It’s another roundup of posts I liked! This week is pretty short since I didn’t have that much time to read posts but I’m still going to highlight what I liked. If you like any of these posts, add their sites to your RSS feed reader and do your own roundups!

TTRPGs

Some folks in the TTRPG community are doing 12 Days of Itchmas, where they rate games, add community copies of their own, and do other stuff on Itch.io. A few folks have blogged about it too. Lady Tabletop does a much better job explaining it than I do.

Mossy, a tabletop game dev I really like, now also has a blog and is participating in 12 Days of Itchmas.

I keep forgetting to mention the Indie RPG Newsletter despite being subscribed to it for a long time. It’s a huge oversight on my part because it does an incredible job highlighting parts of the indie ttrpg community every week. Way better than this thing.

Video Games

Inner Spiral talks about embracing the jank in games and how even “bad” games usually have something to offer.

ToulouTouMou writes about the history of Urban Rivals, the web trading card game of gangsters, cowboys and wizards.

Nat Clayton talks about her favorite games of the year.

DOS Game Club is playing Ultima Underworld for the next three months. Come join us, everyone is doing it. Luk has started a narrated playthrough of the series.

Press Play Gaming has been doing posts every day on GOTYs of various categories and I’m very pleased to see the Locally Sourced Anthology make it as a nominee for Best Anthology. I’m going to pretend it was a actually very close contest between it and UFO 50.

Dev Logs

I love reading about projects folks are working on.

Ben Chandler gives an update on the Adventure Game Studio game he’s been working on.

Harris Powell-Smith posts the outline of how they got started on their latest game. I thought it was really interesting since I never see design docs or really anything on how people make interactive fiction.

Stuffed Wombat gives an update on the development of their Arrow Engine, a gridbased narrative framework.

Other Writing

They aren’t blogs, but here’s some other writing I enjoyed.

Alexandra explains why she loves Webfishing and online hangouts on startmenu.

startmenu also published an article on the games industry’s response (or lack of) to Gaza.

Inner Worlds Issue #5 is out! It’s a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories, with the stories in this issue being more focused on transformation and freedom.

Ryan has published his yearly guide to non-profits to consider supporting in Southeast Michigan.

After successfully getting through what one would call a hell week, I have put together another collection of blog posts I enjoyed reading. Maybe you’ll find something to add to your RSS feed reader. If you don’t have one, use one! It’s just so much easier to have them all scooped up into a feed reader instead of having to constantly check social media. I use Inoreader but there’s plenty of RSS feed readers out there. Apologies if there are lots of typos in this, I wrote it after only a few hours of sleep. But I must talk about blogs!

Books

Transfer Orbit recommends 14 SFF books that are coming out this month.

the Lunar Flaneur always has great reviews of books. I think it’s more of a focus on SFF books but not always. This time it’s a review of the graphic novel Glass Town.

Dev Logs

I follow lots of game devs through their blogs. Here’s what some are up to:

Edenwaith released a remake of the slot machine from Space Quest 1 for the Playdate.

Harris Powell-Smith has released the interactive fiction story Honor Bound.

David Lindsey Pittman gives an update on Eldritch 2.

M.H. Miller talks about writing a Twine game.

It would mean a lot to me if you could give to Rob’s GoFundMe. He’s been so supportive of other folks in the past and his games over the decades have given me a lot of joy.

Tabletop RPGs

The BLOGGIES are open for nominations! It’s a yearly awards event to celebrate blog posts in ttrpgs.

There’s been so much talk about blog posts in the Prismatic Wasteland discord. Highly recommended if you love ttrpgs and blogs. Here’s some of the recent posts that I saw in there:

I love this explanation of how to play ttrpgs by post, including through Discord. I recommend doing this if you really want to play ttrpgs but are just unable to coordinate the regular meetup sessions because of real life.

Playful Void explains what Forsaken Easter Eggs are. The blog has also been doing regular critiques of ttrpgs.

Fool’s Pyrite gives their final impressions of ICON.

Video Games

Indie Tsushin has released its latest issue. The issues are readable in the browser and each one covers indie games from Japan and features interviews with game developers.

The Digital Antiquarian has a nice interview with interactive fiction writer Andrew Plotkin.

Press Play Gaming has been doing a ridiculous amount of GOTY lists this month, with a focus on indie games in every genre.

Renga in Blue did an incredible comparison between the original version of Colossal Cave Adventure and the Dungeons & Dragons campaign that inspired it.

Here, have an article on reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format for the Sega Genesis.

