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deptofmeteors

@deptofmeteors.bsky.social

Paper Labyrinths is such a good podcast with such insightful conversations that, even having spent over two years talking with @meredithgran.com about Perfect Tides: Station to Station, I still hit play the minute it appeared in my feed.

brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.com · 1d

This month on PAPER LABYRINTHS, @nictringali.bsky.social and I talk with @meredithgran.com about her new game Perfect Tides: Station to Station, as well as making comics, satisfying endings, and the power of time and place.

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February 1, 2026 at 5:11 PM

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Meredith Gran

@meredithgran.com

I had a lot of fun talking to Brendan and Nic about finishing games, finishing Octopus Pie, embarking on big life changes... we went all over!

brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.com · 1d

This month on PAPER LABYRINTHS, @nictringali.bsky.social and I talk with @meredithgran.com about her new game Perfect Tides: Station to Station, as well as making comics, satisfying endings, and the power of time and place.

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February 1, 2026 at 3:38 PM

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brendan mordheim

@brendanmcleod.com

This month on PAPER LABYRINTHS, @nictringali.bsky.social and I talk with @meredithgran.com about her new game Perfect Tides: Station to Station, as well as making comics, satisfying endings, and the power of time and place.

sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...

February 1, 2026 at 1:26 PM

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cmrn knzlmn

@ckunzelman.bsky.social

we forgot to talk about it in the episode but he admits that Donkey Kong defies categorization and typology

Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 2d

In the 90th episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, we journey all the way back to 1984 to discuss the first published textbook on video game development, Atari legend Chris Crawford's pointed, prescient, and idiosyncratic THE ART OF COMPUTER GAME DESIGN: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/31/9...

January 31, 2026 at 3:30 PM

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Eli Valley

@elivalley.bsky.social

Everybody who perpetrated this while covering it up should be in the Hague

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The staff reported seeing a human femur and other bones on the roads, dead bodies abandoned in cars and “catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water.”
But the U.S. ambassador to Jerusalem, Jack Lew, and his deputy, Stephanie Hallett, blocked the cable from wider distribution within the United States government because they believed it lacked balance, according to interviews with four former officials and documents seen by Reuters.

January 30, 2026 at 8:40 PM

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nic tringali

@nictringali.bsky.social

the most complex piece of interface in this game is the tooltip, unquestionably

January 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM

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brendan mordheim

@brendanmcleod.com

(very quietly in the back of the room) goals

January 29, 2026 at 10:47 PM

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brendan mordheim

@brendanmcleod.com

Can you hear that? That ghastly wheeze? That wet thump? That can only be the sound of LAST RITES and ICHOR-DROWNED being added to the Rowan Rook & Decard website shop for digital purchase!

January 29, 2026 at 8:40 PM

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nic tringali

@nictringali.bsky.social

I am speaking at FÍS Games this year!! I am very excited, if you’re able to attend come through and check it out!

Ardán @ardan-ie.bsky.social · 4d

As we announce the first round of tickets for FÍS Games Summit 2026, we are excited to share that Game Designer and Director @nictringali.bsky.social will be one of our guest speakers on the day! The Summit will again be hosted at the Radisson RED in Galway on April 24th.

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January 28, 2026 at 6:08 PM

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Meredith Gran

@meredithgran.com

Wrote a post on my blog today about some of the people who helped make Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

It's not a complete list, but I hope you'll join me in awestruck gratitude. This game required a lot of hearts and minds.

meredithgran.com/post-release...

Post-Release Acknowledgments - Meredith Gran

Perfect Tides: Station to Station has been out for 1 week today. To my surprise, it has taken a long time to recover physically from the long sprint

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January 29, 2026 at 6:42 PM

nic tringali

@nictringali.bsky.social

I'm not qrt-ing the zelda AI thing but I am going to say I am thinking more and more about an appeal of genai, across text and images, is the pleasure of pulling the lever and seeing how fascinatingly *close* to the referent (whether extant or imaginary) it can get.

January 29, 2026 at 6:25 PM

nic tringali

@nictringali.bsky.social

I am speaking at FÍS Games this year!! I am very excited, if you’re able to attend come through and check it out!

Ardán @ardan-ie.bsky.social · 4d

As we announce the first round of tickets for FÍS Games Summit 2026, we are excited to share that Game Designer and Director @nictringali.bsky.social will be one of our guest speakers on the day! The Summit will again be hosted at the Radisson RED in Galway on April 24th.

ardan.ie/event/bithel...

January 28, 2026 at 6:08 PM

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Florence Smith Nicholls

@florencesn.bsky.social

Ahhhhh I can finally talk about it! I wrote a piece for this on the Prisoner Iron Mask, BDSM and the queer pleasures of Elden Ring!

Tune & Fairweather @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social · 5d

We’re excited to announce Scholar’s Codex – a new anthology where academia explores the games of FromSoftware.

Beautifully produced as a premium hardcover and illustrated by acclaimed artist @nicodelort.bsky.social.

