I made Antichamber. Now I'm making something else.https://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3mggmcrvac22rI have arrived in town for GDC, for the first time in a long time!07 Mar 2026 00:51 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mggmcrvac22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3mcbzc53mpk2pI've decided to make my way to GDC this year. Haven't been since 2019, and I figured I'd give myself another event to work towards, to keep getting my game into shape.13 Jan 2026 07:19 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcbzc53mpk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3lp44yvw3k22hA new person came to gymnastics yesterday and was looking lost, so I asked them what they wanted to do. They said a backflip. I asked if they'd ever done a flip before... no. Somersaults? No. Nothing. I had them landing a front flip in 10 minutes and landing a backflip by the end of the session.14 May 2025 04:11 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp44yvw3k22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3lnxdwt4c7k2jToday while practicing double front flips, I threw the worst flip I've ever thrown. The kind of flip that makes people stop in shock and go silent and murmur to each other about whether you're ok. It was as close as I have ever come to diving straight down onto my head with force.29 Apr 2025 13:06 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnxdwt4c7k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3lnfqxphmck2fEnjoying all of these "commit to a front flip from another move" skills!22 Apr 2025 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnfqxphmck2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3ln4zxt6oqs2pFound a product on my phone, went to buy it at my computer where it was easier to type, different price. Opened in another browser, same PC price. Opened incognito. Same price. Different phone browser, my phone price. Wifes phone? Even cheaper. Saved $800 buying it from my wife's phone instead.19 Apr 2025 01:59 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln4zxt6oqs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3lmck5uaosc2iI don't have videos to share yet, but just letting y'all know, double front flips are back! To the point where... when trying to show someone the basics of how to do a regular flip... I accidentally threw one and a half flips and scorpioned myself... TWICE.08 Apr 2025 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmck5uaosc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3lkmvhjznhc24Sometimes I listen to a song or watch a show from like 15 - 20 years ago and think "Must be cool to have made a thing people still remember, so many years later." Then I catch myself, because my relationship to my own work is way more complicated than that.18 Mar 2025 05:05 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkmvhjznhc24https://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3ljlvd7nfik2qWhen I was younger, I had people telling me I was doing things beyond my age. Now that I'm older, I have people telling me I'm too old for certain things. How about the consistent factor here is that I am interested in things and therefore I do them, and age is not the significant factor?05 Mar 2025 02:05 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljlvd7nfik2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3ljcuyajsqc2kUsing big data to provide predictions only works when you provide inputs into the correct data set. Don't underestimate the power of the human brain to make the right connections, based on much more subtle information.01 Mar 2025 12:05 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljcuyajsqc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3lio5x7wwxs2bLove when I say no to random business proposals and people respond with things like "Up to you, but it's your revenue you're leaving on the table." Mate, you're contacting me about a game released 10+ years ago, seemingly with no idea of how the game did in that time. I'm ok with my choices.21 Feb 2025 06:19 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lio5x7wwxs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3lhvniqmtgs2dReal Estate is the worst game I have ever played. Everything about the game sucks. I understand the game and how it's played, but I despise it.11 Feb 2025 12:21 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhvniqmtgs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3lguptld2l22pHave been dealing with people in businesses who give me unrealistic expectations then get upset at me when I hold them to them, and they can't meet them. Situations that could be avoided entirely if you just did the thing you said you would originally.29 Jan 2025 10:05 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lguptld2l22phttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3lfhior6g622yI installed Satisfactory, then I ran around for 10 minutes before deciding I don't care about running around mining resources so then I can craft things. I'm pretty sure there's a whole level of game here beyond that, but... there's pretty strong resistance to me actually getting to any of it.11 Jan 2025 10:27 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfhior6g622yhttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3lebfovp5hs2qWhen I read roguelike in a games description now, my brain