Man, Canada deserved better but that was a hell of a game

The PWHL Sceptres beat the Victoire, the Flames beat the Oilers, and Canada won their game at the World Juniors (although kudos to Latvia, they played HARD). A great day of hockey and all of my teams won!

Normally I would consider it a positive for a company to go private. This…is not one of those times.

In the Banff townsite yesterday we found this crow who had perched himself on the roof of the public latrine and was yelling at everyone who walked by. I feel like if we’d stuck around a little longer maybe he would have given us a side quest.

Finally had a bit of free time (work is busy!) and I thought I'd poke at the Rune stuff I was working on a little bit. Mainly I wanted to try mocking up a couple of cards with actual text and stats to see how badly things fell apart. (Card text is blurred out since the copy doesn't belong to me.)

If you’re thinking of watching K-Pop Demon Hunters you just need to ask yourself two questions: 1. Do I enjoy heartfelt storytelling paired with boundary-pushing animation? 2. Do I want the songs of a fictional k-pop band stuck in my head for the rest of my natural life?

Apparently I follow exactly enough ttrpg people to have a vague sense that discourse is happening without following enough ttrpg people to ever know exactly what the discourse is about.

I KNEW IT!!!

Just finished my third week at a new job. It’s going to involve a lot more organization and management and a lot less hands-on animation - which I know I’ll miss - but it’s a fun project and an amazing team, and given the state of the industry super grateful not to be job-hunting still.

As usual I'm at the very forefront of new releases, but I finally got around to playing Gris, and man, what a lovely game. Beautiful art and animation, very polished controls, and you can finish it in an evening or two. Loved it so much I immediately played Neva, which is arguably even better.

I've been quiet on here because I have my head down job-hunting and also because the world is on fire, but I've been tweaking some of my animations and did a more extensive overhaul on this one. I think it's a big improvement!

Okay, I know it was just a hockey game, but it also WASN'T just a hockey game, and the world feels a tiny bit more hopeful today.

HOCKEY hockey hockey hockey hockey hockey

I don't really care about football - hockey is my one true love - but it's very watchable, and I actually kind of miss going to superbowl parties. Unfortunately, since moving to Ontario all of the friends we've made also don't care about football, so it doesn't seem likely to happen.

I work as an animator in the games industry, and my contract is coming up in a couple of weeks. My reach on this platform extends to literally tens - TENS! - of people, but if anyone knows of any relevant positions coming up, let me know. Toronto-area or remote-friendly ideally! (Reel link below)

I discovered that you can now block people on Kickstarter, and have just been blocking anyone I come across who’s using AI in their projects. A+ feature.

I played the Thaumaturge demo on a whim, and I guess maybe it's a case of the right game at the right time, but it turns out what I really want to be doing right now is palling around with Rasputin in late Tsarist Russia.

Why must billionaires spend all of their time meddling in politics when they could instead spend it funding Alpha Protocol 2?

Some just-for-fun attempts to design enemy tokens for @gilarpgs.bsky.social 's solo ttrpg Rune. I played it earlier this year and absolutely loved it - especially playing it physically at the table - but did find it difficult sometimes to track everything with lots of enemies on the board.

It’s really nice to have the PWHL back. Still don’t love their jerseys (or their name tbh) but that was a great win by the Sceptres.

I finally cut the cord and shut down my Twitter account. It was really only hockey that was keeping me there, but my love of hockey is outweighed by my hatred of fascism. These are some old Inktober drawings because I didn't find time to participate this year. Maybe Inkuary can be a thing?

After a year of aggressively searching, and over 127 applications sent, I finally have a job again. The game industry is ROUGH right now, but it will be good to be animating again. I bought comics to celebrate!

I'm Canadian, so you'd think that would grant me some separation, but I still find American politics super stressful. If you could resolve to just have a very normal, ordinary election cycle next time around, it would really help me out.

So I've been actively trying to use Bluesky instead of Twitter for a few weeks, and I have to say it's been really refreshing. While I haven't been able to remove Twitter completely - most of the animators and hockey accounts I follow aren't on Bluesky - the contrast between the two is stark.

Spending my Canada Day simultaneously tracking the horrific collapse of American democracy and also all of the NHL free agent signings.

Happy NHL draft day, to those who celebrate.

This is older...some friends were trying to get funding for a tactical indie game and I did some mock-ups and preliminary designs for them. I still like this, though, and think it would have been fun to make if we'd had the chance.

Maybe this is too nerdy to post, but I have like one follower and he already knows I'm a nerd, so I have nothing to lose. After I drew my nomad/bounty hunter for Notorious I decided to draw his equipment. And give him a name that hopefully gives off authentic Glup Shitto vibes.

I've been really interested in solo board games and rpgs lately, and kickstarted Notorious/Outsiders a while back. For those who are unfamiliar, it's a Star Wars-but-not bounty hunter rpg and it seems really cool. This is the character I rolled up, and I'm excited to actually play!

Anyway, here's my attempt at a self-portrait in the style of Dredge. Don't be alarmed: I am told I look considerably better hydrated in real life.