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dr kieran cutting
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Transforming futures of relationships, power, and work at fractals co-op. Researcher, designer, facilitator, writer, poet, games designer. Former indie publisher at EXIT Press. they/them
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dr kieran cutting @kierancutting.bsky.social · Apr 1
Do you like lyric games and meta games? Did you think the problem with The Beginner's Guide / The Stanley Parable was that they didn't have enough layers? Do you like late-night Wikipedia binges that only make sense to you?

My new 'game' is free for one day only:

xenolight.itch.io/chaos-magic
Chaos Magic by xenolight
A lyric game about losing yourself in your best friend or lover
xenolight.itch.io
kierancutting.bsky.social
I was super excited to see that this year's @goldencobra.bsky.social theme is "Connection and Community". I feel like I mostly make social technology games, so this is my jam.

Here's a game I made a few years ago to help end the year with purpose.

kierancutting.co.uk/blog/a-game-...
A game or ritual to end the year
Welcome to THE DYING LIGHT
kierancutting.co.uk
September 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
kierancutting.bsky.social
The cold dark months can be hard. Your friends with seasonal depression are about to really struggle, and you're going to find it a lot harder to leave the house.

That's why you need to start playing The Roasties. Because there's nothing roast potatoes won't solve.

xenolight.itch.io/the-roasties
The cover of an 8 page zine called "The Roasties, or surviving the cold dark months with your friends". There is a picture of a pile of roast potatoes on the front.
September 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
kierancutting.bsky.social
Right now, the ?game? described as "holy shit","absolutely incredible work", and also "I don't understand this" is part of a FREE bundle with 146 other zines. That's crazy! You could have so many zines!

(go ?play? Chaos Magic omg)

xenolight.itch.io/chaos-magic
A comment from user frymynoodles on itch.io saying "Holy shit. Absolutely incredible work."
September 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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bethmakesgames.bsky.social
We have a FREE bundle of 147 zines from 63 creators (including us 🧡), and you can get it all through September 14th!

itch.io/b/3247/free-...
September 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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rowanpierce.uk
Completely fascinated by this piece.

I love the way it invites you to do deep exploration – both within the text and outside the text – without actually *demanding* anything of you.
kierancutting.bsky.social dr kieran cutting @kierancutting.bsky.social · Apr 1
Do you like lyric games and meta games? Did you think the problem with The Beginner's Guide / The Stanley Parable was that they didn't have enough layers? Do you like late-night Wikipedia binges that only make sense to you?

My new 'game' is free for one day only:

xenolight.itch.io/chaos-magic
Chaos Magic by xenolight
A lyric game about losing yourself in your best friend or lover
xenolight.itch.io
August 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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oliverbates.co.uk
Me, Caleb, and @kierancutting.bsky.social have been working to evolve Meal Deal from research through design artefact to a something we might sell.

Find Caleb and enjoy the latest(ish) version! Sadly kieran and I can’t be there this year.

Og version is here: oliverbates.itch.io/meal-deal
July 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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shop.peregrinecoast.press
We’re at the Corn Exchange in Leeds today - come pick up some books we recently brought back from the land of the paper-freaks and the book perverts
June 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
kierancutting.bsky.social
We're thinking about developing a playtesting recruitment service, bringing together our expertise as researchers and games designers.

Designers: would you use it? What are your current struggles with recruiting play testers or getting playtest feedback?
#games #ttrpg #gamesdesign
June 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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pfwgames.bsky.social
Speculative praxis
June 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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pfwgames.bsky.social
@kierancutting.bsky.social giving the last talk of the day, ‘Rituals for building futures’
June 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
kierancutting.bsky.social
Today I’m speaking at Multiplatform on our work using games as part of “speculative praxis” - using creativity to experimentally act towards creating more possibilities (for a better future).

Then, later today, I’ll be hosting an exclusive pop up of A NEW VERSION OF THE MUSEUM OF LOST FUTURES?!
A photograph of a conference programme describing the Museum of Lost Futures. The text is available at https://links.fractals.coop/Multiplatform
June 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
kierancutting.bsky.social
Another launch from me today, just before Easter!

Originally written at the height of LOST FUTURES but never released, Dreaming Spires is a psyschogeographic sort-of-true story about healing by revisiting the parts of ourselves that we cut off.

xenolight.itch.io/dreaming-spi...
Dreaming Spires - a LOST FUTURES zine by xenolight
I’m not stupid. I know this is going to be some kind of alternate universe shit.
xenolight.itch.io
April 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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oliverbates.co.uk
It's devlog Monday! SCREW THAT needed a little bit of context adding to the little game. oliverbates.itch.io/screw-that/d...

