This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results.
(One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
We just posted the games reel from this year's session on our brand new YouTube channel!
It features clips from the showcased games, along with some standout submissions from the many we received last year.
Watch it here: youtu.be/5Y-BezGV6mU
a deck of playing cards, the ttrpg game a land once magic, an index card with lists the palette and touchstones players added for the game (such as themes, tone, setting)
Here are the palette and the touchstones! I was really excited to share a ttrpg with him that was so approachable!
bookmark with a dagger, text: Love & Legends small zine with a fantasy illustrated landscape, text: A Land Once Magic by Viditya Voleti
Picked up "A Land Once Magic" by @vidityavoleti.bsky.social earlier this year. It is a really fun worldbuilding TTRPG! I played it with some friends and my son who doesn't often play TTRPGs. Really easy to pick up and all we needed was pen, paper, and a standard deck of playing cards!
Submissions for panels, speakers, interviews, and games are still open until April 18 ✨
www.gamedevsofcolor.org/apply
delighted to share that my essay on crickets, doing karaoke while trans, and the origins of song will be in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing 🦗🎤💉
orionmagazine.org/article/key-...
A pair of ivory with ebony inlay German dice from the late 17th Century. One appears as a male, the other female. They are nude and squat in a roughly cubic shape with black pips marking the different die faces.
Modern D6 are boring.
These 17th & 18th Century dice made Game Night with grandma far more exciting, were educational, and carried only a slight potential of being cursed, before Big Cube came in and ruined everything.
An announcement graphic for Game Devs of Color Expo 2026. The background is a blue to purple to pink gradient with motifs of a video game controller's face buttons and d-pad. Speaker Applications are now open. We look forward to hearing from you! Apply now!
Are you a PoC and work as a TTRPG, Board Game, and/or Card Game developer?
Apply to speak at the @gdocexpo.com today! We want to hear from ALL developers!
Applications are open until April 18th!
www.gamedevsofcolor.org/apply
Need some inspo? Check the 🧵 thread for talks from the TTRPG community.
a screenshot of a long winding brutalist staircase. there is a poem written on the wall. light comes through the windows. paint splats are on the stairs.
a screenshot of a tree that looks like a human bowing. the tree is large and covered in dandelion whisps. there is a poem at the base of the screen.
a screenshot looking up at old brutalist buildings. the buildings are abandoned.
a screenshot of a desert filled with dead trees. the dead trees almost look human. there is a poem at the base of the screen.
🌼My new game is here!🥀
"She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died."
alienmelon.itch.io/flower
A game poem and interactive fiction about The End.
You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil.
#IndieGame #VideoGame #GamePoem #Game
The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential!
gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...
join us on friday 10/18 for an international crossover event with our friends from [[rect*]]repair in shanghai! at the same time they will be showing our games in new york, we'll have a curation of chinese games, a portal to interact with the attendees in shanghai, and a fax machine(?!!).
masahiro sakurai speaking from his desk. he says "why is making a game so hard"
opening your new game announcement with this is so fucking funny and real
Hi all, I’ve written a novel.
It is called PROCESS. It is about a Seattle tech worker and would-be entrepreneur. It is published by Dublin-based Tune & Fairweather, and it looks incredible.
www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/...
Are you a trans or nonbinary writer?
Clarion West just announced a new scholarship that covers all six weeks of tuition:
"that's not canon" I do not care
omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain
This is TODAY from 3pm–9pm ET!
Game Devs of Color Expo is hosting this livestream to fundraise grants for developers impacted by the record layoffs & other hardships in the industry.
You can get notified when @gdocexpo.com goes live here: www.youtube.com/live/FVl_xZr...
12 Questions after Bhanu Kapil Who are you and whom do you wish would text you back already? What do you remember about the umbrellas you’ve lost? How will you begin to forget the sound of your father’s sneeze, once he is gone? Can you describe a morning you woke with utmost oomph? What do you know about disregarding all the decorum of badminton? Where will you one day go/In what forms will you return? Who was responsible for the suffering of your mother’s mother? What is the shape of your booty? How would you live, if you had to live forever, as a melodramatic vampire? What are the consequences of reading the world’s saddest poems? How will you/have you prepared for your friends’ deaths? What would you keep secret if you could?
i’ve got 2 new poems in Quarterly West!!
here’s one of them, “12 Questions,” which is inspired by Bhanu Kapil’s questions from The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, a book i remain completely obsessed with
for both poems: quarterlywest.com/issue-113-chen
“i know a poem i’m working on is working (on me) when it’s not only articulating something i needed to say, but complicating the saying, the need, the me i thought i was when i started.”
-- Chen Chen
Indie devs and a major game storefront losing revenue because Funko used an AI tool to confuse a domain registrar that has no appeals process is a very 2024 enshittification stew
I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain
If you have a personal (non-business) Paypal account in the US, Paypal will be selling info on your purchases starting next summer unless you tell them to go f*** themselves.
Here's how to opt-out, since they automatically opted you in (except in CA, ND, VT where your gov't cares about privacy)
How to use the "Detach quote" feature –
@josephvlee.bsky.social's forthcoming book "Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity" is available for pre-order 💛
Link to pre-order: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nothin...
400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us
A lovely Icelandic term for pins and needles (tingling after your foot goes numb) is stjörnur í skónum, or “stars in your shoes.” A Yoruba version is pajapaja (“kill dog kill dog”). And the best one I’ve heard in German (uttered by a friend’s child) was mein Fuß glitzert. It means “my foot twinkles”
A mostly clear blue sky on a sunny November morning. The view overlooks a lake with a pool ladder to descend into the water.
Tried out vinterbad for the first time today and survived!!! Was only kind of scary.
Just saw someone pour a whole beer can into a water bottle on the subway at 10:30am 😵💫
Huge congrats Riley!! Hope you all are doing well 💖
