

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

We are running two games, each with separate registration pages: 5-9pm on Friday the 6th of November: events.unimelb.edu.au/arts/event/5... 10-1pm on Saturday the 7th (next morning): events.unimelb.edu.au/arts/event/5... The event is free but slots are limited so book in if you're interested!

Bumper sticker reading “MY OTHER MAP IS THE TERRITORY”

i hope at the next asymptotes we can somehow incorporate every name we have proposed for it so far. theres some really bad ones in there that i am buzzing to annoy people with.

a common reactionary game guy archetype that's existed since at least the 00's and keeps popping up is the western guy who thinks with absolute certain that (some kind of specific era of) japanese games are the only real videogames to ever exist and everything else is made by fakes and phonies

I'm sure it's good that over the past several days I have seen multiple vibecoding people say their individual versions of "yeah this is like playing a slot machine for me and I find it hard to stop and I love that actually"

vibecoded incremental game ui feels like having claude aim a firehose of ideasguy ideology directly into my mouth at a thousand PSI. there is no hierarchy or structure to information it is simply coming out of the hose and if i do not move out of the way it will begin to strip my flesh

planescape: torment, official website (1999) web.archive.org/web/19990202...

[imsim audio log voice] You nincompoops keep forgetting the key code to the storage room, so I’ve changed it to something you can’t forget: 4. That‘s right... 4! If you run out of ammo during tomorrow’s training exercise, you only have yourselves to blame! 4, got it??

released the text engine used for two new domino classics SKIN2 and HOTWIFE CHRONICLE dominoclub.itch.io/dreamsick-te...

Talk slides for my NZGDC talk "The Complexities of Mechanizing Romance" are up. There are 153 slides, and that was after I edited them down ✌️ drive.google.com/file/d/1THnG...

WHEW JESUS BARS BARS BARS BARS BARS

to help smooth things over a bit i have put my entire itch library on same for the next *year*. consider me very, very available for freelance work. if you need playbooks, stretch goal content, anything, i'm your girl. itch.io/s/204730/fin...

i make practically nothing from my job, i have next to nothing in my bank account, and i can’t keep piling on more commissions. to keep my head afloat, i’m opening up a ko-fi where you can support me in whatever way you’re able. even five dollars is an enormous help. thank you

Review: Penguin Colony "Penguin Colony is a raw, assured rhetorical march through a wintry landscape toward a mountain dripping with horrors both unknown and painfully known." @veselekov.bsky.social @fellowtraveller.games Read Here: checkpointgaming.net/reviews/2026...

Penguin Colony is now available store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/...

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

look im not one to believe an unsourced diagram. but i would like to believe in the continued memetic virulence of the number seven even through the medium of word-association-false-thought-machined

my new farm sim, Olive Garden

jason schrier's gta6 piece printing among the most credulous quotes I've ever seen anyone put to game journalism paper

"If you don't finish your [game], all of the non-indigenous people on the project put on their resume, 'Worked with indigenous people,' and they go up in their career. And all of the indigenous people put on their resume, 'Didn't finish the project,' and they go down, right?"

the nerve

Didnt work

if you are using VCR OSD Mono in your projects (many such cases), check out the free version of Analog Mono! Support my font work by getting the full version! 34% off until Halloween! itch.io/s/204434/ana...

more zombies

Roguelike shit makes everything better. Full stop.

been getting into being taken by fey moods

some highlights

As an aside… I think it’s messed up that the new “home of games week” is so recklessly bullish on AI and seemingly indifferent about their donor sources

migw end of week affirmation: i have never been sick. bacteria, microorganisms are not real

the new katie dey... music is back

Penguin Colony has a new vibesy asf Launch trailer! As we approach our launch on the 16th!!! The trailer features the instrumental version of ‘Ātete’ a song I wrote for the end of the game. youtu.be/7YT3AM70BE8?... Go give it a watch!!

24 hour antihistamine billboard covered with environmental storytelling graffiti reading LIES LIES LIES LIES

Back in May, Double Fine employees petitioned for a union. Two weeks later, that petition was withdrawn. What happened? https://kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-to-unionize-one-of-gamings-most-idealized-studios-2000742755

pax day 2 affirmation: coffee is my beautiful wife who will never hurt me

troupeengine.org

pax friday update: Im dying squirtle