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Wishing you a happy new year, full of good health, happiness, and adventure! Our first project, All Will Rise, will be launching on Kickstarter in early 2026. Please consider supporting! Link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe... #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev

Tempo Sync Reverser by Niall Moody is a free VST Plugin for Windows, macOS "Reverses the sound for a set amount of time" https://www.niallmoody.com/ndcplugs/tsreverser.htm

Important Takeaways: - @pftompkins.bsky.social is nice - a berk is a muppet (a type of prat) - listen to What’s All This Then wherever you get your podcasts for more insights like this

🍃 Are you a interested in a PhD in NetZero Futures? The NetZero Futures Doctoral Landscape are offering fully funded EPSRC studentships for Royal College of Art PhD students starting in September 2026 and September 2027. How to apply ➡️ www.rca.ac.uk/study/apply-...

Bumper-load of new zines have been listed on the distro for ya. Starting with: Cervical Screening for Trans+ Autistic People: a tool for self advocacy penfightdistro.com/shop/cervica...

CFP for a special issue of Eludamos. What are antifascist games? Proposal deadline is December 19. eludamos.org/index.php/el...

Saw a post today that advised writers to stop writing as if a human will read it and start writing for an LLM that will be summarising. As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.

On today's #TransDayOfRemembrance I'm reminded of this scene from Celeste (a game which draws heavily on trans themes). I was brought to tears when I first played it. So many names every year, it hits hard.

Deadline for Expressions of Interest for the funded Doctoral Landscape Awards is Monday 17 November at noon. EoIs aren't mandatory, but are encouraged if you're thinking about applying. #PhDfunding #research

PSA - reminder that #DiGRA2026 submissions due THREE WEEKS TODAY (deadline for full papers and abstracts Monday 1 December). Obligatory "how is so soon??" "what I am going to submit??" panic may now commence. www.digraconference2026.com

If you want to do research that is ethically committed and makes labor movements stronger, this is a collection of reflections from those who have been there and done that.

My amazing friend @hazelxd.bsky.social just won an Honorable Mention at this years Golden Cobra Challenge with their game Paranormal Parasocial www.goldencobra.org/submissions2... Check it out! #games #indie #awards #GoldenCobra2025

Decolonisers of Catan (with dice that only roll 7s) #boardgames #catan

Hello there! For my first post on this here social network, here's a new thing I've been working on, a live sampler where you scrub through the sound by pulling a string. It has a filter!

"Dead Wife Detective Simulator" (Mercy (2026)) - Episode 596 @theweeklyplanet.bsky.social #weeklyplanetpod

I zine-ified Screw That: A Resource Scarcity game this morning. oliverbates.itch.io/screw-that It's a (very) small frustrating game/LARP sort of thing about a future where your plumbing stops working for some reason. #zines #games #indie

Gabby Bates (my sister) released her song For Jack this week. Check it out on your streaming or digital music platform of choice! distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help. This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

GAME IDEA SPEC OPS: THE LINE AS A COSY GAME

GAME IDEA YOU HAVE TO LOCATE, PICK UP, AND CARRY ALL THOSE TINY LITTLE BROKEN-OFF PIECES OF STYROFOAM YOU EVER PUT OUT INTO THE WORLD IN YOUR LIFE

Signatures needed! Uber and Lyft drivers are on the precipice of a wage theft settlement and need to push CA AG Bonta to represent what Uber/Lyft really stole, not just a token amount. Please sign and share this petition. www.drivers-united.org/wage-theft-s...

Right now, the ?game? described as "holy shit","absolutely incredible work", and also "I don't understand this" is part of a FREE bundle with 146 other zines. That's crazy! You could have so many zines! (go ?play? Chaos Magic omg) xenolight.itch.io/chaos-magic

It’s been a blast being part of this Zine bundle! Check it out!

We have a FREE bundle of 147 zines from 63 creators (including us 🧡), and you can get it all through September 14th! itch.io/b/3247/free-...

GAME IDEA CantBan A KanBan board simulator that can't.

Come play LoserLane at the Art Gallery of Ontario tomorrow? Watch out world, we're rolling into the museums! marieflanagan.com/loserlane ago.ca/events/video...

For ICT4S 2024 we hosted a zine jam to make a space for ideas and work about tech and sustainability. The result was Liminal Excavations. We've uploaded to itch.io (oliverbates.itch.io/liminal-exca...) and HCommons (works.hcommons.org/records/fh0v...). #zine #sustainability #ict4s #tech #academia

You read this. It reminded me of a workshop I used to run with clients, designed to push back against endless techno-optimism. One of the biggest elements was getting people to realize that not all bad actors are external. I should revisit that... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hob's Barrow is still 50% off for 2 more days!

Now working in browser with pesky iPhone touchscreens. #BUGSQUASHED

Round D6 - a tiny game prototype experimenting with the physics of a D6 and my inner chaos. Made hastily with p5.js. oliverbates.itch.io/round-d6 #indiedev #freegames #itch.io #dice

sorry you're experiencing record breaking temperatures and drought. Have you tried deleted some of photos of your grandmother about it?

We’ll be hosting GachaCon 2026, a hybrid academic conference on gacha games with Genshin Impact as the theme, on 12–13 February 2026 at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. 🇭🇰🇨🇳 Call for Papers: tinyurl.com/gachaconcfp

I just released PAGER on Steam! It's a 1-bit Severance-like horror game. Please RT & leave a review. It really helps 🤍 Thank you! :)

Academic folks, how are you LLM-proofing (or otherwise) your research methods modules? I'm finding this a desperately difficult activity. But we need to teach students how to read papers so they have the skills to be able to question the LLMs :( Open to suggestions! #academicsky #ukhe

@jessemakkonen.com the art and sound design on Without a Dawn is incredible. The game is beautiful and resonated my experiences of insomnia and anxiety. I was hooked. Thanks @dannyodwyer.bsky.social for the recommendation on NoClip Crewcast @noclipvideo.bsky.social

Let the purge of the mid 00s commence.

Announcing the new journal: "Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital" We've launched a new Historical Materialism project with a CfP for the first issue. Abstracts due 31st of October Full details and the new website here: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/jo...

so ready to do some strollplaying on my evening walk!

Orientation was born after experiencing the "mourning walk" (hosted by my friend Minna) and conversations about the collapse of big tech. Orientation encourages playful outdoor exploration, communication, and mapping skills that might be useful in an emergent future. #zines #indiegames #free

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

UK scholars 👇

New York, baby ❤️ Please share with any NYC queer data nerds. kevinguyan.com/2025/07/15/r...

📣 Friends, fans, enemies! Has #SavetheAI impacted you in any way? Got our stickers on your laptop and our posters at your water fountains? We would love to hear your thoughts. Please take 10 minutes to complete this anonymous survey and share it with others: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

Flip That is taking form. It’s the never asked for sequel to Screw That @ben.kirman.org threatened the world with. Prepare yourself for another little experimental game.

bloody eck

Orientation is being released today! oliverbates.itch.io/orientation It's a game/zine about learning to map in a world where the map apps we took for granted are no longer accessible. #indiegames #zines #rpg

Tickled this morning by “The player wearing the thickest socks go first” whilst exploring different sizes of cards thanks @samillingworth.com and @pfwgames.bsky.social

The compulsory scam-awareness training uses as an example phishing email of "You are getting a raise", and assures me that my employers would never ever send me such an email.