Josh Ge

The mind behind Cogmind, the mind-blowing sci-fi roguelike. Game design blogging and ASCII like you've never seen before.

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

4 years in dev, Cogmind now on Steam!
https://t.co/XAeSTvPzuY

Immersive robot roguelike w/modern terminal UI and soundscape like no other:

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

Later Twitter folks! Been a good 10-year run. I'm out.

o7

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

Correction: I have started using it.

(now partway through a comprehensive summary of my beginnings as a full-time indiedev, and the years since :D)

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

Over the past couple weeks some have started asking me where they can follow outside Twitter.

I have an account that I haven't yet started using here:
https://t.co/MGIUXWBJku

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

Correction: I have started using it.

(now partway through a comprehensive summary of my beginnings as a full-time indiedev, and the years since :D)

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

@EltonsKuns Well... maybe? :P

Not leaving here just yet, but I don't like what I'm seeing so far, not at all.

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

Twitch (https://t.co/KeIXsoQvRn) for streaming RLs
YouTube (https://t.co/S4Hq6gqVMk) for archiving streams
Reddit (r/roguelikes, r/roguelikeDev, r/Cogmind)
and I'm most active on the Roguelikes/Dev/Cogmind Discord server: https://t.co/4qD1SuPvvl

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

Over the past couple weeks some have started asking me where they can follow outside Twitter.

I have an account that I haven't yet started using here:
https://t.co/MGIUXWBJku

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

Also of course there are the many other places, too, like on Patreon (https://t.co/2qWRxEoCte) where I write mostly about dev progress and give access to prerelease builds of my work, and

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

Ah this is the most pertinent part of today's news, I guess:
https://t.co/Rftxp2DpVx

[ScreenTime @screentime]

Hundreds of Twitter employees have resigned ahead of the ‘extremely hardcore’ cultural reset of the company

Elon Musk was scrambling to try and get top engineers to stay

Remaining employees expect the platform to start breaking soon

(via @alexeheath)

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

So it's not just a bunch of people I know leaving this place, it's those who actually pay for it, too xD

Yet another case of a platform about to crash and burn due to sudden major changes? This sure is getting interesting...

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

Holy shit
#ElonMuskIsADisgrace

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

Truly lol-level material in here...
https://t.co/duTESNr9RT

[▄▀▄🅶🅴🅰🆁🅶🅾🅳🅳▄▀▄ @geargodd]

@ZoeSchiffer @Ba4Democrats I think I know:

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

@titusgroen Same, always eagerly awaiting what will go up in flames next :P

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

@slashie_ Right but that's extra friction, and not using purely your browser but adding a third party. Still pretty cool though.

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

@slashie_ Ah yeah, that's one of the ones I forgot by the time I was writing the list :P

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

@slashie_ (obviously the browser points are moot if you've only got a downloadable browser game rather than a native build xD)

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

@slashie_ Some others that come up:
-players aren't always online/have access to internet
-browsers aren't always reliable/good ways to save game data
-browsers add unnecessary overhead and tend to be slower w/more issues than a dedicated build
-damn I had 2 more but just forgot them xD

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

@slashie_ Yeah for Cogmind I just have the news button on the UI flash, and if you click it and check the news page, it mentions that you're playing an older version, with some info about what's in the newest one.

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

@slashie_ (There are definitely other advantages, too, that's just the first and most obvious.)

[Josh Ge @GridSageGames]

@slashie_ Nothing to do with being up-to-date, I can always download an updated version if I want to.