It’s another roundup of posts I liked! This week is pretty short since I didn’t have that much time to read posts but I’m still going to highlight what I liked. If you like any of these posts, add their sites to your RSS feed reader and do your own roundups!
TTRPGs
Some folks in the TTRPG community are doing 12 Days of Itchmas, where they rate games, add community copies of their own, and do other stuff on Itch.io. A few folks have blogged about it too. Lady Tabletop does a much better job explaining it than I do.
Mossy, a tabletop game dev I really like, now also has a blog and is participating in 12 Days of Itchmas.
I keep forgetting to mention the Indie RPG Newsletter despite being subscribed to it for a long time. It’s a huge oversight on my part because it does an incredible job highlighting parts of the indie ttrpg community every week. Way better than this thing.
Video Games
Inner Spiral talks about embracing the jank in games and how even “bad” games usually have something to offer.
ToulouTouMou writes about the history of Urban Rivals, the web trading card game of gangsters, cowboys and wizards.
Nat Clayton talks about her favorite games of the year.
DOS Game Club is playing Ultima Underworld for the next three months. Come join us, everyone is doing it. Luk has started a narrated playthrough of the series.
Press Play Gaming has been doing posts every day on GOTYs of various categories and I’m very pleased to see the Locally Sourced Anthology make it as a nominee for Best Anthology. I’m going to pretend it was a actually very close contest between it and UFO 50.
Dev Logs
I love reading about projects folks are working on.
Ben Chandler gives an update on the Adventure Game Studio game he’s been working on.
Harris Powell-Smith posts the outline of how they got started on their latest game. I thought it was really interesting since I never see design docs or really anything on how people make interactive fiction.
Stuffed Wombat gives an update on the development of their Arrow Engine, a gridbased narrative framework.
Other Writing
They aren’t blogs, but here’s some other writing I enjoyed.
Alexandra explains why she loves Webfishing and online hangouts on startmenu.
startmenu also published an article on the games industry’s response (or lack of) to Gaza.
Inner Worlds Issue #5 is out! It’s a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories, with the stories in this issue being more focused on transformation and freedom.
Ryan has published his yearly guide to non-profits to consider supporting in Southeast Michigan.