Poster-style course graphic in purple and white that reads "online class Building Benches for the Web," taught by Spencer Chang and Munus Shih, organized by School for Poetic Computation, with arrow buttons labeled "5-Weeks," "Web Sockets," and "HTML & CSS."

Screenshot of a collaborative web page titled "walking together on the internet" with a chat log of shared links in the center and many colorful name tags floating around the page, plus the prompt "Make a circle together" near the bottom.

Join us for Building Benches for the Web, a class where students will learn to code digital third spaces using presence and participation as our core building materials.

▬ W/ @spencer.place & Munus Shih

Apply by 04/27: sfpc.study/sessions/sum...

Google Chrome Dinosaur Skeleton Displayed in Natural History Museum - Palette Swap The Field Museum of Natural History is hosting an exhibit displaying the skeletal structure of the Google Chrome dinosaur.

“Preserving natural history, whether that be creatures that once walked the same land we do, or ones that come up on our computer screens when our laptops fail to connect to a coffee shop’s Wi-Fi network, are equally important to chronicle and display as a part of our story." yis 🦖

This Saturday: “Scientific Speciesism: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism” with @christinewebb.bsky.social

How does hidden human bias shape science and our view of other animals?

📅 25 April
🕓 4 PM GMT | 12 PM EST | 9 AM PST
📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/ywwEd

How To Save A World: The Go-Along Interview as Game Preservation Methodology in Wurm Online | Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

My favourite work from Florence’s PhD is still the paper they did charting the history of a player-dug tunnel in Wurm Online, which involves incredibly moving quotes from the curator of an in-game museum: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Good Games 423 - HAMM-3R YouTube video by Fort Kenmei

youtu.be/-qDNnwjLXkY

An interesting attempt to present mediation theory.

#indiegame #gamereview #Godot #action #shooter #philosophy

art from the jam page showing a bunch of lemmings (from the game) ready to gooooo!

one of the coolest jams on itch is happening again, and the theme is more important now than ever…
🔥 Fuck Capitalism Jam 2026 🔥
“We're living in shitty times, but there's room for optimism. Capitalism is collapsing; that much is obvious.”
itch.io/jam/fuck-cap...
let’s go! 👆

🔊 Throwback: "Can Different Species Understand Each Other's Emotions?” with Dr. Elodie Briefer. 

Discover how animals communicate emotions, and how machine learning reveals insights into the evolution of cross-species understanding!

 📺 Watch the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TggoBGM1L4

Our new game, HAMM-3R, can be played over

@itch.io: amidos2006.itch.io/hamm-3r
@newgrounds.com: newgrounds.com/portal/view/...

An experimental short philosophical game (5-10 mins)

#indiegames #IndieGameDev #experimental #indiedev #indie #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #fps #Philosophy

P.S. Later today come to check it out etc. @ Valletta Campus!

HAMM-3R HAMM-3R is a SHORT and FREE experimental videogame about how our equipment influences the ways we understand the world and act within it.

Play HAMM-3R! 🚀
FREE + SHORT (5-10 mins.)

>> hammer.gua-le-ni.com <<

An experimental game about tools and technologies made with @amidos2006.bsky.social, @demigiant.com and other friends at the @indigitalgames.bsky.social! 🔨

Live from GDC... 1989! 21 hours of vintage talks from early gaming luminaries | Video Game History Foundation We've digitized the recordings from one of the earliest GDC conferences, available for the first time in 37 years.

The Video Game History Foundation's newly digitized GDC 1989 tapes are rad. Talks with Dani Bunten! Trip Hawkins blasting Nintendo's licensing policies! A *retrospective* panel for gaming in 1980! Absolute gold that this stuff survived and is accessible for everyone now.

Coconut Simulator 2 on Steam Coconut Simulator 2 is a game in which you can become a coconut.

store.steampowered.com/app/3880190/...

Mood: coconut simulator (realistic game mode)

I launched a Kickstarter for Shutter Story but it went under the radar!

It's a horror game about revealing and categorizing signs of the paranormal in a family's photographs 📸

Kickstarter link below. RTs, support appreciated 🖤

#indiegame

“Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” Appears in Washington, DC Public Park A guerrilla sidewalk installation in DC names Epstein links with stars featuring prominent figures like Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Bill Clinton.

A guerrilla art installation featuring the names and visages of twenty public figures who’ve been linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appeared in a public park close to the White House in Washington, DC earlier this month. www.artforum.com/news/guerril...

Panel with Felicia Jing, Gabriele de Seta and Alexandra Deem YouTube video by ERC project AIMODELS

documentation: youtu.be/yA4zKtvedcg?...

Great news for anyone planning to submit to History of Games 2026:

the deadline has been extended to 10th March 2026!

A while ago we shared that there were an amazing 🌴435 entries from🌴 78 different countries! 

You can find all the amazing submissions here🦩: 

https://f.mtr.cool/tvcmighcjp 

#AMaze2026 #mbbfunded #arthousegames #indiegames #playfulmedia #immersivetheatre #indiedev #AMazeAwards

jw05407-o025_t070_miri_f1000w_i2d.jpg GOODS-N_new_25 MEOW: The MIRI Early Obscured-AGN Wide Survey

New #JWST 🔭 data release for target names: GOODS-N_new_14, GOODS-N_new_25, UNKNOWN.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
Take a look at news_by_date.html

Let me know! I would love to watch it!

oooh is there going to be a recording??

For the Gods!

Hottest game on BoardGameGeek right now and live on Kickstarter 😍🔥

Come join 1000+ backers on the campaign page and get your free gift 🥳 👇www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyboards/fo...

Game Poems Issue #2 submissions for short-form video games are now open: www.gamepoems.com/submit

yis

Hmm reminds me of this lil game were your ammo is your health! retrosaur.itch.io/revolver-curse you might also wanna check Crisol: Theater of Idols!

saved

We selected ambiguous artefacts open to reinterpretation as placeholders for personal and collective narratives beyond fixed curatorial structures. The world explored glitches, erasure, fragility and unstable data. Users became creators, prioritising care & disobedience.

Special thanks to those who joined our #IMPULSE workshop last week in Saarbrücken!
Participants interacted live with digitised cultural heritage assets within the IMPULSE platform.The exercise examined authorship and agency: Who designs? Who controls? Who chooses the rules of engagement? #XR #EU

Hi! I have a new, quirky article out on how games use and represent the dead, but also on deadpool games, & the strange case of the #Fantamorto (an Italian fantasy sport).

>> gamestudies.org/2601/article... <<

🚨WARNING🚨: it might contain traces of @ckunzelman.bsky.social and @maurovanetti.itch.io

Submissions to Tec de Monterrey - CADI Game Poems 2026

I recently led a game poems workshop in Mexico for folks from various backgrounds, most of whom had never made a game before. Everyone made two tiny game poems in four days--one using Flickgame, and one using Bitsy. Check out the beautiful results here: itch.io/jam/cadi-gam...