James Parker

Surprise! This evening we shadow dropped 2 Fights 2 Tight Spaces into Early Access. It's a big swing for us. It brings online multiplayer to the Tight Spaces world for the first time, and it's our first self-published title since SkyScrappers! And it's boss! store.steampowered.com/app/3734890/...

Oh tell us, London media class, how could we ever imagine such a wonderous experience out here in the provinces!?

Steam appears to be down. I assume it's Tim Sweeney's fault somehow. downdetector.co.uk/status/steam/

Must breathlessly post bad stuff from Twitter. That will make it go away for sure!

2 Fights 2 Tight Spaces BIG UPDATE! 🤜💥 - Custom decks - Pick-up dropped enemy weapons - Weapon damage indicators - Endless mode - A new music track - A new tight space Full build notes on Steam here 👇 store.steampowered.com/news/app/373...

Ed Jefferson just casually restoring local pride and local communities across the world

CM IMMERSIVE is hiring a Narrative Designer to maintain the narrative work for the Into The Radius series and contribute to new IPs! 📍 Remote, Full-time (Europe) 🛠️ Made in Unreal Engine 📚 Maintain and expand game lore ⤵️

Local friends Circle A have a brilliant game on Kickstarter now and whatever your sort of thing it's absolutely your sort of thing, so you should probably back it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cir...

"I read a headline, I wonder where I can go for context. No no ideas. I guess I'll just keep reading the headline and getting angrier and angrier" - a Bluesky story

That's all well and good but give me a call when you've got some Notorious B.I.G. pipettes for sale

Thanks for the tip, sounds fun, but I think I'll just put a blind up instead.

I'm wrapping up my time with Cardboard Computer on their unannounced game in early November, & I have some capacity again! If you're looking for consultation or longer term support from an expert game director, narrative designer & writer, drop me a line 💖 contact [at] hannahnicklin.com

I never thought I'd yearn for the days when spam email was written by a human hand and then mailmerged hamfistedly into the world, but here we are.

Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm a tech artist searching for some freelance work ⚔️ I was tech artist on Knights in Tight Spaces, and made some sick VFX ✨ I've worked on AR projects with Aardman and The National Gallery, among others 🎨 I love making weird procedural art and shaders 🔗 viki-scull.github.io

I'm pleased to announce Launchpad — my creator discovery, organic campaigns and key distribution tools – for indie games! 🚀 This has been in development for ~2 years with a cohort of early access customers across the industry. Here's how it helps your #indiegamemarketing:

Managed to pause Kraven the Hunter at the exact midpoint. Which is the terrible film equivalent of splitting the G. Try it yourself!

Never seen a more jarring intellectual gap than between the livestream of the Nobel Prize for Physics and the comments on the livestream of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Anyway, well done to Ice Cube for winning it, or something.

Welcome to BlueSky, the false equivalence platform.

Hey, you there! Not only is FITS2 on a big discount for the next couple of weeks, we've also got an exciting update planned very soon, AND all the recent reviews are good, so treat yourself. What else are you going to spend $10.39 on? An Amazon basics wire stripper and crimping tool? Get real!

Twice the Fights for 20% less! 💥 Get 20% off 2 Fights 2 Tight Spaces during the Steam Autumn Sale (or gift a copy to a friend and fight together 🤜 🤛 ) store.steampowered.com/app/3734890/...

Somehow ruining my 16 year marriage by suggesting we watch Kraven The Hunter on Netflix instead of "talking" about our "relationship"

They should have called this "actually it turns out there was a little more room left in hell"

I find it interesting that every generation gets its own acclaimed "misunderstood robot who just wants to help" movie.

Yes, I suppose that is what I wanted, Amazon, a clearly AI Generated novel-length review of a film that I just wanted to find out when it was going to be available to buy.

I really need a big piss but I also want to watch the darts. Please God give me a sign.

Saw Coyote vs. Acme today and loved it. You can see exactly why someone with no creativity, joy, or sense of humour would have preferred to write it off for tax reasons!

Someone in the gym this morning used a Christmas air freshener as a deodorant. There is no precedent for this emotionally, I have zero idea how to process this right now.

Me watching a live stream that is definitely not "for me"

It's a basketball - it's typically 580–620g, which is pretty light, actually. Grow up.

We're joining a collection of incredible indies in the Prismatic Indie Showcase presented by @blueridgegames.bsky.social this week! ALSO! We're adding a heap of cool stuff to 2 Fights TODAY inc. Daily Play and Deck Draft in Multiplayer. Full build notes here 👇 store.steampowered.com/news/app/373...

An absolute all-timer of vibes. Such a great idea, perfectly executed. You should buy it and play it, because if not you're... and I'm going to say it... a doofus.

Why do you turn off AI summaries of search, James?

The three main types of GamesCom goer are posting their reflections: People who did B2C: "I have no stuff and everything hurts" People who did B2B: "I took this photo with two men that I see every 6 weeks" Terminally LinkedIn people who weren't actually there: "You can't stop the rise of AI"

Me when Slovakia has a definitely bad idea

The real (and only) reason I come to GamesCom is so I can watch this guy late at night.

No, you're drinking in the terrible Peaky Blinders themed bar in Birmingham airport. Like, there's being proud of a thing and then there's... being really weird about it!

And - weirdly - Sneak King.

Me: My left earbud doesn't seem to be working The earbud in question:

The longest, hottest period of weather that the UK has experienced in 50 years is hopefully coming to an end. Hasten its demise (if only emotionally) by playing this excellent winter sports game.

brb, just pitching an emergency Christmas prequel to Mrs Brown's Boys starring Johnny Depp as "Miss. Brown."

Hey. It's my birthday (source: howoldisjamesparker.com), so I would really like it if you: a) Bought 2 Fights 2 Tight Spaces or b) Wishlisted 2 Fights 2 Tight Spaces or c) Told other people to do either a. or b. store.steampowered.com/app/3734890/...

People in the UK who like fighty movies... "Kill" is currently on iPlayer and definitely worth a watch.

The Hot Air Balloon perverts have arrived. They started arriving on Monday. A full FOUR DAYS before the Balloon Fiesta starts. They are spending 100 hours doing nothing in a field so that they can get a slightly closer view of some balloons THAT YOU CAN SEE FROM ANYWHERE BECAUSE THEY GO IN THE AIR

Just found a 500gb SSD that I bought 18 months ago and never installed and so I believe that - on paper - I'm now part of the Sunday Times Rich List

It's okay, they'll cover that loss quite quickly by selling me a standard sized bag of Discos and a Frijj Milkshake for approximately 95 quid.

Imagine someone going into the back bit of Argos and coming out with the whole of Argos! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Enjoying the dichotomy of the Uber driver playing Smooth Relax but at such a high volume that it makes relaxation nigh impossible.

My email: The Booker Prize longlist has been revealed My brain (that of an idiot who hasn't even read a book this year, let alone written one): Better check that to see if I'm on it!

What I imagine whenever a techbro announces that their AI has achieved sentience

This is probably the biggest moment of my life 😭 After 4 years, the Game UI Bible has finally launched for all the world to see. A 400+ page tome of Game UI/UX goodness, celebrating all the weird and wonderful intricacies of this field. I'm SO proud of this book, and for you all to read it!

Me: *Always struggles to rotate something in a 2D game* Freya: