Drop Rate – "Donut Land" By Hitstun

Asano – Taisho 103: Battleship Island

This reminds me of the Imperial Boy background art I posted here several months ago. So much detail! I'd make this my wallpaper but I can't crop it to 16:9 without losing lots of details.

Source: 「大正一〇三年・軍艦島」/「浅野」のイラスト [pixiv] via pixiv每周排行 – 前50

大正一〇三年　軍艦島

TBS様「WADAIの王国」 という番組で別ver.をセット背景に使って頂きました。

Minion in the Museum

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery had this Despicable Me minion balloon stuck on a high ceiling. When it finally came down, the security cameras caught footage of it wandering the museum like it had a mind of its own. Whenever I get a balloon, I add weight to it to get it to silently float around like an Air Swimmer. It’s a rare sight, and if you don’t expect it, you might think it’s a ghost!

Source: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery via WHDH via Google News

Alpharad – How to Play Villager 202

YouTuber Alpharad has spent the past five months making hype highlight videos of online matches. He has finally finished his “How to Play Sm4sh 101” series with one last Villager video, showing off his absurd damage potential and mindgames.

Source: AlpharadTV via Shoryuken because YouTube subscription RSS feeds are still broken; music from BotanicSage

The Twitch Streaming Experience

For April Fools’ Day, I brought my weekly stream back to Twitch and did annoying things popular Twitch streamers do a lot. I played a mainstream game online, I had a webcam which covered up my money and ammo counts, I had a lot of useless crap taking up space on the screen, and I constantly begged for followers and donations. Even Moobot was spamming up my chat, which had the default cuss filter on despite the NSFW language onscreen. This all went horribly right, even with Twitch constantly buffering and crashing and Xbox Live dropping my connection several times.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1bYBc9bROg via Twitch, ideas from Bad Stream Layouts via Ragnorok64

Snail's House – [snowdrift]

Here in Ohio, we finally got our first decent snow of the winter. I really like snow as long as I'm not driving in it. For the moment, things are calm and pretty and not even that cold.

These are dire times. The USA became a dictatorship, China is sick, Hong Kong's autonomy is still threatened, Australia is still on fire, and climate change is inevitable. Let's rest and enjoy the snow before climate change takes it away from us. We should recover our strength so we can continue the fight for our future.

Source: Ujico* via NutellaFrenchToast via Unironically Good SiIvaGunner/Mashups while looking for music to play at my wedding

Bakamo Studios site updated!

So I finally updated the site that’s more important than this one. I wrote the site’s first new post since April 2012 about our switch to Unity 2D, our new Games page that includes Thong Girl and my three Ludum Dare games, and the shiny new Bakamo Studios Facebook page. I even posted to our Twitter!

It’s no big secret that I use this blog as a testing ground for things I want to implement on the Bakamo Studios site. The new post cross-posted to Facebook correctly the first time and all seems to have gone well. If you’re interested in games I develop, please subscribe to Bakamo Studios’s RSS feed or like us on Facebook.

This is closer to what a blog should look like. I need to work on it more.

Source: Bakamo Studios » Developers of Thong Girl

Tower of Heaven

Tower of Heaven is a Game Boy-styled platform game with a great soundtrack that keeps adding conditions for failure. The controls are simple, but it's easy to get near the end of a section and accidentally break one of the game's many rules. Take ten minutes and try this out. Since then, they've made another game, Pause Ahead, which I want to run blind on my stream soon.

Speedrun times are almost a minute faster than this. This is a fun game to run, and I'd totally race this on SpeedRunsLive. There's only one real skip, and everything else is just platforming skill.

Source: Play Tower of Heaven | askiisoft.

Stupjam – Swingin' with Swabbie

(I’ve actually met a few acquaintances by way of Sayonara Umihara Kawase’s North American leaderboards.)

Source: Stuplr via Yumi’s Odd Odyssey leaderboards (records) and his comment on my video

Europe and Oceania April 24th

Lyre Le Temps

Lyre Le Temps takes the electro swing sampling of Caravan Palace and Parov Stelar even more mainstream, and it sounds like a million dollars. This song, Prohibition Swing, twists electro swing into an upbeat modern pop song with a great hook. Other tracks push further into hip hop, rock, and industrial styles. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear this band at a party someday.

Source: Lyre Le Temps via a Google Play Music radio based on Wintergatan

Mastodon – Crack the Skye

Because it’s an all-time great metal album and totally not because I just joined the fediverse as @hitstun@computerfairi.es . My posts like this one will continue to appear in all the usual places for now. But, I’m not going to stay active on a site like Twitter when an idiot billionaire tears it apart and ruins it for everyone.

Source: Mastodon via YouTube Music