Leo Tan
@electricleo.bsky.social
20 years in the videogames industry has pushed out all real world knowledge. All that is left is Pokemon match-ups and Virtua Fighter frame data.
As far as I can tell, the rule for people contacting you for keys to play your game is, if they ask for more than 1, it's a scam. If they ask for 1, it's a scam. If you reach out to them and offer a key, they want money to take it. The entire key ecosystem is divorced from its original purpose.
Despite working on the Epic Games Store for over 4 years, I cannot work out how to update the release date for our game on our game's page without actually releasing the game.
Paying for professional services with Arc Raiders blueprints is the new buying pizza with bitcoin.
Chicken Tonight's marketing campaign was the greatest marketing campaign of all time.
What is the point of Roblox having parental controls if kids can just sign out and bypass them? www.crossplay.news/p/its-too-ea...
It's Irresponsible How Easy Children Can Make New Accounts on Roblox
What is the point of parental controls if they can just sign out and bypass them?
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
There are almost no good boardgames to play with young children. Minecraft Explorers is one of the better ones. Bonus points for being a pack of cards that come in a small box. This is probably a little late to come as a useful recommendation for a Christmas present
Police are on the lookout for a sophisticated, accomplished criminal, an expert at hiding in plain sight among us. If you see this man, please call 999 immediately.
I am so grateful VGIM put Donkey Kong Bananza, Mario Kart World and Civ 7 as some of their stand out games of the last year. I am subscribed to too many industry newsletters, and I couldn't decide which one needed to be cut.
Core Keeper is the absolute pinnacle of survival crafting games. Or, perhaps more accurately stated, it’s the perfect distillation of mechanics I’m familiar with from Minecraft, executed perfectly, with joy turned to max.
Now that the anger has subsided and I’ve come to terms with this new Liquid Glass UI, and how naff my once pristine phone is now, I’m really just in awe at the person who got this through what I presume is an insanely rigorous, top heavy approvals process at Apple. The fucking balls on them.
Shout out to @davidnsteer.bsky.social for helping me realise Apple is just helping me use my phone less by making it unenjoyable to perform even basic functions. No further feedback.
I wouldn’t have guessed that a redesign of the aesthetic of the iPhone interface is what makes me look at Android seriously, but here we are. It will basically depend on if I can transfer my Puzzle and Dragons save.
youtu.be/OCkO8mNK3Gg?... This covers one that was new to me, Endowed Progress. Gotta stay up to date with the ways we're being manipulated to ensure our time is being spent doing the things we value.
Dark Patterns: Are Your Games Playing You?
YouTube video by Chris Wilson
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Heading to Game Over! tonight on Drury St for the Videogames Glasgow Pub Night - www.meetup.com/videogames-g... Is there anyone that follows me that's going?
Videogames Glasgow Pub Night, Thu, Nov 13, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Monthly meetup for game developers, streamers, journalists, marketeers, and anyone else interested in or working in the games industry. Come along if you want to talk vide
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Lunchtime climbing is the shit. In and out in an hour. Knackered. Since I started, my sciatica has disappeared, even though when I'm not climbing, I'm basically at my desk. I thought it was a stretching thing, but it turns out it was a strength thing.
Playing Ash in Brawl Stars and feel simultaneously so seen and so offended at the same time. Any character that opens up a battle shouting "I'm so manky!" is an immediate main for any self-respecting Scot.
Is it a work post? Yes. Does that make this game any less awesome? No.
Flaming Fowl Studios@flamingfowl.com · 10mo ago0.8 is live, and it's our biggest update yet! New Cargo and Crew! The Sisters of Salvage faction joins the fight, and the Demo gets a massive upgrade. is.gd/fSSNdn
How does Ball X Pit have so many systems and dependencies and complexity and yet is still so simple and brilliant and I LOVE KENNY SUN (and friends). Hashtag Twinfold.
Waterstones are doing 25% off preorders on my book Super Nintendo this week, alongside other 2026 titles. Preorders are super important for authors so please, buy your future self some cool books! www.waterstones.com/book/super-n...
I live in a world where someone telling me they put me on their Asana board makes my day more than getting checked out at a bar. At least, I assume it made my day more. Only one of these things has happened in the last decade.
This is serious business.
Mikhail@va11halla.bsky.social · 11mo agoThis took a while to do. I compared Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions, and Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles for @rpgsite.net going over features, platform differences, visuals, load times for all the versions, and more: www.rpgsite.net/feature/1859...
Looks like I'm into litrpg now. Can I *be* any sexier? FAO @mckelvie.bsky.social I guess.
Just cut my first tik tok video. Told my wife I was going to become a content creator and she laughed disrespectfully hard.
Apart from my kids, of course. I’m special, and therefore they must be special. You get me.
a young man wearing a black shirt is smiling and sitting on a couch
ALT: a young man wearing a black shirt is smiling and sitting on a couch
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Journalists who use their kids as reference points seem to forget that their kids are only special to them. Not to us. If you tell me your 8 year old child loved a game, all I hear is an 8 year old child loved a game. And I have children, so I know. Their opinion is worthless.
One of the best parts about working with fellow Scots again is not having to worry I'll get pulled into HR again for saying fuckin bawbag in a meeting.
When working on a game with many kinds of spaceships in it, one should prepare to be exposed to an astonishing amount of phalluses.
