In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

After over 2 years cooking in Steam Early Access, Mars First Logistics 1.0 is finally here! Engineer your little rover and deliver lots of silly stuff!

They've lost the 9yos

I've been patiently waiting for this since @electrondance.com covered it on a @thinkygames.com stream a couple of years ago!

It's important to celebrate even quite small reasons for climate optimism, because otherwise you will succumb to despair, and that will help nobody. Sure, the line between optimism and delusion is a fine one, but you have to get out of bed in the morning and sometimes for that you need delusion.

Jesus Christ.

I put together a collection of clips from every moment of playing Skate. where I felt like I was having fun. None of them are on a skateboard.

Trees💜✨🌸🌿 #pixelart

Cheers to 10 years of making videos 🥂

🎉 Frontline: War Of Echoes is out now! 🚩 💥 Play against yourself 🔴 Capture the flag ⏪ Change team, rewind time 🔵 Capture the flag 🌑 8 unique levels ⚡ 16 upgrades to mix and match 👩‍🚀 punkcake.itch.io/frontline 👨‍🚀 Get it now for Windows, MacOS and Linux!

A lot of the best games you could ever play are things that sold a tenth of what they should and have 60-80% review scores. The games that are strange shapes, and if you've got a hole in your brain and soul that matches it, it'll stick with you forever. You gotta have the confidence to investigate!

A horse struggles to exist #art #animation #indieanimationday #horse

I I / I / I I / I — Project Ark demo This is a narrative experience and the first thing I've ever made for SEGA MegaDrive/Genesis. For a limited time I am making this available to all because I am excited to share this in the hopes that something comes of it— www.aeriform.io/0232a57db92c...

Since the list is already available online (www.bitmapbooks.com/products/fro...), I'll be making a daily(-ish) thread covering every main entry in From Ants to Zombies with some of my unused screencaps. 1) The Wreck of the BSM Pandora: a 1981 Apple II boardgame adaptation inspired by you-know-what

I art directed and did graphics on this game. I promise it's something special

"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

We're proud to publish @darrenmcgarvey.bsky.social on the UK's health lottery & why health inequality is a political choice. Right now there's a lot of bogus blaming in the news that distracts from real issues like this. This is an honest assessment, based on real experience.

I thought I should add some Alt text to this important message. It's Mr. Rogers, saying the following as he draws some random thing: "I'm not very good at it, but it doesn't matter. It's the fun of doing it that's important. No matter how anybody says it is, it feels good to have made something."

Can we fucking stop with this? “One of the most unsettling questions of our times”?? Get in the sea. How about you interview the workers these lake boiling slop machines are replacing??? Do you think these PEOPLE suffer at all? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It is so so SO refreshing to hear a UK farmer say simply we need to eat less meat. This whole interview with Guy Watson-Singh is excellent. I also completely agree we need to spend more on food and much much less on rent. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Marjoram: One of the absolute best plants for pollinators! This is one of a series of short videos in a YouTube playlist highlighting some of the best plants to grow if you want to attract bees, butterflies, hoverflies and more. youtu.be/gisVGo-Yirk

As I've said before, it is the Dunning-Kruger of Gell-Mann Amnesia.

A trailer from for Yuha's Nightmares: Episode One recently dropped (originally cited on Crashbook #12, entry 176, back in 2022). Excited to see this eventually make landfall as @suprsupr.bsky.social always produces cool, offbeat stuff - but due out until next year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx_N...

This is a piece to file alongside @andrewmale.bsky.social’s timeless “Eric Clapton’s bookshelves” essay. Please enjoy: Sam Altman’s kitchen of shit. Character revealed through detail. Pure environmental storytelling. www.ft.com/content/b180...

Any time a movie starts with an opening text crawl or character voice-over to deliver exposition, I'm like "Ah, one test audience member was a bit confused/on their phone and the producers didn't like that" Confusion is good! It invites questions that can be answered later! That's free mystery!

"This is how the story of Blue Prince works. Fragments here and there, almost like an afterthought, asking you to put it together on your own time." Part two of my now-spoilery Blue Prince series can be read here: www.electrondance.co...

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Hey! I'm currently looking for more work. If interested, please see my website for more examples of my work: www.chrislewislee.com

Supply Run - Watercolour. Gonna be featuring Mice and Pine Martens in the new story. Turtles too cuz they're tough and snappy. Work continues unabated. More soon. Tally Ho.

Bernie Visits the Wax Museum www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=171... (or from #pico8: load #bernie)

🎉LUDOCENE LAUNCHED 🎉 So excited (and nervous) to send our game-finder into the world. Ludocene.com If you want a better way to find amazing games that rewards experts and is in the hands of players, this is our shot. Thank you to the 1000's backers and supporters.This is just the beginning.

I wrote something on Blue Prince at last: "Some days will collapse at the last hurdle – a whole game where you were hoping for a certain outcome and no, it’s fucked again." It be here: www.electrondance.co...

Thief #zxspectrum #pixelart #ドット絵

One last shuffle of the controllers... I visited Gregg, played some games that were pretty good, so ended up recording some footage on my mobile and turning it into a Side by Side epilogue. The games? Light Fingers, My Rusty Submarine, Tanknarok, Astro Duel II. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watc...

Looking for podcasts and journalist who focus on video game discovery or the value of digital play. We're launching on Wednesday (National Play Day) and have lots to say about play and finding great gaming spaces. Experts on hands to offer quotes. Shares appreciated.

YouTubers: PLEASE stop using AI voiceovers. The most awkward, unprofessional, nasal, echoey human VO in the world is still going to be less grating and distracting than a robot that says every sentence exactly the same way and doesn't know how to pronounce a bunch of words or where to put emphasis.

Isles of Sea and Sky just released a big update that adds secret meta layers to the game! And it's 66% off for the next 2 weeks! thinkygames.com/news...

A junk shop roll of found photos so old the text from the backing paper has etched in over the years. Kodacolor II was made from 1973 to the early 80s and the clothes/space-age garden furniture seem to say 70s. Transmissions from a lost world.

Because some people still do not get it, I have produced this professional and detailed diagram explaining the options available to Itch.io upon being threatened by payment processors: Option A: Comply, sacrificing some NSFW content. Option B: Do not comply, sacrificing EVERYONE ELSE + Option A.

Let's goooooo!

🔥 The Drifter is OUT NOW! 🔥 Solve your own murder in our fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride. 15% off for launch! Steam 🤜 store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/... GoG 🤜 www.gog.com/en/game/the_... It's been a long road working on this one- so exciting to finally get it in people's hands!

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

leave it to joel to call off a series not just with a post, but with a retrospective that covers a decade of trying to make a show work, all in under 20 minutes

Goodbye, Side by Side www.youtube.com/watc...

We're running the Family Gaming Zone at PAX West and would love suggestions of great games to include on our consoles. Share for families at the event who want to discover great games for their children and get advice on setting up Parental Controls. www.familygamingdatabase.com/PAX+West+Sea...

Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement: