Well, this was a rough week where game developers were under attack from censorship and queer game devs are again feeling like they’re being attacked, but on the other hand I got an A in my first grad school class so who can say if things are bad or not. Even with everything going on, this ended up being a week with a lot of blog posts that I read so this is kind of a massive post. If you like this posts, add their blogs to your RSS feed reader. I use Inoreader but I’m sure there’s plenty of good options.

Video Games

Where’s the best writing in games? Idk, this blog I guess?

The adventure game community lost Roberta Vaughan very recently and folks have been trying to process that sudden loss. Adventure Game Hotspot had a nice tribute to her from various folks in the community.

The Historical Games Network has a post on the representation of women in historical games and how poor it is.

I’m still processing my thoughts on everything happening with Itch and adult games right now. I wrote a little bit yesterday on some actions folks can take. I think I agree with a lot on what this blog post is saying about it too.

Liana wrote a nice template for creating your own storefront for selling games. Calm down, I’m not saying you should all do this or that we need to do this instead of Itch. Somehow this became discourse on Bluesky. I just think it’s neat and if people want an extra option in the toolbox, go for it.

Retro Games

There were a lot of posts about old games this week so they get their own category this time!

Jolt Country has been logging games they’re playing and this week it’s the BASIC DOS game Meteor! I just like using a blog as a games diary or log and would recommend it as a possible alternate for something like Backloggd (I am a grump about Backloggd).

Super Chart Island writes about the computer game American Football. As a hater of our version of football, I’ve always been jealous that it’s not a thing in other countries. But it is fascinating to hear about the attempts to make it popular elsewhere and computer games marketed to those groups.

Once again I’d like to give a shoutout to Renga in Blue and their mission to play every adventure game in order of release. This week it’s the text adventure Journey of a Space Traveller.

Castle of the Winds was one of the first rpgs I remember ever seeing, so it was fun watching CRPG Addict cover this one. I should go back and play it.

Ephemeral Enigmas covers Curse of Enchantia, a point-and-click adventure that has been sitting in my Amiga games backlog for a long time. It’s also on DOS but I’m an Amiga nerd so that’s where I’ll end up playing it someday.

Tabletop RPGs

Daring Demon Eclipse calls on everyone to write loud queer games.

Dev logs

I was very happy to hear that the third Captain Disaster game is making good progress. I’m a fan of the previous adventure games in the series.

Megan gives an update on the musical tarot game Divinuet and what it’s like to sometimes work on a game as a side thing and sometimes as a full time project.

Meredith Gran posts about her brother releasing a video game.

Writing

I got to attend a very good talk at the Ann Arbor District Library this last Wednesday from Sarah Gailey about the history and legacy of the Hays Code and the Comics Code, contemporary censorship efforts, and the necessity of identifying with criminality. They unfortunately got covid for the first time and found out a few hours before the talk, so they had to give it from their hotel room just around the corner from the library, but it was still very good and I recommend checking it out. It was very weird attending this talk and then going home to find out about all the Itch adult games stuff.

Tech

I’m not feeling so great about Canvas being used for my classes

I’ve thought about moving to Eleventy. It sounds really nice. Here’s a list of plugin recommendations

Other Bits

I liked this post titled No, posting alone won’t save Palestine but you should do it anyway