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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 2d

Also - her partner is Paul Thomas Anderson.

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Saul Goodman (Still Looking for Work) @sahilbajaj.dev · 2d

ICYMI:

I did my very first podcast recently and the episode is out NOW!

Check it out and support Aaron's new show, "Make Games, Drink Coffee".

I think it's really neat!

Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 2d

Episode 3 of Make Games, Drink Coffee is out today! This week's guest is @sahilbajaj.dev, a game writer and narrative designer. Sahil has worked on the Blackwood Charter Escape Room with Sweet Baby Inc and with Veritable Joy on ValiDate: Struggling Singles in Your Area, and more!

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for supporting / reposting!

marge simpson from the simpsons is holding a potato and saying i just think they 're neat

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 2d

Sid Meier’s Software Pirates!

Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 2d

Listen at www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com

And if you're an experienced developer currently looking for work or open to freelance/contracting, I'd love to chat with you for a future episode.

Home - Make Games, Drink Coffee - The official home of the Make Games, Drink Coffee Podcast.

A Weekly Podcast About Game Development. Your weekly caffeine-spiked dose of hot game industry brew, featuring interviews with game developers telling their best war stories, sharing their artistic in...

www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 2d

Episode 3 of Make Games, Drink Coffee is out today! This week's guest is @sahilbajaj.dev, a game writer and narrative designer. Sahil has worked on the Blackwood Charter Escape Room with Sweet Baby Inc and with Veritable Joy on ValiDate: Struggling Singles in Your Area, and more!

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 3d

My son (6) is currently laying on the couch in his pajamas watching How It’s Made. He loves that show. I’m a proud dad.

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, want to be on my podcast? I'm trying to feature game industry folks looking for work!

www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com

Home - Make Games, Drink Coffee - The official home of the Make Games, Drink Coffee Podcast.

A Weekly Podcast About Game Development. Your weekly caffeine-spiked dose of hot game industry brew, featuring interviews with game developers telling their best war stories, sharing their artistic in...

www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 4d

Coffee that doesn’t make you shit would win the Nobel peace prize

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 4d

Pay the members of Mr. Bungle circa 1999 to get back together and record an album, and then tour.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 5d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 7d

I just finished this! It's fun!

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 8d

It’s incredible. I love it.

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 9d

Podcast episode 2 is out! My guest this week is legendary pixel artist @castpixel.bsky.social. She's been in the industry for 20 years as an artist, illustrator, art director, and more. In this episode we talk about developing a style, aphantasia, demakes, and more!
www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com

Home - Make Games, Drink Coffee - The official home of the Make Games, Drink Coffee Podcast.

A Weekly Podcast About Game Development. Your weekly caffeine-spiked dose of hot game industry brew, featuring interviews with game developers telling their best war stories, sharing their artistic in...

www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 10d

I’m seeing a lot of shitposting in my feed today and I just want to say: Good work everybody, keep it up. Thanks.

Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 10d

If you've dropped off of watching Rick and Morty, I'm happy to report that season 8 is fantastic. The last episode is one of the best of the whole series, up there with Tales from the Citadel in its emotional depth. I'm so glad they finally decided to actually let Rick develop as a character.

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 11d

Caught a preview screening of TRON Ares tonight. It’s bonkers. I suspect critics will hate it but audiences will be entertained. Regardless, it looks incredible, no expense was spared.

Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 16d

I launched a podcast! Make Games, Drink Coffee is a podcast featuring tightly edited interviews with game developers - each episode is 30 minutes or less. No rambling discussions, no boring monologues. Our first guest is Kay Purcell, CM and PROFESSIONAL DUNGEON MASTER! Listen at the link below!

Kay Purcell @kaypurcell.com · 16d

make games and drink coffee?! Those are two things that I do! 🙀

I got to speak on a brand new podcast for game devs, check it out now!
Thank you @nemo10.bsky.social for having me on!

www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com

Home - Make Games, Drink Coffee - The official home of the Make Games, Drink Coffee Podcast.

A Weekly Podcast About Game Development. Your weekly caffeine-spiked dose of hot game industry brew, featuring interviews with game developers telling their best war stories, sharing their artistic in...

www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 19d

Sad little accidents

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 21d

For some reason this reminded me of the elevator scene in mad men

a man in a plaid jacket and tie is saying " i feel bad for you "

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 21d

Why are you spamming me

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · Aug 7

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · Aug 16

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

screengrab of a portion of new yorker interview with former simpson's writer john swartzwelder:
Mike Sacks: How much time and attention did you spend on these scripts? Another “Simpsons” writer once compared your scripts to finely tuned machines—if the wrong person mucked with them, the whole thing could blow up.
Swartzwelder: All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 23d

Patient: My sinuses have been really stuffed up for a while, what should I take?

Doctor Collins: Su-su-sudafed!

Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 25d

Eco-friendly star destroyer

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Aaron Makes Video Games @nemo10.bsky.social · 26d

My wife turned on the shower in the upstairs bathroom as I went downstairs. She then asked if I could throw up a towel. I said “no, I haven’t eaten one.”

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