v buckenham
@v21.bsky.social
hello again
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
this clip is a very good example of why you should give your interviewee space and not jump in with a new comment or question. it would be so easy not to hear that final line, and it's a good final line.
"Q: Was there any time you wanted to kill Kinski, too?"
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
this clip is a very good example of why you should give your interviewee space and not jump in with a new comment or question. it would be so easy not to hear that final line, and it's a good final line.
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Fivefold Daily Puzzle #11 (Nov 21, 2025) solved in 4:25 with 0 hints! fivefold.ca
Fivefold: Daily Puzzle
A daily logic puzzle game where the rules are different every day!
fivefold.ca
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Fivefold Daily Puzzle #11 (Nov 21, 2025) solved in 4:25 with 0 hints! fivefold.ca
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Seeing more reports and industry players blaming code reviews for slowing down the quick development done with AI. It's unclear whether anyone's asking if this is just moving the cognitive bottleneck of "understanding what's happening" around. "Add AI to the reviews" seems to be the end goal here.
November 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Seeing more reports and industry players blaming code reviews for slowing down the quick development done with AI. It's unclear whether anyone's asking if this is just moving the cognitive bottleneck of "understanding what's happening" around. "Add AI to the reviews" seems to be the end goal here.
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Was researching an old theatre (boxing venue) in Hull.
Someone on a FB heritage page, under a photo: 'Think I used to go to pantomimes there as a kid!'
A wit replies: 'Oh no you didn't!'
The original poster: 'Is it a different building then?'
Someone on a FB heritage page, under a photo: 'Think I used to go to pantomimes there as a kid!'
A wit replies: 'Oh no you didn't!'
The original poster: 'Is it a different building then?'
November 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Was researching an old theatre (boxing venue) in Hull.
Someone on a FB heritage page, under a photo: 'Think I used to go to pantomimes there as a kid!'
A wit replies: 'Oh no you didn't!'
The original poster: 'Is it a different building then?'
Someone on a FB heritage page, under a photo: 'Think I used to go to pantomimes there as a kid!'
A wit replies: 'Oh no you didn't!'
The original poster: 'Is it a different building then?'
note to self to write a blog post connecting this comment to the bit in @adamatomic.bsky.social's recent Corgispace talk about "noticing" as one of the core things you need to do as a designer
bennett f wrote a really nice and interesting comment on discover the world itch.io/post/14821693
Post by Bennett F in Discover the World comments
This is the kind of mechanic that is probably non-obvious to think of if you're just brainstorming ideas, but arises naturally when you start implementing the physics. The spin move could be implement
itch.io
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
note to self to write a blog post connecting this comment to the bit in @adamatomic.bsky.social's recent Corgispace talk about "noticing" as one of the core things you need to do as a designer
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I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
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A friend of mine has early access to cutting edge corporate jargon, I heard the phrase "let's double-click on that" from him long before anywhere else. I asked him what's new these days and he says it's "the shark closest to your body" for the most urgent issue.
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A friend of mine has early access to cutting edge corporate jargon, I heard the phrase "let's double-click on that" from him long before anywhere else. I asked him what's new these days and he says it's "the shark closest to your body" for the most urgent issue.
good list of games: cdrom.ca/games/2025/1...
I can say that I am also excited to talk about the final (secret) game. But also half the other games here are ones I have my eye on and mean to get round to playing.
I can say that I am also excited to talk about the final (secret) game. But also half the other games here are ones I have my eye on and mean to get round to playing.
IGF 2026 Games I Want to Talk About
cdrom.ca
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
good list of games: cdrom.ca/games/2025/1...
I can say that I am also excited to talk about the final (secret) game. But also half the other games here are ones I have my eye on and mean to get round to playing.
I can say that I am also excited to talk about the final (secret) game. But also half the other games here are ones I have my eye on and mean to get round to playing.
