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Hey folks! Weird request. I got featured in EDGE magazine issue #415 with MORSE, I had a friend send me a copy of it but it got lost in the mail. Does anyone have a copy they’d be willing to sell me? I’d really appreciate it ♥️

Wired up three dutch pots ahead of my session tomorrow with local Caribbean people living with dementia at Memory Hub, very excited for the session! 🍲🦜 #dementia #altctrl

Recently I've been designing games for people living locally with dementia, using familiar objects such as teapots, watering cans and walking sticks as the controllers to play with. The Sheffield Star covered the story today with a front page mention, which I'm very grateful for!

I did a successful dry run of my installation, Singing Teapots ahead of my playtest this week with people locally living with dementia, check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBu-... #dementia #sensoryroom #altctrl #maker

Singing Teapots - A multi-sensory experience for people living with dementia exploring bird calls.

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Games Garden@gamesgardenparty.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I am unfortunately abroad when this is on, but wanted to show my support for this. In the current industrial landscape, games focused on communities and not platforms is desperately needed. Wishing the organisers well with the event!

As our first order of business, we cordially invite you to a party. The inaugural Games Garden Party is part unconference and part games show-and-tell. Join us in NW London on June 27th for an afternoon of chats and games. For more info and to sign up head to luma.com/ojjo1frd

I've built some custom hardware so people living with dementia can build games controllers, which I'll be testing around Sheffield next month! Here's the breakdown: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkmH... #games #dementia #altctrl

Familiar Glow: Hardware for facilitating craft based workshops with people living with dementia.

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Running alternative controller workshops with people living with dementia next month, for which I've worked with @nachimir.bsky.social to make crocodile clips for older hands: + Magnetic lead clamp for easy connection + Larger surface area so less fiddly to handle + Familiar form of a clothes peg

Very excited to share that MORSE, my strategy game that teaches Morse Code got featured in RadCom, the UK's national Amateur Radio magazine! Always a thrill seeing the game in print, thanks to the RSGB for covering the project! #morse #morsecode #rsgb #hamradio #games

Today is Morse Code day! This week the game is 20% off and I'll be updating the demo with a bunch of features to help with Amateur Radio outreach and plenty the polish. Read more about it here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/197... #hamradio #morse #gamedev #morsecode #morsecodeday

Experimenting with turning warm teapots into games controllers for folks living with dementia : )

Alex Johansson@alexvscoding.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just in case there's any ambiguity, April fools : )

Extremely excited to announce I've secured a partnership with @johnromero.bsky.social to bring the DOOMhandle to market, stay tuned for more details! 🔥🚪🔥 #doom #gamedev #games

Extremely excited to announce I've secured a partnership with @johnromero.bsky.social to bring the DOOMhandle to market, stay tuned for more details! 🔥🚪🔥 #doom #gamedev #games

Doing a bold re-imagining of DOOM

susie@susepicious.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am really looking forward to this next week! Props to Susie and the team for bringing it all together.

I was invited to guest curate a V&A late! Please come along to Player/Performer at V&A South Kensington on 27th March for a night of games and performances. We have karaoke, LARP, drag, card games, videogames, robots and MORE Totally free and no tickets needed www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...

I am extremely excited to announce that MORSE now has 3 dedicated training modes to sharpen your telegraphy skills - Calibration, Speed and Listening! Really chuffed with how seamlessly these educational modes integrate into the game. #hamradio #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #games #morse

Dr Florence Smith Nicholls@florencesn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Nice to see MORSE getting a mention on here! "I could describe it as a kind of tower-defence real-time twist on Battleships, but really it’s a frantic and frequently overwhelming game about using Morse to fight off incoming enemies and it’s utterly original in all the important aspects." WHEEEEEE

This week on the Bathysphere we have an essay by Chris on getting lost in a video game city: buttondown.com/Bathysphere/...

Connected up this little fella to the Teaspoon Telegraph 💧 #hamradio #games #morsecode

Jesse Vitelli@mamavitelli.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Even if we can't go to the store together anymore, there are ways the games I've connected with her can still hold a special place." A very sweet writing by Jesse about games, care and intergenerational bonds 🍃

Wrote a little personal essay about Pokemon Leaf Green and my grandmother send-news.beehiiv.com/p/send-news-...

Robert Ashley@robertashley.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I’m looking to talk to gamers who have been diagnosed with dementia as part of a story I’m working on. If you are that person or know someone who might be willing to talk, please hit me up! Thanks.

More videogames should be controlled with wizard staffs

My partner flashed HELLO in Morse Code at me whilst walking towards her car : ) What a gem ❤️

Here's a preview of one of MORSE's 3 new training modes: Test your ability recognising the sound of letters in Morse Code. Update arriving next week! 👂⚫ ⚫◼️ ⚫◼️⚫ #hamradio #morsecode #morse #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #games

Very excited to be finally adding a calibration tutorial to MORSE, so folks can have a better understanding of how to tweak their telegraph. Coming soon! 🎚️ #hamradio #morsecode #gamedev #games

Alex Johansson@alexvscoding.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Here's what that outreach mode looks like in practice: MORSE is currently on display in Strasbourg, so I tracked down the name of the local (REF67) and national (REF) amateur radio clubs and added them to MORSE to give players a direct local connection to engaging with the hobby.

Pushed an update out for MORSE today with a suite of features to support Amateur Radio including an outreach mode for radio clubs to use, a non-visual Morse input mode, support for Vband and more! Read about it here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/197... #hamradio #morse #gamedev #morsecode

Joshua Rivera@jmrivera.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My 2026 prediction is that as devs lean harder into the harmful aesthetics and mechanisms of an explicitly addictive industry, the escalating arms race of indie gambling "simulators" will quietly rot games from the inside out. It's wild how the scourge of Loot Boxes faded from memory so quickly.

Talked a bit about this for my submission to the culture journalist podcast’s 2026 predictions but the new cool is in offline objects and spaces you can post online evidence of participating in. theculturejournalist.substack.com/p/2026-cultu...

Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Unironically getting to build outdoor games tailored for nuns would be such an interesting design brief

There truly are other (podcast) worlds out there.

vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor@ellaguro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I worked on my final indie game, MORSE on and off for ten years, it's been moderately successful (to a point I could feasibly make something else) but I'm at peace with never making a game that big ever again. Looking forward to making much, much smaller experiences for audiences outside of games.

any time a successful indie game is made by someone with a totally unhealthy relationship to work and no work/life balance it just creates that expectation for everyone else. you can't make an art scene off of people who are isolating and torturing themselves with work