"Every day a Voight-Kampff Test" peterpunk.substack.com/p/every-day-...

Post a banger that isn’t in English youtu.be/pqiEe1wtpyk?...

Check this sh*t out

This is an amazing story about why a whole decade of game devs thought demos were bad. jboger.substack.com/p/the-unfair...

This song is sufficient reason to learn Italian open.spotify.com/intl-it/trac...

Ok, yes, I exaggerated with this dynamic color tool I made (but I like it ^_^)

So I've been asked by my top 3 games played in 2025 (streamed in Italian here www.twitch.tv/videos/26818...), and these are:

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

TR-49: OUT NOW Narrative deduction / audio drama "Outstanding" - PC Gamer "Politically fierce" - Polygon "One of the best" - Thinky Games "I wanted to know everything" - RPS "Impressive - very impressive indeed" - Eurogamer $6.99 / ~6 hours Steam: tinyurl.com/2jvt9ewk iOS: tinyurl.com/4ucwx4s7

Yesterday, Wednesdays won the Indiecade Jury's Choice Award (tied with @asocialgiraffe.bsky.social )! @indiecade.bsky.social has been around celebrating indie games for 19 years and It means A LOT to us to now be part of that glorious history!

Our second Jury Prix winner is Wednesdays by The Wednesdays Team! @arteinteractive.bsky.social @wednesdays-game.bsky.social @thepixelhunt.bsky.social www.arte.tv/digitalprodu... Art by Tim Hutchings!

This is so good 😊

GUAJIROS!!! MI FIEL PUBLISHER @dupuis_bd ANNOUNCED HAVANA SPLIT 2 !!! OUT IN FRENCH BOOKSTORES THE 23 JANUARY!! ☠️ This book will be even more FOR ADULTS! Men tears! Bikini! Face tattoos!! Voodoo!!!! not for kids !!! 🐙🦀🌴 Scenario: Frédéric Brrémaud Drawings: yo 🙈 Colors: @leevolt.bsky.social

My talk on Becoming Saint for IVIPRO www.youtube.com/watch?v=q760... [in Italian] - also the full list here www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

For my english-reading friends: if you want to know more about the really excellent programs for using games as part of civic literacy that Lucas Ramada is running in Barcelona, check this out! The booklet is available in English, and I think it's a must for library folks.

Found a beautiful resource to reopen my mind at the start of the year, even within the current nightmare of a world controlled by sociopathic finance lords & their vassals, left & right: on logical and mathematical infinity & paradoxes www.youtube.com/watch?v=14OP... - good luck for 2026!

Ending the year exploring great (board) game design, quick, atmospheric, effective, simple, deep: “Blitzkrieg!: World War Two in 20 Minutes”, including an unexpected Philip K. Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle”’s like scenario! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25...

So watch this talk about easily getting rich by making games! "Delicate Art of Making Depressing Games" www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnM2... by @thepixelhunt.bsky.social @wednesdays-game.bsky.social

Every interview with the AI shills pushing for "world models" betrays a profound lack of understanding about how games are made. "DeepMind’s Alexandre Moufarek...said he hoped that world models would help give developers space to 'find the fun' and 'try new ideas and take risks again.'" 1/2

i liked this piece on how to revitalize unions in the neoliberal era socialistregister.com/index.php/sr...

We make weird games about rebellion. Football Drama, Roller Drama, and Becoming Saint. Different forms. Different mechanics. Different narratives. All on sale now on Steam! 😇⚽🛼 #SteamSale #IndieGames #WinterSale

Questa mattina abbiamo presentato Cadentia Farnese, gioco per l’ambasciata francese in Italia: 12 storie choice-based, la grafica che cresce e cambia nel corso di ogni storia, un’esperienza che abbiamo immaginato essenziale e profonda insieme. @wearemuesli.bsky.social wearemuesli.it/it/our-games...

