Krish Raghav

No events planned but I'm happy to send you a build!

Amsterdam folks look this way ⬇️⬇️⬇️

A poster for a playtest for an upcoming game about the Amsterdam housing crisis called Don't Get Your Hopes Up. Saturday 16 Aug, 7pm onwards at Electric Shadows Amsterdam: Lauriergracht 116 D2. There will be a game making workshop (covering Bitsy, Downpour, and Ink) and drinks/snacks.

Doing a small playtest for my upcoming game about the Amsterdam housing crisis: Sat 16 Aug, 7pm onwards at Electric Shadows Amsterdam.

Come for games, aloo tikki and 凉拌杏鲍菇. Stay for an experimental workshop on making non-fiction / documentary games! Just DM me to RSVP ❤️

YouTube video by George Kolbaia Rain 'regen' (1929) - Directed by Joris Ivens

Good day in Amsterdam to (re)watch 'Regen' (1929), still one of the best films made about the city: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWFa...

"Narrowboat Simulator 2025 - Wales DLC" by molleindustria A Downpour game by molleindustria

I went on a narrowboating trip in Wales with @v21.bsky.social and @tigershungry.co.uk so I HAD to make a Downpour about it.

It has been called "The Dark Souls of Downpour games".

Left = Right
downpour.games/~molleindust...

Inside China's $2 Billion Sibling Showdown Over a Beverage Empire Fortune Heiress of Wahaha faces bombshell lawsuit from secret half-siblings over offshore trusts and a frozen HSBC account.

China's Wahaha Group scandal is giving The Roottrees Are Dead:

2023 Milan Maocha Brick The return of our classic Milan Maocha brick. Maocha is a bit of a misnomer, how can a tea be both maocha [loose tea] and a brick? In this case, the term maocha refers to the Dancong oolong tea being ...

Strong recommend for this Dancong brick from @white2tea.bsky.social that, at ~6g / 100ml, will kick your ass over the first few steeps before soothing the wounds with promised honey orchid notes. Incredible tea: white2tea.com/products/202...

A poster for a "bookclub turned lifestyle discussion" event at Post Office Amsterdam, on Thu 17 July 7:30pm. The videogame Don't Get Your Hopes Up will be demo-ed, alongside a discussion of the novels Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, and Things by Georges Perec.

I'm briefly demo-ing my game, "Don't Get Your Hopes Up", at a book-club event in Post Office Amsterdam next week! Thu the 17th, 7:30pm. Come on down if you're around (free, byob), and get a freshly baked build to take home! tally.so/r/3yb4xx?fbc...

cc @lifewinning.com for perfect sentences consideration 🐜

A paragraph from Robert Macfarlane's "Is a River Alive?". It reads: "We walk Kotturpuram together. Seen through Yuvan, Sridevi and Mithul’s eyes, I begin to realize, this little slice of woodland, sandwiched between a roaring road and a dying river, bustles with life. A Burmese lynx spider waits in its hunting pose: a lethal assassin, legs bristled as blackthorn boughs. A leaf-cutter bee snips an intricate doily out of a banana frond. A lacewing nymph has created a collaged carapace out of the bodies of beheaded ants and snippets of snail shells, before gluing its folk-horror assemblage to the bark of a tree and retiring inside it to consider its options."

Incredible sentence from Robert Macfarlane's "Is a River Alive?"
(spoiler: it is)

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The Look For Sit Down - NECSUS by Nicolas Bailleul

Great essay! Apologies if you've seen this, but I love The Look for Sit Down, a video essay about the history of gaming chairs which argues that a post-00s crash in race car sales led to their distinct aesthetic, since many were made by panicked car seat manufacturers necsus-ejms.org/the-look-for...

My game dev recommendation is just this

Don't Get Your Hopes Up on Steam You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam. Your once-confident search is morphing into panic. Nothing is available. Anything will do. ANYTHING.

DON'T GET YOUR HOPES UP

My short videogame about the surreal horror of trying to find an apartment in Amsterdam is "coming soon" on Steam!

A deviant mix of visual novel, social commentary, and documentary. Free.

I'd be delighted if you wishlist or share: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...

I've got my eye on Relooted, an afro-futurist themed heist game where you plan to steal back real African artifacts from Western Museums, and escape with parkour based abilities. Honestly there's not a single word in this that I didn't like.

⚡ store.steampowered.com/app/3255890/...

A sudden emotional reminiscence sparked by listening to the new caroline album 🥲

I miss it as this energizing, joyous collective practice that somehow came out of our collective cynicism about the state of our respective cultural niches in Beijing.

I miss chaoyang trap

It’s time to make tea ice cream Good tea makes for great scoops.

Ooh I've been eyeing this one. Apparently makes a great rocky road ice cream too: leafhopper.substack.com/p/tea-ice-cr... (apologies for substack link)

Really interesting discussion here about the GeoGuessr / Saudi Arabia situation. A very similar split is unfolding in the rollercoaster world now, with the future opening of Six Flags Qiddiya and Intamin's Falcon Flight coaster.

A batch of cardamom buns with korarima or Ethiopian cardamom. One has been eaten :)

If you like cardamom buns, highly recommend baking a batch with korarima / Ethiopian cardamom! It's nuttier, tastier and more intense.

Nobody Knows For Certain by loveandotheroutdoorgames an archival research story-game

Nobody Knows for Certain is presented as an exhibit / library of soviet-era children's books that whole generations of South Asian kids (like me!) grew up on. It's an extraordinary work, a game as archive: loveandotheroutdoorgames.itch.io/nobody-knows...

Just rolled credits on Wednesdays, and it is both one of the most moving comics AND one of the most powerful video lgames I've played recently.

Some of the details are specific to Amsterdam, but the horrors are universal and familiar from any of the many other housing-crisis-afflicted cities I have rented in. Def recommend if you want to Feel It from New York, or SF, or Boston, or London, or…

De stad - Marcel van Engelen - De Bezige Bij Amsterdam, van toen tot nu.

It's been rewarding digging into the Warrington-Runcorn project + music, especially reading about the Netherlands' own new towns and planned townships like Almere and Lelystad. This book was a useful starting point, although I don't think it's a very good book lol www.debezigebij.nl/boek/de-stad/

The artist Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan playing on stage at the music festival Roadburn 2025

Sublime @warringtonruncorn.com set at Roadburn tonight. Hoping "Industrial Growth" gets a release soon!

This this this. If you're in Amsterdam and want to watch along, DM me!

Detail from Juan Gris' "The Guitar on the Table", 1913

Detail from José Moreno Villa's "Still Life", 1927

Detail from Salvador Dali's "Still Life", 1926

Detail from Juan Gris' "Violin and Guitar", 1913

One of my favourite art micro niches is "fucked up cubist guitars"

Dutch trash collection should be a videogame. It is already a videogame.

this is pretty great, definitely take some time to play through it