1/3 of the game industry has lost their job in the last two years. Ubisoft closed two more studios today. Everyone is out of work. To that end I'm starting a new bundle to benefit a layoffs hardship fund. Game devs: please consider submitting your PAID games to the bundle, which will launch in July.
I wrote a manifesto for making games, and (not) selling them, for #manifestojam
illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go...
new blog post: some Manifesto Jam 2026 notes + my submission for this year, "A Game Is A Knife"
sorry to keep posting AI discourse. but this is a fun blog post by a CS prof supervising a student's AI coding project... only to realize this 3rd year CS student maybe doesn't know how to read code like at all
"This is you"
[picture of machinegun]
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (2005) #archive
a manifesto for manifesto jam 2026. for everyone who's got that dog in them.
haraiva.itch.io/against-grat...
#manifestojam2026
I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.
When in Edinburgh it’s always good to make time to visit The Best Fire Escape In The World
Show me your megastructures
A Manifesto For Making Games
illomens.itch.io
A game jam from 2026-06-10 to 2026-06-24 hosted by Necrosoft Games. PREMISE: The game industry has a problem. Too many people are out of work (reports say 33% of the industry lost their jobs in the la...
Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS.
These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st).
Forced medical detransition.
This country is a danger to trans children & young people.
If you're involved in training/teaching, or a student, this is worth a read – "The Anatomy of a Learning Stall": tagide.com/blog/llm/the...
Cal Horton (they/them)
Probably my favourite thing Ian Fleming wrote was this essay on how he wrote the Bond novels, which is vile, revealing and full of genuinely good advice and observations
lithub.com/ian-fleming-...
Trans adolescents accessing the only NHS route to healthcare (WellBN) have been through a stressful year long transphobic investigation.
For a year they have sat under the threat of forced medical detransition.
With significant negative impacts. 1/2
