esteban
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Boutique posts | Game Designer: Penny’s Big Breakaway, Chambara | he/him
I've got a big analysis of why the games industry is collapsing, tying together the arguments I have heard over the last few years from devs, pubs, investors, and analysts. What can save the games industry? A grand unified theory of today's business of play 🦀 🦀 🦀 estebanfajardo.com/2026/08/04/b...
I've got a big analysis of why the games industry is collapsing, tying together the arguments I have heard over the last few years from devs, pubs, investors, and analysts. What can save the games industry? A grand unified theory of today's business of play 🦀 🦀 🦀 estebanfajardo.com/2026/08/04/b...
Chambara is a split screen videogame with a visual style like the ninja episode of Samurai Jack. It is perhaps one of the coolest modern split screen games ever, I love it
Kev 卓能@thatkevinwong.bsky.social · last wk.We are discounting Chambara by 80% for its tenth anniversary. It should still work with contemporary gamepads. store.steampowered.com/app/745790/C...
The concept of a “happy hour” is so beautiful. And it is usually multiple hours… amazing
To celebrate the rerelease I'm going to post some videos from early development! This is the earliest recorded footage with just the controls / movement idea for mobile
Got distracted thinking about how funny the Three Houses dubstep drop was. What a game
Girlfriend woke me up in the middle of the night scared that I was dead on account of me not snoring for the first time ever
Many big budget game launches are like opening a coffee shop in a grand cathedral built just to house it and when you're like "why did you build a whole cathedral for this" the answer is just "that Starbucks down the street is in a converted church and we wanted to be bigger"
I like Huang more than Raman, but I suspect the reason she has not dropped out is because the campaign needs to earn a bit more money to qualify for city matching funds. I think the reporting is credible that they did not expect it to be denied, and now risk being in a large amount of debt.
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It would really make more sense, for anyone calling for a procedural end to Trump's removal, to just call for impeachment. The Constitution doesn't give a specific definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors", Congress interprets it. Just throwing that out there for any Congressmembers who follow me
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 4mo agoSo we talked to the author of the 25th amendment. (89 years young!) And we went through the text. It solved a real problem, but it wasn't the problem we have right now. I'd like a deus ex machina for what we're going through too, but this ain't it. From Moe Tkacik and I: prospect.org/2026/04/07/w...
Back by popular demand, I’ve revived my little game design newsletter! First up, a selection of notes I took while at GDC last week. Featuring insights from Donkey Kong Bananza 🍌, Silent Hill f 🐺, and an AI sermon that backfired 🌝 estebanfajardo.com/2026/03/20/t...
The GDC 2026 Notebook – Esteban Fajardo
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I had a great GDC! Probably the highest concentration of evil people I have spoken to of any previous year, though
Oh hey, I did a bit of design work on this! Excited to play, congrats to the team <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R2W...
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Hear me out. 3pm? One of the most classic times of all time. 5pm? Another classic time. 4pm? 4pm is waiting for 5pm, spiritually still 3pm. It’s the $7.99 is $5 of clocks.
This what this list of raids looks like... And we’re still learning of more late. We’ll have to update this in the morning. lataco.com/daily-memo-j...
L.A. TACO@lataco.bsky.social · 6mo agoDAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Attack and Follow Community Watchers Home While We See A New Raid Approach Unfold @eltragon.bsky.social
Just finished Legends of 16-Bit Game Development, an incredible book chronicling the early days at Treasure. I’ve read many game dev history books and memoirs, but this one sets the highest bar
Hold Music is very annoying, but I am currently on hold with a corporation and the call has no music or sound whatsoever, and I think this is worse
I don’t ever want to hear anyone say “the raids aren't as bad.” this is the last 2 days. lataco.com/daily-memo-d...
Earlier this year my friend gifted us some tea after returning from a trip to the UK, and after googling the brand we discovered a peerless tea review site that must be seen to be believed www.martintop.org.uk/blog/smoky-e...
