J. Thomas

Whoa! FF 2 was very good, that’s exciting

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TODAY AT GDC NARRATIVE PORTFOLIO REIVEW

Bring your non-AI materials to 215 in Moscone South from 1:50-4:50! First come first serve, sessions with our incredible reviewers are 20 minutes each.

The Killing Stone, our Occult Card Battler starring @emmagregoryvoice.bsky.social & @voiceofobrien.bsky.social is a part of #TurnBasedThursdayFest, along with other delightful games to twist and puzzle a strategic mind.

Can you beat the Devil at his own game?

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HI #GDC

Find me Monday reviewing portfolios, Wednesday ON STAGE AT THE IGFS, eating pastries, or in line for boba. LETS DO THIS

My last-post bile about their failure to understand a Park by roping off a paid VIP area within it aside:

Lots of folks still have to come to GDC for work, myself included. Will be around ~midweek onward if you want to say hey, or risk a questionable cool-guy nod

Experimental Games Showcase | Agenda | GDC Festival of Gaming The Experimental Game Workshop Showcase, which featured games like 'Baba Is You', 'The Longing', 'Braid', 'Untitled Goose Game' and 'Katamari Damacy', is back for its 24th year at GDC! In this fast-pa...

for folks coming to the Game Developers Conference this week - plz come to our session. it's gonna be another great one this year schedule.gdconf.com/session/expe...

On this week's show, we're joined by Ken Strickland from @thekillingstone.com to talk about the game's unique blend of deck building and gothic storytelling, how to wager with demons, and the art of card design. Stream the show at thedivedown.fireside.fm/359 or wherever you get podcasts!

The Killing Stone is now just 2 reviews away from hitting that 50 review threshold and getting that coveted "Very Positive" review score. If you've played it and haven't left a review yet, please do!

It’s a mix - some led to a job… almost by accident at times, some were probably alternatives to therapy, or medication or both - some had huge influence on a thing I made or a new walk of life…

Some were painfully instructive… lots of category overlap, too. Best cryptic until an in person reunion

my perverse alternate criteria: games I based a major life decision on, at least in part... but did not help make.

Some got me through personal hells, some may have dealt me lasting damage... and darling, they ain't mutually exclusive

a man in a hat says something 's wrong in front of a poster for the blues brothers ALT: a man in a hat says something 's wrong in front of a poster for the blues brothers

literally nobody needs to hear this, but:
The Blues Brothers makes terrifying, decades-later sense... if you frame the titular siblings as siren-like vampires existing canonically in the Sinners universe

Thank you Emma! George is now on Bluesky btw ! - @georgeackles.bsky.social

Be careful what you wish for...
The extraordinary @questiongames.bsky.social have released the trailer for The Killing Stone, a project I am immensely proud to be a part of. Play EA on @steampowered.com so you too can dance with @voiceofobrien.bsky.social - er - the Devil, I mean 😈

So excited to announce that Strange Scaffold is sponsoring the Frosty Games showcases this year.

The degree to which ANZ teams go above and beyond to not just contribute to the medium, but also better the ecosystem of making games, can't be overstated!

my solution to this was to hold all that garbage in my head and do it live.

I don't recommend it

The Killing Stone - New Language Support, Bug Fixes, and Balance Patch - Steam News New Languages! (中文, Deutsch, Français, Español) Our first Early Access update lets you play in these additional languages. We've also done some early quality of life bug fixes...

Update 1 for @thekillingstone.com is live. Some bug fixes, but: we've added Simplified Chinese 中文, Latin American Spanish, French, & German!

I'm lighting a candle for the hyper-committed, thoughtful translators at LocQuest, now each is individually credited.🕯️🫀
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Hi folks. If you liked The Killing Stone's early access build, and aren't on our Discord, where we've already whispered this in your ear ad nauseam - mind leaving a positive review for us?

It's fine to just say "@voiceofobrien.bsky.social as the Devil - WOULD." or something, you're in the majority❤️‍🔥

TO THE WRITERS OF THE UNIT GREETINGS. AS WE LEARN HOW TO WRITE THIS SHOW, A RECURRING PROBLEM BECOMES CLEAR. THE PROBLEM IS THIS: TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN DRAMA AND NON-DRAMA. LET ME BREAK-IT-DOWN-NOW. VERYONE IN CREATION IS SCREAMING AT US TO MAKE THE SHOW TASKED CLEAR. WE ARE TASKED WITH, IT SEEMS, CRAMMING A SHITLOAD OF INFORMATION INTO A LITTLE BIT OF TIME. OUR FRIENDS. THE PENGUINS, THINK THAT WE, THEREFORE, ARE EMPLOYED TO COMMUNICATE INFORMATION -- AND, SO, AT TIMES, IT SEEMS TO US. BUT NOTE: THE AUDIENCE WILL NOT TUNE IN TO WATCH INFORMATION. YOU WOULDN'T, I WOULDN'T. NO ONE WOULD OR WILL. THE AUDIENCE WILL ONLY TUNE IN AND STAY TUNED TO WATCH DRAMA.

My friend and dear heart @maxfolkman.bsky.social today reminded me of the most important (game or otherwise) writing document, Mamet’s memo to his writers on The Unit. It is my Bible. It is what all of us aspire to screencraft.org/wp-content/u...

I failed this same quest! I hope you find more than I did.

Wonder what happened to all the brilliant new ideas genAI was going to help bring to life. We’re over two years in now, anybody seen any?

Now that I've finished my manuscript, I'm looking for literary agents that represent LGBTQ/Urban Fantasy (and even some Romantasy) elements.

Would appreciate the recommendations so I can start the query process!

And @bhvr.com for facilitating! 🫀

this game rules play The Killing Stone y'all

A text box from inside The Killing Stone's developer-only script tool. It reads: "You are my guest. My impertinence, I hope, does not offend. Yet Maven... from my Grandam, I know you are schooled in theology. But do you... come here to do God's work?" Then, two @ signs which separate the above from the 17th century text. After that: "My guest, thou art. Mine impertinence, I hope, will offend thee not. But Maven... from my late Grandam, I know thou art in theology school'd. Yet art thou hither come... to do God's work?" Stage direction for both reads: Some caution here is vital. He could disrupt the Rituals trivially.

This is what the period / plain scripts look like in our middleware. To make it work with localization, VO & non-VO lines: @occultgamedev.bsky.social and @dphrygian.com had to endure their own ur-mythic struggle, wading in vs. a hydra-like problem w/ nothing but a fistful of electrons.
They rule. 💪♥️

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Here’s a ref song I sent @voiceofobrien.bsky.social before his first recording session for TKS, as our Devil. Like me - his work involves words, so he understands their severe limitations, far as feelings go. 🪽 music.youtube.com/watch?v=vTe2...

May Monday avail you, against all your Adversaries.

I know there are a lot of sites out there these days so I just want to thank everyone who has been kind enough to read or share my work on here. Right now, this is my escape and I’m just trying to find my writing groove again after a lot of doubt so I really appreciate the support. 🖤

a chatter named space_nerd117 says "kinda wish there was a side-by-side option for subtitles" when watching a stream of The Killing Stone

twitch chatter, thou art insatiety itself. This would, of course, destroy us utterly to implement. But I respect the naked gluttony of it. Tell me that you're an escaped goblin of academia without telling me, etc. 🤓

If you follow me, statistically you have a *way* higher chance of making this happen than the average person. Just sayin'

Don't mind me, but I really want to play a new game where you get to throw bodies over your shoulder, then dump them into a dark corner to hide them from guards. Know what I mean? 😊