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my most popular videos: lunch shitpost, BL joke, Australia complaints... three different genres?

CONTENT WARNING: This post is mostly "SFW" (Safe For Work) but the pictures are somewhat spicy, though Instagram-safe.

look at how laid-back I am Recently I spoke to Radio New Zealand (RNZ) journalist Ke-Xin Li about...

Street Corner Orator, 1938 (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL) Cécile Richard is running the 2026 edition of Manifesto Jam.

I have a new piece up at Rock Paper Shotgun about Dark Souls 2 (2014), but no prior Dark Souls experience is necessary to read it.

Freeplay Parallels in 2024 in Naarm Melbourne, Australia This year the oldest living art games non-profit in the world, Freeplay (Australia), announced they were like a year away from shutting down, so they're running a survey on what to do.

overview of the Ocean intro level I made some levels for the 3D platformer game Big Hops by Luckshot Games, and it's finally released!

"One Need Not Be A House" is a large non-linear concrete bunker island / brick brutalism map that I made for Quake Brutalism Jam 3 -- a huge single player mega mod for Quake 1 with 77 (!!!)

I haven't done one of these end-of-the-year blog roundups since December 2018.

Rainbows Are Carnivores is a gay fishing / aquaculture romance video game about using your pole to catch some high quality hogs.

talking to the "Inquisitor" at the beginning of the game Dread Delusion (2024) by Lovely Hellplace is a retro-style indie first person RPG about exploring strange floating islands and talking to the NPCs who live there.

So I've now been playing the weird MMO known as TikTok for more than a month, and I thought I should reflect on my time there.

In about 2 weeks, I'll be giving a keynote at Freeplay Angles 2025, an indie video game festival in Melbourne, Australia, running from July 31 - August 2, 2025.

Don't Rank Cuomo is a free short web game about not voting for / not "ranking" Andrew Cuomo, a corrupt disgraced neoliberal New York politician who's unfortunately running for mayor of New York City.

A week ago I threatened to make some TikToks.

So I've finally done it.

photo of a random 2000s era US cybercafe (This personal essay was written for LAN Party, a nice photo book about LAN gaming culture curated / edited by merritt k, along with many more essays like this one.

Down here in the other hemisphere, Australians and New Zealanders are approaching winter... which means it's time to leave the beach and attend some game developer events.

(This post is adapted from my micro talk "Teaching and Rethinking Level Design" at the GDC 2025 Educators Soapbox session.

In our upcoming game Tryhard, we have cutscenes and dialogue and level scripting like many other RPGs.

Yep I'm attending GDC 2025.

Now that we’ve announced our upcoming game Tryhard (...

Welcome back to Radiator University!

V Buckenham has declared that this is the year of the blog.

Tryhard is an upcoming sports RPG about managing an underdog rugby club in New Zealand.