Tom Francis

The Killing Stone, starring @emmagregoryvoice.bsky.social & @voiceofobrien.bsky.social is out NOW! Can you beat the Devil at his own game? 🕯️🩸🪨 😈 youtu.be/tO1FtKzrSG4?... Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/... Sony: store.playstation.com/en-us/concep... Xbox: www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...

We've now been working on the new game for a year. Here's how it's going! youtu.be/dDi29D-Or6w .

In case you quite reasonably assumed that xkcd was exaggerating. Brilliant work.

The mixed blessing of avoiding enough of the discourse that the first take you hear is like "The real problem with Baby Eater is his blender. Clearly doesn't give a shit about artisanal bladesmiths."

This already looked good years ago, but the glow-up for this version is insane. I wanna play it on a cinema screen.

Ok, that's better.

Proposal for the complimentary form of friendslop: Friendbisque

hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*

This might look like an unreasonable amount of chilli seeds to put on a parmesan crisp, but personally I appreciate a rate limiter on how fast I would otherwise eat what is ultimately a box of fried cheese.

"We call these boomer shooters." "Right, cos of all the booming." 'Oh, no that's not why." "Then why?" (Deep breath) "So in the aftermath of the second world war..."

If Michaelangelo had my cats, at least one chapel would have had a radically different paint job.

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald v1.49: Mini Turrets now have 35% melee resist

The humble bar graph taking a bold step into 3D here, while never losing sight of its passion: clearly showing which numbers are bigger.

I had never imagined Merchant Ivory films was just named after two guys called Merchant and Ivory. It was olden times! I think I just assumed they were killing a few endangered animals between takes as a side gig.

Git still hiring poets to write error messages.

More videogame bosses should look at your cursor like, what the fuck is that. What are you doing with it.

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck v0.1: When you try to walk into a brick wall, your way is now referred to as being blocked by some brick, not a brick.

My favourite fact in ages, via @lucyjames.games on the Besties: Widow's Bay (which is great btw) was created by the overdressed Babadook from this historic tweet.

Mana orb: do not drink until overcharge pfx finish Health orb: do not drink (candle)

After a length of development that - if I truly, deeply thought about it, I would instantly go insane as if I'd opened some Lovecraftian skin-bound tome - our narrative city-builder Generation Exile has launched out of Early Access into full 1.0 today! store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...

Deadloch season 2 was great again - truly Australia's answer to The Thick Of It in the swearing Olympics. As before, the mystery is juicier and better told than you expect from a comedy. And it has a knack for making fun of eccentricities without feeling unkind.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

The 2 minutes and 5 seconds from the moment @memoriamatters.bsky.social spies an oddly tall horse in @manbearcar.bsky.social's Horsey Game are the hardest I've laughed in weeks. www.youtube.com/live/4Wr8J4S... .

I think this April fools was amiably aimed at anyone who's over-attributed our games to me alone, but God it's so deadpan even I start to worry if I was serious at points.

Ominous seating arrangements.

Discovery: cats can toggle their legs.

Good morning! I wrote a book! @flantz.bsky.social called it “the definitive history of procedural generation in video games” which is just about the best thing that can happen to a book. Tell your friends, enemies and book-loving acquaintances!