dahhhh, thanks for the ping but I missed it (was AFK when you sent this!)

I'll send an email and cross my fingers, but mostly I wanted you to know I appreciated the ping about it, thanks :)

"I am going to succeed because I'm crazy" is the correct energy to have. Gonna repeat this like a mantra

an underrated game dev skill IMO is being able to realize “this person and I have been discussing (thing) for months, and yet i think we have slightly different versions of (thing) in our heads. let’s get together and talk about that in excruciating detail”

Thanks for much for the shoutout! It's been crazy seeing this game get so much love!

And for folks who played the game and, keep your eyes peeled 🧛‍♂️!

Does he think it though

5 of my favorite games ever. I think I might have a type

Why'd they call it K-Pop Demon Hunters and not Final Fantasy X-2-2

Glad to see the "people have moved on to guns" doctor make a reappearance

Add an arachnophobia filter, but it starts on. If you turn it off, the whole screen is covered in spiders

this is spoken kind of jokingly but it's genuinely true of most people who run socials for most games that aren't AAA by the way. any time you mention it it's probably seen by someone who works on the team. no matter what it is, sorry

non-dev playing a game: why didn’t the team do [X thing that seems obvious]? are they stupid?

dev playing a game: why didn’t the team do [X thing that seems obvious]? am I stupid?

Do they only do it while the bus is stopped? Or do you just have really smooth roads? Because otherwise I feel like they're one bump away from a brush through the dome

A set of rough concept illustrations for 'pointless' horse behaviour featuring Link and a horse from the Breath of the Wild Hyrule Historia book.

Every open world game needs a "pointless" horse behaviour section in their design document.

i have to agree entirely with femi here: for me, *long-form* reading--not an essay i can crank through in 10-15 and go rush to poast about--but a book that forces me into the perspective of another for an extended period, forces me to see that thought developed, is an immensely valuable discipline

Impossibly cute puppy

Stop talking about graphs, check this out.

I just gotta know: how much of this arc was planned out ahead of time, and how much is just riffing on riffs and seeing where it goes

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

I watched Checkpoint every week back when it was on Penny Arcade TV. When you left, I somehow missed you were still going.

About five or six years ago I found out you're still around, and so I watch you every week again. It's still great!

Is the "PS1 graphics" market growing, or do I just see a lot of em on my TL because devs like them?

I finally watched Chernobyl (I'm late to a lot of TV, okay!) and the line, "Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid." will stick with me for a while, because holy hell is it more relevant now than ever before.

It's so good! The areas are so well designed, they subtly invite different playstyles... and they do a great job of, ultimately, letting you play the way you want to play

You gotta commit to staying a creative weird ambitious enthusiastic little freak alongside everything else. Protect your heart at all costs, you're going to need it later too.

That's on the verge of leaving "game mechanic" and entering "debug cheat", sheesh

Lmfao this one's really good

I vaguely remembered this had to look it up, old Sid Meier rule glad to see it's still kicking around!

www.designer-notes.com/game-develop...

there's a great interview with a developer on Civ where they said, paraphrased, "a feature should never be the computer having fun instead of the player" and I think about this every time I'm working on procgen. It's often a strong argument to expose more of what you're doing.

cannot WAIT to start talking about what I've been up to, btw

I'll get to pretty soon

It literally just happened last week. I assume it will continue to happen for the rest of time

"oh yeah the cool plushie? oh yeah my cool friend designed it 😎"

I actually say the emoji. thats part of it

You would not believe how often people are gushing about Undertale Red in the Cobalt Core discord and then I blow their mind by dropping that you designed the Riggs plush

It's happened at least three times