art exists to be destroyed in our place

Alright, I'll play!

accessibility mode for starseed pilgrim where you can run it at 0.75x, 0.5x, 0.25x speed

a game is when you do things because you are imagining

imagination

this was fun. i now have a lot to think about. instead i am going to eat a whole pomelo

oops, i'm accidentally working on an actually invariant and non-player-centric definition (or model) of games. here it is, my first step towards a heliocentric games theory: 'every game is a nonlinear set of states.' this is the vaguely right-shaped block of marble i'll chip away at. chip away!

i'm kind of lazy can yall link me to every definition of games that has been published anywhere with citation? ty i will also accept forum posts etc, give me your favourites that you find inspirational, the ones you hate, all of them, as long as there's any legitimacy/seriousness about it

i got really interested lately in structure. 'games as museums'... if i think about a game as a funny little house that contains things (anything really) that is kind of a good starting point. i've been reading some mystery novels and watching some mystery films and the mystery-plot-structure--

art game make a poor imitation. look at it one year later

designed games are not art. game design is the process of extracting all art from a game

democracy game give each player 1d100 dollars. at beginning of turn each player pays $10 into a pot or dies. players may transfer money. at end of turn a system redistributes the pot to players. players may cast votes / submit more money to alter the system's rules. nobody understands the system.

* snow headaches and dead ends passage through a monthless cold nothing changes! the small large number endlessly goes up and up without cleverness, without trying * some numbers we want to go down # celebrate another year ready for sunshine revivals and light screens * celebrate another beginning!

(5/?)--and multiplying myriadfold into every possible intention i assigned to you a vast pinprick-cloud of identities, each one myself seen in your mirror, a past me, a future me, but always in my image! by such hermeneutics we (i and you, being me) can form a literacy of psychologies-by-empathies--

- you've got to learn to move like a forest, straight for the sun thousands of times over, every limb yearning - šo i dropped my phone on my face whatever it's not embarrassing i'm an entire forest reaching skyward no- i don't know what that means but this is part of it, even if it hurts right now.

huh. lots of this particular purple and black combo showing up

traffic game all players secretly choose a number between 0 and 100 any players who choose the exact same number roll 1d100. if they roll under their chosen number, the accident is fatal surviving player who chose the highest number arrives at their destination most quickly (speed limits?)

not that this has anything to do with angeline era, but i made it after trying to play angeline era, so that's how the wings and the swords got in there

the rafter details are very fine, though

the bunny has too many numbers and they're all over the place... this is the code that determines what happens when you hit a wall (aj stands for airjump)

ap drive is so beautiful. i still think about it all the time andrewsum.com/apdrive/

Well @ellaguro.bsky.social is cool + @droqen.bsky.social is cool so here are 50 indie games to make you smile: 10 Beautiful Postcards 24 Killers 868-Hack Arctic Eggs Babushka’s Glitch Garden Bad Milk Betrayal at Club Low Cave Story Crap! No One Loves Me Critters for Sale Crow Country Cruelty Squad

starting a thread of highlights for the #gamemanualjam we are hosting on itch along with @boshis.place @spacelionz.bsky.social & @marioparty.blog

i did my part bsky.app/profile/tegi...

can i recommend 50 indie games. probably not

i initially posted my list because of zara and @sylviefluff.bsky.social , let the indie game list virus spread...

50 indie games i've enjoyed, inspired by @sylviefluff.bsky.social and @droqen.bsky.social UFO 50 Ib Stephen's Sausage Roll Salad Fields Yume Nikki Mosa Lina Future Unfolding Environmental Station Alpha The Northern Journey Uurnog Uurnlimited DUSK Corn Kidz 64 Anodyne 2 Decarnation Cruelty Squad

these are not recommendations, just 50 indie games that stunned me in some capacity when i played them as either a child or an adult. order randomized. fit for a king rift wizard minecraft the gostak uurnog uurnlimited there's a beautiful star cobalt core 'glasses (megane)' (by pixel) cave story

since people asked, here's how I use tarot step by step: - shuffle, think abt today - cut in 3 piles, reform - draw one card. what does it remind me of? - reshuffle, ask "What should I know about ____?" (my mind will fill the blank w/ what I'm anxious abt) - cut in 3, reform, draw 3, think - repeat

if you're into AI "advisors" and find their insights helpful, may I non-ironically recommend seriously considering: tarot - connection to your subconscious - therapeutic or confessional as need be - patterns of meaning - self-determined takeaways - no need to google facts afterwards

A really large number of very simple mouse-controlled games don't act right with tablet input. Based on how common it is I think it might be a Unity thing, maybe some really common plugin? Has anyone else encountered this?

the evil droqen era is over

i need to comment on this to get it out of my psyche. first sentence of the quoted bleet is straightforwardly and objectively false and all further statements built upon its foundation (either agreeing or disagreeing) can therefore be instantly discarded if desired. don't make claims like this

for some reason I'm genuinely enjoying how discoursey games bluesky has been lately. SHOULD games ever be hard? Great question! Should people make money for work sometimes? Worth thinking about!

pls recommend me some games structured like rooftop cop

i keep catching myself reflecting on concepts and realizing that i "already" "covered" them in the end of gameplay, but this morning was the first time i went and opened a level specifically to kind of face it directly. was really shocked that everything together was so useful and striking

full moon tonight. terrible photo as usual

not sorry

i've seen a significant volume of people who are interested in making "games as art" essentially stop making games as art because of thE lack of clarity and acceptance here. you can't just say "games are obviously art" & then still primarily valourize games for the features which make good products.

serious question for academics and other non-fiction writers how the Hell do you get started organizing all the snippets that you want to use for later citation and reference from such vastly different sources as podcasts, videogames, physical and digital books, videos, etc.?

not quite done listening but a lot of great conversations in this one. so much Stuff to think about, lots of history revisited and remembered

On a whim I put together a sublime text custom syntax highlighter so that I could write notes in multiple colours quickly/easily and it is so useful. I can actually record multiple contradictory thoughts I'm having simultaneously in a way that produces a readable document instead of a huge mess

omg, a new negative steam review dropped. i can feel the energy welling up within me to examine a lot of the various responses to TEOG as i meant to do long ago, but i really want to leave one quick message. a quick reply.

Someone out there has got to have a copy of "Sense of Connectedness"