Brain Baking says you should hang out with the DOS Game Club and I agree.

Are you feeling down because of the winter weather? David at startmenu talks about how playing old rpgs is comforting to him.

Websites

Obviously you know by now that I have lots of opinions on websites and why you should have your own. It turns out that a lot of other people do too!

Nora tell you to make a website, why, and how to get started.

Jared riffs on Aftermath’s article about building your own site to say that you must also visit other websites.

Not a new post but From The Hart explains why you should use a RSS feed reader.

A blog post I saw in the Prismatic Wasteland discord that I mentioned earlier, it turns out you can use Bluesky as the commenting system for your blog posts. While I have my own opinion on this and think you should have your own commenting system on your site to have full control over it, it’s still cool! Not trying to start discourse! It’s neat and I wouldn’t post it here if I thought it was bad. The post itself has the feature enabled so you can see how it looks at the bottom of the post.

It’s the first day of December and the year is almost over. How are you? I hope you had a lovely weekend. I’m tired and writing this too early in the morning. If you enjoy these roundups, tell a friend, subscribe to my RSS feed (I use and enjoy Inoreader), and consider doing your own roundup (like this one by Mike Egan) if you have a website. It’s hard to find stuff on the internet these days so being vocal about what we like is probably the best we can do right now. I also always like comments. What have you enjoyed reading lately?

Books

Classics of Science Fiction revisits the out of print book A Mirror for Observers and finds that it maybe doesn’t hold up.

Transfer Orbit talks about a Wired article and Murderbot’s origins.

Tabletop RPGs

It was an incredibly busy week for people to post about ttrpgs on their blogs and sites. That’s wonderful! It sounds like in the Prismatic Wasteland discord they’re doing a thing called Blog Fridays, which sounds fun.

Thomas reviews an adventure module for Traveller from 1983 called Murder on Arcturus Station.

Tot’s Character Compendium reviews the character creation process for fantasy ttrpg BEACON.

Clayton has an intro to typography in ttrpgs.

Mindstorm talks about bartering.

Kaden plays one of my games for Solovember.

Alexander King talks about advantage vs. modifier bonuses and does some math.

Tech

Turgon writes about replacing your search engine and the SearXNG search engine.

Leaded Soldier is a blog about repairing old technology. This week it’s a PC-6001mkII keyboard replacement.

Video Games

Katherine Morayati talks about the interactive movie I’m Your Man. I guess this is maybe not really a “video game” but I’m putting it here anyway.

swanchime has thoughts on making autobiographical games.

Nicole Express goes into the history of the Super Cassette Vision

Rojo Aventuras made a nice thread on bluesky of adventure game sites in Spanish

Wraithkal does great ScreenshotSaturday roundups of Mastodon posts on their blog.

robotspacer helps us get into the Murder Club series.

Nathalie posts the transcript for a talk titled Creating for a Better Industry, which features lots of links to cool little tools for making games and personal websites.

Things That Aren’t Blogs

John Walker did two big lists on Kotaku recommending indie games. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2.

SpindleyQ has a NES emulator that replaces everything with cat noises.

Much like Friday’s indie game post, this is going to be a pretty massive post of blog posts that I enjoyed looking at this week. I’ll also sort this one into different categories and maybe you’ll find new things to add to your RSS feed reader. I’ve been using Inoreader, which has worked very well for me since I can also access my unread list from my phone. One day soon I’ll do a complete dump of all the RSS feeds I’m currently subscribed to so people can maybe find new things, or yell at me if I need to add their site. Always feel free to recommend blogs you enjoy following, or your own, in the comments.

Books/Writing

Bez is an interactive fiction writer I’m a fan of so it’s exciting to me that he’s going to start reviewing self-published books he finds on Itch.io. This week he reviews Memory Leak by M. Kirin.

Zandraposting talks about the Trans Fiction Bundle 2024 that has just gone live on Itch.io. Six stories for $10.

Dev Logs

I love hearing about what people have been working so there’s quite a few that follow. Here are the updates I read this week:

Eniko announces her Bismuth VM and also how it will handle memory management and safety.

Brianna gives an update on her RPG and asks for playtesters.

Meredith Gran talks about writing systems in her sequel to the point-and-click adventure Perfect Tides.

David Lindsey Pittman plans the next steps for Eldritch 2.

Photography

Nat posts photos of almost every cat she met this year on someplace elsewhere.

Adam Le Doux posts photos taken with the Game Boy Camera.

Nicky Flowers has green photos.

