“if you want to feel something in this big big world. To see every color, every character in desperate search for some human warmth, to understand and befriend them as we ourselves are looking for genuine connection.” Based off a popular letterboxd list. What are you suggestions?

Farfama here. I'm in Barcelona for the Game Arts International Assembly in Barcelona. I'll be talking about Exhibit:Play and the motivations for why I made it and what I hope it will become. More importantly, I'll get to hang out with a bunch of cool people in a wonderful city.

New Exhibit:Play Curation Indigenous Voices of Turtle Island This list features games made or heavily consulted by Indigenous developers, artists, storytellers, elders, and members of the community based in Turtle Island (so-called North America). exhibitplay.com/indigenous-v...

"Links are the lifeblood of the web, and linking to other sites is a declaration of independence. Its a declaration that says, “I am the infrastructure of the web, I am not content, nor am I a product, I am a human and a participant in this great work of humanity we call the Internet”."

Can you guess what these games have in common?

Some new additions to the Game-Worker Cooperatives list. @giantbomb.bsky.social @rascal.news @aftermath.site @aesthetic.games New tag filters (Development and Journalism) exhibitplay.com/game-worker-...

Congrats to @roguesite.bsky.social for the launch of their website. Rogue is worker-owned and independent games media that is human-first. We've added the website to our Game Worker Cooperatives collection. If you know of more games media or studios that are taking this approach, let us know!

Congrats to @charlesgames.bsky.social ‬on their Gee! award win. The GEE! award recognizes excellence in educational game design. "Velvet 89 is hidden-object game tells the story of ordinary people taking part in the peaceful demonstrations that changed the course of history."

Check out VILE. Browse a computer and uncover information about adult film actress Candy Corpse, and her recent departure from the industry. A game about misogynistic entitlement. It's part of the Cyber Nostalgia collection on Exhibit:Play. The Steam version was recently hit by ban. Support the dev!

New additions to the Conversations in Cars collection Glitchhikers: First Drive by @silverstringmedia.bsky.social Wheels of Aurelia by @santaragione.com Detours by Mismatched Games Black Ice, Cliff Face by @mousecouncil.bsky.social Explore the full list of 16 titles in the link below

AvantBeetle Presents: CRTL ALT RESIST A three-day videogame exhibition highlighting games as a tool for protest, political resistance, and radical imagination; elevating play as a political act.

過去のメルボルン・クィア・ゲーム・フェスティバルの受賞作の一覧！！日本語ローカライズされてるものも多いですよ〜。

New Exhibit:Play Collection! 🚗💬 Conversations in Cars. These games take place primarily in vehicles where a wide range of conversations happen. With family, friends and strangers. Across cities at night and quiet rural roads.

This festival is one of my favorites. They were my first ever award as a dev and gave me a huge confidence boost. I really treasured watching matilda (their robot) play the games. I can't overstate how special this festival is and I appreciate you highlighting it like this.

Next week 👀 If you know of anymore, please share! Games need to take place primarily in a vehicle and be focused on conversations.

New Exhibit:Play Collection 🏳️‍🌈 Winners from the Melbourne Queer Games Festival. This collection contains 38 games spanning 7 years from the yearly festival. Gold, Silver, Bronze, Jury, Emerging Developer, and Technical Achievement. Check the Dig Deeper for the full shortlist of quality queer games

Here's a list of some collections we will publish soon. It takes some time to fill in the metadata and create the page, but each of these have at least 5 games which is when we consider them ready for page creation.

i think a lot of diaspora can feel disconnected from our roots (physical distance, lack of community/language, &c.), but the food we grow up eating is often one of the strongest connections to a home we otherwise don't know so well personally & becomes an experience we can share 🍚

New to the Asian Diaspora collection - A Taste of the Past by Sondering Studio A story of growth through reliving previous moments with family and cooking. - tong jyun by @npckc.net Learn from mom how to make tong jyun over a video call because your chinese isn't good enough to read the recipe.

Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈 While we're in the process of new specific collection of LGBTQ+ focused games, we come across countless games on itchio. We'll use this thread to share some of the small LGBTQ+ games we find that don't fit any list we're making at the moment, but still wish to highlight.

New addition to the Virtual Museum collection The Tour by Mothlanturn "A virtual museum of identity and self reflection" moth-lanturn.itch.io/thetour

New Exhibit:Play Collection 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ focused game narratives that use the artstyle and mechanics of a retro Game Boy game. All of these can be found on @itch.io and most are made with @gbstudio.dev which means you can even play them on a physical Game Boy.

Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈 While we're in the process of new specific collection of LGBTQ+ focused games, we come across countless games on itchio. We'll use this thread to share some of the small LGBTQ+ games we find that don't fit any list we're making at the moment, but still wish to highlight.

New update to the Exhibit:Play Virtual Museum Collection More Dig Deeper links - Articles, videos, and research from @historygamesnet.bsky.social and We Are Museums. exhibitplay.com/virtual-muse...

