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A photo of the "Icarus Proudbottom's Typing Party" arcade cabinet in the lobby of the Museum of the Moving Image.
A photo of the "Icarus Proudbottom's Typing Party" arcade cabinet in the lobby of the Museum of the Moving Image, with the two developers.
A photo of the "Icarus Proudbottom's Typing Party" arcade cabinet in the lobby of the Museum of the Moving Image.
"Icarus Proudbottom's Typing Party," our two-player typing arcade cabinet, will be in the lobby of the Museum of the Moving Image (@movingimagenyc.bsky.social) for the next six months! Thanks to the museum for this opportunity and for @wonderville.nyc for making it happen!
Another thing I'm personally excited about at tonights V&A Late is that 2025 No Quarter alumni Jana Romanova will be there with her NQ commission
'The Line is the Game'
If you like larps, queues, pushing big red buttons & receipts then this is the game 4 U
janaromanova.com/the-line-is-...
If you happen to be in Bristol this weekend I'll be showing a prototype of a new little game as part of Watershed and Pervasive Media Studio's House Party on Saturday. Continuing my obsession with making tamagotchis a little bit melancholy. @wshed.bsky.social
Check out the line up for ALT GAMES April 18-19 in Sydney!!
We have Shuhei Yoshida, Alanah Pearce and Billy Basso as our keynote speakers!!! Come ๐
powerhouse.com.au/program/alt-...
I was invited to guest curate a V&A late!
Please come along to Player/Performer at V&A South Kensington on 27th March for a night of games and performances.
We have karaoke, LARP, drag, card games, videogames, robots and MORE
Totally free and no tickets needed
www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...
oldee timey painting of a spaniel dog in a fancy room. They have playing cards in their paw, a poker visor and a smoking pipe
London & London commutable playful folksโฆ the CAR BOOT CASINO will soon be opening its doors once more!
If youโve a homebrew card or bluffing game youโd be up for showcasing & running a table then drop me a line
๐จ INDIE DEVS!! ๐จ
@dayofthedevs.org needs upcoming indie games that are amazing, creative, weird, fun and/or spooky to showcase at DAY OF THE DEVS: SAN FRANCISCO EDITION 2026.
Is that *your* game?
If so, submissions are now open! Get thee to dayofthedevs.org/submit to learn more and submit!
ALT: GAMES applications close in one week (midnight 11 Jan) if you want to apply do it now or youโll forget and be so mad at yourself
I'm doing visuals at the @nyugamecenter.bsky.social party at @wonderville.nyc! I'm excited to collab with @wendyleftmealone.bsky.social 7 years after we first worked together. We've both evolved as artists so much, and we're making a unified audiovisual experience together. I will try something new!
The OCTOPAD OPEN begins today!
If you're in New York, come try out the Hexadecipad, a 16-player controller for the NES that turns classic head-to-head games like Tetris, Tecmo Bowl, and TMNT: Tournament Fighters into team-vs-team tournaments!
The goal? Form teams to compete at NO QUARTER on 11/22!
A grey, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at NYU Game Center. When: Thursday, Nov. 6 from 5:30PM-7:00PM. Where: Room 233 at 370 Jay St., Brooklyn, NY 11201. https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/events/playtest-thursdays"
A red, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at Boshi's Place. When: Friday, Nov. 7 from 7:00PM-11:00PM. Where: 1002 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211. @boshisplace https://boshis.place"
A blue, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at Wonderville. When: Saturday, Nov. 8 from 3:00PM-8:00PM. Where: 1186 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11221. https://wonderville.nyc"
Excited to be working w/ @tigershungry.co.uk & the NYU crew to make an intramural, bsports tournament for NO QUARTER 2025!
To recruit teams @chouxsalad.bsky.social & I will show the HEXADECIPAD, a 16-player NES controller, at
@nyugamecenter.bsky.social 11/6
@boshis.place 11/7
@wonderville.nyc 11/8
The line up for No Quarter 2025 is finally live alongside tickets & a shiny new visual identify.
This year's event will debut new playful commissions from the superlative... Jana Romanova ๐ก @nicole.pizza + @okremiok.bsky.social ๐ก @alt254.bsky.social + @chouxsalad.bsky.social ๐ก Juliรกn Cordero
๐จ Hey, everyone! We are extending our submission deadline until Oct 31! ๐จ
So there is week more to send games for consideration for the 2026 session of the Experimental Games Showcase.
Submission form and more info in our new website: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
yo, thanks to everyone who checked out the @pvkkgame.bsky.social custom hardware setup in San Diego โ๏ธ๐ hope you liked it!
the @pvkkgame.bsky.social full hardware set up is live at TwitchCon ๐ you can check it out in person at #TwitchConSanDiego for the next couple of days โจ
AND WE'RE LIVE! Our alt ctrl game jam is happening RIGHT NOW at itch.io/jam/flip-out and on the @arcadecommons.org discord!
And any good game jam ofc has a theme to get the creativity flowing and ours this year is....
the @pvkkgame.bsky.social full hardware set up is live at TwitchCon ๐ you can check it out in person at #TwitchConSanDiego for the next couple of days โจ
๐ฟ๐ฆAnyone here from Cape Town and into indie games or alternative controllers?
Well then you need to be at the new Super Friendship Arcade!
Pop up arcade with:
๐ฑ Homemade indie game!
๐ธ Weird alt controllers!
๐ถ Awesome people!
๐ฏ Loads of high fives!
18 Oct at Makers Massive - home of CT Game Dev!
If you make experimental or unusual games, the Out of Index festival in Seoul is still accepting submissions through the 17th! www.outofindex.org
heading out. thanks for having us, Tokyo #TGS2025 #pvkk @pvkkgame.bsky.social @kepler-interactive.bsky.social
heading out. thanks for having us, Tokyo #TGS2025 #pvkk @pvkkgame.bsky.social @kepler-interactive.bsky.social
A giant turquoise steel battalion-like setup of switches and knobs to play the game pvkk
Same from a different angle. 3 people can stand in front of it.
Another angle showing readouts and switches
Oh wow, PVKK went all out.
we'll be out at Tokyo Game Show this week with Mother Ultimate, showing the incredible @pvkkgame.bsky.social controller, as well as new hardware for our friends at @cr-games.bsky.social
if you want to talk about the weird/cool space where custom digital and physical things overlap, hit us up ๐
we'll be out at Tokyo Game Show this week with Mother Ultimate, showing the incredible @pvkkgame.bsky.social controller, as well as new hardware for our friends at @cr-games.bsky.social
if you want to talk about the weird/cool space where custom digital and physical things overlap, hit us up ๐
Applications to be included in the 2026 Experimental Games Showcase at GDC are now OPEN through October 24, 2025! Please send us the weird shit you're working on!
Learn more and apply on our NEW website: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
Phase one tickets end in 8 days! ๐โจ
Get yours now: tickets.airdosh.co.za/event/free_l...
Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Digital Showcase RETURNS for 2025!
Join us after @thegameawards.com for a first look at the future of indie games. โจโจโจ
Working on something awesome? Submissions are now OPEN! Learn more & submit your game here:
dayofthedevs.org/submit/
Legit playing Planetenverteidigungskannonenkomandant with @rystorm.com was a life changing experience.
The pitch: โAngry birds but very complicated with a MASSIVE controllerโ
What a marvel of an experience - Iโll be giggling for days