James Youngman
@jyoungman.bsky.social
He/him Game Designer, composer, writer
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/ten-lessons-over-ten-years
http://jamesyoungman.bandcamp.com
https://jyoungman.itch.io
Senior Tech Designer at Elsewhere. All opinions my own.
#gamedev | #gamedesign
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/ten-lessons-over-ten-years
http://jamesyoungman.bandcamp.com
https://jyoungman.itch.io
Senior Tech Designer at Elsewhere. All opinions my own.
#gamedev | #gamedesign
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Wyze isn't for me, but this is a GREAT trend to start. There's gonna be a huge market for disconnected tech.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROFb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROFb...
Definitely Only for Dogs: Ring's Superbowl Commercial (Parody)
YouTube video by Wyze
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Wyze isn't for me, but this is a GREAT trend to start. There's gonna be a huge market for disconnected tech.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROFb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROFb...
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Whenever a new AI company chooses a logo, I can't help but think of Community.
February 14, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Whenever a new AI company chooses a logo, I can't help but think of Community.
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More anti-fascist software:
ExifTool - an open source metadata editor for photos.
exiftool.org
EXIF data can expose where a photo was taken, on what software it was edited, camera info, and much more. Cleaning a file before posting it prevents bad actors (hey, bad actors!) from exploiting that.
ExifTool - an open source metadata editor for photos.
exiftool.org
EXIF data can expose where a photo was taken, on what software it was edited, camera info, and much more. Cleaning a file before posting it prevents bad actors (hey, bad actors!) from exploiting that.
ExifTool by Phil Harvey
A command-line application and Perl library for
reading and writing EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, makernotes and other meta information
in image, audio and video files. For Windows, MacOS, and Unix syste...
exiftool.org
February 14, 2026 at 4:57 AM
More anti-fascist software:
ExifTool - an open source metadata editor for photos.
exiftool.org
EXIF data can expose where a photo was taken, on what software it was edited, camera info, and much more. Cleaning a file before posting it prevents bad actors (hey, bad actors!) from exploiting that.
ExifTool - an open source metadata editor for photos.
exiftool.org
EXIF data can expose where a photo was taken, on what software it was edited, camera info, and much more. Cleaning a file before posting it prevents bad actors (hey, bad actors!) from exploiting that.
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Teenagers use Jungian psychology to physically beat personal and public demons
Teenagers refuse to allow an apocalypse they'd never live to see occur
So this plumber eats mushrooms to fight evil turtles to rescue a princess.
February 14, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Teenagers use Jungian psychology to physically beat personal and public demons
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Really nice article by @gengelstein.bsky.social on one of the most fundamental tools of game design. I'm constantly doing these kinds of EV calculations while designing, at both early and late stages of the process. gametek.substack.com/p/great-expe...
Great Expectations
Mathematical modeling for game design
gametek.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Really nice article by @gengelstein.bsky.social on one of the most fundamental tools of game design. I'm constantly doing these kinds of EV calculations while designing, at both early and late stages of the process. gametek.substack.com/p/great-expe...
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This framing is utter nonsense but also Congressional Democrats ::grits teeth:: deserve quite a bit of credit for doing this despite knowing it would get framed this way.
Let's hope they hold the line, forever if needs be.
Let's hope they hold the line, forever if needs be.
Note the framing here:
It’s “Democrats have refused to fund” DHS and not “Republicans refused to prohibit face masks” or “the two parties could not agree on how to reform the agency.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
It’s “Democrats have refused to fund” DHS and not “Republicans refused to prohibit face masks” or “the two parties could not agree on how to reform the agency.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
February 14, 2026 at 2:14 AM
This framing is utter nonsense but also Congressional Democrats ::grits teeth:: deserve quite a bit of credit for doing this despite knowing it would get framed this way.
Let's hope they hold the line, forever if needs be.
Let's hope they hold the line, forever if needs be.
Teenagers refuse to allow an apocalypse they'd never live to see occur
So this plumber eats mushrooms to fight evil turtles to rescue a princess.
February 14, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Teenagers refuse to allow an apocalypse they'd never live to see occur
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What the young person in the brown sweatshirt recognizes is that some views are, in and of themselves, violent. Such as the support of a secret police that kidnaps, murders, and tortures.
there’s a longer version here in which our hero follows up by telling him “you can go peacefully fuck yourself” after he claims to be “peacefully standing for my beliefs”
Context:
February 14, 2026 at 12:05 AM
What the young person in the brown sweatshirt recognizes is that some views are, in and of themselves, violent. Such as the support of a secret police that kidnaps, murders, and tortures.
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i personally think any opportunity to get out and tell people that a better world is possible is a good one
February 13, 2026 at 6:36 PM
i personally think any opportunity to get out and tell people that a better world is possible is a good one
Yes! Context is so critical to everything in game development!
February 13, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Yes! Context is so critical to everything in game development!
Dang! The search continues
February 13, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Dang! The search continues
Is the keyboard available separately?
February 13, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Is the keyboard available separately?
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Buy this book and support a bunch of rising stars in game narrative
February 13, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Buy this book and support a bunch of rising stars in game narrative
Curious to see if a third party acts on this opportunity in a serious way.
New Mexico Republicans have made history, just not in a way anyone wants to: For the first time since the Land of Enchantment became a state in 1912, Republicans won’t field a candidate in a U.S. Senate race.
Morning Digest: For the first time ever, New Mexico Republicans won't field a Senate candidate
It's one of three statewide races that the GOP is forfeiting this year
www.the-downballot.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Curious to see if a third party acts on this opportunity in a serious way.
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I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
How do you like this, Mr. Vegan? *tries to take a big bite out of a GPU*
February 13, 2026 at 5:42 PM
How do you like this, Mr. Vegan? *tries to take a big bite out of a GPU*
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What if we brought back forums but as a bonus other thing we rebooted Trillian and contact lists as well?
February 13, 2026 at 5:50 AM
What if we brought back forums but as a bonus other thing we rebooted Trillian and contact lists as well?
First Law of Thermodynamics is about to be the First Recommendation of Thermodynamics
February 13, 2026 at 4:46 PM
First Law of Thermodynamics is about to be the First Recommendation of Thermodynamics
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The far right is international. People are correct to scorn America in particular, but don't get complacent about what is happening in your own backyard.
Sweden deports eight month old baby to Iran without his parents, national public radio reports. The ruling is a consequence of the harsh immigration laws initiated by the success of the nazi-originated party that is now crucial to the government’s mandate, but most parties are behind these laws.
Born in Sweden, baby Emanuel to be deported to Iran - Radio Sweden
After a ruling by the Migration Agency, eight month old baby Emanuel, who was born in Sweden, is facing a deportation order to his family's homeland of ...
www.sverigesradio.se
February 13, 2026 at 10:17 AM
The far right is international. People are correct to scorn America in particular, but don't get complacent about what is happening in your own backyard.
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Gamers and content creators tend to criticize games thinking that the pressure will fall on the company owners or the publishers, but the first one to suffer all the harsh comments and the hate are the developers who invested years of their lives on them.
This is not a complaint, just a reminder.
This is not a complaint, just a reminder.
"We were turned into a joke from minute one" - fired Highguard developer reflects on game's ill-fated launch and "false assumptions" after Game Awards reveal www.eurogamer.net/we-were-turn...
February 13, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Gamers and content creators tend to criticize games thinking that the pressure will fall on the company owners or the publishers, but the first one to suffer all the harsh comments and the hate are the developers who invested years of their lives on them.
This is not a complaint, just a reminder.
This is not a complaint, just a reminder.
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Just over 750,000 people in the U.S. are getting infected with COVID every day.
The risk of developing Long COVID goes up with each infection.
The upper bound for developing Long COVID after three+ infections is 47%.
The average American has had over 5 infections.
www.pmc19.com/data/index.php
The risk of developing Long COVID goes up with each infection.
The upper bound for developing Long COVID after three+ infections is 47%.
The average American has had over 5 infections.
www.pmc19.com/data/index.php
February 13, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Just over 750,000 people in the U.S. are getting infected with COVID every day.
The risk of developing Long COVID goes up with each infection.
The upper bound for developing Long COVID after three+ infections is 47%.
The average American has had over 5 infections.
www.pmc19.com/data/index.php
The risk of developing Long COVID goes up with each infection.
The upper bound for developing Long COVID after three+ infections is 47%.
The average American has had over 5 infections.
www.pmc19.com/data/index.php
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Again, there ought to be a 'war council' of lawyers somewhere in Democratic Party land spending the next three years gaming out the mechanisms by which these goons can be held accountable, so there's a game plan on the table Day One for a new administration with a new attorney general.
February 13, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Again, there ought to be a 'war council' of lawyers somewhere in Democratic Party land spending the next three years gaming out the mechanisms by which these goons can be held accountable, so there's a game plan on the table Day One for a new administration with a new attorney general.
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Always do a final check of people's names, not just for spelling, but also make sure it's their chosen name. You don't want to end up dead naming people in your credits. When in doubt use our free IGDA resources igda.org/sigs/credits/
February 13, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Always do a final check of people's names, not just for spelling, but also make sure it's their chosen name. You don't want to end up dead naming people in your credits. When in doubt use our free IGDA resources igda.org/sigs/credits/