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Featured Posts

A short history of Flash & the forgotten Flash Website movement (when websites were “the new emerging artform”)
The Flash game movement, my early Flash work, and how Flash games informed what we have in indie games today…
About desktop pets & virtual companions: discussing the inhabitants that fill the void of our digital spaces
The wonderful world of tools made by small teams, solo-devs, and shareware (weird, beautiful, and experimental things to be creative in + an analysis on building for approachability)
More from the wonderful world of tools by small devs, shareware, and freeware (art tools, music tools, and toys to create with)
on UI design & using UI as a means to tell a story, convey emotion, create personality… an in-depth look…
A “10 years of experimental work” retrospective: does being a gamer automatically mean toxic fandom, and can anything be done to break away from that?
games as found objects & virtual relics
walking sims and the joy of existing in a virtual space
the future of my games on Apple (post-Catalina) and what this means for art games in general
IndieCade Europe Keynote: Addressing abuse in our communities and how can we move forward (full transcript)
My Full Indie Summit 2018 slides & talk transcript (Art Games & Speaking Your Truth)
GDC Talk Transcript: Alternative Paths in Indie Dev
“Abusing you was by the book” (documenting two years of abuse from Game Journalism, after sharing my #metoo… the whole painful story all in one place)
What it’s like sharing your #metoo with Kotaku (a cautionary tale)
An open letter to game journalists: #metoo, fighting with surviving abusive reporting, and the fallout of not caring
Cecilia D’Anastasio’s journalism is rape culture in a nutshell, and you all really need to start giving a shit about what this has done to survivors…
why are the lives of those that spoke up so worthless to you, but you so readily protect the abusers? (commenting on everything)
Killing us slowly – When your allyship stops short of doing the hard thing, when your solidarity turns against the people you once said you believe
“Relax, babe. It’s just business.” – Game Journalism
Surviving video game journalism (another post on journalism’s aversion to accountability, and addressing concerns about “the precedence” that humanizing sexual assault survivors sets)
Asking Kotaku for accountability, a collection of my threads (cries for help) all in one convenient place…

Recent Posts

  • Celebrating some beautiful jam games <3
  • A curation of beautiful thoughtful poetic silly and queer zines made with the Electric Zine Maker
  • The GDevelop Game Jam #3 is here (with prizes!) and I’m honored to be a judge…
  • The open-source no-code world of GDevelop (if you miss browser Flash games, this is keeping that dream alive!)
  • Exploring the beautiful worlds of games made with “RPG in a Box”
  • The Joy of Silly Useless Software
  • MoMA’s “Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design” Exhibit & The Hopeful Future of Video Game Preservation
  • When software makes you laugh! (…creativity as a mechanic, how it exists in games, and the ethics of either empowering or exploiting creation)
  • BlueSuburbia Progress Update (screenshots of what I’m working on)
  • “Abusing you was by the book” (documenting two years of abuse from Game Journalism, after sharing my #metoo… the whole painful story all in one place)
  • Liminal Fever Dreams & Rejecting the Player (the surrealist, strange, upsetting otherworlds of video games)
  • “Everything is going to be OK” is in THE collection in MoMA (also Tetrageddon won the Webby)
  • Photogammetry, Meshroom, and Blender (some learning resources that helped me)
  • Use, participation, visibility, and anti-artificial scarcity… How small independent tools help us construct a reality that empowers us (something of a manifesto)
  • Tetrageddon.com is officially a Webby Nominee (and Honoree)!

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