Brendan Allen
@brendanallen.bsky.social
poet / little gamemaker / doctoral student "bibliomancer" when wearing my gamer pants https://bibliomancer.itch.io/ https://brendan-allen.com/
I like playing deus ex because if I was a paramilitary cyborg who could turn invisible and punch through walls I would 100% use those powers to read all of my neighbor's emails about their late gym membership payments or whatever
the new mountain goats album is out on Friday. presave it please! or even preorder it! the vinyl package is a super cool O-card design by @seenstudio.bsky.social 30tgrs.ffm.to/days
The Mountain Goats - Days
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This brings me to an amusing point. If a community fights back against a planned data center, delaying the approval process, they’ll inevitably make it vastly, vastly more expensive to build, costing the developer millions or billions. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-ai-is-getting-way-too-expensive/
Data center protest sign thread - updated whenever I run into a new one 📍Admire, KS
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
why are some of the old language poets leaning so hard into AI. is it just because they felt on the cutting edge back when timing text animations in Flash was the thing and are scrambling to get that feeling back. feels like a real spit in the face.
WHAT 2000s SKATE VIDEO ARE YOU? by @saltedslug.net is a Decker masterpiece. I've never encountered a deck that feels this crunchy/tactile. i'm clicking for the joy of it. i'm finding secret tapes. hell yeah ( #decker fantasy camp is jammed full of inspiring stuff) saltedslug.itch.io/what-2000s-s...
What 2000s Skate Video Are You? by Salty P. Slug
A skateboarding personality quiz made in Decker.
saltedslug.itch.io
One of my all time favorite bitsy games, which manages to actually accomplish an unsettling play experience (hard to do in bitsy!)
been slacking in the social media department and i will continue to but best believe you will hear about it here when my unreleased stuff releases. in the meantime, check out Blindspot, my recent Narrative game with probably my best writing and game music so far! ergman.itch.io/cosmicbackgr...
The newest update to The Tiny Toy Theatre Imagination Kit is now playable on Itch: bibliomancer.itch.io/the-tiny-toy.... Featuring new character sheets from an adaptation of Dumas's The Corsican Brothers -- and some design improvements. Glad to get it in shape for the Decker Fantasy Camp jam!
The Tiny Toy Theatre Imagination Kit by bibliomancer
Make your own nineteenth century toy theatre diorama!
bibliomancer.itch.io
Congratulations!!!! Happy first day of work, Raccoon Shopkeep! id like 55 potions, 55 swords, 55 cloaks, c'mon keep up
Hi everyone! Got an exciting announcement for you this morning: 🦝🦝 Raccoons to Riches is OUT NOW! 🦝🦝 Go get it! -> store.steampowered.com/app/3778620/... #indiegames #gaming #gamedev
Hypothetically speaking if you pirated every $60 AAA game you wanted to play you could instead fund twelve excellent $5 games made by individual genius weirdos on itch
is there even a rational argument against pirating AAA games now? they fire everyone who works on new ones immediately upon release, and they lock away anything over 5 years old for a terrible remaster moneygrab
Its difficult to put my my anger over this into words. The modern Backrooms was born from the collective effort of thousands. That collaboration, all that passion/time was freely given because it made people happy. Now its being monetized. Its exactly like Ai and the internet.
It's been rad watching iterations of this game grow and refine over the last year-or-so of going to my local game dev night -- congrats on the upcoming release!
Ahoy! Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! Raccoons to Riches comes out next Monday!! It's a roguelike deckbuilding/shopkeeping game where you play as a raccoon. Manage your stocks, decorate your shop, and make tons of profit to stay in business for a whole month! Wishlist -> s.team/a/3778620
Today we have something special: a newly translated interview from July 1996 between Shigeru Miyamoto and Kenji Eno! Conducted just weeks after the launch of Mario 64, Eno takes Miyamoto to task (in a friendly way) with several fascinating critiques of its design. shmuplations.com/miyamotoxeno/
Shigeru Miyamoto x Kenji Eno (1996) - shmuplations.com
In July 1996, Kenji Eno visited Nintendo HQ to speak with Shigeru Miyamoto as the first of his "cross-talk" series.
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the corsican brothers character sheets are a lot of melodramatic fun
in 2026 i have finally mastered DOMAIN FORWARDING so now you can simply type centoquest.com into your browser of choice and go on a poetry adventure instantaneously, whenever and wherever the dire need for interactive procedural poetry strikes you (subway line, bathroom, subway sandwich line, etc.)
CentoQuest
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Been thinking about these guys all day and couldn't go to sleep without making this
god dang do i love stealth crossword
STEALTH CROSSWORD "The forced stealth mission in a game that really shouldnt have one" 🧩10 mins of Stealth Crossword Action! 👑Two endings ('caught' and 'not caught') 💻Play in browser computerjames.itch.io/stealth-cw
Since the spring of 2023, I have been creating a non-violent art museum in Doom. My goal was to find art that engaged with the themes that informed Doom's creation, while also exploring the possibilities of virtual museum spaces. Please enjoy this museum. Download link below
never in my life did I think I'd be working on a videogame phd project that called upon my teenage knowledge of the most terrible DVD I ever owned (and watched over 20 times...)
Strolled around the highly literary campus of St. John's College yesterday, very tickled by how the Shakespearean naming conventions of some buildings led to the text on this fire department connection sign
"The moment you put the controller down, your licence to use it will be revoked and you will need to purchase a new one" said Sony chaser.com.au/entertainmen...