The funding campaign for @austinwalker.bsky.social's Realis is live. It's so beautiful and I'm so excited to see it in the world. Here is an illustration I did for the book - "Honing"

please help these cool folks out!!

I'm traveling to PAX East this year with our entire 2026 graduating class at Pratt Game Arts, who will be showing their capstone games in progress at booth #21104, right across from twitch!

this web poem by Helen Shewolfe Tsang involves painstakingly removing bones from a milkfish as you uncover the words in the poem. genius execution

I couldn't be more excited to announce something I've been working on for a long time - Please welcome Belltower House Artist Residency, a multidisciplinary gift of time in my erstwhile home in southern New Mexico, now accepting applications for 2026. belltowerhouse.org

Nearly one in five people in Lebanon have been forced from their homes as Israel launches new 'ground operations' https://aje.news/3grqr2

Realis—the moon-hopping TTRPG by @austinwalker.bsky.social—lands on Kickstarter April 2026! Featuring 55 classes, 150+ NPCs, 100+ illustrations, expanded GM & homebrew guidance, and much more, bookmark the campaign today at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru... | teaser art: @decassette.bsky.social

SF this Thursday: join us for ALL CHAT, an evening of performances and experimental presentations on games — no pitches 🎮 RSVP: lu.ma/allchat tiat @ 151 Powell St, San Francisco 3/12 Thurs 6–8PM Hatim Benhsain mut/moochi Jackie Liu Everest Pipkin Chia Amisola shm garanganao almeda Kaloyan Kolev

Two places you can find me this GDC… Today, in the conference proper, for Spreadsheets Microtalks with 6 wonderful copresenters at 4:30. I’ll be speaking on spreadsheet design for realtime webgame integration. The most technical and normal talk I’ve ever given? schedule.gdconf.com/session/spre...

wait no this is actually incredible youraislopbores.me

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

the united states government's almost pathological framing of their violence as liberation is so ghoulish. illegal, deadly, evil airstrikes, a senseless war announced in the middle of the night, and still the framing is "liberation". it's sickening

The world's two rogue states, Israel and the USA, have started a war not against Iran but against the whole world. We stand with Iranians, with Humanity, against the notion that Israel and the US can bomb anyone their fancy takes them to bomb. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

CD is 100 dollars or so short of sustainability. Incredibly valuable resource for anyone who cares about games, whether for research or just casual reading. Also like... look lmao, web's as fractured as it's ever been. Having the roundup gather a bunch of cool stuff you'd never see otherwise is good

I saw blue links on wikipedia looking partially faded, and I was wracking my brain trying to figure out what the heck was going on, until I remembered I had @everest.bsky.social's "Desire Paths for Wikipedia" installed

a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing

May I interest you in GOD'S BASTARDS, my new comic set in a Dark Souls-like world of powerful magical divas? I'm gonna be posting a couple pages a day here for the next few weeks, but you can read what I've got so far for free on my Patreon.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

just found out st patricks cathedral (nyc) has geothermal wells almost 2000 ft deep. literally piping in heat from hell

It could be really bad for Discord if Californians contact the office of the Attorney General to report the potential violations of CCPA and CALOPPA citing the recent breach from a few months back where 1.5tb of user data and millions of IDs were leaked, but who can say for sure?

I've just published a new userscript that remembers the path of your cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, averaging and wearing them into the page, showing your browsing history over time Install at greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5... or read more about it everest-pipkin.com#projects/des...

"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..." kfoxtv.com/news/local/n...

I've just published a new userscript that remembers the path of your cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, averaging and wearing them into the page, showing your browsing history over time Install at greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5... or read more about it everest-pipkin.com#projects/des...

were it not for the active exploitation of contract workers i would find this neopets ttrpg debacle really enjoyable. what a treat to have an adaptive work that completely crashes the original thing through a plate glass window

very generous of zoe, and as always, all agitprop i've drawn is available to print for whoever wants it drive.google.com/drive/folder...

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.

pantomime opposition. all we have is each other

There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it. News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

It has been an incredible experience working with @meredithgran.com on Perfect Tides: Station to Station. So much thought and care went into the words, story, art, music, and systems (yes, systems), and it is amazing to see it already resonating so much with players who value those things.

First and most importantly is to recognise its legacy. Freeplay was the longest-running independent games festival in the world. It was one of the first dedicates spaces for the countercultural and political side of gamemaking.

Really sad to hear today that Freeplay Independent Games Festival is likely coming to the end of its adventure in 2026 after 22 incredible years. Freeplay has been pivotal to my own career and I have some complex, straight out contradictory feelings about the announcement I wanna try to articulate.

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years

ICE came to Ohio State University job fair to recruit students. Students protested and ICE arrested three students.

I made another small video tool: BLENDO VIDEO KNIFE 🔪 github.com/blendogames/... This is a tool to cut a video file into separate segments with custom filenames. I made this to handle some old family VHS tapes lol Fill in the timestamps, drag in the video file, done

placeholder art is supposed to look like this. you're supposed to make it in 5 seconds. it's a crucial part of the process because a placeholder will often be remarkably similar to the final art/text, because you were unburdened by bigger details when you made it.

this is today! come see what my students have been making

new game release: Rainbows Are Carnivores is an experimental gay fishing romance / aquaculture management sim. Free, 10-20 min, play in mobile or desktop browser radiatoryang.itch.io/rainbows

Imma retweet this not to further discourse on the skyline, but because it's always a joy to read Austin's prose.

Join us on December 12th for an end of semester showcase & playtest of capstone works in progress from Pratt Game Arts seniors!

this is the platonic ideal of a wikipedia gif, to me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%...

I'm not able to attend PAX Unplugged this year, but it's always so good to have my work there through IPR (who do so much for us crowd-shy writers). They've got copies of both The Ground Itself & World Ending Game at the booth if you've been looking to pick them up!

I've spent the last few days just thinking about how completely perfect this screenshot is

Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS! ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

this is today! we'll be approximately here. look for the rainbow parachutes. some reminders: - wear warm clothes, it's 47F at best! we're outside for 3 hours, sometimes standing still - bring a mug / cup of some sort for tea - if you want, bring a toy / prop of some kind to play with