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In an absolutely WILD year for indie games I am honored for Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector to be among the nominees for ✨BEST INDIE✨ at the Golden Joysticks!

If you enjoyed the game, please consider giving it your vote 🙏

👉Vote here: goldenjoysticks.com

BLIPPO+ Asks If You Want to Get Bent — Gamers with Glasses It’s time to tune in, turn on, and.. blipp out? Patrick Fiorilli explores the channels of BLIPPO+ and its blend of the televisual and interactive. It’s hypermediated, unabashedly queer, and remediates...

We've got it all, they've got it all, on BLIPPO+. See what YACHT, @telefantasytv.bsky.social, @panic.com, and more have been up to just a ways away in spacetime. New contributor @patfio.bsky.social has the review!

And if youuuuuu can believe it, #45pb 's development is going very well. Here's some screenshots and a reminder to wishlist the game on Steam👇

store.steampowered.com/app/3014650/...

Visa and Mastercard pressuring Itch.io and Valve does 'nothing to protect' women, and shock games will just be 'side-stepping the ban entirely', say affected indie devs "Cutting these women off from income streams and audiences does nothing to 'protect' them."

really good write-up of this whole situation with payment processors enabling right-wing censorship of adult games www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

me when I get beaten to a wonder in Civilization: it's plain to see that someday the video game industry will soon be taken over by Emperor Qin Shi Huang

The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:

www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

Very excited and grateful to be joining @aftermath.site's stream to talk about Disability Pride Month!

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

Skin Deep is an immersive sim that riffs enthusiastically on everything from Die Hard to 2001: A Space Odyssey, but it also has its own voice.

Our review: bit.ly/3ENM6hO

A bag equipped with items such as oxygen capsules, pry bar, grenade, collapsible thermal lance

🎨Skin Deep writeup: Sketches

This week I wrote about loose sketches that eventually led to Skin Deep: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

Le Blanc de Blanc, by Georges Mathieu, 1987, 📸 by @catocataldo

we are riiiiiight on the cusp of hitting 4,475, so fuck it: inside baseball week continues tomorrow (and probably tuesday too)

Today is the 5th Anniversary of my first game In Other Waters! It's a project I'm still very proud of, and marks a massive change in my life as I have been a full time dev ever since 🐟

To celebrate, next Thursday I will be launching something with @lostincult.co.uk sign up here: eepurl.com/iuomJA

The Digital Dark Ages and the Trouble with Tech Trees | Historical Games Network Technology trees are everywhere.[1] They’re a really useful game design tool. But they come with a lot of baggage and often don’t align with scholarly or popular views of the past. In particular, this...

Our chair Robert Houghton (@robehoughton.bsky.social) wrote about Civilization's tech trees, and their relationship to stereotypical depictions of a Medieval "Dark Ages":

www.historicalgames.net/digital-dark...

#gamingthepast #historicalgames

Pathologic 3 on Steam Save a town from a mysterious plague in this narrative first-person RPG. Learn the stories of its unusual inhabitants. Shape their lives with your decrees. Diagnose patients. Face the Plague. Connect ...

Wait, Pathologic 3 is coming out this year????? store.steampowered.com/app/3199650/...

AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.

Very useful article for understanding what you're seeing online via @404media.co www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...

Fantasy At The End Of The World - Aftermath A new world is possible, but only if we log off and put in the work

NEW for @aftermath.site - i wrote about Metaphor:ReFantazio, David Lynch, and the work we need to do to defeat doomerism and manifest the world we want.

If you want to get me a present, tell someone you know about @remapradio.bsky.social and @crossplayblog.bsky.social. Both of those projects make me happy, and I'd like to keep doing them for years to come.

@patrickklepek.bsky.social Just wanted to say I really appreciated your On Loving and Leaving a Podcast article. (remapradio.com/articles/how... for anyone who wants to check it out too.)

Working on documenting the art projects I've been doing over the past few years. Here's a flip-through video of my photobook, Caught Inside: youtu.be/yRPmpKZJA34?...

Review of a lunar warehouse (in Starfield) from someone with actual warehouse expertise. afriendlywizard.tumblr.com/post/7274677...