Stephen Reid

🎉LUDOCENE LAUNCHED 🎉

So excited (and nervous) to send our game-finder into the world.

Ludocene.com

If you want a better way to find amazing games that rewards experts and is in the hands of players, this is our shot.

Thank you to the 1000's backers and supporters.This is just the beginning.

I self-published Without a Dawn in May. I made zero compromises, and I couldn't be happier how it turned out: store.steampowered.com/app/3145620/... 💛💚
Unfortunately, I've had very little luck with exposure, including the gaming press. 😩
#visualnovel #gamedev #steam

Back of a residential staircase designed to look like #DonkeyKong!

Concord, New Hampshire, US.

#PlayMatters

I fill tiny, hand-made leather books with sketches!

#ArtMatters

Where will the Golden Thread of Imagination…lead you?

Threadbare…Coming soon!

#PlayMatters #EveryoneBelongs #Threadbare #EndlessAccess

In 2014 I ran a custom-made shipping container called the PlayBox, posing as a time travelling Maker Space. Using arts and crafts, old junk, TinkerCad, Minecraft, and 3D Printers, we made 10,000 robots! Public engagement was off the charts.

www.playfulanywhere.fun/past-march-o...

#PlayMatters

mobygratis - Free Moby music to empower your creative projects Free music resource designed to empower creative projects by students, non-profits, indie filmmakers, musicians and more.

Loving Moby’s free music catalogue - Moby Gratis. So good to see it get more traction after adding 500 new tracks, with many more to come.

Check it out:
mobygratis.com

#Games #Gaming #GameDev #GameBasedLearning #EverLoving

A thimbleful of courage…

Weaving something wonderful. Coming soon!

#PlayMatters #EndlessLearning #Games #Gaming #GameDev #GameBasedLearning

60 AMAZING EXPERTS ADDED!

With your backing, we are cooking up our Ludocene game-finder app. Your support has also helped us find these amazing experts to suggest games.

Backers can try today: www.ludocene.com/list-experts

Pledge to join the early access: www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...

Fiction book render for What Was Hidden by Andrew Robertson.

Fiction book render for What Was Hidden by Andrew Robertson.

BIG POST DAY! I've been holding off talking about this. I have a fiction book out next month! "What Was Hidden"

It's about Journalism, YouTube, Ultra Running and how (often against the odds) technology can connect us.

Please share! Also, DM to join my inner circle of early readers & reviewers.

I'm on the lookout for another Unicorn 🦄

We're hiring a Senior Game Producer to join our 'Games and Learning' Team to support a unique project that merges Game Development with Education.

Apply:

endlessos.bamboohr.com/careers/22

#Jobs #Hiring #Careers #Games #GameDev #EndlessLearning

Headed to #SouthAfrica for the Curro Esports Indaba to present:

🎮 Understanding Game Development – The Three C’s of Player to Learner Growth.

🕹️ Game Design 101 – The Building Blocks of Engaging Games.

#Curro #Esports #GameBasedLearning #PlayMatters #EndlessLearning

The search begins for another Unicorn🦄

This time I'm looking to commission a highly creative, fully animated pixel art asset pack for an RPG video game.

Interested? Please reach out. Know someone who would be? Let them know.

#PixelArt #Art #Hiring #Commission #Games #Gaming #RPG
#PlayMatters

Do you take commissions? Can I DM you? (need a follow back).

Sneak peek at the experts we have on board for our game finder "dating app". Supporting the Kickstarter enables us to pay them to curate 100s of pathways to amazing games.

We launch Tuesday 18th. Back the project to get access to the prototype when we fund.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...

#Deathloop in #TinyGlade

I recreated Blackreef’s Fristad Rock area in Tiny Glade.

#PlayMatters

Deathloop’s Julianna Blake, fragmenting between time and space following a particularly well placed shotgun blast that threw her off the bleak cliffs of Blackreef.
No real harm done, she’ll be back again tomorrow to do the same to me!

#PlayMatters #Deathloop

Here's what the New EU AI Act Means for Your School Remember when installing a new digital whiteboard was your biggest tech challenge? Those were simpler times..

What does the EU AI Act mean for your school?

I suspect this is just the tip of the AI in Education regulation iceberg, worldwide.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/heres-...

#AI #AIEdu

A pixelated, brightly and multi-coloured game controller floating above a waterscape, to a backdrop of a pixel sunrise.

I’m really interested in connecting with game producers (at any level) from underrepresented (women, BIPOC, non-binary, etc) communities. Particularly but not exclusively from the Global South.

#PlayMatters

Front cover of the New York Post in response to Deepseek’s clash with American AI. An anthropomorphic, evil-eyed AI model looks at you over a device stamped with a Chinese flag.

“Beware this AI evil! Our AI is good, of course, but this one is out to undermine your freedom…and our profit!”

#AI

I rarely read my horoscope, but this week, as I attend #BETT2025 in a new role and with a new focus, Metro couldn’t have been closer to the truth!

#PlayMatters #Virgo

Listening to Epic Games’ Walter Somol and Sarah Thomson on their plans to open up the #EpicGames Mobile Store for developers.
Huge news for #mobilegaming.

@steveisaacs.bsky.social ;)

#PlayMatters #PGC25

Stephen Reid, VP of Learning at The Endless Foundation stands in front of an illuminated sign that reads Pocket Gamer Connects, London. He is wearing a black hoodie, black leather jacket and red Atari branded bag.

Arrived at Pocket Gamer Connects, London - mobile and handheld gaming conference.
Sporting my new Limited Edition #Atari bag, of course.

#PGC #PGC2025 #PlayMatters

#AirportReading.
Critical Hits is a hugely insightful and enjoyable series of critical evaluations of games and gaming. The introduction alone is a joy. I highly recommend it.
Thanks to @heather-drolet.bsky.social for this gift.

#PlayMatters #EveryoneBelongs

#AirportReading.
Critical Hits is a hugely insightful and enjoyable series of critical evaluations of games and gaming. The introduction alone is a joy. I highly recommend it.
Thanks to Heather Drolet for this gift.

#PlayMatters #EveryoneBelongs

Headed to #London for the Pocket Gamer Conference #PGC and #BETT. Looking forward to both very much. If you’re attending either, let’s meet 🙂

#PlayMatters #EndlessLearning

Thank you so much for this memory, Andy. Wonderful times with wonderful people.
I wrote a bit about this in my 2024 Reflections blog post:

stephenreidedu.com/2024-reflect...
(see Building Blocks)

#PlayMatters

It's built in 3D space, but the individual textures are hand-drawn with pen and paper. #indiegame #godotengine #gamedev

Spent some time with this beauty at breakfast in #AbuDhabi.

A Mammoth Scollid Wasp. Native to Southern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. This one was 4cm in length. They can grow up to 6cm. They feed on nectar, lay their eggs inside beetles, and they sting.

#IdleHour #Nature #Wildlife

I made a thing to process my childhood trauma and deep love for this movie all at once.

#Neverendingstory #PixelArt #Pixels