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Congrats to the winner of the Digital Moment Award 🌴🦩:  Hanwen Xu & Hatim Benhsain with coalescent || tidal rapture 🏆 This game goes beyond normative depictions of intimacy and doesn't shy away from being meaningfully sensuous, mysterious, complex, and primal.  #amaze 2026

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@hatimb00.itch.io and Hanwen Xu remark that the industry doesn’t know what to do with sex. Their game coalescent || tidal rapture presents an aquatic space for exploring queer forms of sex freed from pain and heteronormativity. Inspiration from slug sex and other forms of polymorphous pleasure

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Had a chance to demo Coalescent || Tidal Rapture by @hatimb00.itch.io and @hanwenxumame.bsky.social today. Extremely cool, thoughtful exploration of sex and the unknown with a bold mix of visual styles, thoughtful and impactful writing, and a fixation on the wonder and danger of undersea.

coalescent || tidal rapture on Steam

A hypnagogic 3D swimming/entanglement adventure game about harmonizing and want. Dive into a world of merpeople who are transforming and discovering casual relationships through the eyes of a floater ...

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and then for ALL CHAT, an evening of game performances and experimental lectures at tiat, with a really exceptional group of artists. I’ll be bringing an in-progress live performed scifi film. This is ticketed but open to all, not just GDC attendees. luma.com/allchat

All Chat: Game Performances & Experimental Lectures · Luma

All Chat is an evening of performances, experimental presentations, and screenings about and with games. Join us for a series of ~20 minute showcases that…

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SF this Thursday: join us for ALL CHAT, an evening of performances and experimental presentations on games — no pitches 🎮 RSVP: lu.ma/allchat tiat @ 151 Powell St, San Francisco 3/12 Thurs 6–8PM Hatim Benhsain mut/moochi Jackie Liu Everest Pipkin Chia Amisola shm garanganao almeda Kaloyan Kolev

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I'm running a panel at GDC! "Games about Games Microtalks", features dev talks on: - Ufo50 - Titanic II - Forbidden Solitaire/Insert Disk - Desktop Explorer - The Plunderludics Working Group - No Players Online - The Remake of The End of the Greatest RPG of All Time See you there!

Game About Games Microtalks

Nick Lives  (Co-Founder/Creative Director, Night Signal Entertainment LLC)
Jon Perry  (Game Designer, Quibble Media, LLC)
Adam Pype  (Co-founder and Game Developer, BEESWAX GAMES)
Lucas Immanuel  (Director, Glootschke Games, LLC)
Jonny Hopkins  (Artist, boshi's place)
Flan Falacci  (Independent Game Developer, Flan Falacci)
Juan Hernandez  (Narrative designer, Recurring Dream)
Gurn Group  (Video Game Developer, boshi's place)
mut moochi  (videogame developer, boshi's place)
Location: Room 2005, West Hall
Date: Tuesday, March 10
Time: 3:10 pm - 4:10 pm
Pass Type: Festival Pass, Game Changer Pass - Get your pass now!
Audience Level: All
Track: Design
Format: Microtalks