It’s exhausting and disheartening and brutally sad, not least of all because fundamentally, it could be a different way. We could build it a different way. But a lot of people who say they’d like that to be true are, themselves, too afraid to believe it’s possible. I wonder who built them that fear

Fan cam doctrine

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

I cannot post on social media what I hope happens to everyone involved with this depravity.

One of the standout games of the last year. Don't miss this one.

i'm signing onto No Games For Genocide, committing to the boycott of Xbox until Microsoft ends its complicity with Israeli crimes, and so should you: nogamesforgenocide.com

Took some time to unpack a few thoughts on Expedition 33. Watching what I thought was a "pretty good" game get transformed into A Cultural Object has been disheartening. So I have some thoughts on glitz, glamour, and respectability... transgamerthoughts.com/post/8027631...

Despelote's fifth trailer a) is great and b) made me sad: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MXK...

ian bogost getting the timeline riled up by ludocentrism posting….. i will sleep soundly in my bed tonight because obama is president and idle thumbs still puts out episodes weekly and i’ve got uni in the morning for it is 2015

Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf

hello bsky! our game was taken down due to a false DMCA which completely killed our momentum at launch. our studio is in a very precarious position right now. please share and spread the word, steam has been little help to our situation. noplayersonline.net/statement

Bad news: no new @adventjs.itch.io this year as @mtrc.bsky.social and I have both been snowed under Good news: if you missed either or both of the last two years, we've got two months of creative coding wonders for you! Treat yourself to a door a day, or open them all at once, we won't tell ;)

We are a micro studio & need your help spreading the word about Fool King! In return your faithful companion could be immortalised in game. Please repost, comment & follow us to enter, winners to be chosen next week. Extra points for playing the game & joining our discord 😉 #indiedev #gamedev

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.