Michael Fitch
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Michael Fitch
@fitchgames.bsky.social
Game developer, father, cultural critic.

Wishlist Thick As Thieves on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3341000/Thick_As_Thieves/
You’ve got this. The world has never handed you anything you can’t handle.

You are enough. Always have been.
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
November 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Rationality goes out the window when you tell someone “This thing you really like, it’s not actually good.” Pure tribalism from there on out.
November 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
As the pilgrims did it
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I’m rooting for ya
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I think the kids already did...
November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Reposted by Michael Fitch
There's no need to steal when we are practically giving our work away so many places. It's just so much more respectful of authors' consent to use these ways we offer and agree to.

We are people, and there's no way to treat us as people while disrespecting our right to our own labor.
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
All of these lists are rage bait.
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
In my experience, everything is going to sound wrong at some level, so you pick the least wrong sounding thing you can live with, and players will love it if they love the game.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Naming sucks. One of the worst parts of taking anything to market.

Dig Dig Boom is good - catchy, evocative.

My first thought was just cut it to "Dig Dig", but you might run into problems with Dig Dug.

Dig Boom Go - May sound stupid, but actually captures a lot of the core game. Or Dig Go Boom
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"The friction is where the learning happens" - exactly. Learning something takes work - the brain is literally rewiring itself.

People who don't want to do the work don't actually want to learn - they want the knowledge without the effort.

The effort is what helps you get good.
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Please, no violence against journalists on my behalf.
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
That got an actual LOL.
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Daniel Cook has been writing white papers about this for almost a decade now. It’s not a secret.
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM