did you know that we do classes?
this summer find out whether GAMES CAN CHANGE THE WORLD in this 8-week seminar & speculative game design workshop class taught by @hatimb00.itch.io
more info & apply here: hatim.tips/can-games-ch...
Such a cool way to learn how to orient yourself within the very disorienting space of the Cursed Apple
new TSLOG! @doougle.net and i went to the inspiring @playtopia.bsky.social fest in cape town, with podfriends @chouxsalad.bsky.social and @alt254.bsky.social. we invited two of its dev-organizers (ben and anja) to chat about scenes, local events, and how to make it all work: overcast.fm/+AAR9o0RXEUY
We don’t have a program so no admissions policy. Curious to hear if there is any language on this out there
You could be, according to Wikipedia, “the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I.”
Hypnogenesis is a video synthesis arcade game using recursive video feedback where images are fed back on themselves to create emergent visual behaviors. Andy Wallace & Allen Riley talk about how it’s part of alternative history of games coming out of Nam June Paik style video art & video synthesis
Inhuman Conditions is a Voight-Kampff, Turing Test-esque social deduction game by Tommy Maranges & Cory O’Brien. We’re getting a live performative example in their talk featuring a bureaucratic interrogator and human-machine player. Are they human or robot? (Or something in between?)
@hatimb00.itch.io and Hanwen Xu remark that the industry doesn’t know what to do with sex. Their game coalescent || tidal rapture presents an aquatic space for exploring queer forms of sex freed from pain and heteronormativity. Inspiration from slug sex and other forms of polymorphous pleasure
Bjarke Larsen onTelegram from the Choir Train, it’s a Discord bot game about an inaccessible capitalist wasteland. Repetition, ritual activity and slow progression in this tamagotchi-style game about collective labor
Mark LaCroix on Blippo+— main mechanic is attention. Navigating the menus of analog broadcast television, changing channels in a real time broadcast network from another planet.
@cabbibo.bsky.social notes that “all games were experimental games once” — how to hold on to that constant feeling of learning?
In @cabbibo.bsky.social’s Bird Game, the plane of the wing is the plane of each button which allows for emergent gameplay on the micro level with analog input. Steep learning curve but everybody flies in unique, identifiable ways! Experience the joy of failure through crashing
Pelicans using the shape of an ocean’s wave to fly. Ravens in a state of play is one of the greatest miracles in the world. @cabbibo wants to make a game about the embodied experience of flying in their psychedelic Bird Game
Thinking about the hyperlocal possibilities when the game is designed for a limited, trusted playgroup of loved ones. Defamiliarizes familiar domestic space and fills object with new meaning. Above all, brings much needed joy!
From roombas carrying secrets to locks on a fifth grade yearbook, Carol Mertz is talking about how “I made my friends cry because I built an escape room in my apartment”
@ellaguro.bsky.social opening things up talking about how artists are expected to contort market which seems to hav infinite money to give to worst people of the world to do crimes against humanity yet never any money for free expression and work pushing artitic boundaries
I’m not the fastest at phone typing but will do my best to try and post from the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC 2025!
Wow, this is so impressive! Thank you for doing this. I haven’t posted much on social media lately but you’ve inspired me to give this a shot for EGW
I have at times live-posted GDC sessions and now I’ve picked “Teaching Games with Games” where @alt254.bsky.social & @chouxsalad.bsky.social have designated this year’s 4-person panel topic as “teaching students about generative AI” without doing what S.B. describes as “cop shit” (policing AI usage)
Up next @pfquarta.bsky.social is playing Super Smash Melee and talking about all the twists and turns of this game's incredible history
Decades before Slay the Spire there was the single player Magic: The Gathering (1997) computer game -- watch @toddwords.bsky.social play!
@chadtoprak.bsky.social is now playing one of the earliest videogame documentaries, Escape from Woomera (2003), that is based on the investigative journalism around the Woomera detention center in Australia
And now @alt254.bsky.social is performing a modular synth set "Home is where the House Is" -- he's using samples of "home" music from videogames set to house beats!
Tucking in to watch @halfrobot.com play Cosmology of Kyoto and I'm already learning a ton about 10th century Heian-era Japan as well as game preservation from the 90s
Some reflections and process on working with our Advisory Group on Design and Disability - “generative friction” and how we meet to create access and ideas. www.vam.ac.uk/blog/project...
Currently watching @tigershungry.co.uk reveal her desktop secrets!
So many people I adore are showcasing some wild stuff on @romchip.bsky.social's annual Twitch charity stream today! If you want a lovely stream to chill to this Saturday or would like to support this titan of open source game histories please check it out! www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal
Hey! Welcome to [untitled games event], a space for experimental games in Amsterdam. We organize a monthly 'book club' for games and conversation around play. Next meetup: Sunday Feb 15!
Join our newsletter for all the details (also help us spread the word!): buttondown.com/untitledgame...
game screenshot of a sexy guy getting fished out of the water
game screenshot of a sexy shirtless fisherman and behind him a rainbow-flagged Boeing CH-47 Chinook tandem-rotor transport helicopter flying in the distance dumping hundreds of fresh live sexy men into the lake, replenishing the depleted stocks for the sexy shirtless fisherman's continued enjoyment.
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
I got to try this at Playtopia, immediately engaging. I’m very keen to play more. Even better, I was super interested to hear how the team is adapting the videogame for live theatre. I wish I was in the Benelux region to see the performances bsky.app/profile/pepi...
