ate some delicious things for my birthday soupdragon.substack.com/p/birthday-eat…

OUT NOW: A STRANGE CREATURE JOINED MY PARTY! 🌱🔥⛈ An interactive fiction adventure about making friends with mystical critters and exploring abandoned places - think "text-based RPG meets virtual pet"! 🌿🐈

My journey making a game based on my childhood pet guinea pig! (🎸 by my brother Dan)

Been waiting for this one... as a teen we used to do monthly bulk cooking: take one day and put 60 meals in the freezer. Not everyone can or even wants to do that, but there are lots of smaller shortcuts to save time and money, and Lauren touches on many of them here.

Ugh. I HATE the sleaziness of using "on sale now" to mean "available for purchase" while linking to a site with the full suggested retail price, and not a sale/reduced price. Especially for such an awesome book that deserves better. Go buy it anyway.

Last night I was complaining on Mastodon about the editing in Roadwarden's demo. This morning I thought "oh no, I'm nitpicking about things that no one would ever notice" and... uh... I dashed off 600+ words about how I'd edit the first passage: joshgrams.com/2022/12/03/roa…

Ardwoodcreations.fr C'est moi, tout seul, dans mon atelier des Ardennes Ébéniste tourneur autodidacte depuis 10 ans et des poussières Les vases segmentés sont ma marotte J'essaie de percer dans le petit monde de l'artisanat d'art Vous savez quoi faire pour m'aider 😊

Web sumo is a sport where you stand still doing exactly what you please, as people try to get you to switch to a framework, and you win if their framework is deprecated before you are moved

Hey, you! Want to play a fun game about visiting your abuela in the swamp and gathering roots for her cooking? Then play SWAMP STEW, created for #GlobalGameJam2023 by me, Aaron Z. Best, Ivy Dupler, Gautam Srikishan, and Ruthie Edwards! aaronzbest.itch.io/swamp-stew

I'm very happy to announce the preliminary launch of The Rosebush, a new online magazine for interactive fiction theory and criticism: the-rosebush.com

Dang, this is a lineup. Chandler Groover, Arthur DiBianca, *two* collaborations (one with great fiction authors - Isabel J. Kim, Natalia Theodoridou, Kate Heartfield), another community simulator from Lauren O'Donoghue, games from C.E.J. Pacian, Kit Reimer, the list goes on...