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Ambrosia Sky one of my favorite recent releases. it's a cleaning game set inside of an immersive sim. there are certain ways that both genres encourage an intimacy with surface(s) of a level. here, these conventions create a coherence between the curious/thorough player & wistful/haunted character

Ambrosia Sky 🪐@softrains.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is your informal (not formal) notice that Act Two (the second half) of Ambrosia Sky (an atmospheric sci-fi cleaning game about saying goodbye) comes out next week (August 6th). It's a free (🚫💰) update for all existing owners, which could be you (the person reading this)! ➡ ambrosiasky.com

I posted my History of Games keynote: - A materialist reexamination of the canonical game crises from a developer's POV - Thoughts on the ongoing game industry restructuring - Indiepocalypse, AAApocalypse, deprofessionalization, games at the knitting stage www.molleindustria.org/HistoryOfGam...

A History of Games Through Mass Extinctions

A transcript of Paolo Pedercini’s History of Games Conference keynote (2026).

molleindustria.org

When I don't understand the VIDEOGAME: Amazing, beautiful, an encounter with the informational sublime, a chance to look both deep within and far beyond When I don't understand the BOARD GAME: It is bourgeois, perhaps

hegemonic masculinity is best understood as fluid, even (especially) as those who identify with it would deny that. the ultimate male power is to be able to directly re-frame the parameters of masculinity itself. being the one to do it is a means to profit from the re-org, socially & materially.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

the most surreal thing about this era of open yelling about masculinity is that, if you grew up anything like I did, you were exposed to several sets of standards of masculinity and would be hard pressed to identify which of them the Paxtons and Millers of the world are living up to