Orestis F
@balthuk.bsky.social
Something something games something something culture Based in Greece. My projects: https://balthuk.itch.io/
It's bandcamp Friday, so it's a good day to get acidadominga.bandcamp.com/album/imagin... for acid techno michellezauner.bandcamp.com/album/jubilee for pop charm curiocurio.bandcamp.com/album/curi-c... for Brazilian groove theemarloes.bandcamp.com/album/di-hot... for Indonesian funk/ soul
Imagination Creates Reality, by Acida Dominga
4 track album
acidadominga.bandcamp.com
Why did nobody tell me Shovel Knight is that good? (Everybody did, but I chose to be 3-8 years behind on games)
I just backed Amnesia Fortnight 2026, Indie Reboot on www.kickstarter.com/projects/dou... , and it's a good time to support them now that they're independent. Also go play Psychonauts and Psychonauts 2, what are you doing instead that is better?
Amnesia Fortnight 2026, Indie Reboot
A Double Fine Productions Game Jam, Documentary, and Kickstarter Campaign
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Swords Against, “unplayable” games, and the history of factual fictions www.patreon.com/ecfriedman/p... I read this while eating my dinner on a bench, I was too invested to stop midway just to get back home. Very interesting read - ttrpgs, fiction, fact, found objects.
[Essay Draft] - Swords Against, “unplayable” games, and the history of factual fictions | Dr. Em Friedman
Note: This is a draft -- of what, I'm not yet certain. It's possible that it could be the kernel of a video essay, especially given how Amab
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As someone who just beat Shovel Knight (only the titular knight's part): Wow, they really did create all those other ones with interesting distinctive mechanics?! King knight is already interesting in the Introductory level.
hilanderrpgs.bearblog.dev/zlda-dungeons/ A very quick but sort of effective guide to making zelda-like dungeons. #OSR
ZLDA: Dungeons
Puzzle Fungeons
hilanderrpgs.bearblog.dev
Some super interesting stuff to read while drinking your morning coffee.
Wyrd Science Magazine@wyrdscience.bsky.social · last wk.Stick it to the man & read some great stuff this Friday afternoon whilst you're at work! This week we have vampires, vampyres, folklore grails, The Sisters of Mercy, UFO zines, kaiju, mutants & even some tabletop game stuff a healthy mixed diet of high weirdness to keep you going over the weekend
Hi, I made a steam page for my game, Soft Ruin. If it seems interesting, please consider giving it a wishlist. Thanks! store.steampowered.com/app/2882230/...
Noclip consistently produces top tier documentaries on the games scene, just take a peek at their channel and start watching.
/noclip@noclipvideo.bsky.social · 2w ago/ten years. /over 200 documentaries. /all powered by our community. Summarizing a decade seemed like a daunting task so we asked our community to sum it all up. September 12th is the big day. We'll tell you all about our plans for the next decade then. The mission continues. youtu.be/EY-HmdHrUN8
"I want an exit from what has been sold to me and others as normal. Something we can do, on an individual and a collective basis, is to reject the predominant culture of the hobby and to strive for a community with non-commercial interactions between members." Still digesting this one, here it is.
Steps to Demonetize the TTRPG Hobby
You can quit playing your pretend games wholesale and go back to living an undisturbed life not worrying about what a lyric game is or wheth...
traversefantasy.blogspot.com
A friendly reminder that Double Fine's Psychodyssey is one of the finest pieces of media ever created, and a must-watch for anyone who cares about video games, yet somehow it's also completely free www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Double Fine PsychOdyssey - YouTube
2 Player Productions and Double Fine Productions present Double Fine PsychOdyssey, an unprecedented documentary experience seven years in the making. Ten yea...
