Christoph Weinreich

Games Ground is definitely the cooler little brother 😎

The 132 game developers receiving the "Press Start: Games Founding Grant" have all been invited to this year’s devcom as part of their education and networking programme. You will recognise them by the “Press Start” stickers on their badges.

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BTW we have a 👾Discord community server!
discord.gg/2nd8TkY4vN

We post weekly updates about #Seaward and when we are looking for playtesters, you will be the first we ask 🙌

#discord #indiedev #gamdev #cozygame #solarpunk

LinkedIn message addressing me as "Dear Mr Gamescom"

Exterior, woods. A buff, tall tired looking man is chopping wood outside of a cabin.

He hears a jeep approaching but doesn't look to it. A high ranking military man gets out of it and approaches the buff guy.

"Mr Gamescom, we need you back in the field. It's returned".

*Stops chopping*

Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills Researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University warn that the more you use AI, the more your cognitive abilities deteriorate.

Just had a dispiriting conversation with a teaching colleague who has had students say to their face this year they don't want to read a hand out (dealing with a core skill of the subject studied).

Students sat in class with ChatGPT up, asking questions the handout answers.

In unconnected news:

I wish 🥲

Schnelle Produkte online drucken Lassen Sie schnelle Produkte drucken und machen Sie aus einem vielseitig einsetzbaren Druckprodukt einen besonderen Hingucker.

Pinguin Druck has saved me before!

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Space Sprouts is wonderful ✨

Seaward on Steam Seaward is a cozy exploration game where you build a ship to discover a flooded world. Find resources and power your ship with renewable energies. Meet unique characters and help them out to build a w...

⭐ Big news everyone! ⭐

👉 store.steampowered.com/app/3430280/...

Seaward has a Steam page! 🎉
Be sure to wishlist ☑️

🗺️ cozy exploration, no timers
⛵ ship building
🤸 fun characters
🌱 renewable energies

They’re all in such good condition 🥺

It’s definitely not like riding a bike 🥲

Press Start Gründungsstipendium Games Wir gratulieren 132 Spieleentwickler*innen zum Stipendiumstart! Die Reise beginnt!

Wir freuen uns, 132 Spieleentwickler*innen aus 14 Bundesländern beim Gründungsstipendium Games willkommen zu heißen! Sie erhalten 18 Monate Unterstützung, um Games-Ideen zu verwirklichen & Studios zu gründen. Mehr Infos: games-stipendium.de/stipendiatin...
@games-stiftung.bsky.social
#PressStart

The Gentrification of Video Game History We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas

Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities:
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AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.

Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

With almost the entire Western system of suppression against Palestinian stories working against him, Rasheed has still managed to bring Dreams on a Pillow to 75% of the campaign goal with two weeks left. Please don't let this dream fail in the last stretch.

www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

Brings me peace 😌

Bossa Nova ❤️

Solid Snake maybe but Naked Snake is such a bottom

I think it’s been about that much time for me too. What this game gave me back then is hard to put into words.

Player Capsule walking towards the ship on a bridge

Player Character walking towards the ship on a bridge

How it started vs how it's going
#indiegame #cozygames #Seaward

But it’s so hard 🥲

When you play Pokémon Gold/Silver as an adult and you can’t catch some Pokémon because it’s always night in the game 💀

It’s just a wee bit addicting 🥲

But don’t let them get near kids

Grinding Brock with Charmander ✨✨

I love Edinburgh 🥲 would be great to connect with some of you when I get to visit again

Hello are you me

Now that there's over 500 of you:
We are building a #Discord community!

💜 discord.gg/2nd8TkY4vN

What can you expect on the server?

🗳️ Community Polls: We want to involve you in the development. Vote what makes it into the game
📣 Development Updates
⭐ Wonderful people like you

But it stayed in your memory so it must’ve been impactful when you were younger 🥺

Should I get into Lain? 🤔