I wasn’t going to do these on a weekly basis again but there ended up being a bunch of interesting posts and the list got long very quickly. Consider adding the ones you like to your RSS feed reader. I use Inoreader but there’s lots of good ones. Or add links to things you like on your own website.

The Bathysphere is a weekly video game newsletter featuring short essays and links to other games and writing. I keep thinking it’s new but at issue 44 it means it’s almost a year old at this point.

The devs at Nice Gear Games now have a blog if you want to see what they’re up to.

The yearly ttrpg blog awards The Bloggies have nominees, if you want to read a billion good posts about ttrpgs.

I forgot to include this in my indie game roundup, I’ll do it next week, but the creator of Bitsy has now made a tool for writing interactive fiction for Casio calculators using Twine.

Two years ago Cabel Sasser gave a really good talk about preserving a mural at McDonalds before it was going to get destroyed and now he has a blog post expanding on it. It has a link to the talk, which I highly recommend.

Andrew Plotkin wrote about the combat system with the troll in Zork 1.

Syl has a nice roundup of video games, interactive fiction, and ttrpgs played in January.

Robert Yang wrote a blog post about the future of games festivals and non-commercial games culture since the oldest games non-profit in the world, Freeplay in Australia, is running into financial trouble. I also like that it is also wants to preserve some of the discourse happening around it on Bluesky, since games discourse can happen so quickly and then be forgotten.

And finally Lone Archivist has a post on how to make more affordable miniatures for your tabletop skirmish game.

That’s it for this time. Hope you found something cool. With Discord making lots of bad decisions lately I’m also spending more times on blogs now and have been mostly hanging out on DOS Game Club, where it’s ZZT month, No Escape has launched a forum, and Paper Cult Club continues being a great place for ttrpg discussion.