A tin of Quality Street chocolates

When will this ever end? Please make it stop 😭. UK people get it.

Currently obsessed with #Traitors and reality TV games. It’s scratching the same itch as ARGs / real-world game design ITO challenges, constraints, and social dynamics. Long shot: does anyone have BBC/unscripted connections (Challenge/Games/Task Producer)? Would love a quick chat/intro. 🙏

Just rolled credits on #Wanderstop by @ivyroadgames.bsky.social. I started it at GDC but my chronic burnout didn't let me finish it until now 💃 I've said it before and I'll say it again - the team created a masterpiece. I wish it solved my burnout, but I guess that it didn't is the whole point, huh?

I actually didn't! Last time I tried to compile the project there were some odd .NET/XNA issues so maybe it might actual compile in Monogame on a modern IDE. Thanks!

Tyler by CyberchaosZA A 2D tile-based puzzle game about heartbreak and dungeons, with narration by Kevan Brighting (The Stanley Parable).

Busy redoing my portfolio so I revived Tyler: an undergrad puzzle game I treated like a real indie project. Ice tiles, portals, sarcasm, and yes, the Stanley Parable's narrator (somehow). Didn't always age well, but at least it's now live on itch.
🎮 cyberchaosza.itch.io/tyler

#indie #gamedev #xna

Yep, sounds about right.

The Last of Us: season two forgets what made its video game unforgettable What works over a weekend of play may falter over week-by-week seasons of television, experienced years apart.

Pete and I wrote about The Last of Us S2. A game and season I found really hard to love, so it was even harder to write about. Game Ellie becomes a monster because we make her one, but Show Ellie gets stripped of that agency, and so do we.
theconversation.com/the-last-of-...

#tlou2 #review #games

a woman in a white dress and hat is standing next to a couch . Alt: Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil GIF

Happy Pride Month, everyone! 🏳️‍🌈 In collab with the @igda.org LGBTQ+ SIG, we’re brewing a podcast on "Queer Monstrosities" celebrating the deviant, the divine, and the deliciously horrific. Queer and horror game devs, I want to hear about your work! Step on me, mommies and daddies!
#indie #horror

"Okay... I'm Going to Need You To Roll for Reflection" with Dr Matthew Whitby | Game Academy

After missing April, Game Academy is back for May (just)! I chatted many moons ago to Dr Matt Whitby, a designer at Rebellion North about the transition from academia to industry, and NDA'd (but now released) games, so hey, listen! shows.acast.com/game-academy...
#podcast #games #gameacademy

British Game Dev Interviews - Adam Jerrett (May) - Adam Jerrett

From earlier, I now have a booking calendar for my British game dev research 🎮. Come get spicy with me!

TL;DR: 30-min Zoom chat asking: “What does British game development mean to you?”

Book: calendar.app.google/v52WVNM7tuG7...
Consent Form: forms.gle/MhNj1fhqSxYt...

#GameDev #British #Research

Expression of Interest – British Game Development Research Interview Thank you for your interest in participating in this study on British game development. This form is to register your interest so I can follow up with more details. You’ll receive the Participant Info...

Running a research study for British DiGRA:
💬 What does British game dev mean to you?

30-min Zoom chat. Students, devs, educators. If you're UK-adjacent, I want you!

📅 Chats: 12–16 May
📋 Form: forms.gle/sxbUsFLUQNm2...
🗣️ Rant, reflect, ramble. Let's go.

#GameDev #UKGames #Research

Every year, I teach gameplay students about design patterns: Command, Factory, State.

Clean, modular thinking.

And every year, someone hardcodes twelve ghost behaviours and asks, “There must be a better way?!”

Mate. That was it. That was LITERALLY the module.

#DesignPatterns #GameProgramming

Off to Japan! In the actual car, so of course now begins the "holy fuck I DEFINITELY forgot everything". Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka. Last minute tips please!

A man standing next to another old man, with a series of increasingly smaller old men, the last one of which is holding a tiny dog.

You know, I actually like generative AI in the sense that I'm fascinated at how good new models have gotten at a glance. But then you ask it to make a human version of your father-in-law's adorable Yorkshire Terrier as an old man and, well...

The greatest relationship advice I can give is that you should find someone who loves you just as much as I love the Uniqlo Airism Oversized White T-Shirt. Apologies to my wife.

Is... Is this?

The transparency, as @joshscherr.bsky.social pointed out is awesome to see. I would also apply to this about 5 days ago if my imposter syndrome wasn't so pervasive and my portfolio was actually up to date. I need to fix my damn website.

Okay, so I'm going to #Japan next week! How exciting, kawaii desu ne etc. We're doing the typical first timer Tokyo/Kyoto/Osaka route with bonus Hakone day for a ryokan. We've got some plans, but I know y'all have thoughts. What do I absolutely need to see and/or do? I have basically 8/9 days.

I know you know this, but Google is your friend! Also Unity's API documentation! Everyone always forgets that. Plus you make cool shit, so I doubt you'll be too stuck for long. Glad you're managing to make time for the creative surge post-GDC :P. I've managed a... Document 😂

Are you gonna make something 3D in it, or is it just the 3D nature of the engine that's causing that joyous paralysis? My suggestion is to just greybox out some stuff with primitives and write some stupid scripts. Don't be fancy, just get the rust off!

You've totally got this, and I'm so excited to dwell in this setting!

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I'ma be honest, I think the peak of my popularity will be when, like @chrisdeleon.bsky.social gets, someone will go "Hey, I know you from Bluesky".

Activating Trap Cards, Raiding Robots, and Cardboard Comebacks with Matthew Bell | Game Academy

Wake up babe, new #GameAcademy just dropped, this time with Matt Bell, ex-Yugioh Organised Play manager/designer talking about physical card game design and his new game Robot Raiders, now on Kickstarter (see my last post). Listen here: shows.acast.com/game-academy...

Robot Raiders: A 1-4 Player Dungeon Crawling Card Game Bind your soul to a magical Robot or become a Monster and fight your friends in this 1-4 player tabletop card game experience!

If you like Kickstarters and incredible card-based tabletop games made by industry peeps who've worked on a plethora of real TCGs, go back this right now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat.... There may or may not be a podcast episode releasing shortly about THIS VERY THING.

I loved #GDC2025 but I am now so far behind in literally everything.

But Books why would you watch Ghibli if you could just generate it with ChatGPT 👀 🙄

A Pembroke Welsh Corgi in a dog basket in a car

We're going on a trip in my favourite rocket ship!

Okay, so hear me out, Peanut Butter M&M's are what Reece's Pieces wish they were.

Love seeing studios sharing their work.