My article on grief, Spiritfarer, and losing my cat in 2020 is now available to read in the Well Played Journal! playstorypress.org/well-played-...

Thanks to everyone who came to my talk and said nice things! pigcon was rad. reminded me the need and hunger for local events like these.

Movies are good. Ending that live rent free in my head.

Brown some minced/diced onions and garlic, throw in a buncha frozen peas, cover until peas are hot. Put a big spoonful of calabrian chili oil in there. A great cheap tasty veggie for lunches for the week.

hey! I'll be doing a talk here! it'll be about making autobiographical games and i'm psyched to get back to doing design/dev talks! Also if mutuals will be in Portland that weekend and want to hang please reach out!

my good advice has become a sort of mantra for me: find the gear, move with pleasure.

1000xResist creator: the game industry needs a universal video codec for FMV games

Heya, Will here! Been hearing "oh submissions close next week????" lately and I think I needed to work harder on spreading the word about due date. We're gonna extend submissions through April 13th! Stoked to see yours, and excited by the massive response we have so far 🤩 pigcon.pigsquad.com

Let me make Tomba! but FMV

It's the final day of PAX East and the Indiepocalypse booth (24098, just look around, you'll find it) is approaching the 'what you see is what I've got' state. Hurry down and pick up some unique indie games before they're gone!

One of my favorite moments teaching this term was chatting with students about social media and not a single one of them knew what bsky is and so I had to sheepishly explain it to them

@jerf.xyz if no one has said it yet, you're experiencing "spaghetti meat" which when cooked has a texture that can feel gummy or almost uncooked www.delish.com/food/a705416...

one of the best chefs I worked for would regularly use her $300 knife to open up cardboard boxes. another swore by only using kiwi knives at home

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something. www.ign.com/articles/tun...

the crowd is chanting "machine zone, machine zone, machine zone". there's a biplane flying overhead trailing a banner that says READ NATASHA DOW-SCHULL'S 'ADDICTION BY DESIGN'

Just gonna say it: the naked over-reliance on AI to "polish up" human communication has made me so incredibly skeptical of human communication as of late. I'm so tired of "smoothed out" emails, papers, abstracts, and notes. =/

getting ugly zotero back would fix me

one day i'll have the mental fortitude to play a Pathologic game for more than 20 minutes

i ranked all 84 movies i watched this year if that's something you wanted to see letterboxd.com/jackofhart/l...

research / brainstorming / thinking is also maybe the most enjoyable part of a creative project to me? kinda sad to beg AI to take it from you

Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it

New article in The Verge about the Unfair Flips speedrunning community!! www.theverge.com/games/814111...

The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age is peak 90's cyber covers and an all time mouthful book title.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

qg con thoughts thread...

HEY have you been working on something interesting this year? Submissions to the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC are now OPEN through October 24, 2025! Send us your weird games! More about the session and where to submit is on our new website: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

friction in videogames is almost always good and you can't convince me otherwise

Skeet a PERFECT Album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana

hi hello my husband recently accepted a job in Victoria, BC so we are hoping to immigrate to Canada before the year is over soooo i will be leaving my in-office IT job and be out of work again. shares and job leads welcome!

this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people

Today is the first day of our week long #fundraiser and the matching donors' pledge has increased! Please help us reach our goal by sharing this post! . #boardgames #videogames #lgbtq #gaymer #gamestudies #mutualaid #queerstudies #genderstudies #gaming #indiedev #montreal #gamingcon #ttrpg

dissertating

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the games press social media experience is like you sometimes step into a building and you can hear the dull, distant thumps of people having a knife fight somewhere in a floor above you. you're not sure if this is a new knife fight or an old one. you were outside

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

hi. i’ll be there with a game AND talk. come hang out. it’ll be cool.

I set out to complete every Cronenberg movie this year to answer a simple question: is this guy a good director? I have three left and I’m still befuddled.

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

just reminding you that this is coming up 👀

Tomorrow at 9am! Come for the zine stay for a bunch of lovely talks! #ica25

Does anyone want to help me do a summer game show next summer that’s all fake games that will never come out?

🌞ROMAN SANDS RE:BUILD 🌞 ⚠️ SEPTEMBER 12th ⚠️ Your most desired concierge experience. WISHLIST TODAY: store.steampowered.com/app/2231460/... www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFQq...

here’s a small taste

The academic year is over now for a nice relaxing summer flick

vaguely interesting to me that Cow is the first cute aesthetic Big character in Mario Kart I can think of?

It's finally done!📝 In this blog post, I apply my theory of an archaeological gameworld mental model to Blue Prince, and argue that half the fun of the game is in what happens off-screen: florencesmithnicholls.com/2025/06/03/d...

Happy pride folks I'm still fleshing out the entries, but here's a list of over 200 retro games (pre-2010) which were made by trans people or which had trans people on the dev team. We have always been here. dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictrans...

If you're gonna be at ICA in a few weeks I'll be here talking about why videogame controllers are dildos. (I'll also have zines if you're around and aren't able to make the talk!) #ica25