After years away I have returned to writing about video games with a piece for Remap about the less immediately obvious problems with DLSS 5

Hey yall - unfortunately the rest of the very, very talented wanderstop team was laid off today and the studio shuttered. I'm no longer in need of work, but please, hire these peeps in the thread below! They're all absurdly good at what they do.

I did it today basically. Maybe. I think they saw me in Santa Clarita. I messaged the North

Amberspire, our dice driven science fantasy city builder, will release MAY 6!

Roll dice, grow a city, forge alliances, interact with an ecology, and read a history of the future.

PC, Mac, Steam Deck - May 6!

s.team/a/3350750

It's the Spring Sale on Steam! Demonschool is 20% off!!! You should please buy it if you have not. It's no exaggeration to say the more people buy the game, the more we'll be able to do with it in the future. So tell your friends as well! store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...

Huge thank you to Inkle for putting together this massive book!!!

I wrote an essay about how your game is going to need *end to end* editorial late in dev and it's completely ordinary for it to be an unshippable mess until that happens

hmm... i think everyone with less than two million dollars should keep their money, and everyone with more than two million should give me it

I will be at GDC. Get in touch if you'd like to hang out, or if you'd like to give me two million dollars. Either is fine

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope launches this Wednesday!

Over 100+ essays on the craft of game writing and narrative design; affordable priced.

… AND we’ll also launch with the first two episodes of the podcast series, where we talk to the article writers about their craft.

As Soon As Timn Allows, right? Unfortunately Timn is flowing into the past now so you may struggle helplessly against its reversed flow

Let Me Ruin Players' Lives For You

I'm still looking for full-time or contract work – I'm a narrative design generalist with credits on multiple shipped titles. I focus on taming the complexity of narrative systems, writing prose, and leading narrative teams.

brunodias.dev/bio

For more on this, vide Michet 2024 blog.lauramichet.com/why-you-shou...

Hell Yeah

Contacted my reps to tell them the only people I'm voting for or donating to in the next election are ICE abolitionists and people who prosecute and cage ICE goons

It's Atom Zombie Smasher's 15th anniversary! 🎉 To celebrate, we:

1. MADE A BLENDO GAMES MERCH STORE
Store is live and open for orders! Shirts! Stickers!
blendogames-shop.fourthwall.com

2. UPDATED THE DANG GAME
Various additions, improvements, and fixes:
store.steampowered.com/news/app/550...

Save 20% on Pathologic 3 on Steam In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite ...

OOPS, the link is bad... here's patho 3 store.steampowered.com/app/3199650/...

Steam Store Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.

Pathologic 3 is out!!!

I did localization editing on it, with several of my friends. We polished the English language game text.

If you've ever been interested in Pathologic, you can start with this one - no need to play 2 first. (But you should play both!!!) store.steampowered.com/app/3199650/...

Additionally, Skin Deep got IGF Honorable Mentions in:
- Excellence in Audio
- Seumas McNally Grand Prize

Wow! The Skin Deep music was by Priscilla Snow @ghoulnoise.com and the soundtrack is available here: ghoulnoise.bandcamp.com/album/skin-d...

The folks who made Skin Deep happen were INCREDIBLE

Skin Deep cover image. A collage of insurance commando Nina Pasadena, some space pirates, and a cat-shaped spacecraft pursued by pirate ships

IGF Excellence in Design nominees: Angeline Era Baby Steps Ooo Skin Deep Titanium Court Time Flies

Skin Deep is nominated for the IGF EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN award!

I'm so proud of what we made. Skin Deep's designers:
- Suzanne Will @binarypartitioned.space
- Tynan Wales
- Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social

Skin Deep credits:
blendogames.com/skindeep/cre...

IGF noms:
tinyurl.com/2zzt8sw4

Pathologic 3 is a love letter to a town full of creeps and a sentient plague Both long-time franchise-lovers and curious new players will find themselves right at home in the Town-on-Gorkhon

😌 www.polygon.com/pathologic-3...

just saw a billionaire pack all his things in a bindle and start leaving new york city on foot. he turned and looked at me with tears in his eyes and said “maybe one day when this city is safe we’ll return” before walking away

did you know? did you know? pc gamer's immersive sim of the year is on sale until the 6th of january and it is my wholly unbiased opinion that you should play it

store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

Adults fucked the world up so bad, they legitimately turned daydreaming into something you can fail at. Christ

If you use generative AI to "explore ideas" you are mentally weaker than even the smallest child. If you feel that you need generative AI to "structure your thoughts" you lack the confidence of an 8 year old. If you feel shame about your diminished inner world, you should. You're bad at daydreaming

Skin Deep ✨ BEST IMMERSIVE SIM OF THE YEAR ✨
Thanks PC Gamer!

👉Get it! store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

👉Skin Deep was made by insanely talented crew of folks; this game only exists because of them: blendogames.com/skindeep/cre...

Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple people.

thank you! grateful to have been invited to participate haha

If I ever get to a point where I'm constantly relitigating the same sophomoric philosophical questions that obsessed and animated me in my early career, yelling into the void as the world moves on, birthing countless new delights which I am simply too withered to enjoy... just drop an anvil on me

Holy shit