I finally got to see The Sheep Detectives, and it was all I had dreamed, and more!

It's still #NonbinaryAwarenessWeek so it's still #NonbinaryCodedGames time!!! check out all these cool games made by nonbinary devs! have you found some games to enjoy yet? 💛🤍💜🖤

kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE!@npckc.net · 3w ago

💛🤍NONBINARY CODED GAMES💜🖤 is live on Steam! For International Nonbinary Day, we're showcasing 150+ games by devs who are nonbinary, genderqueer, & outside the gender binary! Take a look and see the spectrum of what we have to offer 🌈 store.steampowered.com/curator/4610... #NonbinaryCodedGames

Before you release your game to the world, ask yourself this: if you perish tonight, would this be sufficient as your only legacy? It doesn't need to be perfect. I doesn't even need to be all that good! But it does need to have *your* vibe, or at least a vibe which stirs your heart.

Sell the Sizzle not the Sausage: How to Release Your Game

Making a video game is easier than ever, but how do you release it into the world, put it up for sale and get it noticed? A guide on how to get your game out there, by an award-winning solo game…

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It's St Swithin's Day, the first anniversary of Trans Theft Horso's release! It's on discount all week for the Nonbinary-Coded Games sale: store.steampowered.com/app/2268550/...

Save 30% on Trans Theft Horso on Steam

A colourful western fantasy adventure, to save trans joy! Adric Belfonte embarks on a happy nightmare into the wild and bewaffling West. Explore the maddening desert, defy the admirals, ride the anima...

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Gender Gladness Alert! There's a Nonbinary Games Sale all week, and Trans Theft Horso is included in it! store.steampowered.com/curator/46105077/sale/NonbinaryCodedGames #NonbinaryCodedGames

Nonbinary Coded Games

hosted by NomnomNami and npckc, this event is a big showcase for games made by nonbinary developers!

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💛🤍NONBINARY CODED GAMES💜🖤 is live! Check out 150+ games by devs who are nonbinary, genderqueer, & outside the gender binary! our Biblical Yuri about pizza & dragons 😇💥😈 s.team/a/4247760 our Battle-Throuple roguelite hybrid VN (in the void) ⚔️🔮🪴 s.team/a/2406810 #NonbinaryCodedGames #indiegames

Have you played any of these games? If not, you should. ComputerJames is a master of crafting short, unexpected experiences that are just a delight to play. I wish more games were like this. Worth a study.

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames.bsky.social · last mo.

making a thread of my favourite short games ive made 🧵(so i can link to it in applications)

An excellent weekend at Glasgow Indie Games Fest. I met a lot of players and makers of games -- though most of us are both. Games I got engrossed in include Grease Trap 99 (fish & chips & a creature), JumpBaby (jumping gleefully), and the deeply uncomfortable GAME (sport and maternal pressure)

"Whoever the figure that gets hoisted to the top of the heap, their individual plans and desires will always be wrapped in a death shroud of institutional rot. To some degree, it doesn't matter what Andy's schemes entail – they still need to manoeuvre through a madcap panorama of haunted corridors."

Now Then magazine@nowthenmag.bsky.social · 4w ago

The mad king has gone to ground and Andy Burnham's being low-speed railed in as prince regent to oversee the mouldering kingdom. We were so close to letting the Labour Party dissolve in its own acid. The people of Makerfield have a lot to answer for. ✍️ @seanmorl.com

Ann Widdecombe wholeheartedly backed cruel policies. I always imagined she'd be quite friendly if she wasn't so strongly and vocally opposed to people like me, and against immigration, and against many other minorities. In light of her death I will no longer be describing her as my 'hear me out'.

I'm going to Glasgow Indie Games Fest tomorrow to make merry, meet games people and play people's games (and put Trans Theft Horso about, of course!). Anyone else off to @glasgowindiegamesfest.org? (I'll take the low road)

I wrote a piece on how to release your first video game: gfsc.community/sell-the-siz... (Fair warning: the first third is visible but the site requests a free sign-up before revealing the remainder).

Sell the Sizzle not the Sausage: How to Release Your Game

Making a video game is easier than ever, but how do you release it into the world, put it up for sale and get it noticed? A guide on how to get your game out there, by an award-winning solo game devel...

