OK, let's start the search. Adrienne Shaw is on the lookout for two titles of early LGBTQ software that predate Caper in the Castro. One is called VAPOR PALACE. The other features Tom of Finland art but has no discovered name yet. The search is on - if you know more details or... have a copy? ping.

Hayfever! In the Archive

imagine if they fired every band member every time an album came out

Working at a AAA studio can come with some cool perks, but it’s not “an honor” it’s not something you “get” to do. As game devs of all stripes we have professional skill sets that we are paid for, that’s it. The studio needs us as a labor force more than we need it.

You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.

I would kill or die for Larry

The old games industry is dying. The new games industry is struggling to be born. Now is the time of absolutely batshit corporate decision-making.

I love this text post so I drew it

Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.

This especially hurts to read in a world where people are still pushing the “historians will say they’re roommates” narrative. Total erasure of very, very hard work.

It’s so scary doing portfolio reviews when you yourself have not updated your portfolio for a year. Do not look at the carrd link behind the curtain.

You know what, I would play a CRPG about finding a cat in the alps. Or at least I’d add it to my Steam wishlist and think about buying it on sale sometimes.

Oh shit, for real?

Well, I've been affected by the Bungie layoffs, and I guess I'm now looking for work. I'm a senior narrative designer on Destiny 2. I'm going to thread a little list of stuff I've done on the game; normally I go out of my way to avoid attention, but today I'd appreciate reposts.

idk how you unfuck the economics of game dev, but big studios constantly going "we just can't afford all these developers who we pay like 60% the market rate for engineering roles w/ comparable experience at comparable non-game-dev companies" doesn't reflect well on studio execs' basic competence

For Make a Shitty Comic Day: what the antagonist of @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social‘s Call of Cthulhu campaign gets up to during downtime.

Writing tip: if you think you have a really good idea, try writing it

Voice Actor demo pull/casting call 2: I'm casting a short animation, which is a pitch for a larger TV show. Xu is 52, male- born in Beijing, speaks Mandarin+ English with barely perceptible accent. Rich, confident, cheerful. Paid role. Looking for asian VAs only. Drop demos below + studio details.

Voice Actor demo pull/casting call: I'm casting a short animation, which is a pitch for a larger TV show. Yuri is 51, male, Russian accent, understated gravitas and directness. Paid role. Looking for authentic accents or VAs with Russian heritage. drop demos below (with accent) and studio details.

It’s hitting 40 degrees celsius in the UK this week but hey, at least nobody has to write their own emails.

They could run the Matrix on like, any animal. Hamsters are way more space-sufficient.

Last week was so bad I started wondering whether some sort of niche sorcerer had laid a dread curse upon the tithe maps I was working with

✨️Hey freelance artists!✨️ I get job inquiries that I can't take on sometimes and I'd like to be able to send these clients a link to a thread with artists who do commissions! Share some of your art, what work you do, and an email adress here💚 No AI! (I'm open for work too: sylthuria.com)

My neighbor told me a cat keeps eating his british prime minister so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the commons and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to a cat and then his daughter started crying.

They call it a museum because you go and mmm u see em.

Something incredibly silly

Thank you @baronaim.bsky.social for the review of You Will Die In This Place! You can read it here if you're interested: bloody-disgusting.com/books/395592...

All uses of AI are costing someone… this sucks as the Game UI database is such a valuable resource.

I just do want to say, please look at situations like this and realize your lay off has no reflection on how good you are at your job whatsoever. There is nothing you can do or could have done to ensure this doesn't happen to you except for work to change the industry.

The degree to which the games industry eats its own is insane. Imagine if winning an oscar got your production company shuttered. Imagine if winning a national book award got your future book deals canceled. This is how the video games business behaves!

Need to switch my brain on and off again to stop thinking about this but now would be a good time for someone to do a rapid economic analysis on the implications of everyone having to verify their age to watch a YouTube video or embedded clip.

From one of the many PR emails I'm getting about the government social media ban. Obviously this is from someone selling this technology. But stop to think about just how utterly dystopian this is: *constant* video surveillance of all online activity, for everyone.

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Looking pointedly at the games industry

Dexterity stat that measures how right-handed your character is

We're revealing our first ever long read insight report, dedicated to the troubling rise of LGBTQ+ censorship across the video game world. Read the summary of the paper in this week's VGIM and download your copy immediately after. videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com/p/how-lgbtq-...

What are our feelings on killing off beloved NPCs? What are our feelings on a campaign specifically designed to kill off beloved NPCs?

Okay, seminal cyberpunk text, tears in rain, etcetera. Roy Batty is the name of a beloved pub landlord from Eastenders.

Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame. Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.

I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

rpg-trader.com/products/256... I'll make a POD version of You Will Die In This Place available on RPG Trader soon using the premium colour options through Lulu. I just want to do a test print first, since YWDITP hasn't previously had a POD version, unlike my other games.

rpg-trader.com/products/257... Isolation is my standalone Antarctic survival horror scenario. Very easily ported over to Mothership or similar. It's like Blindsight meets Mountains of Madness.

rpg-trader.com/products/257... Moving some of my games over to RPG Trader to take advantage of the POD service through Lulu. I appreciate that for something like Blight Seas Fleet it also allows me to link externally to my 3d printable miniatures.

rpg-trader.com/products/257... This was surprisingly popular at Diceni, but might be a bit niche if you're not a UK person. Actually one of my favourite things that I've written, silly as it is. POD version will be available.

Which social media is the next to get a film?

This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat picture

You should befriend older queer people because sometimes they’ll casually drop that they were the first queer person to be internationally recognised for one of their many amazing achievements and then never elaborate.

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