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(an alternative game development curation)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/rpg-in-a-box-is-a-cool-tool-an-alternative-game-development-curation", "published_at": "2022-03-01T02:25:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba0-85cd-7259-b9f9-a4122d3b73f5", "title": "Exciting news: I’m on Rhizome!! 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(all about desktop pets, old computer eras, and virtual toys)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/make-tiny-weird-software-please-all-about-desktop-pets-old-computer-eras-and-virtual-toys", "published_at": "2021-11-15T23:13:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea5611d96783", "title": "Part 2: In support of Wren (the abuse she continues to endure, Fight Knight, and publicly ridiculing her trauma)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/part-2-in-support-of-wren-the-abuse-she-continues-to-endure-fight-knight-and-publicly-ridiculing-her-trauma", "published_at": "2021-11-13T01:55:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea5612a9f735", "title": "ZineCamp Workshop – using tiny open source tools in your own work, the values of preservation, and building your own tiny tool box", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/zinecamp-workshop-using-tiny-open-source-tools-in-your-own-work-the-values-of-preservation-and-building-your-own-tiny-tool-box", "published_at": "2021-11-06T21:18:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea56131ce2bb", "title": "Speaking candidly about things lately (there is no justice and other short horror stories)…", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/speaking-candidly-about-things-lately-there-is-no-justice-and-other-short-horror-stories", "published_at": "2021-10-20T01:07:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea5613d9a4bd", "title": "Talk Transcript: Your uniqueness is your strength (and why that matters to the indiegame space)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/talk-transcript-your-uniqueness-is-your-strength-and-why-that-matters-to-the-indiegame-space", "published_at": "2021-10-15T20:20:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea5614c5caa7", "title": "In support of Wren (the abuse she endured while working on Fight Knight)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/in-support-of-wren-the-abuse-she-endured-while-working-on-fight-knight", "published_at": "2021-10-14T01:03:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea5615af469e", "title": "Celebrating all the wonderful zines from the Electric Zine Jam 2.0", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/celebrating-all-the-wonderful-zines-from-the-electric-zine-jam-2-0", "published_at": "2021-10-10T00:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea5616a18e22", "title": "Generative art & tools (on the intersection of toys, tools, and games…)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/generative-art-tools-on-the-intersection-of-toys-tools-and-games", "published_at": "2021-09-25T00:42:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea561792788f", "title": "My GDC 2021 Indie SoapBox Talk Transcript (five minutes about making desktop pets & virtual toys)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/my-gdc-2021-indie-soapbox-talk-transcript-five-minutes-about-making-desktop-pets-virtual-toys", "published_at": "2021-09-07T22:33:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea56183ac191", "title": "A retrospective on the Electric Zine Maker, making tools, sharing the $ numbers, and more (after launching the really big update…)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/a-retrospective-on-the-electric-zine-maker-making-tools-sharing-the-numbers-and-more-after-launching-the-really-big-update", "published_at": "2021-08-30T22:57:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea5618b23713", "title": "Indiepocalypse x kuš! (The secret collaboration I was working on is out now!!)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/indiepocalypse-x-kus-the-secret-collaboration-i-was-working-on-is-out-now", "published_at": "2021-08-17T20:26:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea56191c4fd8", "title": "Tiny tools and the ephemeral nature of digital art…", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/tiny-tools-and-the-ephemeral-nature-of-digital-art", "published_at": "2021-08-09T23:00:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea56199821bc", "title": "The Machine That Eats People", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/the-machine-that-eats-people", "published_at": "2021-07-24T00:11:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea561a49894c", "title": "If Cosby’s trial were Game Industry Twitter Discourse™…", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/if-cosbys-trial-were-game-industry-twitter-discourse", "published_at": "2021-07-01T00:06:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea561af34d67", "title": "My next game will be a horror game! (unpacking the horrors of social media, the violence of words, and the experiences it will be based on…)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/my-next-game-will-be-a-horror-game-unpacking-the-horrors-of-social-media-the-violence-of-words-and-the-experiences-it-will-be-based-on", "published_at": "2021-06-23T01:28:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea561b5d3f8e", "title": "Bitsy is Beautiful! (exploring the Bitsy space and some of my favorite Bitsy games)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/bitsy-is-beautiful-exploring-the-bitsy-space-and-some-of-my-favorite-bitsy-games", "published_at": "2021-06-17T23:19:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea561c0cd7cb", "title": "Thank You", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/thank-you", "published_at": "2021-05-27T23:02:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bba6-27a9-72d6-be3e-ea561cc33457", "title": "Software is Art! (KhK Games class talk transcript)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/software-is-art-khk-games-class-talk-transcript", "published_at": "2021-05-26T18:28:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4feca6c5b7d5", "title": "Game Journalism Is Dead", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/game-journalism-is-dead", "published_at": "2021-04-28T03:06:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4feca6e3d8d4", "title": "Talk Transcript: Spring 2021 #OSSTA Lecture Series (my talk on tiny non-commercial tools, fantasy consoles, and tools-as-games)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/talk-transcript-spring-2021-ossta-lecture-series-my-talk-on-tiny-non-commercial-tools-fantasy-consoles-and-tools-as-games", "published_at": "2021-04-26T23:40:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4feca7a00576", "title": "Stories