Y'all tolerated the Nazis but maybe the gamble-on-everything grift will finally get you off Substack

I'm sure it sucks if your favourite rich videogame guy gets cancelled or whatever but I'm afraid it doesn't make "auteur theory" defensible, least of all the mangled version 90s videogame magazines tried to make people believe in

The Adult Analysis Anthology, the web's premiere destination for longform writing on adult games, is BACK with more planned essays than ever before, but we need your help to make it happen! Support the creation of high-quality sex-positive writing from diverse voices HERE: itch.io/s/180048/aaa...

hello and welcome to our 4th Official Astronaut Press Conference! over the next few days, i’ll be telling you all about the super dense, super eventful games we've recovered from the recently arrived black hole. itch.io/c/6922523/li... banner by @hexrae.bsky.social 🎨

rpgmaker definitely isn't the right tool for everyone, but I think using opinionated pre-baked tools to make some games would be very instructive to a lot of folks setting out to make their epic custom dream game. they're a much lower-stakes way to learn important lessons like "how to tell a story"

love the word seminal. this shit's so good it's like cum

Liu Bei visits Zhuge Liang three times at Luckin Coffee.

whaaaat I just found out the 2025 IFDB Awards has a Videotome category this year! promoted out of the "Uncommon System" category, that's so cool.... if there's any you thought were particularly good last year do go and vote! ifdb.org/poll?id=31cs...

not only was this hilariously cobbled together with an llm who doesn't understand anything about british politics (or anything in general), it suspiciously clusters together many groups of sex workers and nsfw communities without giving them labels. which could mean nothing

friend of mine can't dance so he pretended he's republican and stormed out of the room before bad bunny comes on

How Superb is your Owl?

i think in the name of fairness the producers of the baldur's gate tv show should demand that tv writers do at least a year of running around in circles doing unpaid writing tests before they're allowed to write for the show

(priestess of ishtar 4,000 years ago): god this job sucks ass, god isn't even real... i wish i could be serving up delicious coffee-based treats instead!

The DOG NIGHTMARE heraldry designer is up for patrons! There'll be a public version everyone can enjoy in a few days - but if you want your name and a design of your very own to appear in that, join now! www.patreon.com/c/MiaCain

What if there was a website that regularly covered indie computer games outside of Steam, including experimental works and interactive fiction virtualmoose.org/2026/02/01/i...

This is shocking to many people and is why being a games writer is a career you only pick if you're fucking stupid

well, good news and bad news folks! the bad: the Second Horizon was actually a black hole. it ate like 5 spaceships and way too many telescopes. the good: it brought a bunch of games with the theme 🌌 EVENT HORIZON 🌌 play them here: itch.io/c/6922523/li... art by princessinternet.cafe 🎨

Cafe at The Portland art museum has Rothko no. 5 cakes. Something intellectually meaty about seeing the painting in person, and then eating a cake copy. The complete experience. Full spectrum.

it is always very gratifying to see people use and enjoy my work, of course. but you will not guess what this is in response to

We are days away from every TikTok comment being: NSA MASS SURVEILLANCE 佔領華爾街 MAY 4 1970 MASSACRE 肯特州立大学枪击事件 MAY 13 1985 MOVE BOMBING 組織轰炸 TRAIL OF TEARS 美国本地人种族灭绝 JIM CROW SEGREGATION 吉姆·克勞法 HUMAN RIGHTS 人權 CITIZENS UNITED 联合公民诉联邦选举委员会案 HAWAII 夏威夷共和国 VIETNAM AFGHANISTAN IRAQ 伊拉克 EDWARD SNOWDEN 爱德华

The 2025 Vextro anthology is out, and it's more lo-fi than ever! Check out "Vextro Unplugged" on an itch page near you, including entries by me, nilson, sunday, and wasnotwhynot! itch.io/c/6893661/ve...

The games industry has a long history of glorifying and normalising military violence. A blurring of “war and play” that both militaries, militaristic organisations and the games industry benefit from. This has been happening before digital games existed, but has been amplified massively by them.

For all fans of IF, there's an event coming in April (18-19) to coincide with the London Games Festival. For excited possible attendees - mark your calendars. For those who might want to run a workshop, or exhibit, here's the form - forms.gle/j3AEMs24iKvU... Deadline:Sunday 8 Feb Shares welcome

i dont think this guy thinks about anything at all

Heated Rivalry fans play the original

Thank you to @oneart.bsky.social for publishing this piece

an important step in fighting competent yet vapid LLM generated text is getting really cool about the breadth human writing. it's not unprofessional to have dyslexia, write in a non-native language, struggle with spelling. communication is a team sport

the problem with prose writers is not enough of them think like poets and not enough poets think like architects. i will not elaborate

one thing i wish i could impress on a lot of you is that trump et al are not the only people with agency

so we tried that new binding of isaac multiplayer mode

It's easy to fall into the trap of seeing China as a utopia, or the greatest evil, but a real analysis focuses on successes, mistakes, flaws, and material outcomes. There must be a belief that decline is reversable, and that we can learn from what works and ignore what doesn't to advocate for change

I'll admit, the memes can be funny, and it's no secret that China is showing what is possible when you mobilize labor & capital with central planning. But what the meme is really asking is "Why can China do this, and why can we not do this?". This requires a material diagnosis of both systems.

today in a conversation about heated rivalry to someone i've just met i said my friend was "fujoing out" and i had to explain fujoshi culture to someone who i incorrectly assumed was on the same gay wavelength as me. how was your friday

heeey gentle reminder that if i do not know you and you keep insistently trying to connect with me on linkedin i will just block you

I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01 A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format. Thanks for playing and sharing!

ATTN PORN GAME ENTHUSIASTS AND WORD PERVERTS: Pitches for the 4th issue of the Adult Analysis Anthology, the web's premiere destination for high-quality long-form writing about adult games & adult game culture, are OPEN! Anthology & pitch info through link! www.bpgamesinc.com/adult-analys...

read a chapter of a book and wanted to tell the author i really liked it and dms are disabled. sad face

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new favourite comment on the dice test

new blog post: more thoughts on worldbuilding stanwixbuster.co.uk/blog/posts/2...

this weekend i slipped and fell hard on my elbow to the point i couldn't bend it properly. you might have sympathy thinking this happened because of the weather but no this happened entirely indoors in my kitchen because i stood on a piece of cardboard

just saw from a big uptick in hits that diet of worms made it to the 2025 favourites for @wf-games.itch.io. humbled once again

2026 is about affordable homeownership. No more "policy" this year. Feed the local fauna, befriend them, and then use them to overpower homeowners so you can occupy their dwellings.

i just wanted to play Santa