Stefan Gagne

When I was a kid, I dreamed of being a retiree. You don't have to work and you can play video games all day! How great is that? I'm too disabled to even sit. Right now I'm just lying flat because everything hurts. I need a shower but ow no. Yay retirement. Hopefully I'll be more mobile later today.

Bluesky has five kinds of users. 

It would be lovely if the video games industry would let the people who make the games buy food

So earlier, my brother was watching Octobinz (Romain Toutain)'s livestream on Twitch. He was the Technical Director on Mass Effect Universe, so I wanted to share some bits he discussed. As he speaks french, I added subtitles to make it more accessible for everyone! #MassEffect #MassEffectUniverse

My first 5 RPGs: AD&D, Paranoia, Toon, Top Secret, HOL. I barely PLAYED any of these but reading the source books for Paranoia really informed my writing style later in life.

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...

no one over 40 is gonna buy this because you can't play a bluray in it and no one under 40 will buy it because its going to cost $1200

HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!! Desert Bus for Hope 2026, the 20th year of Desert Bus! I hope y'all are ready for what promises to be the greatest show on Earth featuring a bus. What mischief, excitement, wonder and hilarity have we cooked up for this most auspicious year? Head to desertbus.org right now!

Every gothic horror:

the entire bioware situation is just another episode of how now, more than ever, YOU are important to the small indie things you enjoy getting somewhere. talk about the things you love. buy it physical if you can. make art. share links. don't just go 'everything i love is dying', that's how it does.

Before retiring I was a federally employed web specialist. I was on the front lines against hacks like the two seen today, which are affecting government websites. I can say confidently as an expert: ha ha ha get rekt, you losers DOGE RIF'd my entire team and now you got nothing, have fun shitbrains

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

Next Fest is really demonstrating the curse of the idea guy. Anyone can have an idea or steal one, but to make it good means living with it, working it, exploring it and finding what makes it work and is special. Or you can just have Claude shit out slop no one wants to play. Valve always needs

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

I don't WANT my social to just be boosting anti-AI posts. I want some positivity. But I'm tired, boss. I'm so tired of feeling pushed out of my own creative lane by clankers and clanker cheerleaders. If bespoke, human-made games are really a dying breed maybe I oughtta diminish and go into the west.

I need a better hobby than leaving comments that say, "the fuck do you mean WE?" on posts that talk about how, "obviously we all use AI…"

For the crime of "donating fifty bucks to ActBlue at one point" I have been sentenced to years and years of multiple text messages bombardments a day begging me to contribute to various campaigns across the whole country, all of which ignore my STOP requests.

It's true. I am incredibly lucky to be riding the high of ONE successful game plus a lifetime of savings, and even then I can only make pretty small and limited games. The people with the real pursestrings care more about AI FOMO than about creativity and are investing accordingly.

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

I think I gotta be honest with myself and admit that I'm on break from game development for at least a few weeks. I'm exhausted. It's not burnout from the previous game exactly, it's just burnout from life in general. I'm still developing the next game but I'm not gonna crank on the scripts yet.

A promise is a promise. Here is your heads up not to work with Extella, in case they reach out to other visual novel authors like us.

Them: we need one of those jumpcut city flybys with an iconic needle drop and a big chunky font to make sure the audience knows where we are Me: I'm on it

I keep forgetting to say this every time there's a steam sale event: Go wish list @blippo.plus . Heck, just buy it at full price, it's worth it. The amount of care and attention that went into making authentic cable TV style shows is astounding. The craft of it so sincere. Weird, queer, and FUN.

It's very interesting to see double fine embracing this style of indie game. I definitely recommend checking out this game, for a quick burst of simple and repeatable fun. I'm not convinced this is the way to go for plot armor, but it's definitely the right move otherwise.

Yeah OK, I'm gonna do it. I've been waiting for an opportunity to have a character in a wheelchair in a visual novel, and the user interface here won't block the artwork like it would in a more strictly third person game like Penny or laugh track.

We have Soup, but why is it taking so long to crack the nut on Soup 2?

I'm in the kind of annoyed and simmering mood where I kind of wanna make this game protagonist character disabled. I've done "disabled protagonist" twice now but I still feel the need to share how much it sucks! Like if I gotta go through this, you're coming with me.

Happy indigenous peoples day!

Working on the shaders for my silly TV thing. I'm using reshade, so it automatically starts up when I start the program. I also have an autohotkey script that lets me auto start / close the program with controller support. Unfortunately I can't do screen curvature without a lot of moire patterns.

Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki were 50 and 44, respectively, when they founded Studio Ghibli

I interpret rainbow capitalism similarly to the Waffle House Index, as a weather forecasting trick. It's useless in terms of actual support of the queer community, but it's a good indicator of overall public support when the corporations feel safe marketing to us. Let's call it an indirect positive.

Had a weirdly unproductive and productive evening after getting a chance to lie down. Tried to get a TV simulator going (channel flipping, program guide, and so on) and failed. But I got a really good chunk of code done for my next game. Now if I could just get the writing mojo going...