Wessmaniac
@Wessmaniac
Senior Producer & Principal Designer at Impeller Studios. Lecturer in Game Design and Production at Breda University of Applied Sciences.
Nier creator @yokotaro tried to warn us about payment processors' censorship back in 2024. Amid Steam caving to Visa and MasterCard, Taro's concerns about their influence being used "for speech control in other countries" feel more relevant than ever: 80.lv/articles/yoko-…
X-Wing Alliance Upgrade project just released new version of the upgrade patch. The project brings graphical upgrade for the X-Wing Alliance game. Check xwaupgrade.com #xwingalliance #xwing #starwars #lucasarts #lucasfilmgames #retrogaming #retrogamer #dosgaming
Agreed! To be fair, as level designers, TIE Fighter was only the 2nd game David Maxwell and I made. :-)
Played Globetrotting 2 times on 2025-05-21 boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3562… #bggplay via @BoardGameGeek
Super excited for tomorrow's playtest! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/9120356/0d61667a48bccc224c8c921ceb45b9e1d9e0afe7.jpg Impeller Studios is hosting another "playtest with the devs" this Saturday, May 10 . steamcommunity.com/games/380110/a… #gaming_news via @steam
Looking forward to tomorrow's livestream playtest w/the devs and Steam key giveaway for @InTheBlackGame! April 27 at 10:00 EDT. You can catch the livestream on Al's YouTube youtube.com/@ALWouldDoIt or by joining our Discord channel: discord.gg/jgwHXWA
For anyone concerned about overpopulating Earth, there are alternatives:
Two trillion people living in the Outer Solar System, inhabiting 4 km wide habitat pairs with a population density of Manhattan: researchgate.net/publication/37… This costs about 1000 tons/person, adding up to ~0.001% of materials available in the local moons.
For Science!
Time to stop thinking about missions to divert the asteroid away from the earth and start figuring out how to make it hit the moon. For science of course.
I love this concept! So many cool and well-thought out details. I can imagine something similar fitting in perfectly for @InTheBlackGame artstation.com/artwork/K32JKo
Four countries that have successfully reversed democratic decline in recent years— Several countries have recently managed to stop and even reverse the erosion of their democratic institutions. The chart illustrates these turnarounds using the liberal democracy index from the…
A beautiful interactive website comparing 'sky cultures' and how different peoples, from Sardinians to Siberians, treated stars and constellations: figuresinthesky.visualcinnamon.com
Unlike Stephen A. Smith, Jon Stewart NEVER gives in to the Conservative culture war propaganda. THIS is what a strong, good, true leader looks like.
One of my favorite gaming channels just posted a great list of free strategy games that includes Vedelem, a light RTS game made in less than a year by 3rd year students from @BuasGames youtu.be/Guv-m-vFfI4?si… store.steampowered.com/app/1517150/Ve…
