tapping the sign

Y'all want to send me your top albums of the year? I could use some new music.

It's not about if Horses is good or if you like it, it's about the world we're in where a few companies have control over who gets to make money and which artists get to continue working. Stores can stock whatever they want, but if you don't understand the broader picture you shouldn't speak.

I love to wake up and open palm slam the social media icon on my jumbo iPad to fire off a post like "Yucky stuff in my 'art'? No thx!!" before swearing upon God and country that I believe in the innate personhood of the Mastercard corporation

Please lord give me the strength not to dunk on obvious bait.

Some of the takes on this website have me reaching for Austin Walker's sleepytime tweet like a lifepreserver in the deep ocean

Cleaning up my old skeets so I can Professional Post on here more often, and have been reminded of the era when I got absolutely blitzed and live posted my way through episodes of MILF Manor

Just go buy Horses it's $5. santaragione.itch.io/horses

Instead of posting a context-less wrap up, maybe we all just drop our top album and why we liked it instead. You know, so it's interesting to other people? I was still on AG Cook's Britpop- a massive triple album on the past, present, and future of hyperpop featuring inventive synth patches

STOP 🛑✋ Don't post that Spotify wrapped ‼️ Instead you should Go Outside 🌄🏔️🌞 and walk into The Ocean 🌅🌊 instead of telling people you love Daniel Ek and all of his investments in drone technology and AI 😜🔫 Save Your Soul, Take The Honorable Way Out‼️❤️

There's a follow up to legendary indie Long Live the Queen and I haven't seen a single peep about it. Check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/3069630/...

I think 2026 has to be a back to basics year where I explicitly skip dreck and only engage with weird and experimental art. If you don't show up for the things you want then you don't get to have those things.

New Fellow Traveller game day!

bummer situation but grim lol at this exception on the epic games store

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

AIM FOR THE STARS: FUNLAND NO. 5 HAS LANDED @oniongames.bsky.social's YOSHIRO KIMURA on life on Earth. @lukewasthefish.bsky.social on life on alien worlds (or at least SLC). @kaittremblay.bsky.social on death in the cosmos. Cover by @alexanderlaird.bsky.social funland.itch.io/funland-zine...

A reminder this holiday season and always

I've been reading a lot of cromulent genre fiction and I can see how people get addicted to reading garbage as a hobby. Though from there it's only a quick hop to the Wendig and Gaiman-type "ooh I'm so smart because I READ" trap.

i published my most recent talk on altgames and alternative digital culture as a cure to technofascism… to my @itch.io blog too: itch.io/blog/1128562... thanks for reading 🙏💕

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...

You can tell the Pokemon Z-A team played Yakuza by how much of the game's runtime is spent fighting people in alleys.

2 of the 3 F1 races in Vegas have been stopper for manhole shenanigans. Hilarious

Is there some kind of masterlist somewhere for all of the reader-supported games outlets out there?

Would people be into more weird game recommendations on the timeline, or should I do that somewhere else?

Yesterday was a crazy day for sicko games. Demonschool came out (and is great), but also Birdcage (the best Radiant Silvergun-like since Radiant Silvergun), and Sektori -- the Tetris Effect of Geometry Wars.

I had forgotten about the TTRPG Cain until just recently which means I also forgot how insane the line "I am worthy of the Ark and I hope to God you can't swim" is. tombloom.itch.io/cain

Our debut title, sword action shooting game BIRDCAGE, is out now! Shoot, slash and weave through bullets and enemies in this challenging, story-driven arcade shooter!🕊️🥚 store.steampowered.com/app/2158550/...

If you're mad about the boring Game Awards nominees, consider: You could be buying and playing many of the games on this list right now

Cohost would have flipped for Q-Up

Valve post the specs so I can see if I can cram the Steam Machine into a Gamecube shell

Me yesterday: why would I need a new steam machine? Me today: wow, cube

Katamari is SO fucking back btw

writing it "f*ck" sickens me. a coward's curse. say fuck or find a different word. get that nasty starfish asshole out of my sight

This is the character I had the most fun writing. Buzzhuzz is def my fav chapter in our game- felt very cathartic to work on considering the rise of fasc1sm & the war on "degenerate art" (look up the phrase if you're unfamiliar with the history) in the real world today.

Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice. They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.

Leon

Big things coming

It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year! As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...

Having a hard time adjusting to good things happening, but this feels like a big day.

Bluesky rn

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ALAN WATTS: “Zen and the Art of Trick or Treat” (1971)

Could God make a team so bad even He couldn't carry?

Baby Steps shouting out other games they think you'll like in the credits is 10/10 king shit

Lord help me, I've been experimenting with Linux.

My heart is heavy & I might have more to say on that later, but I've got news today that my time at Heart Machine will come to an end after POSSESSOR(S) ships. I'm honestly too busy... literally shipping the game to start actively looking for work, but I'll be looking for my next gig in December. 🥲

Scrabdackle Straight up the funniest game I've played in a minute. A whimsical and charming adventure through a doodle-core world that'll have you blowing up garbage, hanging out with peanuts, and scanning everything like you're Magical Samus Aran. store.steampowered.com/app/1578720/...

drake turning off the game as it gets to 18