This week is almost going to be more of a blog roundup slush pile because I’m behind on my rss feed reader and wanted to get something out there so it doesn’t become a gigantic post when I finally get caught up. So enjoy some blog posts that maybe be older than a week. I think that’s fine.

All the cool kids are doing roundups of things they like these days! Here are some by Yaffle, tallywinkle, and Aura. Join them!

I said in the last blog roundup that I get really excited about game devs posting recipes, so here’s one by Julia Minamata for her mom’s thumbprint cookies. There’s also lots of updates about her great point-and-click adventure The Crimson Diamond.

Not a blog post but my kids loved this WebGL fluid simulation. It works great on mobile too!

Creeping for Scale Models has a place where people can anonymously send confessions about their hobbies.

It’s an older post from a year ago, but I really like this one about how web3 propaganda wants you to think the internet was only a place where people read websites those first 10 years.

Video Games

Good Old Days reviews the Perry Mason text adventure.

Indie Games+ reviews Core Trials, a bullet hell that uses your phone or computer’s camera.

Renga in Blue plays the 1982 interactive fiction game Arkenstone.

People are still making Mario Maker levels!

Not a blog post but Kritiqal continues to have great interviews with indie game devs on their podcast. This time it’s two members of the indie game studio, Mortally Moonstruck Games, developers of Mushroom Musume.

Robert Yang presents The Sportslike Manifesto, arguing for new ways of making sports games.

Laura Michet has a post about making money as an independent game dev.

Atari Archive goes into the 1979 Atari game Miniature Golf. I don’t think I’ve actually mentioned this site on here before but I’m a big fan of Atari Archive’s videos and Kevin’s book of the same name.

Adam Le Doux of Bitsy fame has made the classic game Snake as a bookmarklet.

TTRPGs

Elf-wise has a post on how to play B/X compatible adventures for smaller groups of D&D 4th Edition players.

Cameron Kunzelman talks about Cyberpunk 2020’s Lifepath Generator.

Dev Logs

Ron Gilbert (Monkey Island, Putt-Putt) announces his newest game Death by Scrolling.

Robin talks about Building The Roottrees are Dead.

I’ve been enjoying the weekly updates on Eldritch 2.

Cutestpatoot talks about the process of making Seven Kisses, a card based RPG/card game.

Harris Powell-Smith announces their next interactive fiction game The Earth Has Teeth.

Not Blog Posts

It’s a bit older but I really liked Alice Bell’s article Can a Steam profile be a real memorial for a lost life? Getting older means you have more digital artifacts in your life from people that are no longer with us and I have a lot of feelings about that.

The Museum of Screens has a little essay made in Downpour about why you should try the game making tool Downpour.