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Behemoth bacon burgers and Moogle angel-food cake.

(!!!)

If anyone feels like proposing to me, do it here. I will automatically say yes.

#final fantasy #favorite games #video games #tokyo #cafe #food #moogle #gaming #meep

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It's dangerous to code alone.

Here, take this!

#code #javascript #twine #gamedev #why code sober #video games #self #my face #actually me #hey #indie dev #dev night #work #text games #narrative #ipa #dirt wolf #howl #victory brewing #favorite beer #feel free to send me cases of it #aworuuu

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*curtsies* thank you pip pip much obliged my good chap

Feud C64 charset in truetype format. Updated on 2014-07-31 (Version 1.001)

added glyphs

minor improvements

This is a truetype rebuild of the “Feud” C64 game charset with some added glyphs, done with Illustrator and Fontlab’s TypeTool 3.

The workflow is more time-consuming than with BitFontMaker2, but at least the result is more satisfying. As shown in the preview, the Feud font looks fine down to 8 pixels font size, compared with the Gauntlet font, which only works accurate down to 16 pixels.

Illustrator served as an 8x8 pixel editor and the resulting glyph vectors were imported to Type Tool 3. You could pass the Illustrator process and do it with TT3 only, but I am more familiar with Adobe tools.  In TT3 I adapted the metrics and dimensions from the great C64 truetype font by Style.

Download the “Feud” truetype font here: http://www.mazeon.net/downloads/Feud-Redux.zip

C64 charset probably originally created by Ste Pickford for the Feud computer game, published by Mastertronic in 1987. This truetype reproduction is for non commercial use only.

#font #truetype #feud #charset #free font #dev tools #game dev #design #web design #free stuff #thank you #fonts #typography #make games

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Nobody can nope out like Shep.

#commander shepard #shep #mass effect #nope #video games

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Sleeping Dogs pretty much wins my heart forever.

gamestop art appreciation

#video games #gamestop #doodles #sleeping dogs #batman #prototype #fable #mass effect

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Nope sorry wrong kind of twine, though I like where your head's at.

#joke #jk #i'm funny #twine

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(psst, I know I'm focusing and all that jazz but Joe Hill is one of my favorites writers. I get a lot of my inspiration for horror game concepts/narratives from reading his material. Also "writer's block" applies to anything creative, including game dev. It's okay to take days off from being a creative badass!)

hello, do you have any tips for getting around writers block?

Sometimes writers block happens when your imagination wants to explore a particular idea or subject, and you’re afraid to give yourself permission. Maybe you’re worried if you write about “X” your Mom will be horrified, or your friends will be disgusted and disappointed. So you try and think of an idea that isn’t “X” and your imagination says, “Oh, I see how it’s gonna be, go screw yourself.”

Your imagination runs on its own circuit. You either plug it in or you don’t.

Of course it’s also possible you’re just not feeling it this day/week/month. Take some walks. Read some short stories. I think the daily writing habit is a terrific one, but I also think sometimes it’s okay to write a couple letters and an entry in your journal. Give yourself a break. No one day of work matters all that much. See below for more on this subject.

#joe hill #non-gaming #writing #narrative #fiction #favorites #personal heroes #hero #horror #writer #writer's block #blockage #creativity #advice

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Time to do some brain-feeding/research by playing Twine games all night!

I'll post a super-swell round-up of the games I choose to hunker down and play.

Until then, FOCUS.

fo

#focus #game dev #research #twine #dev blog

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Happiness, The Video Game

Happiness, The Video Game

I consider my best friend to be a happy person, content with the life she has built around the solid, loving partner she has found (though, to their credit, the path to balance and harmony was not easy, and the snags they hit as a couple forced them both to grow as individuals). I’ve often had people accuse me of the converse. I am, to many people, a generally melancholy human being. Now,…

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#code #Code Liberation #game design #game dev #game development #gaming #happiness #indie games #new york #new york city #personal #Sunday #The New York Times #Twine #work

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Crytek A River: Wow, This Industry Is Terrifying

Crytek A River: Wow, This Industry Is Terrifying

I don’t mean that pun to be insensitive, I just couldn’t help but make it. There’s nothing funny about a huge company – in many ways a cornerstone of this industry – not paying its employees on time. If you were using my MacBook and you happened to open Google Chrome, my two home pages would pop up: Tumblr, and a listing for a writing position at Crytek’s Frankfurt office from 2012. When I first…

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#AAA #business #code #Code Liberation #coding #Crytek #dreams #family #feminism #game design #game dev #game development #gamedev #gaming #Harmonix #Homefront #Homefront 2 #Homefront: The Revolution #Irrational #Kotaku #layoffs #life #life decisions #motherhood #new york #new york city #personal #Philadelphia #philly #programming

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Me And My Rice Cooker (The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship)

It's Thursday, which means there's only a three day stretch between me and New York City.

