Richard Lemarchand

Broke: Ok Mr Ludologist man, have you played Disco Elysium

Bespoke: Ok Mr Ludologist man, have you played You Are Jeff Bezos

HORSES Fourteen days, a horse farm, and a few rules to follow...   Take a break from you

A lot of people are talking about the controversy around the game Horses. If you are one of those people, you should buy the game, it's $5 and doesn't take long to beat.

www.gog.com/en/game/horses

THEN you can talk about it.

:D

I have many thoughts about this, one is I can't help but think this is all just shining a light on how games are still being held to wildly different standards than other media like film. I've played very few games like HORSES but watched so many films like it (as a connoisseur of arthouse horror).

Did my part.

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The current takethis.org fundraiser (which supports game community mental wellness) has a donation matching program today, so this is a great time if you want to support them! givebutter.com/GivingTuesda...

Giving Tuesday: Double Your Impact! It’s dangerous to go alone, so join us in this match!

For those that don't know, I'm the Board Chair for @takethis.org and I'm asking in my capacity as Chair for you to support Take This on Giving Tuesday. It would me a lot to me and it helps us keep running.

givebutter.com/GivingTuesda...

It’s out!!!!!!!!!!!! PlayStation ghost town goooooooo

We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for corkscrew?

Arcadia.

Post your favorite “Lord of the Rings” character. Wrong answers only.

games are central to the media consumption of many people who have come up in the world with zero cultural or media literacy. that's part of why so many are eager to watch, like children, as the corporate political order redraws the lines around basic standards for free expression and thought.

TV from around The Bend: The best "shows" of Blippo+ We can't stop thinking about Blippo+, a "game" that simulates channel surfing cable TV in the '80s and '90s.

We can't stop thinking about Blippo+, a "game" that simulates channel surfing cable TV in the '80s and '90s. www.avclub.com/best-blippo-...

Finally some good buyout news: A writer just bought back the game she co-created from a blockchain company so it 'doesn’t end up being turned into AI slop' Novelist and game writer Naomi Alderman has bought back the rights to the Zombies, Run! exercise app she's been writing episodes of for more than a decade.

"I think the best strategy in the age of AI is: bet on yourself… unique work made well with huge amounts of love is actually going to become more valuable in the AI era." A very heartening story about the brilliant Naomi Alderman buying back “Zombies, Run!” www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Don't know if you'd be interested in a bit of work on Saturday 1st July, they're booking people to roam around in wild animal costumes uptown.

I know many people here's reflex on seeing this is to assume it's from factual errors, like how fox news viewers are wrong about more basic facts than people watching no news, and while that's a factor, even if it could be 100% accurate this effect holds! see next post below for what I mean in TLDR👇🏼

Congratulations, @caraellison.bsky.social and the Ghost Town team!!!

Hey, immersive, larp, ARG, theater and game folks: I'm working on Immersipedia and I'm linking out to other design/knowledge wikis like the Puzzle Hunt wiki, Nordic Larp wiki and Game Detectives, plus the whole WikiBruce archive. Are there any others I should be including?

level design book update: little cleanup of the tools page (book.leveldesignbook.com/appendix/tools) and trenchbroom page (book.leveldesignbook.com/appendix/too...)

Had a rather mixed experience yesterday with local history some of which Beryl and myself do not intend to repeat.

Shot + chaser

I have great news... YOU CAN. RIGHT NOW.

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@videogameworkers.bsky.social

join @videogameworkers.bsky.social and meet other videogame workers, learn more about organizing, share stories and resources, and generally cause trouble with us. coming together to strategize is how we start to change this fucked up industry!

A mocked up screen from Battlefield showing someone searching for Helicopter and being shown all the controls that mention Helicopter From: https://www.reddit.com/r/Battlefield/s/p7hsuoHOsB

Search in settings screens is an often overlooked quality of life feature in games

If your setting screen requires scrolling and/or is across several tabs consider adding search to it!

Oh wow, thanks @johnhopson.bsky.social — that’s amazing! Big ups to Travis, Jaros, and Tegan who came up with our “bad jumps” system!

Only just saw this—thanks so much, @caraellison.bsky.social !

You too! It’s been too long! Hope to see you next year somehow! ❤️

Many congratulations, Joon! I didn’t know you worked on Q-UP until this thread! It’s so good..! 🥳

🤣 I’m so glad you liked it, Jill!

The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were accused of brainwashing children, sacrificing babies, and infiltrating North American society on a massive scale — yet these thousands of alleged Sat...

Just finished binge-listening to Sarah Marshall’s outstanding new podcast, ‘The Devil You Know,’ about the Satanic panic. It’s a superb piece of journalism and cultural analysis—here’s the CBC site, but I’m sure it’s a available on your favorite podcast service! share.google/UDLAhFLr9Mxl...

The webpage for our upcoming book has the cover on it now which is enough of a milestone for me to write another post about the book we have coming out soon. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

I ADORE alt.ctrl.GDC. Always a highlight of my show. Get those applications in!