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austin_walker

@austinwalker.bsky.social

Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games

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Edmond Tran@edmondtran.bsky.social · yesterday

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This Week in Videogames@thisweekinvideogames.com · 3w ago

This Week in Videogames has reached its first full year of operation. Thank you to our paid subscribers for helping us sustain an independent, commercial-free, AI-free, and no-nonsense approach to games coverage for everyone. Here's a brief rundown of what we've managed to achieve in Year One:

Eve@evegoldenwoods.bsky.social · yesterday

A red flame in Barad-dûr, based on the conversation in the most recent shelved by genre episode. I wanted the city to look both industrial and unsettling, so I tried to use a real mix of building styles, and avoid too many curves/natural shapes.

A scan of a pen and ink drawing of Barad-dûr, inspired by the conversation in the most recent shelved by genre episode. It shows the moment when Frodo, on Mount Doom, looks towards Barad-dûr and as the clouds part sees a red flame in the highest tower, the only image of Sauron the books give us. The drawing depicts barad-dûr in dense, hatched pen, full of narrow, crowded streets and industrial buildings, shrouded in darkness and cloud. A red pen has been used to mark the flame, the only colour in the drawing.
Trese Brothers Games | Strategy RPGs@tresebrothers.bsky.social · 2d ago

Our top-rated tactical RPG is featured in the festival trailer for Steam Cyberpunk Fest! 🎉 store.steampowered.com/app/1021210/... #SteamSale Classics like Neuromancer, Johnny Mnemonic, and Shadowrun inspired our 23rd-century take on cyberpunk.

Steam@steampowered.com · 2d ago

Are you a fan of rain-drenched neon nights, cybernetic body parts, and dystopian mega-cities? If yes, Steam Cyberpunk Fest might be for you! Solve murders, build futuristic cities, go on co-op spy adventures and more - now until August 10. store.steampowered.com/category/cyb...

Si F Sweetman@sifsweetman.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hey, so my good friend and I are developing a visual novel together. If you like my art then, hey, this is gonna be a lot of that! I'll be sharing some concept art and screenshots as we continue development. Please check it out!

Fun Key Boi Games@fun-key-boi-games.bsky.social · 3d ago

Welcome to Big Wheel One, where the 309th Drive is soon to start. As the race spans an entire lap of the wheel, take pit stops. Hang out with your crew. Meet the locals.

A little rusty cantina sits under a cliff along the road through the desert. In the background one can see that this desert is inside of a massive halo-like superstructure in orbit of a gas giant.
cmrn knzlmn@ckunzelman.bsky.social · 3d ago

Big announcement: Game Studies Study Buddies is going on hiatus after the 100th episode and will return in 2027 in a slightly different form. We talk about it extensively near the end of this episode.

Ranged Touch@rangedtouch.bsky.social · 3d ago

The 96th episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES finds some time for a rather big announcement about the show and its near future, but we mostly talk about technology, critical practice, death, and the nature of images with Roland Barthes' CAMERA LUCIDA: rangedtouch.com/2026/08/03/9...

lincoln carpenter@lincolnhello.bsky.social · last wk.

MMOs are sick because of the incidental encounters you have with strangers going about their own business, not because of the prescribed activities you slot yourself into alongside a prerequisite number of players

Smokage of the Burning Leaf@pattheflip.bsky.social · last wk.

I have a lot of personal highlights from this interview, but getting to ask "When's Foucault?" is definitely at the top of my interviewer bucket list.

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Smokage of the Burning Leaf@pattheflip.bsky.social · last wk.

"Q&A: Romolla, from cow VTuber Evo champ to prison abolitionist historian and Antonio Gramsci's #1 Fan" I got to catch up with Best Xrd Sol NA @romolla.bsky.social about her time in fighting games, how to play Sol, and her passion for teaching political theory. www.patreon.com/pattheflip/p...