a lovely big ole walk

If you want the full, un-redacted director’s cut, then you can find that on the homepage of my website: florencesmithnicholls.com Please share!

Knowing Rachel Simone-Weill of the forever inspiration Femicom museum was involved with this makes this seem like an absolutely blessed playful archival project

🐦‍⬛announcing Bad Magpie 🐦‍⬛ play as a magpie with one wing, a missing flock, and an unhealthy obsession with a fallen star… - steal shiny trinkets - cause chaos - stick your beak where it doesn’t belong coming day one to XBOX Game Pass and Steam in 2027 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixtw...

The top of my dogs head smells like a rock pool by the sea. It’s not the smell you’d expect, but I find it a lovely and very calming smell. I might be biased though because I love her.

I loved this so much I drew it

I have a solo exhibition at @amazefest.bsky.social shop-gallery opening next week! It will be the debut of my upcoming game for Solar Server, called Landfill. It’s only available at the gallery while the show is up. Come check it out if you’re in Berlin over the next month ☀️

I've not even got a cardigan on.

Applications close at 5pm on Friday 26 June, for our Immersive Arts Bootcamp: Real-Time Technologies. Designed for live performance, this 12-week, in-person bootcamp is fully funded and will teach participants how to use TouchDesigner and @unrealengine.bsky.social. More info: bit.ly/4wf30Mg

hello friends in my mobile telephone. i started crocheting at christmas and yesterday i completed my first BIG project... a whole entire cardigan. everyone needs to say 'wow! well done marie... what a good cardigan, how impressive' ... and then also not look tooooo closely at it.

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hello friends in my mobile telephone. i started crocheting at christmas and yesterday i completed my first BIG project... a whole entire cardigan. everyone needs to say 'wow! well done marie... what a good cardigan, how impressive' ... and then also not look tooooo closely at it.

We also have a call for zines! Zines can be on any subject related to archaeology and games, and will both be printed out for the workshop and published on a dedicated itch page. The deadline for zines is June 10th!

@hollygramazio.bsky.social Roo has a query about the legitimacy of artificial submissions. Is this allowed or is it part of a separate league?

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

im back store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

ah, it’s famicase season famicase.com/26/index.html

Pikmin vase oil paintings

morning along the riverbank

Come spin the ball again tonight!

Will yesterday’s half price sushi blessing become today’s left over half price sushi curse. We shall find out! What’s a few hours difference between a girl and her discount raw salmon. 🍣

“thhrrrpppppptttttttttt” I mutter as I slide off the desk chair and onto the floor in a puddle

Got a £10 ticket to see Kenneth Branagh do a Shakespeare Bought a huge sushi platter for 1/2 price cause it was cheaper than a sensible portion of sushi for 1 person made prolonged eye contact with a poodle in a convertible on the way home …it’s a real two thumbs up of a bank holiday Monday

I've started a new podcast called Art Dates I go to exhibitions with interesting people : ) ep1 out now artdates.co.uk

I’ve released my new game for @castle.xyz! It’s a collection of tiny games you play with one tap (or click). Every day is a different selection of games from the pool of one tap games I’ve made. Including fishing, breath holding, runaway trains, geese, and more. s.castle.xyz/xraSJk7NT9dX

just absolutely vile buffoonery. Of all the things I wonder, one is where the campaigns and legislation and campaigning and hate was for men pretending to be cleaners to get into bathrooms. but that didn’t happen because it also doesn’t fucking exist.

whether international pals want to hear it or not, tomorrow morning d officially the start of “British people complaining it’s too hot even though it’s only in the mid 20s… blah blah no air con.. blah blah Victorian brick houses… blah blah infrastructure not built for this ” - season.

Together with wonderful collaborators @profaniti.bsky.social @susepicious.bsky.social and @iamdanielgreen.itch.io (in various configurations) we're holding a couple of informal games get-togethers. UnderDeveloped in Brighton and Games Garden Party in London.

If you’ve a card, betting or bluffing game/ prototype or idea for one that you’d like to grace the Car Boot Casino floor with in future then let me know this-a-way -> forms.gle/HVi9q7irnX21...

✦ PARALLELS 2026 — THE CALL-OUT IS HERE ✦ Making a game, and wanna yap about it at Parallels 2026? Now is the time to let us know! Speaker submissions close on the 5th of June. That’s THREE WEEKS. Don't overthink it. Just apply here: forms.gle/j8NkrdqMnwoH...

back with my goblin child.

Sending out my absolute biggest pit boss love & thanks to everyone who graced the c/kasino floor at @amazefest.bsky.social yesterday. Those moments when the whole room stopped, many heart in mouth, the tinkling of the the piano as everyone awaited the results of each horse race test.

@jackiev.bsky.social i came to Berlin with one clear goal in mind.

MRS. M. MANCHESTER DOES NOT WISH TO RECEIVE MORE CASSETTES IN THE FAVOURITES FROM THE CLASSICS SERIES. THANK YOU.

out prize gathering for the casino this morning. The bounty so far includes: - a beautiful horse - moon whale jigsaw - pétanque - old man puppet - fire services - retirement home mug

🦩Attention @amazefest.bsky.social attendees! Our data suggests that the Dealer will manifest at the open screens today at 17:00! Proceed with caution.

Bad News: I tried to use my fountain pen on an aeroplane Good News: it goes with my nails.

been in a hole but happy to announce we found a new studio in there 🕳️ i feel like a very lucky boy to be sharing this new thing with @catherineunger.bsky.social & @daisyfern.bsky.social

come bring your Saturday Berlin hangovers & don’t eat some sausages with us

Behold… our beautiful line up of croupiers who will be gracing the Car Boot Casino floor this Saturday 16 May at @amazefest.bsky.social … & pls especially enjoy my bootleg Horse Race Tests character art. 🐎 🦩 🎰

HEY NYC!! The day after tomorrow, 6-10 PM, is the @nyugamecenter.bsky.social's annual SHOWCASE of new student work! Over four dozen brand new games of sundry variety (see thread!) Come party & let weird little playables warp your mind! RSVP for a free ticket: www.eventbrite.com/e/nyu-game-c...

Bootcamp is back! 💚 Immersive Arts Bootcamp: Real-time technologies has a focus on performance. Ideal for individuals or organisations with funding in place to develop a prototype, the course covers Unreal Engine & TouchDesigner. Applications open for Sept and Jan start dates 👉🏼 bit.ly/4wf30Mg

We're doing it again, only this time in German! The Car Boot Casino will be passing through Google Translate to open its doors 3:30pm Sat 16 May at @amazefest.bsky.social as the Krimskramskasino. As always we've got a hecking great line up of croupiers + maybe some piano + maybe some horses.

The Dealer is ready. They even have a new tie…

if scraping through an english lit degree taught me anything, it's that everything is about death if you squint hard enough delighted to be cohosting this writing workshop with the wonderful @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com at A MAZE next week. see you in workshop room 2

I will be here showing off a funky little card-based fighting game! It will be good and/or interesting i promise.

We're doing it again, only this time in German! The Car Boot Casino will be passing through Google Translate to open its doors 3:30pm Sat 16 May at @amazefest.bsky.social as the Krimskramskasino. As always we've got a hecking great line up of croupiers + maybe some piano + maybe some horses.

The world's first English-language Jubensha Convention is starting in two days! We have speakers from around the world presenting new talks and research, workshops for budding designers, free games to play, and more. We sold out weeks ago and could've easily doubled our attendees – incredible!

*Buns then Bowls. (*cardamon)