A cartoon drawing of an anthropomorphized “Mr. Claw Machine” with angry eyebrows and a title of “The Campion of Barely Hanging On”
The best part about this is that I drew it without knowing what the champion title would be
We have similar tokens that generate a long string of characters like a cat walking across the keyboard, and when someone accidentally bumps theirs in a company-wide slack channel I take too much joy in reacting with “same”
I also made a little simulator for fun after many failed attempts to get 10 heads in a row. I wanted to try to predict how many more attempts it might take, but answers varied wildly from 40 hours to “you should have done it in 20 minutes on your first try!”
github.com/askrepps/unf...
The ending screen of the video game Unfair Flips after flipping "heads" on a coin 10 times in a row. There is a large, shiny gold star in the center of the screen with "Goo job" and a smiley face written on it. Fireworks explode in the shape of smiley faces in the background while a mysterious figure wearing an animal mask watches you from afar.
12 hours later, there is no question this will be the most personally meaningful video game victory I achieve this year. Shout outs to @hthrflwrs.bsky.social for releasing such a captivating (and maddening) game.
(You should play Unfair Flips. It's really cool.)
In addition to the Red Duke, Blue Baron, and Yellow Earl I submit the Purple Count:
“One. One heads. Two! Two heads! Three!! Three heads!! … One. One tails… Ah ah ah…”
Screenshot of an area map in the video game Donkey Kong Bananza showing a banana-shaped rock formation in the distance
You see that banana? You can go there
Table drawn in MS Paint titled "Market Gap Analysis" with rows labeled "Outer" and "Out of" and columns labeled Wilds, Worlds, and Words. The table shows that Outer Wilds, Outer Worlds, and Out of Words have games associates with them, but Out of Wilds, Out of Worlds, and Outer Words do not.
My main takeaway from SGF this weekend is that there are specific niches the games industry has yet to fill
o7
I assume at least 1 person brought up Skies of Arcadia
The Messenger
y'all ever see a take so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep?
Added Facebook and Instagram to the pile of deleted accounts. Still feels good.
The wife still always seems to find ways to surprise me with good gift ideas. It plays decently well, too!
Good opportunity to compose whatever the opposite of "The Immovable Do" is. The Vanishing Sol?
Yew could really spruce up a garage or basement with it though
Post a game with a 10/10 OST
I can think of so many, but if I have to pick just 1, my gut tells me it has to be The Messenger
Honorable mentions:
- Tunic
- Ori and the Blind Forest
- Shovel Knight
- VVVVVV
- Final Fantasy IX
- Chrono Cross
Finally deactivated all my accounts on that bird site formally known as Twitter. Feels good.
But is it “buy a PS5” good? This feels like the exception for which Sony games will eventually make it over to PC
Even if it's just a short silly thing, it's always satisfying to realize a creative idea that's been rolling around in your head
In spite of a hectic end to the year I still managed to find some time and motivation to put the finishing touches on one of my game dev projects over the holiday break. Hopefully I’ll be able to announce something soon?
It’s that time of year again for Advent of Code. This year I’m trying out some Swift: github.com/askrepps/adv...
I recently changed to a new team/role at work and had a bunch of stuff transferred over to me. Today I got an email that said:
“Andrew, this email is to inform that you have been designated as the new owner of the following items. If you have any questions, please contact the owner (Andrew)”
I made one of those fancy custom domain handles. Woo?
Today’s emergency alert test was a *great* day to be a mobile developer with a ton of devices on their desk let me tell you…
Congrats to the mosquito that bit my hand for the free covid/flu protection
Time to go get boosted yet again!
Screenshot of a CAPTCHA asking the user to identify pictures of hedgehogs in water. One of the images has been replaced with a picture of Sonic the Hedgehog drowning from the original Sega Genesis game.
Yikes, CAPTCHAs are getting pretty intense these days…
A screenshot of pixelated text comprised of mangled letters and punctuation
Either I invented a new language and alphabet for my latest game project, or I just messed up the layout of my custom pixel font file…
A Bluesky post containing only a crying laughter emoji with a link to translate the post
Google translate page showing that the crying laughter emoji translates to a crying laughter emoji
Gee, thanks…