#indiegames #devlog #solorpg #ttrpg
a little splash of context
–– v0.9 update –– Today I’ve uploaded a slightly updated version of the game today after talking with Ben. Whilst we thought the tone of the previous version was spot on, it did lack the ack...
oliverbates.itch.io
April 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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oliverbates.co.uk
Free print at home copies of Meal Deal can be found on @itch.io here oliverbates.itch.io/meal-deal
Meal Deal by oliver bates
A Gig Economy Courier Card Game
oliverbates.itch.io
January 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
kierancutting.bsky.social
two days left to get all my stuff on itch for just $2!

itch.io/s/150744/eve...
Everything’s a dollar by xenolight
A bundle by xenolight, $2.00 for LOST FUTURES volumes 1–4, Chaos Magic
itch.io
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
kierancutting.bsky.social
There’s something coming soon for those of you who were fans of LOST FUTURES…
April 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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kierancutting.bsky.social
Fun fact about Chaos Magic, is that whilst it's a 'game', there actually IS a game that I wrote a while back that shares an opening segment with it.

So please enjoy this incredibly beautiful character sheet. I'll definitely finish this sometime soon.

xenolight.itch.io/chaos-magic
It is the hot, wet summer after your final year of school. Your group of friends is turning in on itself. Moments of celebration quickly turn to tears on the beach; new couples form and old ones disintegrate in the face of the biggest change you’ve ever known. It is a time of getting round to what you never had, of not being able to put things off any longer. There's chaos magic in the air: the tiniest hints of revolution, the seeds of people reinventing themselves for the year to come. Everyone is thirsty for the idea of change, but their lips are chapped and their hearts beat nervously. Around you, your country is enraptured. People are baring their teeth at each other’s throats, hungry for the blood of Another. Everything is teetering on the brink. Almost as if from nowhere, They die. The person who held your group together, the social glue. The person who made you feel certain that you all would come back together after you came back from uni, or that you’d meet up after you started your new jobs. The person that made you think you weren’t just friends for now. A character sheet for The Last Day, asking descriptive questions like "Why is our relationship complicated?" and "Why do you keep risking yourself for me?"
April 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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kierancutting.bsky.social
Right now, every issue of LOST FUTURES - worlds that could have been, should have been, or weren't - is available for $2, in a bundle with my new zine/game Chaos Magic.

itch.io/s/150744/eve...
Everything’s a dollar by xenolight
A bundle by xenolight, $2.00 for LOST FUTURES volumes 1–4, Chaos Magic
itch.io
April 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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kierancutting.bsky.social
Finally getting round to editing a zine from four years ago...
Two pages of a zine in an editor view in InDesign. On each side of the paper, there are two buildings. between them is text that isn't really intended to be read right now, but is about privilege and Oxford and being scared.
April 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
kierancutting.bsky.social
Finally getting round to editing a zine from four years ago...
Two pages of a zine in an editor view in InDesign. On each side of the paper, there are two buildings. between them is text that isn't really intended to be read right now, but is about privilege and Oxford and being scared.
April 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
kierancutting.bsky.social
Fun fact about Chaos Magic, is that whilst it's a 'game', there actually IS a game that I wrote a while back that shares an opening segment with it.

So please enjoy this incredibly beautiful character sheet. I'll definitely finish this sometime soon.

xenolight.itch.io/chaos-magic
It is the hot, wet summer after your final year of school. Your group of friends is turning in on itself. Moments of celebration quickly turn to tears on the beach; new couples form and old ones disintegrate in the face of the biggest change you’ve ever known. It is a time of getting round to what you never had, of not being able to put things off any longer. There's chaos magic in the air: the tiniest hints of revolution, the seeds of people reinventing themselves for the year to come. Everyone is thirsty for the idea of change, but their lips are chapped and their hearts beat nervously. Around you, your country is enraptured. People are baring their teeth at each other’s throats, hungry for the blood of Another. Everything is teetering on the brink. Almost as if from nowhere, They die. The person who held your group together, the social glue. The person who made you feel certain that you all would come back together after you came back from uni, or that you’d meet up after you started your new jobs. The person that made you think you weren’t just friends for now. A character sheet for The Last Day, asking descriptive questions like "Why is our relationship complicated?" and "Why do you keep risking yourself for me?"
April 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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zaranosaur.bsky.social
My small disabled-led social justice transcription biz branding is still very much geared towards supporting researchers as we do that spectacularly

HOWEVER!

I am so keen to support more authors who dictate manuscripts (especially disabled ones)

Email us for a quote?

#Romancelandia #BookSky
aat-transcribes.bsky.social Academic Audio Transcription Ltd @aat-transcribes.bsky.social · Mar 31
We offer a range of services at different rates so that you can choose the best option for your project's needs & budget – and if you can pay full price, you help cover the cost of projects with less access to funds.

Request a quote today at academicaudiotranscription.com/our-prices 🎧
April 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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peregrinecoast.press
Inside me there are two wolves: dirty commie organiser who does not believe in proletarian shifts towards business ownership, and the other is a small business owner and massive fucking nerd about commerce
April 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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maxhaiven.bsky.social
An opportunity for game players-, makers-, thinkers- and organizers to come together on 11 July to ask:
** What is the Antifascist Game? **
Organized by RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab in conjunction with this year's Games Transformed Festival
Please join us!
reimaginingvalue.ca/antifagame/
What is the Antifascist Game? - RiVAL
Join us on July 11 in London for a one-day symposium, in conjunction with the 2025 Games Transformed festival
reimaginingvalue.ca
March 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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gamestransformed.bsky.social
Save the date.
12/07/25

#gamestransformed #gamesfestival #radicalgames
April 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM