Über Pakistan+Indien glüht eine Hitzewelle der Extreme heran. Eine Prognosekarte zeigt Werte um 52 Grad. Die Grenze, an der der Körper aufgibt Ab einer sogenannten Feuchtkugeltemperatur von 35 Grad bricht die körpereigene Kühlung komplett zusammen, dann wird Hitze tödlich www.fr.de/panorama/die...

Can't stop listening to the #recroom soundtrack. Especially the lounge music. Damn. It's like moving out of a city you lived in for 10 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBUh...

So, #recroom is over. 10 years of building together in a shared world. The things people did was amazing. Sad to see this go, without alternatives. 😭

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Update aus Sachsen-Anhalt: Nach politischem Druck hat die Stadtbibliothek Magdeburg mich mit der "Gegenmacht"-Lesung am 5. Juni ausgeladen. Der Inhalt ist offenbar zu "provokativ". Auch das passiert, wenn sich eine Verwaltung der autoritären Wende nicht entgegenstellt. Wir ziehen also um:

2026-05-14 live @ A MAZE a live debut as part of A MAZE's SOSS, improvised with only a few days to prepare on a minimal setup. digitalnightmares.bandcamp.com/track/2026-0... thanks to @sosowski.bsky.social for organizing the event and letting me perform and @amazefest.bsky.social for hosting it

Our CEO Miya just gave a talk at AMAZE Berlin 2026 with Andrea Brasch from Studio IDUN about publishing intimate narratives. so proud to see this dialogue happen. 💜 #IndieGames #NarrativeGames #ArthouseGames #AMAZE2026 #YotsubaInteractive #StudioIDUN

#gamestudies #modding #VR #virtualreality #gaming Fitting to a talk I gave at the @play-festival.bsky.social in 2022 on how modding could help to improve virtual reality gaming: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZw3...

How cool is that?! When crew moves things on stage, the display floor shows the countdown and the space where things need to go: youtu.be/Tyjsg-R1O1c?...

Thanks for that insight!

😻 I really enjoyed the mixed reality world built by @jooki at #amaze : #novacene

This year’s winner of the Human Human Machine Award is🌴🏆:  Sophia Bulgakova&the team behind “OTHERWORLDS”. 🦩🌴 What makes this work unforgettable is how it takes something so ancient and leaves it not diminished, but amplified.  #playfulmedia #mbbfunded #amaze2026

Winner of the Long Feature Award 🏆:  MainSequenceStar with “Season 31” 🌴🦩 Your role is clear, make number go up. whatever the cost. Make number go up. But as you manage the twists and turns of the tracks, they suddenly untangle in front of you. #amaze2026 #mbbfunded

Congratiolations to the winner of the Explorer Award:  DaChu Interactive with “InSync” The Explorer Award it is for something harder to achieve and harder to name and this project asks you to be lost for a moment and to find your way back through contact alone. #amaze2026

Congrats to the A MAZE. 2026 WINGS Award: Name of the Will, by Zeitgeist Studio. This year's winner is so well written, that even from playing the demo, you begin questioning everything. WINGS is honored to recognize this team with this well-deserved award. #amaze2026

Congrats to the Winner of the XR-History Award🏆🌴: “Flesh Network” by the artist collective Sickness International. 🦩 "Flesh Network" is a physically experienced commentary, which invites us to not only understand the digital presence but to feel it. #amaze2026 #playfulmedia

The winner of the Most Amazing Award is: Ben Swithen with “Trans Theft Horso” 🦩🏆🌴 This game reminds us that, as right wing policies are on the rise, it is a radically political act to create queer joy. Long live gender gladness!🌈 #playfulmedia #mbbfunded #amaze2026

Packing for @amazefest.bsky.social? Bring a coat and sweater, but also sunglasses, but also maybe an umbrella. Especially nights get cold outside. Don't expect to buy anything on Thursday, all shops will be closed (except restaurants and the few emergency stores across the city).

We will present our game at the open screens at @amazefest.bsky.social festival this Saturday! Come by and try our game if you have time 🐜 #playfulmedia #amazeberlin #amaze2026 #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames amazeberlin2026.sched.com/event/2NA4u/...

Are you in Berlin this week ?? At the indie game festival @amazefest.bsky.social ??? Come join the workshop by Ines Hilz and me about Spectacles and Lens Studio! Bring your laptop it will be fun :) Program: amazeberlin2026.sched.com/event/2LO5E/... #AMaze2026 #indiedev #augmentedreality

If you're attending @amazefest.bsky.social this week, make sure to come by our table in the Village area! We'll be showing 13 (!) different projects by our members throughout the 4 festival days. 🍊 Full list of projects and detailed schedule here: saftladen.berlin/saftladen-a-... #AMaze2026

Goes without saying (but not posting) that His Julesness is going to goof around at @amazefest.bsky.social from tomorrow on. Will be exhausted by the end of the week, but it will have been worth it - just like the invention of the future perfect tense. #amazeberlin #amaze2026 #amazeberlin2026 1/2

Starting with @amazefest.bsky.social around 2008, it's extremely exciting to have the festivals 15th anniversary tomorrow with this literal trip down memory lane. There are a lot of old objects, facts and videos hidden all over the space and I can't wait for people to discover them. #AMAZE2026

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Now is the time! If you want to get visible on site and in the screens of A MAZE., send your 1min video until the end of this week:

Very excited to visit this space one final time 😭 #AMaze2020 #AMaze2026

Wenn das Bundesinnenministerium erst auf Deine Fragen antwortet, wenn es glaubt, dass Du die Show schon fertig aufgezeichnet hast. Falsch geglaubt, Ihr Taliban-Kuschler!

