The March Call Sheet is here, with professional opportunities throughout the immersive & experiential field including a producing gig with Studio Secret Cinema in London, an internship with WDI, grants, and more! www.noproscenium.com/call-sheet-m...

THIS FRIDAY! I’ll be doing a little twitch stream of my own to discuss some of my writing and general thoughts from the Winter Spirit update! Twitch.tv/sushicatz_png

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie. Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL. More info:

Yes-anding this! You can extrapolate this take to literally all media history. If you haphazardly map the conservatism of the present onto the past, you're making a lazy argument. I promise you the history of radio, cinema, and digital media is more interesting than any assumptions you'll make. 😁

Heya it’s that time of the month where insurance doesn’t cover the full cost of my prescriptions (120 out of pocket) if anyone wants to lend a hand. ko-fi.com/withkindereyes

Come join the stream we’re still goin

Might make a habit out of posting weekly about dev on [REDACTED]. This week we made some timeline decisions that I will not be committing to publicly, but basically mean I know exactly what we're delivering when we deliver it. I think the team is really excited to make it real. Ahh.

Tomorrow

Busy day on [REDACTED] project, but I basically know 33% of what we're delivering... eventually. So thats exciting. The worst thing about new work is not being able to spill your guts to everyone you know. I've always been the type who tells people about the D&D session ahead of time impulsively.

Just published the February update for backers of the Center for Immersive Arts Patreon! 🔍 It's been a busy and productive month. A lot of the work I've been doing has been behind the scenes so far, but I'm slowly but surely moving towards some big, exciting goals www.patreon.com/posts/februa...

Tell me folks, how many belts should we put on the characters? I'm thinking more belts.

Been AWOL for a minute because I got the flu and now my body can't decide if it's hot, cold, very awake, or very tired. But hey- did finally move my shit to Qobuz and Tidal. Gonna try both for a few weeks and see what I like more. Then get off of discord.

The Slasher is here Winter Update now live

For those just catching up, the ROMchip fundraiser is this Saturday!! Keep game history free and open! Check out our schedule here: donate.romchip.org/our-donors.h... and read the journal here: romchip.org

Artist friends, if I wanted to commission very little sketches of characters in an ongoing way, how much might that kind of thing cost? They’re basically black and white blobs. The art would be something like evocative little shapes (characters + one color), used for a monthly blog post

Today is the 15th anniversary of the original Within Hubris forum. Because Discord is actively killing itself, we decided to resurrect our original home.

Sorry, what I meant to say was: 𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍 𝐓𝐎 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐔𝐌 withinhubris.com/forum/index.... WE'RE SO BACK.

Really one of the best parts about working on [REDACTED] project, is the amount of stupid inside jokes that can be turned into visual nonsense by @ffruitsy.bsky.social . By the end of this we could make a whole sticker sheet full of dumb fucking faces 🤭.

Hey folks- some unsolicited advice you're free to ignore: Don't do a PhD unless you're really quite settled in yourself.

See you soon #pendogcreativelibrary

Today my newest @mitpress.bsky.social, THE UNSEEN INTERNET, is officially out in the world. Here’s the argument: At the dawn of cyberculture a lot of people on online were intentionally doing magic. And now it feels like we’re all kind of doing magic.

Started writing poetry again. I keep feeling the call to write blog-posts... maybe I'll do some game analysis or something. Start with conventional games and get back into ARG coverage. I don't know. It's good that the joy is coming back. It's good that I can admit it was destroyed.

i should say, my marble hornets inspired solo game (that comes with a bonus game where you play as the fucked up guy) is also in here. but that's just a fun additional treat marns.itch.io/fucked-up-guy

Discord isn't walking back anything yet, but this shows they are feeling the pressure and you should keep bullying and contacting them until they relent.

The Pendog website is now locked for maintenance as the Winter Spirit approaches. See you all on the 19th of February…

Little convo from last week: Me: "Hey when you do headshots for [REDACTED] character from [SECRET PROJECT] make him scrungly." Beck: "yeah okay, can do." Me: "I might wanna dog-boy him up later" Beck: "say less." (@ffruitsy.bsky.social)

hi this request especially counts if you have documentation on an ARG that CONCLUDED or was LEFT UNFINISHED prior to the year 2009! i joined the scene in 2008-2009 so anything prior is a big blind spot for me!

We haven't done this in a bit, so: Do YOU have a FINISHED or INDEFINITELY HIATUSED Alternate Reality Game you want us to cover? Reply to this post or DM us with its documentation - walkthrough, guide, Reddit summary, whatever you've got!

The world wasn't ready for my niche inside jokes about sitting in the coffee shop that the local University uses as a watering hole. One day- one beautiful day- they will be.

So many productions use this fucking software. You've got a month now to recreate your entire fucking pipeline in another program, and all your previous work is useless, bye Fucking insane. To do this so fast with no warning has to be criminal

I keep seeing the “reminder don’t use Adobe here are the alternatives” image going around and folks, the problem is not just that Adobe sucks, the problem is they’re blocking legal access to decades of art files utilized by individuals and entire teams

Excited to say that I've started working on a thing. I can't say anything about the thing. But I can say I've started working on it. Isn't that neat? I'm doing a thing. Wow. How human.

ok question for ARG oldheads - is there a timeline out there that combines both the plot events and the puzzle-solving bits of perplex city? the old wiki is still up but its detailed timeline is entirely plot, with no "here's how we found [thing]"

Take some time tomorrow during the strike to read up on what you can do as an activist. Connect with others in your immediate community. Work out. Brush your teeth. Learn more names than the most recent ones. Donate to those less fortunate if you're able to swing it.

'We are shutting it down:' Ubisoft unions call for international strike

Hmmmm... could this be a new project? Who's to say!

No one can escape politics in art; even if you attempt an apolitical narrative, you are speaking to a politics—of passivity. As little as one might try to make a piece “say”, they are saying endless things about not only themselves, but their relationship to the system. Embrace it. Show your hand.

All art is expressly political. If you are avoiding politics in your art practice right now, you're quietly assisting fascism. Fascism wishes to reduce art to something tepid, neutered, representative of an apolitical revision of reality/history. What we make should make their eyes bleed.

Another year in the Slenderverse: 14 years ago today, I started “StanFrederickBTS” and have been beating this beautiful skinny faceless horse ever since. Thanks for indulging me on all of my low-budget stories and endless analyses over the years. Happy to report that, I don’t think I’m done yet. 💛

in december 2024, i co-hosted a stream in which everyone pitched a movie set in the sony spiderman cinematic universe. we could only use spiderman characters sony still had the legal rights to, and venom had to appear. the vod was lost. my pitch deck remains. without further ado, i present...

Working on a pitch for... An old thing. A thing you've seen before. A thing someone probably wants more of maybe? A thing they're gonna get more of for sure. Sometimes you just need an excuse to ask people what kind of soup they are and I think that's part of what makes us human.

did u guys know that Matpat’s staff are trying to unionize

i hope the folks who have started editing the gamedetectives wiki again know that i could kiss them - marn

You solved my secret challenge, enjoy your item with description "does nothing?".

👋 milwaukee thanks for the best start to a year i have had in a long time. 💕

Skimmed it yesterday. Beautiful artwork. Really really deep worldbuilding. Very gay, very unabashedly campy. Plus I am come on, Kill Six Billion Demons is just a great fucking title. Anyway- totally worth your time and I will be going back reading it much closer.

For no apparent reason I'm in the market for webcomic recommendations so, send them my way.

We spent so much time on Area 51. Light-gun games my beloved.