Want to make a game with friends in two hours? Here's a Bitsy for that. Just share the link from your address bar. jatazak.itch.io/multiplayer-...
Multiplayer Bitsy by jatazak
make bitsy games with friends
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Would you like to contribute an OBJECT to live in a WAREHOUSE GAME? I'm working on a parser fiction game where you play as a worker in the warehouse of the gods- sorting, storing, rearranging objects, meandering. I need so many objects! Maybe even: one of yours? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Objects contribution for god's warehouse game
What is this? I'm (Everest) making a short parser fiction game where you are a worker in the warehouse of the gods, sorting and storing objects to the whims of holy creatures. Would you like to subm...
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"BECOME A GREAT ARTIST IN JUST 10 SECONDS" The award-winning game/glitchy art program @smestorp.bsky.social and I made in 2013 has now been rereleased on Itch for modern OSes. Try it out!, and make sure to tell any friends you want to play a weird prank on mermaidindustries.itch.io/become-a-gre...
How to create reading experiences that "go beyond information transmission and toward reader transformation.” Great paper by @blue-phia.bsky.social @lepidopterane.bsky.social @yijunliu.bsky.social Sarah Sterman @sh1m.bsky.social @maxkreminski.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.04308 >
with all the deskilling and gell-manning (etc) we're gonna get from automated thinking machines, now is the time for the 'tools for thought' crowd to make tools that help you think things through for yourself. tools to do *more* hard thinking. it should feel effortful. cherish that feeling.
I've just published a new userscript that remembers the path of your cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, averaging and wearing them into the page, showing your browsing history over time Install at greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5... or read more about it everest-pipkin.com#projects/des...
Desire Paths for Wikipedia
An extension that remembers the path of a cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, “wearing” them into the page.
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submit to our workshop so we can yap about creativity support & activity traces & understanding creative communities + processes + people better, together herding-cats-ws.github.io
😶🌫️ Remecarving: or, Forgettings a collection of 829 computational poems, each depicting the gradual algorithmic *forgetting* of a sentence found in Wikipedia that exhorts the reader to remember last-minute entry for NaNoGenMo 2025! github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
when im forging the thesis: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! when it inevitably incubates the antithesis: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Submissions to the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC are now OPEN through October 24, 2025! Please send us the weird shit you're working on! More info about the session and where to submit can be found on our NEW website here www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
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A anti-correcting spellcheck? Work in progress #vispo #autocorrect #spellcheck #texteditors
We’re launching early access 🔥today🔥! Hidden Door is where roleplaying meets fanfic. Rise from the beyond to wreak vengeance in The Crow, go rivals-to-lovers in Pride & Prejudice, lean into after-dark vibes with Courtship & Crimson, and so many more!
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We love stories! Books, movies, TV shows, comics, games: we love them all. But the thing about them is, well, they end—and when it’s over, it’s over. But what if you want to hold onto the magical feeling of that world? That experience of reliving the
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when thinking about how we relate to famous works i like to consider the distinction between “monument” and “document”. different scholars use these terms in different ways & my usage is a little idiosyncratic, but imo it’s important to the understanding of art as conversation
ponder@ponder.ooo · 12mo agothe guy tossing a copy of nighthawks into an ai model is more genuinely engaging with it as art than the people dunking on him for that
the idea, by the way, was that AI adoption sometimes functions as a kind of “tracer dye”: it can reveal the places in institutions and structures where things have already broken down and a bad “fix” is being used for an actual problem it can’t solve but that still needs to be fixed
the impetus for me writing this was hanging out with people with technical backgrounds who had leftist politics and noticing that they to a person had a sense of agency that was absent across the broader left and then trying to put into words why people felt this way
It’s a kind of perverse optimism in me that says this but if there’s anything I’ve learned from this administration it’s that anyone who says that radical change isn’t possible was wrong. Things do change and we can change things. We could change things again and the future can be different. Yk…
I’ve been working on a bot to let people group-play IF games in a Discord channel. blog.zarfhome.com/2025/07/disc... It’s currently running on the IFTF Discord (see invite link at narrascope.org/contact/%E2%... ).
Discoggin: an IF bot for Discord
Here's a new toy: a Discord bot that plays IF games. Say you've got a group of people who want to play an IF game together. You'd log into the IFTF Discord and go to the #zarfbot-9000 channel. (That's...
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imo good crit played a huge role in "games" becoming a more serious art form, community of practice, w/e in the 2010s. & the comparative weakness of "games" today is due in no small part to organized right-wing harassment + apathy from the Games Industry managing to stamp this criticism out
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor@ellaguro.bsky.social · last yr.i get hot and steamy about critical videogame discourse because i watched the space i was a part of mostly fall apart due to harassment, broad dismissal and infighting and end up on the far fringes, where most people either don't know they existed or just act like they never did
Maybe you've seen some chatter about the impact of LLMs on our brains. Well, when it comes to brains and learning, @grimalkina.bsky.social and I have some thoughts. Our latest episode episode is live and yes, a little spicy. 🔥 www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...
🧶 Fuzzy Linkography: Automatic Graphical Summarization of Creative Activity Traces we introduce a new way to analyze user activity logs from creativity support tools… …& illuminate patterns of creative divergence, convergence, idea development, & homogenization at scale arxiv.org/abs/2502.04599
imho: the long-term work of "AI" isn't, "finding ways to conjure knowledge & art from thin air" it is "finding effective, scalable ways to use + usefully synthesize from, existing knowledge resources" Its our responsibility, and to our benefit, to invest in protecting & honoring those resources.
cannot emphasize enough how much we are going to lose in length and quality of human life all across the globe because of this. infuriating and shameful.
Alex Rubinsteyn@alexr.bsky.social · last yr.Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.
one last post on international students -- public opinion is not in the administration's favor on this, and universities should not let them forget it
the position consistent with aaron swartz's published writings is quite clearly "training is fair use but we should do guerrilla open access on closed model weights". this seems likely to upset every major faction but i don't think it's incorrect
one really great part of this website is the list of DOGE affiliates. hopefully disrupts the meme that they're a bunch of apolitical-but-enthusiastic young engineers who don't know any better – these people clearly know full well what they signed on to do & we need to make it follow them forever
Jacob Harris@jacobharr.is · last yr.So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!