I went to the zoo yesterday and it's kind of fascinating to see it still open but with most of the zoo closed down; the African section was completely closed (understandable) and the Australian section was limited to two indoor sections with fish. The rainforest section was completely open, but curr...

I watch PBS Kids, partially for the novelty of watching shows through over-the-air broadcasts, and partially because Cyberchase is still going (yes, really!), but I've been finding that some of the other shows are fun too. There's a very new one named Carl the Collector that might be interesting...

And now the big Splatoon 3 "Grand Festival" is over. I spent most of my weekend playing Splatoon because I really wanted to make the most of this big final event, though I still made time to go places and hang out with people.

I had a really great time!! It really felt like I took part in a huge c...

There are still a ton of active forums in 2024, and some of them are active despite also having a Discord server available for the same community, so people are deliberately choosing it, rather than just using it because it's all that's available. That communication style isn't dead, and people stil...

Petal Crash Online 1.1.1 is finally out, and it includes a bunch of fixes, and we finally delivered on releasing the server software (which was waiting on getting 1.1.1 tested). Some of the remaining issues included weird softlocks, and one of the major features introduced in the previous version wa...

I've known about the e-Reader for a long time (and saw it advertised in things like Animal Crossing), and I got Pokémon cards as a kid that had dot codes on the sides but didn't have a way to use them. But I got an e-Reader very recently on a whim, and it's very cool! I got Pinball and Excitebike...

I think I actually prefer when a game dev who isn't great at art tries to draw the art anyway, rather than just using public domain art. Then it feels like the game has a lot more soul to it.

I keep recognizing https://opengameart.org/content/super-seasonal-platformer-tiles in different projects (...

In Splatoon 3 Turf War I think I've been getting better at bailing out of situations and escaping, which seems preferable to actually attempting to fight other people when I play a support weapon. The Big Swig Roller Express is made to just quickly and easily paint very large areas of the map, and m...

So I recently got a bit focused on calculators again! I had a TI-84+ Silver Edition as a teen and I used it for lots of portable computer uses, like taking notes, gaming, and writing programs to solve different tasks, and I played with writing assembly programs on the go with Mimas. It was very c...

During Art Fight I really really wanted to try and explore some of the GameCube library and embrace those aesthetics because I felt nostalgic about the GameCube, though I think the library kind of inherently has its own distinct style that was calling to me too. It has a lot of games that do somethi...