A day late and I still need to do an indie game roundup (I might just skip last week and put it all into this Friday’s post?) but here’s some more posts I enjoyed reading this week.

I really think other folks do the whole roundup things a lot better and it’s how I discover a lot of new blogs and other neat things, so here are some by videodante, Emily Price, The Works of Egan, Sweetfish, katey, and Aura. You should do one too!

Video Games

Steam Next Fest ends today, so this would have been more useful if I made this roundup yesterday, but maybe you’ll still find some games to add to your wishlist in these Next Fest roundups by startmenu, Indie Hell Zone, Adventure Game Hotspot, and Buried Treasure.

Emily Price reviews Misericorde Volume 2: White Wool and Snow for Unwinnable, which means I have just added the first game to my wishlist.

Not a blog post and you probably already saw it elsewhere, but EA has uploaded the full source code for Command & Conquer, C&C Red Alert, C&C Renegade, and C&C Generals + Zero Hour to Github. Hopefully it’s the beginning of a trend.

It sounds like a previously unreleased C64 game, the Scramble-like Magnum Force, has been found.

The dev of Balatro now has a blog!

Speaking of Balatro, damien has modded Balatro on the PC to have touch controls.

Not a blog post but I really liked this interview that the Space Quest Historian and Richard Cobbett did with Aaron Conners and writing the Tex Murphy games AND novelizations, which I’ve heard are sometimes better than the games.

Florence Smith Nicholls talks about the wild combination of karaoke, games crit, and games preservation in You don’t see me at the club? Well I don’t see you in the 2006 MMO Wurm Online. Since I talk about Myst Online to the point of me sounding like I’m shitposting (I’m not), I fully endorse this.

Someone wrote about the world-building in Riven: The Sequel to Myst, so of course I have to include it.

And then finally, because I’m never not on my Myst Online bullshit, did you know that the game is still online, available for free, and folks have monthly meetings in them? Here are the meeting notes for last Saturday’s All Guilds Meeting, where they discussed things like making new Myst Online content, the Mysterium convention, and upcoming events like making a dutch baby.

TTRPGs

We got a new ttrpg newsletter! This one is Carouse, Carouse! and written by a collective of folks.

Clayton talks about designing a community.

Technology

Probably preaching to the choir a bit with this one but I liked reading about Why Personal Sites Matter More Than Ever.

Will Smith from Tested talks about the end of support for Windows 10 and what you can do with your old computer if it can’t do the update to 11.

Other Bits

I can’t stop thinking about this Grape-Nuts ad

A new issue of ALOCASIA is here! It’s a free journal of queer plant-based writing.