Tabletop RPGs

Tot’s Character Compendium is a new blog that is focused entirely on the character creation process in various tabletop rpgs. This is always one of the most interesting parts of a ttrpg to me so I’m excited for this one. The first post covers character creation in the F.E.A.R. inspired game FIST – Ultra Edition.

Clayton has launched a monthly post series on his Ghost newsletter about various posts and stuff he’s into in tabletop rpgs. It’s not just blog posts but it highlights a few of those too.

Hark at Them! is a new blog focused on reviewing indie ttrpgs. This week they’ve reviewed Burnborough and Stealing Your Heart.

Aggregate Cognizance talks about how to have lying NPCs in your tabletop rpg.

Prismatic Wasteland recommends some gift ideas for ttrpg fans that aren’t just dice.

The Fail Forward blog talks about death in ttrpgs and lethal-lite rules.

Goblin Punch is building a Monster Tome.

I’ve enjoyed following along with blogs doing Lore24.

Technology

Mike writes about his first computer on The Works of Egan.

Not sure if this should go under technology but Katherine Morayati talks about the dead internet company Kozmo in her postcardposting series.

The creator of classic Macintosh games like Glypha and Glider talks about the need for having media offline and local on Engineers Need Art.

Anil Dash goes into the many reasons why you shouldn’t use Substack and provides alternatives and platforms to move to. I fully agree btw. They show their ass every month in various awful ways and no one should use them.

badger trebuchet diagram no. 17 talks about ancient Prodigy banner ads.

Reno Project announces that the Club Caribe server source code has been found and how it happened.

fasterthanlime talks about highlighted code in slides.

Social Media

Enough people had thoughts on social media that I had to make my own subcategory for it.

Platinum Tulip talks about the experience of using Bluesky and I think it’s how I feel about the place too.

Christine goes into great detail about if Bluesky is decentralized or not, but isn’t weird about it like a lot of people would be.

damien has thoughts on Mastodon and the search for a “new Twitter”

Video Games

Andrew Plotkin remembers game designer Kory Heath and links to other pages where people are posting their memories of him.

Broken Words, a huge Dragon Age fan, recommends the new game in the series.

Stuffed Wombat talks about the concept of Density Decay in video games.

Indie Games

Indie Tsushin is a site focused on indie games and developers from Japan. This week I’m highlighting their review of the visual novel/adventure game Monstrous Park.

Freya talks about continuing to work on the Videotome series of game engines.

It’s not really a blog but Gamers with Glasses talks about some of the games from Steam Next Fest.

I Am a Rat is a blog that recommends a game on Itch or IFDB nearly every day. I am linking to their latest review, Wirewalk, but they’re all good.

Michael Brough has a blog post on why he’s crowdfunding his latest game 868-BACK.

The Museum of Screens recommends the browser game Thicket.

Weird Fucking Games also regularly recommends indie games. This time it’s Sliding Messages

Thinky Third Thursday does a monthly recommendation of indie puzzle games.

Retro Games

The Swedish Games is a blog focused on Swedish games history. This week they’re talking about unused graphics in the game Kosmopolska.

The original code for the Macintosh game ChipWits has become open source and the designer talks about the history of the game too.

Ephemeral Enigmas reviews Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters.

Renga in Blue is attempting to play every single adventure game in order of release. This week it’s the 1982 text adventure Castle Adventure.

A lot of people talked about why they won’t cover the new Game Boy clone (good!). Wavelengths is one of them.

startmenu praises the Doom WAD Going Down Turbo.

The Digital Antiquarian talks about the 90s post-Infocom era of Interactive Fiction.

The Kinsie talks about the horrible PC Accelerator and digs deep into a feature in the first issue about Quake 2 killers.

The Good Old Days reviews the 1988 ZX Spectrum action adventure game Where Time Stood Still.

Other Topics

Videodante talks about Francis Bacon and creating art in horrible times.

Joe Siegler, most famous for his work at 3D Realms, reviews various albums and tv shows on his personal blog and I liked his review of Pink Floyd’s album The Division Bell. I’m not even a fan of the album but I love hearing people talk about why they love music. Personal blogs are just cool!

Nuxx.net talks about signage they made about 10 years ago for not riding muddy dirt trails in SE Michigan, how it has taken off elsewhere, and the files for it for people to make their own since it’s Creative Commons.

Alex posts fond memories of his dog Lacy as well as some photos of a good dog.

Yaffle talks about 90s Panini sticker albums.

Not Blogs

Here’s some things on the World Wide Web that aren’t blogs but are still good.

