joey schutz
@joeyschutz.bsky.social
game designer | professor | boshi's place my games live their humble little lives out here: https://jamschutz.itch.io/
It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.
love to see it bsky.app/profile/tani...
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 6h agoBrazil was of two huge election results today—alongside the defeat of the nationalist, authoritarian leader of Serbia: "the slate of candidates selected by protesting students had won at least 135 seats in Serbia’s 250-member legislature" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/w...
New Exhibit:Play Curation Series 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶{𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹, 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹}: 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 Curated by @farfama.bsky.social A first in a series of curations focused on experimental experiential experiences Works from @worldenddisk.com, @ninofiliu.com, @joeyschutz.bsky.social, @yulelepalacios.bsky.social, Jonah Senzel
Experi{mental, ential}: Memories | Experimental Games About Memories
Experimental experiential games about memory: home-video archives, fading recollections and dreamlike vignettes.
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Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.
Local Wikipedia: The Encyclopedia For Local People
Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.
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rn i'm reading The New Spirit of Capitalism (amazing) and they talk about how capital has to justify itself in order to gain the enthusiastic participation of the people it exploits. they ID 3 axes this is done on: (1) autonomy (2) security (3) the common good. specific justifications vary by era
Kim Hu@kim-hu.com · 2d agoI can't believe he's still at it, it's been days
Moves of the Diamond Hand - Chapter 3. Out Monday. store.steampowered.com/app/2778210/...
US carbon emissions exploded last year, rivaling the rest of the world combined. What a disgrace. www.unep.org/en/publicati...
I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.
Are we gonna do this, Bluesky? Are we all just gonna not understand accounting? 72B$ of the 80B$ is convertible notes. They became greater liabilities because the company's valuation skyrocketed. They don't have an 80B$ loss in the sense that almost everyone here is imagining.
Reuters@reuters.com · 5d agoAnthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026, WSJ reports reut.rs/4z2Zi9J
'Maybe... I'll go to the beach' is in Steam Next Fest it's a spatial programming puzzle game hope you like it! store.steampowered.com/app/5108680/...
Came across walk at MängudeÖÖ in Tallinn, Estonia & genuinely think it might be my game of the year. It is painfully elegant, super simple, beautifully executed, the feelings just burst out of it, and it is engaging for exactly how long it lasts. It's like €2. store.steampowered.com/app/4563880/...
walk on Steam
it's about walking
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Penguin Colony is now available store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/...
Penguin Colony on Steam
Cosmic horror, through the eyes of a penguin. Rival human factions have come to your home in the Antarctic, seeking an ancient and inconceivable being. Observe their descent into insanity in this fait...
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🚨Future? No Thanks! is 30% off on Steam It's the police abolition GTA you've been waiting for! store.steampowered.com/app/3861870/...
📢NEW SERIES ALERT📢 If you know me, you know I love studies of (at least) 2 things: gender & economy. Maybe you do, too? Good news! @sunypress.bsky.social has a NEW series devoted to just that. The full scope of thinking abt gender & economy most welcome. Pls spread the word! sunypress.edu/Series#A
No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads
"The growing mobility of capital increasingly allowed it to avoid making concessions that might have supported legitimation, while the marginalization of parties, elections...weakened the state’s capacity to secure popular consent for accumulation." nonsite.org/triumph-of-c...
Triumph of Capital, Crisis of Democracy
We argue that Trumpism arose from a political and social crisis generated by the success of accumulation. This crisis resulted not from the decline of capitalism or the exhaustion of accumulation b…
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Dozens of games are released every day, but I want to focus on one that hits this week. Penguin Colony It has a very clever pitch: what if you witnessed a Lovecraftian story in Antarctica through the eyes of the local penguins? But there's a LOT more happening here about indigenous art and artists
Penguin Colony on Steam
Cosmic horror, through the eyes of a penguin. Rival human factions have come to your home in the Antarctic, seeking an ancient and inconceivable being. Observe their descent into insanity in this fait...
store.steampowered.com
wowowow look at these exciting action shots of GCTGC!! doesn't this make you want to come play a draft + tournament of the game for my birthday this weekend?? doesn't that sound fun?? come play! RSVP info below!
sam “ludonarrative disinterest” sorensen@samsorensen.bsky.social · 3w agohello gamers! on Saturday, October 17th, to celebrate my birthday, I'll be hosting a night of GCTCG, my home-made science-fantasy trading card game of robots, demons, and lizards! it'll be at @boshis.place, featuring classic TCG goodness: rare drops, drafts, duels, and a tourney! see you there!
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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ergman.itch.io/niche-ode New Videogame! NICHE ODE What foul drum beats the rhythm of life? Are we able to know with just our own bodies? What do we do when we find out? Free Online, takes like 20 minutes or so, ENJOY!
Niche Ode by JohnLee Cooper
Cling To The Ridges of The Raging Machine
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Back in May, Double Fine employees petitioned for a union. Two weeks later, that petition was withdrawn. What happened? https://kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-to-unionize-one-of-gamings-most-idealized-studios-2000742755
Inside The Failed Fight To Unionize Double Fine
Double Fine employees petitioned for a union in May. It created a rift in the studio that still hasn't healed
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playing too many rpg demos that ask me to choose stats before telling me what the game is. they clearly haven’t played my treatise on the issue computerjames.itch.io/path-of-the-...
Path of the Chosen by ComputerJames, ComputerJames
"The Fantasy RPG of the season"
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this is a good piece on the jacob geller situation. for me at least the site was down when i tried to visit, you can use this link: archive.is/Ao2C8
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Flora 🍓🏳️⚧️@floramerigold.bsky.social · 3w agoYesterday's news about Jacob Geller broke my heart, so much that I couldn't stop dwelling on it all day. In an effort to make sense of this horrific news and my admittedly complicated feelings about it, here is my article on the Jacob Geller situation: epiloguegaming.com/what-do-we-d...
I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...
the expert literary science, expert data analysis, and even more expert deep investigative reporting in this piece powerfully dispel PEN's insidious mythology of the publishing industry this jewish author is thankful for the research
Dan Sinykin@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 4w agoWorking on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
