A roleplaying game where you have to close every one of your 200 open browser tabs one by one, gradually giving up parts of yourself until you are reborn as an egg.

tis the season

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

Indie devs: There is nothing stopping you from hopping onto SoundCloud (or any music platform), finding a song by a creator you like, and messaging/emailing them to ask if you can pay them to use their music. It's frankly an amazing way to source music that hits for your game!

I need to read some metaphysically mysterious literature or philosophy to dig out my voice for a writing project. (I am trapped somewhere between "conditional statements", "academic charts" and "sloppy diarist" right now. Please recommend your favourites, my favourites aren't surprising me properly

AIM FOR THE STARS: FUNLAND NO. 5 HAS LANDED @oniongames.bsky.social's YOSHIRO KIMURA on life on Earth. @lukewasthefish.bsky.social on life on alien worlds (or at least SLC). @kaittremblay.bsky.social on death in the cosmos. Cover by @alexanderlaird.bsky.social funland.itch.io/funland-zine...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

I have worked with @allworms.bsky.social and can confirm that they are very good at teaching

I am working hard to make the playmaps etc available outside of my local neighbourhood! If you are looking for my comics, The Beguiling ships internationally: beguilingbooks.com and if you want my games, 401 Games and Sword and Board have your back: store.401games.ca www.theswordandboardtoronto.com

(R-L T-B:) Kentucky Route Zero, the Dream Machine, Indika. I don't know the last one but I want to play it. I got a stack of Polish theatre posters I want to turn into games someday, stand by

If you're able to pleas help my friend and his dad

Today’s the day!!! Pop by the Cecil Centre to grab a Plastiboo print, the latest Film Fvckers and all kinds of Zine Dump goodies!

I went to zine dump and I spent more than I could afford on magical objects, which having seen, I could no longer live without

Renters Market will be showcased in TWO locations in downtown Toronto during Superfest Nov 1-7!

still thinking about this article today. so many societal ills are caused by people white-washing what actually happens. it's awful to see games do it too. can't wait for cozy domestic violence simulator or cozy kkk simulator

Notes from a story

Sometimes I look at what happens in physics and I’m glad I’m in math. I like my math just totally disconnected from reality. Reality is the pits

“I used to dream about attending viewings of rotting houses with impossible geometry." @gblekkenhorst.bsky.social recalls the apartment hunting nightmares and even darker rituals behind RENTER'S MARKET. Read more: funland.itch.io/funland-zine-no-2 Subscribe: patreon.com/funlandmag

I have designed a new Pomodoro technique Work on a porch in the sunshine with no electrical outlet. Everytime it runs out of battery, get up and stretch, return it to its charger, and grab the other laptop

Non-mimetic content is not too saucy for children

Made a bot in honour of the 24/7 Twilight livestream this week m.youtube.com/watch?v=f7-x...

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oysters 🦪

Due to popular demand, we are setting up a heavily discounted fulfillment service for artists outside the US that are scrambling after the recent tariff / customs policy put in place for shipments to the USA.

This Sat Sept 6 at 7pm, join comics creators @jefflemire171.bsky.social (Jeff Lemire: Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder) & @funeralbeat.bsky.social (Jenn Woodall: Magical Beatdown, Space Trash) for a @prairiecomicsfest.bsky.social 2025 presented event! - mailchi.mp/grant/pcf-2025

Another concept I created for Peculiar Path's solarpunk project, this one exploring the interior of a potentially transformed cruise ship. At this point we wanted a wonky, DIY, scrappy feel to everything, but still with an aura of hope and excitement and possibility.

"A literary text is a machine for producing possible worlds"

Post a mem made by you

Excited to announce our Steam page is live and features our all-new official reveal trailer! ✨ Wishlist now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2828540/...

Ok - what if you made a game in stages. RPG, avatar creation but nothing too zany, matched up with 15 people. Stage 1 you're given a collaborative project to complete, some tasks require 2-3 people to accomplish. Sort of Among Us, but challenging enough to distract you from knowing Stage 2 is coming

Pontypool is a Perfect Film

For previews: @stvulture.bsky.social gives the alchemy & elements behind ALL LIVING THINGS. @lexa.bsky.social hollers on SCREAMING HEAD. @gblekkenhorst.bsky.social trades apartment hunting horrors in RENTER'S MARKET. Open the door to SOUP ROOMS with @kiteline.bsky.social & @akumakira.bsky.social.

Don't know where my narrative will land yet, so I'm casting the dumbest, widest net For sure: - archives - narratology and possible worlds - interface games ?: - northern Ontario history - history of human expression, prehistory to contemporary 🙄 - organic, astrophysical and geologic anomalies

listen, scott stapp says he's six feet from the edge and he thinks that six feet isn't that far down. but like, he's six feet from the EDGE. so he's like, unable to see what is down there. further, scott stapp isnt even six feet tall. he doesn't know how far that really is

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Is this game design if it has goals (help these nervous creatures off the floor) and rules (physics)

You know when you code so much before you sleep, you wake up with the absolutely clarity of a perfectly formed bug fix list? Then you need to pee and forget the whole thing, never knowing if the bugs were based on the rules of this reality or another

Atrus is a total bean dad, shocking his kids grow up to be sociopaths

Hey folks! I'm starting the hunt for September work now - happy to join you as an illustrator, do some vis dev for your next big project, or step into a bigger art direction role! Shares very appreciated. Check out my portfolio here to see if I'm a good fit: www.portablecity.net/shel-kahns-p...

There’s no chill way to say this so uh— I’m Aidan. I’m the voice of the main character in Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival. Wishlist the game, and believe me when I say: They have such sights to show you.

embarrassing myself

I guess I can now announce that I got a SSHRC insight development grant to make a dating sim in hypercard ampd.yorku.ca/ampd-researc...

bro they're playing your leitmotif pizzicato. there's a slow clarinet lurking beneath it. you better not be about to betray me right now i swear to god bro

It is non-binary day! I do not identify as non-binary, I identify as A Person, but non-binary (or agender) is the closest I can get to that on forms. It's my form-form.

thesis

We had to bring in a scene from a musical in for music class, and some older girls convinced me to go with "Acid Queen" from Tommy. My teacher lectured me after, which confused me because I had been watching it on repeat since early childhood and at 14 didn't see anything weird about it.

Ok I don't know if this is a generative storytelling game or just the beginning of one of those insane conspiracy boards

Yesterday @kurtrefling.bsky.social informed me Lies You'll Enjoy streamed one of my tiny games! Which reminded me I know how to make games that are not a giant unwieldy psychological treatise on the nature of reality. So I wrote a tiny solo paper game to help me make the big one!

It's been suggested that my game about a rat looking for a home is what motivated the city to do something about it www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...