Applauding MOME's new focus: from making "NYC a global production hub" to ensuring "creatives can afford to live and work" here 👏👏👏

This month's NYC Indie Games Social will be one week later than usual, on Wednesday 2/11! (Fixed link.) buttondown.com/nycindiegame...

This month's NYC Indie Games Social will be one week later than usual, on Wednesday 2/11! buttondown.com/nycindiegame...

Calling all student debtors, academic workers, and defenders of academic freedom! On Feb 26, the Debt Collective kicks off the College for All Jubilee School, a discussion series on the fight for free public college, dignified labor conditions, academic freedom, and debt cancellation.

5 jobs I've had: * Grocery bagger * Pharmacy technician * Legal proofreader * Medical editor * The person who comes up with the daily challenges in MS Solitaire

I am reminded of this Trekian remix by Will Burrows. Because it's hanging on my wall.

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Small, free act you can do to bring some good in this world: add positive reviews to ALL you Steam games, especially the small indies. You don't need to write anything smart, just "game good" is enough. Every positive steam review tips the algorithm and helps your fav artists get more sales

In honor of Burns Night, my friend Cherry Burns is hosting a stream today at 2pm EST featuring some pals reading poetry. I'll be sharing some postcard poems by another poet friend of mine, the talented @monostich.bsky.social . twitch.tv/CherryBurns

Reading/listening pairing: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, which I'm finally diving into as part of the Weirdosphere's six-week course Hunting the White Whale: weirdosphere.mn.co Dark Seas ambiance by myNoise: mynoise.net/NoiseMachine...

In case anyone wants to know my feelings on AI as a queer performer outside of the enormous environmental and ethical concerns.

The stars have aligned once again, and all of my games are discounted on Steam! - Visit sunny Miami in the 1920s - Solve 5 cases in an alternate history 19th century city - Travel across the Wild Western frontier with your pals store.steampowered.com/curator/4430...

Rosewater took the Best Art & Animation award, and tied with Foolish Mortals for second place in the Jury Award. Not a bad birthday gift! Congrats to all the winners and nominees, and big congrats to The Drifter!

The Adventure Game of the Year Awards are live now! Rosewater is up for 6 awards: Best Script, Best Soundtrack and Dubbing, Best Art and Animation, Best Character, Jury Award, and AGOTY! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXlO...

The IndieCade Awards stream is starting now on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/sale/IndieCadeFestival

The IndieCade Festival has begun! Rosewater is up for Best Performance in tomorrow's awards, and also happens to be 25% off until January 26th. Check it out along with all the other nominees: store.steampowered.com/sale/IndieCa...

Rosewater is up for an award for Best Performance at the IndieCade Festival! Catch the awards ceremony streaming on Steam and YouTube this Saturday at 11am PST/2pm EST—and wish us luck! www.youtube.com/@indiecadeof...

Supernatural killed today, with no more new content. The metaverse was always obviously nothing, but Supernatural was the one thing they had (took) that was worth a damn. Only reason I have a Meta account.

WOW! Rosewater has been nominated for 5 AGOTY Awards! Best Screenplay Best Soundtrack, Sound Effects and Dubbing Best Visual Art & Animations Best Character (Harley Leger) Best Adventure Game of the Year Thanks so much @agotyawards.bsky.social, this is a huge honor!

Reminder, the NYC Indie Games Social is this Wednesday! Spots filled up fast, but watch for last-minute openings, and subscribe to be first to hear next time. buttondown.com/nycindiegame...

EVERYONE DO THIS SURVEY MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI

I decided to do the thing this year and start a newsletter. It's not really a thinky bloggy essay type thing, more updates on projects, hobbies, events and community organizing I'm involved in, and life milestones (like launching a game and getting engaged). There's also pictures of cats!

I have updated my IGF blogpost for the year to reflect that it's now AP Thomson's Fucking Incredible Game I _AM_ allowed to talk about auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...

I guess I can finally talk about my current editing project (and the game I've been obsessively playing over the holidays)—AP Thomson's surreal strategy game Titanium Court, which just got a few well deserved IGF noms! Been having a hard time stopping playing long enough to work on it. So good.

I had a really lovely pine needle and cardamom pod tea at the Winter Tea last weekend, and it got me thinking. Since the Christmas tree has to come down today...gonna eat it. 🎄😋

We finally have a venue confirmed, and the NYC Indie Games Social is on for Wednesday next week (not this week)! Register here: luma.com/8wdk6n4w

Had some trouble wrangling a venue, so this month's NYC Indie Games Social is pushed back a week, to Jan 14! Full update here: buttondown.com/nycindiegame...

Winter Tea in Prospect Park. There's mistletoe tea, steaming cauldrons of 1000-Year Witch brew, and music like this

It's that time again, the most important awards in gaming: The RikPlaysStuff Gaming Awards! Without further ado my top 10 games of the year, 100% guaranteed to be the only correct top 10, and 100% Clair Obscur free! (It would have been like, 12?)

10. Rosewater: 2025 was notable for the incredible amount of fantastic point and click games, Rosewater being the first of them to feature in my list. A great cast of characters and good replay value which is rare in the genre, great art and performances.

Depending on how much work I’m able to get done, I might be announcing my new adventure game this year. 🤔

The Blood Island Award for Vibes: Foolish Mortals. This game really captured the same kind of feeling as my all time favourite gaming location, Blood Island from Curse of Monkey Island. The vibes were as they say, immaculate.

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

I've decided to be a better person and start taking the time to leave Steam reviews for indies. Not even as a New Year's resolution (but it could be yours!)

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Appreciate the inclusion of Rosewater in this excellent company...so many great games here!

Winter holiday reading/listening pairing: Hellebore No. 4: The Yuletide Special Saturnalia by Hawksmoor libraryoftheoccult.bandcamp.com/album/saturn...

I got gifted a Scrooge costume by @jesshaskins.bsky.social which officially makes this the best Christmas ever.

Tune in now to catch a very special, one-night-only holiday performance of The Nativiverity, a community nativity play staged in Los Santos' Sisyphus Theater, on Happy Fun Time GTA RP. It's like Grand Theft Hamlet but better. I play one of the wise men. It''ll be wild. www.twitch.tv/bluewyvernn

BIG NEWS: Rosewater has been nominated for Best Performance in the IndieCade Festival 2025! The festival will be online, and the award ceremony is January 17th! More info here: www.indiecade.com/festival-202...

One of the best-sketched characters in an incredibly character-rich show: a fascist whose (potentially real!) redeeming qualities are continually undercut by his monumental pride, bigotry, entitlement and pettiness

Big news (for me)! Signal boost appreciated! TL;DR: I’ve posted a new interactive voiceover demo at dominicarmato.com, and I’m lookin’ for work. For the long version, read on!… (1/7)

A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.

Now THAT'S a proper big box! What a delight to get home from @adventurex.bsky.social and unpack the brimming box of treasures that @inklingwood.bsky.social and @inklingwood-sophie.bsky.social graciously gifted us for our voiceover production work on Foolish Mortals—launched earlier this month!

PROJECT LAUNCH! Spooky adventure Foolish Mortals, which @grundislav.games and I produced the voiceover for, launched today to glowing early reviews (100% score from Adventure Game Hotspot). Huge congrats to @inklingwood.bsky.social and @inklingwood-sophie.bsky.social!

NEW: After my last piece about what's slowing down game development, folks wrote in to ask "why didn't you talk about bad leadership?" It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.

Very cool animated explanation of how dithering works.