Firehose3D presents Bluesky posts in a way that looks like some kind of Johnny Mnemonic intro crawl.

IMG_0001: “Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in “Send to YouTube” button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives. Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly.”

Lately I’ve had some nostalgia for early YouTube where people didn’t have the algorithm figured out and video were a lot less polished, so this has been a lot of fun to play with.

I really liked this review of adventure game Phoenix Springs

A new issue of beestung is out! beestung is a quarterly micro-magazine of non-binary writers.

Aerial_Knight has posted the publishing agreement template he uses.

Adventure Game Hotspot has published an interview with Mikael Nyqvist, the creator of the Carol Reed series. I’ve been fascinated with this series for a long time because it’s now at 20 games but the games are only published through his site. He just has no interest in using Steam and Itch and I kinda love it.

Reactor talks about how it’s a really good time to be loud about the books you love.

Oh god, you actually read to the end of this? I promise that next week will be smaller. This got a bit out of control.

I made a post on bluesky yesterday about having your own website or blog and it really blew up so now I’m fired up about websites and will probably be more annoying about them than usual. If you’re reading this then you probably have one but if you don’t? Go fix that. It’s a lot of fun and then I can read it and tell everyone about how cool it is!

Also did you know you could like posts on Bear Blogs? I didn’t realize that until just a few minutes ago. Haha, WHOOPS! So if you have one, just pretend I was liking every post until now, because that’s probably what I would be doing.

Anyway, here are some of the posts I enjoyed reading this week! If you enjoy these, subscribe to some RSS feeds and do your own link roundup. Google sucks now and this is how people will discover new sites.

Video Games

Aura talks about a ton of video games in this year’s IGF

If you’re looking for people to follow on Bluesky, SideQuesting put together a list of starter packs they like.

Renga in Blue continues playing through every single adventure game in order of release. This time it’s the 1982 text adventure Firienwood.

No Escape explains how Pacific Drive is like storm chasing.

Gamers with Glasses talks about antifascist game criticism.

Tabletop RPGs

I really love the playthroughs of solo ttrpgs Kaden has been doing for Solovember.

A. A. Voigt. wrote a short story for the Spectres of Brocken RPG setting, by Aaron Lim

Music

Megan explains their process for film scoring.

I love hearing about local music scenes and in this post Yaffle writes about emo bands in Russia.

The Morning Music blog is going on break for two weeks but at least it leaves us with this great live jazz album recorded in Detroit.

Photography

Interactive fiction writer Andrew Plotkin now has a photography blog!

Nicky Flowers posts photos of BART.

Dev Logs

Dev logs are great. You all need to post updates on your games on your own site instead of on a social media network that might not even be around in a few years.

Meredith Gran gives an update on the upcoming Perfect Tides sequel.

David Lindsey Pittman posts screenshots of Eldritch 2 and the inventory system.

Other Stuff

I love reading blog posts that are just life updates from people I know, and they talk about what art they’ve been enjoying or what they’re up to. For example, these posts from Renkon and coffeentacos were really nice to read. If you’ve ever wanted to blog about that stuff and didn’t think people wouldn’t care, you’re wrong!

eladnarra discovers blackwork embroidery.

Critical Distance has put together a great list of organizations to support if you can afford to.

Cohost Union News was a great account on Cohost that posted about union news and they’re back at it on their own site.

If you had a cohost account, you should repost your stuff! Here’s a nice pencil animation.

It’s not a blog but Unwinnable talks about the dying art of finding porn in the woods. I always heard about this but even in the 90s it never happened to me.

I also enjoyed some older posts that I saw folks sharing. This blog post talks about how it’s good to be frivolous on your blog, talking about whatever you like. I found it from someone I follow just reblogging it.

Molly White talks about an approach to social media that I think I’m currently doing, POSSE.

As I mentioned in my indie game roundup, I took a break from posting because of…y’know, and I guess I’m back at it because it takes my mind off things and brings me joy. If you enjoy these, subscribe to some blogs with a RSS feed reader (I use Inoreader) and start your own blog! Doesn’t have to be anything big, could just be with Zonelets or Bear Blog. We can at least make the web feel less small in 2025.

Photography

Game developer Yaffle now has a blog filled with lots of nice photographs.

I also enjoy the photography posts by Nicky Flowers.

Video Games

Collection Chamber is a great abandonware blog. Every month they upload five games that have been updated to work on modern operating systems.

