Happy Halloween! 🎃 @gauravcm.bsky.social is dressed as our nonprofit partner @mademuseum.bsky.social, a playable video game museum in Oakland, California! themade.org/en/ The MADE celebrates its 15th Anniversary with a party on November 7th, 5pm - 9pm! luma.com/omw4z7vi Logo by @duncanrobson.com

The HEXADECIPADATHON is coming to Experimental Play Nights at The Made! Compete on the Hexadecipad, Patrick LeMieux's 16-player alt ctrl interface for the Nintendo Entertainment System that turns classic games into team-vs-team tournaments! 11/13 from 5-9 PM 🎟️ Tickets here: luma.com/ei61ej8c

Lucas Immanuel@lucasimmanuel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’ve started a series @mademuseum.bsky.social called Experimental Play Nights - A Game Night of the Elaborate and Strange. For our inaugural meeting we played Blood on the Clocktower, a social deduction game that creates stories like nothing else. Join us August 28th for something new + weirder!

RIP to the legendary Sir Patrick Stewart, legend of stage, screen, and games.

✩₊°.⋆ 15 years of the MADE! ⋆⁺₊✧ ​Join us as we celebrate building playable culture here in #Oakland! We're bringing together Saap Saap × Pour Manners with food and cocktails for sale; experimental games; and some very special pieces of computing history! Saturday, November 7 · 5–9 PM. 🎉 🎂

✩₊°.⋆ 15 Years of Playable Culture ⋆⁺₊✧ · Luma

15 years of the MADE! Come celebrate with us. Join us for a night of games, art, food, drinks, and community as we celebrate building playable culture here in…

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2026 marks 15 years of the MADE! Come celebrate w/ us! ​We're bringing: - Saap Saap × Pour Manners food + cocktails for sale - Experimental Games + Alternative Controllers - Special pieces of gaming history - much more! ​11/07 · 5–9 PM ​$20 suggested · pay what you can luma.com/omw4z7vi

✩₊°.⋆ 15 Years of Playable Culture ⋆⁺₊✧ · Luma

15 years of the MADE! Come celebrate with us. Join us for a night of games, art, food, drinks, and community as we celebrate building playable culture here in…

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An amazing image from Twin Peaks, Dune, and Fallout star Kyle MacLachlan's memoir "Fictional Selves" that just shows how awesome Patrick Stuart is.

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

Tonight is Experimental Play Night! From 5-9pm we'll dive into Magfest Classic E-Cheese Zone, a self-described "punishment game" digital escape room. Come on down to the MADE!

Experimental Play Nights

A game night of the elaborate and strange.

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I'll be talking at @thinkygames.com's Thinky Con 2026! I'll be discussing designing "The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time" as a puzzle game that pretends it isn't a puzzle game... and all the challenges that resulted from that!

​Future Visuals of the Bay Area is a community meetup bringing together visual artists, VJs, projection enthusiasts, and creative technologists to share their work, experiment, and connect! ​Bring your projectors, screens, experiments, and works in progress! Tuesday, 10/20 here @ the MADE!

Future Visuals of the Bay Area @ The MADE with GOOISM · Luma

Future Visuals of the Bay Area is a community meetup bringing together visual artists, VJs, projection enthusiasts, and creative technologists to share their…

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💾🌈 @mademuseum.bsky.social

Come Play E-Cheese Zone Friday October 23rd, @ 5pm. www.eventbrite.com/e/experiment...

Lucas Immanuel@lucasimmanuel.bsky.social · 4w ago

For October we're gonna dive into the E-Cheese Zone, a self-described "punishment game" digital escape room. Come play (and probably eat too many Cheetos) October 23rd at 5pm at @mademuseum.bsky.social! www.eventbrite.com/e/experiment...

Don't forget! Get social with your #RetroComputing October 17th!

The MADE (Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment)@mademuseum.bsky.social · 3w ago

dead internet theory iMac LAN party! ​join us at the MADE for a y2k-inspired LAN party celebrating old computers, weird games, experimental art, and the joy of being online together, in person. october 17th!

