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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 30/07/2026

I just remembered how much I miss Screen Beans

Clip art of two screen beans, they are black silhouettes of cartoon characters, their heads look like beans a bit I guess?

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 27/07/2026

Very cute, I love the bees moving around 🥹 Mine sadly crashed!

Screenshot of Bees Wax on phone with Runtime error overlaid

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 17/07/2026

Dat komt door de gesplitste achtergrond! Ik vind het een vreemde keuze want dit is een dubbele illusie. Hele grove edit: op deze manier lijken ze wel even grijs als je je vinger op het midden legt (uiteraard heb ik de illusie ook getest en beide vakken zijn inderdaad #afafaf 🤓)

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 23/06/2026

That's insane, it made the front page of at least two Dutch newspapers!

front page screenshot of Dutch newspaper "De Volkskrant" with the main headline reading "Ten years of Brexit does not deliver on promises"

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 26/03/2026

Been having a lot of fun with #PicoCAD2. It's easier for slightly more complex models and the animation tools are a really cool addition!

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 23/03/2026

Just spotted this, steam thinks you're temporarily giving a lower discount? 😂 Regardless, I hadn't spotted the upgrade discount, very kind and a good final reason to get it now.

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 20/03/2026

Ik maakte laatst deze foto, ik dacht even dat het een hele vreemde scholekster was maar het waren er twee 😅

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 09/02/2026

Wat bijzonder! Ik ben helamaal vastgelijmd aan mijn werkveld 😅

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 06/02/2026

Hell yeah :D For me, I was looking to "degoogle" and this was a big plus, because I had already cancelled my Spotify and was still looking for something handier than manual syncs, I didn't like syncing my whole library to my phone especially. My instance has grown quite a bit hahah

Nextcloud title bar with a yellow-brownish background showing app icons for photos, files, memories (more photos), calendar, music, contacts, command line, activity, and maps

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 03/02/2026

I'm a big fan of using Dutch in software, but I really cannot get used to localised game engines, especially when the first word you see is "wortelknoop" which translates to "carrot knot" #gamedev #godotengine

Godot empty scene panel, showing the header text "Maak de wortelknoop" (in English: create the root node) which options underneath like 2D Scene and 3D Scene

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 31/12/2025

My favourite game of this year was The Roottrees are Dead (@roottrees.com), and I'm surprised I haven't heard more people talk about it! Their use of diegetic tools to take notes and browse sources is amazing. I would love more like this, especially in a to-the-point form factor like this.

Steam screenshot of The Roottrees are Dead, showing a corkboard with a family tree, but without names, pictures and occupation. The instruction on the screen says "complete the family tree of the Roottree Sisters", and has information on how family trees work, as well as a to-do list.

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 21/11/2025

Deze functie uitzetten zorgt dat je geen e-mailcategorieën meer kunt gebruiken. Ik denk dat dit het einde is voor mij en Gmail.

Screenshot van de Gmail interface met de tekst "Zet slimme functies en personalisatie aan voor Gmail, Chat en Meet om inboxcategorieën te gebruiken"

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 18/08/2025

People are sharing "essentials you should pack for Gamescom", here is mine:

A box of 24 packages of Fisherman's Friend (original, sugar free)

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 20/07/2025

Als tip voor Bluesky: jullie kunnen een "content warning" aan de afbeeldingen hangen zodat men moet drukken alvorens ze de foto's zien, met het knopje "🛡️ Labels" Voorbeeld bij mijn foto :)

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 29/06/2025

We have had a new frequent guest at the feeder on our balcony lately 🐦

Great spotted woodpecker (Grote bonte specht) minding his surroundings while sitting on the bottom of a peanut silo

Zoomed out view of the great spotted woodpecker, sitting on the peanut silo, with another (empty) seed silo in view

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 22/06/2025

Haha, damn! Interesting experiment though. I have a 25 min timer for Bluesky 🙃 but I'm pretty OK about it. Though perhaps that's because I know the timer exists. Perhaps I would go wild without it too 😬 Instagram I deleted a few years ago.

Screenshot of my "digital wellbeing" showing Bluesky times of 5 mins to 25 mins per day

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 02/03/2025

And lastly, I played Pocketwatch Games' Monaco 2, which was a real treat. I was a bit on the fence about the new perspective and style, but it has really maintained the charm that I love from the first game. The first missions are pretty basic but the third one already shows a great chaotic sandbox!

My own screenshot of Monaco 2 showing the planning stage. A 3D building in a blueprint palette takes up most of the screen, with cursors for each of the players. On the top left are the names of our crew, and there is a description of the mission "Yacht Club" in the corner. The blueprint shows the locations of objectives, locked doors and coins to collect.

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 02/03/2025

I also played Jitter -- like with Highrook, these were games where it was harder to guess how they played exactly, without actually playing it, so they are great games for the demo medium. I really enjoyed this; it's physics-based flying around with fun modular destruction, with puzzle gameplay.

Official screenshot of Jitter, showing a ship in a Game Boy kind of green pallette with pixel art, some stats around it, and a brightly coloured character inside the ship, all in a blueprint kind of zoomed out style.

