A little kingdom I posess, where thoughts and feelings dwell
and very hard the task I find of governing it well.
- Louisa May Alcott
I'll get back to this website later. [2024-10-04]
- [2025-03-26] Full rework in progress using new tools.
- [2024-11-05] add bluesky feed and style everything nicer
Recent Blog Entries
03-28-2025 17:04:35 - How the Wicked Website Was Made
I love the promises made by static website generators. The ability to write your website piecemeal, automatically including headers and footers and pesudo-dynamic elements wherever they're needed without handwriting or copy-pasting, makes for a fundamentally better experience than writing an entire website by hand. I don't especially envy anyone who's set themselves the task of writing a website from scratch without the use of external tools. Having done enough of it myself to last me for some time, I'd like something easier to use. [...]
08-13-2024 17:14:18 - Some words about The Game of the Goose.
My retrospective on adapting The Game of the Goose to Playdate. Originally posted to Cohost on 2024/08/13.
05-01-2021 11:50:00 - A Strange Experience
I had an interesting experience as I was packing up to retire to my room for the night. [...]
Hey! We're developing Super Agent, a 3D platformer game that features special levels, such as piloting a helicopter or snowboarding. Coming soon to @play.date
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I've found myself engaged with all that "plane on a conveyor belt" stuff after that last Mark Rober video and anyone arguing that the conveyor belt "always matches the speed of the wheels" don't understand that if a physics question has a constraint which is impossible the question is just invalid.
People keep messaging me about how there's a Minecraft reference in the Technoblade movie? I dunno.
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Let's go over to our Switch 2 price correspondent:
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ENA: Dream BBQ
store.steampowered.com/app/2134320/...
Do you like simply walking around a surreal world and seeing the best and most insane animation you've ever seen in your life. I do. I was smiling ear to ear playing this game. Also it's free. Enjoy.
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After a good while's work off and on getting this all together, I've got my website looking better than it ever has thanks to some new tools and a fresh focus on making something that works first. Many thanks to the "mother$!$!ing website" genre for the help.
donnovanhudson.com/blog/2025-03...
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Balatro has a funny way of completely taking over your free time if you let it.
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UNDERTALE is on sale for $1.
If you're a bluesky user who hasn't played this game - now is the best time to join the other 99% of people on this website and pick it up.
store.steampowered.com/app/391540/U...
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A theme I've been hearing recently, talking to people who worked on games that took 6+ years to make, is that they always made calls thinking they had much less time. Then the game kept slipping, but they were still stuck with those old calls. So six years of development is never *really* six years
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I've informed Blanche that she's been described as both pleasant and patient, and she's honored. Now she's even more excited to teach everyone some card games.
Thanks for visiting Carte Blanche, @thegamellama.bsky.social!
TheGameLlama @thegamellama.bsky.social ⋅ 2mAnother game out on Tuesday! What a time to be alive, at the same moment as Playdate Unofficial. Carte Blanche is about a raven that teaches you card games, and it is PLEASANT. I get a little remember-y when I talk about it. www.playdateunofficial.com/the-games/carte-blanche
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I'm sharing my new 2025-01 Krita brush bundle under CC-0/Public Domain, I hope you'll like them!
Blog post to download: www.davidrevoy.com/article1060/...
#krita
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It’s almost time! Carte Blanche will be arriving on a @play.date near you very soon.
Get ready for card games, a friendly bird, and a shiny marble she found on a playground and is excited to share with you. (It’s not really that shiny, but let her have this.) #indieDev
www.carteblanche.cards
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OFF inspired a generation of developers across the games industry. We’ve interviewed a few of them about the game’s influence on their work.
Read the first installment of our dev interview series with Toby Fox, creator of UNDERTALE and DELTARUNE, now: offtherpg.com/interviews/tobyfox/
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Playdate devs! I'm hosting a game jam to create a game based on my unfinished dungeon crawler, a screenshot of which has haunted the Playdate website for years.
itch.io/jam/unfinish...
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Trackminia is available now, only on the Playdate!
play.date/games/trackm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NAt...
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** It's happening!! **
We managed to convince Google to open source PebbleOS. Took a while, but they just did it today! github.com/google/pebble
With that, we're bringing Pebble back! I blogged about it - ericmigi.com/blog/why-wer...
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You're allowed to think something is bad. Thinking something is bad and liking it are two different things. This is not exclusive to video games, or to any other form of art. It has nothing to do with "value as a product" and only relates to objectivity in the sense of saying what you really think.
Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social ⋅ 3magain people are (totally good-naturedly) saying things like "it's cool to love games that suck a little" & "some of my fave games are 7/10s" and hey, if that's what feels true and right to you, go with god. but i find it kind of exasperating. we can just say those are actually great games! (1/?)
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Welcome to Carte Blanche!
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Carte Blanche is a collection of two-player card games you can learn and play with the help of a friendly raven named Blanche.
• Cribbage
• Gin Rummy
• Spades
• Cassino
• Spite & Malice
Launching February 25 on @play.date Catalog and @itch.io
carteblanche.cards
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Fred Rodgers on the importance of making something even if other people don't think it's good had me crying this morning. Passing it along for anyone else that might need it.
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Today was the last day of Steam Delivery Girl, and I wanted to say a final farewell! (some cheesy text down below).
Thank you everyone for the amazing response! This has been one of the most fulfilling projects of my life! 🥹✨💖
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seems like there's some confusion about how game design works, luckily I sometimes do game design so I can explain
here's our scenario - in our game we have a room and the only thing we've made interactable is this piece of paper on a desk
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You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…
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Surprise Announcement!
𝕁𝔸ℤℤℙ𝕌ℕ𝕂 is now available and live on the itch. io store!
We get a much bigger cut of this game from itch than we do from Steam, so if you're going to grab it, its more beneficial to us to do it from there :sparkles: :sparkles:
necrophone.itch.io/jazzpunk
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This game influenced my character design, my storytelling, my music.
Even the name "UNDER TALE" sounds very similar to "CAVE STORY"...
If you haven't played it, you should. You can play the original version for free!
www.cavestory.org/download/cav...
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Happy 20th anniversary to Cave Story.
One of my favorite games forever!
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Big one today: an interview with @rae.wtf on Playdate Unofficial! She made HEXA and First in... Line? and the upcoming RowBot Rally! Thanks for talking to me for my little Playdate site. :) www.playdateunofficial.com/articles/interview-with-rae
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Temporary Archive
Hey, check out the CYOA I just started I guess. Don't check out the CYOA I abandoned I guess.
