Michael Townsend

Founder and lead developer for doublespeak games. I like weird stuff.

@doublespeakgame

[Michael Townsend @continuities]

Penrose is a non-linear narrative adventure game about time, choice, and the nature of obsession.

Play Penrose on the web https://t.co/BbBWY4Mx5s

Play Penrose on iOS https://t.co/HwNyJhagrW

Play Penrose on Android
https://t.co/GEJvTTbU1T

#doublespeakgames #penrose #indiedev

[Michael Townsend @continuities]

@MarkJCarney Or, how about we break up the big grocer monopolies? I don't want a bandaid handout, I want you to fix the system.

[Michael Townsend @continuities]

@DorkyPolytope Aww thank you so much 🥰 I'm glad you enjoyed them

[Michael Townsend @continuities]

@cupw Canada Post's claimed losses seem pretty suspicious to me. I feel like this is a good angle to win public support, if legitimate. https://t.co/zp4HchOD44

[Michael Townsend @continuities]

@TheMaimann I saw your coverage of the Canada Post strike. Wondering if you've dug into the numbers behind Canada Post's claimed losses. Feels like an interesting angle. I haven't seen anyone talking about it outside of Reddit. https://t.co/zp4HchOD44

[doublespeak games @doublespeakgame]

This is such a fantastic retrospective on the legacy of A Dark Room. I'm so honoured 🖤

https://t.co/TzRTaJWDAy

[Bug Mars @bugsonmars]

[#NEWS!!] #Hexapod, our #AI-powered insect farm management #software, is now in the cloud!

Using #PredictiveIntelligence and #RemoteSensing to #automate farm operations, reduce labor, and boost yields.

Get more info, demo, or join the waitlist here: https://t.co/5s62h5Cj1i

[Kristin Rushowy @krushowy]

MPP Sarah Jama being asked to leave to legislature for wearing keffiyeh #onpoli

[Eurogamer @eurogamer]

Penrose is a haunted interactive novella that's happy for you to mess with causality https://t.co/J053ArsNM2

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

I'm sitting this morning wondering which BigTech cloud the "Lavendar" & "Where's Daddy?" systems are running on. What APIs they might be using. Which libraries they're likely calling

What work did my former colleagues, did I, did you contribute to that may now be enabling this?

[Justin Piché, PhD @JustinPicheh]

A lengthy🧵on the police and prison state @fordnation wants to build + why he should say #NOPE | No Ontario Prison Expansion & #YES | Yes to Equity and Supports. We need to #BuildCommunitiesNotCages Premier.

[NASA @NASA]

For the first time since the Apollo era, new NASA science instruments and tech demonstrations are operating on the Moon after @Int_Machines' Odysseus lander arrived on the lunar surface: https://t.co/l1VaQujvOZ

The IM-1 mission team expects to receive images in the coming days.

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Heritage Minister @PascaleStOnge_ gets it right on Bill S-210: it’s “fundamentally flawed.”
How else to describe a bill to mandate age verification technologies to access search or social media and create court ordered site blocking of lawful content?!
https://t.co/qnzWzy49vE

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

What is going on in Moscow is horrific. When we say that they want to eradicate LGBTQ people, starting with trans people, this is what that looks like. This is where this leads.

In the United States, the laws keep escalating to this in the modern rainbow scare.

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

Interesting new findings from the huge 12-year universal basic income experiment in Kenya:

"Given how entrepreneurially minded the recipients are, the researchers found no evidence that any of the payments discouraged work or increased purchases of alcohol... In fact, so many people who used to work for wages instead started businesses that there was less competition for wage work, and overall wages in villages rose as a result."

Tons of entrepreneurship happening as well as higher wages for wage workers!

There are three groups being compared here. One group got a UBI for 2 years, one group got the same amount of money as the monthly 2-year group all at once, and one group is getting the same amount each month as the first group but for 12 years.

Basically, the lump sum group saw mostly better outcomes than the 2-year monthly group. They started even more businesses, but they were a bit more stressed and not as happy. And the 12-year monthly UBI group is the happiest.

"The long-term monthly recipients are happiest of all, and some of that is because they know it’s going to be there for 12 years ... It provides mental health benefits in a stability sense."

The 12-year group is also seeing the best of both worlds, because those who want lump sums are choosing to make that option happen collectively.

"Long-term monthly payments seem to offer the best of all worlds because they enable people to use ROSCAs to generate lump sum payments when they want them. That enables flexibility: People who want monthly payments can get them, and people who need cash upfront can organize with their peers to get that."

https://t.co/q7nqBAlmPz

[Michael Townsend @continuities]

Nothing says punkrock like $800 pit tickets @GreenDay

[doublespeak games @doublespeakgame]

Glowing praise for Penrose on Steam. I'm dying 🖤🥰😭

https://t.co/wAjbRvGBxw

#indiegame #doublespeak #penrose #narrativegame #steam #interactivefiction

[doublespeak games @doublespeakgame]

Penrose, doublespeak's groundbreaking interactive novella, is now available on Steam for Windows, Mac, and Linux!

Now with controller support, achievements, and bonus art!

https://t.co/MoPZlsV6K3

[doublespeak games @doublespeakgame]

Penrose, doublespeak's groundbreaking interactive novella, will be launching on Steam this month!

Featuring a remastered interface for wide screens, controller support, achievements, and more!

Wishlist today!

https://t.co/MoPZlsV6K3

[doublespeak games @doublespeakgame]

10 years ago today, doublespeak made a thing and its inexplicable success changed everything.

In gratitude, that ancient codebase has been getting some love and today there's actual new content!

X marks the spot. Go geared.
And thank you 🖤

https://t.co/7pAEJ2VbZG

[Museum of Screens @MuseumOfScreens]

A Dark Room (2013)

Creator(s): Michael Townsend (@continuities)
Type: HTML5
Language: 15+
Status: Available

https://t.co/fH4DGDF7tD