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The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope - Ebook Edition THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE brings together over 100 short essays on the craft of writing for games. With contributions from the writers behind some of the world's most successful titles - such a...

The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope is now in eBook format ✨

Over 100 essays on writing for video games, from a bunch of super-smart writer-types! But now you can pretend it's smut while you read it! You can even blush at some of the essays to make it extra convincing!!!!

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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Thoughts from a 13 hour airplane flight… finally caught the Edgar Wright Running Man and it was absolute hot garbage. Far worse than I expected and my expectations were low.

Michael Cera was great, Coleman Domingo is as ever a font of pure charisma but the film, the film was very very bad.

Given the state of the world, it does feel somewhat gauche to travel but at the same time, being with family - my mum is turning 80! - and not being in the US is hard to argue against right now.

I travel a lot for work and I have to say, hanging out at LAX with my lovely wife before we head to New Zealand is definitely preferable to solo travel.

A glass of wine is much better if you’re with someone you adore

Wong Kar Wai‘s Far From The Madding Crowd would be something.

Police break the arm of Former Marine Sergeant Brian McGuiness for opposing the war against Iran in Congress.

God, I spent so many hours not quite grasping that game in my mid-teens.

An Imperial Trader ship docked at Old Blackelk Spaceport, on the planet of Hope in the Gateway system (-1,4). This is the DOS version of Frontier First Encounters (FFE), released by Gametek in 1995.

An Imperial Trader ship docked at Old Blackelk Spaceport, on the planet of Hope in the Gateway system (-1,4). This is the FFFED3D-AJ version of Frontier First Encounters (FFE), modified by Andy Jones (AndyJ).

Approaching Jupiter in the Sol system (0,0). This is the DOS version of Frontier First Encounters (FFE), released by Gametek in 1995.

Approaching Jupiter in the Sol system (0,0). This is the FFFED3D-AJ version of Frontier First Encounters (FFE), modified by Andy Jones (AndyJ).

When Frontier First Encounters launched in 1995, it was a DOS-only game in 320x200 resolution. Some 30 years later, we can all enjoy the same brilliant game in much greater detail, thanks to some enterprising and talented coders. Details of FFED3D are at tinyurl.com/FFED3D-AJ

Article full of baseless speculation from "Tech4Gamers" Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS By Shaheer Zahid

I wanted to come back to the biggest reason this thing is fake that people might not understand: the NPU.

Here's a rough list of those that are actually available, and if you look close you'll notice something: the vast majority are for mobile devices.

www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu_bench...

Are you a game developer based in Australia or Aotearoa New Zealand with an exciting announcement to share with the world in early June?

Frosty Games Fest 2026 applications are OPEN NOW! 🍦

Jewish Groups Are Backing a War Americans Don’t Want And they’re setting up American Jews to take the blame.

I was very happy to see that Jewish Currents put out a very no nonsense, absolutely no apologetics for Israel piece out about this.
jewishcurrents.org/jewish-group...

How I arrived on BlueSky

That's really horrible, I'm sorry. Some people are just thoughtless and shitty.

So the State Department is forcing everyone to immediately leave the region but is also refusing to help people leave the region.

The strike itself is illegal and disastrous but their lack of readiness for what comes next is unforgivable as well.

Incompetence everywhere.

Steam community requesting additional body types for added immersion.

A large block of sentient tofu

Steam community: “Can we play as a male character?”

Me (indie dev in this economy):
“Best I can do is sentient tofu.”

YouTube video by StoneRosesVEVO The Stone Roses - This Is the One (Official Audio)

Current listening is a classic slice of muscular romanticism. Balm in a world spinning wildly out of control.

youtu.be/DbyrOBVDtR4?...

It’s a really fun read, my brother got it for me for my birthday one year ago

Got to meet him once - he was promoting an Evil Dead game 24 or so years ago - and he was incredibly nice to deeply starstruck me.

Evil Dead II is gospel for my brother and me, Bruce is a legend and I wish him health and happiness.

It's so telling that these people are rushing to condemn "the campus left" at this moment
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o...

a hundred dollar video game? yeah, right So, a while back, I saw someone had the bright idea to say that a $100 video game was where games were headed. As someone who has done a…

New article time!!!

Ever wonder why a bunch of weirdoes keep telling us that Grand Theft Auto 6 is the most important event in history and video game prices have to go up?

Well, here's why these weirdoes are completely out of touch with reality!

docseuss.medium.com/a-hundred-do...

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope launches this Wednesday!

Over 100+ essays on the craft of game writing and narrative design; affordable priced.

… AND we’ll also launch with the first two episodes of the podcast series, where we talk to the article writers about their craft.

CICADAMATA" on Steam + follow the white rabbit + hop, skip, and jump to become one with joyeuse, until you are no longer you +

Goddamn, Cicadamata has only been in development for nine months, according to the dev.

Also yeah, it's riffing on Marathon, both classic and new.

Please stay safe. I’m so sorry this is happening.

Four left! I repeat, four left! Make sure to snag one if you want one!

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

The Dark Knight Returns turned 40 this month, and I can think of few other superhero comics that have had such a profound and long lasting impact on the comic book industry. Every vision of Batman has either intentionally diverted from it, replicated it, or been forced to reckon with it.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is top notch. The Mütter Museum is fascinating if you’re into pre-20th century medicine or weird stuff in jars.

Neither of the famous cheesesteak places is that great but it’s a great city for a sandwich, grab a hoagie from somewhere local.

Running, by Fat Dog from the album WOOF.

I discovered a really obnoxious band, like a hybrid of meat beat manifesto and early vnv nation with some Mr bungle mixed in. Exactly what I need right now. Please enjoy.
fatdogfatdogfatdog.bandcamp.com/track/running

Seeing some "fuck Kansas" replies/QTs and while I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment behind the statement, I think a better response would be "fuck, we need to help the people of Kansas"

If anyone knows a good way to do that, please put it in the comments and I will amplify