Jacob Heayes 🎮🎥✒️
@heyimjaycob.bsky.social
Games Certification at BFI + Curator 🎮 | prev. Media Molecule | Co-Host and Creator of Don't Stop Recording Podcast 📸 | Writer (BFI, Edge, Total Film) ✍️ | BAFTA Connect Member 🌟
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Open call for artists/devs!
I've been helping the lovely folks at New House Art Space in Guildford with an exhibition on Sidney Sime's fantasy artwork & their aesthetic impact in the digital. We're looking for exhibition submissions - art, writing, tiny games??
DM if any Qs, details below!
I've been helping the lovely folks at New House Art Space in Guildford with an exhibition on Sidney Sime's fantasy artwork & their aesthetic impact in the digital. We're looking for exhibition submissions - art, writing, tiny games??
DM if any Qs, details below!
Love the high-concept pitch of RUN TAVERNQUEST: what if you controlled a text parser desperately trying to stop a player from breaking the DOS adventure game you call home?
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Save 15% on Run TavernQuest on Steam
A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE. Parse the player's enigmatic commands and decide how NPCs react to him. Who knew t...
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January 27, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Love the high-concept pitch of RUN TAVERNQUEST: what if you controlled a text parser desperately trying to stop a player from breaking the DOS adventure game you call home?
store.steampowered.com/app/808610/R...
store.steampowered.com/app/808610/R...
Absurdly impressive feat of engineering. Imagine bunking off during Year 6 IT and tabbing between The Impossible Quiz and *Super Monkey Ball*.
I ported Super Monkey Ball to a website.
You can access it in the replies.
(or just type what you see in the video, I'm not your boss.)
You can access it in the replies.
(or just type what you see in the video, I'm not your boss.)
January 27, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Absurdly impressive feat of engineering. Imagine bunking off during Year 6 IT and tabbing between The Impossible Quiz and *Super Monkey Ball*.
Feel like that oyster jump cut in the new Industry singlehandedly rescuscitated my enthusiasm for the moving image.
January 26, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Feel like that oyster jump cut in the new Industry singlehandedly rescuscitated my enthusiasm for the moving image.
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28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE is *absolutely* the cinematic equivalent of story DLC and I couldn't be happier about it. Rarely does a sequel opt to magnify peripheral aspects of its predecessor rather than simply pursue the same narrative further. Grisly and metal as hell.
January 19, 2026 at 2:45 PM
28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE is *absolutely* the cinematic equivalent of story DLC and I couldn't be happier about it. Rarely does a sequel opt to magnify peripheral aspects of its predecessor rather than simply pursue the same narrative further. Grisly and metal as hell.
Relished this moving reflection (har har) on one of my all-time favourites: www.designroom.site/mirrors-edge...
Mirror's Edge: An oral history
17 years on from its release, DICE's first-person parkour thriller is a cult classic. We spoke to nine people who worked on it about how the revelatory game came to be.
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January 14, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Relished this moving reflection (har har) on one of my all-time favourites: www.designroom.site/mirrors-edge...
Shout-out to the BFI video team for their trailer for the David Lynch season. Pretty much had me crying before the Blue Velvet screening even started. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnKx...
David Lynch: The Dreamer | A BFI Retrospective
YouTube video by BFI
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January 14, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Shout-out to the BFI video team for their trailer for the David Lynch season. Pretty much had me crying before the Blue Velvet screening even started. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnKx...
best film I watched in 2025 btw. UK pals: run, don't walk etc.
Bi Gan's Resurrection has been dated 13 March in the UK & Ireland.
January 13, 2026 at 12:50 PM
best film I watched in 2025 btw. UK pals: run, don't walk etc.
INDUSTRY S4E1: a crossfade between two almighty needle-drops, storylines with thrilling immediacy to real-world developments, an ensemble on top form with exciting new additions and a memorable deployment of 'sesquipedalian'. Secretly the best show airing continues to level up.
January 12, 2026 at 2:40 PM
INDUSTRY S4E1: a crossfade between two almighty needle-drops, storylines with thrilling immediacy to real-world developments, an ensemble on top form with exciting new additions and a memorable deployment of 'sesquipedalian'. Secretly the best show airing continues to level up.
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i miss when this guy was the only LLM
a man in a suit is holding a pink object
ALT: a man in a suit is holding a pink object
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January 7, 2026 at 3:32 AM
i miss when this guy was the only LLM
Excited to kick off 2026 with my first contrarian take: The Smashing Machine is (slightly) superior to Marty Supreme.
January 5, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Excited to kick off 2026 with my first contrarian take: The Smashing Machine is (slightly) superior to Marty Supreme.
Finally getting round to Baby Steps, a game that I'd best describe as Tim Robinson doing one of those straight line expedition videos. Peak.
December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Finally getting round to Baby Steps, a game that I'd best describe as Tim Robinson doing one of those straight line expedition videos. Peak.
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Enjoying redacted document pages in your timeline? Why not take control of them in my fun mobile game! mrgan.com/blackbar/
Blackbar
A text game about censorship, by Neven Mrgan & James Moore.
