Yeah theres also this wrinkle to things. You dont have to literally be best buddies with everyone but you can still be friendly and amicable with peers and colleagues. There's nuance

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This has been the best advice about "networking" as a game dev. It's just making friends with cool people who want to make nice things in an unforgiving industry

A Mario statue in Kyoto

Gamers sue Nintendo to get tariff money back
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Lacked some awareness on this. Important part of the discourse!

Cover of George Takei's autobiographical graphic novel They Called Us Enemy showing a line of people entering an internment camp as a young George looks back, breaking the fourth wall.

Friends of the Sacramento Library is offering these free for AAPI month

I have read so much work like this, but this might be the single most painful one because, well, everything is local.

I drive through Florin often (It's now South Sacramento), SF is where my mom lives, his dad was my age when

Bundle of Joy is a mom game

Apparently its all about those $2000 V Max Moon Umbreon

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The reason that there are so many dad games is that some men had careers long enough that they both 1) gained the political capital to pitch and then execute a project with those themes 2) were able to sustain a career long enough that it was viable for them to parent while still work* in games.

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Happy Tax Day folks. Good thing its 5 days before 4/20

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Dang this sounds so shady... sorry you're going through this!

Games often involve combat and strategy (militaristic) mechanics, often targeting male youths, and it's moments like this that remind me that these don't have to be taken as a given.

Keeping expectations low, enjoy the candy colored visuals, it hit the spot for turning off my brain entertainment based on a picture book with a pretty thin premise for a movie

Watched the Mike Meyers Cat in the Hat (10% on Rotten Tomatoes). I was weirdly entertained by the production value, set design, cinematography. It serves as a bizarre millennial era sassy Dreamworks counterpoint 😏 to the Mary Poppins babysitter. Features Dakota Fanning, Alec Baldwin, Paris Hilton

Watching videos on Pokemon TCG and boy, its very different than it was in the 90s!

Lmao glad you got some attention but sorry you're getting blasted chris

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marked safe from viruses thanks to Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional by @shbs.games, a Y2K-inspired auto-shooter in a retro software interface

got asked if I make any games or only help other people do it, by a decade ago I'd released 100* free games. did stints in AAA, casual games startup and top selling iPhone game before I switched to teaching

*not including my 219 daily online playable digital gameish prototypes interactionartist.com

Field Study, a non-narrative documentary game about parallel consciousness, is available to play now

created by myself and @leegj.bsky.social

controls: mouse
running time: ~10 min

This is frickin sick, very cool!

You got this!

This is really good

Both protagonists are women of presumably East Asian descent. Chell from Portal was modeled off a team member from Hawaii and Faith Connors of Mirror's Edge apparently (ai read the wiki, haven't played it) her father is of Irish descent and mother of East Asian descent

- feeding the cat
- "look how complacent he is, just eating whats in front of him, never hunting for meals for himself anymore"
- "well, back to work"
- clocks in

I think growing up is realizing that there isn’t really an adult in the room to hold people accountable. So sometimes you just have to decide that the adult is you.

Mothers are the OG 3D printer. Look at all the technology and investment tech bros need to replicate what nature intended

Me picking up some char siu pork over rice for my partner for dinner