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SO to @remapradio.bsky.social for letting me go extremely long and self-indulgently about ZERO PARADES FOR DEAD SPIES, a game that knocked me fully on my ass again and again. 100/100 👉🏽🐬s Go read it!!! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 remapradio.com/articles/zer...

It's always a treat when reality decides to go and pinch your Neurocracy plot threads.

With Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, @zaumstudio.bsky.social found the pen put down at the end of history, and with it wrote a eulogy at its resumption. noescapevg.com/review-zero-...

Oh we talking fake citations? Here are a few particularly salient ones from Neurocracy why not

hello it’s me with a mildly sprained ankle screaming from the rooftops, ZERO PARADES IS THE TITS!!! THIS GAME HAS THE JUICE!

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

Some recent level design and asset work in progress. #GameDev

Don’t trust someone who doesn’t have VLC on their laptop.

my favorite genre of international dialogue

now seeking: sickos! game2 is reaching the stage where the slice is finally ready for early playtesting and feedback, and for stage one I'm seeking people who are into: -anti-fascist military scifi -lots of reading -games that are mean to you -my work or any combination of the above!

Nah, sorry. I'm endlessly sad we didn't get the other episodes, but I don't want it zombified 20 years on by unrelated people in a completely different zeitgeist. The sooner we learn to accept the death of old art and how to actually preserve it, instead of capitalising on it, the better.

Hello, 

 We're *this* close to announcing our new, self-funded indie game.

 We could use your help

! If you enjoyed Phoenix Springs, please help us one last time by spreading the good word to your fellow ambiguity freaks. 

It's 50% off this week 🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/1973310/...

"It was challenging enough to remember a dream after waking from it, now I had to remember one while I was still in it" REVERIE is a speculative fiction novelette that uses consumer-grade brain implants to ask whether dreams constitute lived experiences Available here: playthroughline.com/reverie

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watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now

It’s #webcomicday ! Phobos and Deimos is about a teenage refugee from Mars who moves to Earth, which is run by a hostile algorithm. www.phobos-comic.com

In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.

“We, the creators of the Torment Nexus, are now suing the writers of the classic science fiction novel ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.’”

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

📜 HEAVEN'S VAULT - BOOK 4 📜 The Rising Light is OUT NOW from the inkle bookshop! 📕 shorturl.at/o6tqJ 📕 The floodwaters have risen. A new threat looms. The only hope is a lost legend. Can a secret be hidden in a single word? Aliya and Six will have to travel beyond the rivers to find out...

This week we have a great piece looking at the subversion of power arcs in fallen order by @goneefk.bsky.social to kick off our latest Archetype, Chase Sequences.

Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains.

yo what's up, I've got a new lil project out. it's a zine I made in a day, featuring two reviews: one of Marathon (2026) and one of Armored Core VI (2023). it's 2 bucks for 28 pages of extremely crunchy jpegs thresholded to within an inch of their life, and also my writing. enjoy

Gareth provides an incisive analysis of Marathon as an actual game, from the perspective of a game developer. This feels very rare to me, someone who has the benefit of so much game design experience but also writes like a critic. And Marathon is such a rich subject, too. I really love this article

Folks, Next Level is out now in bookshops and online and many of you already have copies and I'm so grateful! Just a few last things before I stop talking about it quite as much as I was this week... first, I have an auxiliary site for the book here: www.possibilityspace.org/nextlevel/

🌖 Amberspire is OUT NOW! 🌇 A dice driven science fantasy city builder. Grow your city atop a mausoleum moon, interact with strange weather and ecology, gain influence to make deals with powerful off-world factions, experience the history of a future city. PC, Mac, Steam Deck s.team/a/3350750

played amberspire for ye old eurogamer and had a fine old time realizing that years of exposure to sid meier made me into a psychopath

When a 10 walks past

HAPPY CITIZEN SLEEPER DAY! 🎉 The series is 4 today and I have ⭐NEWS⭐ 🚀 Announcing CITIZEN SLEEPER: HELION RISING, a full TTRPG in the CS universe, coming 2027! ⭐LAST CHANCE to get CS2: DESIGN WORKS at Lost in Cult! ◼️What's next for JOTA? Something is growing in the dark, see it emerge June 7th...

I'm looking for new subjects for PC Gamer's Weird Weekend column. Are you making a PC game that's odd as heck? Are you part of an unusual gaming community? Does your work intersect with games in a curious way? Is there a gaming-related mystery you'd like explored? Get in touch at [email protected]

shit like art and qa going to ai first is just because those are the things the execs understand the least

While Neurocracy wasn't part of #InterfaceX26 (since it's not on Steam), I must assume the showcase event was responsible for a sudden spike in itch.io sales 🥹 A big thank you to the devs and organisers who brought together such a wonderful community of #FakeOS games!

Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is the Trump-certified safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz

Can you believe he learned to read just for this book

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

Interested in an anticapitalist apocalypse? Then you should check out my Glasslands zine! It's got 18 original illustrations and a 15 page short story all about building community in the hardest of times Go and grab it for free, or leave a donation! xavierck.itch.io/glasslands

This month on PAPER LABYRINTHS, we talk with Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social about her work on Amberspire, games in historical context, the Whiggish nature of skill trees, and narrative plausible deniability. sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...

Incredibly sad to hear about Endless Mode/Paste/AV Club's games section going. Some brilliant work being done there. Budget is tight (as is my actual time these days), but I will always, always hear a pitch for Eurogamer if you have something smart to say, or an interesting story to tell.

Hey #halflife nerds (Half-nerds? Herds? I'll work on that one), do you like crowbars, ammo models, and other odds and ends? Of course you do. Enjoy: gamebanana.com/mods/673639 gamebanana.com/mods/673651 More info: ambientimpact.com/unforeseen

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

[Emotional voice] "Before I met you... my heart was lost media. But then you turned it into found footage..."

I dunno, they can go sideways really fast

I've just uploaded my Glasslands zine to Itch! Go get it for zero moneys!! It includes 18 illustrations as well as an original 15 page short story, and there's even a PDF laid out specifically so you can print it and read it on the toilet! xavierck.itch.io/glasslands

U.V.S. Nirmana! This will be the last game that I write and score for a while.

Here's a little more Marathon writing by me. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/04/29/c...

#59 When you watch a couple of pop science youtube vids and then decide you're cut out to explain the simultaneity paradox to your wife

I think Amberspire's first big break from traditional city-builders that people will recognize is not being able to place exactly where your residents will go. This is a very deliberate choice that the game is structured around, and is the entryway to the kind of ideas the game is playing with.