PA's looking at scrapping its game studio tax credit. With the games industry in the shape it's in, and the amount of PA's industry presence just being indie studios, that would be catastrophic.
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/04...
I wrote basically an entire aesthetics of audio for one of them. Spent a couple of days work on it. (I’m rather proud of what I came up with, honestly). Got an auto-rejection a day later.
Anthology of the Killer is one of my favorite narrative experiences. Glad to finally be able to recommend it to more folks.
Sigh, still a pretty safe bet that baseball folks who aren’t Taijuan Walker and Spencer Strider are Like That and it sucks.
And the country looks forward to your eventual return
Every time I see someone say "indies will save us", I think about all the game dev mutuals I have who have made it very clear the same problems facing AAA funding are impacting indies, too.
Pennsylvania
Now our cat named Calcifer is absolutely attached to me as I try to go to bed. Guess I brought that on myself
Just read “Howl’s Moving Castle.” It’s such a charming book. Another book written like a story being told to someone.
The story is both extremely different from the movie and very similar, if I need to comment, but it’s bedtime.
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Accurate. That Newsletter continues to be saddening.
It’s had one job near-ish to me listed. I know from experience that it’s not at all related and located at an evangelical theater.
Back on my Debussy Clarinet Rhapsodie bullshit
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Ranger Suárez
Happy for this guy
Indie games industry still not beating the “it’s like trying to make a living by being in a band” allegations
Listening to Berg's violin concerto for the first time in years. I still love it, and especially how it's not afraid to use consonance in an atonal piece.
When it comes down to it, if brief implied tonality is the sacrifice that must be made, it's so worth it.
Not a hot take at all, admittedly.
Subnautica devs v. Krafton ruling is ABSOLUTELY stunning. Start at the top of page 32 and read until the end of that section on page 37.
Krafton CEO was warned by their legal personnel to not follow ChatGPT into what is likely Some Of The Dumbest Legal Shit Ever, CEO believed the plagiarism bot.
we're closing up shop on speaker applications on Sunday for Our Sonic Landscape. submit now if you'd like a shot at speaking. going to be a great day!
and if you don't, grab a ticket to come down and listen to the great talks!
(this is in Vancouver, BC on May 2nd)
oursoniclandscape.com
#gameaudio
AAA game development in 2026 is someone looking at a maximum player base of, say, 50 million people, setting a goal of 100 million people, then cutting jobs because they reached 60 million
There are so many reasons I’m not going this year, but perhaps one of these days I’ll seeya there.
Have fun at GDC, folks who are going.
The one I worked on has a sandbox in it at least.
So, like, 9/8 instead of 4/4 or 5/4
Sorry, meant 9, not 11
Sounds like a bar of 11
Mike Abbott has the all-time best delivery of the word “bastard.”
That’s rad. Always good that they go out to Lancaster too.
While I'm sad that Justice League: Cosmic Chaos is getting delisted soon, at least it will continue to exist in Steam libraries and physical copies. For that I am grateful.
But I also appreciate the efforts of those who work on games that may be ephemeral.
I’ve tried to find words for how evil and murderous this administration and its collaborators are and have been. I’m at a loss for anything good or postable.