Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji@mastodon.social

I'm having a blastodon on Mastodon

There is a bad games and art article going around today that is predictably attracting a lot of attention so here is my alternate take on the topic from a few months ago https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/316623/A_slightly_different_way_to_think_about_games_and_art.php

Indie dev: I don’t know if this indie publisher I just learned about is legit or not

Indie publisher’s “about” page: We respect indies

Indie dev: Nice, that’s sorted then

Non-writer friends after I complain to them about having to write: Guess you're just gonna have to suck it up and write

Writer friends after I complain to them about having to write: Guess you're just gonna have to suck it up and write

I used to have jobs of the type where you'd get a ton of email all the time, most of it unimportant but on rare occasions extremely urgent.

I don't do that anymore; I hardly get any email at all these days and it's much better, but I can still feel the small rivulet of anxiety associated with checking my work inbox on a Sunday night in order to prepare (and set up defenses) for the coming week.

You know they’re into you when they’re showing you something on their phone and they immediately flick away a text notification before you can read it

Wordplay is a festival of narrative-heavy games and one of the few venues in my experience that isn't afraid of Twines. Open for submissions for showcase games, talks, and workshops through September: http://handeyesociety.com/event/wordplay-2018-call-talk-game-submissions/

Sorry tech bros

‪I’m going to visit PAX today. My plan to survive the show floor is to disassociate, so if you see me and I’m spacey this is by design. I am actually a thousand miles away.‬

This morning there were three fat starlings hanging out just outside the upstairs window on the corner of the roof, yammering away. They were doing everything they could think of, geese honks, seagull cries, hawk screams. It was like getting drunk with your friends and taking turns doing terrible impressions.

For one-half of one microsecond I considered making an RPS account so I could leave a comment explaining that Japan's period of "militant isolationism" was actually the Tokugawa period, not the Sengoku period

Looking at the trailer for this Onimusha HD remaster and thinking about how the game is nearly 18 years old and aside from the static backgrounds it looks pretty much like a modern game.

18 years prior to Onimusha was 1983; the NES wasn't even out in this country. (See also Ico, another 2001 game).

Weird.

If you’re in Seattle for PAX, consider a trip to the long-running Seattle Indies Expo, a chill, free, one-day alternative exhibit of locally-made games. https://six.seattleindies.org/

I'm proud of the voice work in EXAPUNKS. It was my first time in the director's chair after years and years of being VO-adjacent. Knowing I can write and direct is confidence boosting and I hope I get opportunities to do it more.

It's that time

https://mastodon.social/media/hGgCodl154GfA-IFjQ4 https://mastodon.social/media/qzZr82TMFcGw6fNvNh8

‪Last night on the late bus back to Redmond there were some teens & one of them said “I have two wraps and a salad at home and I’m gonna FUCKING annilhilate them”‬

I have not seen a single "during sex hurt me" joke on my Mastodon timeline and I am so pleased, congratulations to each and every one of you

Toots from 2017 are the new Tweets from 2014

So, I let go of my inhibitions around being cheesy and went with a "slower techno" (110bpm) sound, switched between a breakbeat and 4/4, and generally had fun with layered synth rhythms, leads, and a very compressed sound.