we are writing a newsletter for @lauflauf.bsky.social now to talk about all the things we are doing with Castle Come and more. #indiegames #gamedev #games lauflauf.games/en/newsletter

can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about

Friends just released their wonderful game, check it out <3

And before anybody gets ready to say like "but ML for protein folding" or something: once you understand that "ai" is a political rather than technical project, you can grasp that it's possible to use predictive models in ways that do not serve that project and so by this definition are not "ai"

Ah... we found organic-carbon-bearing mudstone (fine-grained sedimentary rock) and some things strongly suggesting a diagnetic redox gradient. It's not strictly evidence for past life on Mars - but it's damn close. 🧪⚒️ Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evolution of cycling traffic in Switzerland 🚲 Strong increase since 2010 (+80% in urban areas) 🚲 Stable the last 2 years 🚲 Most cycling traffic at Langstrasse Zurich (Basel was long 1st with Wettsteinbrücke) 🚲 All data are now online! velo-ch.eco-counter.com?siteId=30005...

hey! I am basil, creative director @lauflauf.bsky.social I make playful interactions and talk about the intersection of creativity and politics.

Playful and so much arising complexity, love it.

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio had a budget of $35 million and every single character was moved one frame at a time by a human being. What the fuck are we even doing!!!!!!!

That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.

I love the way art creates more art by existing. It's like a microdosed religious experience. You get moved to creation. If I see an amazing painting, I have to paint. If I read a great comic, I have to make comics. Good art awakens something inside of you that you have to let out.

now that the internet has taken all the surprise and discovery out of nerd culture and made it trivially easy to be a completist as long as you dump dollars into it it's taken all the fun out of it and turned nerddom into an empty wealth flex

Canton of Zurich provides 4.5 mCHF for the next 3 years in funding for digital culture: games and interactive media. It also includes funding for strengthening the ecosystem! Registration starts today at Zurich Film Fund: filmstiftung.ch/digitale-kul... #swissgames

"Omg did you hear they made Cracker Barrell wok-" you bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn

Progress! The Steam page for ABSCONDER launched! ABSCONDER is about the hopelessness of an escape, the thrill of split second decisions and learning how to deal with limited vision. store.steampowered.com/app/3856940/... To support and keep yourself updated consider wishlisting.

✨Release Date Announcement✨ Henry Halfhead comes to Steam, EGS, PS5 and Switch on: 👁️September 16, 2025 👁️ 👃 Tell your friends, family and help us share this post!

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

haha yeah its a lot less interesting when it costs more than nothing

Part of what makes this art (an 'unreadymade' as I call it) is, unlike a screenshot of a chatgpt error, not just that it highlights LLMs being unfit for use, but what it reveals about the new forms of technical practice where people choose to engage in traditional work in an absurdly careless manner

These are ‘unreadymades’ (to play off of readymades). Accidental occurrences of functional artifacts that, through inherent flaws of modern technical practice, come into existence already cancelling out their own useful functions in a spectacular, ironic, etc. manner that turns it into art.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Pictures from our interactive rave with @lauflauf.bsky.social @buchons.bsky.social Learned a lot about the fragility of dancefloors and the complexity of game mechanics. #rave #game #interactive

As a software engineer, you must always (ALWAYS) design your software as if it'll be used by a dissident journalist working in an autocracy.

Tomorrow @/kulturtage schaffhausen. Catch @buchons.bsky.social and me enchanting the space with our interactive rave. Kammgarn, 23:00 #games #art #rave #music

Had to redownload instagram for some public story announcements and its incredible how intoxicating this app is. This is not ironic nor meant as a compliment. Insane how it ruins screentime. Cant wait to uninstall again.

The Summer (Game Fest) Before The Fall (Of America) aftermath.site/summer-game-...

Red Dead Redemption 2, in its insistence to prominently display horse testicles, continues the tradition of the 11th century Bayeux Tapestry, in which all depicted horses are stallions with very visible genitals, emphasizing the capability, control and masculinity of the riders. In this essay I will

Wikipedia... IS THE SUMMARY. THAT'S WHAT AN ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE IS. A SUMMARY.

We‘re participating with the demo of our game Henry Halfhead!! Thanks for your help! 👁️👃👁️💜

Fix my charts! New game coming soon: Pocket Boss pocketboss.ch Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3509180/...

The artwork of #IllusionCity by Yukio Kitta used on the cover of the #Sega #MegaCD in Japan, albeit with added characters on top. Usual upscale/clean/retouch process applied.

digging through this interview again and even if one catches just some seconds, it is so good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7...

So the preparations for our interactive rave are going great. Catch us June 20th @/kulturtage schaffhausen #interactions #music #code

Y’all remember google glass? Y’all remember what killed it? And it looked way less goofy than holding your phone up to record like people do now. But it failed because the social contract at the time (and still) said you don’t semi-surreptitiously record people in public unless you’re a creep.

Technologies, even widespread ones, do not *necessarily* determine social norms and goods. If you can’t stop a social harm on the level of force/physical coercion (technology) you can often stop it on the level of consensus (custom, norms, law, governance).

i would simply make a video game at the scale of breath of the wild with a small team without ai

In der ersten Woche seit Eröffnung kann der #Stadttunnel bereits rund 5000 Velo-Durchfahrten pro Tag verzeichnen. Auch in Zürich zeigt sich damit, dass sichere, autofreie Fahrrad-Infrastruktur einem dringenden Bedürfnis entspricht. Build it, and they will come! #velostadt #verkehrswende #velozh

Dream duo! #music #coding

I think about this every day

Dev Friends cooked up their wonderful demo, check it out below. So playful <3

Tripped over a thread about people who think it's important that LLMs mean you can be friends, in the social and psychological sense, with your computer. This belief is going to create a very weird social gap between people who believe this and people who know it's not (and can't be) a thing.

Am ersten Tag nach der Eröffnung haben rund 7000 Radler:innen den neuen Velotunnel am Hauptbahnhof Zürich befahren. Nun zügig vorwärts mit der #Velowende!

Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-

The German office for the protection of the Constitution has, after a long period of monitoring, declared the AfD a “confirmed far-right party” — a landmark decision, meaning they’ve been declared a party that acts against the German Constitution and democratic order: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

"All tools we use today are deeply social, historical objects that have embedded the knowledge and experiences of hundreds or thousands of people in order to create “progress”[…]And the big “AI” systems that supposedly are “just tools” now do not have any of t...Are “AI” systems really tools?

Swiss Game Hub opening party in #Zurich today! Open to all! www.swissgamehub.com/swiss-game-h...