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A long artificial chasm with small pipes running along the walls and much larger pipes draining into it. It is lit a sickly green.

A tall shadowy room with narrow passages leading off to the side, each housing rows of machinery. A button is visible in the distance.

A large bulkhead-style door drenched in red light, with many "EXIT" signs positioned around it.

I did a reread of the story recently from here:
marathon.bungie.org/story/

YouTube video by noclip_2 COMPUTER WORLDS: A Showcase of Strange & Distinctive Games - Coming to noclip_2

COMPUTER WORLDS IS COMING TO NOCLIP_2

A showcase of strange & distinctive games created by independent devs

I'm co-hosting (more of a cameo) alongside @gil-lawson.bsky.social who organized it all.

SAVE THE DATE: MARCH 12th - 1PM ET / 10AM PT

WATCH & PLEASE SHARE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYRp...

yeah! I also first played them before getting into game dev, and they were some of the first exposure I had that games could be these kind of small digital space to explore and exist in. been wanting to make my own collection of strange spaces ever since

if I had just a few more spaces, I'd also really like to add Stalker: SOC, Dishonored and Kitty Horrorshow's Haunted Cities collections

so many more I'd like to add, but these felt like the most direct influences

a few favorites

🫶 thank you Carrie!! 😭

😭😭😭

thank you! I've not played 2142 myself so I'm not sure which mech exactly that is, but mechanical designs from 2142 in general were an inspiration :)

thx <3

literally stopped writing this midway through because I decided to grab a snack 😌

a girl with gray hair is holding a spoon in her mouth ALT: a girl with gray hair is holding a spoon in her mouth

I had no apetite whatsoever in the first half-year on hrt and got a bit underweight, but in the last few weeks things seem to have finally reversed to the point where I'm just always hungry and eating

nom nom nom

yeah I'm not really good at applying it either, I ended up getting help from a family member :)

my hand with black nails

forgot to post it last week, but got my nails done for the first time ^-^

Marathon, Reprise I’d been feeling all kinds of uneasy ahead of the currently-ongoing Stress Test for Marathon (2026), in that I had such a potently bad experience last couple...

I wrote about Marathon (2026) again, trying to figure out why it pushed me to tears.

blog.aurahack.ca/marathon-rep...

When I went to Tehran in 2018 for a game conference I hung out with game nerds, music weirdos, and queer folks with tattoos and colored hair, just like I do here. We got vegetarian food and watched goofy uncles play basketball in the park. I sure hope they can live to see a better day.

Appreciate it! I'll definitely keep coming back to it because I don't think it's a world I can stay away from, but I'm also just a very singleplayer kinda gal at the end of the day 😅

Sretan rođendan!!!

Marathon has me feeling a bit torn. I'm so drawn in by its world design, visual flourishes, the ways the narrative is picking up threads from previous games, but the competitive side is a bit too difficult and stressful for me... I really hope that a PvE mode comes out eventually.

marathoning

full set

Transition timeline

An in-game view of the hotel's facade, a grand 19th-century brick structure with steep coppery rooftops.

A streetview shot of the same building. It is considerably larger and more grand.

An in-game bird's eye view of the hotel, showing a small park opposite it.

A Google Earth view of the same place, showing considerably more foliage.

one of my favourite genres of CS map: "local landmark that is deeply iconic to someone else but completely unrecognisable to me"

(Chateau Frontenac hotel in Quebec)

Exploring the world of Angeline Era was one of my favorite game experiences of the last year, so it's deligthful to have a write-up on the design philosophy behind it (and I'm certainly taking notes ^-^)

A wide shot of a space station with three tiny figures spacewalking towards it and a gas giant in the background.

A blood-splattered floor and an ominous shadow.

A person hides with a wrench as a group of people investigate a glowing red flare.

Shout out to @cdsart.bsky.social for illustrating the book so magnificently.

thank you very much! :)

thank you very much!!
I'll probably do some kind of more general commentary on Metal Garden's development, although I'm not yet sure what format it will take. perhaps it will be an in-game developer's commentary, or maybe something slightly different :)

hell yeah!