there comes a time in every woman's life where she runs out of book space and also bookshelf space. i'm in it,
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writing designing programming games. she/her. living on stolen land in naarm, sovereignty was never ceded. corunning https://asymptotes.au https://crestofthebeast.itch.io/
ever since i've been around this space there's been a narrative of "(x viral success) proves The People want innovation!" and it almost always just leads to a series of increasingly craven imitators. you can't build a whole industry out of people trying to win the lottery. it's absurd.
headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com · 4d agoi love how common the we need more games like [massive longshot million to one success] to save The Industry is as a take. sounds both sustainable and possible to plan for
"trans women like games with incredibly intricate and complex systems" trans women like-a the pizza and-a the pasta! ohhh!
are we all sure bruce sterling wasn't just a lesbian and really butch
At the Ghost in the Shell panel. Not even the screenwriter and producer have seen Shirow in the flesh. Shirow communicates only by photographing hand written notes and sending jpegs to his editor, who relays info to the staff.
I'm so very grateful for PeopleMakeGames giving me a platform to speak about the impact the dismissal from Rockstar has had on my family because it has been profound. We miss our dogs more than anything in the world and would do anything to have them both back. Unfortunately that cannot happen.
IWGB@iwgbunion.bsky.social · last wk.Listen to fired Rockstar worker Will Masilane detail how losing his job meant losing the life he had built in Edinburgh, with his girlfriend and his beloved dogs Abby and Lonnie The four of them had made the move to the Scottish capital from Australia two and half years prior.
theres like multiple rabbi-werewolf tales scattered through jewish literary history apparently ingeveb.org/articles/the...
The Writing Werewolf: Rabbinic Identity and Linguistic Understanding in the Old Yiddish Mayse-bukh (Book of Stories, 1602) | In geveb
Language politics are embodied by a rabbi-turned-werewolf in a mayse from one of the most influential and popular early modern Yiddish books.
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There really is no one out there with quite the sense of self-promotion as thecatamites. myfriendpokey.tumblr.com/post/8232336...
Promotional Gewgaws
I found a folder of the promotional images I used when pitching 10 Beautiful Postcards (forthcoming on Steam, already on Itch) to the zeitgeist first time around. The first batch explain the game...
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Final preview clip. I asked @crestofthebeast.bsky.social why @asymptotes.au was created. We hope you are exited for our next upcoming doco about "What is the Future of Games"
"The sentiment at the moment is that AAA is in trouble but indie games will save us" We asked a bunch of game developers at #Asymptotes "What is the future of games". Here is a clip from Duncan. Full video soon.
disappointed in the briefness of the test emergency tone, i wanted to feel something
(watching developments in daily human discourse, eager to find the moment i can grab hold of the word 'vibes' and crack it open like a geode to how it's just another way of talking about ideology without having to say the word 'ideology')
Your food processor has a chute that fits your dick. Should you?
CBS News@cbsnews.com · 2w agoChatGPT now has a space for sharing medical records. Should you?
between sf6 and tokon it feels like the end state of the modern fighting game is an easy to input but ridiculous knowledge check resource-intensive management games with specifically designed power spikes. just make a moba guys.
Here are my slides and a transcript of my talk I gave during Glasgow Indie Games Fest on July 11th: Evil Game Design - An Introduction: mokkograd.net/posts/2026-0...
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my very silly blocker when trying to do creative work is that having my obsidian vault open with all the ten billion folders on the left hand side stresses me out but having no filetree at all stresses me out even more. i need a plugin that lets me pretend i only have the one folder at a time
Hot takes are fucking disgusting and won't exist under democratic socialism
oh i guess this piece also kinda casually announces abdication, a story collection, and natalie portman developing my story Constellations for film too, as well as confirming Borne is in development at AMC as a series lol... very info rich
Thrilled to announce The Strange Architect series over at Variety. There were several possibilities, but thankful to FSG for stepping up and creating a home for it. variety.com/2026/biz/new...
‘The Strange Architect,’ New Series by ‘Annihilation’ Author Jeff VanderMeer, Sells to Farrar, Straus and Giroux in Seven-Figure Deal (EXCLUSIVE)
'The Strange Architect,' a four-part series by 'Annihilation' author Jeff VanderMeer, has sold Farrar, Straus and Giroux in a seven-figure deal.
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i've been pretty tongue in cheek and coy about asymptotes stuff but i would like to say i'm absolutely floored by the response we got and by how positively the event was received. absolutely unreal to have a silly idea myself and a friend entertained become this. absolutely honoured, thank you all.
eenk, my interactive fiction firmware for Xteink e-reader, is making progress🙂 I've added custom font support (at device level and story level). The IDE is shaping up. I'm working on documentation, update process, polish. It's getting there! Does anyone have a cool ink story it could ship with?
informative & useful replies from a reddit thread re: do whales ever drown, momentarily derailed into a discussion of giant squid population numbers
Valve’s own attacks on artistic expression don’t receive nearly the same amount of attention as Visa or MasterCard’s efforts. Their impenetrable, private review process continues to have a chilling effect on what you can say or depict in a video game.
Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! DEMO OUT@molleindustria.org · 2w agoSome sad news regarding today’s release:
