Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Konstantinos Dimopoulos 🔜 Gamescom Dev
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
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Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
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!
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Indies funding indies does sound like a good plan.
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/meet-the-indie-studios-funding-other-indie-studios
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
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
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
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
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
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/
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
The amount of insulting, sensationalist article titles that gaming sites manage to come up with is simply shocking.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
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
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
'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/
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
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/
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
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.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
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
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
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/
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
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
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
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/
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
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
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
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
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
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@beta.mstdn.cf 's amazing ink.
◾️ Find out more here: https://www.d6learning.com/course/create-an-interactive-city-in-text-using-ink
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
A (rather glowing) TR-49 review by Eurogamer ❤️ https://www.eurogamer.net/tr-49-review
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
This is awesome ⤵️
https://mijofr.github.io/st-panorama/#ENTD_BRIDGE_12
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back on the Atari 2600; looked just like the movie ❤️
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
You can find the impressive (and free) BBC sound effects archive here: https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/