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PHONOPOLIS by @amanita-design.net is an absolutely wonderful game. Art direction and animation, music and sound, gameplay and story: everything is a handcrafted masterpiece, and Amanita at it's peak. Play it, everyone. store.steampowered.com/app/1206070/...

Save 10% on Phonopolis on Steam

Phonopolis is a story-driven puzzle adventure set in a hand-painted 3D world made of cardboard. Solve a wide variety of playful puzzles and help Felix end the Leader's oppressive influence in a resona...

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They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

Dear Media. Vatican II wasn’t just about praying or not in Latin. *Vatican II decided to be less antisemitic. By a lot. * And now Pope Leo (like Francis) is reading the Bible HARD, all that “love immigrants” & “care for others” “🖕 Empire” stuff?! This story is not complicated.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.

BREAKING: The Vatican excommunicates bishops from a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics that consecrated them without Pope Leo's consent.

More idle speculation on GTA6: I feel in my eaters that it'll contain adventures in prison and in Cuba. Stupid GTA6 speculation: with such a high the budget and a production length of a decade, it could plausibly have Sean Connery and Roger Moore playing all the police.

This is all, of course, me making the mistake of accepting the premise of the utility function. My actual take is just that it matters a lot more to build a world where people care morally about helping people right now instead of what their spreadsheets say.

There's a survey out for Sheffield's City of Culture bid. I hope people mention our rich 40+ year heritage in the global games industry, thriving gamedev community, esports scene, @playsheffield.bsky.social, @nvmuk.bsky.social, +dozens of games studios haveyoursay.sheffield.gov.uk/cityofcultur...

Supposedly, GTA VI had a production budget of 2 billion dollars. Hundreds of Beavers had a budget of $150,000, and was perfect. If I've done my sums right, GTA VI could contain upwards of 13,333,300 beavers!

My uninformed predictions for GTA6: - It will seem anti-woke on the surface to appeal to its core audience, but ICE will be the villain & it will be no more racist than usual - It will have a non-binary character who looks a lot like me, and this will be taken as an insult to the trans community.

The noble King Argaroth is streaming my game Trans Theft Horso right now, raising donations for Trans Lifeline.

KingArgaroth@kingargaroth.com · last mo.

Raising money for @translifeline.org by playing a charming, wholesome game alongside some silly incentives! Come along and celebrate Gender Gladness! www.twitch.tv/kingargaroth

Video games and Puppet Shows are the same thing! A talk I gave last month at @amazefest.bsky.social has now appeared online.

A MAZE. / Berlin 2026 - Day 2: Why Computer Games are Puppet Shows

YouTube video by A MAZE.

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Spargelzeit is over and there are six months to Christmas, i.e. the perfect time to bust out Christmas to bust out Christmas tunes for a summer outing. What's the non-temperature-related mood?

- Linked thread of heat management strategies - Memorise the chart or save it to your phone - Drinks with electrolytes like isotonic sports beverages are tremendously helpful for minimising risk especially if your diet is poor (further info: www.uabmedicine.org/news/underst...)

Osaka@osaka.zone · last mo.

sit in a chair that forces your elbows away from your waist. you lose a lot of heat from your under-arms if you don't let them slip at your sides, plus you have a higher total surface area Go put a fresh pair of socks in a ziploc bag, and put the bag in the freezer for about 10 minutes the freezer

This week I learned I've been summoned to Köln and will be there for GamesCom in late August! With Trans Theft Horso, natch!

I dreamed I met Patricia Routledge and she lent me a copy of a new and unpublished book in the Twilight saga.

I've been spelling quel dommage wrong for years! Alas.

Today, adventuring to Leeds to give a talk to teens studying game design. They're about to get a BTEC I never had, which might mean they're the digital equivalent of book-smart, which (confusingly) means I'm streetwise.

"Delegates at UNISON's local government conference passed a landmark motion titled 'defending trans, non-binary and gender diverse rights in local government workplaces', with passionate speeches drawing repeated applause from the conference floor and not a single vote cast against the motion.

With Doctor Who gone for the time being (no pun intended) we, collectively, need to make a thing as long and astonishing as Doctor Who. Any ideas what story we can elongate and obsess over between now and the end of the century?