🌐 NEUROCRACY 🌐 An episodic sci-fi hypertext game ✅ Fall into a wiki hole from the future ✅ Solve a murder across article edits ✅ Your investigation affects the outcome [citation needed] ⭐ "Ambitious" - The Guardian ⭐ "Brilliant" - Eurogamer ▶️ Dive in: omnipedia.app ▶️ More info: neurocracy.site

I have put together a SIXTY PAGE PREVIEW of Escape Velocity, available now for $3 members and up! Go check it out and support indie games media! www.patreon.com/posts/escape...

I don't know who made this but I feel it keenly.

Anyway speaking of inciting violence this has me laughing too hard

Hey play this game it's fun.

I promise I will stop talking about Neurocracy now* As one last hurrah, I would love to see the below post gain some traction. If you can, please boost it and I shall be forever in your debt! *🤞😏

🌐 NEUROCRACY 🌐 An episodic sci-fi hypertext game ✅ Fall into a wiki hole from the future ✅ Solve a murder across article edits ✅ Your investigation affects the outcome [citation needed] ⭐ "Ambitious" - The Guardian ⭐ "Brilliant" - Eurogamer ▶️ Dive in: omnipedia.app ▶️ More info: neurocracy.site

Congratulations to Dr Hervé! Her work on procedural generation and Minecraft has been really inspirational, and will have a long legacy. You should hire her - she’s an incredible researcher but also a seasoned industry game dev too!

And that's a wrap on Season 3! A tad bittersweet to be closing out both of my big creative projects for the summer in the same week, but it's been a great run regardless. Huge thanks to Joannes for letting me be a part of the Omnipedia team these past four years - it's an experience I'll treasure.

No Escape’s got a patreon and we use that patreon support to a) live, b) keep the site running and c) pay contributors*. Consider throwing a penny in the hat for continued good games criticism *not ordered by importance patreon.com/noescapevg

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

14k! Hell yeah!! 🔥💪 I'm Sophie, and I recently moved over to #krita for my work. Here's a couple of recent studies and some client work :)

with that said, if anyone wants to help me make a grimdark text heavy story game about space gynoids, uh, hello, call me i can probably give you interesting work, if not money

Really good piece about the intrusion of AI into interactive fiction spaces.

plz helpppp 👇

The tenth and final episode of Neurocracy has been released! Now the game begins 🌐🔍👀 There is *so much* I want to say about how this season was a culmination of the previous two, which I'll wrestle into a blog post when I can word good again 🫠 For now, just this: thank you all so much ❤️

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Re. RPS freelance, I now have a budget for irregular (maybe 6-12 pieces a year) 2000-3000 wordish, more granular and specific reporting and investigative criticism that broaches a new topic or addresses a gap in knowledge regarding something familiar.

Editor: You finished that tenth and final episode of Neurocracy? Me: I'm working on it boss

For my birthday, you should read Phobos & Deimos. it’s 300+ pages of slow-burn scifi drama, and is the only way I have of not being overwhelmed by anger at the state of things, as it’s set in a future that isn’t better than our world, but at least it’s not worse. www.phobos-comic.com

Right now I still have a lot of availability for contract work. I'm a video game designer and writer with a wide range of experience and credits on successful indie titles. You can see details and contact info at: brunodias.dev/consulting/

We've started off a new Patreon-only podcast, Laputan Machine, about the Deus Ex series, starting, of course, with Deus Ex. With @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social, @reidmccarter.bsky.social, and @youmeyou.bsky.social: www.patreon.com/posts/laputa...

(1/2) Good futurist writing is a mirror, and Neurocracy reflects conversations that are already relevant today. It's not about the evils of innately corrupt technology, but about surveillance capitalism, corporate and state power, and the use of data and disinformation to marginalise and disempower.

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We're shortstaffed on RPS and need some rad PC-minded freelancers for urgent review work. Specifically: - Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already) - Dying Light: The Beast - Silent Hill f Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at [email protected]

Combat librarians/cyber data archeologists for the cyberpunk future.

Neurocracy mentioned 😍

Given all the relevant talk of radicalisation, I want to point people at Closed Hands, an IGF-nominated, Arts Council funded narrative game I worked on in 2020/2021. It follows five characters in the aftermath of a bombing. Directed by Dan Hett, who lost his brother in the Manchester Arena attack.

in america if you don’t mourn the 21st century hitler youth program director you get fired from your job

Achievement unlocked! Neurocracy got a lovely mention on Rock Paper Shotgun 🤗 Thanks to @fiashouse.bsky.social for making it happen ❤️

i'm trans, i made a video game, you can buy it if you wanna

(1/2) Good futurist writing is a mirror, and Neurocracy reflects conversations that are already relevant today. It's not about the evils of innately corrupt technology, but about surveillance capitalism, corporate and state power, and the use of data and disinformation to marginalise and disempower.

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

A rather telling sign of the times. Matt from Mongoose explains a tweak to the "rescue a billionaire" sample adventure in their upcoming near-future RPG. #games #rpg #gooddog

"Be gay. Do crimes." Means when they make laws to ban your existence, persist.

WHITE HOUSE ON THE PHONE: keith… charlie kirk has been killed and we need you to issue condolences immediately STARMER: i don’t know who that is but yes sir right away sir [watching charlie kirk videos later on] oh shit… oh my god… oh fuck… this guy believes everything i do

i need names for these lil buns. #comic

We have a new issue just started on Mafia: The Old Country. @youmeyou.bsky.social writes about Hangar 13's rural Sicily as a diorama or a stage, and how it is not an 'open world' as is typically understood in games. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/09/10/a...

Unfortunately, you can’t paint a truly convincing portrait of our near future unless there’s at least one alpha-fail CEO-type up in the mix.

9/11 is a great time to remember that the imperial power will seize on any opportunity to do what it was going to do anyway, especially if it gets to do it under the gaudy pagentry of being the Aggrieved

🚨 The penultimate episode of Neurocracy is now online! It introduces Spencer Hagen, a villain into whomst I have funnelled the entire breadth of my seething hatred for entitled tech bros ✍️🔥 Please join me in my blatant disdain for him and his ilk: omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/09/Spencer_Hagen

Two things! 1. I'm back at RPS doing some freelance news shifts, so I'm open to weird and funky lil indies to write about 2. I played Omega Point by @cathroon.itch.io and you should too, it's gonna sit with me for a while

Bro where's her head

New trailer from me for the nasty, grimy (complimentary) PIGFACE! An immersive sim kind of action game with lots of creeping through tunnels and unpredictable outcomes. Was a joy replaying this multiple times to get all the footage I needed

The annual Interactive Fiction competition is open! 82 entries from the short and silly to the less short and serious, with a couple written in ink, alongside Twine, Inform and all the rest: ifcomp.org/ballot