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• Post #4270008

  Grab dozens of games in a truly indie bundle, support the Game Worker Hardship Fund, and try to come up with ideas for self-organized studios. 🎁 The bundle: https://itch.io/b/3802/game-industry-hardship-fund 🛠️ The fund: https://uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fund-2026

• Post #3954468

  Happy to announce that, with the help of Indie Press Revolution, physical copies of Ex Novo will be available at Gen Con 2026!

• Post #2576350

  Just finished Forbidden Solitaire. Wonderful game, clever solitaire mechanics, amazing pacing, and a wonderfully weird (and campy) horror story. Can't recommend it enthusiastically enough! ➡️ https://greyaliengames.com/forbiddensolitaire/index.php

• Post #2383286

  Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back on the Atari 2600; looked just like the movie ❤️

• Post #2264348

  Indies funding indies does sound like a good plan. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/meet-the-indie-studios-funding-other-indie-studios

• Post #1994436

  Classic and deadly Dungeons & Dragons module 'The Tomb of Horrors' has been (rather accurately) turned into a JRPG you can play in your browser. Here: https://mralcoro.itch.io/the-tomb-of-horrors

• Post #1989095

  Hibernated 2's Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Amiga, and MS-DOS loading screens by Dylan Barry. http://8-bit.info/2019/04/19/the-art-of-hibernated-2/

• Post #1945915

  You can find the impressive (and free) BBC sound effects archive here: https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

• Post #1879468

  Starting on Tuesday May 12, and for a total of three sessions I will be teaching my *Create An Interactive City In Text using ink* course. If you are interested in building interactive urban worlds using unk by@inklestudios@beta.mstdn.cf, you can find out more here: https://www.d6learning.com/course/create-an-interactive-city-in-text-using-ink

• Post #1793364

  The amount of insulting, sensationalist article titles that gaming sites manage to come up with is simply shocking.

• Post #1574909

  A (rather glowing) TR-49 review by Eurogamer ❤️ https://www.eurogamer.net/tr-49-review

• Post #1410945

  'The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château: A Secret History' by the Digital Antiquarian for all the tasteful people who wisely adore Gabriel Knight 3. Read it here: https://www.filfre.net/2026/04/the-mystery-of-rennes-le-chateau-part-3-a-secret-history/

• Post #1410943

  Infocom's Cornerstone and the mu machine that would have brought it to every platform of the '80s are not so lost anymore... https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/04/cornerstone-and-the-mu-machine

• Post #1015249

  Sometimes researching stuff can lead to lovely old PC Gamer articles like this one on 'The best pubs in PC games'. Here's the link: https://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-pubs-in-pc-games/

• Post #903659

  GOG is having its Spring Sale, and I simply had to grab several (mostly old) games including: • Jupiter Hell • Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration • Timequest • Nox Archaist • Rise of the Dragon • Timequest (pictured) • EPIC + Inferno • Time Gate: Knight's Chase

• Post #903656

  Read Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker --the existence of which I only discovered yesterday-- and was deeply impressed. I now want to re-read Dracula.

• Post #821224

  I must have read this book (Usborne Guide to Computer and Video Games) a billion times as a kid... Wonderfully, it's also available on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/UsborneGuide

• Post #754295

  Now here's something I don't believe I ever thought about: 'Why and How to make in-engine gameplay trailers' - https://www.darzalgames.com/in-engine-trailers/

• Post #741271

  This is awesome ⤵️ https://mijofr.github.io/st-panorama/#ENTD_BRIDGE_12

• Post #733288

  The technology of 'Hunter' or how a 1991 Amiga game simulated an entire island: https://www.generationamiga.com/2026/03/20/the-technology-of-hunter-how-a-1991-amiga-game-simulated-an-entire-island/

• Post #504717

  My *Create An Interactive City In Text using ink* D6 Learning course will be returning this May, and I can't wait to jump back into texty game urbanism using @inklestudios 's amazing ink. ◾️ Find out more here: https://www.d6learning.com/course/create-an-interactive-city-in-text-using-ink

• Post #446453

  Do you want to learn how to come up with, design, flesh out, and populate cities for video games? Interested in a #gamedev focused game urbanism course? Join me then next Wednesday (Mar. 4) in my *Designing Cities for Video Games* course. Here: https://www.d6learning.com/course/gamecities26

• Post #342089

  I could spend hours listening to Brenda Romero. Having said that, "Game On: A Feature Documentary about Brenda Romero" is now live on Kickstarter ⤵️ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theresaloong/game-on-brenda-romero-documentary

• Post #233149

  The Rise and Fall of The Palais Cinema https://www.behance.net/gallery/21331301/Sequence-The-Rise-and-Fall-of-The-Palais-Cinema

• Post #182265

  So, WikiFlix is this wonderful place where public domain cinema classics are waiting for us. 📽️ From Nosferatu and Night of the Living Dead, to Metropolis and Un Chien Andalou, you can watch everything here: https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/