Pretty sure @qgcon.bsky.social had the best speaker's dinner I've ever been to based on vibes alone

Really sad I can't go to this workshop because it's on at the same time as the panel I'm speaking in 😭

Get tickets and join the QGCon discord to participate in this and all QGCon's streamed events, talks, and performances this weekend! If you happen to be in person, then join online for our remote Friday & come on down to BAnQ for Saturday & Sunday! (You should still register though 😁) ⬇️⬇️⬇️link below

QGCon, the Queerness and Games Conference begins today! @qgcon.bsky.social www.qgcon.org So excited to be here in Montreal to share the queer delights of the world of clown 😊

My flight was super delayed and I wasn't able to get into my hotel room when I arrived in the middle of the night. I ended up waiting in a desolate corridor till morning, and weirdly enough this book about being stuck in an infinite hell got me through it

New Bathysphere newsletter has some really cool art game finds from @florencesn.bsky.social and a nice Q&A from @nikkijay.games buttondown.com/Bathysphere/...

He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.

During Neurocracy's last two seasons, we started tagging Omnipedia players who were getting close to the truth with a warning that they were infected with an in-universe disease known for being wielded as a bogus excuse for intimidation and oppression Same tactic, different excuse over on Threads 👀

New Game: Blank Page Boogie-Woogie. A game-designing game for making quick and silly games with your friends. All you need to get started is a pen, some paper and some willing co-designers. illomens.itch.io/blank-page-b...

In June 2025, the CH Ludens team welcomed Tobias Winnerling to Bern for a guest lecture. You can now also find a post on our blog about parts of his talk, in which he addresses the seemingly simple question: What does it mean for a game to be a source? ➡️

One of my favourite gaming experiences from last year!

To cap off three seasons of Neurocracy, I'd like to share "Reverie" with you 😌 It's a novelette about a long-distance couple that experiments with dream sharing technology, trapping one of them in a dying dream while the other attempts to wake them! Check it out here: playthroughline.com/reverie

Trans joy will always exist because I exist, amd I am filled with it.

PUNKCAKE Délicieux Vol. 1 Mixtape contains 22 tracks of moody, groovy chiptune bops - a curated collection from across 12 underground indie gems from the titular indie team. In hand and ready to ship - limited to just 100 copies: lostincult.co.uk/punkcake 🥞

on a scale of ★ to ★★★★★, what's a ★★ food? or ★★★★★ weather? do you and your friends even agree on what "★★★★" means? announcing STARFRIENDS, a new social card game that melds these questions into the best kind of loosely competitive experience. physical decks coming soon, follow our KS page today!

omg guess who's speaking at @roguelike.club this year???

Excited to announce that I will be speaking at Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club this year! www.roguelike.club/event2025.ht...

For those attending: I'm presenting remotely during the second block THIS FRIDAY (which starts at 2:30 Eastern). See you there! 🖤🤍💜💚 bsky.app/profile/qgco...

i did it you can stop thinking about it, i just solved The Male Loneliness Epidemic downpour.games/~doruk/solut...

This week at Endless Mode, we're exploring video game maps, and @thewillarowe.bsky.social kicks us off with a piece about 1000XResist's intentionally crummy map of the Orchard. While it may not be particularly useful for directions, it works as an extension of this setting and those who live there.

I'll be giving the talk "Roll for Reminiscence: Procedural Keepsake Games" at Roguelike Celebration! Super excited to share work I've been doing on this topic!

that's my work!!! as the cover piece for unwinnable magazine!!! 💜 this can safely be called the most personal piece of my career, and i'm so incredibly proud of it! subscribe to unwinnable - not just to read my work, but also because they're the best magazine out there 💜

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

Creatures can do three things: befriend, gather or kill. Each gives you Aura. The more you do one of these, the more Aura of that colour you have. Focus on one playstyle, or try all of them! Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3549120/... #indiedev #gamedev #ue5 #solodev #roguelite

What did you draw today, Tom? Well I drew a Snail with a gun taped to its back, obviously. (Part of the Shadows of Doubt Modifiers update! I got to make lots of weird things for this)

I'm giving a talk at @valuefnd.bsky.social's #TIPC4 💾 When Games Met the Library - What industry expertise can do for the digitization of kinetic cultural heritage. 🤍📚✂️🧭🐇🏛️📷✨ 📄 interactivepasts.com/the-interact... Tune in to watch it live on Thursday 09/10 at 10:00h! 📺 www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...

