Kevin Cole

@spacekings.space

supertry.itch.io podcast burnout gamedev cockroach he/him old givekevinmoney dot com

i was watching the fraggle rock show last night and there was a fraggle who really wants to be a cult leader (exact wording) but nobody in fraggle rock wants to join his cult because it's already a communist utopia

Bsky tells me "TTRPG Authors" is trending but clicking through just shows me vaguely inspirational book-themed quotes and feet pics. I think this sophisticated social media application is using my information to lie to me!

Before full development of Öoo, I built a prototype to test whether bombs could push each other, stack on top of one another, and interact correctly. It looks simple, but implementing these kinds of "obvious" behaviors without using a physics engine was actually much harder than it seems.

asha sharma going "we want 1 billion players a day" a nice reminder that these execs are fundamentally incapable of understanding that their customers do not have infinite money or even just that time is finite. they just think you haven't been fed the right marketing yet to get you on board

"games with no graphics card required" rattling around in my brain because on one hand uh oh the apocalypse and on the other oh hey thats the kind of games i make

they trained millennials how to use computers too good and napster basically flattened an entire industry. I think that's why they don't even want you to touch your phone's file system now, they can't let kids become that powerful again

young kid at my studio today had never played a game with a keyboard and mouse before but got real far in Dungeons of WAS on her own! As she left I heard "DAD! We have a computer at home right??" 😭

hearing "don't get into this industry" is disheartening for many, but please consider the youths who only get fired up when they are acting in opposition to an authority figure. someone has to tell them it's impossible or else they will never build up enough spite to prove the man wrong

Like many people, I used to be a straight woman who played ukulele on the Internet. Now I'm a trans man and my voice has dropped and it's been emotionally complicated... and we're bringing that whole energy out this November. If you remember the Doubleclicks... please help us spread the word!

the doubleclicks are back with a key change. portland or, sat nov 14 at the siren theatear. los angeles, ca sat nov 21 at the elyisan theater.