Jo

I'm making a new X account dedicated to my game dev work. If you want to keep up with my indie games, follow me at @jogamedev

@TVachaW How does one develop and improve the connections with the sub minds? Can you point me in the right direction?

Someone desperately needs to de-woo-ify chakras so more people can benefit from the model. Learning how to relate to the sub-minds distributed in our body has so many benefits. The idea that the mind is largely located in the brain blocks a lot of effective action. It means we always look to our brain for solutions and ignore the intelligences and energies available to us in other parts of the body. I find that if my brain doesn’t have a solution to a problem, my gut often will. Or if my brain tells me I have no energy, Ill actually still be able to access energy by tapping into my sexual energies. Or if I’m failing to empathise with someone, I’ll get more value in bringing awareness down to my heart than by doing more thinking. But the real breakthrough comes in learning to relate to these different centres of intelligences not just as abstract energies but as something more like personalities that we can build a relationship with. We can build a personal relationship with our heart intelligence, our gut intelligence, our sexual intelligence and various other intelligences in our body. We can gain insight into the fact that they continue living a fairly well-defined life of their own, with their own subjectivity even when we aren’t in conscious communication with them. We can actually befriend them and win their trust, which allows us to access more of their wisdom. We can come to experience ourselves more like a community of distributed bodily intelligences rather than just one blob of intelligence in the head connected to a mindless body. Apparently, there are promising lines of enquiry in finding potential physical correlates for these bodily intelligence centres. Different combinations of endocrine glands, nerve plexuses and other regions with dense intoreceptive representations in the brain. The latter aspect may explain how the illusion of intelligence being entirely located in the brain occurs. All these other intelligences are *represented* in the brain. So it’s easy to miss that much of the pre-cognitive information processing can still be happening distributed around the body. I personally think that some aspects beyond the scope of currently known physiology may be part of the ultimate explanation for our distributed bodily intelligence. And some of those things may even be legitimately “woo.” But for now, it would be great to find more spiritually neutral ways of helping people connect to the embodied sub-agents or their somatic mind. I believe it would help people live more whole, intelligent and empowered lives.

@jmrphy You can learn to love things that you don’t innately love. This is super powerful once you realize how it works. We are called to do many things that we might not love at first but there’s joy to be found in just about anything if you know how to look.

Am I just a monster? It's been 4 years since I became a father and I'm beginning to fear for my soul. The truth is I just don't like being around kids for very long. Historically, this is not uncommon among fathers, but today it feels almost illegal. It's causing me a lot of confusion and anguish. The ideal amount of time I would like to spend playing with my kids is probably about 70-140 minutes a week—roughly ten minutes each day, maybe 2x/day, taking breaks from work. My feelings of love toward them are perfectly strong, but if I have to watch them or entertain them for more than about 10 minutes my blood starts to boil. I just want to be working, or accomplishing something. I try to be grateful, but it doesn't work. It's 9 AM this morning, Saturday, January 3. It's a sunny, warm day here in Austin, and my four-year-old son is begging me to play catch in the street. I was drinking coffee, still waking up, so I didn’t really feel like it, but at this age his desire to play is insatiable. He begged and begged, so I conceded, and with a smile. I have no problem being a kind and loving father, the problem is only that I do not enjoy it. It's not that I'm trying to maximize my personal pleasure; it just seems wrong that I experience so little delight when my dad friends all claim to experience so much. It was beautiful. We live on a picturesque, tree-lined block. I am even relatively relaxed from the holiday rest. Playing catch with your son is supposed to be an iconic, peak experience. Yet for every single minute, on the inside, I just don't want to be there. I want to be drinking my coffee in peace. Then I feel guilty and absurdly ungrateful, and ashamed, when we're done. I know that when he is a teenager, I'll long to have these days back. I have all of this perspective rationally, and I've been very patient and steadfast trying to digest it, but nothing fixes me emotionally. Am I a terrible person? Or is my feeling within a certain range of historically normal and it's modern parenting norms that are off? Whether it's my fault or not, I don't even care, I just want to figure this out. Something is wrong and I no longer have the excuse of being new to this.

75. You can increase your exposure to luck. You can improve your odds by taking random walks (literally and figuratively), and by paying attention to the peripheries. Have a public body of work, which is like a spiderweb that catches the attention of people looking for you

X is a microcosm of manifestation, you literally get more of what you focus on.

make sure you learn and apply the 'Theory of Constraints' in 2026

@scottdomes I have been caught in this trap at times. It is hard to strike the balance between investing in the future and being present in the now

full piece: open.substack.com/pub/scottdomes…

why do you need to be great? or rather… what happens if you’re not?

@TheTrueVanguard Ventrilo

Prove to me you’re an old gamer in one sentence. I’ll drop a like if I’m convinced.

@chrislakin @nikitabier What method do use to teach clients how to unlearn? All your content that I’ve found describes “what” but not “how”.

This account has surpassed 10K followers, which means: - I am granted one wish - You are granted one question - Ask Me Anything Wish: @nikitabier would you please fix this layout inconsistency

It took me 4 whole years to build up to 1,000 subscribers and now it has doubled in a mere 3 days 🤯🤯🤯

🙌OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE🙌 After almost 5 years of work, Spellmasons has, for the very first time, achieved a rating of Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam! Thank you everyone who've left feedback and helped me along this journey. I am so grateful!

My Gamedev Journey Week 133: 📈215 Copies Sold 💭355 New Wishlists All time: ⭐808 Reviews (+11) 🎥989 Youtube Subscribers (+9) 📸1,727 Insta Followers (+77) 📱9,413 Tiktok Followers (+51) x.com/nestfall/statu…

Why I don't like to say the name of my indie game in social media posts:

My Gamedev Journey: Week 132 📈312 Copies Sold 💭586 New Wishlists All time: ⭐797 Reviews 🎥980 Youtube Subscribers 📸1,650 Insta Followers 📱9,362 Tiktok Followers

Looking for native Japanese / English speakers for a gamedev marketing collab. If you know of anyone, please let me know!

👀My indie game has rocketed past 500 reviews in the last month. It felt like it took forever to get to 500 it's received195 reviews in just the last 30 days So thankful to everyone who left a review! It means so much to me!

Thanks @indieformer digging into the unusual rise of Spellmasons! Read it here: indieformer.com/p/frontline-sp…

Good ideas are stubborn. Frontline #39 is about a game from @nestfall that didn’t peak at launch—it found its moment two years later (1/5)

@TerraDevlog Sounds awesome!

@nestfall That's a good question. I'm not sure myself but i'm trying to make rts game with multiplayer pvp where factions are based on insects and a specific culture. For example, termites+India, bees+post-Cartesian Europe.

Just having some fun while testing optimization. (not using unity DOTS, so it's a bit tricky 🥲) #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #devlog #pixelart