Alan Hazelden @draknek@cybre.space

#intro I'm Alan and I make thinky puzzle games.
Sokobond: http://sokobond.com/
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build: http://agoodsnowman.com/
Cosmic Express: https://cosmicexpressgame.com/
More: http://draknek.org/
I'm working on a new game and sometimes I'll post screenshots of the evolving world map here.

Why is everyone on Melbourne public transport playing Ludo? How is that the new thing?

Annoyed that I spent a week househunting and not being impressed with the options, and only then did I find that there's a good Facebook group that doesn't have "house" or "rent" or "Melbourne" in the name :/

I'm now in sunny Melbourne! 🌧
Looking for somewhere to stay until mid-January if you know someone with a spare room or if you're going on holiday and want an Alan in your house while you're gone.

For my Patreon backers I posted a list of everything I played/watched in September: https://www.patreon.com/posts/21865454

Gmail has a really frustrating habit of sending messages to spam if someone replies to a message from a different address to the one I originally emailed. Is there a way to stop this happening?

Who are your favourite women/non-binary/trans/PoC game composers/audio designers? I want to expand my rolodex.

I saw two films recently which were very silly and by all accounts shouldn't work but are surprisingly good:
* The Divine Move, a Korean revenge/action film about Go.
* Game Night, a comedy/action film nominally about a boardgame night.

My juggling balls got snatched by New Zealand biosecurity, so I guess it's now official that I don't really juggle any more.

I always have lots of things to do, but if I put them in a list the size of the list is intimidating and I don't want to look at it. So instead I don't put them into lists and forget to do some of them. What's the solution here?

24 hours before getting on my flight to New Zealand, I am finally sending my "hey I'll be in New Zealand soon" messages. I am good at this.

Hey southern hemisphere friends, I'll be visiting New Zealand and Australia again very soon!
Wellington: Sep 24ish to Oct 12ish (and Auckland for some time either side)
Melbourne: Oct 16 to either late November or mid January
Looking for short-term sublets in both cities if you know anyone with a spare room.

I'm watching someone play Spiderman, and it's such a videogame :(

This came up at lunch: if you make a game with a small team (say less than 10 people), I believe you have a moral duty to make sure everyone who worked on it gets some kind of rev share.

A good thing about living out of a backpack is being able to be very confident that you've not lost something/left it behind.
Today: couldn't find my Canadian cash but it turns out it was in my toiletries bag.

Cosmic Express is currently as cheap as it's ever been! Play with cute aliens and hard puzzles.

50% off on PC/Mac/Linux:
https://draknek.itch.io/cosmic-express
https://store.steampowered.com/app/583270/Cosmic_Express/

~40% off on iOS/Android:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cosmic-express/id1152474226
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cosmicexpressgame

If I was funny I'd wrap this in some kind of meme but as it is you have to settle for my unfiltered thoughts.

Thinking about how silly it is to call a tram a "streetcar". We already have a word for cars that go on streets: it's called a car!!! If anything they should be called streettrains.

#xoxofest is the first festival I've been to where people are giving out free socks.