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December 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Enjoying redacted document pages in your timeline? Why not take control of them in my fun mobile game! mrgan.com/blackbar/
I'd put Eliza in my visual novel hall-of-fame, without question. It's hauntingly prescient and delicately empathetic. Posits massive existential questions without robbing the player of the joy in excavating their own answers.
Eliza is 50% off. It’s a fully-voiced visual novel about an AI therapy app. It was released in 2019, years before the idea of AI became what it is now. How much did it get right? What did it get wrong? Play it for yourself (play the whole thing) and decide.
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Save 50% on Eliza on Steam
Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the ...
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December 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I'd put Eliza in my visual novel hall-of-fame, without question. It's hauntingly prescient and delicately empathetic. Posits massive existential questions without robbing the player of the joy in excavating their own answers.
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Announcing the nominees for the 2025 Thinky Awards! 🎉
Announcing the nominees for the 2025 Thinky Awards! · Thinky Games
Our annual awards show is returning for another year: you can now see the nominees in every category and cast your vote for the various audience awards.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Announcing the nominees for the 2025 Thinky Awards! 🎉
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When people trot out 'no-one can remember any names from Avatar' I can think of like 5 or 6 just off the dome
Well add 1 more to that because this is Varang and I think she owns a part of me now. James Cameron is really a genius at this stuff but also gotta respect how horny he is all the time
Well add 1 more to that because this is Varang and I think she owns a part of me now. James Cameron is really a genius at this stuff but also gotta respect how horny he is all the time
December 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
When people trot out 'no-one can remember any names from Avatar' I can think of like 5 or 6 just off the dome
Well add 1 more to that because this is Varang and I think she owns a part of me now. James Cameron is really a genius at this stuff but also gotta respect how horny he is all the time
Well add 1 more to that because this is Varang and I think she owns a part of me now. James Cameron is really a genius at this stuff but also gotta respect how horny he is all the time
we are so back
December 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
we are so back
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Seeing people in the comments saying that To a T was unfun and essentially that he deserves this if he can't make a good game.
Gamers, I don't know how else to say this, artists are not supposed to be punished with financial ruin for making imperfect art. That's such a fucked up idea you have
Gamers, I don't know how else to say this, artists are not supposed to be punished with financial ruin for making imperfect art. That's such a fucked up idea you have
Keita Takahashi (Katamari, Wattam, Noby Noby Boy) has moved back to Japan, and says he may be forced to quit the games industry due to To a T underperforming.
He also says he'd love to work on Katamari again, and for someone to invest in his studio.
(Read more at GamesRadar)
He also says he'd love to work on Katamari again, and for someone to invest in his studio.
(Read more at GamesRadar)
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Seeing people in the comments saying that To a T was unfun and essentially that he deserves this if he can't make a good game.
Gamers, I don't know how else to say this, artists are not supposed to be punished with financial ruin for making imperfect art. That's such a fucked up idea you have
Gamers, I don't know how else to say this, artists are not supposed to be punished with financial ruin for making imperfect art. That's such a fucked up idea you have
Rob Reiner: a generational spec-script filmmaker whose flexibility behind the camera conjured a string of totemic films, often synecdoches for their genres. Peculiar and tragic that their talents rarely equate to a spot on all-timer director lists. I hope that changes.
December 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Rob Reiner: a generational spec-script filmmaker whose flexibility behind the camera conjured a string of totemic films, often synecdoches for their genres. Peculiar and tragic that their talents rarely equate to a spot on all-timer director lists. I hope that changes.
Irreversible is never getting watched again.
Threads too tbh - one of the unholiest endings brought to screen.
Threads too tbh - one of the unholiest endings brought to screen.
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Irreversible is never getting watched again.
Threads too tbh - one of the unholiest endings brought to screen.
Threads too tbh - one of the unholiest endings brought to screen.
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i see a lot of people posting about HORSES but i would also like to encourage people to pick up No Players Online, which got taken off steam for a false DMCA claim during the vital first 2 weeks, putting the studio in serious financial jeopardy store.steampowered.com/app/2701800/...
No Players Online on Steam
you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
i see a lot of people posting about HORSES but i would also like to encourage people to pick up No Players Online, which got taken off steam for a false DMCA claim during the vital first 2 weeks, putting the studio in serious financial jeopardy store.steampowered.com/app/2701800/...
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Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf
December 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf
Look Back by Kore-eda is going to go absolutely nuclear, my god.
December 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Look Back by Kore-eda is going to go absolutely nuclear, my god.
Who doesn't love a jolly compliation for the festive season? Simogo's earlier games bundled together, remastered, on the go. Better than a box of Quality Street.
Simogo Legacy Collection is OUT NOW
15th anniversary = 15% launch discount
Steam
s.team/a/3817040
Nintendo Switch
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Nintendo Switch 2
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
15th anniversary = 15% launch discount
Steam
s.team/a/3817040
Nintendo Switch
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Nintendo Switch 2
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Who doesn't love a jolly compliation for the festive season? Simogo's earlier games bundled together, remastered, on the go. Better than a box of Quality Street.