Seth S. Scott

Play my games here: linktr.ee/perfect_hat

Can of Words 🪱 #176 10-27-26 • canofwords.xyz

Can of Words 🪱 #165 10-16-26 • canofwords.xyz

fav game of the last 5+ years getting some sweet new DLC! ...just in time for my yearly "its getting cold IRL so I'll start playing Long Dark again"

one of my favorite games (and game soundtracks) ever is getting a sequel--nice lil thursday

finally someone summing up why I big time fell in love with this game in 2024 and so pumped for this update....also walking around the best park in the world whilst doing so!

a quiet moment about the passage of time. you make the sun set, the moon rise, and the melody play.

Can of Words 🪱 #121 Typewriter 🟣🟢 09-02-26 • canofwords.xyz

thanks triple bum!

Can of Words 🪱 #89 08-01-26 • canofwords.xyz

there was a beauty to the jank in games (even AAA) that died after the PS2/GC/DC era when every game was expected to be patched post launch—we all were 100% conditioned to the fact that every single game we bought would have esoteric and unique controls

🕹️Wonderville Weekly 7/30/26: Wonderville's 2nd Annual Alt Ctrl Festival! us20.campaign-archive.com?e=[UNIQID]&u...

still waiting till they make my most popular idea from 2017

this band I love just released their new record on NES and im like 😍 @rfcrecords.bsky.social

Can of Words 🪱 #79 07-22-26 • canofwords.xyz

every time I hear one album I think of the other

🪲🧐 @thedailycrimson.bsky.social

Can of Words 🪱 #66 07-09-26 • canofwords.xyz

are there any programmers out there who had a kid, named them Jason but then actually spelt it Json?

📈🚀📈🚀📈🚀📈🚀 Hey come check out some experimental clicker / idle / incremental games! 👇📈👇📈👇📈👇📈👇 For their final projects in my 'economics for game designers' class at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social, students made some awesome incremental games, so I wanted to do a thread sharing their work! 🧵⤵️ 1/~15

Can of Words 🪱 #31 06-04-26 • canofwords.xyz

just played 5 nonstop rounds, great fun @brin.town .....def will beat this at lunch! hs: 77 (so far) 🔵🔴🟢 beepyeah.itch.io/dotful-dodger

new level design theory: "horizontality", kinda like "verticality", how the scale / wideness / density / footprint of the level affects player movement... the further away your camera, the more horizontality you likely need to accommodate camera clipping + faster player movement + claustrophobia

Can of Words 🪱 #18 05-22-26 • canofwords.xyz

i hate this, last fall and now—it happened to me with Membrane (no where near the fan base i know) but my rep at Ninty told me to, still sold poorly at launch. Money is tight for us all & Mina is gonna be GR8 but it just sucks true DIY indies will forever suffer to triple III and triple AAA

Sundays in Can of Words are “Semicolon Sundays” and feature a double definition hidden in the puzzle! 2 weeks of puzzles in the archive if you need to catch up! canofwords.xyz 🪱🪱

Can of Words 🪱 v 3.0 is out featuring an archive of past puzzles, new tutorials & UI tweaks! Thx to @bridawg.bsky.social & @torcado.com for feedback! Fri/Sat/Sun puzzles moving forward have some playful twists so great time to dive in! canofwords.xyz 👈🏻👈🏻👈🏻

realizing why i fell in love with this game 3 weeks ago…..it’s basically Suikoden 2 meets Super Mario World meets Shadow of the Colossus all added into the BotW blueprint

My narrative-minigame-dad-sim, Bundle of Joy, is going to be one year old on March 25th! I blogged about things I've learned in the past year and some "advice" for solodevs and indies releasing their first commercial product. www.essay-games.com/blog/a-year-... Hope folks find it useful ^__^

Now that IGF and GDC is over I finally got around to writing up my postscript on IGF submissions and some of the issues we ran into in 2025. If you plan to submit your game in 2026 I recommend reading this, tbh. auratriolo.com/blog/2026/03... Here's a little spoiler:

GDC…..more like Great Dads (parents in general) Consider playing this game

Usually "hidden" elements can bother me in games, but in this case it elevates the freedom and fun I find in every run and allows me to just playyyyy w/o overthinking. Nice work Tom!

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(pun intended) bee is on 🔥 with this one

for a lot of reasons it’s gonna be hard to top this movie for me in the near future

Here is an excerpt from my conversation with @perfecthatgames.com about PONYO for The Complete Catalog: Studio Ghibli. Links in quoted post!

so @ettletodd.bsky.social is one of my fav people to talk to about literally anything—-such a kind hearted, funny and brilliant mind. Check this episode out and follow for more lovely content! 🙌🙌

cant wait for the full release but dang this will do 😍

We just released the 2025 Impact Report for Game Devs of Color. It's 39 pages of what we accomplished in 2025, since founding, and priorities for 2026 and beyond. Grateful to work with such a brilliant team. The 2026 GDoCExpo is Sep 22 - 25, with speaker & game applications opening late Feb!

This is from the NYT masthead editorial about the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The highlighted line invalidates not just the editorial, but the very idea of newspaper editorials crafted by the consensus of a board. Better to publish nothing at all than to publish a line like this.

Video games wield such a weird position culturally, because they can have the capacity to be just a fidget toy for the most childish people on the planet, and also have the capacity to be the most peak form of art to ever exist, if done well.

not my house, but i know my way around @hinterland.bsky.social

Over the last few years, I’ve been cooking up custom arcade games for brands all over the country. (one collab w/the super rad @kleeb.bsky.social) I’m ready to hit “Start” on a few new games. 👉 Tag someone that neeeeds their own custom arcade and let’s make something awesome!