In last week’s post I said it was snowing for the first time this season. Yesterday it reached a high of 65 (C or F, I’ll let you decide). For the first time in a while, my RSS feed reader has actually been cleared out. I like to do these because it just helps make the internet feel a little less small when the general narrative seems to be “the internet is a few social media websites and discsord.” A few websites have been celebrating big anniversaries too and it has been nice to see websites post about how they are 10/20/30 years old. Even this one is already 3 years old, which isn’t much but still feels weird.
Anyway, maybe you’ll feel like adding some of these to your RSS feed reader or start your own website.
Video Games
Gaming Alexandria turned 10! If you have an interest in video game preservation, poke around and check out all the items they’ve uploaded over the years.
There was some annoying discourse kicked off by someone I don’t care for on Bluesky earlier this week about dialogue choices but it did result in Jon Ingold from Inkle, who does know what he’s talking about when it comes to this kind of thing, writing a brief defence of dialogue choices. So I guess it wasn’t a total waste of time.
Possessor(s) (Steam) came out this last week and there have been a few folks writing about their work on the game and celebrating the rest of the team since the studio was also hit with layoffs before the game shipped. They still receive revenue sharing so this isn’t an instance of a studio trying to screw people over. It’s just been an incredibly hard time for everyone in video games. Anyway, I recommend reading Celebrating the Possessor(s) team and Possessors has released!
The very good fan site Final Fantasy VIII is the Best is still going and receiving regular updates. This week was PuPu week so it’s just been posts about that thing.
The Space Quest fansite Roger Wilco’s Virtual Broomcloset turned 30 this month and has been celebrating with updates and posts, including a history of the canceled Space Quest 7 and a 3D platformer reboot that was attempted in the early 00s.
Someone recently asked about how I find out about indie games and aside from spending too much time on social media, I just have a lot of sites in my RSS feed reader. So here’s a random shoutout to various sites I follow and links to posts from them this last week:
- Warp Door did a roundup of various indies from October
- Indie Hive reviewed puzzle game Tiny Lands 2.
- Six One Indie has an upcoming awards show, but they also post about indie game releases like sticker book sim Little Corners
- Wraithkal constantly covers indie games and events like the upcoming Winter Visual Novel Jam
- No Small Games had an October indie game roundup on their podcast.
- Indie Hell Zone is doing a playthrough of Noel: The Mortal Fate
- Adventure Game Hotspot regularly posts upcoming adventure game announcements like The Murder of Ava Munroe and shows the genre is very active.
- I also just like to check the Adventure Game Database regularly to see what’s been added.
So there’s a random handful of sites posting things just this last week about games I never heard of and they’re all covering very different things.
TTRPGs
From the Hart has a post recommending 8 RPGs you could be playing RIGHT NOW
Music
Morning Music is a blog I love that regularly posts what they’re listening to that morning and it’s almost always stuff I never heard of but really like. The most recent post is about Yellow Fang – แค่เพียง.
Dev Logs
I like reading posts about how projects are coming along. Here’s some:
- Michael Coorlim posts about how they’ll do a video on Space Quest 2 soon and has an update on their platformer Vault of the Plutocrat. They also have an update on a separate blog for their Small Games Done Fast project.
- I’m really looking forward to the upcoming BioMenace remaster
- Julia’s The Crimson Gazette has updates on her recent projects and nice pictures of mushrooms.
Food
I get excited anytime someone I follow posts a recipe so to encourage that, here’s a recipe for confetti soup.
Tech
Here, have an invoice for an IBM computer from 1994.
Yaffle does a very nice roundup of posts on other websites.
Vintage Computing and Gaming turns 20, which I suppose makes it vintage as well, and reflects on the complicated feelings they now have about new technology.
If you enjoy computer history, may I recommend the Computer Chronicles Revisited Podcast?
That’s it for this week. I hope you found something you enjoyed reading and it inspires you to post on your own website.