Andrew Plotkin @zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place

A twitter hashtag is going on about four games that influenced you, and hey, I can post the images here too.

Missing moments in games: investigating key moments in _Everything_ and _El Shaddai_. (Way big spoilers.) http://blog.zarfhome.com/2018/04/missing-moments-in-games.html

Inevitably, I have words about the Twitter client situation: http://blog.zarfhome.com/2018/04/why-does-twitter-allow-third-party.html

My comment on Slack's recent announcement about their XMPP/IRC gateways. They are making a mistake. http://blog.zarfhome.com/2018/03/open-letter-slack-should-not.html

Cyan announces Firmament, posts a trailer video. I don't know anything more than anybody else but I have a blog so I might as well speculate some. http://blog.zarfhome.com/2018/03/cyan-announces-firmament.html

I am aware of the Asymmetric/CampoSanto party, the "Made In MA" party (since I live in MA), and "The Other Party". Latter two can be found at https://www.eventbrite.com/d/ca--san-francisco/gdc/

Is there much of a GDC-going contingent here? I am casting around for stuff to do which is interesting on the indie/narrative front.

Screenshot Saturday! https://mastodon.gamedev.place/media/qbN7gLqTNUTVhlCxj6k

I posted an entry to the Manifesto Jam: https://itch.io/jam/manifesto-jam . It is small and goofy.

GAMES ARE fur-bearing. GAMES ARE NOT the blockchain.

Heck, maybe I should just procgen enough manifesto to sink a boat.

A friend pointed out the Cheap Art Manifesto which is also appealing.

Maybe I'll just scream incoherently for thirty seconds and run the audio data through a Life simulator.

I keep trying to think in terms of a manifesto for the Manifesto Jam (https://itch.io/jam/manifesto-jam), but I just wind up re-reading Captain Beefheart's Ten Commandments and feeling like there ain't nothing else to add.

My favorite games of 2017: Gorogoa, Cinco Paus, Universal Paperclips, Night in the Woods. http://blog.zarfhome.com/2018/01/my-favorite-games-of-2017.html

Thanks to everyone here who helped me out.

Jason Shiga's Meanwhile is now available on Steam and Itch.IO! And surprise DLC bonus comic: The Case of the Missing Science Project! http://blog.zarfhome.com/2018/01/meanwhile-is-now-available-on-steam.html

More IGF comments: Tacoma (briefly), The Sexy Brutale, Reigns: Her Majesty, Getting Over It, Water Tastes Like Wine. http://blog.zarfhome.com/2018/01/2018-igf-nominees-fascinating.html

I haven't looked at keybase in while, sigh.

I don't currently have the right stick hooked up to anything.

When you're browsing, stick/dpad/arrow-key movement is purely geometrical -- it ignores path directions. I figure that people will just hold the stick down.

(When you're playing, purely geometric stick movement always works. But moving in the path direction should *also* work, even if there's a bendy path. Making all that work was fun.)