Double Fine is unionizing aftermath.site/double-fine-un...

As stated before, a publisher to keep an eye on, so damn weird (complimentary)

These two articles, one after another, are enough to describe the field to anyone who might inquire about it especially around large companies and the most well-known 'properties'. 'Properties' where the folks who actually create them can't own property, or pay rent.

My initial attempt to try out Marathon was ill-timed but then there's articles like this that make me want to give it another look. It's a dizzyingly fast moving experience though, and one I could not stomach for long.

Considering the Independent Media Collective Bundle and supporting four worker-owned outlets at 50% off a month's subscription? Let's sweeten the deal: You will also get a 50% discount code to @alloymag.bsky.social AND @thejenna.bsky.social's Patreon. That's SIX independent outfits, y'all!

It's time to kick off the 4th annual Doc Lightning short documentary film fest at MinnMax! We're encouraging everybody to create a documentary that's under 3 minutes about whatever they want. No experience needed, record it with your phone. You have until May 30th! www.patreon.com/posts/157113...

Post games has been a super pleasant surprise - after sitting down and listening to a couple of podcasts, I've already decided I want to support the project on patreon, added a couple of games to my wishlist and sat for a good bit with my own thoughts on games and game making more than once.

This looks damn interesting & is so very close to hitting its goal.

PRE-RELEASE GTA 6 COVERAGE: The entire global economy rests on this revolutionary piece of art POST RELEASE GTA 6 COVERAGE: Here's where you can find the most early-game Orbs

'Hot Fuzz is more like a Fabergé fidget cube, full of heart, its many, many contraptions and bells and whistles held together by so much humor and whimsy and craft as to be almost deliriously entertaining.' On Hot Fuzz, a brilliant comedy. www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/03/31/h...

One day of playing Hunt: Showdown and I'm working on MÖRKBÖRG enemies. I'm such a wuss but also so drawn into some horror elements in media.

I just bought 2 (???) extraction shooters to play single player a day before encountering this article, so I'd better take a look. ✍️

This looks very interesting and has a demo out. I saw it described as turn based resident evil 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/2537470/...

those emails sure are finding me

Apparently, some joker leaked the Titanium Court release date‼️ Don't be alarmed, we have our top maintenance worker on the case. In the meantime, please avoid the leak and avert your eyes ⚠️ 🏰 bit.ly/TC-Steam

A couple of hours in Occlude, and what a game idea. A solitaire spin-off, where the rules of the game are hidden, to be discovered by the player each time. Occultism, conspiracies, hidden secrets, narrative weaving itself with the medium and the way we play games. Great great great so far.

Go subscribe to @unwinnable.com and read the latest issue. Also buy and play Suzerain by @torporgames.com . What more could you want out of a Sunday?

"You've gotta dive into what the piece of media is saying to you, what you're saying back to it, and what you want to take from that experience and tell to your audience." - new Dear Mother advice from @zoehhannah.com! buff.ly/LGON2iG

Mothership is a website worth supporting and Esoteric Ebb sounds like a prime wishlist candidate.

📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW! www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope 100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max... ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!

Seen a couple of clips the past week from some 1995 Kyrgyzstan documentary The Universe of Manas and had to check out the whole thing. Just absolutely fucking unreal levels of drip here youtu.be/jgJZCaOI5KE?...

Well that's one way to earn a wishlist.

I wholeheartedly agree with the title here.

"DDLC requires players to recognize they're complicit in a system that treats girls as content for consumption." A thought provoking article on @mothership.blog. I've had similar thoughts to the closing lines here. When trusting the player, is there a chance they'll actually misconstrue it all?

Art by Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestami | www.instagram.com/neyestanimana

QRP with your skull art

Another great pick for bandcamp Friday!