What if preserving old technology could help us build closer communities? 💾🌈 Paizley has been traveling across the country rescuing a rainbow of old iMacs, transforming them into an interconnected world of games and interactive art. Excited to host her at the MADE this Saturday! luma.com/wn15u7fb

Don't forget! Get social with your #RetroComputing October 17th!

The MADE (Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment)@mademuseum.bsky.social · 3w ago

dead internet theory iMac LAN party! ​join us at the MADE for a y2k-inspired LAN party celebrating old computers, weird games, experimental art, and the joy of being online together, in person. october 17th!

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Game Writer: Oh, that section is all gameplay

Anna May Kill@annamegill.com · 3w ago

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Writer: It's called white space. It's a technique to control the rhythm and pacing of a scene, build tension, allow readers to briefly reflect and process thoughts and emotions, provide a tonal break or moment of

Neat! "Doom on the Vectrex turns the classic shooter into Tron-like vector art"

Doom on the Vectrex turns the classic shooter into Tron-like vector art - Engadget

With some processing caveats of course.

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Margaret Hamilton, 1936-2026. Seen here standing next to printouts of the code that took humanity to the Moon. A computer science legend. Rest in peace. 🚀 🌙

dead internet theory iMac LAN party! ​join us at the MADE for a y2k-inspired LAN party celebrating old computers, weird games, experimental art, and the joy of being online together, in person. october 17th!

dead internet theory iMac LAN party · Luma

💾 dead internet theory: oakland edition come play on imacs with us~~ ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪ join us at the MADE for a y2k-inspired LAN party celebrating old computers,…

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"I Hope It Never Has to Run" - The new ‘Pokémon’ game thinks through the possibility of ‘dying well’ in an age of looming disaster and environmental collapse. - @dracopoullos.bsky.social @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

I Hope It Never Has to Run | Los Angeles Review of Books

The new ‘Pokémon’ game thinks through the possibility of ‘dying well’ in an age of looming disaster and environmental collapse.

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West of House You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door There is a small mailbox here > From the vaults of the Zork Users Group in '82: a gorgeously illustrated map of the adventure that'll take you into the depths of what was once the Great Underground Empire.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our latest project: preserve.games, a browsable catalog of organizations, museums, projects and communities dedicated to video game preservation! If you've ever wondered how to get involved or where you can learn more, this is the site for you!

For October we're gonna dive into the E-Cheese Zone, a self-described "punishment game" digital escape room. Come play (and probably eat too many Cheetos) October 23rd at 5pm at @mademuseum.bsky.social! www.eventbrite.com/e/experiment...

Lucas Immanuel@lucasimmanuel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’ve started a series @mademuseum.bsky.social called Experimental Play Nights - A Game Night of the Elaborate and Strange. For our inaugural meeting we played Blood on the Clocktower, a social deduction game that creates stories like nothing else. Join us August 28th for something new + weirder!

Stop by Swan's Market Courtyard on October 3rd and play some alt. ctrl. games! Outside! In the real world!

Pet project: 1) Advanced PS1/N64 game extraction (+all animations). 2) Website where you can browse and compare models, textures, animations, FMVs, for preservation. Already have FF7, Mega Man Legends 1 and 2 and MediEvil fully ripped. #FF7 #FinalFantasy #FFVII #PS1 #PSX #RetroGame #N64

Stop by Swan's Market Courtyard on October 3rd and play some alt. ctrl. games! Outside! In the real world!

Join us at this Month's Experimental Play Night tonight @ any time 5-9 for Bennet Foddy and AP Thompson's illegal competitive party game Multibowl. Be the last one standing!

Experimental Play Nights

A game night of the elaborate and strange.

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The problem with volunteering at @mademuseum.bsky.social in the archives is finding so many games I want to play. anyone played Wishbringer, The Madness of Roland, The Colony, or Starflight?

Sharing an after-action report on the latest Multiplayer Bitsy workshop at @mademuseum.bsky.social. Read the latest updates and get set for #bitsyjam 100, starting Oct 15th! jatazak.itch.io/multiplayer-...

MP Bitsy workshop at the MADE

The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland hosted us on September 13th for the first public Multiplayer Bitsy workshop. After discovering the `avatar morph` rule, we quickly made some tea....

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