substitutes it with "Game that is happy to waste hours of your time with arbitrary difficulty spikes and making you repeat shit endlessly"27 Dec 2024 06:52 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lebfovp5hs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3le6cwrw6ik2jHaving mostly stepped away from social media, online discourse, etc again it gets REALLY apparent how much this stuff brings me down instantly when it creeps back into my days. A low level sense of dread and anxiety humming in the background that goes away when I'm switched off just doing my thing.26 Dec 2024 01:25 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3le6cwrw6ik2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3ldsdgdd7ms2qRandom things stick with you over the years. One time someone asked about work I was doing, so I explained a bunch of stuff to them. Then someone else came up and asked the same question, so I gave the same response, and the first person walked away kinda annoyed that I said exactly the same thing.21 Dec 2024 07:02 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldsdgdd7ms2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3lcvuk276tk2gReading expert predictions on markets often feels the same as reading horoscopes. "Now is a good time because of X and Y. It is also a bad time because of W and Z. If you consider V and U, no one really knows. Everything changes on a case by case basis. Go with what makes you comfortable."09 Dec 2024 23:21 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcvuk276tk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3lceuzpdsxk2nLove it when I build some big complicated thing, only to look at it and go "Oh, I built all of the parts I didn't need, I actually only need the inverse of this." Like shading a complicated image and then realising you actually only needed the simpler negative space part of it instead.03 Dec 2024 05:15 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lceuzpdsxk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3lc2ogiq3fs2pExtended period of time away from design work: "Oh my god I don't have enough interesting stuff, maybe I've been kidding myself..." After a solid day of design work: "I have too much stuff. Where do I put all of this? Also, what about these other 10 things I just made that need to go somewhere??"29 Nov 2024 03:50 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc2ogiq3fs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3lc2hryxdn22dI've been taking medication for a fungal infection for like 6 months, noticing systemic changes to things that I accepted as "that's just my body I guess" for probably the past 20-30 years? That's what happens when people keep saying the issue is a different thing, and nothing else you try helps.29 Nov 2024 01:51 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc2hryxdn22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3lboruvrcuk2yHi Bluesky. Here's the full video of the Australian Poetry Slam 2024 National Finals from last month at the Sydney Opera House. Spoiler alert, I came third. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF26L5sJRpY My first poem "Shame" (Top 20) is at around 1:11:30. My second poem "Lucky" (Top 5) is at around 2:12:00.24 Nov 2024 10:20 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lboruvrcuk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3lbbqroezas2mAm I making a game, or am I making a sequence of shelf moments, designed to test how much you can tolerate??19 Nov 2024 05:55 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbbqroezas2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3l7mnxrew3b2gThere are a bunch of game development tasks that I just do way faster when I'm drinking. The less I give a fuck, the faster the work gets.29 Oct 2024 03:14 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7mnxrew3b2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3l7ijudp7fv2kI have started playing Tactical Breach Wizards, and am enjoying it very much. Good job as always @pentadact.bsky.social27 Oct 2024 11:50 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7ijudp7fv2khttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3l7i6mry6ww2pWildly swinging mood / motivation atm. Feeling crushed under my own mental state and internal pressure, then walking through a shopping mall looking at everyone else wandering around and thinking "Well most of these people probably have regular jobs they don't really care about, but they seem fine."27 Oct 2024 08:29 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7i6mry6ww2phttps://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3l7g22zihfg27Let's see what happens if I set this as one of my default pages and then accidentally just type thoughts here instead, when I have some random thing to say. :)26 Oct 2024 12:02 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7g22zihfg27https://bsky.app/profile/demruth.bsky.social/post/3l7fyqg56mo2aSometimes creative people sound like special snowflakes and "ugh no I just CAN'T get things done today because I don't feel creative / inspired..." But also, there's an opposite attitude to this like: "It's ok buddy. You'll just be inspired to do things some other day. I know how this goes... 🙄"26 Oct 2024 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:wbfmy7zxfvsyea4owsw4o7qi/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7fyqg56mo2a