ipsquiggle
@ipsquiggle.bsky.social
My cozy village builder, Brick & Bramble! 🌱 https://ipsquiggle.itch.io/brick-and-bramble
Father, tinkerer, game developer.
I post about about making, programming, dreams, homeschooling, electronics, life logging, meditation, procgen, and urbanism.
Father, tinkerer, game developer.
I post about about making, programming, dreams, homeschooling, electronics, life logging, meditation, procgen, and urbanism.
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ipsquiggle
@ipsquiggle.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Brick & Bramble Prototype by ipsquiggle, Fer-i
A cozy village sim with freeform construction and faeries!
ipsquiggle.itch.io
#introduction time! Hello! I'm Graham, and I think too hard about things! 😂
I'm making an indie game called Brick & Bramble (ipsquiggle.itch.io/brick-and-br...), and before that I was a lead/designer/developer on Oxygen Not Included and Don't Starve. 🌱
I love to share my process always, so AMA! 📝
I'm making an indie game called Brick & Bramble (ipsquiggle.itch.io/brick-and-br...), and before that I was a lead/designer/developer on Oxygen Not Included and Don't Starve. 🌱
I love to share my process always, so AMA! 📝
I've discovered I have a strong preference for the word "Dynamical" over "Dynamic" in design. My intuition says that Dynamic has connotations closer to "exciting" and "varied", where Dynamical has connotations closer to "full of dynamics" which is my intended meaning.
#gameDesign #gameDev
#gameDesign #gameDev
January 2, 2026 at 6:50 PM
I've discovered I have a strong preference for the word "Dynamical" over "Dynamic" in design. My intuition says that Dynamic has connotations closer to "exciting" and "varied", where Dynamical has connotations closer to "full of dynamics" which is my intended meaning.
#gameDesign #gameDev
#gameDesign #gameDev
Okay, I've gotten emails from a number of large companies in the past month (Github, notably!) that don't have unsubscribe links anymore. Did a law change? Are tech companies experimenting with noncompliance? Has it just been a coincidence??
December 31, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Okay, I've gotten emails from a number of large companies in the past month (Github, notably!) that don't have unsubscribe links anymore. Did a law change? Are tech companies experimenting with noncompliance? Has it just been a coincidence??
Huh: Today I Learned that the inflection point of a normal curve is always at 1 standard deviation. I'd be interested to know WHY that is, what property is driving what here?? 🤔
December 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Huh: Today I Learned that the inflection point of a normal curve is always at 1 standard deviation. I'd be interested to know WHY that is, what property is driving what here?? 🤔
I think one of my big failings as a game designer is that I'm REALLY good at having fun. I often play the jankest shit (that I or someone else made) and rapidly start having fun with it, and it makes it hard for me to push it further.
And I don't mean "I can see the fun", I'm legitimately funnin'.
And I don't mean "I can see the fun", I'm legitimately funnin'.
December 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I think one of my big failings as a game designer is that I'm REALLY good at having fun. I often play the jankest shit (that I or someone else made) and rapidly start having fun with it, and it makes it hard for me to push it further.
And I don't mean "I can see the fun", I'm legitimately funnin'.
And I don't mean "I can see the fun", I'm legitimately funnin'.
I know it's a small thing but I can't help feeling sad for Nintendo that their new console is the "2". Every other system they've ever made has had an explicit thematic reason to exist. This time they capitulated to technology and just made "more".
December 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I know it's a small thing but I can't help feeling sad for Nintendo that their new console is the "2". Every other system they've ever made has had an explicit thematic reason to exist. This time they capitulated to technology and just made "more".
Time for my monthly uninstall of Copilot from all my computers 💖
December 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Time for my monthly uninstall of Copilot from all my computers 💖
Ugh, I've been trying to convey to people just how horrified I am by our current Canadian leadership, this does a great job of summing everything up. UGGGHHHH.
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Steven Guilbeault and the Resistance We Need | The Tyee
For the good of country and party, more Liberals need to boldly step away from Carney’s agenda.
thetyee.ca
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Ugh, I've been trying to convey to people just how horrified I am by our current Canadian leadership, this does a great job of summing everything up. UGGGHHHH.
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
When two clocks in your house are off by a minute, and you're following the faster clock and your partner the slower, and you can sneak in am extra one minute activity at an opportune moment.
December 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
When two clocks in your house are off by a minute, and you're following the faster clock and your partner the slower, and you can sneak in am extra one minute activity at an opportune moment.
For any app/website/whatever that offers light and dark themes.. why would the default ever _not_ be "match OS". Like, I've already clearly indicated my preference at a highlevel, and this is a pretty ergonomic choice (not just "style").. so seriously, please respect that choice??
December 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
For any app/website/whatever that offers light and dark themes.. why would the default ever _not_ be "match OS". Like, I've already clearly indicated my preference at a highlevel, and this is a pretty ergonomic choice (not just "style").. so seriously, please respect that choice??
Oh fuck this bill is so abysmal! Please please PLEASE write your MPs and tell them to vote against this garbage power grab! We do not need "executive vigor", we need representation and rule of law. UGGGHHH 😬😬😬
Bill C 15 shows how fragile our democracy is under a winner take all system.
When one party can control Parliament, it becomes far too easy to concentrate power.
