J. Thomas
@nullspeak.bsky.social
Working on @thekillingstone.com at Question, LLC. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/The_Killing_Stone/
Lead Writer / VO director of The Blackout Club 🔦 Creative Director, Bioshock 2. Designer, Bioshock: Fort Frolic, Thief 3: The Cradle. | he/him
Lead Writer / VO director of The Blackout Club 🔦 Creative Director, Bioshock 2. Designer, Bioshock: Fort Frolic, Thief 3: The Cradle. | he/him
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I am so very proud of this extraordinary game. Come dance with the devil and see what you find..be careful what you wish for. The superb and wonderful team @questiongames.bsky.social have outdone themselves again. Head over to Steam - play on the fabulous demo store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/...
Thank you, Emma! 🫀 Follow her on bsky, BG3 & voice acting nerds! One of the finest voice talents alive. The Killing Stone may be read as my barely-veiled fanfic about her making a pact with the devil to go on performing for an extra 100 years.
(I'm just saying, Emma... *consider your legacy* 😈)
(I'm just saying, Emma... *consider your legacy* 😈)
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cara rulz
Narrative design is seen as "expendable" because it's not "top-level game design", says BAFTA Breakthrough participant Cara Ellison. But narrative is "the thing that actually keeps people picking the controller back up."
www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...
www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...
BAFTA Breakthrough profile: Cara Ellison
"Your game's story or narrative, even if it's not a traditional narrative, is the thing that actually keeps people picking the controller back up"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
cara rulz
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Headline's a bit misleading. They're not worried that AI will replace them because it's good, but because "generative AI trained on vast amounts of [stolen] fiction will undermine the value of writing" itself
1/ We are pleased to have participated in this new report, which reflects the deep concerns we know our members have when it comes to Artificial Intelligence
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Novelists worried AI could replace them, Cambridge report finds
A Cambridge report says about half of those surveyed think AI could
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Headline's a bit misleading. They're not worried that AI will replace them because it's good, but because "generative AI trained on vast amounts of [stolen] fiction will undermine the value of writing" itself
@dphrygian.com
insomnia got me, bro- but what’s left of me is yelling to an empty room,
“No, we MUST retroactively rename all the work on old-school game AI to honor its frailty & charm, before history paves over it as Pre-LLM”
“yes-and dynamics?” “Soft Robotics?”
(foaming)
“PREDICTIVE KAYFABE”
insomnia got me, bro- but what’s left of me is yelling to an empty room,
“No, we MUST retroactively rename all the work on old-school game AI to honor its frailty & charm, before history paves over it as Pre-LLM”
“yes-and dynamics?” “Soft Robotics?”
(foaming)
“PREDICTIVE KAYFABE”
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
@dphrygian.com
insomnia got me, bro- but what’s left of me is yelling to an empty room,
“No, we MUST retroactively rename all the work on old-school game AI to honor its frailty & charm, before history paves over it as Pre-LLM”
“yes-and dynamics?” “Soft Robotics?”
(foaming)
“PREDICTIVE KAYFABE”
insomnia got me, bro- but what’s left of me is yelling to an empty room,
“No, we MUST retroactively rename all the work on old-school game AI to honor its frailty & charm, before history paves over it as Pre-LLM”
“yes-and dynamics?” “Soft Robotics?”
(foaming)
“PREDICTIVE KAYFABE”
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Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Too lazy to log into @permadeath.bsky.social
But: highlight of my week was a dear friend's character in Call of Cthulhu getting pulped by an abomination, in a ~2006 era gaming store? (IDK, just mythos things)
this GIF is a forensic reconstruction of my sad nurse girl's adjacent face, and feelings
But: highlight of my week was a dear friend's character in Call of Cthulhu getting pulped by an abomination, in a ~2006 era gaming store? (IDK, just mythos things)
this GIF is a forensic reconstruction of my sad nurse girl's adjacent face, and feelings
a close up of a woman 's face with red paint on it
ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with red paint on it
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Too lazy to log into @permadeath.bsky.social
But: highlight of my week was a dear friend's character in Call of Cthulhu getting pulped by an abomination, in a ~2006 era gaming store? (IDK, just mythos things)
this GIF is a forensic reconstruction of my sad nurse girl's adjacent face, and feelings
But: highlight of my week was a dear friend's character in Call of Cthulhu getting pulped by an abomination, in a ~2006 era gaming store? (IDK, just mythos things)
this GIF is a forensic reconstruction of my sad nurse girl's adjacent face, and feelings
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Has anybody made an indie game discovery tool that's like ' my friend likes [ AAA/AA from 20 years ago ] so he might like [ these 10 random indie games]? I'm trying to convince people that what they want will be out there in indie but I don't know every genre 🫠
November 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Has anybody made an indie game discovery tool that's like ' my friend likes [ AAA/AA from 20 years ago ] so he might like [ these 10 random indie games]? I'm trying to convince people that what they want will be out there in indie but I don't know every genre 🫠
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So in the 1660s and 1670s, Leibniz had this idea for a "Characteristica universalis": "a theoretical, universal symbolic language designed to represent all knowledge, making philosophical and scientific reasoning as precise and unambiguous as mathematics."
