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Someone turned the Garden of Earthly Delights into an FPS: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2518790/Hieronymus/

Trepang2 is an FPS about an illuminati super soldier clone who dismantles Amazon one anomalous object at a time. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1164940/Trepang2/ [1/5]

Horse Magnifier is a short game about putting lenses on pictures of horses. I recommend it if you want to spend fifteen minutes giggling while distorting horses. https://wer8888.itch.io/horse-magnifier

Ok progress - a skeleton UI (menus, dialogs, battery indicator, file browser, etc) - a desktop IDE (forked from Inky) with built in ePaper simulator to write and compile stories - improvements to the story player itself (metadata, save/resume, handling large stories up to ~5Mb) I'm calling it eenk!

Ok let's do it then. Step 1 : build a new ink editor ???

After his opera singing blobs and his cello playing bird, the amazing David Li has returned. Meet Splosh, Splish, Splat, Smudge & Scrape in his new art experiment. It's weird. It's squishy. It's soothing. It's beautiful. (also it's technically bonkers) artsandculture.google.com/experiment/s...

Hear me out: Playdate for interactive fiction. Turns out it's possible to fit @inkle.co's ink engine on the 50€ Xteink X4 e-reader of internet fame. Who's in?

Salamander County Public Television is a collection of odd minigames, strung together with a silly plot about producing content for the local TV station. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1521810/Salamander_County_Public_Television/ [1/2]

Okay, so this is massive and we're terrified. Partnering with @play.breakthrought1d.org in the fight against diabetes, the ENTIRE inkle catalogue is on Humble Bundle right now for $20 -- including TR-49, all four novels, both Overboard! games, 80 Days, all four parts of Sorcery! ... everything.

Soup Rooms is a free collection of virtual art rooms made by various indie developers with different ideas, messages and aesthetics. https://kiteline.itch.io/soup-rooms [1/3]

On art and video games: Here's a Youtube essay about how the Metal Gear Solid 3 evokes cinema history when played with a monochrome filter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzBhf6zElYU [1/2]

That sounds like the incipit of a cool game. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

BnF exhibition Cartes Imaginaires in Paris is really something - if you like sea monsters on old maps, and literary maps, don’t miss.

Remember when inkle made a musical platformer that’s also a fairytale and a deduction game?

After a 10 minute introduction, you spend the next 10-ish hours eating fish, humans, sharks and whales, growing in mass, spontaneously evolving electricity powers and being a public menace, just as Spielberg intended. https://store.steampowered.com/app/629820/Maneater/ [2/5]

How For All Mankind Season 5 scores 90% on tomatometer is a mystery to me. It starts OK, then rapidly turns into a total drag of a soap with archetypical characters making nonsensical decisions and a direction that misses beats and oozes budget cuts. It has turned into a cheap spin-off of itself.

Good compact review. I'm saving this for when I'll have 55 hours to spare 🥲

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Quadrilateral Cowboy is a game about doing cool heists in the far future of 1980. https://store.steampowered.com/app/240440/Quadrilateral_Cowboy/ [1/6]

PS: it works with proper archaeologists as well.

So I threw a second braincell at that project and found that we just need 1 or 2 Gemini calls. Not seven, Claude. Not seven. It is quite fun tho 🙂

Just found out that LEGO.com has a new minifigure configurator. It's cool but a bit tedious. I thought "they should allow uploading a photo". Then I remembered we live in the future, and I was able to basically one-shot the thing in Antigravity in under 2 hours. The app uses Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite.

Shadows over Loathing is a text-heavy turn-based RPG about solving mysteries in a Lovecraftian setting, that is actually just a vehicle for the writers to deliver lots and lots of jokes. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1939160/Shadows_Over_Loathing/ [1/5]

For this I made a little tool that posts on bsky/mastodon whenever I update a markdown file on a private GitHub repo. It's serverless, relies on GitHub Actions, and you can set it up entirely from your browser in 5 minutes github.com/t0mg/yodelog

Introducing @copyofnewfolder1.bsky.social an account posting short game recommendations, written by a friend. Mostly indie. One post every day. Check it out 🤗 Also available on Mastodon : mastodon.social/@copyofnewfo...

