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We will be streaming this panel with Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Julian Cordero and Gabe Cuzzillo at 7 PM EASTERN. Deep horrible secrets of indie game development exposed! Live at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter -- see you there in 78 minutes!!

In the meantime, here's my paper on archaeological gameworld affordances and environmental storytelling: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

We’re on the search for our next Bootcamp cohort! 👀 🔦 Join us for our next 12-week bootcamp beginning in January. Learn how to use Unreal Engine to create your immersive project. The course is free and open to those living within the West Midlands. Find out more: bom.org.uk/immersive-ar...

i will be SHOWING A BUILD and trying not to ACTIVELY DIE as you play our beautiful and VERY MUCH WORK-IN-PROGRESS game RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY LITTLE FACE. come!!

I’m nipping to Shanghai for a few days next week to give the opening keynote at Chinese DiGRAs Videogames in museums conference If folks have tips for good things to be seeing, doing or eating whilst I’m there then please whisper them in my ear chinesedigra.org/cdigra-2025/...

I’m a guest speaker @playtopia.bsky.social Africa’s annual indie games and immersive arts festival 🎮💃✨ My talk “Tell me what to feel” will look at the creative process and the lunacy of humane work playtopiafestival.co.za/program-frid... #playtopia #indiegames #gamedev

Hey London - @melmcglensey.bsky.social is performing her award-winning clown show MOTORBOAT this week: Nov 12 & 13 Pleasance London Maybe the last time ever to catch the show in the UK? Tickets: www.pleasance.co.uk/event/mel-mc...

This talk is online and anyone can sign up to it!

btw I'm giving the closing talk at Playtopia next month on exactly this topic (playtopiafestival.co.za/program-satu...). Taking a big swing at this issue in terms of the evolution of my own installation games practice, happy to called out on my bullshit if I miss the mark. bsky.app/profile/doou...

A really great thread of unusual 2025 releases. It's sort of terrifying that despite talking to people and reading about games every day, and most of these games being the exact kind of thing I look for/share/discuss, I have heard of maybe four of the games in this thread. Game discovery, man.

It’s that time again! We’re at @boshis.place for the second night of the OCTOPAD OPEN where we’re trying out the HEXADECIPAD & looking for teams to compete at No Quarter on 11/22! Wanna join us? Head over to 1002 Metropolitan Ave and follow the instructions on the door! We’re playing from 7-11PM!

First night back at Morris practice after a month of travels. Proud that my brain found the capacity to relearn everything I’d forgotten these past few weeks as well as 2/3 of a new dance. Also happy to be reunited with the fancy sticks* (*bobbins)

Excited to be working w/ @tigershungry.co.uk & the NYU crew to make an intramural, bsports tournament for NO QUARTER 2025! To recruit teams @chouxsalad.bsky.social & I will show the HEXADECIPAD, a 16-player NES controller, at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social 11/6 @boshis.place 11/7 @wonderville.nyc 11/8

Strongly recommend folks Profoundly Waste their Time with the upcoming APWOT issue 6 in which I’ll be writing about some of my favourite alt game scene events, collectives & weirdos from around the world. 🗺️ 📍

As for UK pals <cough> * join.greenparty.org.uk </cough>

Watching the mayor victory speeches. The ones hitting the hardest were those before Mamdami’s. Celebrating & platforming the orgs, unions, volunteers & staff of a whole campaign & histories preceding it - so inspiring to be reminded that organising mass compassion & competence is possible

First time at the local community repair cafe to get the espresso machine fixed. Sitting near the door is like being on antiques roadshow - but instead of family heirlooms it’s a parade of the local neighbourhood walking in to present their broken hoovers, lamps and garden tools. Delightful.

proud of what was achieved with an upside down paper cup & £2’s worth of face paint.pretty this Friday.

The line up for No Quarter 2025 is finally live alongside tickets & a shiny new visual identify. This year's event will debut new playful commissions from the superlative... Jana Romanova 🟡 @nicole.pizza + @okremiok.bsky.social 🟡 @alt254.bsky.social + @chouxsalad.bsky.social 🟡 Julián Cordero

Reminder that we extended our submission deadline — you have until tomorrow to submit your game to the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC 2026! We'd love to see what you're up to!

she hates me.

👀 look at our 14th annual lineup for Nov. 22, making some new games JUST FOR YOU (if you come here) Jana Romanova @nicole.pizza (Crush House, etc) & @okremiok.bsky.social (Pikuniku, etc) @alt254.bsky.social & @chouxsalad.bsky.social (Metagaming, Triforce, etc) Julián Cordero (despelote, etc)

very honored and excited to be making a game with @okremiok.bsky.social for No Quarter this year! if you want a preview of what our game is going to be like, please look at our team photo

The line up for No Quarter 2025 is finally live alongside tickets & a shiny new visual identify. This year's event will debut new playful commissions from the superlative... Jana Romanova 🟡 @nicole.pizza + @okremiok.bsky.social 🟡 @alt254.bsky.social + @chouxsalad.bsky.social 🟡 Julián Cordero

Reunited with the goblin daughter for frosty autumn walks

Spaced s02e01 - the most perfect impression of jet lag ever rendered.

