Jerry Belich
@jerrytron.com
he/him - senior designer / team lead creative @ Squanch Games | creative tech making award-winning escape rooms & alt ctrl games, Choosatron, MFA in experience design, ping me for design/hacker/maker stuff - https://jerrytron.com/projects
The feature set I'm most excited about, much more than multiplayer, is localization and translation! Still a few things to work out but really close on this. Not just stories but Choosatron local interface and the web interface.
September 16, 2026 at 11:38 PM
The feature set I'm most excited about, much more than multiplayer, is localization and translation! Still a few things to work out but really close on this. Not just stories but Choosatron local interface and the web interface.
Really excited to have a lot of fixes for handling ASCII art! #choosatron
September 15, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Really excited to have a lot of fixes for handling ASCII art! #choosatron
Choosatron officially supports multiplayer. #choosatron
September 15, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Choosatron officially supports multiplayer. #choosatron
Choosatron development be like...
September 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Choosatron development be like...
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throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky
September 4, 2026 at 6:26 PM
throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky
Writing software we test test test test test. A contractor comes into your home, destroys part of it, slaps something new together and leaves. You immediately find that the most basic things don't work, couldn't have been tested even once! (Apologies to competent contractors but like where are you?)
August 27, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Writing software we test test test test test. A contractor comes into your home, destroys part of it, slaps something new together and leaves. You immediately find that the most basic things don't work, couldn't have been tested even once! (Apologies to competent contractors but like where are you?)
Question: if every child says "animal" before saying "animal", maybe they're right? Why are we forcing this issue? #teamaminal
August 24, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Question: if every child says "animal" before saying "animal", maybe they're right? Why are we forcing this issue? #teamaminal
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The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware.
July 20, 2026 at 11:26 PM
The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware.
I'm definitely NOT celebrating that someone is alive. That's ok right? It's Mitch McConnell.
July 12, 2026 at 11:11 PM
I'm definitely NOT celebrating that someone is alive. That's ok right? It's Mitch McConnell.
I don't celebrate their death, I'm just glad they can't continue making the world worse. I guess I'll just keep posting this message as they fall. (But also, 🎉)
July 12, 2026 at 7:03 PM
I don't celebrate their death, I'm just glad they can't continue making the world worse. I guess I'll just keep posting this message as they fall. (But also, 🎉)
It must be hard to be an executive, having to live up to unsustainable infinite growth which turns into a cycle of copy pasted "hundreds of you are going to be real sad when you read this". Between the shareholder boot licking & having to make sure to change the project or studio name in the memo...
June 25, 2026 at 4:41 PM
It must be hard to be an executive, having to live up to unsustainable infinite growth which turns into a cycle of copy pasted "hundreds of you are going to be real sad when you read this". Between the shareholder boot licking & having to make sure to change the project or studio name in the memo...
If I had a superpower it would be knowing the story behind arbitrary objects. Like why was there a new set of windshield wipers sitting on top a garbage by the tram station? Or an unopened banana sitting on top a perfectly trimmed hedge? I need to know!
June 20, 2026 at 4:34 PM
If I had a superpower it would be knowing the story behind arbitrary objects. Like why was there a new set of windshield wipers sitting on top a garbage by the tram station? Or an unopened banana sitting on top a perfectly trimmed hedge? I need to know!
Happy to see the Cosmo installation I worked on like 16 years ago is still going strong!
May 15, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Happy to see the Cosmo installation I worked on like 16 years ago is still going strong!
That horrifying moment when traveling and you realize it's the first time you've pooped outside your house in like six months because the uncivilized world outside doesn't have a bidet on the toilet!
May 15, 2026 at 6:57 PM
That horrifying moment when traveling and you realize it's the first time you've pooped outside your house in like six months because the uncivilized world outside doesn't have a bidet on the toilet!
