Outland (1981) should be in the pantheon of ‘80s science fiction, unbelievably good

got to play test this game and we ended up killing someone on their space yacht in order to create a rich ghost in order to calibrate our ghost detector. 10/10 experience

in a playtest for this game we stumbled into a gunnery command center that had been repurposed as the staging area for the catering team during a massive days-long funeral

This game is soooooo cool

Which should be soon! It will be available digitally directly via enceledean.itch.io/forget-starl... and also in an initial print run of ~200 lovingly run off by grubgrub.press and published via a new small imprint I'm starting up.

kickass teamup here.

Forget Starlight is modular game that is as much about Courtiers, Disavowed Assassins, and Emblazoned Gun Nurses as it is about how we generate stories by finding a throughline when faced with ever-shifting locations and circumstances. Truly something special, can't wait for folks to check it out.

Let's fucking go!

Most people are gonna find out about our next game next week via a trailer, or coverage.. The folks following this story are gonna discover it via a revelation at the end of chapter 4.. if you’re a fan of my particular brand of bullshit, I hope you’re onboard for this option. You’ll be rewarded.

ANNOUNCEMENT Forget Starlight is a tabletop rpg set on an infinite feudal space station. Written by me, edited by @deptofmeteors.bsky.social. Out this summer with a print version available as well. More info here: enceledean.itch.io/forget-starl...

This month on PAPER LABYRINTHS, we talk with Eve Golden-Woods @evegoldenwoods.bsky.social about her award winning Book of Kells-inspired ttrpg THE CREATION OF WONDER, and the process reconsidering what you "know" about history. sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...

more details tomorrow

yes I am working on a book side project and yes it is crashing my computer

It's simple: every game that has mechanics crunchier than I like was designed by and for unimaginative babies and any game where I have to interpret results more than I like was created by and for pretentious non-designers.

Sound the podcast klaxons, it's a new making heyer!

FINE I'll keep watching games, for a while there I thought I'd be free

men in RMSP get off ur phones & STOP becoming influencers… we need MIDFIELDERS!!! this Seleção slow as HELL can’t create for shit 😭😭😭

gene wolfe doing a 360 kickflip off this post

Amberspire is on a light discount during the summer sale, and you can get it with The Banished Vault for a mere 35 clams! I think that’s a great deal for yourself or that friend who plays “those weird games”. You know who I’m talking about. Give them the love and punishment these games provide

EDM (electronic dance music) is the defining music for Millennials. Wondering if there's an EDM angle somewhere with Gollum? His movements are beautiful, would be awesome with a killer DJ behind it

Amberspire is on a light discount during the summer sale, and you can get it with The Banished Vault for a mere 35 clams! I think that’s a great deal for yourself or that friend who plays “those weird games”. You know who I’m talking about. Give them the love and punishment these games provide

Skin Deep is 40% off in the Steam Summer Sale. If you want to see a thread of bizarre, unexpected tricks and Gamer Shit you can do with the game's immersive sim mechanics, check out this thread I posted last year: store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

This month I did an indie sampler! Featuring (deep breath): Amberspire! Wax Heads! Tethergeist! Sol Cesto! The Last Winter Knight!

kid: hey mister, do you have anything to eat? jc: [bowl full of motionless soup flies out of weapon hand and hits kid] kid: aah! aaaaah! [bowl of soup bounces off kid and lands on the ground perfectly upright with a loud metallic clang] kid: the gate code is 5784

🏖️ Happy Steam Summer Sale Season! Buy our games so we can keep making more 😎 All of our titles are discounted for the next two weeks - check out the full list on our Steam dev page!

So I got a little hyperfixated on this dumb project yesterday and spent the whole day pulling audio samples and screenshots from my favorite movie, Hackers. And while editing through the samples realized it sounded real cool if I accidentally played them all at once so I made this... warning LOUD

so many threads of this unit start coming to a head – christianity, national epics, spiders, tech companies – this is an all timer episode

thinking about it (the costco combo pizza)

Hey look! My Narrascope talk is already up on YouTube! If you’re an indie developer who wants to work with union voice actors but are afraid it will be too expensive or complicated, please let me ease your fears: youtu.be/svMI5cvkTwE?...

Spending the rest of this summer/fall turbulently employed so any id appreciate any support! ko-fi.com/chriskindred

Deskilling is the point of AI. Rigid subjectivities, which skilled work produces, are less desirable to the capitalist order whose entire existence is predicated on managing crises tied to and created by capital flows. It’s much easier to manage malleable, liquid subjectivities of instant ‘experts’.

• Mischief Toy Store, a games store St. Paul, MN • Molly House, a board game by Jo Kelly with Cole Wehrle & Ricky Royal, from Wehrlegig Games • Price Johnson, a game company executive with Cephalofair Games

i truly cannot tell you how proud and excited i am to say that the marielda soundtrack, in a really extraordinary form, will be coming to vinyl in collaboration with @lostincult.co.uk

get a job stay away from him

A lovely review that correctly highlights @mode7games.bsky.social's wonderful soundtrack as doing an extraordinary amount of lifting to the themes of the game

What a wonderful and thoughtful write up! So great to see Amberspire’s soundtrack getting the love it deserves

A lovely review that correctly highlights @mode7games.bsky.social's wonderful soundtrack as doing an extraordinary amount of lifting to the themes of the game

Chapter One out! Join us mailchi.mp/bithellgames...

Thirty Flights of Loving update! 👉 it's now Steam Deck Verified! 👉 Gravity Bone (included in the download) now has developer commentary! 👉 Fixes to the save/load system! store.steampowered.com/app/214700/T... Big thanks to Ethan Lee www.flibitijibibo.com for helping make this update happen

during the big itch furor last year a lot of people talked a very big game about how easy it was to spin up an itch competitor. you may notice that, mysteriously, no one actually went and did that

Right now I’m less focused on “I want to make a living doing this thing” (although that’s still the eventual goal!) and more “I want to make weird art while all the fascism is happening.” I guess what I’m saying is if you want to work with me and feel like you can’t afford me, reach out anyway.

I talk about Amberspire!

50 critics, directors, designers, reporters, comedians, and authors share their earliest picks for Game of the Year 2026. Welcome to the EGOTYs!!!

nearly ten years ago i participated in the first manifesto jam and i'm so glad @haraiva.bsky.social kept the ball rolling for #manifestojam2026 presenting: YOU HAVE TO BE A PERVERT a prayer for myself and anyone else who needs to hear it aerialshading.itch.io/you-have-to-...

[being pushed out an airlock] are you mad at me

Oh dang, this gets at what I love about system theory. Lacking direct access to reality, we run constant speculative/ideological simulations of it in our heads and iterate each time it proves us wrong. Sims are fun because the ways they fail are our only direct contact with reality.

Just released my harsh ambient torture noise album, Blood Sample, check it out if you like evil women torturing each other with needles and synthesizers or you just want to give me money stabwoundmakeuptutorial.bandcamp.com/album/blood-...

my manifesto jam manifested modernmodron.itch.io/hate-the-pla...

Garin does great work!