Zack Johnson
Designer of the Loathing games. My various projects are collected and organized at horrible.farm
- Alas. Today I cannot enjoy a hoisin crispy owl.
- Historical New Vegas takes.
- I’m a little perplexed trying to imagine a workflow that would make this take this long.
- An indie developer who turned to social media to make their game's credits a little bit longer ended up spending 300 hours adding 60,000 names. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/indie-d...
- Reposted by Zack JohnsonBurgh noodling. Big fan of nooks. And crannies.
- Reposted by Zack JohnsonOf all the decades of task/time management tools i have now tried, persevered with, been forced to used, imposed on others, etc, the only one that has worked for me personally is a paper pad with a list of tasks that I add to or cross off when complete. There is nothing else.
- One of my favorite Dad bits is consistently pretending that my daughter has a classmate named Zerthimon.
- Missed a birthday. clickhole.com/5-times-he-c...
- This explorer replacement has fixed like 90% of the problems I've had with Windows 11. It made my new computer FINALLY feel faster than my old one. Super intuitive search, and every operation is basically instantaneous. filepilot.tech
- There is a huge market gap for a source control product that is comprehensible enough for normal people to use and that doesn't constantly manufacture reasons that you're not allowed to save the work you just did.
- Reposted by Zack Johnson"It's too dark, and it has too much plants," Brian Wilson said. The other Forest Boys nodded. They'd have to find a new name.
- Reposted by Zack JohnsonYo if you liked The Roottrees Are Dead, you will like TR-49. It's a similar kind of database search game, but a spookier vibe store.steampowered.com/app/3838370/...
- Rene Klarnaweger.
- Reposted by Zack JohnsonIt's time. Perfect Tides: Station to Station is out on PC and Mac. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESUK...
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- I spent years wishing that this existed, and at some point while I wasn't paying attention it sprang into being... You can play Netrunner against a computer opponent. chiriboga.cronbach.com
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- Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers, and which also rules.
- This is pretty neat.
- Tropic of Dinosaur (@bulboka.bsky.social) "This game poem is a reflection of my own aging, excitement about the past, about life, the world around me, my anxiety about how I’ve been living my life" Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2026/01/14/t...
- Reposted by Zack JohnsonWildlife tracking tips. A wintry comic from last year.
- Reposted by Zack JohnsonPerfect Tides: Station to Station has been nominated for two IGF awards: -Excellence in Narrative -Seumas McNally Grand Prize This is such a tremendous honor, and what a nice hurrah as and the team and the playtesters and I race towards the finish line. Nomination list: tinyurl.com/2zzt8sw4
- Invented a new alloy by combining two different brands of tomato soup.
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- Reposted by Zack JohnsonYou're not ready for the name of the energy transition specialist at Heat Pump Association UK
- I made a very goofy game for this year's public domain game jam: zapjackson.itch.io/poetry-appre...
- We're going to be recording a new episode of the Kingdom of Loathing podcast later this week. Submit questions here! www.kingdomofloathing.com/podquestions...
- After watching that video about the bridge from Chop Suey, I think maybe Rick Rubin’s main skill is lying about stuff.
- Reposted by Zack JohnsonExplore the dungeons Below the Crown, in this love letter to Roguelikes, Dungeon Crawlers, and Chess. Prepare for strategy, game-changing spells, psychological tests, and challenges from your fellow players. Available now! store.steampowered.com/app/1883920/... #indiedev @misfitsattic.bsky.social
- Reposted by Zack JohnsonLast day or so to grab The Horror At Highrook in the winter sale at a nice 30% off! The Horror at Highrook is an occult card-crafting RPG 🕯️Uncover the dark secrets of Highrook Manor 🌙Manage your team of investigators 🔥Summon Ancient Demons store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/...
- Books read in 2025. Finally making some backlog progress, including a couple my dad gave me in the 90s. Median review: “pretty good!”
- ruin two bands by combining them: The Mighty Mighty Buttholes
- Ate a bunch of Jay Mohr’s leftover tuna sandwiches.
- House of Prime Directive
- Reposted by Zack Johnsoni bought this tractor before john deere went crazy
- Reposted by Zack JohnsonHello new followers! Im Tom, an Indie dev veteran making games with small teams over the last decade or so. My last title was The Horror At Highrook - an atmospheric card/board based comsic horror. And its currently 30% off! store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/...
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Santa List.
- Reposted by Zack JohnsonMerry Christmas! Let’s go kill Skeletrex
- Reposted by Zack Johnsontrying to convince my friend that there really was a nintendo DS launch title called “Penn & Teller’s Shithead Basketball”
- “H-O-O-O-O-O-O” - Chappell Roan if she was an owl.
- Reposted by Zack JohnsonCall me Anakin the way there is absolutely security footage of me killing a dozen Yeunglings
- I don’t put an Oxford comma in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, but I do put one in A Fistful of, Dollars.
- Just watched that Star Wars. Pretty good movie.
- Reposted by Zack JohnsonEnjoying redacted document pages in your timeline? Why not take control of them in my fun mobile game! mrgan.com/blackbar/
- Investing in mall real estate to own the Lids.
- Be careful out there — it’s bacon tornado season.
- Reposted by Zack JohnsonEven though I know better I still believe Hors d'ouvres means "horse of eggs"
- Reposted by Zack JohnsonRipping a phone book in half? A real man is strong enough to rip a phone book back together
- Reposted by Zack Johnsonwe're three or four days into Kingdom of Loathing's annual Crimbo event, so if you wanna spend the holidays beating up skeletons & trading the bits to a small blonde pirate for booze, you know where to go
- Guys, don’t worry, the catering is under control.
- I’ve got the kind of cold that makes me sound like the protagonist of Planescape: Torment.
- This is a crazy stat. I know the way I dip into everything on Steam is nowhere near typical, but I didn’t think I was the opposite of average.
- I've had this bookmarked for months, and finally got around to watching it. It's fantastic! If you like Last Splash as much as I do, this is The Breeders Unplugged we never got. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcFS...
- It’s been a very Shakespearean holiday season for me, on account of all the ham I’ve been scooping up as if I were equipped with some kind of ham net.
- Holiday confession: I’ve never played a PICO-8 game that wouldn’t have been strictly better if it had been made on a less restricted platform.
- I feel like I follow games news pretty closely, and it is wild to me that the next Jonathan Blow game got announced and I didn't hear a single word about it anywhere until I saw a Reddit ad for it. It's only been a few days, but still.
- HER: Stop quoting movies while we're arguing! ME: Fine! I'll just only say things nobody else has ever said before, like Natalie Portman in Garden State!
- Reposted by Zack JohnsonNES-101 Top Loder
- I’m kinda looking for a surrealistic adventure that will become my world. Anybody got any recommendations?