It's bandcamp Friday, why not buy something cool and support some musicians? Something like this greek band I just discovered, with album tags such as: rock, art rock, death jazz, electric, mediterranean (!) sister-gr.bandcamp.com/album/untrue

Stating once again the quite brilliance of this cute puzzler. I'm thinking about studying it like platformer devs do for Mario levels. It has a free demo, do try it out.

"But what the makers of Dragon Age have done,[...], is to simply tell stories that are about the pain of constrained choice — making the mechanical lack of quote-unquote "meaningful" choices into fuel for the franchise's biggest gut punches. "

Öoo is a brilliant, deceptively simple, charming puzzle game. It made me smile 5 times in the first 30 minutes. Play it. store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/...

did you know i'm cofounding a new gaming publication? does the world need another one of those, you might think. watch the video & you will see what kind of publication mothership.blog is, and why it needs to exist. we're running a 15% off lifetime deal on subscriptions for the next four days ONLY!!

D1301.2 Drinking blood teaches animal languages.

Who knew Mass Effect 2 was a good game, then? I might be (looks at calendar) 16 years late, but it's a good game.

A great piece on a game I'm very much interested in playing. Folks growing alongside their skills, their styles and preferences, resulting in more uniquely personal games that are decidedly theirs is something I hope this industry (bleh this word) and audience can foster.

Going from The Division 1 to 2 is like eating too much candy and washing it down with an energy drink. Everything is faster, more colorful and wow it's making me not excited.

I'm sure parodies of mobile games have snappier jokes than this not-explicitly-a-joke one.🫠 Just mind blowing Gaming™ happening here.

When you have a feeling and then you have an insight on that feeling, you write poetry. When you see something and you have an insight on what you're seeing, you draw. When you observe a system and you have an insight into a system in action, you create a game. - Vincent Baker Insightful discussion⬇️

- Did it require me being sick & 9 years minus one day to watch @notquitereal.bsky.social & @austinwalker.bsky.social play The Division Survival dlc? - Yes. - Am I still glad? - Oh hell yes. The Division 1's Survival DLC is a super interesting standalone game mode with systemic spice. (1/2)

I think a lot of the discussion around AI isn't specific enough or informed enough, and that's why this piece from @edmondtran.bsky.social is so useful and important. These are actual concept artists spelling out in clear, unambiguous terms why Gen-AI is not only unhelpful, it's a nuisance.

Introducing DoomScroll - an endless feed of thousands of user-made Doom WADs from the last 32 years, all playable right in your browser. Our goal was to make decades of work from one of the most creative communities in gaming history more accessible and visible to everyone.

“Second-guessing my death” is my submission to the 72-hour Game Writing SIG Arcjam. The theme was Resilience. It is an interactive fiction game, featuring a collection of 5 short scenes, some surreal, some less so, on life and hanging on. balthuk.itch.io/second-guess...

🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️ The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6m... After over 18 months of research, interviews & editing our Disco Elysium series is here. In this first episode we focus on the cultural and personal foundations of the world of Elysium.

Short spoiler free story about my experience with Arco. Back before bsky took off, I saw a post on Twitter from a game dev asking for advice because their game is reviewing extremely highly but it's not reflecting on sales. I wanna help but I gotta try it first. So I make a note to check it out. 1/

A look at a very interesting looking indie game about death, mortality, people and places. Combining powerwashing simulator type gameplay & meaningful metaphors and a headspace reminiscent of 'a mortician's tale' (some of this team was involved in that game) is something that makes my brain tingle.

Trying to play The Division 1 for its Survival DLC, and I have to say, I'll never be used to controller first/third person shooters, it just feels inferior to mouse and keyboard 😔 I wanted to play this on steam deck so much but I'm so much worse at it, it's like playing on hard vs normal.

This looks very promising and it prompts discussions that need to be had in this space.

A very well written review that echoes my own thoughts on Bahnsen Knights, a short and sweet interactive fiction game that effortlessly lifted me away from my house and into this ominous, electric, violent, attractive world. I've yet to move on from it. www.eurogamer.net/bahnsen-knig...