a free texture of some sea-worn rock, found somewhere along the sea shore

some of you who have had the joy of working for middling middle managers and company owners may occasionally have the sneaking suspicion that what they’re doing isn’t that difficult and that they’re just plain incompetent and running on the fumes of an incandescent ego-high and you’re ✨right✨

really adore this critique of Macfarlane through the lens of class and colonialism Jamie really gets at the heart of what is so disquieting about this style of travel writing

Kathleen Jamie · A Lone Enraptured Male: The Cult of the Wild

What’s that coming over the hill? A white, middle-class Englishman! A Lone Enraptured Male! From Cambridge! Here to...

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I think we need embrace hacking culture and the joy of writing hand-crafted code as a fight against capitalism it’s time to kill those corpo-creeps dreams and poison the ghost in their machines

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · 3d ago

please enjoy my post featuring a bunch of tools to navigate the age of AI! 👉 because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools) - www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bec... anti-AI tools, AI protection, and data pois*ning projects. there's so much! #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieWeb

the tāmaki zine festival here where brethren gather below the awning of a gigantic obelisk to trade in tales of the heart

just got complimented by a dirty little skate rat (complimentary) and now I’m wandering into town to see my crush, and possibly wander around the local zine festival and pick up something nice to read

the sound of distant seas / as they fall / so sweetly / embraced / by distant shores / while my mind drifts / then drowns / toward deep blue sleeps unknown

I’m finally out after a month-long fugue state writing reports for a client and it’s finally time to sleep in, explore the world, make games, write poetry, flirt with girls, and kiss pretty boys

I don’t have any deep feelings about the odyssey but I will say I was profoundly moved going to the cinema, and watching hundreds of people still be completely enraptured by a story that’s thousands of years old

why is it anytime all my favourite games critics are in a thread together they’re always arguing with a stranger about myst

you know you’ve reached adulthood when the opening of a new train line is the high point of your entire year

Tāmaki has one of the warmest game communities in the world, and it’d be such a joy to see you here come commune with us to discuss games, and fish, and the small digital artefacts that make such meaning of the world we’re in

Auckland Makes Games 🎮@aucklandmakes.games · 2w ago

We are soooo excited to announce that Wireframe Presents: Communion lineup is CONFIRMED and that TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE! We'll be announcing the full lineup leading up to the event. Get your tickets now and head over to see a sneak peek ➡️ events.humanitix.com/wireframe-pr...

Nat always takes my breath away with how they’re able to weave digital corruption and intimacy together into such beautiful experiences butterfly is one of the prettiest games of this century, and it’s such a nice way to spend a quiet morning

Nathalie Lawhead@alienmelon.bsky.social · last wk.

short story and poem turned video game, A Butterfly, is available for 💰 50 cents💰 for the next 32 hours! store.steampowered.com/app/3439300/... explore a dead world where titans came to die. #IndieGame #Artgame #Gamepoem #Narrative

yes.

digital collage i made today

I don’t know how I missed this, this looks like one of the most aesthetically richest games I’ve ever seen

Bithell Games@bithellgames.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Banished Vault is 3 today! 🎂 Survive a journey across space in the Auriga Vault, an interstellar gothic monastery crewed by the last remaining exiles of a terrible disaster. Pick it up for 33% off this weekend 🌙

an open-world golf game composed of infinitely generated rolling green hills, lush forests, and pristine waters in the style of Wii Sports (2006)

my studio is finally ✨🌸independent🌸✨

feeling cute (might delete later)

I think we can use genres to define art, but art is not limited by genre and that’s because the world is bigger than anything we’ll ever use to categorise, analysis, or define it by; and that includes the things we make

little treat wednesday (the little treat is groceries, and a big chorizo sausage)

this is more-or-less the conclusion my thesis on designing kinder online spaces also arrived at designing kinder environments leads to kinder environments

rain 🌦️@sunshowers.io · 2w ago

The fundamental thing to realize is that free will does not exist. People's views are entirely formed by the environments they are in. If the environment is bad their views become worse. If the environment is good their views become better

does anyone recall a short personal essay from about a decade ago, about visiting Overton bridge and reflecting on their personal suicidal depression?

a game where you spray yellow paint to show other players where to go

attended the warmest housewarming last night I had so many lovely conversations with folk about our education system and video games; and it was so nice simply being around others who genuinely care about what they put out into the world

Jean Valentine

a messy situationship would fix me

the secret they don’t tell you about hiring artists is that you can simply ask them to draw you penguins and then your evenings are filled with small penguin updates, and it’s one of the best feelings in the world

dreamed of a point-and-click assassination game about infiltrating a distant castle to off the false king coloured in lush crunchy gameboy greens, with blinding white dashes of lightening flashing across the screen

an ache i cannot touch