Our investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community. 🔗 www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...

Disgusting! Farmers now won't even need consent to pollute waterways as government undoes RMA fresh water protection rules #TooManyCows #TooMuchInfluence www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Climate policy is ≈ 95% ending fossil carbon mining and burning, biodiversity policy is ≈ 95% protecting and restoring habitat AND THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING.

Spotted in Brighton #gamedev

Hacking games and gameplay as an alternative to production/consumption @illmare.bsky.social at #gamestransformed

The right is no longer selling utopia It’s time for the left to “Fight an apocalyptic narrative with a non apocalyptic narrative” @molleindustria.org looking forward to playing Future No Thanks when it comes out!

A lovely talk by @aeiea.bsky.social covering sustainability initiatives in the game industry, and how Monument Valley taken the leap from a green activation to a full climate themed game. Also included a giant dice and a disagreeable dragon for a little consensus building game. #developbrighton

I love this embroidery UI by @shimmerglitch.bsky.social who gave a great talk about incorporating crafts into games. #developbrighton

Game devs by the seaside.. it’s @developconference.com

Can games help us adopted a post-humanist sentiment to death? @poppywilde.bsky.social says yup, they can. #DiGRA2025 #spiritfarer

Phenomenal presentation yesterday by @pippinbarr.bsky.social and Rilla Khaled on systematic methods for materialising Research through Design, going past descriptive documentation using reflective practices by regular inquiry using What/so what/now what questions. #Digra2025 #designresearch

Excellent keynote today by @aphrak.bsky.social with hardcore facts - the industry inflates its size/importance, normalises bad practices across employment, harassment, and gambling and all these things spread out way beyond games. #digra2025

@t0mm7.bsky.social domesticating play at playboy. The choice of backgammon might be a random novelty but overall play normalised via playboy into homes, with everything you can imagine being attached to it, is a significant historical context to its meaning/player communities today #digra2025

NEW from me: TikTokers have been using tools like Google’s Veo 3 to AI-generate racist videos. The videos are garnering millions of views by bringing centuries-old racist tropes to life. It’s an actual dystopian nightmare! www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/racis...

Great talk today by @professorgrace.bsky.social on creating game jam space that are playful, supportive and bring people together around shared challenges.

First day of DiGRA Malta. It was great to be part of the PhD consortium and hear about the great research everyone is working on. Also what a setting, I mean, check out this room!

Once again I am putting it out there, we (as in at least I) need forest gardening logistics games! And the Agroforestry mode/mod(?) in Farming Simulator does not count. That doesnt even brush the surface lol

Last call! #gameindustry #art

Only two more weeks to take this survey, please help us out by filling it in and spreading the word. Especially #artdirector #gameart #worldbuilding #gamedesign 🙏🏼

Quite happy with how this painting is going.

Well hey look at this! (If you're a developer/story-teller you should def take the time to complete this!) auckland.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

If direct air capture (DAC), a CO₂ removal (CDR) technique, costs $500 per tonne, removing just US emissions would cost ~$3 trillion annually (that's ~4x US military spending). It would also require twice the total power generation capacity of the US today (and it has to be 100% carbon-free).

There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk) Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.

We are designing a toolkit to support desirable and sustainable futures aesthetics in games, and we need your help! If you are a game art director, artist or otherwise involved in game visuals, aesthetics and worldbuilding, please complete this short survey. please share 🔃 #gamedev #gameart

It just doesn’t stop. We have ruined photosynthesis!

Games are great at facilitating imagination reg. climate change. How to see a future & not give in to despair? There are tons of future to save & massive amounts of worth it; we need imagination & games can be utilised, check out the #GreenGameDesign website! www.greengamedesign.com/imagine-a-so...

What I love about the #greengamedesign website is the use cases demonstrating how different games have approached sustainability. This page on Regeneration & agroecology features @kamaeru.bsky.social wetland regeneration and @balancingmonkeygames.com use of ‘The Three Sisters’ polyculture! #gamedev

A trial-monitoring committee in the Dakota Access lawsuit against Greenpeace has shared concerns of judicial bias and due-process violations www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #slapp

Finally, an intervention of my own on the #GreenGameDesign website! I love it when we can feature developers' own stories about their creations like this. This was a really simple step to get players thinking about the materiality of tech and games. www.greengamedesign.com/honest-power...

Gobsmacking! 😵‍💫The Govt REMOVED environmental provisions from the Fast Track legislation 😵‍💫Bishop requested advice “on how it can be weighted more in favour of development” 😵‍💫Project viability was removed as a threshold for entry #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/17/e...

The first green messaging I remember from a video game was freeing the imprisoned forest animals from evil industrialist Dr Robotnik in Sonic. Good to see it featured on the new #GreenGameDesign website. Tons of top insights and examples there to check out.🌍🎮 www.greengamedesign.com/oil-ocean-zo...

Another day in 45 years of Coromandel Watchdog’s fight to protect our peninsula’s water, ecosystems and people from International gold mining companies. #coromandelnomining #nz

If your in Geneva, catch the screening of High Tide Don’t Hide with an amazing panel of young activists from around the world fifdh.org/en/festival/... @fifdh.bsky.social

The people at CBECI were kind enough to send me a copy of their updated Bitcoin power consumption data At the end of 2024, Bitcoin's total consumption for 2024 *did* end up matching that of Pakistan. 2024 saw the biggest jump in power consumption ever. Absolutely wild stuff -> ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci

Just found these games from the #regenerate game jam which put organic, regenerative and indigenous farming knowledge center stage. I loved the "Garden of Ora" game for the artstyle: regenerate-game-jam.itch.io #gamejam #indiedev

Our interview with the UN for International Human Rights Day screening of High Tide Don’t Hide. #climatejustice m.youtube.com/watch?v=60wb...