Great video essay looking back at A Force More Powerful, a serious game designed to teach nonviolent tactics. I actually own a copy, and back in 2006 I couldn't figure out how to play it. I'm positive nobody outside of its creators ever mastered it. Thank you for your service!

Alien Bob but also@jeremyoduber.com · 2d ago

NEW VIDEO: In 2006 a Washington DC based think tank hired future lead designers of Civilization and XCOM to make a strategy game based on a documentary about nonviolent protest. 20 years later I'm here to tell you why. youtu.be/dmL7Ph4Us8o

I'm presenting Future? No thanks! in Amsterdam later this month. Great line-up. Come say hi!

[untitled games event] Amsterdam@untitledgamesevent.bsky.social · yesterday

[untitled games event] #8: "undisciplined feeling" Join us on Sun 23 Aug 2026 for an evening of games and talks about big feelings, wrong feelings, unruly emotions, improvised agency, and screaming over the cliff-edge of our world. 1630-1900 Tussen de Bogen 46 buttondown.com/untitledgame...

Back to the daily grind

The best kind of interactive art

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

Update: Steam determined that Future? No Thanks! contains "Sexual content that is explicit or graphic and is intended for adults only" + "Frequent Nudity or Sexual Content" (not true) The achievement icon and/or title "Have Sex One Last Time" was deemed inappropriate. Updating and resubmitting...

The releases of Flash and Shockwave are now farther in the past than Austin Powers’ freezing in 1967 was when the film came out in 1997.

videogame history@vghistory.bsky.social · 2w ago

macromedia shockwave, print ad (1999) archive.org/details/eu_W...

Today in Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto I write about @molleindustria.org's new videogame, Future? No Thanks!, which was supposed to have already been released but is instead stuck in Valve's review limbo. "The Gramscian solarpunk of Future! No Thanks!".

I enjoyed this one. It starts as a sort of mind-bending, psychological X-files and escalates quickly into cosmic horror.

For every day Steam delays the release of Future? No Thanks! I will add another derpy little vehicle to the game. Your move, Valve.

I’m quoted in this article as a "moderate" voice in the anti-AI backlash, so you know how pissed indie developers are. www.gamesradar.com/games/it-cre...

"It creates lesser games": Indie game studios are supposed to love generative AI, so why do the 25 devs I spoke to avoid it?

"So it may be slightly faster, and a lot worse, but it's also more expensive? Neat"

gamesradar.com

Some sad news regarding today’s release:

Very sad to announce that due to travel delays from the storm, tomorrow’s games done slow event has been cancelled 😞 We hope to host @molleindustria.org for a future event soon. Stay dry everyone!

If you look closely, you can spot the exact moment when I gave up hope and purchased 868-BACK to DEFEAT TIME ITSELF.

I received some postcards from the future

If I answer this question publicly I’ll never be able to run for office

Mike Toole@miketoole.com · 3w ago

What's the worst anime you've ever seen?

in video games the word "survival" means clearcutting a forest to build a fortress and "cozy" means starting a small business so you can eventually earn enough money to clearcut a forest and build a fortress

The United States is turning into a kind of reverse Omelas: everyone is miserable except for a single child, Donald Trump, who inexplicably must be kept happy.

I'm enjoying this one! I always found Vampire Survivors thematically bland and too flow-y. Beatdown City Survivors otoh has surprising depth and emergence, a great style and a killer soundtrack.

Shawn Alexander Allen@shawndoublea.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🧟Beatdown City Survivors🧟 Eradicate hordes of monsters in this 🗽Immersive 👥survivors roguelite 🌃set in a destructible city OUT NOW! 🛠️fun weapon crafting 🐱large cast of characters 🏗️dynamic environments 🔊pumping soundtrack Play the demo/check it out today! beatdown.city/bdcsrstm

Future? No Thanks! is featured in the curated “Democracy at Play” section of the @indiearenabooth.de See you at Gamescom in Cologne!

JD Ware Advance (@featurekreep.bsky.social) "WarioWare for politically disturbed" Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2026/07/13/j...

Pittsburgh has an AI Wall of Shame Instagram account that is becoming quite popular. There should be one for every city: www.instagram.com/pghaiwallofs...

404 Media@404media.co · 4w ago

“It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

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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This gets to a crucial point: big AI models must be nationalized, not only to control their impact and uses, but also because they appropriated our collective knowledge.

Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 4w ago

If taxpayers bail out the AI industry when its bubble bursts, as seems increasingly likely, we shouldn’t repeat the mistakes of the 2008 crisis. A public bailout should mean nationalizing AI.

We owe you an apology

📣 Games Transformed Festival is returning to East London on October 30th, October 31st 🎃 and November 1st 2026. Three days of radical games, playtests, panels, talks, workshops, a dedicated children and families’ programme and much more. Sign up for early ticket release: forms.gle/vpA1yRkZcExw...

new game release: Radiator Forever, a new ongoing re-remastered collection of all my experimental gay games, all in one package!... still free ($0), now on Steam + Steam Deck verified Info + links on my blog (SFW): www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/07/radi...

Radiator Forever is "Gay As A Service" + its debut July 2026 Update is Rinse And Repeat, Now On Steam

Design notes for Radiator Forever, my new all-in-one collection that will contain all my gay games... Eventually. Now Steam Deck verified!

blog.radiator.debacle.us

I'm guilty of "your favourite game designer's favourite game designer" and Michael is right, it smacks of elitism and doesn't say much about his games, which are beautiful, deep, AND very accessible. Good article!

Michael Brough@smestorp.bsky.social · last mo.

blog post - advice on how to write about indie games mightyvision.blogspot.com/2026/06/advi...