Everest Pipkin
@everest.bsky.social
Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Program Coordinator at Pratt Game Arts - long live the postal service. https://everest-pipkin.com
Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com
The demo for MUTAGEN is out NOW! 👾 Explore a lush, interconnected alien ecosystem that reshapes itself each time you die. Absorb mutations from your fallen kin to reach new areas and adapt to your surroundings. Find your own solutions, and unearth the planet's many secrets. #gamedev #indiegame
In mid-2025 Alex Spencer did an incredible preview of Big Walk for Edge, doomed to print purgatory. Been thinking about this vignette of Jake's hand-placing rocks ever since. As the slop wave intensifies, it's just a beautiful depiction of a game made by people who care (and have the time to care).
I'm truly relating to @meredithgran.com 's fear of making a game known for having bannable content rather than, you know, what the game is actually about.
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 3w agoWho's deciding the fate of this game?' The secretive process of getting a game with sexual content on Steam aftermath.site/steam-censorsh...
late night tinytools.directory audit tonight. removing broken and rotted links as usual (and adding in new finds and submissions) but also thinking a lot about what i want this directory to be good for
the energy costs are catastrophic. the companies you rent them from are destroying the world in multiple axes. they are addictive and cause damaging brain patterns. they destroy community and shared knowledge through isolation and independence.
the software that LLMs write is not software i want to run on my computer. the text LLMs generate is not text i want to read or write. the images LLMs generate are not images i want to see or make. the music LLMs generate is not music i want to listen to or write.
using LLMs violates so many of my morals that its hard to even begin with arguing about it. any one is more than enough to not consider it, that when i see ppl dismissing it all at once, its so overwhelming.
Needs some beeswax to do that. Where'd I leave that beeswax...? I can't. I need to get the beeswax. Everyone's waiting on that beeswax. Beeswax... come on, Oddy, think! Know I saw some beeswax somewhere... Surely I can find some beeswax. Need to find the beeswax first.
Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW)@hthrflwrs.bsky.social · last mo.Sirens, huh...? If only there were a way I could listen to their song *without* walking into the sea... Hmmm, maybe I could listen to their song *without* walking into the sea... Maybe this rope could help... but how...? I want to listen to their song, but if I do, I'll walk into the sea...
rural facebook is fantastic right now btw. old timers organizing to stall data center construction in the county. hundreds of comments calling flock camera vandals heros. everyone hates AI and loves the post office
Making a period tracker yourself is a really amazing way to take over your digital agency!! I want to teach a workshop where we each make a simple securely hosted (or locally hosted) website (that doesn't rely on large hosting platforms) where you can easily go to and enter your data
WIRED@wired.com · 2mo agoPlus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it’d been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generator’s scraping ways, and more. www.wired.com/story/securi...
thank you for all the object contributions. i'm going to cherish seeing them populate the warehouse - i really do feel i was handed everyone's treasures
Everest Pipkin@everest.bsky.social · 2mo agoWould you like to contribute an OBJECT to live in a WAREHOUSE GAME? I'm working on a parser fiction game where you play as a worker in the warehouse of the gods- sorting, storing, rearranging objects, meandering. I need so many objects! Maybe even: one of yours? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
there is some soft and kind spirit moving through the world these days I can sense it
Would you like to contribute an OBJECT to live in a WAREHOUSE GAME? I'm working on a parser fiction game where you play as a worker in the warehouse of the gods- sorting, storing, rearranging objects, meandering. I need so many objects! Maybe even: one of yours? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Objects contribution for god's warehouse game
What is this? I'm (Everest) making a short parser fiction game where you are a worker in the warehouse of the gods, sorting and storing objects to the whims of holy creatures. Would you like to subm...
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still thinking about the greatest wikipedia article ever written
Disappearing polymorph - Wikipedia
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words@words.bsky.social · 3mo agoTIL mysterious atmospheric seed crystals that disrupt existing chemical production facilities by spontaneously making it impossible to manufacture a certain form of a drug and that being a factor in subsequent IP battles in pharma manufacturing is a thing
![Form II was of sufficiently lower energy that it became impossible to produce Form I in any laboratory where Form II was introduced, even indirectly. Scientists who had been exposed to Form II in the past seemingly contaminated entire manufacturing plants by their presence, probably because they carried over microscopic seed crystals of the new polymorph.[3] The drug was temporarily](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:plvxn2kpjuseoftweoo4xtag/bafkreicvlnfpu66zxvro2wx6hwzqkz6c5y7p4vnxzoqtqqa5vu4776kgqe)
first day of the second "the browser is already a game engine" class with sfpc. excited for the next 10 weeks of talking and thinking deeply about online games
before the green moon is both hugely inspirational to me and criminally underplayed. like what if a tarkovsky film was entirely cast with animal crossing villagers
Colin Spacetwinks@spacetwinks.bsky.social · 2mo agoBefore the Green Moon ($3.59) - the devs of Wide Ocean, Big Jacket bring you something else - a moody sci-fi farming/life sim. reap, sow, and connect with your community that lives at the bottom of a space elevator... before you make your trip up it. store.steampowered.com/app/2323580/...
God bless the weird mod trend that I keep seeing called "immersive masochism." Yes, of course it's a good idea to simulate the process of troweling on mortar and placing one brick at a time instead of a cubical "brick block"
As Kels from @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social told me: "they’re being given extraordinary sentences for things that are supposed to be protected actions. Fireworks on the Fourth of July being called explosives and terrorism? Political literature is something worth taking 30 years of someone’s life?”
The Prairieland Sentences Are a National Emergency
A federal court has punished Texas ICE demonstrators with decades in prison. This is dark news, not just for them but for anyone who may want to register political dissent.
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Front Mission 2's window color configuration menu is still the most romantic thing i've ever seen in a video game
Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live! The theme this year is Creative Misuse - interpret as you will. Read the full prompt: https:// drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-7J4UoajGAooans30yEgQKlzys2hD/view Fill out the application: https:// forms.gle/KNfcAGBVCbyURiWJA
Follow the Prairieland case here and at @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social, and give what you can to their defense: prairielanddefendants.com
Support the Prairieland Defendants | DFW Support Committee
The future of political freedom in America is on trial in North Texas. Learn about the case and why it matters for anyone who cares about civil liberties.
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