🔴 🟧 ⚪️ 🟩 🟡 Everyone who told me to visit Haw Par Villa in Singapore were very correct. However - I was not expecting how perfect its shapes and colour blocking would be based on what I’d looked up Felt very much like a Tiger Balm dynasty spiritual cousin of Portmerion. 🔴 🟨 🟦 ⚪️ 🟩

Last day of travels and gosh I am hyped to get home and blow some raspberries onto rhubarb’s tummy.

Reminder to Australian devs that @sifterhq.bsky.social does the lord's work every year by compiling every single Australian-made videogame they can find. You can submit your 2025 releases here: www.sifter.com.au/add-my-game-...

Are YOU attending SXSW Sydney? Are YOU thinking about doing a Kickstarter for your game? Then come along to my talk this afternoon! I'll be going into all my learnings, hints and tips for setting up and running a Kickstarter, and how to (mostly) not lose your mind in the process. #SXSW #SXSWSydney

Grateful to have been in Melbourne, Aus for the RapidClean Conference & their 40th anniversary celebrations. If you’ve wanted to attend but can’t afford a pass don’t worry, most folks don’t. There’s lots of fringe events & hangouts organised by the alt & indie cleaning scene that are free 🧼 🧽

this was THE talk of the night for me, absolutely looking forward to it!! check out the Kickstarter page (pressing "notify me on launch" is really helpful for the devs) www.kickstarter.com/projects/cin...

All our games are on sale on Steam right now! Flock, Hohokum, I am Dead, Loot Rascals, Wilmot's Warehouse and Wilmot Works it Out... here's a handy link to our bundle: store.steampowered.com/bundle/42256... ...and here are a couple of cute cats from I am Dead who want you to click on it:

So extremely amped that The Strong Museum acquired these Fantastic Arcade cabinets, including Grass Stains!! I made this little co-op soccer game w/ my buds Aaron Freedman, @radstronomical.bsky.social and @amosroddy.bsky.social for Fantastic Arcade back in 2018. So proud of our little cabinet ❤️

pleased to report that today, Friday October 3rd I have accomplished NOT A SINGLE DAMN THING. 🌭 🏝️

It is very annoying to have to keep pushing back against thie targeted and weaponised hatred trans folx but on we go. Please do respond to this consultation if you can x

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i have never played a video game. seems nice though. what would you recommend for a novice like me

🐘 🛻 congratulations thailand on serving up an all timer of a novelty shaped ice lolly. I’d put him up there with the banana with the peelable skin I had in Portugal years ago. >honk honk< (he and his automobile were pistachio flavour)

good evening bangkok.

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shocking discovery this week that there were still MORE fancier sticks that I’d not been introduced too. This week I met the “slings” - which are very satisfying chunky bits of colourful braided rope that you whip round your head.

💛 TRACES OF PLAY 💛 is a participatory installation that celebrates the folk, playground, and street games we used to play. Created with @chadtoprak.bsky.social, come subvert these humble everyday objects into magnificent playthings of joy! 🪨🥜🥄✏️🪢

After over 2 years cooking in Steam Early Access, Mars First Logistics 1.0 is finally here! Engineer your little rover and deliver lots of silly stuff!

Consume Me is out! Get this game, I feel confident in saying, based on the demo, and based on knowing the creators, and based on seeing it develop over the last decade, that it is a masterpiece. store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...

doubtless you have already heard, but Bennett Foddy, Gabe Cuzzillo, and Maxi Boch's new game is out today and it's really good. store.steampowered.com/app/1281040/...

omg the talk/speaker lineup for Roguelike Celebration (@roguelike.club) 2025 looks sooo good: www.roguelike.club/event2025.html So obviously one of the most vital events in videogames right now, I really hope I can make the time to attend this year.

Big events run & owned by major corporations feel so analogous to me with “privately owned public spaces” Parks & green spaces where it “looks” like everyone has a right to be present, places that “look” like they belong to a community - but no, it’s corporate property & it’ll always act that way

Okay I wrote up my trip to the WORLD TRAMDRIVER CHAMPIONSHIPS buttondown.com/holly/archiv... cannot stress enough how much this newsletter issue is just a list of things that happened at the world tramdriver championships, please use your own judgement regarding whether that is of interest to you