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Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Waypoint is live 🚀 Nearly a year in the making — a custom-curated calendar for indie games, updated every few days with new gems. Every game since June 2024 (and more) is already in there. We’re building in public, and your feedback will shape it. 👉 waypoint.indieformer.com

It's a real hidden gem

In July 1984, Imagine Software went bankrupt and collapsed. Just over a year later, its name appeared at the top of the UK charts for the first time with Hyper Sports. New post on that story and how Ocean ended up with dual Daley Thompson's Decathlon sequels: www.superchartisland.com/hyper-sports

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.

Today I was the best. Final Fantasy 8 Any% world record speedrun - 8'18"26 This is everything to me. Years in the making, and it happened on my birthday of all days. Thank you to everyone who believed in me, even when I didn't believe in myself. Here's me crying about it 🙂🤠🥳🇦🇺

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ever since microsoft's layoffs in early july, the two zenimax unions have been fighting for impacted employees following the cancellation of the elder scrolls online studio's unannounced mmo. they've won laid-off workers more time (aka more pay), better severance, recall rights, and saved some jobs

as a fan of hard games like silk song, I can confirm that soft kitten experience is indeed a good video game that more people should play

All I'm getting from this is that Chilean music slaps

ngl the game having tank controls may be the actual selling point for me

You Are Peter Shorts - Any% in 28:37 (IGT) by Chief_PMB

Yeah, my discord has a vent channel. Every day one member is randomly assigned to be Gordon and the rest of us @ them with pictures of headcrabs in there. If they don't respond with :crowbar: within 20 seconds we ban them.

In one of my Words With Friends games, I just played FEET for 69 points

Between June 1983 and February 1985, fully 20% of the games to top the UK charts were by just one developer. Now I have reached their sixth and final #1, an example of a new genre of 3D platformer. My new post on Knight Lore, Alien 8, and the end of Ultimate: www.superchartisland.com/alien-8

The Japan-only Cowboy Bebop game for PS2 has just been fan translated by SONICMAN69.

Crazy Frog's cover of We Like To Party has really opened my mind to what covers can be They took a song that is explicitly about a party bus travelling across the country, and the only lyrics they changed is "The Vengabus" to "The Crazy Frog"

Ryoichi Hasegawa on the localisation process for the Japanese version of Ecco the Dolphin (released in June 1993 in Japan): xcancel.com/rio_hasegawa...

Over the last five months on my blog, I've written about the 19 different computer games to reach #1 in UK sales charts during 1984. I've made a post about the history of each one. Here is a thread with links to those posts, plus one thing I learned about each of them!

ICYMI, my post this week was on Underwurlde. Read about: - How "nothing breeds ingenuity like restriction" - The "ten billion smart-ass whizz-brats" reviewer dilemma - Someone "annoyed that Super Metroid strayed so far from the Underwurlde template" www.superchartisland.com/underwurlde

If you needed a reason to play any Toree games other than that they're sick as heck, now's a great time 🐤

I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh

An eloquent image: Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults. I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

When I set up my paypal account however many years ago, I typoed my first name as "Andrwe" instead of "Andrew" I went through the process they gave me to fix it, and at the end of the process a screen popped up that said "Okay Andrwe it's all fixed now!"

it's time to COMPLAIN about the delisting of NSFW games on steam and itch! tell these payment processors that they need to STOP listening to these boring anti-porn thought-policing friendless tossers and START LISTENING to us instead. there is no art without queers, sluts, perverts and weirdoes 💦

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plugging this one more time. last giant video for a while probably and produced under great pain and torment.

New video uploaded: Wacky History of Computer Scrabble youtu.be/HP90knHlYqc

As always there are good games by talented devs who don't use AI coming out at a rate so fast that you could not hope to keep up with it.

Pretty interesting study! This result is going to get misinterpreted in a bunch of different ways over the next few days, so I thought I'd share a few thoughts with you now to contextualise some of the stuff in the paper.

In the late '70s, a man in Iowa and a man in Edinburgh each started working on computerised Scrabble. Here's the story of how their work eventually came together in one hit game in 1984. Different types of popular games have always co-existed! www.superchartisland.com/computer-scrabble

Travelling by plane for the first time in a while On my flight of more than 100 people, I think at most 10 of them were wearing masks (including me) Covid still exists! It is still a problem! If you're going to get in a pressurized metal tube in the sky for a couple hours, just put on a mask!

I sat down on a chair today and it broke and collapsed out from under me always fun to try new things 10/10 do not recommend

In Scrabble for the original PlayStation, a bug causes triple-triple-triples to be granted only 15x the base score, rather than 27x.

shocking news: that thing i've been pitching to orgs for years and recently been yelling about all the time because nobody's doing it? we're doing it ourselves. hard to believe, i know.

Reminder we have a special one-off Scrabble challenge match with live streaming & commentary starting soon - Wellington vs Nsikak. Not familiar with Nsikak but Wellington is very exciting / mind blowing www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBjB...

This is a cool marathon, and also Craig is cool, so everyone should check out this cool run

june 24th, 2025: In a 1995 interview, when Will Wright, the designer of SimCity and The Sims, was asked what the biggest disappointment of his career up to that point was, he answered SimAnt, as he believed he "didn't do a good job of conveying how cool ants are."

please change to anything but spotify. like there’s a bigger shift that it’d be nice if people did with actually owning music again but the lowest effort thing you can do today right now is just change to literally any other streaming service. playlist converters exist.

I understand what this is but I can't read "algorave" as anything other than a dance party themed around former U.S. Vice President Al Gore

In the wake of Brian Wilson's death, I want to share an album that I came across about 8 years ago What do you get when a bunch of Japanese bands and musicians cover songs from Pet Sounds and Smile? You get Smiling Pets www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Vy...

You are Peter Shorts - The MULTI-PETER Update! Featuring ONLINE CO-OP and VERSUS! Out now on Steam & itch io!