Game Worlds opens this Thursday. An insane sentence to type out.

Silksong is out today - and I am so excited to share my deep-dive into the game's development. I spoke with Team Cherry about Silksong's design, its origins, and the creative principles that drive their work. I'm thrilled to share it:

I miss writing. I've had so damn few opportunities this year. I started a video channel largely to keep momentum going but it quickly became my dominant space for work out of sheer necessity. youtube.com/@jamandalice

What you’re describing here is basically @superjumpmagazine.com; I can’t wait to read reflections on this game from our team. There are too few sites focusing on the elements you describe here, IMO. I hope you don’t mind a bit more self-promo! 🙏

Gonna jump in here with some blatant self-promotion, but I'm damn proud of our content this year. We try cover as much as possible among Australian indies - predominantly reviews, but have a great series of interviews and a few event round-ups/opinion pieces.

Silksong is really amplifying my sorrow about the death of critical games culture. I’m so desperate for critical writing, personal reflection, cultural analysis, meandering vibe-based takes - anything other than reporting on sales. And I don’t even know where to read it, let alone pitch it myself

ICYMI: During Silksong’s development, I spoke to Team Cherry about their creative process, and the worldbuilding of Pharloom 🪡🐞 You can it here now: www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-...

This would cure me

Silksong is out today - and I am so excited to share my deep-dive into the game's development. I spoke with Team Cherry about Silksong's design, its origins, and the creative principles that drive their work. I'm thrilled to share it:

Honestly? When Silksong comes out, I'll kinda miss this

what use is your moral purity and queer anger if it achieves the exact same outcome our oppressors are gunning for? building things takes work, so much more work than preserving what we already have. if we tear down every imperfect tool we'll have nothing

still rattled by the sheer giddy glee with which some queers are coming for itch.io, one of the largest collections of queer games in existence. i know it's scary to accept, but we do actually have good things worth defending. we have things it would damage us to lose

Haters: buying a return to ravnica (2012) magic the gathering booster box won’t fix you Me [completely fixed now]:

I want this woman to put out a cigarette on me

Now Dungeons & Dragons has well and truly entered the cultural zeitgeist, I'm excited to see what niche, nerdy thing hits the mainstream next. I want to see Riverdale doing a Magic: The Gathering episode

Instagram close friends lists are so bizarre man. Someone I kind-of know makes me privy to a blow-by-blow of the dramatic breakdown of their most intimate relationship; as a sign of mutual respect I give them access to a sporadic selection of slightly off-putting memes

NORCO is one of the best pieces of sci-fi in any medium that I've had the pleasure of experiencing - as well as one of the best indie games of the last few years. It's on sale for $7 right now, you'd be crazy not to buy it: store.steampowered.com/app/1221250/...

You know, I should have made a bigger deal about being the one to share the first new Silksong content in three years. That's actually so crazy. What a privilege.

God this rules. The will to resist is in your hands!!

some news from me - I just sent my first professional neomail

in a just world, i would be able to sleep in this bed every night

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Watching Angels and Demons (2009 sequel to the Da Vinci Code) and getting heated about Robert Langdon’s poor archival practices

🌟 New one from me 🌟 I reviewed museum management sim Two Point Museum by remaking Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition in-game, and wrote about what the game got right and wrong about the bizarre world of museum work 🪿🏦 www.gameshub.com/news/feature...

To celebrate 30 years of the Warcraft series, I am thrilled to share that I am hosting a conversation with World of Warcraft Senior Art Director Ely Cannon, and Associate Technical Director Darren Williams! 🏔️⚔️ 4 April, 6.30pm in ACMI's Cinemas ⚔️🏔️ Tix here ➡️ www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/wor...

🌟 New one from me 🌟 I reviewed museum management sim Two Point Museum by remaking Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition in-game, and wrote about what the game got right and wrong about the bizarre world of museum work 🪿🏦 www.gameshub.com/news/feature...

Simant is the game that started it all; at age 6, it’s the first videogame I remember really sparking something in me. Me and T got into a genuine argument last year because I found an emulation online and became uncontactable as a result. It Has The Juice

Our EO Max Kaiser spoke to The Guardian on the ceasefire.

I've decided to catalogue my favourite online comments. brian's mother's milk gets the honour of going first

My review of Caves of Qud, based solely on phrases my partner mutters to themself while playing, is that it's effectively a Pliny the Elder simulator. They just hissed, "I believe honey has something to do with healing, but I don't know what it is" and then starting inspecting a pig

I've entered the exponent zone in Balatro. Someone PLEASE send help

2024 was a fkn whirlwind! Here are some things I did: 🔔 curated Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition exhibition 🎥 co-curated a year of Gay24 film screenings of rare and radical queer films, including a sold out session at Tilde Festival 📕 had a trans poem published in Best of Australian Poetry

Buy James' very good goose book! Like all my favourite accounts of gamemaking, it's a story about friendship wearing a story about videogames as a hat. A perfect holiday read 🔔❤️

Experiencing the healing power of purchasing several kinds of salami

now that I'm on antivirals (having a very cool week, thanks) my main covid symptom is a preternatural and completely baseless obsession with Wicked. I haven't seen it but it IS my favourite movie

Celebrating the launch of Pokémon tcg pocket’s mythical island booster pack with one of the most uncharismatic pulls in living memory. Even blue looks apologetic

For just a couple of coins, you can get the special standalone version of Short Trip on Steam now! As always, shares and reviews are always immensely appreciated. Enjoy your trip! store.steampowered.com/app/3187700/...

🗣️🗣️🗣️ expanded edition of the world’s most precious game just dropped 🗣️🗣️🗣️

This year can’t end soon enough tbh, feeling ready to devolve pre-Cambrian style and worm my way back into the primordial sea

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The museum exhibit for The Untitled Goose Game includes the raw git commit log as a scrolling ticker. I want more code projects shared so richly.

I'm in LA for the first time - this city is unhinged. Locals recommendations are like "just walk one block from here are some of the most opulent displays of wealth imaginable! just don't go one block in the other direction... that's the Kill Murder Zone. Have an amazing day!"

Trying to find a healthy balance between my love of playing balatro and my love of not looking like I am compulsively playing online poker on the bus

Chloe's Tiktok about Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition is a) unbelievably nice and b) literally poetry. A must watch!! 🔔

I think that ABC article accurately reflects the economic reality for digital media mastheads, including games publications. I also think that the local scene has a serious issue with doomerism and nostalgia that stifles new ideas, young writers, and ambitious projects, and we need to sort it out.

very challenging to save money when half your job is looking for interesting artefacts on Ebay and 1991 Soviet Russian Original Poster Good night USSR children Gnome Song is RIGHT there

Stepping outside for an evolved moment of tobacco pleasure

Extremely Christian radio presenter via this Uber’s radio: “priests don’t like to talk about it - but exorcisms are 90% of what they do.”

Some nice snaps of Untitled Goose Exhibition 🔔 Open (and free!) at ACMI over the summer, bring your friends, bring your dad, bother a groundskeeper, honk honk honk 🗣️ 📸: Eugene Highland

It’s really crazy that Thomas More is in Metaphor Refantazio, but it’s even crazier that he gripes about Henry VIII at length over the course of his social link