Always so happy to take one of our games out for a spin! Presenting Something to Reach For at [untitled games event] in Amsterdam together with @pastelsavage.bsky.social <3

the t migrate east by roughat One tiny interactive poem for each letter.

Updated my experimental game/interactive poetry collection "the t migrate east"! The letter M got a poem of its own <3
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Scroll and Shine by outerplays, roughat, pastelsavage Play in your browser

Scroll and Shine: a game poem about a city coming to life in the early morning hours. Scrolls the mouse wheel to make time pass.
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Created together with @pastelsavage.bsky.social
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Levels of abstraction: Why I still play The Sims 2 This month marked the 21tst birthday of my favorite city building game of all time: The Sims 2. I know it isn't normally thought to fall into the same genre as games like SimCity or Cities: Skylines –...

I'm starting a newsletter where I'll share my thoughts on game design and genre conventions, mostly from an ecocritical perspective. The first article, on why I think The Sims 2 makes for a great city building game, is up now: hugging-pixel-trees.ghost.io/levels-of-ab... #gamedesign #sims2

Scroll and Shine (outerplays, @roughat.bsky.social, @pastelsavage.bsky.social )

"The city lights up and slowly but surely gets ready for its daytime bustle."

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Black text on a pale yellow background. The text reads "the a is having a rough day".

Wanted to make a game where you make letters do things and came up with what I now think of as an interactive poetry collection: roughat.itch.io/the-t-migrat...

Each letter gets to star in a tiny one-line poem. So far I've completed twelve poems. Letters are such a fun material to work with <3

Love our dorky lion 🦁

Cover art that didn't make it ~

Something To Reach For by outerplays, roughat, pastelsavage To reach or not to reach? That is the question. The void awaits.

Game out!

A short interactive story by Joanna (@roughat.bsky.social) and I.

outerplays.itch.io/something-to...
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