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Ambrosia Sky: Act Two is now available + you can grab the game for 20% off! 🎉 In this update: 7️⃣ Seven brand new levels to explore ⚙ Updates to crafting + progression 💜 Dalia's mission to find Maeve continues ➕ Cloud saves, Simplified Chinese localization, and more! More info: tiny.cc/acttwolaunch
Ambrosia Sky - Act Two is now available! - Steam News
Ambrosia Sky: Act Two is live! Check out this post for launch details and patch notes.
tiny.cc
What if your lead designer on a 3d platformer was a child you gave a bunch of coffee to (complimentary) ? Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom is what you get. There's a super appealing and generous demo for free, and it's on sale!
Save 60% on Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom on Steam
Make full use of your advanced move-set to navigate hand-crafted retro worlds without a jump button in this vibrant love letter to the N64 era of collectathons!
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If you're interested in worker owned ttrpg journalism, you owe it to yourself to check out Rascal.
Rascal News@rascal.news · last mo.State of the Rascal: August 2026 www.rascal.news/state-of-the...
Huh switch game prices really are nothing like pc games, are they? I've gotten too used too steam sales, etc. so even getting a cheaper switch 1 seems pretty rough if you add in the must have games.
I cannot overstate how much I have enjoyed the PsychOdyssey, a stunning documentary series on the recently wounded Double Fine, before and during the creation of Psychonauts 2. @2playerproductions.bsky.social are wizards of documentary making and I am on my N-th rewatch. youtu.be/kRlI72bsNRc?...
Double Fine PsychOdyssey · OUT NOW! · Official Trailer
YouTube video by Double Fine
youtu.be
The Story of Christian Metalcore Is the Story of American Politics, a great article on a topic that was somewhat stored away in my brain as a "Huh, I wonder why that is". www.thefringe.blog/p/the-story-...
Why Are There So Many Christian Metalcore Bands?
How bands like Underoath, The Devil Wears Prada, Norma Jean, and more conquered a corner of the hardcore scene.
thefringe.blog
Playing a fifteen year old boy named Godammit made my twenty-session campaign of Apocalypse World smaller, angrier, fiercer, and forced me to be more honest about the place of violence in our game. At the end of the campaign, Godammit looked at a weapon and called it brother.
The only real boy in Apocalypse World
Playing an ordinary teenager casts the game’s blunt violence into sharper relief.
rascal.news
Hey, that's a nice [THING YOU DO FOR PERSONAL PLEASURE], be a real shame if somebody were to [CONVINCE YOU TO MONETIZE IT, TRANSFORMING YOUR RELATIONSHIP INTO AN OBLIGATION AND ROBBING YOU OF JOY]
Who wouldn't want on of these? Jump on the opportunity to get your lil weirdos depicted.
RossyDoesDrawings (commissions open)@rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social · 2mo agoI have some more slots for £10 per character commissions available, please send me a message if you would like to have one, thank you!
The Rogue Prince of Persia has something to say about this. Great fluid movement and banging soundtrack are my very early impressions. store.steampowered.com/app/2717880/...
The Rogue Prince of Persia on Steam
In this challenging, fast-paced roguelite, every death is a unique chance to rewrite fate, save Persia or die trying. Master fluid, acrobatic combat and parkour as you explore your kingdom to right yo...
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Orestis F@balthuk.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhy do I buy 5-10 games on a steam sale to play an hour a day of Binding of Isaac and that's all? 😞
I'm reading Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell and having a blast, but it's at the stage where things have started to unravel preeetty fast for most characters and I am not sure I can handle it, I might be sighing loudly and worryingly while reading at this point. www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...
Utopia Avenue
Utopia Avenue might be the most curious British band yo…
goodreads.com
Sheet ghosts, in essence, come from the old practice of covering a corpse in a burial shroud, but it likely persists in the modern era because of a ghost hoax in 1803 that ended in an accidental murder. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammers...
Hammersmith Ghost murder case - Wikipedia
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While watching Amelie for the first time and enjoying it a lot, I started wondering: is there a game heavily based on it? A lot of its plot seems game-like, talk to interesting neighbours with their own stories and quirks, gather clues to find the mysterious man, engage him but not too much,etc.