Rob talks about two side blogs he’s started. Tatwatch is one focused on b-movies and Videogames is focused on video games. All three blogs are great and in my RSS feed reader.

Speaking of Rob, I also liked his review of the upcoming 3D Don’t Die Mr. Robot.

Ephemeral Enigmas wrote about the 1983 Intellivision game Dracula. I’ve really enjoyed this blog for retro games writing, often focusing on console games I’ve never heard of.

Good Old Days also writes about old games I’ve never heard of. This time they have a review of the Atari ST game Simulcra.

Final Fantasy VIII Is the Best is active again. Please follow this one if you’re remotely interested in lots of blog posts defending a game that gets a lot of criticism even from fans of the series.

Aura talks about games they’re interested in but don’t have time for because of IGF.

Harris Powell-Smith put together a list of Choice of Games releases made in October.

Tabletop RPGs

Clayton talks about his process for designing tabletop rpgs.

Binary Star Games writes about process optimization in tabletop rpgs.

Prismatic Wasteland did a thread of posts on Bluesky about people writing on vampires in tabletop rpgs if you’re looking for more ttrpg writing in your RSS feed reader.

Books

Tally recommends some books with creepy houses.

Transfer Orbit lists 22 new SFF books to distract you from a terrible November.

I really like the book reviews by the Lunar Flaneur. This time they recommend the sci-fi novel A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys.

Politics

ghoulnoise talks about how there was always going to be work to do.

Molly White tries to answer the question “what do I do now?”

Other Stuff

It’s not a blog post, I just like when cool people interview other cool people. Emily Price talks to Joe Richardson, creator of adventure games like The Procession to Calvary.

It’s not new but this seems like a nice guide to getting into making pixel art.

People posted on their blogs a lot this week! Apologies in advance for this being a long one. If you enjoyed any of these blogs, subscribe to their RSS feed and consider doing your own blog roundups since Google sucks now.

Talkin’ About Old Games

So many folks talked about old games this week that I thought it deserved its own section.

Jefklak’s Codex reviews Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance.

The Genesis Temple goes into the history of the very weird NES game Monster Party.

Badger Trebuchet Diagram No. 17 talks about the old Windows rpg Castle of the Winds.

Final Fantasy VIII Is the Best has been incredible active this last week. I can’t even link to one post because there’s been a ton in the last week. Just go check it out.

Games from the Black Hole praises the Game Boy game Final Fantasy Adventure.

Renga in Blue plays through a text adventure I never heard of, Ship Adventure, from 1982.

The Good Old Days reviews 1996’s Lords of the Realm II.

Dev Logs

Dev logs are the best. I love seeing how people are doing on their games, it allows folks to go into much more details than they could on micro blogging spots, and writing my own has been good motivation for me on my game. Highly recommend doing your own if you’re thinking about it.

David Lindsey Pittman goes into the work he’s doing on Eldritch 2‘s hub spaces and trying to make the game more of an immersive sim.

Meredith Gran is working on the Perfect Tides and talks about writing.

Harris Powell-Smith talks about writing characters for their upcoming interactive fiction game Honor Bound.

Tom talks about making a homebrew game engine for the Dreamcast.

Sarah talks about making a new rpg for the Commodore 64.

Other Stuff

Brianna talks about C++ game engine libs

Prismatic Wasteland has two great posts about playing tabletop rpgs. One is on how to play as a ghost after dying and the other goes into how they let players have vampire characters. Great stuff! Go check out their games.

I keep discovering great music through the Morning Music blog.

The Museum of Screens has an article about how people are porting their old Flash games to Steam.

ghoulnoise has a very lovely post about guitar mods and a few other things.

Indie Tsushin has an interview with ishinoura about the one-dimensional roguelike game Yumeiri.

The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation is looking for a new treasurer and tech officer.

Rob talks about the 1994 horror film Pumpkinhead 2. Did you know this also had a really bad FMV FPS? I don’t recommend it!

Not Blogs

Here’s other things I liked this week that aren’t blogs

Thinky Games published a new games database for puzzle and adventure games. I think super specific databases are nice and often catch things the larger and more general ones don’t.

I have gotten really into Answer Phone lately, my friend’s project where he uploads old cassette and answering machine tapes he finds at thrift stores.

Not new, but POINTCLICKING has a lot of nice adventure game fan art.

It’s another roundup of blog posts I enjoyed reading this last week. If you like these posts, consider subscribing to some of these blog through your RSS feed reader (I use Inoreader and think it’s nice) and consider doing your own roundup since Google Search is busted for discovering new things.

