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👀 Last Call for ELO26, folks! ✨ Share your research and your digital creations with us!! >>hosted fully online July 15-18, 2026<< stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/ Please circulate widely 🙏 #ai #elit #dh #allthehashtags

if you want to support visual novel devs: - wishlist our games on Steam - leave reviews / ratings for them on store platforms - tell friends about our games - recommend them to streamers to play - share posts on social media - tell a developer you enjoy their work

Boston friends! Anna will be talking about game writing next week and you should go see her.

eXistenZ is a movie that anyone working in games should watch. Prescient in a lot of ways, it's also a story about a woman game designer who is getting chased by men who don't like how she designs games. (Yes, really.)

We’re looking for someone at a senior level to work with the best faculty and students in game design.* come join us! *okay, I’m a bit biased.

"[W]orkload creep can in turn lead to cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. The productivity surge enjoyed at the beginning can give way to lower quality work, turnover, and other problems." hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

👇 This, forever ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Can’t go out today unless I get one of those Olympic Games coats to brave the cold and wind in NYC. (Temperature in Celsius.)

Unfortunately we've had a last-minute loss from the Routledge Companion to Video Games and History, and so if there is anyone who'd be interested in contributing a chapter on the history of India in video games (from any perspective, range of case studies welcome) please get in touch asap with me!

We just released the 2025 Impact Report for Game Devs of Color. It's 39 pages of what we accomplished in 2025, since founding, and priorities for 2026 and beyond. Grateful to work with such a brilliant team. The 2026 GDoCExpo is Sep 22 - 25, with speaker & game applications opening late Feb!

Preorder Now! - Oracle of the Divine - Around the Sun: Stories and Symbols from Across the World I’ve started compiling a list of *some* of the places you can order these from World Wide! ➡️ www.yoshiyoshitani.com/oracle-of-th... Let me know if there is a country you’d like me to look up/add

This is brilliant and timely but also interesting. The play 'Sir Thomas Moore' was actually by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle but was later revised by other writers, including this bravura section attributed (with some evidence) to Shakespeare. An early example of script doctoring.

Holding out hope for some kind of tax break or grant for New York indie devs!

Do I know any South Asian game writers/narrative designers looking for a full-time contract?

❄️ Update: The GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ will be published soon - we just sent a proof to the authors. 400 pages - 100k+ words - 118 authors - including the writers from several well-beloved games and major franchises. If you want to be notified when it releases, you can add your name below!

As you may know, we are running a conference on games, play, and climate futures in May at the ITU Copenhagen: playingfutures.today Some news: the deadline for abstracts has been extended to February 20th. Now you have no excuses left not to submit!

BLACK GAME DEVELOPERS, WRITERS, ARTISTS AND CREATIVES AT LARGE I NEED YOU TO BE LOUD THIS MONTH*. I NEED YOU TO SHARE YOUR WORK LIKE YOU WILL DIE OTHERWISE, DO NOT BE PRECIOUS ABOUT ABOUT IT *This message also applies to every other month of the year, but the extra attention should be leveraged

a short piece called Potential Foreigner. a piece on the question "where are you from?". audio and written versions below: unaminhkavanagh.com/writing-pote... #writing

We happen to have a few extra passes, so @iftechfoundation.org is doing an IFTF x GDC Pass Scholarship Program! Check out this link for more info: intfiction.org/t/iftf-x-gdc...

A GDC poll has found that 31% of responding international developers have cancelled plans to attend the event this year, with a further 33% considering it, because people just don't feel safe travelling to the United States right now: aftermath.site/i-do-not-feel-...

i wrote about mothership.blog for @theguardian.com today by the way. thanks so much to @mackeza.bsky.social for the opportunity to tell more people about mothership and what we are doing with the site <3 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

Submit your narrative games to the Showcase! We want your cool games! Deadline Jan 31st. #interactivefiction #narrativegames #NarraScope

The original version of this speech said “Fuck the empire.” #andor

Extreme winter weather is coming this weekend, so why not hunker down and settle in with some cozy adventure games? store.steampowered.com/curator/4430...

