Another collection of blog posts I liked reading this week. If you like these, consider subscribing to the blogs on your RSS feed reader and doing your own roundup posts if you’ve got a site. Google Search is becoming useless now and this is a way people will find new stuff.
Ben Robbins, the creator of tabletop rpgs like Microscope and Kingdom, tells designers to make the games you want to play.
Dante talks about Memoriapolis, a city builder I never heard of but sounds really cool and possibly addresses some of the issues I have with the genre?
Speaking of city builders, badger trebuchet diagram no. 17 posted about Sim City 3000 vaporwave.
I just like when people talk about what they’ve been into lately and Meredith Gran, creator of Perfect Tides, wrote one of those.
The Fungus Zone explains how it’s the year of the games anthology. I’m possibly biased because mine is listed there and I’m working on another right now, but I agree.
Chuck Jordan (Curse of Monkey Island, Telltale’s Sam and Max) has a nice post reflecting on being out for 20 years on National Coming Out Day.
Damien covers the Bay Area Cohost Wake
Ghoulnoise talks about cooking Çılbır, recipe link included. I never had it before but I think it looks great.
The Museum of Screens discusses the various Flappy Bird controversies.
Amiga Boing Blog is a nice blog covering Amiga games. Although personally, I think if your game is called Moose Drive then it should be more interesting than a generic racing game.
Not Blog Posts but here’s some other things
I liked this piece on RogerEbert.com about Megalopolish, the Joker sequel, and how more directors should be allowed to make potential misfires.
Aftermath wrote about how forums are alive and well, and lists a ton of active ones. Personally I’m kind of “hmmmm” about their hesitance on listing forums related to sexuality but gun forums are ok I guess? But I appreciate the enthusiasm and do think forums are nice. If you like talking about DOS games, then I recommend DOS Game Club and IntFiction.org isn’t bad for Interactive Fiction discussion. Data preservation issues aside, I personally find forums to be a lot less overwhelming than something like Discord and wish we could see more people using them.
Re: the article about forums, I was a bit sad that they chose the Steve Hoffman forum as their headline image. I’m sure it has plenty of nice discussion, but the first (and last) time I found myself there, it was a thread about Dee Palmer. Either she’d just come out or she’d started to transition. Whatever the case, the thread was just full of transphobic prog rock snobs 🙁
ugh 🙁