We Throw Switches

oldee timey painting of a spaniel dog in a fancy room. They have playing cards in their paw, a poker visor and a smoking pipe

London & London commutable playful folks… the CAR BOOT CASINO will soon be opening its doors once more!

If you’ve a homebrew card or bluffing game you’d be up for showcasing & running a table then drop me a line

🚨 INDIE DEVS!! 🚨

@dayofthedevs.org needs upcoming indie games that are amazing, creative, weird, fun and/or spooky to showcase at DAY OF THE DEVS: SAN FRANCISCO EDITION 2026.

Is that *your* game?

If so, submissions are now open! Get thee to dayofthedevs.org/submit to learn more and submit!

ALT: GAMES applications close in one week (midnight 11 Jan) if you want to apply do it now or you’ll forget and be so mad at yourself

I'm doing visuals at the @nyugamecenter.bsky.social party at @wonderville.nyc! I'm excited to collab with @wendyleftmealone.bsky.social 7 years after we first worked together. We've both evolved as artists so much, and we're making a unified audiovisual experience together. I will try something new!

The OCTOPAD OPEN begins today!

If you're in New York, come try out the Hexadecipad, a 16-player controller for the NES that turns classic head-to-head games like Tetris, Tecmo Bowl, and TMNT: Tournament Fighters into team-vs-team tournaments!

The goal? Form teams to compete at NO QUARTER on 11/22!

A grey, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at NYU Game Center. When: Thursday, Nov. 6 from 5:30PM-7:00PM. Where: Room 233 at 370 Jay St., Brooklyn, NY 11201. https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/events/playtest-thursdays"

A red, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at Boshi's Place. When: Friday, Nov. 7 from 7:00PM-11:00PM. Where: 1002 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211. @boshisplace https://boshis.place"

A blue, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at Wonderville. When: Saturday, Nov. 8 from 3:00PM-8:00PM. Where: 1186 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11221. https://wonderville.nyc"

Excited to be working w/ @tigershungry.co.uk & the NYU crew to make an intramural, bsports tournament for NO QUARTER 2025!

To recruit teams @chouxsalad.bsky.social & I will show the HEXADECIPAD, a 16-player NES controller, at

@nyugamecenter.bsky.social 11/6
@boshis.place 11/7
@wonderville.nyc 11/8

The line up for No Quarter 2025 is finally live alongside tickets & a shiny new visual identify.

This year's event will debut new playful commissions from the superlative... Jana Romanova 🟡 @nicole.pizza + @okremiok.bsky.social 🟡 @alt254.bsky.social + @chouxsalad.bsky.social 🟡 Julián Cordero

Experimental Games Showcase SUBMIT YOUR GAME TO THE

🚨 Hey, everyone! We are extending our submission deadline until Oct 31! 🚨

So there is week more to send games for consideration for the 2026 session of the Experimental Games Showcase.

Submission form and more info in our new website: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

yo, thanks to everyone who checked out the @pvkkgame.bsky.social custom hardware setup in San Diego ✌️💜 hope you liked it!

the @pvkkgame.bsky.social full hardware set up is live at TwitchCon 🙏 you can check it out in person at #TwitchConSanDiego for the next couple of days ✨

AND WE'RE LIVE! Our alt ctrl game jam is happening RIGHT NOW at itch.io/jam/flip-out and on the @arcadecommons.org discord!

And any good game jam ofc has a theme to get the creativity flowing and ours this year is....

the @pvkkgame.bsky.social full hardware set up is live at TwitchCon 🙏 you can check it out in person at #TwitchConSanDiego for the next couple of days ✨

🇿🇦Anyone here from Cape Town and into indie games or alternative controllers?

Well then you need to be at the new Super Friendship Arcade!

Pop up arcade with:
🐱 Homemade indie game!
🐸 Weird alt controllers!
🐶 Awesome people!
🐯 Loads of high fives!

18 Oct at Makers Massive - home of CT Game Dev!

Out Of Index 2025 - Experimental Game Festival Out Of Index is an experimental game festival in South Korea. The goal of the festival is to inspire the game industry with new ideas and experimental energy.

If you make experimental or unusual games, the Out of Index festival in Seoul is still accepting submissions through the 17th! www.outofindex.org

heading out. thanks for having us, Tokyo #TGS2025 #pvkk @pvkkgame.bsky.social @kepler-interactive.bsky.social

heading out. thanks for having us, Tokyo #TGS2025 #pvkk @pvkkgame.bsky.social @kepler-interactive.bsky.social

A giant turquoise steel battalion-like setup of switches and knobs to play the game pvkk

Same from a different angle. 3 people can stand in front of it.

Another angle showing readouts and switches

Oh wow, PVKK went all out.

we'll be out at Tokyo Game Show this week with Mother Ultimate, showing the incredible @pvkkgame.bsky.social controller, as well as new hardware for our friends at @cr-games.bsky.social

if you want to talk about the weird/cool space where custom digital and physical things overlap, hit us up 💜

we'll be out at Tokyo Game Show this week with Mother Ultimate, showing the incredible @pvkkgame.bsky.social controller, as well as new hardware for our friends at @cr-games.bsky.social

if you want to talk about the weird/cool space where custom digital and physical things overlap, hit us up 💜

Experimental Games Showcase SUBMIT YOUR GAME TO THE

Applications to be included in the 2026 Experimental Games Showcase at GDC are now OPEN through October 24, 2025! Please send us the weird shit you're working on!

Learn more and apply on our NEW website: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

Phase one tickets end in 8 days! 🎟✨
Get yours now: tickets.airdosh.co.za/event/free_l...

Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Digital Showcase RETURNS for 2025!

Join us after @thegameawards.com for a first look at the future of indie games. ✨✨✨

Working on something awesome? Submissions are now OPEN! Learn more & submit your game here:

dayofthedevs.org/submit/

Legit playing Planetenverteidigungskannonenkomandant with @rystorm.com was a life changing experience.

The pitch: “Angry birds but very complicated with a MASSIVE controller”

What a marvel of an experience - I’ll be giggling for days

(and stoked that it won the IAB Best Booth award, too 🏅✨ @indiearenabooth.de)

YouTube video by IGN PVKK: We Played it With a Real-Life Cannon Cockpit! | gamescom 2025

a cool couple of months helping to support this PVKK design / build by Mother Ultimate, for the wonderful @pvkkgame.bsky.social and @kepler-interactive.bsky.social 💜 thanks to everyone who checked it out at gamescom 🙏 #gamescom2025

Parallels returns and early bird tickets are available now.

Check out freeplay.net.au for tickets and info, with a full lineup and general release tickets coming in September

1 week until casino doors open. We've a handful of tickets left (& a strict capacity limit).

A few folks have asked...

"Is it okay if I buy a ticket"
And yes, the general rule is that if you can see this post, yes of course you can buy a ticket.

I have a little work-in-progress show on next week. It's the culmination of a socially-led residency with ACAVA. Here's a little video where I say a bit about what's on.

On Wrapping up Now Play This If you're reading this, you've probably already seen that 2025 is going to be the last edition of Now Play This. We’ve had a pretty good run of it, as weird little game festivals go: ten years, eleve...

Heya! You might have seen that this is going to be the final year for @nowplaythis.bsky.social; there's a little post here about why, and about how glad we are to have stuck around for this long nowplaythis.net/2025/03/20/o...