are Structures, Videogames are Places – LudoNarraCon 2021 Recording", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/stories-are-structures-videogames-are-places-ludonarracon-2021-recording", "published_at": "2021-04-26T20:02:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4feca89f6218", "title": "5 beautiful altgames (tiny special things found on itch.io that are deeply meaningful)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/5-beautiful-altgames-tiny-special-things-found-on-itch-io-that-are-deeply-meaningful", "published_at": "2021-04-12T23:09:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4feca91f1780", "title": "A very angry & venty blog post that I’m writing just to get shit off my chest…", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/a-very-angry-venty-blog-post-that-im-writing-just-to-get-shit-off-my-chest", "published_at": "2021-04-10T23:38:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4fecaa1e6553", "title": "Surviving video game journalism (another post on journalism’s aversion to accountability, and addressing concerns about “the precedence” that humanizing sexual assault survivors sets)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/surviving-video-game-journalism-another-post-on-journalisms-aversion-to-accountability-how-this-abuse-was-not-factually-accurate-and-addressing-concerns-about-the-precedence-that-humanizing-s", "published_at": "2021-03-28T22:43:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4fecaa8010da", "title": "Tetrageddon Games now on Github! (the entire project and all Flash games are open source again…)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/tetrageddon-games-now-on-github-the-entire-project-and-all-flash-games-are-open-source-again", "published_at": "2021-03-23T20:22:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4fecaafe6a9c", "title": "Talk Transcript: The browser is a creative playground!", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/talk-transcript-the-browser-is-a-creative-playground", "published_at": "2021-03-20T01:33:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4fecab351d41", "title": "New templates for the Electric Zine Maker and more on what’s planned for it!", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/new-templates-for-the-electric-zine-maker-and-more-on-whats-planned-for-it", "published_at": "2021-02-24T00:57:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4fecabcab225", "title": "The inspired brilliance of Katelabs, a foray into glitch tools, and what zine culture has taught me about games & software dev…", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/the-inspired-brilliance-of-katelabs-a-foray-into-glitch-tools-and-what-zine-culture-has-taught-me-about-games-software-dev", "published_at": "2021-02-19T03:25:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4fecac0b8730", "title": "“Relax, babe. It’s just business.” – Game Journalism", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/relax-babe-its-just-buisness-game-journalism", "published_at": "2021-02-08T00:47:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4fecac77941b", "title": "Games are giant weird story machines! (video games, their stories, and building stories for systems)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/games-are-giant-weird-story-machines-video-games-their-stories-and-building-stories-for-systems", "published_at": "2021-02-03T01:21:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4fecac78eaa6", "title": "Exploring the beautiful world of indie horror games (why work from smaller devs, and indie devs, is so meaningful)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/exploring-the-beautiful-world-of-indie-horror-games", "published_at": "2021-01-23T04:05:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4fecad0bce23", "title": "New Tetrageddon.com is here! (Cybermonkey has died, a broken desktop haunted by skeletons of the past, and more…)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/new-tetrageddon-com-is-here-cybermonkey-has-died-a-broken-desktop-haunted-by-skeletons-of-the-past-and-more", "published_at": "2021-01-21T00:17:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4fecadf1f3b2", "title": "Killing us slowly – When your allyship stops short of doing the hard thing, when your solidarity turns against the people you once said you believe", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/killing-us-slowly-when-your-allyship-stops-short-of-doing-the-hard-thing-when-your-solidarity-turns-against-the-people-you-once-said-you-believe", "published_at": "2021-01-12T22:38:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4fecaecec14e", "title": "why are the lives of those that spoke up so worthless to you, but you so readily protect the abusers? (commenting on everything)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/why-are-the-lives-of-those-that-spoke-up-so-worthless-to-you-but-you-so-readily-protect-the-abusers-commenting-on-everything", "published_at": "2020-12-31T23:09:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4fecaf5b952b", "title": "“I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding”", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/i-want-shorter-games-with-worse-graphics-made-by-people-who-are-paid-more-to-work-less-and-im-not-kidding", "published_at": "2020-12-24T01:46:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4fecb052b810", "title": "Start making tools! (on making experimental art tools and why it’s valuable for indie game devs to make them)", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/start-making-tools-on-making-experimental-art-tools-and-why-its-valuable-for-indie-game-devs-to-make-them", "published_at": "2020-12-18T16:57:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4fecb1195d9b", "title": "The Flash game movement, my early Flash work, and how Flash games informed what we have in indie games today…", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/the-flash-game-movement-my-early-flash-work-and-how-flash-games-informed-what-we-have-in-indie-games-today", "published_at": "2020-12-04T00:53:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbab-3834-733a-96a9-4fecb207c25b", "title": "Cecilia D’Anastasio’s journalism is rape culture in a nutshell, and you all really need to start giving a shit about what this has done to survivors…", "url": "https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/cecilia-danastasios-journalism-is-rape-culture-in-a-nutshell-and-you-all-really-need-to-start-giving-a-shit-about-what-this-has-done-to-survivors", "published_at": "2020-12-01T23:33:28+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2026