Holy shit.

In three days I will be living in Manhattan.

Without getting too nostalgic, I have to mention that this has been a dream of mine since I was eleven (when I went to NYC to meet my internet boyfriend I'd wooed via Neopets).

So: big city, bright lights, no kitchen.

Well, that's not entirely true, there is physically a kitchen, but the appliances are so old running gas to them would be a (potentially deadly) fool's errand. As a devout foodie and home-chef, I immediately panicked when I heard this. Then I did some Google-ing.

You can make cake in a rice cooker.

I haven't tested this out yet, but the internet seems to want to convince me it's true. Here is a nifty list of all the rice cooker recipe collections on the topic I have found.

Three cheers for city life!

Summer 2014: video game development and rice-cooker-cakes:

BuzzFeed: 21 Surprising Things You Can Make In A Rice Cooker

Everybody Eats Well in Flanders: RCC #6 - Rice Coooker Moist Chocolate Cake

One Cook. Two Kitchens. Lemony Risotto with Shrimp

All Recipes: Vegetable Rice Pilaf in a Rice Cooker

The Kitchn: 5 Things You Can Make In a Rice Cooker (Other Than Rice)

Zojirushi: Recipe Collection

The New York Times: The Steamy Way to Dinner

#rice cooker #cooking #personal #foodie #home chef #chef #food #culinary #gourmet #the big apple #nyc #ny #new york #new york city #manhattan #summer #summer 2014 #kitchen #life hack #recipes #recipe collection #jess goes to ny #travel #game development #gamedev #summer camp #cake #rice #non-gaming

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Steam Summer Sale is like gamer Pon Farr.

#pon farr #star trek #vulcan sex #steam summer sale #steam #summer sale #gaming #pon farr is coming #i have no self control

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STEAM SUMMER SALE TRADING CARD NO. 4, THOUGH.

I want it. I need it. I will glut my backlog with ridiculously priced indie games until I have it.

#steam summer sale #video games #indie games #my backlog #ouch #stop me #steam #trading card

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Two upcoming mobile titles I think are neat-o bandit-o!

Two upcoming mobile titles I think are neat-o bandit-o!

Okay, so another quick post so I don’t forget these two really swell lookin’ mobile titles I’ve noticed poppin’ up on my new feeds:

Midnight Star

and

Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake

So, you can click either of the titles to mosey on over to Joystiq’s previews of them, or you can dig the jive I’m laying down:

Midnight Star looks super snazzy because it’s a mobile FPS that doesn’t look god-awful!That…

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#bungie #cartoon network #FPS #gaming #Midnight Star #mobile games #monsters ate my birthday cake #on-rails shooter #shooter #sleepninja games #video games

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Sunset Overdrive's latest TV episode details character customization and traps.

Them there sound like fightin' words to me.

Quickly, since I'm supposed to be at work:

1. TRAPS! TRAPS TRAPS TRAPS I'm going to enjoy this game so much.

2. "You can be a dude in a skirt." If you hadn't had me at hello, Insomniac, you've certainly got a spot on my dance card now.

3. You can summon a dog with the traps. *mic drop*

#insomniac #insomniac games #sunset overdrive #gameplay #preview #video #article #reading material #viewing material #games i can't want to play #games i'm hyped on #video games #gaming #dogs #dogs in games #women #ladies #women in games #ubisoft #fight #girls in games #girl party

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Accurate representation of my life mantra: fancy tea, game design/story writing, infinite naps.

#personal #buy me this #rad #clothes #t-shirt #stuff lust #tea #game design #artist #art #create

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AND SO IT BEGINS.

#god help my wallet #gamer problems #indie games #my backlog #my collection #video games #gaming #steam summer sale #steam #summer sale #hotline miami #don't starve