Carnage Infernational Featuring: @cybrlich.bsky.social /// Michael Overton Brown /// @strangescaffold.bsky.social /// @direkris.itch.io /// Playables

Me and @alienmelon.bsky.social are organizing a free workshop series meant as an intro to #gamedev where you will make your own walking-sim game in Unreal a span of 8 workshop days over 1 month. It's based in #ljubljana and open to all ❤️🚶 More info here: wiki.ljudmila.org/Controllers

The Center for Digital Play (digitalplay.itu.dk) has a YouTube channel, and we've just published a ton of content! Seth Giddings (@sethgiddings.bsky.social) on Postdigital Playthings: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAjE...

i'm one of the people organising a game-bookclub and we're likely going to be moving from a museum to a squat next year. fun times ahead.

toki pona....

After NINE RELEASE CANDIDATES and over a month of intensive testing, Robotnik's Ring Racers v2.4 is out now. www.kartkrew.org/index.html Crossworlds is cool and all but this fangame is designed by and for kart racing and fighting game sickos. Big drop in/drop-out online MP and a huge solo mode too

'indie game devs' thinking making games is somehow like making movies when really at our level making games is exactly like being in a band

Officially started working full time on a new game with @dodoot.bsky.social Here are the first sketches 🌻

I think it is better when conferences are led by people who come from the communities the conferences are for, rather than companies who run conferences across many communities.

hey @gammagames.bsky.social i bought pomopost on my platdate (os3) and it's currently crashing on launch. any idea what could bec ausing this? can i get you a log out of smewhere or something like that? looks super cute so im excited to use it.

We have a Steam page for our game! It's a mahjong-inspired deckbuilder with A LOT OF BIRDS! If you have a Steam account and hit the wishlist button - you will have my eternal gratitude 🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

"I'm proposing that the role of the university is to resist AI, that is, to apply rigorous questioning to the idea that AI is inevitable." danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar...

Go play discounty yall!!!! I'm very proud of @m-schifter.bsky.social and their team for making a great "life sim" that manages to examine exponential and constant growth as well as what giant corporations can do to communities!!! store.steampowered.com/app/2274620/...

itch dot io's search bar doesnt autocomplete with a complete list of my entire body of work when i type a random cuneiform character. ruining my FUCKIng life 🤬

itch.io has been nothing but supportive of LGBTQ+ work since the beginning. it pains me to see the community turn on them like this and so gleefully spread misinformation about them without even giving them a shred of benefit of the doubt. journalists too...

fuck wheel world so good

i think by being mad at itch.io (and even Steam)... we are throwing our own under the bus, while killing solidarity in this.

imo you should never rely on a game engine that makes you log in

I can confirm that my announced solarpunk game was screened on a brutalist UFO in a remote park in Toronto. Thank you for adventuring into the night, game ravers!

Liberals fear that if people act unruly, Trump will be able to impose totalitarian control. That gets things backwards. Trump is already imposing totalitarian control. That's what is driving people into the streets. It's too late to avoid this fight. We can be passive and lose—or give it our all.

A crash course introduction into experimental indie games: Arthouse Games as a force for good & the activism of video games: www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/a-c... "I’m not yet sure if I’m proud of myself for not giving up, but here it is. It exists. I hope someone out there will appreciate it…"

Games teaching moots, what is something you think is important for a games programme?

for those who may have missed it, i'm running a class @boshis.place this summer on games & adaptation (looking mostly at movie tie-in games, and reading adaptation theory from people like jameson, hutcheon, baudrillard, etc) more info below! :)

Pondering the depths and delights of 'plunderludics' in tapecaria

Had a lecture about puzzle games / physical game design on the Slovenian Academy of Arts this morning - thanks for inviting me @beingbrin.net !

Friends the day that you can CHOOSE ONE BTN BOSSES on your NINTENDO SWITCH devices is approaching soon, hope you will enjoy loads of pooping time dying to bosses.

portable things coming in a short amount of time

found this in my notes, good advice for aspiring devs

finished this brain melting hypnotic sublime arcade that overwhelms and saturates your senses! for people who are aroused by Polybius. With music by girlpaw :3 ash-k.itch.io/traincyberde... #itchio #indiegame #cyberdelia

We got a danish game award with @fergueza.bsky.social and Jonas!

Made a little shmup for Boss Rush Jam together with some nice folks. klianc.itch.io/spire-to-par... Time was running a bit short but in the end we pulled through.

me in some foggy ass ljubljana weather (pic by a friend)

if you are a game maker in #slovenia feel free to join me on the first game-making meetup i'm co-organising with ljudmila. we're aiming to create a safe space where we can share our knowledge and have mini workshops/jams. more info on the ljubljana games club website ljgames.club

the national newspaper, Delo, interviewed me about my games and moving to Slovenia. i’m honored. we chatted about indie games as an artform and my desire to start a festival here: www.delo.si/kultura/razn...

is it conspiratory of me to think that the US-banning of tiktok is related to lobbying power in the US and the fact that literally ALL the big western social media platforms are made by us based companies?

"the algorithm favours-" oohhh so you make art for the algorithm? the algorithm is your target audience? listen to yourself. grow up.

much rather people spend like 10 minutes a week playing stuff on glorious trainwrecks, itch, the works, playing games that take actual artistic risks -- there is a lot to learn from other games! i think it's a lot more valuable than commodifying your hobbies for the sake of videogame inspiration

all verbs are either fighting or kissing. eating is kissing food. dancing is fighting air... singing (good) is kissing silence. singing (bad) is fighting silence... fight-kissing is fighting. kiss-fighting is kissing

DOOM: the gallery experience. Revives the tradition of museum mods started by ArsDoom (1995) and Museum Meltdown (1996). Who drinks wine while visiting the Met Museum though? Free/online - 10min www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/...

actually the grass is greener on my side :)

Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities: felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi... AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.

2025 is gonna be the year when i do nothing

went and wrote about gameplay loops :) blog.joeyschutz.com/the-case-aga...

@archive.org i'm getting save errors via the firefox extension, is saving still disabled? I can't find info about it.

i just learned about “riot dogs” (stray dogs that for no knowable reason join in when people protest, and protect protesters from police), reinforcing my view that all dogs are good boys en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_dog (i am not a dog person so this is an unbiased nonpartisan dog assessment)

i went to see denis & denis today and it feels euphoric as fuck to see them

i love my friends

Tapping the sign as too many people forget

i just posted my final talk-turned-blogpost. "Creating For A Better Industry" www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/cre... "Despite how misunderstood the internet was, there was this immense possibility space for us artists to shape what it meant to create there. It could become anything!" #GameDev