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 02/03/2025

Next I played @punkcake.club's Hot Wax, which was... just as addictive as I would have imagined! I really liked Shotgun King and this brings the same snappy vibes, but with a very well-executed take on Tetris.

Punkcake screenshot of Hot Wax, showing a Tetris-like with ignited candles, in a zesty retro palette

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 02/03/2025

Inspired by some posts here, I managed to squeeze in some time with Steam demos this week! I first played The Horror at Highrook. It looks super atmospheric, I have to say that the board game inspired mechanics didn't click fully with me yet, but I will certainly keep an eye on it.

Steam screenshot of The Horror of Highrook, showing one of the characters saying dialogue, with the game itself in the background.

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 12/02/2025

The new Mozart hit is dropping soon guys!!

Spotify notification on android saying "New album coming soon — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart started the countdown on Spotify."

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 03/02/2025

I understand the mathematical reason, because the maximum values are different, but I guess the other two bars should have a big grey part on the right end? But that wouldn't look as humble.

Slider for charity set to max, which is €17,08, Humble is the minimum of €7,32

Slider for Humble set to max, which is €24,40, both others are at €0

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 03/02/2025

Is this just very confusing UI (or a bug) from @humblebundle.com? It's very misleading, on top of their minimum cut already being a hefty 31%.

Three sliders to adjust the donation percentages for a Humble Bundle. The top slider for the publisher is at €7,66, as well as the bottom slider for Humble itself. However, the Humble slider is about 15% to the left, which intuitively makes their cut seem smaller.

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 01/02/2025

Ik las het vandaag in de Volkskrant en ik vind het NOS artikel wel een stuk minder duidelijk, er zou altijd Engels op staan. De onderliggende aanname is dus dat Nederlanders goed genoeg Engels kunnen, die QR code is niet leidend. Maakt dit geen goed idee maar ik vond het een belangrijke nuance.

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 16/01/2025

I wasn't expected to be tempted by this today :')

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 03/01/2025

Just played the first dungeon of @postmarkgames.bsky.social's 52 Realms. It's a nice clever game and I will take any excuse to dust off my favourite playing cards!

A photo of the print and play game 52 Realms on 2 overlapping A4 pages, with 10+ playing cards laying on top of it in various "slots", and some generic board game markers for health tracking. The printed sheets display a functional D&D-esque dungeon map and a fantasy character sheet.

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 03/12/2024

Ik weet nog steeds niet wat ik vind van deze low poly autos haha. Leuk dat er een nieuwe visuele slag is maar ik vind het toch behoorlijk puntig voor iets dat 200 km/u kan. Ik vind zoiets dan leuker (for the record, ik ben totaal geen autofanaat)

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 29/11/2024

PicoCAD is now on Steam! I really enjoyed playing around with it, I used it to make my trusty duck avatar.

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 20/11/2024

I have been crazily engrossed in Rain World over the last few weeks. It scratches so many of the itches that I can put into words now! I have always been very interested in AI behaviours dynamically interacting, and that's basically the core of Rain World, in the shape of a tricky platformer!

Screenshot of indie game Rain World, depicting the main character, a "slugcat", hanging on a pole with a small piece of terrain above it that acts as a cover against the torrential rain.

Screenshot of Rain World in which a slugcat shelters itself from the rain in an outcrop, with industrial looking pipes in the background.

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 08/10/2024

I did not expect the announcement of Alien: Isolation's sequel to be in the email harmlessly titled "ALIEN: ISOLATION: Ten Year Anniversary" but YES!!!

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 13/09/2024

It's the second birthday of Isonzo today. I'm still immensely proud to have worked on this game from (close to) start to beyond the release, with a great line-up of post-release content that is still going strong. Happy birthday, Isonzo! May your CCU stay strong 🫡

Screenshot of WW1 first person shooter Isonzo, showing a cliffside Italian assault with magnificent alpine peaks in the background.

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 04/09/2024

Sure, but that change explains the leap from 1990 to 2007. We definitely improved workflows 1000% since then again, but I think modern graphics standards make up for that and then some. AAA games can't get eyelash tech from the asset store, yet gamers for some reason demand they look good.

Side-to-side comparison image of protagonist faces from The Last of Us 2 and Senua's Saga, Hellblade 2, with a zoom level that reveals details like eyelashes, skin pores and eye whites.

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 03/09/2024

Reminds me of my favourite D10, which I adore but for some reason is very triggering for some!

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 03/09/2024

OSM is ze voor, of niet? Ik ben niet heel bekend met het resultaat op de kaart (vooral met de conceptrenders haha) maar Julianaplein en de nieuwe tunnel bij "Zuiderplantsoen" lijken hier geüpdatet

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Thomas Jager @thomasjager.nl · 19/09/2023

Very honoured that our baby Isonzo is nominated for two (!) Dutch Game Awards: Best Art and Best Audio!

Promotional art of World War 1 shooter Isonzo saying "We've been nominated - Dutch Game Awards - Best Art - Best Audio"

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