Yeah idk, I’d rather write this than watch the news today. This one will be long since it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these but it should be more reasonable in the future. As usual, my hope for these is that you find new stuff to add to your RSS feed reader (I use Inoreader) and that you consider doing your own blog roundups if you have a site and encourage other to use RSS, since social media and Google Search are disasters now.
Video Games
Bobbins’ Olde Tomb of Videogames is back! Please subscribe to this one. Rob regularly highlights great indie games that I’ve never heard of.
A lot of folks were doing GOTY stuff, including Gamers with Glasses, The Indie TTRPG Newsletter, Ars Technica, Indie Game Reading Club, Ephemeral Enigmas, Chris Schilling (it mentions Domino Club!), and this thread by Wurm Fud.
Andrew Plotkin made a version of Zork that displays the game’s code and annotations as you play.
Here’s a post on how to play the weird official Half-Life arcade game Half-Life 2 Survivor on your Steam Deck.
Into the Spine had a post where each writer, all 102, recommended a game. It features a recommendation by Emily Price for one of the games in the anthology I helped with!
I can’t remember if I mentioned Press Play Gaming nominating my anthology for best anthology, but I’m bringing it up again baby!
Swanchime writes about their issues with the indie dev scene.
Farfama writes about making games for an audience of 1.
Tabletop RPGs
Kieron Gillen and Jim Rossignol have launched a site for their ttrpg blog posts called Old Men Running the World.
Seedling Games talks about What Is a Zine?
Have a D10 table of Dead Adventurers
Playful Void publishes The Zungeon Manifesto
Florence Smith Nicholls talks about LARPs and prompt engineering for people, not AI.
Dev Logs
Dave Snider, of Giant Bomb fame, has announced a new tabletop rpg project that you can follow on his site and newsletter
Exodrifter talks about finances as an indie game developer.
Em Reed talks about their future plans and favorite things in 2024.
Eric’s Edge talks about making a game in Hypercard
Technology
Greg Pak talks about why you should make a personal website and how to get started.
Benj Edwards talks about his hopes for computers going forward such as users moving away from DRM and subscriptions and a push to make computers more personal again.
Wyx talks about how to put your music on Neocities
Joe Siegler talks about what matters the most, the weird Doctor Who blu-rays in the United States.
Other
Molly White recommends volunteering at your library and recommends some sci-fi books.
Not Blog Posts But:
Someone actually talks about how adventure games have been doing well for quite a while now.
PC Gamer continues to highlight 5 lesser known games every week.