Ash McAllan's microblog

Ash McAllan @ash@acegiak.net

Game Designer, Writer, Occasional Streamer, Anarchoqueer, and Goblin Queen.

pronouns: she/her/hers

bluesky: @acegiak.bsky.social

itch: acegiak.itch.io

github: github.com/acegiak

wishlist: giftster.com/gift/public/n0yez

twitch: twitch.tv/acegiak

Ash McAllan shared 6 months ago

Mats Henricson

@matsh.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Best (and most depressing) thread about the state of Sweden I've *ever* read. 😞

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ma4dxq7gognvcmxdiduybkvm/post/3ljts7kkgos2h

Ash McAllan

@ash@acegiak.net

Another #AshPlushie from last year, this time a bat! Maybe too many wings, but still a bat. #punkcrafts #punkplushies

A black plush bat with big golden eyes and four wings

Ash McAllan

@ash@acegiak.net

Wanted this bathroom storage rack to be taller so I don't need to reach down for things, so I carved some little leg extensions. For a one day project I'm pretty proud of this one, with the little toes and all. #punkcrafts

A set of four whittled wooden legs with little carved feet at the bottom each with three little toes.

A bathroom storage rack with the leg extenders at the bottom, now painted black.

The leg extenders up close again, painted black.

Ash McAllan

@ash@acegiak.net

Continuing documenting my #punkcrafts, another #AshPlushie , this one was another Christmas gift for a young friend, a dragon unicorn, or a unicorn dragon, depending on one's disposition. #punkplushies

A pink and white plush creature with white body, pink wings, four tusky fangs, a giant golden eye, and a golden horn pointing from it's head.

Ash McAllan

@ash@acegiak.net

Another #AshPlushie from last year, this one is a Biblically Accurate Great Tit for a ridiculous and beloved bird nerd. #punkplushies #punkcrafts

Photos of an awkwardly sewn together plush great tit, with six eyes and four wings.

Ash McAllan

@ash@acegiak.net

Updated the PDFs for #dungeonpunk with a fix for the armor rule. The Brace move now puts it in the player's hands.

Grab the updated pdfs from https://acegiak.itch.io/dungeonpunk

And if you haven't already checked it out and want a simple, fast not-DnD to play fantasy fun with your friends, maybe take a look.

dungeonpunk by acegiak itch.io

Updated text of Brace move: Basic Move: Brace When you would be hurt but use a shield or armor to deflect or absorb the blow, you take no damage and add one mark of damage to the item that shielded you. If the number of such marks on that item exceeds its weight, it is destroyed.

Ash McAllan shared 7 months ago

Molly White

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.

Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.

#DigitalSovereignty

Ash McAllan shared 7 months ago

JacobCoffin

@jacobcoffin@writing.exchange

Cory Doctorow essay suggesting that instead of combatting new US tariffs with tariffs of their own, Canada should tear up the US IP laws they agreed to to avoid those tariffs in the first place, allowing for a domestic industry around jailbreaking and de-enshittifying American products:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham

Pluralistic: Canada shouldn’t retaliate with US tariffs; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 6 – CONCLUSION) (15 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net

Ash McAllan shared 7 months ago

Evil Hat Productions

@evilhat@dice.camp

What does your true self look like?
How does it feel to transcend?
How does it feel when the power is spent, and you change back?
Girl By Moonlight.
https://evilhat.com/product/girl-by-moonlight/
#ttrpg

Girl by Moonlight Evil Hat Productions

On the left, a copy of the Girl By Moonlight RPG. On the right, a quote from the page 51 of the book: "Transcendence. In order to stand a chance against the various threats the protagonists face, they will need to transcend. Each playset will have variations on what it means to transcend, but at its core it is always the same—transcendence means embodying your truest self. It is an exultant expression of everything that the characters are forced to bury and deny about themselves in their day to day lives."

