Jason Caffoe
@jcaffoe.com
Concept Artist @ Wild Blue Studios
Illustrator, comic artist, colorist and background artist for the NYT bestselling Amulet series.
Illustrator, comic artist, colorist and background artist for the NYT bestselling Amulet series.
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This convo I had highlights the difference in what "respect your time" means in games.
A lot of players want to trade time for in-game progress. It's purely transactional: 1 hour = 1 progress
But I want to feel like my actions matter i.e. what I do with time creates progress, not time itself.
A lot of players want to trade time for in-game progress. It's purely transactional: 1 hour = 1 progress
But I want to feel like my actions matter i.e. what I do with time creates progress, not time itself.
September 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This convo I had highlights the difference in what "respect your time" means in games.
A lot of players want to trade time for in-game progress. It's purely transactional: 1 hour = 1 progress
But I want to feel like my actions matter i.e. what I do with time creates progress, not time itself.
A lot of players want to trade time for in-game progress. It's purely transactional: 1 hour = 1 progress
But I want to feel like my actions matter i.e. what I do with time creates progress, not time itself.
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If kids’ schools trained them for work based on what everyone thought the hot new technology was going to be, both my kids would have spent the past several years learning about the blockchain. This is why schools don’t attempt to do workplace training: life is pretty long.
August 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If kids’ schools trained them for work based on what everyone thought the hot new technology was going to be, both my kids would have spent the past several years learning about the blockchain. This is why schools don’t attempt to do workplace training: life is pretty long.
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we need to have a better standard for what we take as facts and evidence of something yesterday. if you're going to survive the misinformation age you need to be diligent about verifying everything, almost especially the stuff that reinforces what you already believe.
July 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
we need to have a better standard for what we take as facts and evidence of something yesterday. if you're going to survive the misinformation age you need to be diligent about verifying everything, almost especially the stuff that reinforces what you already believe.
Oh sick I didn’t realize Steam was developing games all by itself
Steam’s mechanical new puzzle game has taken over my brain
Steam’s mechanical new puzzle game has taken over my brain
Mass producing bidets has never been so satisfying
www.polygon.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Oh sick I didn’t realize Steam was developing games all by itself
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I mean this in the most earnest way possible. If your points of reference for storytelling all come from cartoons I BEG you to read more books. There’s so much more variety out there, so much that hasn’t been distilled through 80 different hands & a single corporation’s S+P department.
July 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I mean this in the most earnest way possible. If your points of reference for storytelling all come from cartoons I BEG you to read more books. There’s so much more variety out there, so much that hasn’t been distilled through 80 different hands & a single corporation’s S+P department.
What's funny is this is also the mindset you should have to make good art.
Former Nintendo Dev Takaya Imamura on Miyamoto:
"Mr. Miyamoto studied industrial design at an art university, and he views games as ‘products,’ not ‘works of art.’ I think this perspective is what leads to game development that’s more aligned with the user.”
automaton-media.com/en/news/shig...
"Mr. Miyamoto studied industrial design at an art university, and he views games as ‘products,’ not ‘works of art.’ I think this perspective is what leads to game development that’s more aligned with the user.”
automaton-media.com/en/news/shig...
July 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
What's funny is this is also the mindset you should have to make good art.
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an underappreciated skill in game design is "lying to players." games only exist in a player's mind!! you can change the nature of the game without changing its core logic by just telling players that the logic is something different!!
June 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
an underappreciated skill in game design is "lying to players." games only exist in a player's mind!! you can change the nature of the game without changing its core logic by just telling players that the logic is something different!!
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I'm trying to comment on this without being hyperbolic.
As a manager, insisting on deadlines that you and your ICs straight up don't believe are possible almost GUARANTEES that a) their work will be thrown out or completely redone and b) you will put them in danger of burning out.
As a manager, insisting on deadlines that you and your ICs straight up don't believe are possible almost GUARANTEES that a) their work will be thrown out or completely redone and b) you will put them in danger of burning out.
