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Good Things Vol 1 -> GoodThings.wonderfulelephant.com/ 🐘 @wonderfulelephant.com, studio in Davis, CA ⚡ Former CEO of Armor Games, dev at Kongregate 🧩 Many Flash Games 🌈 games are for everyone

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · May 9

For the first time ever, Elephant enamel pins are now available!

Available in three colorways! So much work getting these into production, they're so wonderful and we got their finish perfect <3.

Buy now: ko-fi.com/s/8728a5d86d

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · 23h

After a Halloween weekend of going to a K-Pop Demon Hunters sing-along, our kids dressed as Derpy and Zoey, and pumpkins carved fully in-spirit... we're officially finding rest as very, very tired parents

a photograph taken at night of a jack-o-lantern, featuring the face of Derpy and shadow of Sussy from K-Pop Demon Hunters

John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · 2d

The Elephant Collection is coming up on it's first ever GDQ in 57 MINUTES! Come support Games Done Queer 2025 benefiting Lambda Legal!

www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

GamesDoneQuick - Twitch

Games Done Queer 2025 Day 3 benefiting Lambda Legal Starts 12:40 PM Eastern gdq.gg/schedule - Jam to some music while we wait.

www.twitch.tv

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · 4d

The Elephant Collection is now Overwhelmingly Positive at 613 Reviews, with the newest expansion just going out today!

The Elephant Collection has been out for nearly two years now, so cool to have a collection of my work all tidy and bundled up like this :)

store.steampowered.com/app/2274110/...

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Wonderful Elephant 🐘✨ @wonderfulelephant.com · 4d

The Elephant Collection adds 3+ games as a FREE UPDATE! 🎉 LOOT the Game, Treadmillasaurus Rex, and Elephant Rave 2 join the decalogy of Blue Elephant games

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2274110/...

Itch: armor-games-studios.itch.io/the-elephant...

GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/the_...

Get it now!

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · 20d

attended GDC for over ten years, had three talks, this is embrassing

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 20d

if you are or know the people paid to make these clips i would love to talk to you and ask what the absolute fuck the brief was

GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social · 21d

🎮 PIXELS → POWER-UPS → PURE MAGIC ✨
Next week changes everything.
GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 registration launches!

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Wonderful Elephant 🐘✨ @wonderfulelephant.com · 28d

We are happy to announce Good Things Vol 1!

The little Blue Elephant decided to eat 15 video games, and he needs your help!

Stuck in the intestinal track of this little guy are 15 bite-sized games and each game you complete will help unravel the chaos inside.

Wishlist it today! buff.ly/PYaEbJf

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · 29d

big news coming next week!

but for now, my first batch of apple cider donuts? I haven't baked donuts before, and I know fried donuts are the standard. Still happy with the outcome :)

John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · Sep 21

all I've been eligible for so far is the presale lottery, which didn't cost anything but apparently had 4.5m registrations. No clue how many tickets will be available.

I also saw $60 as the entry level price but everything these days is demand-based, can't imagine that will happen

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · Sep 21

This also sell right-to-buy NFTs for if your selected team gets into the Finals, to buy Finals tickets.

There is no refund on these in the team doesn't make it, this isn't a deposit

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · Sep 21

The 2026 World Cup will be local for us, so I signed up for ticket info. They emailed me to get in on these "right to buy" NFTs:

For only $299 - $749 you can secure a right to buy (read, not a ticket, just the privilege to buy one) to a random match in the city you buy into

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · Sep 15

I'm now acting as John Cooney... undo

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · Sep 12

My steam page got approved

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · Sep 10

the news has reported differently now, he is no longer

John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · Sep 10

my Monday pizza was refried beans and red enchilada sauce base, quesadilla melting cheese, al pastor from our carniceria, olives, green onion, and cotija cheese

threw it a little sideways into the oven pobodys nerfect

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · Sep 10

not confirmed but the close-up video (don't watch) looks really, really bad

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · Sep 5

spent a year volunteering at the emergency COVID clinic to get folks vaccinated during the pandemic. Helped nurses calm patients, get folks ready

the best moments were parents for their young kids, vaccinated last. Just tears of relief and joy, will never forget that

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · Sep 3

App developers: Does everyone in the world use a random .PNG -> .ICO conversion website? Is this industry standard?

Every article online says to use an online generator. Even the Adobe forums say use a random website.

What in tarnation... who owns the ICO format and why is this the standard!?

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · Sep 2

It's 2025, we've been unsubscribed to Spotify for 3+ years. We unsubscribed because they paid their artists poorly. We moved to Tidal, yet here we are still getting Spotify TOS changes

John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · Sep 1

Video games is so messy rn

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · Aug 28

I don't think enough people are across just how catastrophic an entire generation being raised on roblox and fortnite is going to be for the ENTIRE video game industry, not just the AAA end

these kids have no interest in playing or paying for anything else. and they're not "growing out of it".

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · Aug 28

Happy birthday to my baby turning 16 (the rice cooker). No longer remembers the time but still makes perfect rice

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · Aug 26

Red Lobster uses 15 decimal places of precision for distance to closest restaurant

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · Aug 21

Hiiii!

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John Cooney (jmtb02) @john.wonderfulelephant.com · Aug 20

few grains is probably a pinch?!? Seeing that with the pepper too, grandma recipes are GOLD you need to laminate and preserve these

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