Jim Stormdancer @mogwai_poet@mastodon.social

Any unboxing requests?

So excited about my Darth Vader costume I'm wearing it to bed 🎃🎃🎃

One design lesson I've learned from Untitled Goose Game is that every adventure game should have a physics and stealth sandbox to keep the player entertained while they're stuck on the puzzles

Is the new Yooka Laylee any good? IMO Kickstarter constraints really hurt the last one, and that wouldn't be a factor now, but so did bad level design, which might still be.

Did you know: cell towers can have as little as 7 hours of backup power

Internet, don't fail me now. What's the origin of the "ahhh spoton" sample in this Dr. Awesome tune? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNDoI3TYz_s

"Even more noteworthy? Patti has an option to engage in casual sex and she is not punished for it. Not only was this the very first instance of being able to play as a woman who does not get punished for choosing sex, it was also the only instance I would see for a VERY long time."

"Larry is literally dreaming of Patti’s success and celebrating it with her as each dream becomes more ambitious than the last ... Replaying the game and seeing those dream sequences in my thirties hit me on a visceral level as a woman who had romantic partners resentful of her ambitions."

https://medium.com/mammon-machine-zeal/the-surprising-feminist-overtures-of-a-leisure-suit-larry-retrospective-f8b5950c29f1

In case it wasn't abundantly clear, Apple Arcade is Apple looking at the nightmare ecosystem they created and figuring out how to better profit from it.

Enjoy the honeymoon while you can, make a living from it if you can, because Apple has never been a good steward of the games they host, and they're probably not starting now.

Don't mind me I'm just a plastic sheet containing several million RGB LEDs.

We were sitting here for two hours before I realized this entire wall is a video of a forest

Can't-fail startup idea of the day: International Phonetic NATO Alphabet

Winston's first steam train ride

Like, on balance I liked Control, but it could've been a masterpiece if it didn't need to be such a video-game-ass video game.