Valve HQ: "AAA game about murdering a lot of Muslims and destroying their homes" "ship it" "solo game in which you fight the IDF" "ban the savages" "indie game that criticizes Western power dynamics with a horse metaphor" "unacceptable" "This review hates Muslims" "ahh smell that thats freedom"

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

Here you can get @santaragione.com's Horses www.gog.com/en/game/horses - banned from Steam for no sensible reason 🤷🐴

Really, really weird & cringe.

Via @aghotspot.bsky.social

Becoming Saint on sale in the Firesquid sale! 😇

This:

On The Bunker Magazine and from Trieste Science+Fiction Festival and its videogame section IVIPRO Days: videogames as a sci-medium and as playable thought experiments shaping our understanding of the world. Feat Ted Chiang, @peterpunk.bsky.social, @albertbirney.bsky.social [Article in English]

So this week starting Thursday I’ll be in Trieste for “IVIPRO Days” I’ll speak about history in games and narrative design in roguelikes (Becoming Saint) on Friday. Sunday there is a PKD dedicated event, unmissable! See you there?

This is what turned places like Florence where I live into empty shells inhabited by tourists scams 😔

What happens when in games we stop putting players at the centre as heroes? Rethinking heroism, control, and what winning means in games in my new Substack post: peterpunk.substack.com/p/the-dissol...

Netflix's Six Kings Salm has such a Black Mirror aura... 😅

Imagine being so toxic on Steam to write a negative review of this: store.steampowered.com/app/1425980/... 😅

We got the green check on Becoming Saint for SteamDeck!!!

Becoming Saint now in Steam's Autumn sale 😇🚂 #SteamAutumnSale

Tonight in Palermo - a participative theatre piece I co-designed, Vietato Innamorarsi at Mercurio Festival

This is a making-of video for Becoming Saint, quite detailed and also we discuss indie game production, notions of history, and creating meaningful games, among other topics. Thanks to the amazing @d6learning.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/live/G5zYhdT... @firesquid.games

This! This! This is so on point and important! (I find Nintendo shop visibility totally dysfunctional too btw) @jon.inkle.co any suggestion for a solution?

Today! Making of Becoming Saint, covering research for the art, history, settings, and the evolution of mechanics, incremental narrative design, and the dissolution of the hero(ine) 😇

Find out what went into making indie medieval sainthood simulator/RTS *Becoming Saint* in a live discussion and Q&A with @peterpunk.bsky.social! Join us on the 30th of September on YouTube for a #gamedev deep dive: www.youtube.com/live/G5zYhdT...

Becoming Saint: An Indie Tale of Creation with Pietro Polsinelli - a live discussion with game designer @peterpunk.bsky.social; join us on the 30th of September! The event will be streamed on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/G5zYhdT... Get a reminder via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-s...

Get our beautiful & bizarre medieval, heretical & rebellious game Becoming Saint - now with 20% discount on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2643010/... @firesquid.games

When you organize an event, write down the fucking address. Just write it there, where you describe who is speaking, what is happening. Also put it when you are quoting it. No its not the organization address, not always. JUST WRITE IT DOWN, damn it. 😅

This week I’ll be a bit around: Thursday 18th Bologna “Heritage Game Farm” www.culturabologna.it/lang/en/even... Friday 19th Prato “IVPRO Days off” ivipro.it/it/notizie/s... Saturday 20th Milan The Game by Trickster-p www.bttfproject.it/the-game/ Sunday 21st Milan Zona Warpa, zonawarpa.it 😝

I'm doing this very cool course in November! Writing short stories to prototype game narrative!

We’re working on 4 games at the same time, what could go wrong? 😇 Becoming Saint - portable compatibility ✊ Revolt of the Commons - strategy turn-based medieval communism ♠️ Rome City Of Cards - win debates in the Roman Senate ⚽ Football Matches - manage crazy matches with a match-3 mechanic

Saw this wonderful Argentinian movie El Jockey by Luis Ortega that tries to be as crazy as life is 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C5R...

Entertaining notions of sainthood? Well then, join @peterpunk.bsky.social on September 30 to discover what actually went into 'Becoming Saint'. 👉The making-of will be streamed on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5zY... 👉Secure your handy reminder via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-s...