Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏
www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...
I'm making one last push to let people know about this online talk -- sponsored by the British Library in conjunction with their current exhibition on fairy tales. The live stream starts at 7:30 tonight, but if you buy a ticket *before* the event you can watch it any time over the next 7 days.
genuinely surprised there wasn't a Spectrum Lovejoy game
am urban scene, plant pots nailed to a wall with a poster framed above them featuring a poster of the new Wyrd Science cover
keep your neighbourhood wyrd
Thanks Robb!
thank you!
If you want more, dedicated coverage of your favourite hobby you should be supporting the media who make it (if you can!)
Away from "THIS GAME IS DEAD" or "DRAMA IN THE SCENE"
You could sub to a Patreon, join @rascal.news, buy a copy of @senetmagazine.bsky.social or @wyrdscience.bsky.social!
The only thing this is lacking is the little big lad having one foot on a tactical slice of toast but otherwise perfection.
a vintage Indonesian sticker of "Jean Picard" from Star Trek
Ok, this week has started incredibly well as we've just stumbled across a website that collects, curates & archives "vintage Indonesian labels and stickers – presenting the archipelago’s lavish visuals and their significance as knowledge and reference materials."
SICKOS.JPG
grafisnusantara.com
I'm really hoping that when the trailer for this drops it's soundtracked by a slowed down, incredibly mournful acoustic cover version of Eifel 65's "Blue (Da Ba Dee)"
Anyway, @manmademoon.bsky.social, who do we need to annoy to get you in the magazine talking about this?
That’s a banger!
Hellebore no. 15 - The Green Issue, with bluebells and daisies
IT’S HERE!
Nature sprites, magical blooms, holy and unholy trees, wild men of the woods, numinous forests, dying-and-reviving deities.
Shipping starts now.
👉🏼 helleborezine.com/products/the-green-issue
its wild how we used to pass the time!
On the basis of wanting to write more on my own blogs and sites, and triggered by reading the excellent @wyrdscience.bsky.social interview with @johnharper.bsky.social, here's me rattling on about the dice mechanic behind The Dee Sanction on its website.
www.thedeesanction.com/dice-mechani...
Suchard's Milk Chocolate Egg packaging had absolutely no right to go this hard
www.action-transfers.com/html/promoti...
We regret to inform you that our plans for the day have been absolutely, irrevocably, completely derailed
perfection
oh my god. never seen this and it is 100% my jam
a vintage Indonesian sticker depicting a muscled man carrying a swooning lady wand fighting off a giant monstrous bird.
"hello, I want the hardest vintage Indonesian sticker you have.
no that's too hard"
impossible just how painfully laser targeted this website is to fire up the 'YOU MUST START A NEW COLLECTION' synapses in our lizard brains
a vintage Indonesian sticker of "Jean Picard" from Star Trek
Ok, this week has started incredibly well as we've just stumbled across a website that collects, curates & archives "vintage Indonesian labels and stickers – presenting the archipelago’s lavish visuals and their significance as knowledge and reference materials."
SICKOS.JPG
grafisnusantara.com
Some BLOOMING AWESOME stuff in this issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social 🏵️ so much to get absorbed in. This is the first Wyrd Science I am not in and it's an absolute banger. Hmmm! ;)
shop.wyrd.science/products/wyr...
we should have put a Marvel Avengers style announcement at the end of the mag
'MIRA MANGA WILL RETURN
IN WYRD SCIENCE 9'
Can you imagine having this much awesomeness in your life?
IMAGINE NO LONGER 👇
shop.wyrd.science
Big look! Thanks a lot!
thanks Patrick, hope it delivers!
Thank you for having us. Hope I made some sense
Just as we ended it I think I did see 1 or 2 comments/ questions flash up in the chat which I hadn’t read, so just in case there was anything anyone wanted to ask or say (that isn’t SHUT UP), please drop it here & I’ll respond
otherwise thanks again!
Huge thanks to @ellaitch.bsky.social and @wyrdscience.bsky.social for reviewing #CroydonSpaceport: Mission Control - our daft little solo journalling game of municipal bureaucracy.
Wyrd Science is a very handsome mag, packed with good stuff from RPGs and beyond. And it smells as good as it looks!
It was a delight to be interviewed for this issue, which is chock full of interesting articles and features. Wyrd Science continues to set a high bar for indie journalism in games.
Sunday morning reminder I’ll be chatting with @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social at 11am (uk time) as part of this year’s virtual Grogmeet, I think you can still sign up if you’re interested in hearing me quack on about games, magazines & what happens when you make them kiss
warhorn.net/events/virtu...
