The special issue of the Journal of Digital Media & Interaction, dedicated to friction in games and computational media, that I guest edited with @ordeposodrac.bsky.social is now published and available in open access at proa.ua.pt/index.php/jd...

Another tool! Ink Explorer. Visualises the shape of an Ink story and lets you play through from any point, watching variables (and tweaking them), keeping track of visit counts, and letting you snapshot and restore the state. Early days - hope it's useful to someone! medium.com/@wildwinter/...

Me facing my thesis deadline like

all of this has happened before

ICYMI: "The ruins hold no clear narrative to be understood, but similar to many archaeological sites, the tale to be told is fragmentary, indeterminate and especially open to interpretation." Justin Reeve analyzes Breath of the Wild's Thyphlo Ruins from an archeological perspective:

💾The Games & Storage special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication is officially out! 📚Thanks to editors @nickttaylor.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social, and Robyn Hope for putting this together. 📡Be sure to check out my article on Satellaview restoration, 𝘚𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴!

In case you missed it, I wrote a blog post to introduce people to the concept of procedural narrative!

Sorry I can’t this weekend man I have to wander around my home like a tormented ghost for a couple days

🌼My new game is here!🥀 "She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died." alienmelon.itch.io/flower A game poem and interactive fiction about The End. You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil. #IndieGame #VideoGame #GamePoem #Game

⚔️💀 POINT FROMSOFTWARE 💀⚔️ Chaque jour jusqu'à la parution de "L'Histoire de FromSoftware" chez @thirdeditions.bsky.social le 19 février, je posterai ici une image d'archives faisant écho à l'un des passages du livre, dans l'ordre des chapitres.

You will not like this but Persephone and Hades were the same person. Demeter can't stop mourning a daughter who is still alive. This, too, is about transmasculinity

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Wasn't expecting a trailer for a new Silent Hill game to make my day

The demo for this is out now and really all you had to tell me is "brutalist parkour" and I was hooked the fuck in.

Ahhhh I love fictional game screenshots

This week on The Bathysphere we have a lovely essay by Chris on the brutalist parkour game VHOLUME: buttondown.com/Bathysphere/...

Neolithic Pig Cauldron floating in the woods

secret late night announcement. I'm launching later this month, in collaboration with illustrator @supercoolspyclub.bsky.social, JANUARY : a postcard writing game for two people, set in a kaiju-filled alternate history, about distant but persistent friendships.

Me and who

Pre-order Games That Haunt Us now! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/979876512...

This Special Issue seeks to provide a space in which academics and practitioners can share scholarship, reviews and articles centred around the complex and wide-ranging field of video games intersecting with horror. Deadline: 1 April 2026 Find out more 👉https://ow.ly/Ufx250Y9g6V

This evening I'm starting my SIXTH sold-out workshop on Writing for Video Games for the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social - I really like teaching writing for games, and get great reports back from students, so if your studio or university would like to hire me for a workshop, please reach out! ❤️

Had an interesting morning

Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Rome by @jordancollver.bsky.social and me is out Thursday!

Oh I think I'm gonna have to cite this in my thesis

experimenting with proportionally accurate longswords. this actually worked better than i thought. you can do either odd or even height, which have different pros and cons. making extensive use of the relatively new u+1fb00-u+1fbff symbols for legacy computing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols...

https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/24277 『ふっくら 福福土偶と埴輪』3月再販予定。頭くるくる 体ゆらゆら 可愛さ国宝級！？ "Plump Fukufuku Clay Figurines and Haniwa" will be re-released in March. Their heads spin and their bodies sway, making them so cute they're a national treasure! #ガチャポン #gachapon

Exciting to see more discussion of the go-along methodology in different contexts!

Coral, a private inventory commission for Claire.

Their uncle directed the hit movie Babe, but they hold the world record for its video game tie-in aftermath.site/babe-noonan-vi...

Omg it's happening

We are also running a follow-up event on 12 March, entirely online, with a more specialist approach to institutional archives - registration and CFP for lighting talks available here: www.digitalscholarship.ox.ac.uk/event/videog...

Hope to see archaeologists engage with this game! 🏺

We've had a clutch of first-person narrative games since Firewatch, but there's still nothing quite like it IMO. Edith Finch was wonderful, of course, but its anthological approach gives it a very different feel.

Both Europeans and Americans responding and contributing to developments at the Danish convention Fastaval played no small part in producing the modern "chamber larp" and "freeform larp" movements in the 2000s. What started in US SFF fandom became a true international game design dialogue.

I was very honoured to be asked to speak at University of Oxford's Digital Scholarship Centre about my work on preserving live-service games last year. I was in great company with excellent talks by excellent folk @bishbashbackup.bsky.social and @emarlow.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPEb...

This reminds me of diagrams of archaeological sword typologies

This object is a legitimate masterpiece of design

Ah, degradation mechanics for the digital, you love to see it!

New blog: Visual Silence in Livecoding How do you start a livecoding set? What's hard about it, how do other livecoding tools solve it, and why is it tricky to do in a tool not designed for livecoding? A little blog about #magpie's progress. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/m...

hey it's official! i'm gonna be speaking at GOTO in Copenhagen, later this year i'm gonna be speaking about #pastagang !!! gotocph.com/2026/speaker...

That moment when you discover earlier work you weren't aware of that validates your argument... so satisfying

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

First time I’ve seen a picture of a hard copy of “Ancient Egypt in Video Games” out in the wild!

hello and welcome to our 4th Official Astronaut Press Conference! over the next few days, i’ll be telling you all about the super dense, super eventful games we've recovered from the recently arrived black hole. itch.io/c/6922523/li... banner by @hexrae.bsky.social 🎨

blog post about a good lie i told on the internet and the even better truth that followed www.joewintergreen.com/a-funny-thin...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

forget-me-not knight ⚔️🪻 (sticker sheet in progress ;-3)