go out and vote today and make sure you vote for Mamdani on the WFP line!!! Send a message to the DNC about what values people want from their elected officials!!!

Time for the OCTOPAD OPEN! From 7-11PM on 11/7 @alt254.bsky.social & @chouxsalad.bsky.social will be at Boshi's to scout teams w/ the HEXADECIPAD, a 16-player controller for the NES that turns head-to-head games like Tetris, Tecmo Bowl, & TMNT: Tournament Fighters into team-vs-team tournaments!

And it begins...Hell Gate's Election Day live blog is here! Our first dispatch is from a polling site in a corner of Flatbush that Andrew Cuomo won during the primary. Are voters feeling Cuomo-mentum? Well: hellgatenyc.com/election-day...

New Game: Egg terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg

Folks in the US, send us your stories of your experiences with your public library systems! Are you part of your library board/ raised funds/organised to keep your library open/part of your friends group? We want to hear it all!: librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/for-the-pe...

new trailer of our online multiplayer climbing game, pondlife: discone (a videogame)! we have some new stuff to show off soon that we're excited for you to see. #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

disco revival (@marioparty.blog) ""Is there love after life?" : mythical, spooky, confusing but in an exciting way" Free - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/10/30/d...

Come work with me!

 We've opened the search for a full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Game Arts at Pratt Institute. 

A good match would be an artist, game developer, or educator with an active creative practice in indie games, game studies and theory, playful coding, or art games.

Recently I've been doing some work for @castle.xyz and for their halloween event I made this path-drawing high score game! You can play it in browser as well as in app, my best score is 28 and the current world record is 35 :O castle.xyz/d/gy-VNhDdGFvT

Small release-day housekeeping note: The Steam version... is alive! You can get it right now! store.steampowered.com/app/3649490/... The eShop page for the Nintendo Switch version will be up in 1 hour and 45 minutes! Please hold the champagne uncorking until then!

Six days left and a whole lotta doors to knock. Let's get it: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

i almost missed that there's a new helen dewitt book out, which for me is something of a seismic event. her book The Last Samurai is one of the all time great comic novels imo, and she is a truly singular stylist. couldn't be more excited for her new novel dalkeyarchive.store/products/you...

Do not be a doomer about this. Just call your New York friends and remind them to vote, and tell them to do the same. He is more popular and will win with good turnout.

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some people have been asking for colour in Stellations

It bears repeating: USDA has a $5 billion contingency reserve that it refuses to utilize to continue SNAP benefits. This was the USDA's *own plan* at the start of the shutdown—now quietly deleted from its website. This is as blatant an example of "hunger is a policy choice" as you will ever see.

The line up for No Quarter 2025 is finally live alongside tickets & a shiny new visual identify. This year's event will debut new playful commissions from the superlative... Jana Romanova 🟡 @nicole.pizza + @okremiok.bsky.social 🟡 @alt254.bsky.social + @chouxsalad.bsky.social 🟡 Julián Cordero

yeah, well, Microsoft's decision to donate money to Trump's ballroom project is all the "comment" anyone needs here

One food bank in Virginia saw a 65% increase in visitors since last year, more than at the height of the pandemic. “We thought it would come back down and it hasn’t,” the food bank’s chief philanthropy officer said. “It keeps growing.” (Published Oct. 3)

i've got a small piece in this, alongside other great artists :)

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Coming in Spring 2026: Oeuf, a 3D physics platformer where U egg. Wishlist innit. store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/...

this is tonight, come through!

Rhizomatic compound, the first Decadence video game is now live on steam to wishlist! We are excited to share with you this unique interactive comics experience. WISHLIST ON STEAM NOW!!

POLLS ARE NOW OPEN. Find out where you early vote ⬇️ 🗳️ findmypollsite.vote.nyc

Good article by @im.giovanh.com about a "cozy" airport security game. Wholesome games tend to reimagine labor -and reality as a whole- as we'd like it to be: beautiful, tidy, meaningful, social... but why would there be terrorist threats in this utopia? blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10...

THIS COMING SATURDAY 👻

Last 10 days to get my new comic, "Albo!" on @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social ! Shortbox is a fully digital comics fair so you can read it absolutely anywhere in the universe (but especially enjoyable on 🌏)! www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

this Saturday (10/25), come out for our third annual DAY OF DRY BONES. we'll be showing scary games, movies, and a dj set. come dressed bb -- 7pm to late!

Promesa is such a beautiful game -- play it if you haven't!

Today Promesa is 5 years old! Don't have much to say, other than I'm proud of my little boy, and I have the itch to do some more of these. Links below 😎

~GAME RELEASE~ Onto Maizilind Unto Infinity (OMUI) is OUT NOW!!! on Steam and Itch for F R E E! It is a first-person narrative horror game about the Iranian revolution, nuclear war, and my Uncle Ramin's suicide. Please share and leave a review on Steam if you are able to!!!

I've been helping Kas with his game for the last couple of years. What started as an autobiographical nightmare set in an alternate world, is now making its way into ours. So, the nuclear prophecy is out now for you to play!

Californians, let’s call (916) 445-2841 to tell Newsom’s office to sign the following pro LGBTQ+ rights bills before the deadline: AB 82/SB 497 AB 1084/SB 59 SB 418 AB 554 AB 728 AB 678 SB 590 SB 450

Hi all, Skin Deep is 25% off in the Steam Autumn Sale 🍂 store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S... ...AND we just released an update today, just for you: store.steampowered.com/news/app/301...

My 6-year game project about Iran, my family, the apocalyptic scenario of nuclear war, and the tragedy of suicide — Onto Maizilind Unto Infinity — comes out tomorrow on Steam and Itch! Could not have made it this far without @yulelepalacios.bsky.social and his beautiful artwork!

#flickgame with 128 pages? yeah why not...pls let me know if I've broken anything. www.flickgame.org/index_big.html

sorry, the day should say SATURDAY 10/18! not friday! saturday! :)

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Onto Maizilind Unto Infinity will be releasing this Tuesday October 7, 2025 for PC for FREE(!!!) on Steam and Itch.io! Check out the release trailer and find all details about the game on its very own website: omui.me ~Please share ~!!!

join us on friday 10/18 for an international crossover event with our friends from [[rect*]]repair in shanghai! at the same time they will be showing our games in new york, we'll have a curation of chinese games, a portal to interact with the attendees in shanghai, and a fax machine(?!!).

Outside these walls, the Children say, the grown-ups are monsters, and nowhere is safe. Discover our bittersweet fairy tale RPG #StrayChildren on October 30th, 2025, when it releases on Nintendo Switch and Steam! Wishlist it now: store.steampowered.com/app/3649490/...

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

You could be breathing this pixelated salty air for just over 1 USD omg store.steampowered.com/app/3187550/...

Gonna go see and/or play asses.masses (assesmasses.work) by Milton Lim and Patrick Blenkarn this weekend and the theater was like "could you write something about games" and I was like "but I haven't even seen it yet" and they were like "that's ok just write" so here nyuskirball.org/article/naom...

new kruttika comic !!

interesting takeaway about the distinctions between class and education in the US

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

After over 2 years cooking in Steam Early Access, Mars First Logistics 1.0 is finally here! Engineer your little rover and deliver lots of silly stuff!