Cool Site Zone

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:

link to golfshrine online with a picture of a golfer link to the obscuritory with a magnifying and I think super nintendo link to indie tsushin with a penguin that has a mallot text saying cd-rom journal and a cd-rom text saying text saying erysdren and stars behind it Naidje's Page  damien dot zone ToulouToumou Fungus Zone meltknuckles badge creepingforscalemodels dhippo.net scummvm the green herring adam le doux dot net dos game club internet archive homestar runner It's me lily v Polar Bear Summer greg kennedy kritiqal kai cohost blogroll small gray games Yaffle ash kyd kokoscript megkendev decker

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
Bobbins’ Olde Tomb Of Videogames – Regular updates on exciting new indie games
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
KRITIQAL – covers games as political instruments, artistic statements, and cultural objects
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