Love a good, weird indie game 📞 listening to chat from the end of the world with @chrisdeebrown.bsky.social @glasgowindiegamesfest.org

At Glasgow Indie Games Fest today! @glasgowindiegamesfest.org

My wife and I are wired very differently. Twice this week she has forgotten about pastries/chocolate in the fridge whereas the status of every single piece of confectionary in our house constantly flashes in my field of vision like an ammo counter in a first person shooter.

Heading along to the @glasgowindiegamesfest.org tomorrow ✨ should be great, I thoroughly enjoyed what I saw last year! glasgowindiegamesfest.org

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Me: I enjoy my garden, I like sharing the space with nature Beetle So Large I Can See It From Several Metres Away: hi Me: ... nature must go

Being in Tokyo during the first fortnight of Pokémon Go launching was an extremely cool experience, but also permanently made my standards too high to play it in the UK

A little seelie sidhe told me that this is an anthology to keep the old eyes on... (✿◡‿◡)

I swear this is an iced coffee and not an 11am Guinness 😶‍🌫️

Whether you love TTRPGs, the surreal fourth-wall blurring of the likes of Italo Calvino, or Alan Wake, our Meghan Ellis has the game for you. Check out her new review of Death of the Author, a game where imagination has consequences. @meghan0n.bsky.social tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/tablet...

I am in my favourite old man pub for a pint before dinner and the conversations are mysterious and manifold

Among the layoffs was character artist Christiane Meister — a 27-year veteran of Bethesda and (as far as I can tell) one of the longest tenured women in games, period. She worked on Argonians + Khajiit in TES3, horses in TES4 and TES5, Fallout creatures, and more. (cont'd)

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

If you're going to do higher education wrong you should do it wrong the old fashioned way: missing Friday classes to go to Friday Night Magic and playing Rez instead of writing your dissertation

Feels like every day at the moment I get an email saying "oh, a band you really like is playing in Glasgow in [same two week period]" Might end up having a solid fortnight of gigs at this rate 😪 today's is Pye Corner Audio who make sick dystopian tunes pyecorneraudio.bandcamp.com/album/more-s...

#Glasgow One week today, join our Neil Williamson and Rhiannon Grist for Chilling Tales! Expect spine-chilling chat on Neil's new collection, Hand-Me-Downs, plus Rhiannon's new novel Home Sick. Ticket link below: @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social

Went to Glasgow Cathedral to listen to medieval chanting for the site's 890th anniversary 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Back when I was in uni, as a scholarship student they used to make me do all sorts of weird promotional activities, including LARPing being a good student who goes to the library all the time 😆

Reading your own writing after you've shelved it for a year (and thus improved with subsequent practice) has to be a well-trodden circle of hell, right?

microsoft's plan, Lay Off Everybody Who Makes Games & Then Find 1 Billion People Per Day To Play The Games They Aren't Making... it's bold. i will give them that

Bit of homemade bruschetta for lunch, yum yum 🥖🍅🧄

Quite often my kanji practice will have me revising things like - 駅 (train station) and 思想 (ideology) at the same time. It's fascinating because it's based on number / order of strokes, but I can't say these have the same conceptual usefulness 😆

do it. do it. it has to be you

Happens in journalism too. I've had incredible editors tease out new thoughts I hadn't been able to fully articulate on page, and on the other hand I once had an editor leave over 250 comments on a 1,000 article. I remember my response - somewhat corpofied - was "it's not that deep"

Okay, this is some of the best animation I've ever seen. Not only is it extremely sick, but look at the details - the clouds disappearing because the moisture has been stolen, the consistency of where everyone's limbs are in the air, the marriage of music and movement... Witch Hat Atelier ily ♥️

Your girl Meg is a pitching menace this cloudy Friday... cold pitches are my nemesis but I persist 😇

Some fabulous nominees here, and plenty more to add to my want-to-play pile. I adore the addition of the solo category!

Improve a TV show with lions: Monty Python's Flying Lions 🦁

I've chickened out

#BIPOC members of the BFS can now join the First Ten Pages programme for feedback from industry professionals! Mentors include our own PS Livingstone and Robin C.M. Duncan, and alumnae Eliza Chan and Shona Kinsella. Check out the link below for more details:

My gran called me the gaming queen today, so I'm going to get a papier-mâché crown made posthaste

I started watching Witch Hat Atelier yesterday and I can only describe it as an Ursula K. Le Guin anime in the purest sense

Death of the Author is also the latest entry in Read & Reviewed, our blog dedicated to TTRPG & Solo Game reviews. Review by @meghan0n.bsky.social ✍️ tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/tablet...

I'm playing through Pokémon LeafGreen for the first time, and I wasn't aware that Bill kidnaps (?!) you after the 7th Gym, spiriting you away to a weird archipelago of islands in the Poké-pacific??? I'm in danger, someone call Officer Jenny 🚨

My first strawberry harvest of the season! 🍓♥️

One of my neighbours is cooking burgers outside circa 10am... I want a burger. Technically it's just an advanced morning roll, right?

The starting gun has fired. Embers of Humanity Print Edition. Launched during an apocalyptic-feeling heat wave. You couldn't ask for more perfect conditions. Back the print edition while it's hot! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mem... #rpg #ttrpg #kickstarter @kickstarter.com

Spent the entire day feverishly writing something to make a deadline and I've used all five of my remaining brain cells for it.

I want to write about anime again 😩🙏🏻

GOATdot 😌

Just watched the first episode of The Cat and the Dragon, and I just love its found-family fantasy message. All the little cats call him Uncle 😭🐲😻 Plus we got Koyasu Takehito making cat noises, which is incredible 😌

New review over on @tabletopbookshelf.com 📚 This time, I looked at narrative agency, playing as a creator-god, and confronting my writing process after the final page. I thoroughly enjoyed Death of the Author, and recommend it to anyone who makes stories! ✒ tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/tablet...

Another game of Old King's Crown played... I'm always completely blown away by just how gorgeous *everything* about this game is. Amazing art + crunchy mechanics... can't beat it 🙏🏻

Might fuck around and buy everything on my Steam wishlist

RIP to one of the absolute greats 💔

The goat moving to the goat 😌

Zeldawiki tries to have mainpics be from the latest game so Link is currently represented by the sleeping child from the dimly-lit Ocarina of Time remake trailer looking like he's Yamcha crashed onto the webpage