joel a clark
@joelaclark.bsky.social
- solo indie @ JCGM 🎮 bsky.app/profile/jcgm-games.bsky.social - working on new project 🌿 - available freelance 💻 - Kansas City📍 - Blaseball (2020) ⚾️🩸 - 5 cats 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛ - he/him 👽 joelaclark.com
book read in April: - Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel - Wheel of Time books 1-3 - Robert Jordan - Hyperion - Dan Simmons
is your pitching staff good? or are you just facing the Kansas City Royals?
These Royals uniforms are the greatest city connects in history.
if a guy catches the ball before it goes over the home run fence, but then himself falls over the fence, i think that’s still gotta be a home run. a home run +1, if anything
show don't tell? no. neither show nor tell. just dance!
no, buddy, do not say “the sacks are packed.” please just say the bases are loaded like everyone else
if tolkien were truly the “father of fantasy,” fantasy novels would have a dumb little song on every other page
i make games, yes, but being a cat bed is my true calling
cataloguing every book in our house into a library spreadsheet. it’s time to find out, once and for all, how many freakin books we have in this house
ok look buddy. i know you’re a “Wildlife Technician that specializes in bat removal” but come on. just let me call you Bat Man
This paragraph resonates with me so so much and speaks to everything I’ve learned (often the hard way) over the last 15 years. bsky.app/profile/ckun...
cmrn knzlmn@ckunzelman.bsky.social · 5mo agoMeredith saying something I’ve spent a lot of the last couple years thinking about:
*cat brings dead mouse to our porch* me: please don’t bring dead mice to our porch 🙏 *cat brings dead mouse inside the house* me: please don’t bring dead mice inside, either 🙏 *cat brings live mouse inside* me: ok, that’s worse, plz no mice 🙏 *cat brings live bird inside* me: …
bam make big number. many people mad, but that dumb. big bam number still big big
anxious about heading to GDC, honestly. the older I get, the more I want to make games but the less I want to be a part of the industry. I’m excited to see many of you, though, that’s always the saving grace of these things
![an except from Ursula K Le Guin’s “Always Coming Home” reading:
Even when a corn-borer was squashed, a mosquito swatted, a branch broken, a flower picked, the formula was muttered in its ultimately reduced form: arrariv, “my word[s].” Although this one-word formula was spoken as mindlessly as our “bless you” to a sneeze, it was always spoken. The speaking of it maintained and contained the idea of need and fulfillment, demand and response, of relationship and interdependence; and this idea could be brought fully to mind when it was wanted. The stone, as they said, contains the mountain.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lxjpi7fpqt56z6gdk5uv2z7w/bafkreictaj5xznniw2u7ljhpkyqfv4adifk4t4a3ais3zp4x2wtpyoixky)
god damnit McDonald’s. now you’ve started a whole genre of putrid CEO videos