John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games)

Coming soon* from Space Goblin Games: (* when it's done) "Foolish Earth Creatures: You Cannot Defeat ME!" An interactive pulp sci-fi adventure narrated by the villain! Follow the developer diaries here: write.as/johnayliff/

I didn't enter a game into this year's IFComp, but the two games I helped playtest ended up in 1st and 2nd place. Am I some kind of...secret IFComp kingmaker? ifcomp.org/comp/2026

Ming the Merciless is empathetic, creative, and an animal lover.

online today, magazine, imagery (1987) archive.org/details/onli...

True story: I was confused by Lovecraft's descriptions of alien architecture until I learned that "cyclopean" meant "huge, as if built by giants" and not "having one eye"

NEW OPPORTUNITY: Short fiction writer? Love the world of Heaven's Vault? ... then come play in the waters. We're looking to commission 20 short stories set in the Nebula for a new anthology. Paid, obvs. Full details and a link to the form on the blog: www.inklestudios.com/2026/10/24/t...

Currently, Hasbro’s guidelines keep us from having total ownership over the work we make in our free time. Our union aims to change that and ensure we own what we make in our free time. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

RT if you don't use AI for coding

The music in these games is so beautiful and this concert looks like it was amazing, wish I'd been able to see it... That said I'm not going to listen to this in full until I've finished Hades II because I don't want even musical spoilers!

More than a million of you watched our live orchestral concert, BALLADS of the UNDERWORLD, featuring music from Hades, Hades II, and more!🎼 It's now available as a full album on Spotify, Apple Music, and other services! Thank you for listening.🎵🙏

It's not a surprise but man, RIP BioWare. For a long time KOTOR and Mass Effect were my model of what good games writing could be like. I don't think there are any individual games that have had more influence on me.

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

Important news. @bryantfrancis.me and I came up with the definitive Star Wars ranking: characters ranked by coolness in four categories.

I'll be honest, there is nothing more demoralizing to me than devs saying "I know AI is built on theft, and anti-labour, and harms the environment, but I'm going to use it anyway bc I don't believe individual choices matter". This is how a movement fails. www.molleindustria.org/blog/future-...

Back a ton of comic kickstarters at the "have yourself drawn into the comic" tier and then claim that means they all share a character and take place in the same universe.

Murderbot: Great, we're fully funded, now let me get back watching my shows

Just backed the Murderbot graphic novel! Big fan of graphic novels and murderbots so very excited for this. @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Once And Future King Kong

This weekend my D&D group finished a long-running campaign (started pre-pandemic) and I actually got pretty emotional that it was over. So yeah I think the people who made the game should be protected from their employer trying to claim ownership of their personal creative work, etc.

❗Attention, union supporters ❗ We're asking Wizards and Hasbro to voluntarily recognize our union—and you can help! Sign our petition today and show our leadership that you want change in the gaming industry. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

Here it is! Our definitive graphic novel #Murderbot , revised look approved by @marthawells.com ! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...

Knowing you're killing the habitability of the planet and doing it anyway is far, far more evil than killing the habitability of the planet because you're too stupid to understand what you're doing.

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

New dev diary in which I preview the least subtle route through the middle part of the story: blog.spacegoblingames.com/foolish-eart...

Since it's now out in the wild here's my cover for mass market edition of Dan dare: First Contact (written by @alexdecampi.bsky.social ). How great are @michaelrbwoods.bsky.social's colours!

My Nighthawks character:

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

This looks very relevant to my interests! * Space comics * Autistic coded robots

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

What must it have felt like to wear this hat, surrounded by bronze age sun cultists. You'd be wizard-priest-king of the world. There would not be a single doorway you could fit through.

Elite on the Commodore 64. I could never even get very far (I sucked at space combat, also docking), but I loved the space trader fantasy so much that I kept coming back.

Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)

My eldest girl's 16th birthday is very soon and since we recently played most of the @remedygames.com games this summer together (Alan Wake, Control, Alan Wake 2), she wanted an Alan Wake themed cake. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you... Alan Cake. (Please tell @samlakewrites.bsky.social)