I made an Amigara Fault teapot.

The Serbian translation team for Wingspan had to invent Serbian (i.e. Non-Latin) names for a lot of the American birds and then submitted them to a ornithological lexicon They got accepted and are now the official Serbian names for those birds.

From the same kiln, a vase with a complicated shape.

"But doctor," the man cries, "it's only a few seconds long!" "Solution is simple," the doctor says. "Stay in the time loop until you undergo meaningful personal growth, like in Groundhog Day or Russian Doll." "But doctor," the man cries,

Trying ActivityPub ("Mastodon", but I'm actually using @[email protected]'s Honk) @[email protected]

I submitted an app to Google Play. It passed the pre-launch check. During review, it crashed at startup. So they sent me a screenshot instead of logs. Wat. I appealed to request logs, and they ignored my request and sent me another screenshot. Not helpful.

*chuckles* you mean the chaos emeralds?

I've updated my new game, Mosaic River. The update fixes two major bugs, and improves the instructions. It's available gratis for Android: play.google.com/store/apps/det… and iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/mosaic-… (I'm using Twitter in announce-only mode. Follow me at honk.novalis.org/u/novalis )

Returning to twitter just to give a big fuck you to @CHNAssociation, who want to fuck up my neighborhood with landmarking. Landmarking destroys the ability to use land for larger buildings, which means that housing is more expensive (and generally less accessible).

Please try out my new daily word game, middlesgame.com What well-known word contains the substring EHEL?

Middles #3: 10 points middlesgame.com What commonly-known word contains CORU?

I donated!

I'm considering making a point-and-click puzzle adventure out of cut paper. This somehow seems easier than getting really good at Blender. Do the attached images look like a game you might want to play?

I was interviewed on the Hey, Good Game podcast about Semantle and other game stuff. Please listen, since I don't dare to! hey.gg/podcast/semant…

Please enjoy my new blog post, Building a game with the Real Engine: novalis.org/blog/2024-10-1…

Six mistakes I made and one I avoided: novalis.org/blog/2025-03-1… [ These days I only use Twitter in write-only mode; if you want to reply, email me or find me on the fediverse ]