Went to The International House of Curry aka CoCo Ichibanya WORLD, aka fast food chain cosplaying as fancy food. Was good. Met up with indie game translator extraordinaire @npckc.net and @nicolith.bsky.social. Many games nominated at A MAZE. were translated into Japanese by nicolith. So cool.

I still don't know how I survived making this. Try out Dust to Dust (extreme seizure warning) and all the other games that use Counter-Strike as the material for art.

Check out Dinwaa. It's a short visual novel about life as a switchboard operator in 1911 Chinatown. The Chinese Telephone Exchange was operated by a group of women that spoke five dialects of Chinese and had over 2000 names and numbers memorized.

city::ephemera has 99 ratings. Whether you liked it or hated it, now is your chance to take the coveted 100th spot. infinitetears.itch.io/cityephemera

New Exhibit:Play Curation 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿-𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲 Curated by @farfama.bsky.social Counter-Strike as creative material. These projects use the classic multiplayer shooter as a canvas for artistic experimentation.

Started playing the nominations. It's been a really enjoyable experience. I'm making sure to write lots of notes and to play with a clear focused mind. After every game I go for a long walk to reflect and think instead of moving on to the next one. Treating every game with full care and attention.

Me, @gaemz.bsky.social, and @kaho.bsky.social are hosting an Alternate Reality game jam with Shanghai based collective [[rect*]]repair. If you're free in Tokyo on Saturday March.21st, signups are still open for the in-person [[alternative reality]]: JAM!. More details here itch.io/jam/alternat...

This week I've been really focused on some unique curated lists for @exhibitplay.com. - Struggling Standup Comedians - Arthouse Counter-Strike - Diegetic Game Boy Gameplay - Desert Wandering (focused on minimal gameplay, atmosphere, getting lost) - Wintery Wandering (same as above but winter)

I made my first original blender model. It's an Ethiopian basket. Used as wall decoration, but also to hold items or food. Texture sourced from a recent trip to Ethiopia.

so excited to be judging A MAZE entries this year - SO many cool and beautiful works to immerse myself in and share with you all 🔥

Super excited to be part of the jury for the A MAZE. Awards this year. So many incredible nominations. Feeling grateful for the opportunity to play a big role in the award show. See you in Berlin!

Testing Unity's strand-based hair package. It works pretty well for what I want to do. One of the main systems in TORI is the characters hair getting longer and longer throughout the experience.

We are excited to share the nominees for the 2026 A MAZE. Awards!  Congratulations to all the selected works!🦩 A huge thank you to all the incredible variety of interactive works, 435 entries from 78 countries, submitted. 🏆   #AMazeAwards #amaze2026 #mbbfunded #arthousegames

Tomorrow I'll be sharing two curated lists for @exhibitplay.com I made focused on short form atmospheric wandering. Deserts and Winter. No objectives or goals. Wandering as the main mechanic. It's also the direction I want to go with this site more. Small group of games. Less is more approach.

Check out the Dig Deeper section for a lot of cool links including a paper by @emmavphd.bsky.social titled "Tom Nook, Capitalist or Comrade?: On Nook Discourse and the Millennial Housing Crisis"

kevin’s PLAYING in berlin is out! Play it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3982990/... Play it on itch: kevindu.itch.io/berlin

New from Exhibit:Play 𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 Curated by @farfama.bsky.social Megastructure parkour games focused on vertical traversal, speed-climbing, and precision platforming through monolithic architecture. Filter by the aesthetics of brutalism, industrial, frutigo aero, and liminal.

Just finished playing Love Eternal. It's more than just a well made precision platformer. I'm not good at these games, but I happily stuck with it because of the unconventional storytelling that uses games as materials to tell an experimental narrative. I enjoyed it a lot. Very evocative atmosphere.

I just watched this deeply personal video essay about a lot of incredible tiny experimental games. @titanomachyrpg.com talks about these games with a lot respect, reflection, and attention. ocean::ephemera is discussed in the video alongside many other incredible experiences.

Question for anyone with Blender/texturing experience. What would the workflow look like to buy actual clothes (shirt, pants, hat), take photos of them together laid out flat (as if someone was wearing an outfit), and then mapping them to a low poly 3D character model?

Also found this interesting TTRPG where you need to solve a small town mystery through a group chat. "...instead of speaking, send text messages back and forth to the other characters in a group chat, as well as individually, as though they aren’t in the same place together." www.aliceismissing.com

At GÆMZ Tokyo meetup tonight, @thisisdotiris.bsky.social showed this meticulously crafted, deeply atmospheric liminal exploration game based on walking through Tokyo suburbs at night. Being made with a lot of care and attention by a two person (husband and wife) studio. Really looking forward to it.