The Darkest Files ist das Beste Deutsche Spiel des #derDCP 26! Mit einer visuell starken Welt im „Comic-Noir“-Stil und spannenden Mechaniken eröffnet es eine Spielerfahrung, die Erinnerungskultur innovativ und glaubwürdig erlebbar macht, ohne Unterhaltungswert zu verlieren.

Die Sieger*innen des #derDCP 26 stehen fest! 🏆 Herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle Teams, die mit ihren tollen Ideen, kreativen Umsetzungen und liebevollen Details zeigen, wie stark die deutsche Games-Branche ist.

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Finally, Katrine Wind on larping fascism to understand the allure of toxic communities. People don’t join only due to hate and stupidity, but for dignity, belonging, clarity, and purpose. Wind’s Epos Daimon is a response to this, based on His Dark Materials. Being in the in-group is fun!

Oh yes please do review!

Atuel is now playable in Korean! 🙌✨ Thanks to our amazing translator, @kyleheren.bsky.social, and @iamsunpark.bsky.social's team at Out of Index, Atuel is now available in Korean on itchio, Steam, and Google Play! 🎉💪 This marks Atuel's 10th playable language! 👏🎏

Es ist schon bemerkenswert, dass Orbán nicht durch eine Revolution, sondern durch eine breite Koalition von Menschen besiegt wurde, die innerhalb des bestehenden (wenn auch nicht idealen) demokratischen Systems zusammen gearbeitet haben.

We elected you to Congress to be a check on executive power, not a spectator. You swore an oath to defend the Constitution, not to protect a man who threatens democracy, threatens war, and threatens the future. Stop hiding behind voters. Stop punting responsibility. DO YOUR JOBS.👇

Shotgun King v1.6 Bad Company Update just went live! ♟️·♟️·♟·♟️·♟️ 🃏 30 new chess cards 💥 2 new chess shotguns 🦴 1 new chess gamemode 👩‍🏫 A whole lot of chess balance changes! ♟️·♟️·♟·♟️·♟️ And all already localized! Get it now at s.team/a/1972440 🔥

flower by alienmelon: You play the very last flower on a dead Earth, traversing through ruins, collecting memories of what came before. Less “game,” more haunting interactive poem with raw existential dread. Short, devastatingly beautiful, and very emotional.🌼 alienmelon.itch.io/flower

get the macOS version of “she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died”! it was too much work for me not to make a ton of noise about it being out 😆👏

Moves of the Diamond Hand store.steampowered.com/app/2778210/...

What a nice evening for playing @ohapollogame.bsky.social’s demo on Steam 😍✨ Wishlist, play our demo & become friends with Apollo! 💛 store.steampowered.com/app/4406930/...

Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts releases on April 16! ✨ Get ready to create beautiful (or absolutely bizarre) medieval art in exactly two weeks! 🐌

I'm on the latest episode of the Global Game Jam Podcast! I was invited to talk a bit about my path in games and ended up going on about my usual subjects -- labor, co-ops, political & documentary games, Atuel, and development in Latin America. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I00x...

Do you want to show your game at the 15th edition of A MAZE. / Berlin? 🦩🌴 Good news then as registations for Open Screens are officially open! 🦩 You'll find more information in our registration form here🦩🍉:  https://cloud.a-maze.net/apps/forms/s/rLSC3zLR58nD482gm8JKd2kE #amaze2026 #altgames

Die Energiewende durchzuziehen, wäre billiger als alle paar Jahre eine Ölkrise und sicherlich billiger, als Kriege für Öl zu führen. Und außerdem würde sie Arbeitsplätze schaffen, um die es doch eigentlich ging.

Meet Antonin Fourneau 🦩  He's one of our jury members and will take part to determine the categories and their winners.  To read more about him head over here:  https://2026.amaze-berlin.de/jury/ #amaze2026 #amazeawards #mbbgefördert #arthousegames

🦩🌴Meet Farfama (He/They, JP/CA) 🦩🌴 They're one of our jury members and will take part to determine the categories and their winners!🏆  To read more about them head over here 🍉:  https://2026.amaze-berlin.de/jury/ #amaze2026 #amazeawards #mbbgefördert #arthousegames

🦩🌴Meet Julián Cordero (He/Him, EC/US) 🦩🌴 He's one of our jury members and will take part to determine the categories and their winners!🏆  To read more about him head over here 🍉:  https://2026.amaze-berlin.de/jury/ #amaze2026 #amazeawards #mbbgefördert #arthousegames

🦩🌴Meet Meghna Jayanth (She/Her, UK) 🦩🌴 She's one of our jury members and will take part to determine the categories and their winners!🏆  To read more about her head over here 🍉:  https://2026.amaze-berlin.de/jury/ #amaze2026 #amazeawards #mbbgefördert #arthousegames

Did anyone else notice, that YouTube mobile now has an integrated messenger (if you share a video, you can send it to another YT account). A chat opens. But if you close it, there is no way to find it again. Looks like they implemented it, but forgot the main menu to reach it. ^^