My first blog roundup of Blaugust, the month long event where folks try to make a little blog post every day (not it’s not required for participation in blaugust). It’s been fun seeing folks I already follow jumping in, even unofficially. I recommend these blogs!

• LunarLoony
• Syl’s Blog
• The Works of Egan
• Yaffle
• Megan Carnes
• Turgon
• coffee spills
• renkon
• dhippo
• theTangentSpace

If I forgot your blog, please excuse my screwup and let me know so I can follow it too!

The Obscuritory did its first post about a game in years and I’m so excited! I never even heard of The Tone Rebellion.

Indie Tsushin is back!

I haven’t even heard of many of the Games Aura’s Playing and that’s awesome.

I also love to hear about marketing adventure games and just stuff along those lines, so here’s exodrifter talking about No Signal.

I think if you’ve been following my blog then you are used to me telling you to see a RSS feed reader, but here’s a very good intro guide to them for you to share with friends.

It looks like Myst Online has a bunch of events organized by the community coming up this week! Just a reminder that Myst Online is absolutely free to play.

Do tumblr posts count as blog posts? Maybe? Anyway, here’s a good post on Ultima Underworld.

It’s not a blog post about I liked this video on The Hidden Origin of Artillery Games.

Also not a blog post but I like this website on why you should leave Substack and alternatives you can move to.

I’ve joked sometimes on social media about how there needs to be an Internet 2 because of how crappy the modern internet has become, but I just learned about the Gemini protocol, which is maybe not The Internet 2 but a fun thing to noodle with, thanks to this blog post. I’ve downloaded Lagrange, which seems like the recommended application for looking at these pages and started poking around. I think it’s pretty neat so far, even if I have no idea what I’m doing. If you have a page, I guess let me know? I’ve found a few pages from people I know but I’m always looking for more to bookmark since I’m still learning how to navigate this. I would also appreciate any tutorials on how to make your own page so I can do my own.

If folks weren’t aware, Steam and Itch.io have been delisting adult games on their stores due to pressure from Mastercard and Visa. This has impacted many games, even games that are not porn but just have adult themes. That said, even if it just impacted erotica it would still be bad, because I think people should have access to that too. Fortunately, it seems like there is a way to fight back and help out game developers. People have been calling Mastercard, VISA, and Stripe to complain and it seems like it’s starting to work. It will take days of doing this to make a change though, so here are places you can call to complain and take up their phonelines and costing them time and money in the process until they ease off Itch.io and Steam.

If you’re able to help out, here is a page listing phone numbers you can call and petitions to sign. It sounds like some folks at Mastercard and VISA are telling people to email instead but please keep calling. Emails just allow them to filter out things they don’t want and phone calls clog up the phone lines.

No indie game roundup today. Was caught off guard by all the Itch adult games stuff (and also just schoolwork tbh) and will probably talk about that later if I have anything interesting to say about it about than it sucks and makes me sad. Blaugust is coming up, the month long challenge where folks try to do a blog post every day (even short ones are fine), and I had been thinking quite a while about how I was going to have posts about FMV games every day. Even scheduled a few. Then all the adult games stuff happened with itch and I think the rest of the month will be me finally uploading all the games I’ve made to here and talking about them a little bit, and highlighting some adult games for visibility. That seems fine!