Somehow you grew your “real boxes for pretend games” business into a “real games with pretend boxes” and we love to see it
05.03.2026 19:48
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Somehow you grew your “real boxes for pretend games” business into a “real games with pretend boxes” and we love to see it
Wowowow I hope I’ll get to read this soon!! Congrats!
Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.
trying out a new feature, lmk if it works
…a fiery carmine (red) shade
you can be against the Iranian regime, the US regime, the Israel regime, and the Cuban regime, all at once. you can be against the whole fucking thing.
“We put them in our agreement” means there are no restrictions in the underlying models, unlike Anthropic, and you’re relying on *checks notes* the Trump administration to hold to this. So. Yeah.
hella cool NGL
Context— I'm doing a li'l research project that I can't talk about just yet, and I could really use input from working Narrative Designers, Writers, Systems Designers, Creative Leads, and Producers who work with all of the above. It will be well worth a 30m meeting if this sounds like you!
Who's going (perhaps against their better judgement) to #GDC this year? Hit me up, old pals and colleagues! Also, if you know anyone working on narrative-driven projects— especially ambitious/experimental ones— let's connect!
The discourse of the hour is emphasizing that LLMs are overhyped bullshit (kinda true), but I am increasingly concerned that the push to have everyone on the same page about that is impairing the ability to preemptively strategize around the futures in which capabilities massively expand.
I went by either "Noctrocide" or "PHYSCHO PSOFTWARE" lol museumofzzt.com/file/search/...
I'm afraid to tell you my handle because you might think it's too badass
Man, ZZT is so great. Improbably, every ZZT game I've ever made is still easily findable, and plays exactly like it did when I uploaded it to AOL in 5th-6th grade. King shit
BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Forging 100 Nobel Prizes into the ultimate weapon, The Sword of Peace
“The ‘metric’ that will matter most going forward will not be the numbers at the bottom of a post or video, but the human beings in a room that left their house to experience something. Which, of course, will be filmed and put back online. You can’t escape the matrix entirely.”
US rents have fallen for the 32nd straight month, per Axios.
hi coals, im dad
Current status: scrollmaxxing
this is very inspiring and awesome to a dad with two kids in school I'll tell you what
I know it's meant in good faith but "if we just made smaller scope games and charged 20-40 dollars for them it would fix the industry" is very funny to me. indies release like 20 of those a week on steam. are you buying them? is the industry fixed? no? hm. sounds like you need a different solution
over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.)
finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk.
enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...
mr beast would secretly smuggle a xenomorph to earth
Ten years ago today we shipped Firewatch. I say this every anniversary but it feels both like a lifetime ago and like it was yesterday. Thank you everyone who played it back then or played it today for the first time. Thank you to everyone on the team, I’m still so proud of what we made.
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A black and white illustration in two panels divided by a horizontal line across the middle of the page: the upper panel is an egg with a circular depression near the top, and an arrow indicating that it’s 1 m tall. The lower panel shows an emoji-like creature with an angry face and six pointy limbs yeeting from the hole.
Your daily reminder that it’s OK for first drafts of anything to be rough around the edges, like this original concept sketch for the facehugger in “Alien,” drawn by screenwriter Dan O’Bannon
When the vibes are juuust right and you have to bust out the camera for a quick selfie.
IMO cool BECAUSE rude
I can give you more details there
