Award-winning gamedev. Animation/games Associate Professor. Level design author. SAAM Arcade founder. Making Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/Little_Nemo_and_the_Nightmare_Fiends/https://bsky.app/profile/totter87.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/totter87.bsky.social/post/3mts3b6r7bc22Just had a 10 hr level design redline session for our #indiegame Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends. Grueling and productive. Important cheese placement decisions were made. #Gamedev #indiedev24 Aug 2026 00:45 +0000at://did:plc:f2ydrmwurqfqs75tsakcecdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mts3b6r7bc22https://bsky.app/profile/totter87.bsky.social/post/3mtfmxngpx22sReading a digital humanities book about AI. It’s only about a year old, so we can assume that it was written 2-3 years ago, and the text is like “these things are still in the early stages but you can see their limits” while the world has progressed to “WHY WOULD YOU USE THIS EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE!”19 Aug 2026 01:57 +0000at://did:plc:f2ydrmwurqfqs75tsakcecdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfmxngpx22shttps://bsky.app/profile/totter87.bsky.social/post/3mtcoco4xfk2mThese deliveries coming at the same time is incredible17 Aug 2026 21:43 +0000at://did:plc:f2ydrmwurqfqs75tsakcecdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtcoco4xfk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/totter87.bsky.social/post/3mt75r3rfbs2vHoly shirtballs! [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Aug 2026 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:f2ydrmwurqfqs75tsakcecdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt75r3rfbs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/totter87.bsky.social/post/3msz6uzbr3s2tAhh hell…14 Aug 2026 03:13 +0000at://did:plc:f2ydrmwurqfqs75tsakcecdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msz6uzbr3s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/totter87.bsky.social/post/3msxll56vdk26Me, watching my kid rescue Astro’s ship’s CPU in the video game Astro Bot, then thinking back when to when Snoop Dog played a CPU on the TV show Storybots: “Astro just saved Snoop Dog…”13 Aug 2026 11:55 +0000at://did:plc:f2ydrmwurqfqs75tsakcecdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msxll56vdk26https://bsky.app/profile/totter87.bsky.social/post/3mswcsjuars27Wild that they remade that one Atari 2600 game for PS512 Aug 2026 23:46 +0000at://did:plc:f2ydrmwurqfqs75tsakcecdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mswcsjuars27https://bsky.app/profile/totter87.bsky.social/post/3msr2xvfsak25My game was almost mentioned on a podcast today! (Host described it but couldn’t remember the name) https://static.klipy.com/ii/8ce8357c78ea940b9c2015daf05ce1a5/9c/f9/7EviVNEe.gif?hh=256&ww=480&mp4=3hx0dnXO7HX9tz84nLh&webm=mmcNS3eqbbEdZoxR010 Aug 2026 21:42 +0000at://did:plc:f2ydrmwurqfqs75tsakcecdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msr2xvfsak25https://bsky.app/profile/totter87.bsky.social/post/3msq6yjhsb22vBeing a teacher and making a Metroidvania is wild because your team is like “we gotta show this thing better, testers got super confused”, but its findable with some poking around, and you think “we used to do this in Super Metroid with no help and OH GOD THE RESEARCH IS RIGHT WE’RE GETTING DUMBER” https://static.klipy.com/ii/f87f46a2c5aeaeed4c68910815f73eaf/69/e0/isk26i4f.gif?hh=426&ww=498&mp4=6kAIWx7n&webm=Ucg8uh6P10 Aug 2026 13:21 +0000at://did:plc:f2ydrmwurqfqs75tsakcecdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msq6yjhsb22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/totter87.bsky.social/post/3mslzcim4mc22Played a bunch of the Halo remake last night. After Star Fox and last year’s Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, I’m INCREASINGLY convinced that 1997-2006-ish was the sweet spot between game scope and budgets. Big enough to impress and feel satisfying, but small enough that design had to be clever and tight08 Aug 2026 21:29 +0000at://did:plc:f2ydrmwurqfqs75tsakcecdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mslzcim4mc22https://bsky.app/profile/totter87.bsky.social/post/3mshi4cokbk2iHalo Campaign Evolved doesn’t even let you get past the title screen without doing some weird MS account connection thing that…fails every time. Cool. Modern AAA gaming is fantastic07 Aug 2026 02:11 +0000at://did:plc:f2ydrmwurqfqs75tsakcecdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mshi4cokbk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/totter87.bsky.social/post/3msgmftdae22mSaw an argument that we should stop making it so you can Pet The Dog in games because it is “cringe”, “millennial-coded”, and feels tacked on. They’re missing the point: It’s a whimsy check. After YEARS of brown/gray “edgy” games, it challenges you to add make the world softer and more alive06 Aug 2026 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:f2ydrmwurqfqs75tsakcecdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msgmftdae22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/totter87.bsky.social/post/3msc6snfqbs2oSome classic internet right here [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Aug 2026 23:41 +0000at://did:plc:f2ydrmwurqfqs75tsakcecdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msc6snfqbs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/totter87.bsky.social/post/3ms2qrydyt22cI steal all the bagels02 Aug 2026 00:41 +0000at://did:plc:f2ydrmwurqfqs75tsakcecdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms2qrydyt22chttps://bsky.app/profile/totter87.bsky.social/post/3mrxj2nyj7k2iDoing manuscript edits for Architectural Approach to Level Design, 3rd edition. Continuing to add more to the “please understand what it does and does not mean for this to be “architectural”” section 🤪31 Jul 2026 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:f2ydrmwurqfqs75tsakcecdo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrxj2nyj7k2i