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🟢🔵🟡🔴 West Mids & Warks playful folks from Fri July 10th we're hosting a new series of free playful co-working afternoons. It'll be a relaxed time for folks to playtest, prototype and hangout in the comfort of Leamington's Dice Box Cafe. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lets-co-wo... pls + thnx for sharing!

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Games Garden Party is under two weeks away and we've got a handful of wonderful games to play. Poetic digital toys about rejection letters, card game chatrooms, digital words scanned from real clay! Also, here's a picture of Daniel talking about Yelling Games from the last time we did one of these.

I got to do the soundtrack for Abi Palmer's Slime Mother, a truly transcendent short film. @abipalmer.bsky.social is a long time collaborator and excellent friend, and it was so heartwarming to return to this and remember what a delight it was to put together. motherivy.bandcamp.com/album/slime-...

I am chronically bad at updating my website, and so I'm going to start slowly chipping away at about two years of stuff I never got online. Here goes...

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

Tamagotchi Seance from @cassettewitch.bsky.social combines poetic narrative with user-submitted messages to create a wonderful experience that rewards repeat interactions. Returning to the garden to see how it has grown is a joy.

Here we go again! Come and visit the garden at Voidspace Live this weekend.

I'll be running my keepsake larp, Ruin The Game, at @voidspacezine.bsky.social this Sunday! Come and play as a video game archaeologist exploring an abandoned MMO and meet this mysterious lithic character

MANIFESTO JAM 2026 An invitation/provocation for YOU to write a manifesto. Running for a full week from June 8th to June 15th (AEST). Participate and submit at: itch.io/jam/manifest...

Lovely time at Norwich Games Festival! Talking Tamagotchi and making maps.

Wow. So let me get this straight - they steal the data, they steal the jobs, and we also have to pay hundreds more in household bills. So we just have this mass-thieves leaching on the economy, with essentially no actual use. And it's chill? It's normal? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Because I went to Glasgow Zine Fair this weekend, you get a DOUBLE issue of the Zine Revue!! Plus tea and book posts if you are curious: hotelpaintings.neocities.org/tags/zines/

Come and hang out, and have A Nice Time. It'll be great! luma.com/ojjo1frd

Together with wonderful collaborators @profaniti.bsky.social @susepicious.bsky.social and @iamdanielgreen.itch.io (in various configurations) we're holding a couple of informal games get-togethers. UnderDeveloped in Brighton and Games Garden Party in London.

Bootcamp is back! 💚 Immersive Arts Bootcamp: Real-time technologies has a focus on performance. Ideal for individuals or organisations with funding in place to develop a prototype, the course covers Unreal Engine & TouchDesigner. Applications open for Sept and Jan start dates 👉🏼 bit.ly/4wf30Mg

How would you want a games event to look if you could put one on tomorrow? Feels like there's a lot of stuff currently that misses the mark (and a handful of things that absolutely nail it). What do you think is missing? What needs changing?

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Tamagotchi Seance #3: Memory Garden is on show at Voidspace Strange Play this weekend. Lots of little pots with memories inside, and a big garden to leave some of your own. @voidspacezine.bsky.social

Day one of @voidspacezine.bsky.social Strange Play is almost up. What a brilliant selection of works. In terms of seeing genuinely surprising and genre-breaking games, it's been first rate.

The incredible Jon Aitken and Jack Offord, absolute wizards of film-craft, made a little video about me and my time on the @wshed.bsky.social @pmstudiouk.bsky.social Winter Residency. You can hear a little about my Tamagotchi memorial space game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BKU...

If you happen to be in Bristol this weekend I'll be showing a prototype of a new little game as part of Watershed and Pervasive Media Studio's House Party on Saturday. Continuing my obsession with making tamagotchis a little bit melancholy. @wshed.bsky.social

I'll be showing a little prototype of a new game during this. I had the wonderful privilege of spending a couple of weeks on a residency at Pervasive Media Studio, and got to play around with some new ideas that have formed into something a bit weird and a bit cute.

Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

If you are baffled by why the jury refused to convict the Palestine Action defendants, it's because – unlike them – you didn't hear the actual evidence. You heard what the media wanted you to know. Here, I explain what the jury learnt from the trial: jonathancook.substack.com/p/barristers...

"Why do we have to take ethics classes for a computer science degree?" This is why. And frankly, we should be failing more students for inadequately demonstrating their understanding of the topic. Let's review some fun historical examples of why "No, actually quality will continue to matter."

I wrote a small thing for this. Burnout is hard and tricky to find the edges of. Instead of looking directly at it I wrote about those bits around the sides.

It’s DOGMAN95s anniversary 🏆 the first game adhering to the rules of the dogman95 movement ComputerJames.itch.io/Dogman95 (Free / 5mins)

There was a thread (back on the other site) collecting GIFs of chunky machinery from anime. Stuff with big buttons, pistons, industrial lifts. That's sort of stuff. Does a similar one exist over here? I miss it so.

A few snaps from my show Return To Dreamphone. (I've never really used to checking/posting to bsky. This is a little tidbit to stay present.) Shown at Barham Park in March, and August as part of the Brent Biennial. A ring of towers, connected through their root system, chirrup signals into the room.

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

If you use AI you’re accelerating climate crisis, polluting deprived communities, burning through water, giving bosses excuses to reduce workers rights and wages. It’s a moral and ethical degradation.

my painting of British lads hit each other with chair …

A wonderful world building workshop hosted by @cassettewitch.bsky.social 🤩😍 @amazefest.bsky.social

This is an incredible use of Bitsy. It's a messy and scrappy document of a brilliantly unexpected jamming method. I think watching the process was the best part of this, to the point where I reckon with a bit of production it could make a really cool audience event.

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

This is a very cool idea! It's Iike geocaching but for stories.

The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today. Some very brief highlights: 🧵 1/8

I'm excited to announce my new game: Treeplanter 💚 Discover the magic of trees! Create a peaceful interactive woodland! Watch as it evolves through the changing seasons 🌱🍃🍂🌳 As time goes by, an ecosystem of animals, plants and insects will make your creation their home 💚

I have a little work-in-progress show on next week. It's the culmination of a socially-led residency with ACAVA. Here's a little video where I say a bit about what's on.

Inspired by @miss-sammie.bsky.social's incredible temporary archive workshop, I had another go at my local-only digital archive AND IT FINALLY WORKS! Running a program called Shareboxx, it's a local WiFi network for sharing and archiving digital stuff during real space meeting.

I'm putting on my first solo exhibition! A mix of interactive installation, game-making and poetry, Return to Dreamphone continues my collaboration with the tributaries of the River Brent and the communities living alongside.

Okay, here goes. I want to be ever so slightly more online, but intentionally so. I dropped all the socials for a while, but figure it's a good moment to try and be slightly present here. I'm Nick and at the moment I'm making games and writing poetry. A few things I've done recently:

A little draft of a new poetry piece, Tamagotchi Seance 2. Push the button and get a little glitched generative message from your long gone digital pet.

My first post here is to tell you that I'll be talking about Tamagotchi and the closing of digital worlds at The Photographers Gallery on September 8th! If you're into virtual spaces and weird little digital guys, this might be for you! thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/tpg...