New Exhibit:Play Curated List Curated by @farfama.bsky.social 🧠 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡-𝐍𝐨𝐢𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 🧠 exhibitplay.com/tech-noir-ne... Neural hacking interfaces, memory manipulation, and dystopian mysteries in this curated collection of tech-noir brain hacking games.

Today’s the day!!! “David Lynch in Games: The Politics of the Surreal” going live at 6pm GMT youtu.be/xhojVR8vRjk?...

messed with some shaders and it turned out really cool

My game curation project @exhibitplay.com received its first supporter! This will go towards a fund for commissioning written pieces and original micro games based on one of the current lists. A call for pitches will happen soon. If you have the means, you can support the project on buymeacoffee.

On Monday 2 February at 6pm GMT, grab two cookies and a Gaza Cola, and join us for Game Assist’s first ever video podcast! We talk about David Lynch’s influence on games and the politics of the surreal for 3 hours, and we’ve even made some skits for you… Link to the premiere in reply!

Forgot to cite this quote. It's from the book 'Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy' by @benadavis.bsky.social. It's an incredible analysis of the current state of art. The quote is aptly at the very end of the 'AI Aesthetics and Capitalism' chapter.

Next Wednesday I'll be hosting our first experimental games meetup of the year. Come share what you're working on! Everyone is encouraged to share a bit about what you're working on. Share the ups, downs, sideways, and insides of your passion projects in this cozy little space.

I wish all games had a mode where it turns off all objectives, UI, encounters, quests, etc and just lets you vibe and appreciate well crafted environments. It becomes a completely different experience when you roam with only your own zero distraction curiosity.

I'll be at Tokyo Indies tonight to support my friends presentations about his game Doom Spiral. I've been helping out with the project a bit and it'll be releasing soon! He'll be sharing how the feedback at various Tokyo Indies demo sessions has helped the project.

The Procession of Horses in Motion. A 5 minute 55 second experimental software film made with Unity3D that renders thousands of horses in realtime. The focus for this was purely on cinematic poetics rather than interactivity. Download and watch infinitetears.itch.io/the-processi...

Had a fun design session with some friends to brainstorm the art direction for a community organization focused on forging connection. It embraces messiness, natural texture, collage, handwriting, tactility. The process will be more analog and take more time. But it will contain the full human touch

Prototyping a game concept titled "deathbed doomscrolling"

2026 is going to be the year I start making more autobiographical focused vignette games. Games about waiting for the bus in Winnipeg during -50°C winters. Games about walking 6 hours to see 20000 birds land on a pond. Games about going to Ethiopia after 30 years to see my grandma.

There aren't a lot of fencing games. Even less that are local multiplayer. Here are 5. Enjoy!

Check out this wonderful collection of game poems! I helped out as one of many first readers, reviewing a lot of submissions. So many incredibly projects that explored the poetic potential of games really well. The final selection has a wide range of thought provoking, and visually unique games.

Prototype for a surreal language learning game. Imagining this as the sequence that happens when you have achieved full understanding of a word.

Yeah! Yeah ! Thank you @farfama.bsky.social for compiling an amazing overview of the 2012-2025 @amazefest.bsky.social award winners. I’m stoked! #AMaze2026 #berlin #arthousegames #indiegames #playfulmedia

The Procession of Horses in Motion (@infinitetears.bsky.social, @farfama.bsky.social) "A 5 minute 55 second software film" PWYC - Windows: warpdoor.com/2026/01/10/t...

Worked on this slowly throughout the last month. Lots of incredibly unique games to explore from @amazefest.bsky.social. My favourite part of this was adding the flamingo confetti explosion.

it does not get more honest and relevant than this. this is the heartbeat of alt games.

Starting the year running with a new release. Not a game! A film. A software film. When I made this on January.1st, I didn't even know it was the year of the horse. It was fate...

This has been a fun side obsession for me. Cataloging and organizing niche games feels like treasure hunting. This whole process has made me really appreciate the work of curation. This year hoping for some collaborations with writers, artists, devs, researches, and curators. exhibitplay.com

Helped my friend today with some bug testing and feedback on his [STATIC NOISES] shooter. It's got great visual and sound design inspired by other intense shooters like Hyper Demon.

I watched Twilight for the first time today. Strange movie. Don't know how to describe the experience, but here's a screenshot I took of one scene that explains how I feel.

Shared some end of the year reflections. Check it out!

Dust to Dust by @infinitetears.bsky.social: infinitetears.itch.io/dust-to-dust

This was one of my favourite games of the year. Highly recommend you check it out if you love games like Halo:CE and Half Life 2. Incredible level design and world building. It's also very short which is a big plus for me personally. Happy to see that this game is getting lots of praise.