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This is a really interesting article about a horrifying distortion of sign language happening in the UK, and which its creators are now trying to export to other countries and their sign languages
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
thebaffler.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This is a really interesting article about a horrifying distortion of sign language happening in the UK, and which its creators are now trying to export to other countries and their sign languages
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
enjoyable to make something unashamedly ugly for once
November 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
enjoyable to make something unashamedly ugly for once
felt great to scroll to the bottom of this page & see the lovely @decassette.bsky.social drawing, given how much of her work was on the mood board when i ran the ashcan version
Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Coming soon: Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
felt great to scroll to the bottom of this page & see the lovely @decassette.bsky.social drawing, given how much of her work was on the mood board when i ran the ashcan version
some absolutely cracking outfits in this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGMO...
Hen Ogledd - Scales will fall (Official Video)
YouTube video by Hen Ogledd
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
some absolutely cracking outfits in this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGMO...
oh, shit. now i want to do a larp about being a Borrower
Surprise: we're working on something new! A game called Tiny Wizard.
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
oh, shit. now i want to do a larp about being a Borrower
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beaut of a Dutchman on the return stop of a bellcast wash
look at how well the tooling carries from the old piece to the new just fucking beautiful
look at how well the tooling carries from the old piece to the new just fucking beautiful
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
beaut of a Dutchman on the return stop of a bellcast wash
look at how well the tooling carries from the old piece to the new just fucking beautiful
look at how well the tooling carries from the old piece to the new just fucking beautiful
I was starting to write a post here and then it turned into a blog post instead. Riffing off @malicedafirenze.bsky.social's recent good post, to talk about the future of indie games: blog.vbuckenham.com/the-future-o...
The future of indie games
I've followed Alice Ruppert on social media for a while now. She runs a website focused on horse games. I'm not a horse girl! I mean horses are fine, but they're not something I'm mega into. But what ...
blog.vbuckenham.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I was starting to write a post here and then it turned into a blog post instead. Riffing off @malicedafirenze.bsky.social's recent good post, to talk about the future of indie games: blog.vbuckenham.com/the-future-o...
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Re-upping for the morning crowd: I'm organising a Jubensha Convention in London for 8-9th May 2026!
Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...
Tickets will be around £15!
Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...
Tickets will be around £15!
Pre-announcing my Jubensha Convention
Come to my Jubensha convention in London on 8-9th May 2026!
mssv.net
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Re-upping for the morning crowd: I'm organising a Jubensha Convention in London for 8-9th May 2026!
Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...
Tickets will be around £15!
Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...
Tickets will be around £15!
best joke of the day, imo: downforeveryoneorjustme.com
downforeveryoneorjustme.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
best joke of the day, imo: downforeveryoneorjustme.com
oh, nice, it's Cloudflare that meant i got the message that Downpour's website was down, not to do with me
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
oh, nice, it's Cloudflare that meant i got the message that Downpour's website was down, not to do with me
the thing about transition is that you don't have to be sure that it's the thing you want before you start doing things towards it. you can just stop at any time! wear those clothes, cut your hair or don't, ask to be called a different name, see how it feels.
November 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
the thing about transition is that you don't have to be sure that it's the thing you want before you start doing things towards it. you can just stop at any time! wear those clothes, cut your hair or don't, ask to be called a different name, see how it feels.
one day larp in Nottingham, putting on a play at the Playhouse while mischievous fairies whisper in your ear sites.google.com/view/a-play-...
A Play Toward
What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,
So near the cradle of the fairy queen?
What, a play toward! I'll be an auditor;
An actor too, perhaps, if I see cause.
Puck - III.I
Sunday 17th May 202...
sites.google.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
one day larp in Nottingham, putting on a play at the Playhouse while mischievous fairies whisper in your ear sites.google.com/view/a-play-...
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“They call what they are doing ‘spiritual science,’ ” Almqvist said, sighing. “A friend of mine has been ‘researching’ the color orange for forty years. What does this mean? It means he paints in orange.” 🧡
The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star
As af Klint’s fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her name.
www.newyorker.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“They call what they are doing ‘spiritual science,’ ” Almqvist said, sighing. “A friend of mine has been ‘researching’ the color orange for forty years. What does this mean? It means he paints in orange.” 🧡
read the intro & yeah I basically agree with this. but of course I would, it says "welcome migrants, invest in clean energy & support the videogames industry"
New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
read the intro & yeah I basically agree with this. but of course I would, it says "welcome migrants, invest in clean energy & support the videogames industry"