James Youngman

Hello new followers! I'm James, a Senior Technical Designer working on [redacted]. I mainly here to talk game design and make some jokes, but I also write fiction and music. Here's an article I wrote for people interested in pursuing game design: www.gamedeveloper.com/design/ten-l...

My novellas about facing down monsters of old in our space faring future are on sale for itch's Halloween sale! jyoungman.itch.io

What's this? My book is half off? You can get it NOW? Yes, yes you can jadedsynic.itch.io/her-bloody-c...

wanted to write about this, but found it simpler to draw it instead

NEW: Remedy's latest game, Control Resonant, is filled with art galleries. The galleries are filled with real art When I began talking to Remedy about it, I was delighted to discover who the artists are: many are the game developers' parents My story... www.gamefile.news/p/control-re...

In the last year, No More Robots has funded + is currently funding a dozen games, and has paid numerous devs to make prototypes happen for free But obviously, getting press is absolutely impossible for us, because only doom and gloom gets clicks

"We're in a budget crisis," Metro employee Melissa Gaughan told CMs. "Adding desks to King County workspaces when we are reducing programs that serve our community is unethical."

It’s as if the very act of designing the game teaches me a great deal about what’s actually important within it. Does that make sense? Designing Quimera TTRPG has been an amazing journey haha

learning that the legendary "creator's wife with mobility loss" who everyone says ~inspired~ Dressmaker is in fact a co creator and developer for the game and also they are not even married

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

Generally, when I read Moby-Dick out loud, I read the words on the page. With this one, I disclaimed to my friends what Melville had done, and why they weren't getting a word for word reading. No one complained.

gamesdev! it's hard! no matter how small you think your scope is, it's way bigger than that!

"hypocrisy is a virtue to fascists, because the point of being in the dominant in-group is that you dominate, and holding others to standards from which you excuse yourself demonstrates domination like little else can"

We pretty clearly need some kind of governmental framework that's global in scope for at least some issues; what exactly the scope and powers are can be debated, but the necessity is obvious at this point.

Adding to Chanda’s point here: this level of action and optimism can likely be attributed to the fact that Lula and the Workers’ Party are leftist and they believe that better things are possible.

If you, like me, are a non-Brazilian and with complex feelings about Lula getting a fourth term, this thread is great context for the situation that led to the recent election

see also “special thanks” instead of saying what you actually did

in which two nerds who each have more than a thousand hours in hearts of iron iv bitch about hearts of iron iv. but also it's important to understand why we are all still talking about world war two, and also how so much media essentially imagines "what if the fascist worldview was correct"

I love being reminded that the audience really doesn’t give a shit about the developers. Like, forget that one of the most influential studios in our industry was just executed by its publisher, just make sure the product continues on the assembly lines!

They should invent a way to get electricity to outlets in airports

Enshittify a book: A Sportsman's Sketchy Bets

Enshittify a book: Brokers Karamazov

New vampire goes home, finds dragon

"What was your biggest impact on the internet?" This article, which was widely shared, and was translated into French and Korean by people who wanted to share it more widely still. www.gamedeveloper.com/design/ten-l...

Video Game Fauxct 777: Microsoft Flight Sim came about as a typo, though the original would have still had a Cessna as a starting character, it would have just had to beat Evander Holyfield to progress.

Chances that anyone in Brazil and in game dev doesn't know Thais feel relatively low, but just in case: the results of Brazil's elections are going to heavily affect game dev as a viable cultural expression & viable career. It's a thread worth reading.

It's the week before Halloween, so I thought I'd post some spooky stories I've written for @nightmare-magazine.com—read or listen for free! First up, last year's "Make of Yourself A Place For Birds," about grief and birds nesting in your thoracic cavity: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/make...

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

Be wary of any AAA exec who claims to know what indie life is like, how we make games, how we execute our business against our values, and what we need. They don’t know. They don’t care. They are using us as an excuse for their miserable decision making. Why? Indies create critical mass.

Did you know Rosalind Franklin's photograph 49 came before photo 51, that captured the first structure of DNA. She KNEW it was significant. She made extensive notes in photo 49. Photograph 51 was a redo of photograph 49. 51 was pretty enough to get published. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

I was like "who is this jacob navok guy that tim sweeney is amplifying" assuming he was some failed steam shovelware peddler whining on his own behalf but no, he's a former Square Enix executive, lol. smol bean disease continues to infect the executive class.

They just announced a working vaccine for melanoma this week, folks! And we are absolutely sprinting towards solar powered everything. We get caught up in the negative cause we're wired to look for danger, but damned near everything is better now than it was when we were born. Never forget.

One week until our Halloween party! Xsolla and the venue are sponsoring us! We will have food, drinks, and snacks available to everyone. Also, we will have merch, auction items, and SIX shirts you will be able to purchase. Costumes optional! See you there 👻

The Ozone Layer

Video Games. Across the board in every possible way. Including, but definitely not limited to, indie games and the ease of access to game dev tools. Just awesome stuff.

Public places don't smell like cigarette and ass anymore

Diabetes tools When I was diagnosed as a kid, pumps weren’t really a thing. Getting one as a tween was such a huge improvement. Getting a continuous glucose monitor at ~18 was like night and day. Now I have a combo pump/monitor that automatically adjusts

When I left LA for college, I left behind a subway line with two stations to move to the Seattle metro, where they had none. Both cities, both regions, have spent the last 20 years vastly expanding rail transit, and neither is done building. Both have been widely up-zoned, too!

GameMaker's GMRT runtime will soon be free for all developers

not the point and i feel the same way as OP, but if you scrolling are in this position I would love to talk to you about starting a worker co-op instead of being a boss.