mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I make games about bad things happening to tiny simulated people. He/him.
I made a small game called "The Pelican" over the last few days. It's interactive fiction about hiding in a 19th century harbor town, waiting for a ship to arrive. It's more of an existential mood piece than a game you can progress in or win. => https://zarkonnen.itch.io/the-pelican
Pseudo-Aristotle is to Aristotle like pseudoscorpions are to scorpions: A more rounded body shape and no stinging tail.
Our upcoming #gamedev / biz conference in Zurich is looking for speakers:
We’re opening submissions for talks, panels and workshops on Oct 8 – 9, 2026!
Two tracks:
Dev Day (design, programming, art, production)
Business Day (publishing, funding, marketing)
Opinion: If your fictional aliens aren't at least as weird as Earth insects, they're not weird enough => https://zarkonnen.com/xenobiology
Obscure thought of the day that requires you're both a military history and a games history nerd:
StarCraft is to Dominion Storm as the F-15 Eagle is to the MiG-25 Foxbat
If only there had been a super-popular series of children's books where the central villain was motivated by an abject fear of death to usher in an era of fascism.
Wouldn't that have been really enlightening for our present situation? Oh well.
