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Maker of "games" looking for alt ctrl games, playformances, game zines, playful arts events and groups. Chairperson of Automat CO+OP Freelance games educator @ Håfténs Spelverkstad,Spelkultur för alla automat.town spelverkstad.com dataspelscentrum.se
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spoke to badru, the indie dev who recently decided to pull a game he considers his "baby" from xbox in solidarity with bds. he told me the team has received such enthusiastic support that they've already made back money lost, and he hopes other indies will follow their lead

Marie Janin (co-director of Sickhouse) had a talk with Jana Romanova, one of the artists and #gamemakers we are collaborating with this year. From the importance of keep on dreaming, to the possibilities of #LARP and the particular experience of the Dreamwalks. Check out the full conversation here:

Join us tomorrow, Thursday April 24th for another edition of RPG bookclub! This week, we're reading AVE NOX, a big old megadungeon!

slowly working on getting some fleshy detail that shows up randomly in the buildings... like the buildings are alive. it's fun to zoom around and get these disturbing details showing in the walls. #GameDev

the jen taylor halo 2 outtakes are so good i couldnt /not/ animate them!!

been fixing this website for about a month now and i think i'm kinda happy with it now? but if there's anything that i'm missing and i should add, please lmk! gaemz.carrd.co

Im glad this is available on DVD! Cant seem to stream it in Sweden. Regions huh

Ludocene: "We've worked with experts from all corners of the gaming world" — but somehow they're all from the UK and US (maybe there's also an Australian) 😑

Saturday is @romchip.bsky.social's fundraiser stream, and I'm bringing out the big stupid. I'll be playing with the WONDER TOOLS CRUISER, a Fisher-Price controller for Windows 95 that, as far as I can tell, there is zero current video of anyone playing. You will not want to miss this

i released a game! i've been working on this for the past few months. it's a short, casual tile laying game where you can really get into the weeds, optimising for high scores. price: free! where: catnipped.itch.io/powertile read more about it here: catnipped.bearblog.dev/powertile-pr...

jake and i left our weekly baby appointment today discussing how cervix sounds like the name of an insanely cool AI villain in a system shock style video game and i can't stop laughing

If Hades is a game that made you feel seen and represented, it's because of the hard work of the people who contributed their talents. Now we have an opportunity to repay that. Please tell Supergiant that you support striking workers.

This is a damn good game show starring all of my parasocial buddies!

There is phrase in the Swedish language "att bära sig åt" which can mean different things, but my favorite meaning is a mix between misbehaving and goofing around. It is irreverent, subversive and inherently playful behavior just for the sake of being silly, which is frowned upon. It's great.

My first video on making glitch art with the Game Boy Camera is live! I talk about video recording techniques and the basics of circuit bending. This one has been a long time coming and I'm glad to finally have it out there 👾💕 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIQQ...

One of the things I'm working on this fall is Weight of History, a small civilization building game inspired by the "Pax" genre of board games. #madewithgodot

Art should be funded like science. To properly fund art, you fund failure. Funding failure will give you occasional excellence. Creating any art with the aim of it being popular enough to make money, will give you consistent mediocrity. Arists need funding to play and fail because that's the process

WE DID A CRAZY ALT CONTROLLER PARTY AND IT WENT SO WELL IM LITERALLY STILL IN A DAZE ABOUT IT. nick showed da fuck UP with his incredible character costumes and also played our twist surprise reveal at the end. omg. OMG. AAAAA

Corook is so wholesome and positive and an their song THEY! is a banger! I CAN dance to this, this IS my revolution!

There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism. A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer. Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore. They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.

Our A MAZE. / Berlin 2025 website is online. Love it a lot. Style works . Amazingly fresh . www.amaze-berlin.de #AMaze2025

Eternal Wario Hockey is an unlockable air hockey game in WarioWare: Twisted in which Wario never loses. If the player has enough skill and patience to get 500 points, the game will forcibly try to make the player lose by elongating Wario's arms indefinitely.

with @amazefest.bsky.social approaching, here are some posters I made for the online AMAZE.SPACE for the 2022 edition 🦩✨ alpharats.com/blog/article...

full scan of third issue of Spektrum Crush Zine (2018), featuring a bunch of different artists 🩸 @neodestiny.net @jiraplasticia.bsky.social @thenomi.bsky.social @sofiacrespo.bsky.social and more! archive.org/details/spek...

Join us this week, Thursday February 13th at 7, for our most anticipated RPG bookclub to date. We'll be looking at Tuesday Knight Game's Mothership. See you all soon! Poster by Sam Sorenson

small game dev launch your game anywhere else BUT steam challenge 2025 gone wrong gone sexual

I finally launched my podcast, Gæmz of the Year Podcast aka GOTY Pod! Our first guest is @lorenzopilia.bsky.social and he talked about his things of the year (mostly music but ofc we talked about art and games from Berlin too). It's available on Spotify, Mixcloud, and Podbean! bio.site/gaemz

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🌟 CROSSOVER ALERT 🌟 on friday 2/21 join us for a collab event with @sabbygallery.bsky.social !! we’ll be showing their curation of games and zines from the melbourne indie scene, while they show our curation of games and zines from nyc (at the same time) (but in melbourne) (🤯!)

This is a great healing game about monsters and yall should play it!

I want VR without the headset. Like you can do with Media Molecules Dreams. I want that playful whimsical analogue controls without a brick strapped to my face.

Make the "games" you wish to "play" in the world.

Keep Driving - RELEASE DATE! 🚗🎉 Our management RPG about life on the open road launches on... 🗓️Febuary 6🗓️ on Steam for PC (Windows) Check out the new trailer 🔽 Sound on! 🎶 #keepdriving #steam #gaming

Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

i feel like i'm due an oblivion playthrough www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CRZ...