My "Writing for Games" course at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social is returning for a SEVENTH time this month!! All previous ones have sold out, so I'm hoping we can keep that streak running 😅 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

this saturday, free entrance, let's talk some demoscene in person!

I love how Bennett Foddy played like 24 hours worth of 868-BACK over the past two days

Some news from me! I quit GameSpot to launch something new. Introducing @lookingfor.game, an independent weekly newsletter where I highlight upcoming PC games and deliver demo codes straight to your inbox. Sign up at lookingfor.game 🥳

Kamisado Pocket plays great on the beach. It's playable right on the clear blister pack it comes in, which has slots so the pieces don't slide around.

"This is a kids' game, and it's layering multiple currencies atop one another to obfuscate the cost of things, as well as using pop-ups, timer bars, and "buy" buttons to offer temporary boosts and, generally speaking, remove the game's in-built friction."

Yesterday I spent time with folks in their late 20s. We joked about how much AI sucks. Today, brunch with folks in their 40s. We joked about how much AI sucks. Later drinks with a friend in her 30s. We joked about how much AI sucks. Didn't bring it up at any point, but I'm sure my stance projects.

Financial circumstances mean I am available, possibly even a little desperate, for freelance gigs that can use my abiltiies as a writer (Cryptmaster, Valheim, Ironheart etc) and voice actor (Cryptmaster). Anyone who can pump the visibility on this will have my eternal(ish) gratitude!

Here is a little demoscene flavored browser invitation for the one day digital art festival we are organizing 11 July 2026 in Porto this year. Hope it convinces you to attend or participate remotely! psenough.github.io/impulse_invi...

"Tons of fantastic ideas for abilities, hazards, special server hazards, and at least one that made me genuinely burst out laughing, before saying "Oh NO!"" already 100% positive on steam 🔥🔥🔥

Real good bit about the slippery slope of genAI use. A battle we're already fighting, especially against the C-suite.

IT'S TODAY!

Today's the day, hackers! Clear your schedules, hoard some burritos, and GET READY!! 👾 868-BACK will be out at 1PM EST! 🌯 store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

I've been working in the games industry for 15 years. I've never seen anything like this and it doesn't look like it will improve anytime soon.

look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work

868-BACK is out TOMORROW at 1PM EST! 👾 Here's what Finji Co-founder & Director @adamatomic.bsky.social has to say about the matter. (spoiler: he's really into it)

These meeples look so joyful, fun and easy to tell apart. @leder.games has been doing such a good job on these. I'd take them over miniatures any day.

the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter

my mom told me about a video she watched where it talks about how in order to make changes in your life or whatever it can be helpful to consider not the positives of changing but the negatives of continuing. and im gonna be thinking about that all day

Really sad to hear. Gambrinous do a lot of cool and new things in the tabletop-esque videogame space.

Everyone who worked on a video game needs to be in the credits: aftermath.site/video-game-cre...

This ad is a perfect summary of AI being shoved into everything: you pay a monthly fee so a forest fire in the making can skip all the important things to give you a vague simulacrum of productivity not based in any reality, without any ability gained or skills honed for you personally.

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Bullet Heaven is a terrible genre name because it requires you to know what "bullet hell" is well enough to know what the opposite of that might be.

The Week in Politics on RTÉ had a chat with Denman Rooke ahead of the Galway West By-Election on the 22nd. Denman outlined his policies on housing, cost of living, neutrality, and the urgency of the Occupied Territories Bill. 1/2

Dragon Quest remake monster descriptions are exceptional.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

...and don't forget to come to Inércia Demoparty! A weekend of creativity, music, workshops, retro computing and a great atmosphere.

If Terraforming Mars appeals to you but you don’t want to support people with a public record of transphobia, may I suggest a much better game made by much better people Daybreak is incredible.

video games require players to buy into an ecosystem before they try “a game”, unlike a film or book — outside mobile —& that means that the perception of what the ecosystem is drives the capacity of games to grow their audiences, & most people only ever hear about AAA which is so narrow in appeal

Today, miniatures are nearly always seen as gray plastic, but scholars postulate that they were originally meant to be covered in bright, vivid paint. Using sophisticated imaging techniques, researchers can reveal how these figures were possibly intended to appear:

Masterfully done. Congratulations @eizebasa.baby !

Great video! Trying to emulate everything means the players will have to do most of the work that the computer/console would handle. Adapting a videogame to a boardgame is a fascinating design challenge. I don't usually see game designers talking about it, so I made this: youtu.be/-PmgovBdrIs

When my game group loses the social deduction game and the other players want to know who the secret traitor was.

Our first community meetup is happening NEXT WEEK! ✨ Join us for a special event as we celebrate the launch of IGDA Portugal. 📅 Date: May 15th 🕡 Time: 18:30 – 20:30 📍 Location: gaminghub Lisbon luma.com/p4y4a73s 🧵

I LOVE this quote. “There's no difference between magic and creativity. One part of magic is changing the consciousness of other people.” This is how I approach and think about play and games. Game design is magic for the mind! 🪄

IGDA Portugal is a reality! Excited for this new chapter! Follow us and join our Discord through igda.pt 🇵🇹

it's so fucked up that 'roguelike' now means you get three random upgrades at the end of a level instead of "occasionally the game will generate a gnome with a wand of death and obliterate you (in the event that you havent already died accidentally falling down a set of stairs while overencumbered)"

Can't wait!

I've uploaded a selection of the many great Moon Child and Hoi fan artworks I've seen on Bluesky to the MC and Hoi Archives. 💚 Each filename includes the Bluesky handle of the artist. The thumbnail image only shows part of the selection. 1️⃣ archive.org/download/Moo... 2️⃣ archive.org/download/Hoi...

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/

It's such a good game!

so delighted to inform you all that you are Wholly Unprepared for: - the amount of hacking schemes you're about to cook up - how many of them will snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - AND how many of them will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory get ready to get thyself into Serious Trouble

I miss websites.

I too dream of romance (long term job security)

I love this essay very much!!!!

I choose to believe this is how most 90s arcade race tracks were initially conceived #gaming #retrogaming #arcade

Yesterday I finally played Bunny Kingdom, a drafting + area control by Richard Garfield. It's fantastic! Apparently it had a different theme originally but the bunnies fit perfectly with multiplying and taking over the board.