I’m only making business card sized games now | Killed By A Pixel http://frankforce.com/?p=5826

Game Boys “ Real Life https://reallifemag.com/well-played-game-boys/

The only outright negative review my game has gotten thus far starts with the reviewer saying making a VN should be a crime against humanity. Like, thanks for leading with the admission that you’re not part of the target audience & your opinion doesn’t matter.

Wikidata Card Game Generator https://cardgame.morr.cc

What It’s Like To Write About Race And Video Games https://kotaku.com/what-its-like-to-write-about-race-and-video-games-1832886047

Saved Game History: Battery Backups, Memory Cards, and the Cloud https://tedium.co/2019/02/21/video-game-save-state-history/

The impossible architecture of video games • Eurogamer.net https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-12-the-impossible-architecture-of-video-games

Bad idea of the day: One of those franchise-themed fighting games, except it’s a rap battle. You get dealt a hand of possible lines, with points for internal rhyme and novelty, & multipliers for referencing previous lines & opponent backstory. External rhymes are combo attacks

Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real https://gizmodo.com/ongs-hat-the-early-internet-conspiracy-game-that-got-t-1832229488

I have sold zero copies of my game since the launch sale ended. I’m not sure if I need to cut the original price in half or if people literally just only buy games when they are on sale.

Somebody’s streaming my game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_ugVRvbdY4

Inside the larps that let human players experience AI life - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18185945/live-action-roleplaying-larp-game-design-artificial-intelligence-ethics-issues

Hey! You! Buy my game. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1013580/Manna_for_our_Malices/

I’d like to play a horror game that’s lit like Suspiria is during its most extreme moments: backgrounds & characters in bright monochrome washes, a cypher of harsh shadows, as though lit by single-point neon.

Retro-Tinged Game Controllers: BX Foundry’s Handmade Joysticks https://tedium.co/2019/02/07/bx-foundry-video-game-controllers/

Are there sports video games that, RPG-like, allow a user-created character to progress by getting access to better personal trainers & medical support by winning games while in constant fear of breaking their legs?

Mall Rats, Vidiots and Addicts: Anti Video Game Propaganda From The 80s – Retro Bitch https://retrobitch.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/mall-rats-vidiots-and-addicts-anti-video-game-propaganda-from-the-80s/

Designing the game console of the future (in 1997) - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/1/28/18146043/the-game-console-of-the-future-1997-nintendo-power

In case anybody wants to implement their own homebrew NeoGeo games: http://www.hardmvs.fr/manuals/NeoGeoProgrammersGuide.pdf

Nearly half of game developers want to unionize https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/24/nearly-half-of-game-developers-want-to-unionize/

Yahoo! Games Failure: How To Checkmate Yourself https://tedium.co/2017/07/27/yahoo-games-failure-classicgames/

A thing I’ve learned: if you’re submitting a game to steam & you’re not sure if it should count as ‘mature content’, err on the side of ‘no’, because if you describe the content & they don’t think it’s mature enough they’ll assume there’s unmentioned/hidden nudity & won’t let you release it

I’m currently streaming the last push on developing Manna for our Malices, the game I’ve been working on for 1.5 years: https://www.twitch.tv/enkiv2

Band name of the day: the wonderful game of vomit

I guess it was only a matter of time until Netflix got into the red-hot FMV Game market.

How BioWare’s ‘Baldur’s Gate’ Saved the Computer RPG - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/2018/12/21/18150363/baldurs-gate-bioware-1998-video-games

Video games are political. Here’s how they can be progressive | Games | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/aug/13/video-games-are-political-heres-how-they-can-be-progressive

It’s Time For Games To Own Their Politics https://kotaku.com/it-s-time-for-games-to-own-their-politics-1827320727

Cragne Manor, an 84-room horror “exquisite corpse” text adventure that’s a tribute to the classic game Anchorhead / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/09/massively-multi-developer.html

GitHub - CardsAgainstCryptography/CAC: A party game for nerdy cryptographers. Shamelessly based on Cards Against Humanity. https://github.com/CardsAgainstCryptography/CAC

Video Games In East Germany: The Stasi Played Along | ZEIT ONLINE https://www.zeit.de/digital/games/2018-11/computer-games-gdr-stasi-surveillance-gamer-crowd

The Credit Card Daredevils Who Risk It All for the Points Game - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-credit-daredevils-who-risk-it-all-for-the-points-game

Too Many Requests https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2lvjgt/in_games_and_books_there_are_always_adventurers/

Simulating a Xerox Alto with the ContrAlto simulator: games and Smalltalk http://www.righto.com/2016/10/simulating-xerox-alto-with-contralto.html

Specification gaming examples in AI - master list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml

Police Training Simulator History: A Parallel Path With Gaming https://tedium.co/2018/10/23/police-training-simulator-history/

INTERFACE LOVE. – Researching UI in Games, Cinema and anything else thats interesting. https://ilikeinterfaces.com/

twitch plays the glass bead game

Rockstar developers speak out about “100-hour weeks” comment | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/red-dead-redemption-2-devs-say-quoted-100-hour-weeks-arent-the-norm/

Bad idea of the day: A video game adaptation of Lethem’s Gun With Occasional Music in the style of the Monkey Island series, with a mechanic involving mixing custom blends of forgetol/regretol/etc & replacing people’s stashes with them.

Preliminary Poetics of Procedural Generation in Games by @ikarth http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/DIGRA_2018_paper_166.pdf

The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders”I like to say we’re archivists” | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/the-internets-keepers-some-call-us-hoarders-i-like-to-say-were-archivists/

Hot take: only buy video games made by personal friends.

Underrun – Making Of
I participated in this year’s js13kGames, a JavaScript game development competition with a file size limit of 13kb, including code, assets and everything else. My entry was Underrun, a twin stick shooter using WebGL.

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VCR Board Games: Only One Way This Will End https://tedium.co/2018/09/13/vcr-board-games-history/

Sergei Skripal and the Russian disinformation game - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45454142

Well that was disappointing. Was all set to run my Savage World game on Roll20 and 3 of the 5 players had to cancel.

Valve: ‘It Really Does Seem Bad Games Are Made by Bad People’ - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kmej7/valve-it-really-does-seem-bad-games-are-made-by-bad-people

The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that EA canceled - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/24/17770668/jack-the-ripper-visceral-games-electronic-arts-canceled

Bad idea of the day: A video game called ‘infodump’ where the primary mechanic is literally using a wiki/world bible to research lore.