because the machine must break (true empowerment in the age of AI tools)original ↗

2 Aug 2026

The groundwork for resilience – musings from The Glasgow Independent Games Festival original ↗

16 Jul 2026

Meanderware: Things I loved about cyberspace original ↗

25 May 2026

I persisted! The macOS version of “she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died” is here x)original ↗

9 Apr 2026

The Linux build of “she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died” is here! –and why there will be no MacOS build :((original ↗

7 Apr 2026

Steam, Moderation, Toxicity, and “this shouldn’t be normal”original ↗

20 Feb 2026

My new game poem is here! “she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died”original ↗

15 Feb 2026

2025

One whole year of video game recommendations original ↗

20 Dec 2025

Alternative Games From The Fringes Of Cyberspace (fighting for art and something better in this dystopian digital world)original ↗

27 Nov 2025

“game engine medley” — prototyping with small tools and mixing game engines for complex storytelling original ↗

3 Nov 2025

A crash course introduction into experimental indie games: Arthouse Games as a force for good & the activism of video games original ↗

25 May 2025

Not Quite A Game (Games that go beyond the need to be understood)original ↗

21 May 2025

Conversations About Curation And The Future Of Games Crit (reflecting on this year’s A MAZE)original ↗

20 May 2025

Why making art matters: We no longer have a type of industry where we can chase financial success. We can only sustainably fail.original ↗

28 Mar 2025

The BlueSuburbia world update is here!original ↗

3 Feb 2025

Playable essay “individualism in the dead-internet age” is an IGF Nuovo Award finalist!original ↗

17 Jan 2025

A Butterfly (The abyss called your name. You followed it here. Now you are its prisoner.)original ↗

2 Jan 2025

2024

In defense and absolute condemnation of AI: how AI has already affected “The Game Industry”original ↗

10 Dec 2024

Creating For A Better Industry original ↗

28 Nov 2024

Positive feedback loops (The power of choice, digital independence, and building something better for everyone)original ↗

6 Oct 2024

BIMM University Keynote Transcript (“After all the noise settled, what was left was genuine love for what I created.”)original ↗

28 Sept 2024

When there is nothing more left for them to take original ↗

6 Sept 2024

Play my new interactive liminal-space horror essay about technocapitalism and individuality!original ↗

26 Aug 2024

Airport layover musings: AI, tech, internet culture & giving space for constructive criticism original ↗

