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Blog Roundup (2024-09-29)

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I’m not sure when Cohost shuts down posting, other than it being sometime tomorrow, so I’m doing one of these right now before it’s too late. If you enjoy these, please consider doing your own on your blog and subscribing to the blogs you like on your RSS feed reader. Also feel free to leave comments with what you’ve been reading lately.

RobF, of various indie games fame like Death Ray Manta, has started a blog where he reviews the B-movie schlock he’s been watching every night. It’s great. Even as a bad movie enjoyer, I haven’t even heard of most of these.

Meredith Gran, of Octopus Pie and Perfect Tides fame, is doing more posts on her site that give updates on her Perfect Tides sequel and other cool things.

Dante’s post on Star Wars and Star Trek accurately captures my feelings and current relation to both franchises.

erysden has a nice post on the coolness of software rendering

Katherine Morayati talks about a really interesting sounding DOS application from 1991 called lovedos

Priscilla talks about the Conlang they created for the Superbrothers game JETT: The Far Shore

Ben Chandler is working on a new adventure game!

If you’re like me and having second thoughts about using WordPress after all the recent stuff that’s going on with them, this post gives you an option to move to.

Misty has a blog talking about music albums every day and I’ve been discovering cool new stuff to listen to.

Edenwaith talks about how you can implement Steam Achivements in the Mac ports of games made in Adventure Game Student, which may be very relevant to me in the next year.

Wouter has a post on about experiencing old games in new eras.

And here’s some things that I don’t know count as blogs, but are still really cool IMO!

The Imaginary Engine Review has an article about the poetics of endurance and the game OVERWHELM

Paste Magazine has a great article on the underrated Illusion of Gaia

I loved Start Menu’s review of Dread Delusion

Blog Roundup (2024-09-23)

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With us now entering the last week of Cohost posting, I’ve been making an effort to follow more blogs and sites through my RSS feed reader. Here are some I would recommend!

Katherine Morayati has bee posting old postcards and the history behind them in postcardposting one and two.

ALOCASIA is a journal queer plant-based writing and issue #10 just came out. They’re free to read but donations are always appreciated.

Ephemeral Enigmas regularly covers older and more obscure video games. This time it’s about Game Boy game Battle Unit Zeoth.

Interactive fiction writer Andrew Plotkin goes into the history of a sea shanty. It’s maybe not safe for work.

I love personal blogs too. This one is a shorter post on the thoughts when getting into blogging.

If you want to see an example of Tosting, posting directly into the RSS feed so the post doesn’t show up on the site, add this site to your RSS feed reader.

Blog Roundup (2024-16-9)

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Inspired by this post (I know it mentions my blog but that’s not why I’m linking to it), I thought it would be fun to start doing regular roundups of blog and site posts that I enjoyed. I kinda did these before a while ago but I thought it would be good to do them again now that I’m following so many different blogs through my RSS feed now that Cohost is shutting down. Google search sucks now so the only way people can see cool stuff is from others sharing it. So if you enjoy these posts, subscribe to their RSS feeds through your reader of choice.

Eniko reflects on her history with the Ultima franchise and what it means to her on her personal blog.

The developer of classic Macintosh games like Glider and Glypha goes through his history of abandoned games.

I’ve enjoyed following along with David Lindsey Pittman’s blog updates on the development of Eldritch 2. I was a fan of the first game and this looks good too.

Renga in Blue is a blog devoted to attempting to play through every single adventure game in order of release. The most recent post about is about Dungeon Adventure (1982).

Thanks to Cohost, I’ve become aware of the concept of Rosting. They’re posts directly to the RSS feed, meaning they only show up in the feed of your reader and nowhere else. It’s a lot of fun whenever I see one popping into my feed, like it’s a post just for me. If you’d like to see some, consider subscriber to the inventor(?) of Rosting, Adam Ledoux’s (Bitsy creator) blog, and Nicky Flowers on your RSS feed.

Misty has a very good post about some fonts that were on a floppy disk.

Indie Tsushin has an interview with the developer of Missile Dancer 2.

Gretchen has a post about how the internet is getting worse. Maybe we can all work together to make it a little better and feel less small.