Chuck Jordan

Occasional video game developer. 🏳️‍🌈

Most recently made Sasquatchers for Panic’s #Playdate season one.

Formerly at Telltale Games on the Sam & Max, Strong Bad, and a li’l bit of the Walking Dead series; Maxis on SimCity 4; LucasArts on The Curse of Monkey Island; and Walt Disney Imagineering on interactive games in the theme parks.

Blog: https://www.spectrecollie.com
Playdate!: https://spectrecollie.com/sasquatchers-for-playdate
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sasquatchergeneral/

Last Notes

2026-10-24 19:20:25 GMT

Sound Mind, or, Where There’s a Will, There’s a Two-Player Hide-and-Seek Game For Playdate
Marking the release of my new Playdate game "Sound Mind" with a kind of retroactive dev log
https://spectrecollie.com/2026/10/24/sound-mind-or-where-theres-a-will-theres-a-2-player-hide-and-seek-game-for-playdate/

2026-10-15 19:44:59 GMT

Congrats to the developers of the two #Playdate Season 3 games that got released today.
(People get a little testy about spoiling the games until everybody’s gotten the surprise of opening them, so I’ll just link to the Season 3 page).
https://play.date/games/seasons/three/

2026-06-28 19:22:40 GMT

Public thanks to my husband for indulging me in my (final) Disneyland birthday. It was exhausting and expensive but still fun when you’re with someone you love being with.
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2026-05-09 06:30:02 GMT

Literacy 2026: Book 2: Strange Houses
An odd detail in the floor plan of a newly for-sale house leads to a sprawling and sinister story about the house's previous residents
https://spectrecollie.com/2026/05/08/literacy-2026-book-2-strange-houses/

2026-02-24 00:33:26 GMT

The Vibes of SimCity
Thoughts after replaying a couple of the SimCity games, and how a single, straightforward decision can change the entire feel of a game
https://spectrecollie.com/2026/02/23/the-vibes-of-simcity/

2025-11-10 16:48:24 GMT

There have been two bugs in my Playdate game that I haven’t been able to fix forever, one of them timing-related and looking like it would require a billion special cases.
Over the weekend, I’m pretty sure I fixed both (knock wood). And the fix for the timing one I’m actually kind of proud of.
Also thanks to my husband for suggesting a change that not only fixes the worst case of the timing bug, but is 1000x better game design wise.

2025-07-30 19:03:04 GMT

In Chuck News: I just found out I’m being laid off, so if anyone’s been out there thinking “Dang, I wish he didn’t already have a full-time job, so we could snatch him up for contract or full-time work,” this might be your lucky day.

2025-06-02 23:40:57 GMT

Pride vs Grace
Being true to yourself and no longer having any patience for bad faith
https://www.spectrecollie.com/2025/06/02/pride-vs-grace/

2025-02-28 19:15:33 GMT

I’m planning to take a social media vacation starting tomorrow for the month of March. For the benefit of my increasingly-fragile mental health, nothing but updates on my blog.
(Announcing it in the hopes people will notice I’m gone)

2025-01-04 03:54:08 GMT

We got married today at the local courthouse. We wanted to make sure that we scheduled it before the inauguration. We managed to have several local friends come out to join us, and it all ended up being even more special than I could’ve hoped for.
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2024-10-24 02:20:24 GMT

It seems like the first half of Agatha All Along was just setup, and they’ve been saving the really spectacular stuff for the final episodes.

2024-10-12 03:22:06 GMT

I just remembered that Crazy Frog was one of the pod racers, and how weird and corny that was, but now I’m thinking that can’t possibly be true, right?

2024-09-24 22:54:12 GMT

I was happy to see that Squid God made a making-of video for his latest #playdate game Propeller Rat, out now on Catalog.
https://youtu.be/-p7tHNVuYZM

2024-08-24 20:29:53 GMT

Tomorrow, Sunday Aug 25, at 1PM PST, I’ll be joining @npub1pln…42wm on a Twitch stream with a playthrough of the new remaster of Sam & Max Season 3’s final episode “The City That Dares Not Sleep”
It’s for BreakthroughT1D, to raise money for Type 1 Diabetes research.
https://twitch.tv/BreakthroughT1D

2024-08-20 17:52:15 GMT

I hope that everybody understands their vote doesn’t count until you first make it clear to everyone in the world that you have “reservations” about the candidate.
Otherwise, we can only assume that you’re like the rest of us gullible maroons, who have completely and unequivocally committed our lives to a politician. (Personally, I’ve bought commemorative plates and am writing a 12-part cycle of fan fiction for VP Harris).

2024-08-15 01:36:37 GMT

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depending on how old your kids are, you might want to check out the ratings & reviews first!

2024-08-14 21:08:59 GMT

Reminder that the remaster of Sam & Max Season 3, The Devil’s Playhouse, went on sale today.
I didn’t have anything to do with the remaster, but several of my friends did, and it was a genuine passion project for them to make everybody’s hard work available in the best version possible.
Writing the ending (way back when) actually made me teary-eyed, since I knew it was the last time I’d get to play with two of my favorite characters.
https://skunkapegames.com/samandmax/season3/