8 Aug 2024

From monopolies to tiny tools by solo devs original ↗

6 Aug 2024

Thinking About The Berlin Computerspiele Museum (Computer Games Museum)original ↗

8 Jun 2024

The story of my first A MAZE (and why I wish we had an event dedicated to solo-devs)original ↗

20 May 2024

Solo-Devs and Risk-Takers (An Artistic Exploration of Experimental Tools)original ↗

17 Apr 2024

Goodbye, America original ↗

11 Apr 2024

Backrooms, Liminal Spaces, And The Subliminal Menace Of Loneliness in Indie Horror Games original ↗

2 Feb 2024

2023

BlueSuburbia out now on Steam Early Access!original ↗

29 Dec 2023

How To Download and Run the Flash Version of BlueSuburbia original ↗

25 Oct 2023

BlueSuburbia is an IndieCade 2023 Nominee!original ↗

12 Oct 2023

The Generous Space of Alternative Game Engines (A Curation)original ↗

14 Sept 2023

Real Talk: Games About Trauma (art caught between “everything is horrible”, “everything is survivable”, and “this is too hard to talk about”)original ↗

14 Aug 2023

You scream into the void but the rate limit has been exceeded. Nobody can hear you scream.original ↗

7 Jul 2023

BlueSuburbia demo is out! (more about the project, vision, and things coming…)original ↗

18 May 2023

Indie Games and the promise of better spaces original ↗

9 Mar 2023

Documenting what it’s like to be treated humanely by a journalist original ↗

22 Feb 2023

“Death Stranding Meets Net-Art” in a poetry world (devlog update)original ↗

16 Feb 2023

Celebrating some beautiful jam games original ↗

8 Feb 2023

A curation of beautiful thoughtful poetic silly and queer zines made with the Electric Zine Maker original ↗

17 Jan 2023

The GDevelop Game Jam #3 is here (with prizes!) and I’m honored to be a judge…original ↗

7 Jan 2023

2022

The open-source no-code world of GDevelop (if you miss browser Flash games, this is keeping that dream alive!)original ↗

12 Dec 2022

Exploring the beautiful worlds of games made with “RPG in a Box”original ↗

30 Nov 2022

The Joy of Silly Useless Software original ↗

21 Oct 2022

MoMA’s “Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design” Exhibit & The Hopeful Future of Video Game Preservation original ↗

12 Sept 2022

When software makes you laugh! (…creativity as a mechanic, how it exists in games, and the ethics of either empowering or exploiting creation)original ↗

1 Jul 2022

BlueSuburbia Progress Update (screenshots of what I’m working on)original ↗

23 Jun 2022

“Abusing you was by the book” (documenting two years of abuse from Game Journalism, after sharing my #metoo… the whole painful story all in one place)original ↗

1 Jun 2022

Liminal Fever Dreams & Rejecting the Player (the surrealist, strange, upsetting otherworlds of video games)original ↗

13 May 2022

“Everything is going to be OK” is in THE collection in MoMA (also Tetrageddon won the Webby)original ↗

10 May 2022

Photogammetry, Meshroom, and Blender (some learning resources that helped me)original ↗

2 May 2022

Use, participation, visibility, and anti-artificial scarcity… How small independent tools help us construct a reality that empowers us (something of a manifesto)original ↗

12 Apr 2022

Tetrageddon.com is officially a Webby Nominee (and Honoree)!original ↗

5 Apr 2022

Itch.io creators you need to follow & some of their beautiful work original ↗

25 Mar 2022

“RPG In A Box” is a cool tool! (an alternative game development curation)original ↗

1 Mar 2022

Exciting news: I’m on Rhizome!! (Artbase and Artist Profile)original ↗

1 Feb 2022

Revisiting BlueSuburbia in Unreal (an update on what I’ve been up to)original ↗

28 Jan 2022

On GameJolt’s new policy: why stigmatizing “sex” in games is harmful to the medium and never works…original ↗

4 Jan 2022

2021

Tiny indiegames and the joy of Very Small Things original ↗

30 Dec 2021

Red Dead Redemption 2 as a commentary on The Game Industry (my love–hate relationship with it)original ↗

21 Dec 2021

Make Tiny Weird Software, Please! (all about desktop pets, old computer eras, and virtual toys)original ↗

