It’s still Blaugust which means my RSS feed reader is still packed with stuff to read all the time. I think that’s pretty nice. To continue my trend of Library Posting, I picked up more prizes from the Ann Arbor Summer Game yesterday, so now I finally have an AADL shirt with another one or two on the way. If you like any of these blogs, add them to your RSS feed reader. I use Inoreader but there’s plenty of other good ones too.
Video Games
I think the brief description of RetroAchivements in here made me want to give it a try.
Folks, you need to boycott Microsoft. Stop buying their games, stop covering them on your games outlets, etc. It’s 2025 Year of the Linux Desktop (unironically).
I share Rob’s feelings on why the Ludocene app is kinda goofy.
I love to see blogs highlighting cool stuff made in Decker.
Syl highlights some nice small games.
I think this was a nice tribute to Roberta Vaughan, a beloved member of the adventure game community.
I really enjoyed this review of Ultimate’s game Underwurlde. Unfortunately, every time I hear about the company Ultimate I just think about how their full name is Ultimate Play the Game and wonder how it’s supposed to be said. Is it “Ultimate (pause) Play the Game” or do you say it all without the pause?
I should also probably play Starcross sometime, Infocom’s 1982 sci-fi text adventure.
The Video Game History Foundation acquired Computer Entertainer magazine, which ran from 1982-1990, and put it into the Creative Commons.
Technology
I’ve gotten into more self hosting and media server stuff over the last couple years and I’m always excited to see more recommendations for Homelab software
Music
Garrett Schumann wrote about local Ann Arbor music legend Fred Thomas
Vinzenz did a song-by-song breakdown of their great new album A Clearing. Also consider checking out their games.
Dev Logs
I’m just happy to see progress being made on Death Ray Manta 2.
TTRPG writers can do dev logs too and I just like hearing about what Dinoberry Press is working on.
Other Stuff
Another link to local stuff, I enjoyed this history of the oldest active train station in the United States, located in Jackson, Michigan.
Read the blog post on Ludocene and also agree. It seems well meaning and I did discover some interesting titles, but in the end it just felt like every other digital storefront but turned into a game that I didn’t really fully understand how to play.
same. I like a lot of the people that worked on it so I don’t want to be mean about it. I just wish it was easier to navigate and I could just view the recommendations from people I like