@hummeline
social & community strategy for great indie games! current: Unpacking π¦, Go-Go Town! ποΈ // past: DREDGE π£ , Tempopo π· Valley Girl. I write theinternetexplorers.club, a newsletter about weird internet things. I made arrestedwesteros.com a while ago
Do yourself a favor and check out the Never's End demoβit's a real delight to play AND is all in 3D which is a masterful feat (and they'll be doing a talk at GDC about it this week if you want to learn more!)
Also I will never shut up about Pack Cat, your companion slash backpack π
Internet is back and I wrote 750 words πππΌ
Me: running around the house screaming because we have no internet since Wednesday
Also me: not working on the short story thatβs due to my writing group that does not require internet to finish
Oh right, I'll be at GDC next week! π΅βπ« I'll be attempting a low-key GDC (difficulty: impossible) and if you're looking for social / community support in the back half of the year (or just want to say hi), please let me know!
Truly, the culture wars were a helluva time to talk about memory / memorialization or anything like that, let alone build a monument π¬
Oh this is a fascinating read! I so loved living in the DC area because of its rich, complicated, and bizarre history that permeates everything (like, I wrote my master's thesis on the rollercoaster that is the WWII memorial) and is so often written off, so I can't wait to read the whole series
Point/Counterpoint This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won't Share Published: March 26, 2003
Time is a flat circle
La La Land was also my answer to this for exactly that reason hahahaha
How to describe THE APPLE??
A movie that contains an evil music executive, rock opera, God in a Rolls Royce, Canadian folk music stars, actual sequence set in Hell, and one vampire.
Time to watch it on the big screen as Mr Boogalow intended:
www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
Oooh I've always wanted to run the Quiet Year!! In terms of mapping games, Old Morris Cave is adjacent but it has you build out a strata chart which is so much fun thousandyearoldvampire.com/products/tyoc
It was such an honor to work as one of Gabor's research assistants in college, to attend so many Civil War Institutes, and have him as a mentor and advisor. He made me love Lincoln, but also to focus on the smaller stories of the Civil War & I am forever grateful.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/b...
this idea rules so much and I cannot wait to see when it comes to fruition
they were so good π
a person bundled into a tauntaun shaped sleeping bag in a snow field wearing goggles
Think Geek catalog page featuring the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag with my photo as the "customer action shot"
a moment in time: sixteen years ago I took a tauntaun sleeping bag outside into "Snowmaggedon" in DC and then it got put in the Think Geek catalog
a screenshot of go-go town with maybe 40 horses I can't count
great news their animations are somewhat synced so they all stare at the same time
a screeshot of Go-Go Town! where I generated 18 horses
this is why I shouldn't be allowed to have dev tools π
we are back from our adventure at sea (with some wild swells) and have now put our cute merit badges and patches up for sale if you want to get some!
Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.
Oooh I'll add that too! I loved Temeraire & Spinning Silver
same same same! also I just started The Everlasting by Alix Harrow and I am super digging it, heartily recommend
Ahh so exciting!!! π¦ββ¬
report #3 on the "did you feel it" for an earthquake... riding high, my friends earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Iβm on the Go-Go Town! team so very biased π but Iβm so excited to see it come to 1.0 this year store.steampowered.com/app/2195120/...
And also VERY excited for Big Walk!
HELL yeah
both of us will ride these highs for years tbh
Oooh I loved Matrix & Piranisi, and am in the midst of Taiwan Travelogue now!
Recs: Ministry of Time was a lot of fun, and A River Has Roots is short but really lovely
This very much felt like the Year of The Puzzle Game. Not only because I put 200 hours into Blue Prince (what), but with Citizen Sleeper 2, The Roottrees are Dead, Immortality, Seance of Blake Manor, & the Golden Idols, I had a very fun time π§©
(non-puzzle shoutout to Two Point Museum, I love you)
Some notable favorite new watches & reads
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- Laura
- The Player
- Zodiac
- JAWS (yes I had never seen it before)
- A Few Good Men
- Sinners (duh)
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- Faithful Place
- ShΕgun (!!!)
- Spectred Isle
- The River Has Roots & Six Deaths of the Saint, both short and delightful
a lot of movies: nosferatu, mulholland drive, laura, complete unknown, anora, royal tenenbaums, emilia perez, mickey 17, zodiac, april fool's day, top gun, heat, emperor's new groove, tampopo, sinners, black stallion, bonjour tristesse (new), conclave, bonjour tristesse (old), wise blood, friendship, hot fuzz, la confidential, godfather, ox-bow incident, fantastic 4, master & commander, naked gun, summertime, blade, superman, jaws, the player, all the president's men, castle in the sky, apollo 13, elm street 3, lebowski, conjuring, amadeus, weapons, a few good men, the haunting, frankenstein, predator badlands, singin' in the rain, rental family, wicked 2, a mighty wind
a lot of books: wicked, shogun, gentleman's gentleman, bright sword, copper script, glass maker, atmosphere, faithful place, incandescent, katabasis, paladin's grace, thief in the night, spectred isle, paladin's strength, a fashionable gentleman, paying guests, rules for ghosting, all of us murderers, trespasses, stag dance, game changer, heated rivalry, the river has roots, six deaths of the sain, eagle and the hart
a list of video games: blue prince, two point museum, citizen sleeper 2, roottrees are dead, 1000xresist, immortality, hades 2, seance of blake manor, dispatch, case of the golden idol, rise of the golden idol, proverbs, unpacking, go-go town!, dredge, tempopo, never's end
my annual Chronicling of Media for 2025. Less movies (49 vs 61), more books (26 vs 17), less games (12 vs 18)βbut who's counting. Here's to a new year of good stories told and a better world and a little less need for escapism!
A series of phrases to generate Rose Parade trophy names
A long list of qualities for Rose Parade trophies
The trophy categories were my favorite bit, theyβve always been so wild to me. Hereβs the back-end code & lists, these are sliced and diced from the real trophies (of course!)