June 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I'm trying to comment on this without being hyperbolic.
As a manager, insisting on deadlines that you and your ICs straight up don't believe are possible almost GUARANTEES that a) their work will be thrown out or completely redone and b) you will put them in danger of burning out.
As a manager, insisting on deadlines that you and your ICs straight up don't believe are possible almost GUARANTEES that a) their work will be thrown out or completely redone and b) you will put them in danger of burning out.
Hoping this drives midjourney into the dirt and sets genAI back a thousand years.
But the real fight is going to be rewriting copyright law and redefining personal ownership. It’s happening right now and it’s a fight where corporations are emphatically NOT on our side.
But the real fight is going to be rewriting copyright law and redefining personal ownership. It’s happening right now and it’s a fight where corporations are emphatically NOT on our side.
Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.
Disney, Universal sue image creator Midjourney for copyright infringement
Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.
reut.rs
June 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Hoping this drives midjourney into the dirt and sets genAI back a thousand years.
But the real fight is going to be rewriting copyright law and redefining personal ownership. It’s happening right now and it’s a fight where corporations are emphatically NOT on our side.
But the real fight is going to be rewriting copyright law and redefining personal ownership. It’s happening right now and it’s a fight where corporations are emphatically NOT on our side.
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People and media often say Balatro was made by 'one guy'. I feel like that unfortunately may be stoking the flames of this David vs. Goliath narrative a tiny bit
No it was not 'one guy', look at the dang in-game credits
No it was not 'one guy', look at the dang in-game credits
This year's Summer Games Fest presentation was really concerned with how few people made a lot of those games, huh?
It feels kinda fucked up. Not just because they're often misrepresntating the real size of these teams, but because I think it's playing directly into a new(ish) flavour of dev hate.
It feels kinda fucked up. Not just because they're often misrepresntating the real size of these teams, but because I think it's playing directly into a new(ish) flavour of dev hate.
June 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
People and media often say Balatro was made by 'one guy'. I feel like that unfortunately may be stoking the flames of this David vs. Goliath narrative a tiny bit
No it was not 'one guy', look at the dang in-game credits
No it was not 'one guy', look at the dang in-game credits
Mario Kart World absolutely rules but it is such a bummer that there's no local multiplayer in Free Roam. That was the thing my kids were most excited about.
June 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Mario Kart World absolutely rules but it is such a bummer that there's no local multiplayer in Free Roam. That was the thing my kids were most excited about.
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free advice for game developers: try to make the next smash hit video game, such as grand theft auto. if you do, you'll be making more than just a video game – you'll be making millions of dollars
May 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
free advice for game developers: try to make the next smash hit video game, such as grand theft auto. if you do, you'll be making more than just a video game – you'll be making millions of dollars
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休日のアニメーション習作
お嬢さん、、お父さんのバットは長すぎない？
好きこそ物の上手なれ。
頑張れ、、、、！！
#animation
#walkcycle
#runcycle
#sakuga
#callipeg
お嬢さん、、お父さんのバットは長すぎない？
好きこそ物の上手なれ。
頑張れ、、、、！！
#animation
#walkcycle
#runcycle
#sakuga
#callipeg
May 31, 2025 at 1:40 AM
休日のアニメーション習作
お嬢さん、、お父さんのバットは長すぎない？
好きこそ物の上手なれ。
頑張れ、、、、！！
#animation
#walkcycle
#runcycle
#sakuga
#callipeg
お嬢さん、、お父さんのバットは長すぎない？
好きこそ物の上手なれ。
頑張れ、、、、！！
#animation
#walkcycle
#runcycle
#sakuga
#callipeg
I’ve been following this game for a while now, it looks *incredible*
Go play the demo and chip in if you’re able!
Go play the demo and chip in if you’re able!
🚨HUGE News🚨
🐸BIG HOPS is a froggy platformer with deep movement, fresh tongue-gameplay, where you use powerful veggies to grow paths forward!
