There’s a Steam charity event going on right now called Games Against Living Miserably, raising money for suicide prevention. A lot of wholesome indie games are participating, many of them on sale, with a portion of proceeds going to fund a hotline and related […] [Original post on mstdn.games]

New #gamedev blog post about crafting and cooking in my game: https://bluespruceinteractive.com/blog/5-crafting-cooking-mix-match/ The idea is that almost everything needs to be growable, harvestable, reusable, and compostable, to keep up a self-renewing cycle […] [Original post on mstdn.games]

I just read The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente. It was rude, salty. Devastating. I couldn’t put it down.

I have to tell you that I'm very happy seeing such a beautiful mix of recent art at the #storySeedLibrary - works of Taylor Seamount, Exhell, our Mastodon @NIGHTEN and Yuuna Maiko. You can see so many different facets of the #solarpunk movement and […] [Original post on writing.exchange]

There's an Investigative Journalism Game Jam! Hosted by Floodlight Games and Anima Interactive (Anima recently hosted the solarpunk game jam). You have to apply by tonight in order to participate, because it seems they'll be distributing a package of investigative reports to developers and some […]

BREAKING - B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel call Israel's actions in Gaza genocide Given how important Israeli voices are in this context for obvious reasons: we now have Israel's two leading human rights NGOs in addition to many of its leading Holocaust and Genocide scholars […]

I wrote a blog post on the economy in my video game: https://bluespruceinteractive.com/blog/4-video-game-economy/ It's long. There are a lot of moving parts, and I wanted to explain my interwoven reasoning for all of it. (Don’t we all.) But I think it’s now at least coherent. It explains a lot […]

I’ve added bikes, scooters and skateboards to my solarpunk video game. You can even ride the bikes on high wires strung between the cliffs overlooking the main cave! There are root bridges and pedal-powered outdoor elevators too, trying to get around the 3D […] [Original post on mstdn.games]

So I decided to try Cyberpunk 2077 'cause it was ~$20 on summer sale and I had some nostalgic curiosity from reading Neuromancer etc in high school in the ‘90s (when people thought the future everywhere would look like neon nighttime Tokyo, and that it was still clever to use dystopias to […]

Ugh, I should never read new series-starting books right after they come out. Now I have to wait however long it takes for the author to write another very good novel so I can read the sequel. The book is Jayán F.R.’s The Wind of Venus: The Aeoliad Part I (https://www.jayanfr.com/books). I had […]

I just read @sarenaulibarri 's #solarpunk #novel Another Life. I really enjoyed it. Like the best solarpunk stories, it focuses on a close-knit, supportive community, one that is complex and subtly flawed, but deeply hopeful and inspiring. When the story begins, the community is well formed […]

New #gamedev blog post about setting my eco-socialist alien Stardew-like game in a cave on a moon: https://bluespruceinteractive.com/blog/3-why-a-cave-on-a-moon/ If it seems like everything’s sky islands these days, this is kind of the inverse of that. I thought a cave setting would make a […]

Oh wow, I just finished @susankayequinn 's Nothing is Promised series. It was good throughout, but it’s breathtaking at the end. The last book is powerful. And it made me appreciate more fully what she did with the whole series. It’s really one big, sweeping story, over four books (short novels […]

Our #storySeedLibrary has just been updated with 12 more #solarpunk panels from none other than #CommandoJugendstil ! https://storyseedlibrary.org/authors/commandojugendstil/ A wonderful series on different aspects #sustainable #city in our #climate […] [Original post on writing.exchange]

Cornell Lab Bird Cams and the Raptor Resource Project have a live web cam of five baby kestrels in a nest box in Wisconsin, and with five of them, they’ve been pooping up a storm. Yesterday one of them backed up and took perfect aim right at the camera and it is amazing […]

I wrote a blog post about my approach to game dev and the solarpunk influences behind the video game I’m developing. You can read it here: https://bluespruceinteractive.com/blog/1-solarpunk-game-dev/index.html It’s fairly broad, I needed to start somewhere. Essentially, I'm a social scientist […]

Hey this looks cool! There’s a new print and play solo tabletop game for Citizen Sleeper, called Spindlejack, where you play a space courier trying to make your deliveries. Free on itch.io: https://jump-over-the-age.itch.io/citizen-sleeper-spindlejack

It's my pleasure to announce https://storyseedlibrary.org/ - a #library of #solarpunk #art and story seeds to help you imagine a better #climate future! Huge thanks to all the artists who shared their art under various #creativecommons licenses, including @the_lemonaut , @NiwlCraft and […]