P░pp░n B░rr cool book! Loved it! Slots in neatly on the shelf.

The precarious reality of videogame production beyond the corporate blockbuster studios of North America.

The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production by Brendan Keogh is now available 👉 bit.ly/3L0D2GL

Connections
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I think this is a fun way to play it!

Arguably the best thing ever written about this game. I love it. 'Red claw of a hand' will live on with me for a long while.

hello, my book is out in a week! It's a real book that exists in the world and has, like, a dust jacket and the little bit in the front that tells you what typeface it's set in and so forth lnk.to/thehusbands

NEW GAME

v r 5 is my island-museum of shadows in the Unity game engine. Forty exhibits! For the low low price of free?! AND it's available in your browser?? Count you in!

pippinbarr.com/v-r-5/info

We are pleased to announce the nominees for the 2024 A MAZE. Awards!

The A MAZE. Awards celebrate games and playful media that push the medium to its extremes.

Check out the nominees & honorees in the 🧵 below ⬇️

Congrats to all selected works! #AMaze2024 #AMazeAwards

That feeling when your day has become a quest to have no scrollbar on your inbox.

looooook at this!!

This week's GAMETHING is about noclip in Sweet Home (1989)!

gamething.life

Very excited to be part of the Now Play This 10th anniversary festival! My newest (unreleased right now) thing v r 5 is going to be there!

nowplaythis.net

Thanks to everyone who's played Sokobond Express so far!

This great chemistry pathfinding puzzler is out now on Steam and itch
store.steampowered.com/app/1701330/So… (if you buy on Steam please leave a review)
draknek.itch.io/sokobond-expre… (if you buy on itch we keep a little more of the money)

I help organize a game design retreat called Polaris... and a crop of design 'papers' on four new topics has arrived!

polarisgamedesign.com/reports/

I helped write this one abt how nurturers gonna nurture, so maybe we should help em, big props to Pathologic 2: polarisgamedesign.com/2023/game-desi…

This week's GAMETHING is about noclip in Antichamber.

gamething.life

Sokobond Express, Jose Hernandez / 🌠Sokobond Express is out!🌠's beautifully minimalist puzzle game of chemical bonds and puzzling pathfinding, is OUT NOW on Steam/itch for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam Deck!