It’s been a minute since I’ve done one of these but with Bluesky currently imploding because of its dipshit staff, maybe people will want some other websites to look at and add to their RSS feed reader. I’ve been using Inoreader since it has a solid free tier (although I pay for it now) and syncs everything I’ve already read through all the platforms I use it on, and adding sites to it is easy.
Creating Care is a new favorite newsletter I’ve subscribed to. If you’re like me and always feel compelled to be online looking at the news, maybe you’ll also find the latest post on staying informed without staying inflamed to be helpful.
My friend Steven, developer of games like WaveCrash!!, just started a newsletter where he will be posting his writing.
Video Games
Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia, recently had a post where he talks about all the ports of the first game and which ones are his favorites, which include some he wasn’t involved with.
Interactive fiction designer Andrew Plotkin covers the release of the remaster of the Making of Myst video that Cyan just released
Super Chart Island talks about the history of the classic UK computer game Monty on the Run which IMO has one of the greatest game theme songs in a video game.
A few months old but Syl’s Blog praised the multimedia cd-rom Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia so of course I have to mention that.
Also older but I need to include this post about the video intro at the beginning of some cd-roms that came with General Mills cereal.
Brain Baking has had a million good posts recently about card games but this one was how I found out about a fan remake of the card game in Might & Magic 7.
Sometimes you just like reading a post listing someone’s favorite ZX Spectrum games.
Ephemeral Enigmas is always reviewing retro games I never heard of, like this Gundam game for the Virtual Boy.
Tech
I think this post does a good job covering everything happening with Bluesky right now.
TTRPGs
Hosting your own mini-con is not as hard as you think!
Dev Logs
This guest post by Elissa on Ron Gilbert’s blog goes into the level design of their upcoming game Death By Scrolling.
erysdren is doing dev logs on making a new game for DOS
I’m also really enjoying the updates on Ben’s new point-and-click adventure
Writing
Yozy has been doing pixel art covers of the books they’ve been reading and they’re all very good.