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...

The 17th November symbolically marks the fall of the Greek military junta of 1967. Each year the deeply fascist Greek state trots out the same boring, fascism apologia, denying the many dead and wounded and arguing about whether this brought on the end of the junta or not. Nazis fuck off.

I am rational enough to understand that crop circles are not celestial keys to unlocking forgotten arcane knowledge, but romantic enough to imagine a world in which they are.

This is the one and only business & tech podcast you should be into. The transcript speaks for itself! anniemueller.com/posts/my-new...

The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain has filed a legal claim against Rockstar Games after the company laid off over 30 employees. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

This is my new pinned post to show my different commission types: Character sheets: £40 Individual character: £10 (+£5 to include a simple background). Please send me a message if you would like one, thank you very much.

Sentimental Value is a gem of a movie. Mature, measured and deeply affecting, it is a clear recommendation from me. Family, parenthood, trauma, acting and art, every piece handled with the respect they deserve. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentime...

Another great album here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAB5... I've been trying to move away from auto-recommended stuff and random playlists and focus on albums more, and it seems to be working. I'm enjoying music more. Same for browsing through discogs with no/minimal intention of bying anything.

Did you know? The year 2025 is evenly divisible by 5, the last time in history that this will ever happen! Wait what

What a stunning album this is.

#MÖRKTOBER Day 31: Pumpkin Thanks for an awesome month! So many wretched things to add to my games #morktober #MÖRKBORG

I just backed Erebus Mythos: Vampyr - Greek Folk Horror For Shadowdark RPG on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto... Greek folk horror ttrpg adventure??? This is 1000% what I'm curently interested in, and there's 23 hours to go.

G259.2 Witch recognized by odor.

And you should be one of them, gospelsoftheflood.com , an audio drama available pretty much everywhere, with great writing, audio design & voice acting. "The continents are sinking. A man sets out to find God."

Citizen Sleeper 1 was one of the most unique and impacting game experiences. Heck I've been postponing playing the sequel, or replaying the first one for fear of messing up with the imprint of my initial playthrough. An astounding game, give it or its sequel, or the solo TTRPG, Spindlejack a chance!

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🧵This is my #MÖRKTOBER thread, a list of things I created for MÖRK BORG or to simply allow them take shape before being ejected into the void 💀 Perfect is the enemy of done, let's go!