✨Free demo out NOW
🎮Coming to Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 in Q4 2025
💰Our publisher dropped us, so we're KICKSTARTING
(links below)
🐸BIG HOPS is a froggy platformer with deep movement, fresh tongue-gameplay, where you use powerful veggies to grow paths forward!
✨Free demo out NOW
🎮Coming to Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 in Q4 2025
💰Our publisher dropped us, so we're KICKSTARTING
(links below)
May 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I’ve been following this game for a while now, it looks *incredible*
Go play the demo and chip in if you’re able!
Go play the demo and chip in if you’re able!
I really loved Sea of Stars. It’s propulsive and focused in a way many recent 2D RPGs haven’t been and that aspect really clicked for me.
Sea of Stars is $19.24 on US PS+ buff.ly/AxTCS0e
$22.74 US eShop buff.ly/P2dwizm
$22.74 XBL buff.ly/NhQnrBy
$22.74 Steam buff.ly/nsR77oa
also on Game Pass Standard
$22.74 US eShop buff.ly/P2dwizm
$22.74 XBL buff.ly/NhQnrBy
$22.74 Steam buff.ly/nsR77oa
also on Game Pass Standard
May 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I really loved Sea of Stars. It’s propulsive and focused in a way many recent 2D RPGs haven’t been and that aspect really clicked for me.
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anyway here's the email I sent to jim bankoff last week. i'm still heartbroken. I have been insanely, destructively angry for weeks, and I think I will be for a long time.
May 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
anyway here's the email I sent to jim bankoff last week. i'm still heartbroken. I have been insanely, destructively angry for weeks, and I think I will be for a long time.
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*trips and drops her upcoming Kickstarter campaign on you
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...
Ohmygod I'm so sorry, at least it's just 4 little zines! No harm no foul right? Maybe you'd like to sign up to be notified when it launches? 🫶
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...
Ohmygod I'm so sorry, at least it's just 4 little zines! No harm no foul right? Maybe you'd like to sign up to be notified when it launches? 🫶
Coming soon: The Death & Pottery Collection
A collection of experimental RPG zines by Anna Blackwell
www.kickstarter.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
*trips and drops her upcoming Kickstarter campaign on you
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...
Ohmygod I'm so sorry, at least it's just 4 little zines! No harm no foul right? Maybe you'd like to sign up to be notified when it launches? 🫶
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...
Ohmygod I'm so sorry, at least it's just 4 little zines! No harm no foul right? Maybe you'd like to sign up to be notified when it launches? 🫶
One of the most deeply embarrassing things I’ve ever seen. www.404media.co/star-wars-sh...
Star Wars Shows the Future of AI Special Effects and It Sucks
Industrial Light & Magic revealed a short film showcasing how it wants to use generative AI for Star Wars and it’s completely embarrassing.
www.404media.co
May 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
One of the most deeply embarrassing things I’ve ever seen. www.404media.co/star-wars-sh...
Not looking great! Completely devoid of charm and color, sacrificing style and whimsy for fidelity??? For some reason???
Square Enix posts a new look at Kingdom Hearts IV
"We’re currently working hard on Kingdom Hearts IV and will continue pouring ourselves into the game’s development. We’re dedicated to making this an experience that lives up to your expectations!"
"We’re currently working hard on Kingdom Hearts IV and will continue pouring ourselves into the game’s development. We’re dedicated to making this an experience that lives up to your expectations!"
May 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Not looking great! Completely devoid of charm and color, sacrificing style and whimsy for fidelity??? For some reason???
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I thought this was Joe from Princess Diaries
Final Fantasy VII Remake: Rude Plush is $33.04 on Amazon buff.ly/owbMhFY #ad
May 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I thought this was Joe from Princess Diaries
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"Do you know the meaning of the word foreboding?"
May 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Do you know the meaning of the word foreboding?"