I've been doing monster making workshops for a while, where we play a bunch of games and imagine, draw and embody new monsters. I always wanted to exhibit the drawings in some special way, and finally got to try it as an installation called "Portal to Monster World" Pics: wzackw.com?p=2795

Howdy! Do I know anyone who will be at @playtopia.bsky.social in Cape Town next month?

I made a "portal to monster world" at an artist residency and wrote a little about it. www.patreon.com/posts/140654... (It's on my "patreon," but I'm just doing free posts there now like a blog, so feel free to follow (for free) for more posts

Monster Garden's on sale! Available for peanuts...monster peanuts. store.steampowered.com/app/719660/M...

At this point my patreon is mainly just monthly public posts about what's new in terms of stuff I'm workin on: patreon.com/posts/138429...

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

“peer reviewed doctors”

What ever happened to interactive fiction games where you type "north," "take key," etc? Most text games I've seen are more multiple choice style, but I miss trying to interact with random verbs

Go take a look, folks! Zack's creating really bold and experimental work led by emotion and intuition, and his recent dance pieces (top of the page) are so evocative and inspiring ✨

Got the new performance pics up on my website! Even having a website sounds outdated and meaningless, but for some reason I'm still updating it! wzackw.com

My last performance in Japan. it was also a dream come true of live sampled/remixed music from my favorite games! Kind of a farewell to japan that sums up my experience here as well youtu.be/VbJLrBThuTQ?...

Just a yokai/butoh performance in a squatter dorm in Kyoto with live improvised music and vocals www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDWM...

Some great recs in here including Bastard Bonds! I officially add Voidspire Tactics, but not sure if it’s on sale

Bastard Bonds: store.steampowered.com/app/486720/B... This is famous from that Sseth video and for being that "western gay eroge", but I put it right next to Caves of Lore as a wonderful example of something that captures the magic of old-school CRPGs, like a cross between X-COM and Baldur's Gate.

You can download this great independently created book with essays and thoughts on play & playfulness made by people involved with CounterPlay, which I helped a little on: counterplay.org/files/PowerO... Thanks to main editor & festival organizer @mathiaspoulsen.bsky.social

The only horoscope I recognize

Someone should test if this buymeacoffee I set up for @exhibitplay.com works 👀 (you'll also be contributing to a writer/guest curator fund). buymeacoffee.com/exhibitplayg...

I swear I have gotten so lucky with last minute lighting setup decided before the performance without time to check it. Cause the vibes are vibin!! From “Kasa Jizo & The Disembodied Head” by the Yokai Boys. This was just my little part at the end 🥹

Kinda shocked by how clunky and buggy Gimp is. Regularly glitches out on the color selection window (which is pretty crucial) and is laggy 🤨

I'll be an artist in residence at "El Hacedor de Imágenes y Palabras" this fall with other artists around the theme of monsters! I'll be building on the monster-making workshops I've been doing in the past few years. Can't wait! (Pics are from past monster-making workshops)

What does everyone use for free image-editing software instead of Photoshop?

Drew the top 40 monsters with legs to celebrate my big day

dang, now that skypes gone i dont have a stable international phone number. and tips for a replacement?

I'm working on a new clown but where I do interpretive dance based on the audience's pictures. Could go to this link and draw some pictures for me to practice with? alistair.games/ballet I'm going to practice on Twitch this Tuesday (7pm BST?)

"He is sitting, standing, and lying down at the same time"

Here it is, the Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring. You can get a print of this here - www.inprnt.com/gallery/gora... and you can support my little creative excursions here - patreon.com/gorangligovic

I hope I’m never in a situation where I gotta lower my binoculars slowly in disbelief

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

I love this kind of stuff. As a Brazilian, I didn't understand cities in GTA until I visited North America. Same for how visiting Tokyo and Osaka help you understand better how Japanese devs design spaces like Racoons City.

“Enjoy the things you enjoy in their most beautiful form, even if most people won’t appreciate or even see it.” (Doing random bluesky readings. Lemme know if it clicked for you.)

Wow, in retrospect, Plantin Time (an educational game I made in 2 weeks w/a friend in 2017) was my best game graphics work. (I think it looks pretty nice & the colors look good together.) The seedlings are also giving Monster Garden. But the funnest part for me was designing the puzzles!

Here's my official post to normalize performance art. Wish there were more "open mic nights" except "open stage nights," and that "performance art" didn't have this weird conceptual, pretentious aura! youtu.be/4b7Eof4lPmw

This is gonna sound dumb, but is there social media for music the way goodreads is for books? Like people review albums and recommend artists/songs?

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

btw do i know anyone who knows anyone in Buenos Aires?

So… What’s your favorite artist CV? Trying to update mine from the one design I’ve used for decades

Did you know that there’s a free to use mirror of KidPix, the most amazing and perfect art program to ever exist? kidpix.app You MUST play/draw with sound on— it’s vital to the creation process. (Tablet compatible!)

pack it up, graphic designers. they did it — the greatest logo ever made

"The Picture of Durian Gray" - a painting of the main character smells bad while the main character himself smells great

If youre with another person right now, try the finger game: lightly touch ur finger tips together & both people try to feel where the other is going & follow, but no one leads. Wait long enough & ur fingers will start to mysteriously move. Its so simple but captures everything I love abt games/play

I made a permalink to download my PhD dissertation: wzackw.com/yokaikaruta.... Perfect for when you're wondering about yokai card games from 200 years ago (lowkey the origins of pokemon cards), or about monsters, games & spiritual traditions in general

ready for the era of horny freak

Apply here forms.gle/dJuFRNN9pPDM...

I've been playing my first ttrpg sessions and its really making me think a lot about the role of anticipation and imagination in games, particularly digital. I think modern UX dims these qualities by leaving little room for ambiguity. more information = discourages agency to explore and think.

Why do i get the most engagement on linkedin now? 🙃

Who wants to read 100 pages about monsters, subversive play, folk spiritual traditions in japan, and (arguably) the precursor to pokemon cards from the 1800s?

I wish people who survived severe childhood trauma & recovered from it were recognized as an "underrepresented group," cuz they definitely are. Having a relatively healthy/functional childhood means u can avoid losing years/decades to crashing/recovery (so more time to "succeed")

idk how many game devs are here versus ol' X, but if you're coming to BitSummit in Kyoto, wouldn't you love to get a yokai karuta reading? Like tarot, but woodblock-printed cards from the Edo Period (1800s Japan) with yokai on them @bitsummit.bsky.social

Everything about 2016's Moonlight, especially the quiet devastation of its ending, has become more potent over time—and part of that comes from its brilliant use of Texas chopped and screwed music