This was my first experience with Sonic, a weird Peruvian ROM created by TEG. Weird SFX and Mario in a cage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqF9...

Been thinking about idle games a lot and had this phenomenal progression in the shower

Over the last five months on my blog, I've written about the 19 different computer games to reach #1 in UK sales charts during 1984. I've made a post about the history of each one. Here is a thread with links to those posts, plus one thing I learned about each of them!

Open Call for Papers 2025🥰📢 Press Start is currently seeking full-length game studies papers from current grad students/recent grads. Submit by November 10, 2025, for a potential spot in our 2026 issue! More details below in this thread👇 #CallForPapers #GameStudies

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page! Wishlist... Future? No Thanks! 👉 futurenothanks.com

Big me - Foo Fighters Best karaoke song. Get out now.

Cooking Carapulcra today. I'll try not to eat the whole pot.

beach ratas

Violencia de Estado en el Perú 1980-2000. lapacarinadelsur.com/violencia-de...

Artes y memorias del conflicto interno peruano (1980-2000) Mathilde Salaün gup.unige.it/sites/gup.un...

Guns & Roses 2025 sounds like Cartman doing karaoke

Brian Wilson, querido genio de la melodía.

I'm contacting itch.io to recover my account. I wonder how long will it take for this guys to answer.

Weezer's blue album man!!!

That Postal movie intro...

Peruvian warlords are in control of most of the territory and all major political institutions. Congress, Army, Police, Political Parties (left and right), Churches, Municipalities, Universities, Industries, Entertainment all belong to them. This is -sadly- not an exaggeration.

Encontré un rincón interesante @apoiadoradacena.bsky.social

Hey, wake up. Sci-hub 2 just dropped, and it is now "Sci-net". Supported by the same person (Alexandra Elbakyan), it looks extremely promising.

This was pretty fun (sic)! @brockwilbur.bsky.social Also, the book edition is on point.

The Tampere-Helsinki commuter train is the real world version of PUBG's waiting lobby.

This is Peru's most famous videogame.

During the weekend I worked on a patch for this baby. I also went on a really nice hike.

man. united

vibe coding, entities, agents, and the sun.

The days.

I'm working on a remake. Hopefully this will be ready in a month or so.

The new issue of The HTML Review is here! Twelve pieces of poetry, fiction, essays, and experiments, all of which use and explore the world wide web as medium. The table of contents as always designed by my brilliant co-editor Shelby thehtml.review/04/

I'm co-editing a Special Issue for Critical Studies in Media Communication on "Games & Storage" 📦 Guided by Zoe Sofia’s articulation of “container technologies” and how systems of storage are never neutral! Let's unlid Game Studies! Full CFP in 🧵👇Abstracts due April 22! Full drafts by June!

So the CBD store in this town is quite interesting.

#GamesInFilm, a thread (continued from a previous thread on Twitter) twitter.com/VtheWanderer...

So... a policy that enables the kidnapping and forced transportation of an ethnic group is not genocide (?) Good to know, I guess.

touchy 😜 In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such... www.un.org/en/genocidep... museeholocauste.ca/en/resources...

In a near future all software will be prompt-generated. Then, the focus will turn to the real problem: the control of processing power and infrastructure.

I'll be presenting "Juden Raus! Revisited" tomorrow at the Board Game Studies Colloquium 2025. While looking for interesting pictures for the presentation I found this... producersart.com/index.php/pr...

Dear inspiration, why do you visit at 2 a.m.?

Peruvian poetry: pajaro.rayolaser.pe Jorge Eduardo Eielson's "Poesía en forma de Pájaro" is a little something I built back in 2016 (?). It started as a test for a smart blackboard... and then it became a tribute to this poem.

Ya están online todos los libros de actas de los congresos de DiGRA España @digraspain.bsky.social #DIGRAES21: t.co/5tw61pz0bV #DIGRAES23: xn--diseoynarracionvideojuegos-krc.es/digraes23/as... #DIGRAES24: drive.google.com/file/d/1LGGz...

i've been crap at promoting this but! running a little Downpour workshop in London tomorrow morning, tickets are free & still available if you wanna come along voidspacezine.com/event/intera...

Yesterday I sold my first app (a silly dashboard) to a marketing company. Client-side stuff, Backend and some funny easter eggs. Next time I will sell "licenses" or "seats". Those will also come with easter eggs.

You can also get my 'Of Cities and Games' ebook. It's got 148 pages packed with articles on civic narratives, how to imply size and scale, urban structures, horror towns, Thimbleweed Park, and much more. 📘Download the PDF here: www.d6learning.com/game-cities-...

IGDA Tampere demo night. Really cool stuff and good vibes. Couch co-op and cozy companions.

Vibe coding + No Doubt The sun is up in Tampere. It's time to return the cans and enjoy the loot!

If you're a freelancer in the UK and have a client who chronically pays late, quick reminder that you're legally entitled to apply interest for every day the invoice is late past the due date. There's a handy calculator you can use here along with an explainer on commercial debt: dontpaylate.uk

Karaoke with random Finns on a Monday night. We were supposed to have a short walk but ended up singing that Bloodhound Gang classic.

speaking my language - I'm still convinced radio is the future: "Radio is the ultimate internet circumvention tool because it is not the internet. And it can’t be tracked." #othernetworks www.radioworld.com/columns-and-...

Special Issue edited by @t0mm7.bsky.social on D&D's famous Fiend Folio, the point of origin for many classic D&D monsters (October 2021) analoggamestudies.org/special-issu...

Happy Finland please legalize pot. Thank you.

Marshall Berman and the Grateful Dead

@maryflanagan.bsky.social A great contextualization of themes from our book, Playing Oppression: "All Games Are Political" by Max Haiven! jacobin.com/2025/03/boar... #games #playingoppression #mitpress #boardgames #colonialism

It’s finally here! Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning takes a look at how board games make persuasive arguments, how they might move us emotionally, and how the ways we talk about the form might hinder its development. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4z...