15 Nov 2021

Part 2: In support of Wren (the abuse she continues to endure, Fight Knight, and publicly ridiculing her trauma)original ↗

13 Nov 2021

ZineCamp Workshop – using tiny open source tools in your own work, the values of preservation, and building your own tiny tool box original ↗

6 Nov 2021

Speaking candidly about things lately (there is no justice and other short horror stories)…original ↗

20 Oct 2021

Talk Transcript: Your uniqueness is your strength (and why that matters to the indiegame space)original ↗

15 Oct 2021

In support of Wren (the abuse she endured while working on Fight Knight)original ↗

14 Oct 2021

Celebrating all the wonderful zines from the Electric Zine Jam 2.0 original ↗

10 Oct 2021

Generative art & tools (on the intersection of toys, tools, and games…)original ↗

25 Sept 2021

My GDC 2021 Indie SoapBox Talk Transcript (five minutes about making desktop pets & virtual toys)original ↗

7 Sept 2021

A retrospective on the Electric Zine Maker, making tools, sharing the $ numbers, and more (after launching the really big update…)original ↗

30 Aug 2021

Indiepocalypse x kuš! (The secret collaboration I was working on is out now!!)original ↗

17 Aug 2021

Tiny tools and the ephemeral nature of digital art…original ↗

9 Aug 2021

The Machine That Eats People original ↗

24 Jul 2021

If Cosby’s trial were Game Industry Twitter Discourse™…original ↗

1 Jul 2021

My next game will be a horror game! (unpacking the horrors of social media, the violence of words, and the experiences it will be based on…)original ↗

23 Jun 2021

Bitsy is Beautiful! (exploring the Bitsy space and some of my favorite Bitsy games)original ↗

17 Jun 2021

Thank You original ↗

27 May 2021

Software is Art! (KhK Games class talk transcript)original ↗

26 May 2021

Game Journalism Is Dead original ↗

28 Apr 2021

Talk Transcript: Spring 2021 #OSSTA Lecture Series (my talk on tiny non-commercial tools, fantasy consoles, and tools-as-games)original ↗

26 Apr 2021

Stories are Structures, Videogames are Places – LudoNarraCon 2021 Recording original ↗

26 Apr 2021

5 beautiful altgames (tiny special things found on itch.io that are deeply meaningful)original ↗

12 Apr 2021

A very angry & venty blog post that I’m writing just to get shit off my chest…original ↗

10 Apr 2021

Surviving video game journalism (another post on journalism’s aversion to accountability, and addressing concerns about “the precedence” that humanizing sexual assault survivors sets)original ↗

28 Mar 2021

Tetrageddon Games now on Github! (the entire project and all Flash games are open source again…)original ↗

23 Mar 2021

Talk Transcript: The browser is a creative playground!original ↗

20 Mar 2021

New templates for the Electric Zine Maker and more on what’s planned for it!original ↗

24 Feb 2021

The inspired brilliance of Katelabs, a foray into glitch tools, and what zine culture has taught me about games & software dev…original ↗

19 Feb 2021

“Relax, babe. It’s just business.” – Game Journalism original ↗

8 Feb 2021

Games are giant weird story machines! (video games, their stories, and building stories for systems)original ↗

3 Feb 2021

Exploring the beautiful world of indie horror games (why work from smaller devs, and indie devs, is so meaningful)original ↗

23 Jan 2021

New Tetrageddon.com is here! (Cybermonkey has died, a broken desktop haunted by skeletons of the past, and more…)original ↗

21 Jan 2021

Killing us slowly – When your allyship stops short of doing the hard thing, when your solidarity turns against the people you once said you believe original ↗

12 Jan 2021

2020

why are the lives of those that spoke up so worthless to you, but you so readily protect the abusers? (commenting on everything)original ↗

31 Dec 2020

“I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding”original ↗

24 Dec 2020

Start making tools! (on making experimental art tools and why it’s valuable for indie game devs to make them)original ↗

18 Dec 2020

The Flash game movement, my early Flash work, and how Flash games informed what we have in indie games today…original ↗

4 Dec 2020

Cecilia D’Anastasio’s journalism is rape culture in a nutshell, and you all really need to start giving a shit about what this has done to survivors…original ↗

1 Dec 2020