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Blog that's been cooking for wayyyy too long finally out. About considering the ways games intend themselves to be played, and how players interact with those intentions. sandboxdunes.neocities.org/posts/Touchi...

We just published the latest update to our prototype on itch. Involving a massive art overhaul and mechanics shake up - lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king

Inspired by some great discussion on Q-UP from @austinwalker.bsky.social, @notquitereal.bsky.social, @sylvibullet.bsky.social, @molleindustria.org and other folks, I wrote a short piece on the design inspiration for Q-UP and what developing the game meant to me stiknork.substack.com/p/qing-up-in...

Fresh writing for the morning! I want to talk to you all about vampires, player expectations, and looking art in the eyes. aftermath.site/vampire-masq...

appreciate this article breaking down a taxonomy of knowledge games (also, unfortunately, known as metroidbrainias) azhdarchid.com/against-metr...

POSSESSOR(S) is launching today. I have been the producer on this project for three years, & the last few weeks have been difficult. Most of the team isn't around anymore to celebrate the launch, so I wrote many words about these incredible people to celebrate them. 🖤 shorturl.at/MpMra

Anybody who has watched the Times pull this shit for ages knows this game. Good piece.

The biggest day in esports has arrived. Q-UP is out. store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me. azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

imagine if flipping a coin also had a batshit zachtronics-like system for building elaborate chain reactions around the result. now, imagine that same game had the jokes and thematic chutzpah of universal paperclips, bc it was written by the same person. now imagine there was a demo. well guess what

Consume Me is out! Get this game, I feel confident in saying, based on the demo, and based on knowing the creators, and based on seeing it develop over the last decade, that it is a masterpiece. store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...

We should be making a “separate but equal” “third space“ for Wes Streeting where he is not allowed to make policy for human beings

Baby Steps is out now on PlayStation 5 and PC! Put one foot in front of the other as you stumble and tumble through an expansive world full of unexpected challenges and hilarious inhabitants.

Did you know it's legal to say "an Elbit arms manufacturing plant in Bristol has closed its doors after months of targeting from Palestine Action". But it'd ILLEGAL to follow that with "what incredible work from those heroes". That'd be an offence under the Terrorism Act of 2000. Don't say that!

Just objectively fun / interesting how quickly we've spun from "its so beautiful that all gamers get to experience Silksing together :)" to "dang this game is tough as shit i wish someone had warned us :("

i reviewed NBA 2K26 for @endlessmode.bsky.social because someone had to while you're all playing silksong: www.endlessmode.com/article/comm...

Dice more spin-y ✅ Tool tips more tip-y ✅ Cheaters less cheat-y ✅ Go check out the latest Fool King patch 009! lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

SHIELD GOBLINS! SHIELD GOBLINS! SHIELD GOBLINS! Also I've finally made some improvements to pathfinding so you can all stop yelling at me 😭

A real mix of "stuff I can only get on the computer" And "stuff I'll only be able to play if my parents don't see me playing it"

"Their message is to encourage people to ride bikes instead of having gun violence in the community." www.npr.org/sections/pic...

cute, silly, and a nice snack of a game at under two hours from @lululu.games and us at @popagenda.co 📅 Henry Halfhead is coming Sept 16 to PC, Switch, and PS5! 🍎 Play As 250+ Different Everyday Objects 📖 A nice little story 🤝 Local Co-Op - Get up to mischief together

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

I have two (two!) new blog posts up. On the critique side of things, I sorta review, mostly interrogate Apex Legends: The Board Game, mainly trying to understand why it's so physically large, and what fantasies it's physical presence seek to support. sandboxdunes.neocities.org/posts/GoodGa...

find this a frustrating response - I guess it's unsurprising that an industry body would focus on the industry solution, even if getting an age rating (thousands of dollars, much bureaucracy) is not a viable solution for someone making a personal and commercially unviable game exploring transness

I just wanted somewhere to post my weird gay video games. Why can’t they leave us alone

This must have been so difficult to write but I’m very grateful Bob did. There’s no real excuse for a lack of citation of existing scholarship. A cursory google search on the topic would bring up the essential work of Esther Wright and others.

Cuomo: I am now running on affordability. Also Cuomo: there is no “real answer” on affordability.

I've been saying for a while now that the true crisis here is a crisis of taste, not a crisis of creativity. The question (and the struggle, if you really need another one) is to create and shape tastes atop the vast smooth plain of latent space, with its Unlimited Tendies

Fool King is now playable on itch: lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king Roll some dice, fight lil dudes and beat up the tyrannical fool king! This is just the beginning! #indiedev #gamedev #videogame

what a waste of everything.

Welcome to Endless Mode: infinite possibilities in games, anime, theme parks, and more. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

shouting out my friend's blog post because I'm mentioned it it (telling them to write worse blog posts) sandboxdunes.neocities.org/posts/Devlog...

How's Inoculate going you ask? Omg like, your question is literally so fortuitously timed, I *just* posted a devlog about it. sandboxdunes.neocities.org/posts/Devlog...

Announcing our first game... Fool King Please join our Discord community to find out more! (Link in bio) #indiedev #gamedev #videogame

It's a new blog post! Take a long, winding route through the nature of team sports, digitized and otherwise, to get to why I really like Rematch (and also NBA 2K14 specifically) (I'm sure other ones are good too I just havn't played them) sandboxdunes.neocities.org/posts/Anatom...

Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.

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A Harvard study of IDF data finds that there are 377,000 people unaccounted for in Gaza. That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed. Genocide. medium.com/@m4xim1l1an/...

If our government worked in any way the second bombs fell on Iran without congressional approval every single department should have been walking to the oval office to physically drag him out on to the lawn but because deep down all these ghouls, red and blue, want a fresh war it's just gonna happen

"To everyone who pulls me aside to whisper with the best intentions 'You have already won', I am sorry, but the days of moral victories are over. And as my father told me years ago, 'When the Right wins power, the Left writes a great book.' Those days are over too." -Zohran Mamdani

The journey begins. Take Us North is a narrative-driven game inspired by real-world stories that follows the journeys of migrants and asylum seekers on their way to cross the US-Mexico border. Back it now on Kickstarter and help humanize migrant stories: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tak...

Biiiiiig post on Thief VR, which also becomes about the history of the Thief franchise... ...and Ultima 7 + Underworld... ...and Half Life: Alyx... ...also Jurassic Park: Trespasser. sandboxdunes.neocities.org/posts/Virtua...

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