Been a whiiiiile since I've put together a slide deck. I hate making slides, but it was nice remembering I used to have a process and it actually works. Still wish I had more time to practice but cheats should get me through the pitch! Back in the saddle!
April 23, 2026 at 6:33 AM
Been a whiiiiile since I've put together a slide deck. I hate making slides, but it was nice remembering I used to have a process and it actually works. Still wish I had more time to practice but cheats should get me through the pitch! Back in the saddle!
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we all know I have no life, so:
April 21, 2026 at 6:35 PM
we all know I have no life, so:
It's been pointed out to me that a lot of my game design is very hostile towards the players. Ghost Dentist (self dentistry VR), escape room in HoL 2 (trapping & misleading), even my actual escape room Utopia (normal ending is a loss, plus you can burn alive).
To that I say, have you met players?
To that I say, have you met players?
April 21, 2026 at 3:31 AM
It's been pointed out to me that a lot of my game design is very hostile towards the players. Ghost Dentist (self dentistry VR), escape room in HoL 2 (trapping & misleading), even my actual escape room Utopia (normal ending is a loss, plus you can burn alive).
To that I say, have you met players?
To that I say, have you met players?
I find a lot of YouTube videos exhausting because evidently editing style over the years has 'evolved' into any pauses being unacceptable. If there's a pause, you cut! And of course the awful 'cheeky' cut zoom often multiple times like the YouTuber is giving you an aside.
April 18, 2026 at 11:07 PM
I find a lot of YouTube videos exhausting because evidently editing style over the years has 'evolved' into any pauses being unacceptable. If there's a pause, you cut! And of course the awful 'cheeky' cut zoom often multiple times like the YouTuber is giving you an aside.
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Try it today! tarot.yarnspinner.dev
Tarot for Yarn Spinner
Tarot as a procedural storytelling engine for Yarn Spinner. Draw cards. Shape stories.
tarot.yarnspinner.dev
March 31, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Try it today! tarot.yarnspinner.dev
A still from an old home movie at least 45+ years ago I was watching. I believe this means I die in seven days, no?
March 29, 2026 at 4:38 AM
A still from an old home movie at least 45+ years ago I was watching. I believe this means I die in seven days, no?
Ahhhhh if you work with ESP32 its variants this ESPConnect tool is flipping nuuuuuuuts - buy them coffee: github.com/thelastoutpo...
GitHub - thelastoutpostworkshop/ESPConnect: Zero-installation web application that lets you explore, back up, and manage your ESP32… right from your browser
Zero-installation web application that lets you explore, back up, and manage your ESP32… right from your browser - thelastoutpostworkshop/ESPConnect
github.com
March 26, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Ahhhhh if you work with ESP32 its variants this ESPConnect tool is flipping nuuuuuuuts - buy them coffee: github.com/thelastoutpo...
Reading The Raw Shark Texts & it, like many other stores/media, brings up the "every 7 years all your cells have been replaced" trope which I've resisted looking up because I like being a Ship of Theseus... & assumed it was less than true. Sadly I caved & it is wildly inaccurate as I feared. :(
March 17, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Reading The Raw Shark Texts & it, like many other stores/media, brings up the "every 7 years all your cells have been replaced" trope which I've resisted looking up because I like being a Ship of Theseus... & assumed it was less than true. Sadly I caved & it is wildly inaccurate as I feared. :(
The beginning of a month off. Organize a lot of digital life, and took a box of deprecated microcontroller and gave them new life with CircuitPython. Should be fun for some quick turnaround tinkering!
March 17, 2026 at 7:20 PM
The beginning of a month off. Organize a lot of digital life, and took a box of deprecated microcontroller and gave them new life with CircuitPython. Should be fun for some quick turnaround tinkering!
It's incredible how many people are using approximation functions as therapists. It's absolutely unsurprising how poorly this is turning out.
February 22, 2026 at 6:05 PM
It's incredible how many people are using approximation functions as therapists. It's absolutely unsurprising how poorly this is turning out.