We just updated the Forbidden Solitaire Demo on Steam after an incredible week of streamer coverage and wishlists gained. Thanks everyone! Get your eyeballs on this: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... #ScreenshotSaturday

Tengo la fortuna de participar con un capítulo sobre la imagen interactiva jugable y compartir plantel con tanta gente guapa e interesante. Es el libro que me hubiera gustado leer cuando empecé. #GameStudies #libro #book #ImagenInteractivaJugable #InteractivePlayableImage

Mark your calendars! The 3rd Annual Thinky Awards are on February 4th! 🎉 thinkygames.com/news/join-us...

Happy to see Sinners and Frankenstein being recognized during award season. Horror helps us tackle what makes us afraid, hits us in our very soul, and gets us through times of crisis. Good horror is political and should be uncomfortable beyond blood and guts. Long live horror!

📡 Signal blasting for new followers: I wanna do a lil intro abt ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social b/c we got an important fundraiser coming up in a few weeks. It's a free, open-access journal dedicated to game history, and if you love games, here's why you should care 🕹️🎲🀄🎯

🎙️Thanks to All Things Considered & @npr.org for highlighting the Internet Archive's 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest! 🎧 Listen to the item on NPR here ⤵️ www.npr.org/player/embed... #publicdomain #publicdomainday #publicradio

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

The world is crap and I can't fix it, but I hope this gives you a smile.

If you have a US mailing address, you can buy the book today with a hefty 30% discount! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/798035... Use the code MITP30 for 30€ today (20/1). After that, READMIT20 will get you 20%. mitpress.mit.edu/discount-cod...

GDC-goers, please get hyped for the IFTF's GDC Twine Adventure, an exquisite corpse anyone can contribute to in-person! We're partnering with Informa to bring live interactive fiction directly to your fingertips:

Happy Weekend! My tiny Over the Garden Wall adventure game has hit 10k plays on itch.io🎉! It's FREE to play https://juliaminamata.itch.io/otgw -- A nice way to spend a cozy half hour or so indoors. ❄️ There's also a walkthrough, no worries about getting stuck!

I am SO honored to have my game High Tide covered on Thinky Games—a site I frequent and read about puzzly games voraciously! “High Tide goes quick, and I have a lot of space in my life for a thinky, tactile, abstract style game that doesn’t overstay its welcome…”

Honestly, they could have paid me 1% of what they spent on this AI crap as a consultant fee and I could have told them that this specific thing would happen, and they could have saved money and provide better service.

The 19th Annual IndieCade Festival is now live! Find our event on the Steam homepage, along with our selection of indie games from so many amazing developers around the world! 🏆Plus, stay tuned for the #IndieCade #AwardCeremony streaming on #Steam and #YouTube TOMORROW 11:00 am PST/2:00 pm EST!

Lamplight City and Rosewater are both discounted this weekend. Grab them together in the World of Vespuccia bundle for less than $20! If you enjoy exploring detailed worlds and playing stories where your choices shape the narrative, you’ll love these games! store.steampowered.com/bundle/50641...

On this day one year ago, #DavidLynch left us for places wonderful and strange. Rest in Peace.

Hey Boston-area folks! If you're around, come say hi to me! I'm chatting with folks about game writing, story, and other cool stuff on February 19th

A public demo of the banned 1995 CD-ROM ‘Forbidden Solitaire’ is being leaked TOMORROW on #Steam. Authorities advise gamers to exercise extreme caution. Campaign groups, such as ‘Justice for Timmy,’ go further: urging players to delete all traces of the software if they are tempted to install it.

Crunch is bad. Crunch ruins lives. Crunch kills. Don't ask for it. Don't do it. It's bad. I can't believe I still have to say this after all these years.

I've been commissioned to write a piece about games based on real places that changed peoples' perception of that place or had some kind of local impact - are you a dev who made a game like this? Or are you a player who has a story about a game that inspired you to visit somewhere? Let me know!

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YES YES YES. This is also why we should talk about players rather than consumers in game dev. We need to change the discourse so that we can start thinking about new sustainable ways of being a game creator.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

"There is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it’s here. It’s here and it’s not visiting anymore. It wants to stay. The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we sleep." www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaKr...