Here’s a collection of blogs and other sites I enjoy reading. It’s not perfect in the categorization and people often write about more than just the one category I put them under but I hope you find some cool stuff! If you don’t recognize some of the names, I tried putting what they’re most known for next to them. A lot of these have RSS feeds as well and I recommend using a RSS feed reader (I use Inoreader) to keep updated on posts.

Buttons

Looks at all these cool 88×31 buttons! If you have one, let me know so I can add it to this page. Even I made one! Consider using this to link to my page.

Now here are the ones by other folks:

     

I have more buttons not related to websites at the very bottom of the page that I just like looking at. And here’s some more wonderful sites!

Video Game Creators
Dust Scratch Games – Drew and the Floating Labyrinth
Graceless Games – Beautycopter, Funny Walk
Lobdegg – The Aching
Michigan Game Studios Database – Links to games studios in Michigan
Moosader – Developer of Playdate games
Nathalie Lawhead – Electric Zine Maker, BlueSuburbia
peat!!! – Game dev and pixel art
Quinn K. – An Outcry, There Swings a Skull
Ron Gilbert – Monkey Island, Putt-Putt, Thimbleweed Park
Stuffed Wombat – PRODUCER 2021, 10mg: Always Down
Taylor McCue – He Fucked the Girl Out of Me, Do I Pass?
TouLouTouMou – Web games, also made the Museum of Screens!
Troisnyx – Composer for games like Revita and Ley Lines
Voxel – Developer of games for retro platforms

Games Crit and Writing
Critical Distance – Provides a weekly roundup of good writing in games
Dirigitive – Indie games
The Genesis Temple – Site that leans towards covering obscure games history
GlitchOut – Blog about alternative game experiences
Indie Hell Zone – Indie game focused blog
LotusLovesLotus – Indie games
No Escape – Site focused on games crit and digital culture
Press Play Gaming – Games coverage leaning more towards indie games
SideQuesting – Game review site and podcast
SpindleyQ – Blog about older games and programming
Unwinnable – Culture crit and monthly digital magazine

Interactive Fiction
Andrew Plotkin – Developer of games like Hadean Lands and Shade
Emily Short – Developer of Galatea and Counterfeit Monkey
Renga in Blue – Person attempting to play every adventure game from the beginning

Retro Gaming
Bally Alley – Website dedicated to the Bally Astrocade console/computer
DOS Game Club – Monthly club focused on DOS game discussion

Artists
dr!p – Artist focused on pixel art
Rayne Klar – Creator of zines and other great art

TTRPGs
Dinoberry Press – Creator of ttrpgs like Justicar, Sprouts, and Dinocar
fdisk – Endure, Dead Memories
Gem Room Games – Dukk Borg, Subway Runners
Good Luck Press – Creators of Torq, Black Mass, Dwelling
HydroForge Games – Hannukah goblins
James Chip – The Adventurer, Equa!
Peregrine Coast Press – Filmmakers Without Cameras
Prismatic Wasteland – Creator of Barkeep on the Borderlands
Kaden Ramstack – Haunted Doll Posse, Un-Navigatable
Tablecat Games Forever King, Street Wolves
Totrpg – Solo ttrpg reviewer and Actual Play actor

Poetry
Alocasia – journal of queer plant-based writing
Beestung – quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers and readers

Technology
Computer Chronicles Revisited – Review of the classic PBS show about technology
The Future is Now – Posts about games preservation