Proportional representation is how we rebuild real checks and balances.
Read more here: www.fairvote.ca/08/12/2025/b...
When one party can control Parliament, it becomes far too easy to concentrate power.
Proportional representation is how we rebuild real checks and balances.
Read more here: www.fairvote.ca/08/12/2025/b...
The powers in Bill C-15, the Budget Implementation Act, are an affront to Parliamentary democracy
As the Toronto Star’s Althia Raj pointed out the Budget Implementation Act gives Cabinet Ministers “the power to exempt any individual or company from any federal law on the books except for the…
www.fairvote.ca
December 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Oh fuck this bill is so abysmal! Please please PLEASE write your MPs and tell them to vote against this garbage power grab! We do not need "executive vigor", we need representation and rule of law. UGGGHHH 😬😬😬
So many reminders lately that the "efficiency of capitalism" is really just about externalizing costs and then pretending they don't exist.
December 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
So many reminders lately that the "efficiency of capitalism" is really just about externalizing costs and then pretending they don't exist.
Hell yessss this is so refreshing!
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Hell yessss this is so refreshing!
Reposted by ipsquiggle
Reviving this fun format from a couple of years ago with updated data.
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Reviving this fun format from a couple of years ago with updated data.
Reposted by ipsquiggle
Offered to drive the teen somewhere on my way out: “nah, i like the bus”
December 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Offered to drive the teen somewhere on my way out: “nah, i like the bus”
This jet trail was leaving a shadow on a nearby cloud, I've never seem this before! The whole sky became 3D for a moment as I watched it from the train.
December 1, 2025 at 3:36 AM
This jet trail was leaving a shadow on a nearby cloud, I've never seem this before! The whole sky became 3D for a moment as I watched it from the train.
I love Assam tea.
I just drank a mouthful at perfect tempersture and out loud went, "Aaahhh yum-yum–yum-yum-yum," involuntarily.
I just drank a mouthful at perfect tempersture and out loud went, "Aaahhh yum-yum–yum-yum-yum," involuntarily.
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I love Assam tea.
I just drank a mouthful at perfect tempersture and out loud went, "Aaahhh yum-yum–yum-yum-yum," involuntarily.
I just drank a mouthful at perfect tempersture and out loud went, "Aaahhh yum-yum–yum-yum-yum," involuntarily.
I care about voting reform so much!! I'm so hopeful that this time BC can make it stick (and as I understand it, Citizen's Assembly is a great path forward)!
I also want this to happen as a signal to the federal government...
🤞😣🤞
I also want this to happen as a signal to the federal government...
🤞😣🤞
Big news in British Columbia! The all party Democratic and Electoral Reform Committee has recommended a Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform after months of hearings. 1/10
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I care about voting reform so much!! I'm so hopeful that this time BC can make it stick (and as I understand it, Citizen's Assembly is a great path forward)!
I also want this to happen as a signal to the federal government...
🤞😣🤞
I also want this to happen as a signal to the federal government...
🤞😣🤞
When I become king of the world, I will banish anyone who was ever responsible for me having to click a "Maybe Later" button when I actually mean "No."
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November 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
When I become king of the world, I will banish anyone who was ever responsible for me having to click a "Maybe Later" button when I actually mean "No."
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PSA, this incredible slice of my childhood is available on Prime, in Canada at least.
(Of course, I own it from it's original DVD release still... 😇)
(Of course, I own it from it's original DVD release still... 😇)
The Odyssey was a show I was OBSESSED with. I tried to write a thing about it years ago. It was a show about a kid who goes into a coma and has to fight his way out of a world in his head with no adults. Ryan Reynolds played the head cop. incredibly weird vibes
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
PSA, this incredible slice of my childhood is available on Prime, in Canada at least.
(Of course, I own it from it's original DVD release still... 😇)
(Of course, I own it from it's original DVD release still... 😇)
Whoever is in charge of the display for the stadium always makes the text scroll the wrong direction and it cracks me up.
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Whoever is in charge of the display for the stadium always makes the text scroll the wrong direction and it cracks me up.
I spent almost 2 hours today hunting down a bug caused by two numbers: 63.999998 and 64.000002. The problem is, when I round them down, they're an entire unit apart. Ugh. Programming is for suckers 🤣
November 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I spent almost 2 hours today hunting down a bug caused by two numbers: 63.999998 and 64.000002. The problem is, when I round them down, they're an entire unit apart. Ugh. Programming is for suckers 🤣
Huh, longstanding bug in VSCode is that the cursor position behaves poorly if there are tabs in the line (it moves to the same character count, not same screen position).
Apparently screen-line motions in the Vim extension work correctly though, so yay, remaping j/k to gj/gk! 💪🤓 #vim #vscode
Apparently screen-line motions in the Vim extension work correctly though, so yay, remaping j/k to gj/gk! 💪🤓 #vim #vscode
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I have just witnessed a true christmas miracle:
Two separate orders from amazon, due the same day, arrived _in one box! _
Two separate orders from amazon, due the same day, arrived _in one box! _
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I have just witnessed a true christmas miracle:
Two separate orders from amazon, due the same day, arrived _in one box! _
Two separate orders from amazon, due the same day, arrived _in one box! _