Matthew Bloch

The Curious Odyssey banner artwork, probably drawn by Matze Kempke, by the looks of it. Two friends are playing videogames together in a small retro-future apartment, surrounded by greenery and a couple of curious cats.

My pals at @revolutionsoftware.bsky.social and ASH have put together the Curious Odyssey sale on Steam. There are loads of discounted story-driven games, including a few I worked on (Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet, Unforeseen Incidents & Mutropolis).

store.steampowered.com/curator/4589...

Yes hells bells my Samsung defaulted to GBNews and I thought it was an unfortunate coincidence. Now it defaults to the Wicked Tuna channel 🎣

Zerglox Christmas 🤣

amazing work, it really plays like both games at once!

I've just had an amazing idea

Incredible - M.Beat Feat General levy YouTube video by Generallevy Official

Was just listening to this and started to wonder - assuming General Levy was *not* in fact an army General at the time of recording - who is the highest-ranking serving member of the military to have a credit on a UK top 40 single? [not a quiz, I've no idea yet] www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fm2...

poke around underneath with the hoover tube, put the hoover outdoors til Friday

Read while waiting for pasta to cook - I gasped, I'm sorry! What a beautiful piece for an awful anniversary.

The most foul of the foul words was clearly spoken by the children at least 131 times and many other times in a muffled or garbled way as well as in rapid uncountable succession in song [Col. 3:8].

This is still one of my favourite movie reviews www.capalert.com/capreports/s...

Thanks! I've just found this and fixed it. Also one or two other bug fixes to ship in the first update. Will confer on a date!

AI slop poster for Science Week 2026, featuring a fucked up car, a fucked up solar system and a robot with an orange for a hand. Also the weird prompt "curiosity: what's your question?" at the bottom.

Ohhhhh nooooooo my 6yo's primary school is advertising British Science Week activities with a slop poster. It's going to take all evening to pitch a firm response that doesn't make me sound insane 😬 but I genuinely think it's damaging to kids creative instincts to normalise this stuff around school.

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I only knew it because of this tortuous sentence en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo...

I still always feel like one of those bananas conspiracy theorists when I try to explain to people how you can draw a direct line from a woman making some YouTube videos about feminism in video games all the way to the downfall of the American Empire.

I mean also the blue sticker says "remanufactured" to me, new drives don't come with that.

No smart data, but it's got some recoverable data? If the smart data reading is accurate that sounds very suspect!

No! Should be all zeroes if new. SMART diagnostics ought to tell you how many hours it's been spinning.

Long shot but has anyone had a good experience with a UK medical negligence solicitor? 🫤 Reply or DM fine!

School went with "decorate a potato" for world book day, alors, mein amis, zis is famous détective Montgomery Bonbon @misterabk.bsky.social

Download advice on feeding newborns to teens

Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.

Lots of great reasons to read, but as a writer, books can offer either Type 1 & Type 2 inspiration.
Type 1: wow! This is amazing. I will spend my life aspiring towards these artistic heights
Type 2: wow! This is rubbish. I can easily do better than this. Maybe being a writer *is* a realistic goal

I suppose I worry that *other* worldwide lunatics in charge of a military might think that now is the window to dust off their fruitiest geopolitical plans. Maybe making some calls. It's just, like, at the back of my mind.

He got a merit, worked very hard for it ☺️

itch comment ‘ yea....delete your game dude...and get some serious skills in making video games...’

itch comment ‘Sobbing, crying, because I will never in my life com up with something half as good as this. This is peak in its purest form.’

if you’re looking for a reminder to *just make games for yourself* these comments are on the same game

Unlike MacOS, Windows is a real piecemeal OS, you can still dismantle the bits you don't like! Start Menu, Explorer, task bar are all up for negotiation. I don't think Windows 12 will change that.

I'm still bumbling along with a Windows desktop that looks like it did in 2009 - a familiar mess.

I can’t believe I’m playing Nowhere Prophet on my phone. You did an amazing job porting this, everything is perfect.

I think this is officially my fourth device that I own @sharkbombs.bsky.social ‘s gem on.

A treato

I'm not saying don't get off Windows if you can, but all the junk they've added in the last 20 years can be removed. Onedrive, Office trials, Candy Crush, AI, adverts, Outlook... github.com/Raphire/Win1... and similar scripts wipe it all away and leave you with a lean, stable computer.

Nowhere Prophet set for release early next month on iOS and Android Android players will also be able to dive into Nowhere Prophet when it hits mobile as the roguelike tactical card battler comes to mobile next month.

I ported @sharkbombs.bsky.social's excellent post-apocalyptic card battler to mobile. It's released tomorrow by @nomorerobots.io 🎺

www.pocketgamer.com/nowhere-prop...

iOS apps.apple.com/gb/app/nowhe...
Android play.google.com/store/apps/d...
(£4.99)

Well-tested on Android 8 & iOS 15, inc tablets