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
So in the 1660s and 1670s, Leibniz had this idea for a "Characteristica universalis": "a theoretical, universal symbolic language designed to represent all knowledge, making philosophical and scientific reasoning as precise and unambiguous as mathematics."
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
Thank you, Emma! 🫀 Follow her on bsky, BG3 & voice acting nerds! One of the finest voice talents alive. The Killing Stone may be read as my barely-veiled fanfic about her making a pact with the devil to go on performing for an extra 100 years.
(I'm just saying, Emma... *consider your legacy* 😈)
(I'm just saying, Emma... *consider your legacy* 😈)
I am so very proud of this extraordinary game. Come dance with the devil and see what you find..be careful what you wish for. The superb and wonderful team @questiongames.bsky.social have outdone themselves again. Head over to Steam - play on the fabulous demo store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/...
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Thank you, Emma! 🫀 Follow her on bsky, BG3 & voice acting nerds! One of the finest voice talents alive. The Killing Stone may be read as my barely-veiled fanfic about her making a pact with the devil to go on performing for an extra 100 years.
(I'm just saying, Emma... *consider your legacy* 😈)
(I'm just saying, Emma... *consider your legacy* 😈)
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For about another 21 hours all our games are suspiciously cheap:
🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...
🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...
🧙♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...
🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...
🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...
🧙♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...
Save 40% on Tactical Breach Wizards on Steam
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to ...
store.steampowered.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
For about another 21 hours all our games are suspiciously cheap:
🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...
🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...
🧙♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...
🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...
🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...
🧙♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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How does an #indiestudio create a soundtrack for their 17th century folk horror game?
Step one: Hire a badass audio team.
Step two: let them be their weird, wonderful selves.
@chrisrickwood.bsky.social made his own tagelharp (YES - handmade!), then he also tracked down a hurdy-gurdy just for us.
Step one: Hire a badass audio team.
Step two: let them be their weird, wonderful selves.
@chrisrickwood.bsky.social made his own tagelharp (YES - handmade!), then he also tracked down a hurdy-gurdy just for us.
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
How does an #indiestudio create a soundtrack for their 17th century folk horror game?
Step one: Hire a badass audio team.
Step two: let them be their weird, wonderful selves.
@chrisrickwood.bsky.social made his own tagelharp (YES - handmade!), then he also tracked down a hurdy-gurdy just for us.
Step one: Hire a badass audio team.
Step two: let them be their weird, wonderful selves.
@chrisrickwood.bsky.social made his own tagelharp (YES - handmade!), then he also tracked down a hurdy-gurdy just for us.
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If you're on the edge let me endorse is to you - in this game you literally bargain with Demons before fighting them, and thats hella cool. Also the demons are polite cosmic horrors, so that's a bonus.
Happy #WishlistWednesday!
The Killing Stone - dark folk horror for deck-builder sickos - two things that go together like bones and steel.
If this is your thing (and how can it not be?), please help us reach 5,000 wishlists before the end of the year.
store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/...
The Killing Stone - dark folk horror for deck-builder sickos - two things that go together like bones and steel.
If this is your thing (and how can it not be?), please help us reach 5,000 wishlists before the end of the year.
store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/...
The Killing Stone on Steam
Beat the Devil at his own game. The Killing Stone is a deckbuilding card battler wrapped in a 17th century folk horror narrative. Clean the sins of a cursed family by bargaining against a series of de...
store.steampowered.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
If you're on the edge let me endorse is to you - in this game you literally bargain with Demons before fighting them, and thats hella cool. Also the demons are polite cosmic horrors, so that's a bonus.
