Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji@mastodon.social

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Meet the guy combining different sounds into intriguing aural pastiches called “music”

The other night I became conscious of how often I was using the word weird” to describe everything going on in my life and in the world; I tried to stop but I kept saying it even though, if you asked me, I don’t think I could explain why it all feels so deeply weird, or what I even think “normal” is supposed to be

Really happy to see Opus Magnum nominated in the IGF this year among so many strong titles. Hope you enjoyed the writing and music too. http://www.igf.com/article/2019-independent-games-festival-reveals-years-finalists

I really like the part in Japanese movie credits where the big passel of logos of various cooperating agencies and fashion brands scrolls by

What is your game even doing if it doesn’t end with a freeze frame that transitions to a sketchy style and then the camera pulls back to reveal a little kid was reading the whole thing in an old-timey storybook

Swallowing a Cursed Orb isn’t enough anymore... today’s indie game makers report swallowing multiple Cursed Orbs, impaling themselves with the Tongue of Spite, and becoming everything they hate in order to stand out in today’s crowded market

@matthewseiji ‪Like at some point “hooh hooh hooh” caught on for whatever reason and became extremely common and then later everyone seemed to decide it was a bit silly and it stopped. One of those minor but noticeable mimetic cultural practices that seep through life I guess‬

‪The other day I listened to a bunch of “cheering crowd” sound effects for research and you can totally tell the ones recorded in the 90s because there’s often a dude making the “hooh hooh hooh” sound. Weird to recall how that was a common thing‬

‪I’m not here to tell you how to be a memorable NPC but I am saying you could start by scrubbing “It’s not much, but...” and “It’s the least I could do” from your quest reward dialogue tables‬

Last night I brought some work home from the office, set up my laptop to start in on it, and immediately fell asleep

Thank you Evangelion for being why any given sci-fi anime today is larded with baffling references to gnosticism and the apocrypha

‪The cat just jumped up on the table and walked all over the work I’m editing and for a moment I regretted not having an inkwell for her to spill and step in so she could leave her paw prints on it like that medieval Croatian manuscript http://theappendix.net/posts/2013/03/of-cats-and-manuscripts‬

‪I have a small collection of little translation pet peeves and one of them is “rice balls” for onigiri. I hate it. Onigiri aren’t usually ball-shaped at all, moreover, no food should be called “[something] balls” in English even if it *is* shaped like balls‬

One thing I never understood about vampire lore is why it takes centuries of undying to develop a deep ennui around humanity. I can get that way in like 15 minutes

‪I was describing some characters to an artist who will draw them and said “this guy basically sucks” about one. Later I saw the artist had taken notes and penciled in “sucks” next to that character’s name in the character list, so I’m happy.‬

Want to hear a spooky story? I went to check tweets this morning like normal and I swear I saw a few before I remembered Twitter doesn't exist anymore and hasn't for quite some time— not since the tweet factory burned down twenty years ago... oddly enough, on this very day...

‪I’ve been telling people in person who ask what I’m up to, so I might as well say it here too: I’m working on a larger narrative game of a visual novel-ish type. No details to share yet, though hopefully soon.‬

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