A new collection added to Exhibit:Play 👀 Deciphering Languages Featuring games from @inkle.co, @rundisc.bsky.social, @kevindu.itch.io, @playismen.bsky.social @lizardrydev.bsky.social and more. 11 games in total and always on the lookout for more.

New addition to the Virtual Museum collection 🏳️‍🌈 Intersection brings together six Queer multidisciplinary artists who use their practice to explore the lived experiences of 2SLGBTQIA+ people.

New addition to the Virtual Museum collection. Explore the dynamic cityscape on Chicago’s South Side, as it was between the World Wars. Encounter heroes and scoundrels, survivors and thrivers, in 3D interactive scenes that transport the visitor into detailed recreations of this vanished community.

I was reminded of a piece I wrote for @unwinnable.com about myriad shades of Asian identities on Butterfly Soup many years ago, when I was tagged by this account (thank you so much). It was a piece I was quite proud of unwinnable.com/2018/10/18/b...

New collection of games coming soon. Any guesses what they all have in common?

Our site design is kinda boring. But it's a canvas for some creative fun. Every page can have its own personality with a few extra touches. We've updated our Cyber Nostalgia collection with some Windows 98 inspired buttons. Check it out here: exhibitplay.com/cyber-nostal...

Exhibit Play is now Exhibit:Play. Don't ask why. It just feels and looks better. It passed the vibe check. Also our bluesky handle is now our website.

In-progress collection of released games inspired by the N64 both visually and mechanically. Still have some itchio games to add. Coincidently these all have 64 in the title, but that isn't a requirement. If you have any suggestions for games that would fit, please share!

We're planning on a feature that would allow organizations/artists that run game exhibitions to submit their offline exhibition contents for us to add to the site. If you have a past, current, or upcoming exhibition, we would be happy to share, and archive it on the website

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride! We've updated our Asian Diaspora curation with lots of Dig Deeper links about Thirsty Suitors by @outerloopgames.bsky.social and Butterfly Soup by @briannalei.bsky.social Check it out here with the LGBTQ+ tag: exhibitplay.com/asian-diaspo... ‬

Happy Pride Month! We're excited to spotlight LGBTQ+ games and creators, featuring both titles from our current collections and brand-new curations. While Pride Month kicks off this celebration, we'll continue highlighting LGBTQ+ voices in games all year round. Stay tuned!

I'm looking into slowly expanding exhibitplay.com to include curation pitches, article pitches (based on curations), and interviews with devs from the lesser known included games. Further down the line I'll also be hosting an online exhibition space (eg. LIKELIKE Online by @molleindustria.org)

Great video by @secondwindgroup.com about the discoverability problem in games. It's why Exhibit Play was created. We want to help solve the issue with our approach to intentional and thoughtful curation.

New link added to the Cyber Nostalgia curation. @cybercultural.com by @ricmac.cybercultural.com is a website about internet history and its impact on our culture. Cybercultural chronicles internet history and its cultural impact, from the pre-web era to the dot-com boom, Web 2.0, and beyond.

A new addition to the Virtual Museums curation. Space MOSA Space Museum of Southern Art for PS1 is an explorable database of the Southern All Stars group showing pictures, lyrics and songs of the group and also some live videos and video clip medleys. exhibitplay.com/virtual-muse...

New curation coming soon. Can you guess what it's about? It includes over 40 games, half of them found on itchio.

In the future, we plan to reach out to solo indie developers and curate their top 25 games, similar to the Topsters lists that are often shared. We also want to include commentary from them about their choices, how those games influenced them, and the memories associated with some of their picks.

New additions to the Cyber Nostalgia curation. - Dig Deeper section with research, articles, and talks. (ty @illuminesce.net for creating the Interface Drama Master List) - Games from @qwook.bsky.social, @pippinbarr.bsky.social, @bhesslau.bsky.social, @rottentief.bsky.social, troy_en

Testing Open Graph protocol integration. Looks like it works. Boring SEO stuff, but it helps with getting info at a glance. Next step is making custom thumbnails for each curation and an overall design system.

Thanks for featuring us, @exhibitplay.bsky.social we feel honored to be showcased alongside so many talented creators! 🖥️💾📠

my favourite genre of games ever

Love the "Dig Deeper" section under each Exhibit Play collection, often these type of platforms don't have any space for finding additional information since they don't want you to leave their site

We have an official website url now and a new curation! Cyber Nostalgia. Games focused on interface exploration in the early days of personal computing and online communities. Explore our tags: Digital Intimacy, Online Friendships, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and more. exhibitplay.com/cyber-nostal...

Resistance often involves documenting and exposing an unjust system. Our Resistance Rebellion and Revolution curation contains a photography filter with 5 games where you play the role capturing a world ready to be changed. Check out all 55 games here. exhibitplay.netlify.app/resist-revol...

We aren't just focused on game titles. We have a list of game worker cooperatives around the world where employees collectively govern their studio as a democracy. Currently includes 19 companies across 6 countries. If you know of more, feel free to share! exhibitplay.netlify.app/game-worker-...

Hello world! Welcome to Exhibit Play. We're dedicated to discovering and sharing hyper specific curated game lists. No algorithms, no AI. All human curated.