Monster Garden's been stuck at 5 dollars away from a payout for months *hint hint* store.steampowered.com/app/719660/M...

the fuck it will

This was SO MUCH FUN ✨😁✨

How does a card reading in a video game compare to the real deal? Zack Wood examines The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, finding the game successfully invokes "sense of wonder and imagination that makes divination fun". www.eteogames.com/card-creatio...

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

last chance to get Monster Garden on the RPG Maker sale! store.steampowered.com/app/719660/M...

I just released a side project I've been working for the last weeks! 🪐🧵🎶 Solar System String Sequencer, a playful music instrument made to explore the musicality of our solar system through the sonification of its planets and their orbits. You can play it right now on itch at fonserbc.itch.io/ssss

Any fans of Lovecraft/Cthulhu Mythos stories? Need recommendations of some with striking visuals for illustrations (I also remember reading a few I can't find now...)

Did I mention Monster Garden's on sale for the RPG Maker Sale? "Very Positive" RPG Maker game alert! store.steampowered.com/app/719660/M...

Had an amazing time as a ballerina at Lost Cabaret in Bristol 😁 I get the audience to draw pictures on their phones and come up with a dance inspired by each one. Not pictured: me rolling on the floor pretending to be an orange 🍊

My game curation project @exhibitplay.com received its first supporter! This will go towards a fund for commissioning written pieces and original micro games based on one of the current lists. A call for pitches will happen soon. If you have the means, you can support the project on buymeacoffee.

It's time for our monthly roundup! Here we recap our articles on the seasons, with pieces on Harvest Moon, Persona 4 and Animal Crossing. There's also recommended reading on the seasons theme, and a selection of our favourite community comments from this month. ❄️ www.eteogames.com/the-monthly-...

Tickets still available for my upcoming show! www.ticketsource.co.uk/alistair-ait... If you have friends in London who'd enjoy a bit of clown anarchy please share with them 😊🧡

All of our articles on seasons are now live. Have you read them all yet? There's still time to catch up! 🍂 👉 vist.ly/4nnyq

This year's award trophies are tarot cards made by past awardees and luminaries. I had the great honour of creating the trophy for the Performance Award for the incredible Ferryman Collective @ferrymanvr.bsky.social and their latest groundbreaking VR performance 🧡

Check out this wonderful collection of game poems! I helped out as one of many first readers, reviewing a lot of submissions. So many incredibly projects that explored the poetic potential of games really well. The final selection has a wide range of thought provoking, and visually unique games.

LONDON! The most romantic immersive show starring a talking dummy and a clown is coming to you on FRIDAY 6 FEBRUARY Tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell your lovers! 💖 Play Cupid using your phone, and wreak havoc as my guests in the café of lonely hearts 🥰 Tickets: alistair.games/tickets

Though sad and uncomfortable, winter - and death - are often necessary to prevent game worlds from feeling stagnant. In our first article on Seasons, @hollynielsen.bsky.social explores how winter provides vital friction in the Harvest Moon series: vist.ly/4kb34

Cookoo year in summary. (no paywall, just bloggin) www.patreon.com/posts/2025-w...

My GOTY is the fan hack of Chrono Trigger. The translation is noticeably much better, they balanced the tech system, and I think added new story content (haven't finished yet). Now I wanna play balanced/boosted mods of all the classics!

My GOTY this year is Magic Garden :) I pick a GOTY based on what I've discovered this year, not what came out this year, and UFO 50 has been an absolute gem. Still only tried about a third of the games!

Shared some end of the year reflections. Check it out!

My game is 99 US cents (80% off) store.steampowered.com/app/719660/M...

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?)