Games

Wraithkal continues doing great work compiling #ScreenshotSaturday posts made on Mastodon.

mojilove talks about the process of translating Operation STEEL on Indie Tsushin.

GB Studio Central published another article in their series on building a Game Boy rpg in GB Studio.

Dante talks about citybuilder design goals. I just really like reading thoughts on citybuilders.

Binary Star Games talks about Phipps23 and worldbuilding in tabletop rpgs.

Gamers with Glasses interviews Adam Vian, creative director of Crow Country.

RSS Feed Readers

I don’t actually like Cory Doctorow, sorry, but I do think people should listen to him when he says you should be using a RSS feed reader. It’s certainly made using the internet a lot more fun for me over the last year.

Crystal talks about RSS feed readers for Linux.

Jared makes a post on rediscovering RSS.

Other Posts

Aura has a very good response to an Ask about enjoying your work.

Katherine Morayati talks about the history of the late 90s network of websites called ChickClick.

Eniko talks about how there is life after Twitter.

I’m still thinking about Cabel Sasser’s talk at XOXO Fest about a giant McDonald’s mural and appreciating things everywhere.

Another collection of blog posts I liked reading this week. If you like these, consider subscribing to the blogs on your RSS feed reader and doing your own roundup posts if you’ve got a site. Google Search is becoming useless now and this is a way people will find new stuff.

Ben Robbins, the creator of tabletop rpgs like Microscope and Kingdom, tells designers to make the games you want to play.

Dante talks about Memoriapolis, a city builder I never heard of but sounds really cool and possibly addresses some of the issues I have with the genre?

Speaking of city builders, badger trebuchet diagram no. 17 posted about Sim City 3000 vaporwave.

I just like when people talk about what they’ve been into lately and Meredith Gran, creator of Perfect Tides, wrote one of those.

The Fungus Zone explains how it’s the year of the games anthology. I’m possibly biased because mine is listed there and I’m working on another right now, but I agree.

Chuck Jordan (Curse of Monkey Island, Telltale’s Sam and Max) has a nice post reflecting on being out for 20 years on National Coming Out Day.

Damien covers the Bay Area Cohost Wake

Ghoulnoise talks about cooking Çılbır, recipe link included. I never had it before but I think it looks great.

The Museum of Screens discusses the various Flappy Bird controversies.

Amiga Boing Blog is a nice blog covering Amiga games. Although personally, I think if your game is called Moose Drive then it should be more interesting than a generic racing game.

Not Blog Posts but here’s some other things

I liked this piece on RogerEbert.com about Megalopolish, the Joker sequel, and how more directors should be allowed to make potential misfires.

Aftermath wrote about how forums are alive and well, and lists a ton of active ones. Personally I’m kind of “hmmmm” about their hesitance on listing forums related to sexuality but gun forums are ok I guess? But I appreciate the enthusiasm and do think forums are nice. If you like talking about DOS games, then I recommend DOS Game Club and IntFiction.org isn’t bad for Interactive Fiction discussion. Data preservation issues aside, I personally find forums to be a lot less overwhelming than something like Discord and wish we could see more people using them.

I think I like doing these more on Sunday instead of Monday, so that will be the schedule for now. If you enjoyed these posts, please subscribe to the blogs you like on your RSS feed reader (or start using one if you don’t, I use Inoreader) and consider doing occasional link roundups on your site. Google search is abysmal now and this is kinda the only way people can discover new places.

We got a few Cohost memorial posts this week from Nicky Flowers, Alex Zandra, Aura, Broken Words, and a post here doing a much better collecting other memorial posts.

Renga in Blue goes into the history of GE to talk about the almost lost 1981 text adventure Raspion Adventure.

Mr. Creosote has a list of “The Best C64 Games.” It’s not my list, don’t argue with me.

Zandra put together a list of recommended Mega Man rom hacks.

The Good Old Days reviews a brand new text adventure called Traffic

Austin talks about life as a musician.

Katherine Morayati talks about a bug in Oregon Trail 2.

Debutniverse talks about a Saturday morning cartoon from 1983 that I never heard of called Saturday Supercade.

Sometimes you want to hear someone talking about what makes a killer car movie good. Here’s a review of 1977’s The Car.

The postcard celebrated its birthday and here’s a post talking about an interesting service called postcrossing.

Not blog posts but:

KRITIQAL talks to game dev Kyou System

startmenu has a great review of Halls of Torment and indie game recommendations.

Indie Games+ interviews the designer of Judero.