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l’esports d’escalier

I’m a big fan of the French term l’esprit d’escalier and its German counterpart, treppenwitz. A while back, Matthew RF Balousek posted a joke response to one of those “how do you spell esports?” threads with the most excellent l’esports d’escalier, which delighted me.1 Last week on the weekly Tuesdays at Ten on Twitch stream, I was playing […]

Day of the Devs Gallery

A fun time was had a Day of the Devs this weekend, courtesy of Double Fine, iam8bit, and a whole lot of cool people from the Bay Area playing games! As you can see in the pics below, we were in a vault in the basement of The Old Mint in San Francisco. It was […]

SpyParty at Day of the Devs in San Francisco, Nov 1!

It’s that time of year again, when friends at Double Fine and iam8bit throw a big game party in San Francisco and everybody is invited! And this time, it’s all ages, so I mean everybody! It’s on November 1st, at the Old Mint building in SF, from 4pm to 11pm.  Lots of cool indies will be there, […]

“So, like, SpyParty, WTF?” IndieCade 2014 Talk

I gave a talk yesterday at IndieCade 2014 about the state of SpyParty. It was titled “So, SpyParty, like, WTF?”  There have always been a fair number of questions about the length of time the game is taking to develop, and how that impacts the impression people (and by “people”, I mean me & John, […]

SpyParty’s Tuesdays at Ten on Twitch Stream

I recently started doing a weekly SpyParty stream on Twitch, and I’ve decided to call it Tuesdays at Ten on Twitch, because, well, it’s on Tuesdays at 10am US Pacific time on the SpyParty Twitch Channel, funny that!  I will usually tweet about it, or you can subscribe to the channel for notifications whenever I stream, […]