I'm going to do this again today at ~noon pacific, if you're a game dev nerd and want to join us... or just make fun of my voice acting, I guess? valid
I streamed a tiny bit of my actual work process on our Discord (discord.com/invite/TyzEj...), this week - at least the part that anyone can hear.
I think ... I liked it. Uh oh
I think ... I liked it. Uh oh
a bald man wearing glasses and a tie is sitting at a desk with his arms crossed .
ALT: a bald man wearing glasses and a tie is sitting at a desk with his arms crossed .
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I'm going to do this again today at ~noon pacific, if you're a game dev nerd and want to join us... or just make fun of my voice acting, I guess? valid
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basically all of these films were major points of obsession for me in college, and now you can watch them all just on youtube. amazing. in particular Mirror basically changed my entire relationship with film after i took a Russian cinema class on a whim and it made me change to a film major.
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
basically all of these films were major points of obsession for me in college, and now you can watch them all just on youtube. amazing. in particular Mirror basically changed my entire relationship with film after i took a Russian cinema class on a whim and it made me change to a film major.
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It's gonna be 9 years I've been with Question in January. That's by far the longest I've been with any team, and far longer than most gamedev teams survive. I love this team.
November 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It's gonna be 9 years I've been with Question in January. That's by far the longest I've been with any team, and far longer than most gamedev teams survive. I love this team.
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The arms race continues
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The arms race continues
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When you're really mad about free buses and have never ridden a bus.
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
When you're really mad about free buses and have never ridden a bus.
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i would very much like to know if you are a creator that has made a TTRPG, whether it's 1 or 100 or 1,000 pages long, and if you are going to #PAXUnplugged this year ... for extremely exciting reasons that i will announce soon 👀
open to suggestions as well, please link your game!
open to suggestions as well, please link your game!
November 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
i would very much like to know if you are a creator that has made a TTRPG, whether it's 1 or 100 or 1,000 pages long, and if you are going to #PAXUnplugged this year ... for extremely exciting reasons that i will announce soon 👀
open to suggestions as well, please link your game!
open to suggestions as well, please link your game!
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Happy #BlackCatDay #BlackCatAppreciationDay all!🐈⬛
"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere" ~ Groucho Marx
"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere" ~ Groucho Marx
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Happy #BlackCatDay #BlackCatAppreciationDay all!🐈⬛
"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere" ~ Groucho Marx
"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere" ~ Groucho Marx
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Psst, if you like The Killing Stone and want to play a bit more than the demo, before anyone else, join our Discord. I can't say more than that. 🤐
discord.gg/TyzEjb9ZnD
discord.gg/TyzEjb9ZnD
November 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Psst, if you like The Killing Stone and want to play a bit more than the demo, before anyone else, join our Discord. I can't say more than that. 🤐
discord.gg/TyzEjb9ZnD
discord.gg/TyzEjb9ZnD
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having ADHD is like having the most powerful ult in the game but it has a 60% chance of going off when you don't need it, and the cooldown is a random value between 10 seconds and 1 year
November 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
having ADHD is like having the most powerful ult in the game but it has a 60% chance of going off when you don't need it, and the cooldown is a random value between 10 seconds and 1 year
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Psst. You can play a demo of The Killing Stone RIGHT NOW. How do you feel about wagering your soul in a battle of wits against the devil? store.steampowered.com/app/3987180/...
October 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Psst. You can play a demo of The Killing Stone RIGHT NOW. How do you feel about wagering your soul in a battle of wits against the devil? store.steampowered.com/app/3987180/...
I streamed a tiny bit of my actual work process on our Discord (discord.com/invite/TyzEj...), this week - at least the part that anyone can hear.
I think ... I liked it. Uh oh
I think ... I liked it. Uh oh
a bald man wearing glasses and a tie is sitting at a desk with his arms crossed .
ALT: a bald man wearing glasses and a tie is sitting at a desk with his arms crossed .
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I streamed a tiny bit of my actual work process on our Discord (discord.com/invite/TyzEj...), this week - at least the part that anyone can hear.
I think ... I liked it. Uh oh
I think ... I liked it. Uh oh