EP4ADD1::"In the shadow of the ████████'s full restoration, the inner world of the █████████ roils." PLAY:: corru.observer INFO:: corru.news/e4a1

Organisers of GDC: “Festival of Games will be easy to search for. ‘fog in san francisco’ ”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOAT GIRL is my one hundredth one page game. YOU ARE A GOAT GIRL. It is always your birthday and God Himself could not stop you from doing exactly what you want. PDFs (including text-only) and design commentary here: www.patreon.com/posts/138800...

Crowdfunding soon: Princess with a Cursed Sword (bound edition) by game designer, author, and educator @cyborgurl.bsky.social. Catch up with her actual play of Thaumaturge, the edition's new RPG, at https://bit.ly/4pByJUC in Dev log. BackerKit: https://bit.ly/4mE1Ncn Art: @evlynmoreau.bsky.social

Autism does not need to be cured! It's the rest of society that needs to be more accommodating!! Neurodivergence and disabilities cause suffering only because we have so little understanding or support. Treating it as something "broken" or "wrong" only enforces that, please just help people instead.

In the latest Before the Future Came, we talk about two episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series. I bring up an old Discordian parable about how paternalism is insufficient to produce a moral culture. Later, we applaud and lament James Doohan's voice work. beforethefuture.space/podcast/s01e...

Hey, entire non-US games industry - @kyleor.land is good and trustworthy people.

I know this is an art account but I just want to let my fellow Godot devs know that I made custom skin and eye shaders and they're available for FREE on GitHub! Still work in progress, feel free to give feedback! #godot #godotengine #gamedev

Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice. Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT." IT IS ART. YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.

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Mommy and Daddy, it's a little dirty, can you wash it for me? ほんのちょこっとだけ汚れちゃったのでちぃたん☆洗ってくれませんかっ？☆

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

I think an underrated element of why hypnoporn in particular attracts such attacks and censorship is because a significant portion of the American public unironically believes hypnosis is real and can hurt you and that people are really being hypnotized into sex in real life

We're live! This game looks super cool.

In today's episode of my THAUMATURGE playthrough, I introduce the new system that powers this game: A spread of tarot cards representing the currently-mysterious spells in our protagonist's spellbook!

I am super honored to be part of this project. We contributors all got to see the new Princess Sword game, Thaumaturge, and it's probably my favorite of the bunch! If you like tarot, journaling RPGs, or revolution, definitely check this out.

Tomorrow at 3 pm EDT, @melissa.irrsinn.net will stream Stray Fawn Studio's The Wandering Village! Come chill with us as they build a village on the back of a large moving creature (😱) and chit-chat about game design. www.twitch.tv/averymd

We're thankful to Dean Spade for lifting up prison pen-palling. As more and more people, especially trans and disabled people, migrants, and BIPOC, are criminalized and incarcerated, we need to hold them down. Almost a third of our numbers are trans and many are very isolated Tinyurl.com/AMP-learn

a thing which is challenging but useful to hold, right now, is that there are many questions about how to practice resilience, make useful political art, protest, etc. and that other people who are aligned with you are also trying to find their way. it's ok that we don't have 100% the same solutions

Announcing the next contributor to the new bound edition of Princess with a Cursed Sword: Jack de Quidt! I first fell in love with Jack's work as a listener of Friends at the Table, which really shaped how I think about role-play and about actual play especially.

they fired the host of The Man Show because woke?

people who say there's no possibility of a more fair, just, and adequate world are lying. they're lazy. they may be malicious. we can fear what's behind a curtain more than we fear the worst thing we already know, but even the math tells us we should always switch to the door we haven't opened yet.

This might be the best image to convince someone to read/watch One Piece

#GodotEngine 4.5 has finally arrived! 🎉 With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone! godotengine.org/releases/4.5/

the next contributor to the Princess Sword bound edition is Jupiter! i first met jupiter while running a larp version of my game All My Exes are in Mechsuits at Canzine in canada! i love her work around queerness and intimacy in games, especially her Abstraction Adjectives tool

DoL is a game that’s really going to serve as a litmus test on the issue of “are you really anti-paypro censorship?” This is not a soft cozy game, it’s a prime example of an early target of paypro focus. Exactly the kind that needs to be vigorously defended bc it’s the first to be hit by censorship

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

So, what does a non-game conference actually look like nowadays? Turns out there is an International Broadcasting Conference in Amsterdam, and I can enter for free. First of all: It's HUGE! Look at this floormal!

as we watch bluesky have yet another full-scale moderation meltdown over whether or not you're allowed to say "rip in piss" about a dead nazi podcaster, i'd like to take a moment to remind everyone who sent us death threats over cohost's moderation that you don't know how fucking good you had it

A few miserable folk are so afraid of trans people that they're desperate for ways to convince everyone else to attack us. But we're part of society, your loved ones and family, and WE know that we are a threat only to the shackles that have imprisoned humanity for generations.

I get why people can be defensive as games are used as a scapegoat for other systemic issues. But we also have to deal with these aspects, particularly when we consider violence beyond the individual.

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures. This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Princess with a Cursed Sword (bound edition) includes a vignette by guest @sharangbiswas.bsky.social -- award-winner, designer, artist, author, and teacher with credits in RPGs, board games, interactive art, poetry, and prose. See more at https://bit.ly/4piEZAy Art & System: https://bit.ly/4mE1Ncn

So excited!!!!

So, I wrote a thing about my vase-fucking skeet and resulting thread with thanks to @romgothsam.bsky.social, @profchander.bsky.social, @philistella.bsky.social, & @gothicbodies.bsky.social for inspiration PLUS a shout out to a very old *undergraduate* essay by @joanpassey.bsky.social

this is your annual reminder to please take off your hetero-imitative frogskin and dance to a lesbian/gay spirit

"You're the bravest game developers I've known." store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/Wednesdays/

Was reminded of this interaction i had with a commission scammer 2 years ago where they were pretending they could make custom 3D models

We're live!

In a bit under three hours (3 PM Eastern), Gregory will stream Mail Time by @kelamakesgames.bsky.social ! Let's get cottagecore as they play a cute indie game and chat about game design. www.twitch.tv/gregoryavery...

the icon customization screen of windows is like a museum of the different UI trends over multiple decades

i reviewed NBA 2K26 for @endlessmode.bsky.social because someone had to while you're all playing silksong: www.endlessmode.com/article/comm...

I spent 45 minutes with silksong and these are my first impressions: is this real? Events appear to transpire beyond some sort of barrier or screen I cannot influence aside from pressing buttons on my "side" of the dividing medium, but if these bugs are really doing all that it should be on the news

Fall of Magic is an immersive ttrpg made by hand in our workshop 🍂

Canadians, this is a parliamentary petition, not a random online thing. Takes a minute to sign. An easy good deed for the day.

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

Been playing a ton of cool games and I'm worried we're all going to forget everything that happened before Silksong so I made myself a lil montage

All this week, I'll be posting lesson plans and materials from my History of RPGs class, where I ran micro versions of historically significant TTRPGs like AD&D and Apocalypse World! Every day I'll post a new game I ran in my class. Stay tuned!