Sometimes I test my free will by going against my nature, like not finishing this puzzle with only 13 pieces to go cause I said I was gonna go to bed at 10:30.

I’ve been going around and around on this relationship system in my game and finally settled on a design that I think is working. Been taking me weeks to solve that one though!!

Man I got a dev branch on this relationship feature that I keep bashing my head against and now i’m scared to merge it back to the trunk cause its so many versions ago and those merges are gonna be craaaaazy. 😭

Got to feel a new level of old this week when I mentioned how I got my start making Flash websites and the two people in the room asked me “What’s Flash?”

My listening habits have been bouncing between Metalcore and Hyperpop lately which are totally at odds with each other. Is there a metalcore hyperpop mashup? Would that even work?

Blizzard have me replaying warcraft 3 which is just crazy… It’s so good though.

I’m hiring at the moment and we had hundreds of applicants. My HR guy makes a point of personalising rejection letters and trying to give people specific feedback and helpful tips. One person who got rejected called it ai slop, then left a 1 star review on my business simply saying we use AI…

Incredible 90s curtains

Mate of mine just shared a viral friendslop game called ‘Needle in a Haystack’ I tried to look it up on steam, but I think the AI bros got there first. Which one is the OG??

My goodness, Big Walk is amazing.

Came in to the office 2 hours early today to try and get in front, whole morning my pc has been failing and i've just been on customer support call…

Just spoke with my Nan, she’s 90 today and she told me she did a plank with her pt for her birthday haha

Oceansize are an absolute all timer for me. Favourite band easily, and such a big impact in my music. www.guitarworld.com/artists/band...

Sleep Token love them. Progressive guitar heroes worship them. But they imploded spectacularly. This is the story of unsung prog icons Oceansize: “We put ourselves through hell because we knew we were...

Major players including Misha Mansoor and Yvette Young have cited Oceansize as an influence, yet the combustible UK outfit remain under the radar – in part because they simply cannot be imitated

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Saving and loading without things breaking is the ultimate gamedev test of your wiles. Wyles? whyles? I think I may be procrastinating from working on the saving and loading bugs…

I hope that Witcher 3 remaster is compatible with saves. Literally in the middle of my (very overdue) Witcher 3 full playthrough and I don’t wanna have to restart for a 4th time. Assuming it is though and in which (witch?) case I’m very excited for it!

Finally picked up a copy of the game design bible.

Went to a phone free warehouse gig last night to see Klangkuenstler, and was disappointed to see everyone with their phones out still recording.

Another UI system block out down - this time a quest hud and log.

We’ve taken to calling the collectable things in Big Walk “Dongs”. Childish, I know. Just learned it’s modelled of Wilson’s Prom, so now they’re “Prom Dongs”.

An insight into the things i think about in the shower: Just had the realisation that if austin powers came out today, the time difference would be the equivalent of a spy from the late 90s instead of late 60s

Sometimes you build a whole rostering system over a couple of weekends and noone notices, other times you throw in a bunch of new fonts in an evening and everyone is like HOLY SHIT! #gamedev

I’m sure A* pathfinding works really well when you know what you’re doing but I feel like I have it working and then some NPC will just get stuck in some new exciting way that makes me tear my hair out! Oh, and good luck googling AI pathfinding in a post LLM world…

If that were true the digital store would already be cheaper, not more expensive than the physical releases.

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · last mo.

Killing PlayStation discs could make PS Store games cheaper, according to a former Square Enix exec www.eurogamer.net/ps-store-pri...

Can’t stop working on the game, it’s basically all I want to do 24/7 atm. I am fixated.

I’m feeling pretty chuffed rn. My playtesters unprompted are reporting enjoying exactly the things I was hoping they would around the juxtaposition of the dynamics.

Hit our internal deadline today for an updated playable pre-alpha build for the team. Feels good to finally close the loop on most of the major features to start iterating from.

Dialogue tree or dialogue forest? Got the prototype placeholder “portal” just about ready and now I’m getting kinda attached to it.

For my marketing agency - I am hiring a content manager. You gotta be Melbourne based (cause you need to shoot local content), but it’s hybrid and you get to work with some pretty cool people in a bit of an unhinged workplace! What’s not to love? assemblo.com/news/content...

We're looking for a Content Manager! – Assemblo

Assemblo is hiring a Content Manager in Melbourne to lead content strategy, social media, filming, editing and publishing for our clients.

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Making a full scale video game is such an undertaking… I mean obviously, but god…

In this week's episode of usettling bugs - The carrot guy here is made of JUST a custom head, but the NPC building thing we made has default legs and torso, creating a disturbing carrot puppet.