What was the role of short tales in late antiquity & early Byzantium? A new, open access book 📖 looks at how little stories say a lot brill.com/display/titl... I love that the short stories of Galen are included here & hagiographical stories alongside paradoxographical compendia (wonders & marvels).

At Dagstuhl this summer @pyrofoux.bsky.social led a crew of us in a session called "Handmade Blaseball". For various reasons (we're all trying to find the guy who did this) we all ended up designing various physical game generators. For the curious, here's mine: mguzdial.itch.io/game-generat...

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Curiouser and curiouser about Absurdia? Here’s the pitch done quick! 👁️ Collaborative, rules lite #ttrpg of absurd humor and surreal horror 👁️‍🗨️ Play as an intrepid radio host, occult bureaucrat, entropic vessel, & more 🧿 Inspired by Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, & Gravity Falls

Game professionals form coalition to 'push against the dehumanization of Palestinians'

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Palestinian Voices in Games announced - a network of more than 50 industry professionals supporting Palestinian video game creators, with 4 games currently receiving help. (Read more: Palestinian Voices in Games)

This crab is going to organize its community against digital surveillance and I am here for it.

Trailer for our new #inidegame called Penguin Colony! We are collaborating with Lenval Brown (Disco Elysium, Ultrakill) to bring this unique re-imagining to life www.youtube.com/watch?v=aylG...

Oh I'm so intrigued by this one

I really enjoyed writing about "screenshots as personal archive" for this week's Bathysphere essay - delving into my own media library to see what it says about me as a player, and speculating on the archival potential of unedited player screenshot collections

It is never a bad time to bring out my favourite illustration of Frankenstein's creature Very come hither.

Watch @alphachar.bsky.social and me live demo our playtest build on Steam in 35 minutes. I plan to talk a little bit about an essential design goal for Sparrow Warfare: how to harness escalation as a game design principle. store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

Great to see "folk mechanics" catching on as an inspiration for game development! Thanks, Sebastian Richter, for the pic taken at CEEGS 2025. Can't wait to see and play a game inspired by Hungarian folklore and cultural heritage, developed by Barnabás Springer and Pietro Noceti (UMalta).

Grand Theft Mario Kart

Announcing: NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Zeke Virant Picking Up Things in Indiana Jones & the Great Circle Thurs. Oct. 2nd 7pm - 8:30pm IRL & at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter Join us for our first Lecture Series of Fall 2025 feat. alum Zeke Virant! RSVP: zekevirantlectureseries.eventbrite.com

If your placeholder assets aren't clearly placeholders, you'll forget to replace them Back in ~1999, the art director for some dollhouse game made a temporary diamond-shaped model for their character UI. By the time he realized they hadn't replaced it, it was too late and it shipped as-is. Oops!

STARTING THIS FRIDAY! i will be playing Thaumaturge, a solo journaling game that's new to the Princess with a Cursed Sword bound edition, posting a new update every day until the crowdfunding campaign launches! follow along at w.itch.io! Art by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social

Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. -Adam Zagajewski Resharing a favorite. [trans. Clare Cavanagh, published in TheNewYorker’s Sept 2001 special issue] #everynightapoem

I posted about it before but here's a longer thread - Unfathomable is a short piece of interactive fiction made for the @lithobreakers.bsky.social World Wide Weird jam. It gave me the chance to try out @spdrcstl.bsky.social's Videotome engine for the first time: lithobreakers.itch.io/unfathomable

I think this might be the game I'm most excited for right now

The time has come to finally discuss philosophy, games, narration, detective mysteries and, of course, 'What We Owe The Dead ' with Stefano Gualeni. Join us (live) tomorrow on @d6learning.bsky.social's YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/uZQjsKK...

sketch - memento💍

This game is lovely. I would love to live in a world where Crypt was in fact the first roleplaying game. The combat system is elegant. Also: "You can only imagine a load of wargamers trying to parse how romanticism fits into a game like this. You can’t stab someone with romanticism."