@bgalex.bsky.social
Game developer, Dante enthusiast, & God's most mediocre renaissance man.
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I'm sure this article has been written, but I think there's something very interesting about contemprary ideas of the deep past being almost uniformly brown and bland when a lot of modern scholarship suggests quite the opposite
I'm still very interested in this film, and I like Nolan's work okay, but look: it would be really nice if movie directors remembered that human civilizations throughout time and space have generally been quite fond of things like "colored fabric"
December 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I'm sure this article has been written, but I think there's something very interesting about contemprary ideas of the deep past being almost uniformly brown and bland when a lot of modern scholarship suggests quite the opposite
The camerawork in Shadow of the Colossus has been unfairly maligned for two decades. Sincerely, I think it's kinda revolutionary stuff, especially in retrospect, after how dry and purely functional third-person cameras have gotten since 2005.
December 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The camerawork in Shadow of the Colossus has been unfairly maligned for two decades. Sincerely, I think it's kinda revolutionary stuff, especially in retrospect, after how dry and purely functional third-person cameras have gotten since 2005.
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sorry to some folks, but if we want games to be viewed as consequential art and not products - eventually game development at large is going to have to move past the realm of linkedin, forbes 30 under 30, how to market your game, professional business conference stuff and into something else.
December 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
sorry to some folks, but if we want games to be viewed as consequential art and not products - eventually game development at large is going to have to move past the realm of linkedin, forbes 30 under 30, how to market your game, professional business conference stuff and into something else.
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Goddamnit.
Supreme Court Strips Samus Aran of All Previous Suit Power-Ups in 6-3 Ruling - Hard Drive
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that bounty hunter Samus Aran must surrender all suit power-ups prior to the start... Read the full masterpiece
hard-drive.net
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Goddamnit.
I always dislike how people want to bring educational tracks to high schools. Everyone should learn calculus; everyone should read literature; everyone should know their science and their history. Education is not just about getting you a damn job! Shouldn't even be the main goal.
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I always dislike how people want to bring educational tracks to high schools. Everyone should learn calculus; everyone should read literature; everyone should know their science and their history. Education is not just about getting you a damn job! Shouldn't even be the main goal.
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AUTOMATON HEART is coming out early next year (music by @stillcrisp.bsky.social
) pls wishlist it on Steam and share around it'd really help me out a lot :)
) pls wishlist it on Steam and share around it'd really help me out a lot :)
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
AUTOMATON HEART is coming out early next year (music by @stillcrisp.bsky.social
) pls wishlist it on Steam and share around it'd really help me out a lot :)
) pls wishlist it on Steam and share around it'd really help me out a lot :)
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I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
Trying to make new games but it's hard to find the energy (or sometimes even a coherent and powerful idea!); here's hoping we can muster something up before the year is over.
October 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Trying to make new games but it's hard to find the energy (or sometimes even a coherent and powerful idea!); here's hoping we can muster something up before the year is over.
Wish I had this energy.
traditional and nontraditional don't have to be polar opposites; they can co-exist, sometimes even in the same person
October 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Wish I had this energy.
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heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
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Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
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Wild that EA managed to find a buyer who cares about video game workers even less than EA.
September 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Wild that EA managed to find a buyer who cares about video game workers even less than EA.
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Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV
September 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV
Having 6 years of foresight on Hollow Knight and choosing to keep corpse run, a feature I have yet to see a single person express affection for, is certainly... a decision, Team Cherry.
September 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Having 6 years of foresight on Hollow Knight and choosing to keep corpse run, a feature I have yet to see a single person express affection for, is certainly... a decision, Team Cherry.
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Even if the writer intended for simple blue curtains, you can always try to figure out why he thought that was a normal thing for curtains to be
I used to think that the "the writer wrote that the curtains blue because they were blue" discourse was the invention of highschool kids, created out of frustration with being made to analyse literature they didn't care for. Realising that adults also actually believe that was brain destroying.
August 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Even if the writer intended for simple blue curtains, you can always try to figure out why he thought that was a normal thing for curtains to be
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I was trying to do some research in prep for Nolan's Odyssey next year, but this profile of Ulysses was just 700 pages about the sublime agony of being, the inherent fallibility of perception, and the tyranny of the British.
Also my epub seems to be corrupted, a lot of punctuation is missing.
Also my epub seems to be corrupted, a lot of punctuation is missing.
August 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I was trying to do some research in prep for Nolan's Odyssey next year, but this profile of Ulysses was just 700 pages about the sublime agony of being, the inherent fallibility of perception, and the tyranny of the British.
Also my epub seems to be corrupted, a lot of punctuation is missing.
Also my epub seems to be corrupted, a lot of punctuation is missing.
I realized I forgot to post the actual GMTK game here.
Unfortunately, there are some bugs, but I think it still poses an interesting experience.
bgalex.itch.io/levels-for-m...
Unfortunately, there are some bugs, but I think it still poses an interesting experience.
bgalex.itch.io/levels-for-m...
Levels for Minimalist Platforming (GMTK Edition) by BgAlex
What if Steve Reich made games?
bgalex.itch.io
August 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I realized I forgot to post the actual GMTK game here.
Unfortunately, there are some bugs, but I think it still poses an interesting experience.
bgalex.itch.io/levels-for-m...
Unfortunately, there are some bugs, but I think it still poses an interesting experience.
bgalex.itch.io/levels-for-m...
GMTK cook in progress.
August 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
GMTK cook in progress.
They're not all great, but the album covers for the Pat Metheny Group are a constant source of reference when designing promotional art for my games. Shout out.
August 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
They're not all great, but the album covers for the Pat Metheny Group are a constant source of reference when designing promotional art for my games. Shout out.
See? Verse! Now Dante could have written this.
Everybody (yeah),
Rock your body (yeah),
Everybody,
Rock your body right,
Backstreet’s back, alright!
-Dante Alighieri, “Inferno”
Rock your body (yeah),
Everybody,
Rock your body right,
Backstreet’s back, alright!
-Dante Alighieri, “Inferno”
July 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
See? Verse! Now Dante could have written this.
What makes this fake quote so fascinating to me is that it doesn't even sound remotely like anything from the Comedy. Dante was a poet. The Comedy is written in verse.
July 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
What makes this fake quote so fascinating to me is that it doesn't even sound remotely like anything from the Comedy. Dante was a poet. The Comedy is written in verse.
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i wonder how similar this would be to a cool free media literacy class
July 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
i wonder how similar this would be to a cool free media literacy class