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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 24/09/2026

Ordered the first set of new Choosatron boards, fully populated! Really hope they work. 😬 #choosatron

A bunch of thermal paper with Choosatron test stories printed on it.

Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 17/09/2026

Multiple editions of a story on a device can collapse to the local language, or all editions can be visible if you have a multilingual audience.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 17/09/2026

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.

Thermal paper with part of a translated Choosatron story.

Two strips of thermal paper, one with a failed foreign language print, the other with it translated.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 15/09/2026

Really excited to have a lot of fixes for handling ASCII art! #choosatron

Thermal paper with an ASCII art maze on it.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 15/09/2026

The hard part for this feature is going to be content, but also that's the fun challenge I've been hoping to get to for 13 years! Are there any other multiplayer interactive fiction games?

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 15/09/2026

Choosatron officially supports multiplayer. #choosatron

Two strips of thermal paper with an example multiplayer Choosatron story printed on them.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 13/09/2026

There IS, it lives! Working on wrapping up supporting a large number of languages this time. Native Ink writing script support.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 13/09/2026

Choosatron development be like...

A couple of thermal printers that have printed a snow drift of paper. Two four button inputs are also visible. These are prototype Choosatrons.

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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 27/08/2026

Oh Jesus I would've snapped

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 27/08/2026

Best part is each contractor is fixing the 'dumb shit' the previous did, yet leaves their own. Is that part of the Contractor Code? You always leave work for the next guy?

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 27/08/2026

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?)

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 24/08/2026

Autocorrect!!! Aminal. Aminal. It's the natural way we all started saying it.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 24/08/2026

Question: if every child says "animal" before saying "animal", maybe they're right? Why are we forcing this issue? #teamaminal

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 24/07/2026

Omg that makes my day. 🤍 Getting back into hardware game design after having a kid, been making a fancy fresh Choosatron to get my feet wet haha. Hope we get to meet proper someday. :) Keep up the awesome work!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 24/07/2026

(know 'of' you from your game design)

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 24/07/2026

Also funny coincidences, I know you from your game design work, got into reading The Husbands (halfway & loving it!) without knowing it was 'you', then discovered who you are married to and I had played some boardgames with Terry years ago while in London. Delightful discoveries, cheers!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 24/07/2026

For me my collection feels aspirational, who I wish I was. To some extent I am that person not definitely not completely!

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/07/2026

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.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 13/07/2026

I'm definitely NOT celebrating that someone is alive. That's ok right? It's Mitch McConnell.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 12/07/2026

Finally a sport I'll watch!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 12/07/2026

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, 🎉)

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 25/06/2026

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...

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 21/06/2026

That's 300 bits per second! Zooooom!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 21/06/2026

Bell 103 protocol is an oldy but a goody!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 20/06/2026

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!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 10/06/2026

I assume alt ctrl games range from chaotic good to evil! From accessibility to swinging a real knife at players. :)

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 15/05/2026

Happy to see the Cosmo installation I worked on like 16 years ago is still going strong!

Jerry in the Cosmo casino lobby in front of the video columns.

One of the video columns at the Cosmo Casino with mushrooms displayed.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 15/05/2026

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!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 23/04/2026

Nice having a skill I can continue to refine instead of clicking a fucking AI button. Do yourself a favor kids and do the hard thing.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 23/04/2026

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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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 21/04/2026

we all know I have no life, so:

WHAT IF COLUMBO COULD REGENERATE LIKE THE DOCTOR?

1st Columbo: Groucho Marx
2nd Columbo: Danny Kaye
3rd Columbo: Sid Caesar
4th Columbo: Peter Falk (obviously he's the fourth, I mean come on, both in terms of iconicism and timing)
5th Columbo: Jamie Farr
6th Columbo: Judd Hirsch
7th Columbo: Howard Hesseman
8th Columbo: Mandy Patinkin
9th Columbo: Eugene Levy
10th Columbo: Mark Ruffalo
11th Columbo: Adam Brody
12th Columbo: Jason Alexander
13th Columbo: Natasha Lyonne
14th Columbo: Mark Ruffalo again
15th Columbo: Omar Epps

NOT PICTURED: Alan Arkin ("War Columbo"), Whoopi Goldberg ("Fugitive Columbo"), Laura Linney (possible 16th Columbo), Don Adams/Warren Christopher (played first and second Columbos, respectively, in "The Five Columbos" TV special)

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 21/04/2026

The only game design hahahahaha

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 21/04/2026

Having an MFA in experience design means I can have my fun torturing players a bit AND they have fun! Hello cake, I shall have and consume thee! 🍰

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 21/04/2026

I'm being a bit sassy of course... But it's funny how you are encouraged to make art for yourself, except games have the most entitled consumers I've ever witnessed! I'll think I'll keep having fun my way thank you very much. Hehehehehe 😈

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 21/04/2026

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?

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 19/04/2026

I can see how old folks get grumpy about changes in culture. I have to take so many breaks watching taking head videos; sensory overload.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 19/04/2026

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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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 29/03/2026

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?

A glowing ring on a tv in a still from an old home movie.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 19/03/2026

I love claw machines, adding them to games is delightful.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 18/03/2026

They are going to be speaking at PIGCon here in Portland in May. Really excited to hear about their process! Really legitimizes Godot. Excited you have embraced it as well!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 17/03/2026

I suppose I could've spoilered that but you can just assume I'm shit at Google or perhaps I only used an LLM summary. I'll leave that a mystery for ya.

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