In light of recent Ai related nonsense in the creative industry, I wanted to present some easy-to-digest facts about Generative Ai

“In 2025, Israel attacked at least six countries, including Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, Qatar, Syria, and Yemen. It also carried out strikes in Tunisian, Maltese and Greek territorial waters on aid flotillas heading for Gaza.”

ergman.itch.io/fog-year happy fog year everyone idk i just needed to make something

ergman.itch.io/fog-year happy fog year everyone idk i just needed to make something

paradise-collab.itch.io/paradise-dig... new paradise zine! I contributed some travel writing and painting from my China trip. Not very game design related but oh well! Enjoy!

The BDS movement is partnering with @nogamesforgenocide.com. Together we can help end Microsoft’s technological support of Israel illegal apartheid regime and genocide in Gaza. Sign the pledge to boycott Microsoft’s Xbox. Read more: loom.ly/1FQEDiA

My humble birthday girl requests: play Angeline Era, tell a friend, blog about it, or write a review!! In addition to art, did you know I was story lead? Angeline Era embodies so much of what I've chased over the past few years, from wildflowers to parties to Apocrypha to ancestry.

today is my birthday. in lieu of gifts please play my videogames. ergman.itch.io/we-are-going... in particular because i feel like nobody played this one and i think its some of my best writing ever

SIGN OUR BOYCOTT XBOX PLEDGE: We are asking gamers, game workers, streamers & journalists to join us in boycotting & divesting from Xbox, to force Microsoft to end its complicity in the genocide of Palestinians. We’ve provided concrete actions everyone can take. Sign here: nogamesforgenocide.com

PMRank mainstay and current top 5 player Dirtboy is shell-shifting his way to Blacklisted 9! Sign up for Blacklisted: start.gg/BL9

the HORSES stuff is obviously ridiculous and depressing, but it is also worth asking ourselves: who has benefited from the "games are art" campaign? it has certainly not been the artgame makers, whose work continues to be shunned and dismissed as "not games"

promotin the things u can pay me 4 on my itch: - And Other Stories Bonus Material! -3 Stories About The Future Bonus Material! -Fable of the Three Caves OST! the games are all free tho, enjoy either way! ergman.itch.io/and-other-st... ergman.itch.io/we-are-going... bearvegas.itch.io/cave

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For just ⏱️2️⃣4️⃣ HOURS, EVERYTHING, and we mean EVERYTHING, is 50% OFF! This is the largest sale of the year for us, and a prime way to support us outside of campaigns! Get that one eye-catching title you wanted, and maybe a little extra for a friend! Treat yourself! Now's the time! store.ironcircus.com

It is creator day on itch.io. For twenty-four hours, they are waiving their platform fee so developers get their full cuts. I have compiled below a bunch of wonderful indie games that are on itch.io. All of them are phenomenal in their own right and deserve every dollar they ask of you.

anyone feel like commissioning some art? album cover, christmas gift, game art? 30$ CAD an hour (peanuts), and im pretty Quick With It too! lemme know im rly likin drawing rn

Congratulations to everyone who made Top 8 at Wombat Wednesday: The Fundraiser for Feeding America's P+ bracket! We raised $1,548 in total, meaning that your contributions will turn into about 15,480 meals! Let us keep being joyful, and keep fighting.

JohnLee Cooper joined us at ThinkyCon to talk about making two puzzle games without an undo button! @johnleeerg.bsky.social

Got tired of reading the news and getting mad. Feeding America backs 200+ food banks around the country and I've seeded with $500 for now. I'll match up to another $500 myself. Pass the hat, RTs graciously appreciated, etc.

I'm givin a lil talk at "ThinkyCon 2025" tommorow at 5 PM EST! about Trail Mix and Life in Captivity, and how there's no undo/rewind in either of them and how that effects the design and response to each game. Tune in! Doing it live so who knows what could happen! Very Nervous!

I've been putting off posting about it because I've been a little nervous- but ThinkyCon starts tomorrow! And I'll be talking at it on Thursday! Last year was really interesting, so I hope people will find my stuff useful.

a weird tennis club we stumbled on hidden behind some houses. was strangely the second tennis club we saw on the walk. how many tennis clubs are hiding just around the corner?

What ceasefire?

a weird tennis club we stumbled on hidden behind some houses. was strangely the second tennis club we saw on the walk. how many tennis clubs are hiding just around the corner?

Some more art. still making games but it takes too long and nothing i can post. this here is acrylic marker and pen.

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

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FUCK ye certified WEIRD shit baby play now

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Greta Thunberg has been detained in an Israeli cell infested with bedbugs and supplied with insufficient food and water, according to activists: “They dragged little Greta by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag.”

last china trip drawing, of my lovely wife who is the reason i went at all and the reason we did the cool art class that got me these markers chek her out on instagram for more cool art : @meet_your_puppy

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last china trip drawing, of my lovely wife who is the reason i went at all and the reason we did the cool art class that got me these markers chek her out on instagram for more cool art : @meet_your_puppy

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Some more acrylic marker stuff. Really fun to blend the colors when wet and also overlay when dry.

Some more acrylic marker stuff. Really fun to blend the colors when wet and also overlay when dry.

"History a precession of skeletonized fish" not sure *exactly* what that means but it was the theme for these couple pieces. what do we think, anyone buying shirts with that on it acrylic marker, gel pen, watercolor, pencil crayon

"History a precession of skeletonized fish" not sure *exactly* what that means but it was the theme for these couple pieces. what do we think, anyone buying shirts with that on it acrylic marker, gel pen, watercolor, pencil crayon

In Xian our teacher gave me some cool acrylic markers, This is a little fantasy building done with those markers on grid paper. Rly fun to play with. #art #markers #ScreenshotSaturday #idk

In Xian our teacher gave me some cool acrylic markers, This is a little fantasy building done with those markers on grid paper. Rly fun to play with. #art #markers #ScreenshotSaturday #idk

A combination of train views and Xian skies. In Xian (and any other major city ofc) theres too much light pollution to see stars, but every night people fly kites with rainbow LEDs on them, creating their own constellations. I had a hard time capturing it in photos or paint but it was so cool

Inside the old city walls of Xian. Theres a solid block of touristy bars and restaurants all lit up vibrantly. But right around the corner it's residential and there aren't even streetlights, just the dark wall on one side and silhouetted roofs n trees on the other. this one is direct from a photo.

Inside the old city walls of Xian. Theres a solid block of touristy bars and restaurants all lit up vibrantly. But right around the corner it's residential and there aren't even streetlights, just the dark wall on one side and silhouetted roofs n trees on the other. this one is direct from a photo.

Some more imaginary china views, inspired loosely by shanghai and the views from our 10 hours of train ride landscape between shanghai, beijing, and xian watercolor, marker, pen, pencil crayon. I particularly like the mix of orthographic and perspective in the last, gonna explore that more sometime

Some very quick sketches of longtangs in shanghai. we got to stay in a very cute room on a 3rd floor deep in a maze of alleys in the french concession. pen and pencil crayon