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New video! Last month I was invited to Spain's Guadalindie game convention to do a talk of my choice. I ended up giving an angry polemic about how the culture of games is failing designers left and right, because there is no games industry. There's just "play" www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Xm...

This is a great watch. Stop thinking about games. Start thinking about play. 🧵

New blog: nozomiokumura.bearblog.dev/thursday-up/ Quinns, Quinns Quest, and the PMG team are genuinely one of the most important voices in games/play at the moment. If you are anywhere near design or the games industry, you probably don't me to tell you to check them out.

New blog: nozomiokumura.bearblog.dev/wednesday-prep/

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a story in 4 parts don't let these fucking losers bully you if you can help it. THEY need US.

New blog: nozomiokumura.bearblog.dev/sunday-gunk/

My commissions are always open - fics, lore, scripts, you name it, I've done it! If you need something writing, check out my #VGenComms page: vgen.co/nozomiokumura

New blog: nozomiokumura.bearblog.dev/saturday-sca... I miss Bit Socket. I hope they're doing well.

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I asked for variations for each of the services I run on VGen for my commissions (which are open, wink wink nudge nudge car crash sound effect), and for my spicy comms @ahlatoad.bsky.social came up with this. I love art.

New blog: I'm alive - again again again nozomiokumura.bearblog.dev/sunday-heatw...

It's that time of year where I have #VGen invite codes available! If you're a moot and you (or someone you trust) wants access to VGen, drop me a line!

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These have been on my VGen for a little while, but @ahlatoad.bsky.social has done some phenomenal work helping me work through some new ideas and a new setting for Nozomi. They're not going anywhere, but they will be different. Thank you so much, @ahlatoad.bsky.social 💙 #errata_rel

These have been on my VGen for a little while, but @ahlatoad.bsky.social has done some phenomenal work helping me work through some new ideas and a new setting for Nozomi. They're not going anywhere, but they will be different. Thank you so much, @ahlatoad.bsky.social 💙 #errata_rel

New blog: nozomiokumura.bearblog.dev/friday-done/ I'm alive!

It's a good manifesto. Plenty of thoughts on my end, but that's not the point of me reposting this: read it, agree with it, disagree with it - but read it and form your opinion.

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It's that time of year where I have #VGen invite codes available! If you're a moot and you (or someone you trust) wants access to VGen, drop me a line!

New blog: nozomiokumura.bearblog.dev/sunday-behin...

There's something incredible about an academic paper using the Turing-completeness of goats in Age of Empire 2 to prove that attributing humanity to LLM's requires attributing equal humanity to hordes of Age of Empires 2 goats walking around. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514

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Just did a new free post on the QQ Patreon. It's a roundup of the best English language jubensha that are worth your time and money. Go read! Go buy!! Show these brilliant young designers some love!!! www.patreon.com/posts/160118...

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Yesterday, I attended a Brian Eno talk about the nature of creativity and art based on *What Art Does*, the short book he published with Bette Adriaanse last year: www.faber.co.uk/product/9780... 1/

New (late) blog: nozomiokumura.bearblog.dev/monday-oof/

This is an excellent nudge to move off a platform and start considering moving towards the indie web. An excellent video from OnionBoots about this if you're curious! youtu.be/tkUgOT22F5s

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

New blog: Bring on June! nozomiokumura.bearblog.dev/sunday-31052...

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