A couple of feature updates on How Long To Clear (t0mg.github.io/howlong) : 1) GOG support! It still relies on your Steam wishlist, but now also attempts to find the title on GOG to compares prices! Useful to spot sales. And I added a new chart in the Insights panel, of course.

@shortgame.fm thought of you. Might be useful in your line of work ? 🫡

Hey have you ever wished to be able to sort your Steam wishlist by time to beat, to help you decide what to play next? Me too, so I made this little web app with Antigravity. Check it out! t0mg.github.io/howlong/

J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer "Ctrl + Alt + Art : Peindre le jeu vidéo" 🎨 L'exposition qui explore les liens entre peinture traditionnelle et jeux vidéo 🖼️🎮 Rendez-vous au musée des Beaux Arts de Dole du 7 mai au 27 septembre 2026 ! ➡️ www.galeriegamma.com/exposition-peindre-le-jeu-video

Abby! I think you'll love this new collection curated by CC11 that I just found in my mailbox. Let's get to work. @inkle.co

I don't understand how fast this was actually achieved but I'm very glad it did. Waiting for my order to ship now! www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope/

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope launches this Wednesday! Over 100+ essays on the craft of game writing and narrative design; affordable priced. … AND we’ll also launch with the first two episodes of the podcast series, where we talk to the article writers about their craft.

My digital art frame project is complete! Kind of like 8 months or so ago, but now with the added feature of not even crashing anymore! I'll try to expand the middle part of this project video a little and share the code and project files as well 🦉

I got back to this and solved it! That 13" display draws too much current when displaying images with a lot of dithering. It needed a separate, beefier regulator. What threw me off for a while is that I was testing with random pics, and most worked. A bit more polishing and I'll share the project :)

Love is the enemy of slop. A nice, candid write-up for a cool project by @cannoneyed.bsky.social Coding agents are mostly fit for solo work right now, but they do bring so much opportunity to solo devs with the ability to summon tools and build creative pipelines. cannoneyed.com/projects/iso...

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Advantages of working from home. I pre-ordered this on Laced back in July and it arrived yesterday, just the perfect amount of delay to enjoy diving back in. Thanks for those LPs who came after. #expedition33

btw if you too are learning piano, can I remind inkle fans that this exists:

I've been saying TR-49 took 9 months to make - while this is basically true (we began after Expelled when live), turns out the first code was actually 11 months ago. It's here: gist.github.com/joningold/7c... ... and it's the basic ink for creating a text-indexed database. TR-49 grew out of this.

"Order and disorder." probably my last take at #genuary26, uses a 3D pathfinder to go from neatly ordered stacks to a random layout. #genuary2615 BTW, I'm available for freelance work (2 days a week for now). HIRE ME, I'm GOOD (& CHEAP! 😁) also ok with collabs, mentoring, Q&As, AMA...

I was lucky enough to contribute, in a small way, to a project that turned out to be my favorite inkle game to date. You are lucky enough to have not played it yet. If you are into narrative mysteries, do yourself a favor: don't read reviews, jump in as uninformed as I was. See you in 6-8 hours😉

There's a new puzzle adventure coming on January 21 from @inkle.co: "A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret." We've gotten to try TR-49 already... Let's just say you'll want to wishlist this one ASAP. #indiegames punishedbacklog.com/inkle-tr-49-...

🚨⚠️ Release Date Disclosure! ⚠️🚨 TRAILER: VIDEO EVIDENCE, see below. Please watch, assimilate and share. DESIGNATION: TR-49 GENRE: NARRATIVE DEDUCTION / AUDIO_DRAMA DATE: 21st JANUARY PLATFORMS: iOS / PC / Mac / Deck This is what we know, so far.

GLSL Web CRT Shader I’m releasing my GLSL Web CRT Shader as open source. blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/01/04/g... Have fun with it! 😎

Make a Bond film casual BlackEye

I also learnt that the ill fated Amiga CD32 was announced in that very Science Museum (and that it was "popular in Europe", for some definition of popular I suppose).