HOLY COW "The October Film Haunt" by @michaelwehunt.bsky.social absolutely wrecked me in the best way. After working my way through novels like "The Grip of It" by Jac Jemc, or "The Red Tree" by Caitlin R Kiernen, this is EXACTLY what I've been looking for. Just, a stellar horror novel.

Apparently, the Bitmap Brothers' classic RTS/RTT "Z" came out 30 years ago today. It's one I have a real soft spot for, so much so that I wrote an article commemorating it: waywardstrategy.com/2017/01/23/h...

Historical RTS: Z

This is my 3rd patron-supported article. Thanks to everyone who supports me, it means the world to me.  Every so often, I return to one of the RTS I played when I was a kid. Some of these are broad…

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PSA: OTXO and Sol Cesto are this week's Epic Store giveaway games. Two stylish roguelike gems that could not be more different. One is Hotline Miami in a cursed hotel. The other is a unique game of skewed probability management. store.epicgames.com/p/otxo-396b8b store.epicgames.com/p/sol-cesto-...

I am not going to fucking relitigate, justify, or explain how I work every fucking time I mention not using Ai as part of the creative fucking process. It’s how I learn and discover what I’m really fucking making. So take your fucking army of agents and tokens and shove them up your fucking ass.

We were playing Telestrations, and my oldest son drew Baldasaur #pokemon #bulbasaur #telestrations

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No one: Me: End of Nations Bacon Tank

I've been working on an article about RTS faction design and ... it's been a struggle to get it across the finish line. Hopefully by my birthday... (I use 2 Tempest Rising screenshots here because I designed all 3 of the factions for TR)

Old, but accurate. Might need to update it tho 😅

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Raccoons Hourly@raccoonhourly.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm adding text to speech to my upcoming boomer shooter game engine and I made them say "rest in peace" but I keep hearing "crispy peas" 😭

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insane how there isn’t a single industry where being good at your job does anything for you variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers

Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.

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New orders, Commander. Play the first two Veti Campaign missions in the new Tempest Rising demo.

Game design and fiction writing are, for whatever reason, two jobs that most people think they could do instantly at a high standard, with zero experience or evidence. I don’t know if it was a smart idea to focus on both as a profession. Certainly an occasionally frustrating idea.

Danny2462@danny2462.bsky.social · 2w ago

granted it's not esoteric, but this reminded me of explaining to a design manager why designers pushing vibecode to prod is not a good idea & getting countered with "saw it working though" thank you, very infuriating :D a toast to any fellows having to put up with Dunning-Kruger mountaineers 🥂

the endgame of llms is just going to be a (pretty good) code autocomplete/bugcheck/linter that runs on your 5090, which is a pretty funny thing to spend like 9 trillion dollars on

There in a flash.

i had no idea this would become so literal

I hate this game!

The Chinese Room is hiring! We're currently on a lookout for: ◾Lead Level Designer - forms.office.com/e/VXTrGY7SsF ◾Senior / Principal Programmer - forms.office.com/e/GhgKavXBeC Note: The roles are "hybrid" ie 3 days/week in our Brighton office with the other 2 days WFH or the office, as preferred.

#tempestposting

With the mounting layoffs, this time at least I am also see many studios hiring, which I wasn't seeing a year ago. Is this a misperception or a reality? Cuz it feels like some studios are out of the dark period and Xbox is just xbox? Well okay... after epic being epic.. but?

a big reason Sam Neill was so beloved was that he was seemingly one of the only celebrities who acted like his huge success and fame was the result of incredible good fortune rather than coping at that reality and developing a feeling of superiority and entitlement as a result.

Calling out to bksy peeps: Looking for: People who love real-time strategy games (RTS) People who love game design People who love superhero comics (specifically DC) People who love horror movies/novels/audio

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Mini Forest is releasing tomorrow (July 14th), free for everyone! 🌲🎯

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