Ash McAllan shared 7 months ago

Michael Halila 🏳️‍⚧️

@mhalila@mastodontti.fi

The Saami activist Petra Laiti wrote an excellent blog post titled Why Are We Still Calling It Lapland, on the names of Sápmi and the colonialism still practised in the Global North. https://petralaiti.com/2025/01/14/why-are-we-still-calling-it-lapland-an-essay-about-calling-things-by-their-real-names/

Why are we still calling it ”Lapland”? – An essay about calling things by their real names Petra Laiti

Ash McAllan shared 8 months ago

Radical Graffiti

@RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu

"Live, Laugh, Luigi"
Seen in Chicago, Illinois

Ash McAllan shared 8 months ago

brett

@brett@brettiverse.com

Merry Christmas fediverse, your present from me is that I commented and published the code for my Tarpit Game of Life project that everyone loved a couple of years ago

https://github.com/b73tt/tarpit-game-of-life

GitHub - b73tt/tarpit-game-of-life: Conway's Game of Life, seeded from bots on the Internet GitHub

Ash McAllan shared 9 months ago

Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)

@golgaloth@writing.exchange

When I feel like I'm wasting my time.

#Artist #Writer #Writing #art #capitalism

ANTI-CAPITALIST AFFIRMATIONS

- i am allowed to spend my time creating things, even if they are not beautiful.
- there is no such thing as a "real Job". all forms of work are real and valid
- there is nothing that i need to accomplish to be worthy.
- doing nothing Is good for my soul
- my worth cannot be measured by my paycheck, my job title, or a list of professional or academic achievements.
- i do not need to monetize my hobbies, it is enough to spend time doing something i love.
- I will not let society decide what success looks like. I can define what successful life looks like for me.

Ash McAllan shared 9 months ago

Meguey-shaped bundle of bits

@megueyb@dice.camp

Just dropping this here to support artists and help fight content regurgitation algorithms sometimes called “A I”. Hire artists when you can, and when you can't, use art already in the public domain.

https://www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/public-domain-art-resources

Public domain art resources www.skeletoncodemachine.com

Ash McAllan shared 11 months ago

Brian Bucklew

@unormal@mastodon.social

gender encoding of augury

Ash McAllan shared 11 months ago

Nihil Curits

@nealcurtis@mas.to

An excellent summary of contemporary anxiety from Eventually Everything Connects by Sarah Firth.

Sarah Firth in her wonderful comic Eventually Everthing Connects has a chat with her partner about all the shit that's going on and her need to do something about it. He says: 'If your sphere of concern is much bigger than your sphere of influence, you're gonna feel totally overwhelmed'.

Ash McAllan

@ash@acegiak.net

#ScreenshotSaturday Playing around with setting up a cutscene system, got it populating the next match to be played in the career progression, and I'm feeling like I'm getting to a place I'm happy with for the character art for Pol. #MeatDerby #indiegames #gamedev

GIF

Ash McAllan shared 11 months ago

datagoblin

@datagoblin@mastodon.gamedev.place

hey there my #gamedev peers, can I interest y'all in a free & CC0 pixel font?

MONOGRAM

it has support for...
...English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Ukrainian, Russian, Greek...
...and ★ 𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓼 ★ ?

please check it out!

https://datagoblin.itch.io/monogram

monogram by datagoblin itch.io

A mock-up showcasing the font MONOGRAM. It displays pseudo-code fetching the status code of an http request to "itch.io".

A mock-up showcasing the font MONOGRAM. It displays a top-down game scene where a king flanked by two guards tells a boy: "your bravery has saved us all".

A mock-up showcasing the font MONOGRAM. It a pair of green hands holding a tourist flyer in Greek for the island of Santorini. The message "have a safe trip!" is scribbled on top of the flyer.

Ash McAllan

@ash@acegiak.net

Been working on menus for Meat Derby, trying to make it feel like a horrific and mundane machine, like a vending machine that dispenses dessicated corpses. I'm liking using the blood smear focus marker, and the little conveyor window for network options. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #meatderby