#eldenring #darksouls #bloodborne 💙📚

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January 28, 2026 at 3:19 PM

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pbbeta

@pbbeta.bsky.social

👀👀👀

Paul Ligorski @heartofarcana.bsky.social · 5d

Coming soon for Draw Steel - the Reliquaries of Orvab the Handless. With original art by @pbbeta.bsky.social!

An illustration of seven eerie reliquaries on a dark background. The objects are colored in teal, blue, and red tones.

January 28, 2026 at 11:10 AM

nic tringali

@nictringali.bsky.social

new blogs on path of achra blog.enceledean.com/path-of-achra/

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Complexity and outputs (Hollywood Animal)

The other day Brendan and I streamed , a film studio management game set in the 1930s. I think it is a game that is far more interesting than it is good. It ...

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January 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM

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Bithell Games

@bithellgames.bsky.social

12 original tracks by nervous_testpilot accompany you as you guide your exiles to safety in The Banished Vault. Its soundtrack embodies the soul of the game, with moody, ambient pieces that reflect the loneliness of outer space and the fear of what you still might stand to lose.

December 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM

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Dia "Real Gamer" Lacina

@dialacina.com

It's time for a NEW adventure!

Come watch as @shirokumahi.me and I ACAB our way through this real-time procedural adventure in the grim, racist cyberpunk vision of Los Angeles, 2019 as only Westwood Studios could deliver in 1997.

It's BLADE RUNNER time!

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Let's Play Blade Runner - Episode 1

YouTube video by Dia Lacina

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January 26, 2026 at 1:29 PM

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Aura

@aurahack.ca

✨NEW MERCH✨

Start out the year the best way possible: with my merch equivalent of the SMPTE test?? I use this to quality control a handful of things, which you can now have simply as Fashion 💖

Available now! shop.aurahack.ca/collections/...

January 26, 2026 at 9:17 PM

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Dr Holly Nielsen

@hollynielsen.bsky.social

Very soon I will be

✨available for work✨

If you’re interested in who I am and what it is I do/have done then here’s a little introduction thread about myself and my work.

Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · Dec 26

I’m Holly- a writer, narrative designer and historian. Recently got my PhD (19th & 20thC social cultural history through the lens of play & board games) and currently working in game development. I do a lot of things but I particularly love applying historical approaches to interactive storytelling.

January 5, 2026 at 4:29 PM

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Kashana

@kashana.blacksky.app

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM

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Cole Wehrle

@colewehrle.bsky.social

A letter from Saint Paul to those last few friends and family who have somehow become indifferent to ongoing campaign of terror in the Twin Cities:

I'm sending this out to the few folks I know who might support the present administration. I've done my best to be politically tolerant all my life and respect folks I disagree with. The last few weeks in the Twin Cities have shaken that tolerance to its core. All of the conservative folks I respected growing up have long abandoned the Republican party, but there are still folks I care about who have found ways to justify remaining. Usually they shrug and say something like, "We don't like him much either," and then do nothing to stop the rise of this horrible new regime. I don't care about excuses any more. This is the world you all made.

I don't know how you might have been hoodwinked into your present beliefs, but you need to know they are deeply wrong and folks are getting killed because of it.

The Twin Cities are an incredible place. I've lived all over this country, and I think this little corner of the Midwest represents the best of us. Within a week of moving here I knew the names of everyone on my street. Folks brought us food and helped watch our kids as we unpacked. We bonded over digging out each other's cars in the winter and comparing north shore hikes and camping grounds in the summer. If I hadn't lived here, I wouldn't have imagined a place like this could exist.

Over the past month, we have been ravaged by state-sponsored terrorists. They are kidnapping folks. It's not uncommon to find an empty car, blinkers on, in the middle of the road, as if the driver had been whisked away in the Rapture.

Families are being broken up, folks with ample legal protections are being locked up for days without access to their lawyers or their families. This isn't an internet rumor. It's happening outside my window and it's every bit as horrible as a page from the Diary of Anne Frank.

But Minnesotans are a stalwart bunch. We've got a neighborhood patrol to protect school children from government agents. Cati has been helping coordinate groceries for folks who are afraid to leave their home. The little dish by our door where we put our keys now has a stock of whistles that we bring with us so that we can alert folks to government agents. And it's working. ICE is less effective, and more and more people and businesses are being tied into one of the most remarkable and organic grassroots efforts ever seen. All of that was on display yesterday when I went downtown with perhaps 40 or 50 thousand people to protest. The -40 degree wind chill didn't stop us.

And yet, today they killed another person. In broad daylight. The video is horrible and looks like something that we'd associate with the reign of Tito or Kristallnacht. They are trying so hard to break this beautiful place. They won't do it, but the longer they try the more people are going to die senselessly.

None of this would be possible without the folks who enabled this, one way or another. That's you and that's on you. This isn't an invitation to a dialogue. I'm done talking. This is a demand for accountability. Turn off your TVs and your podcasts and step out of your echo chambers. A terrible moment has arrived in America, and you carried it here on your backs.

January 24, 2026 at 4:46 PM

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Jack de Quidt

@notquitereal.bsky.social

pantomime opposition. all we have is each other

January 24, 2026 at 4:30 PM

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nic tringali

@nictringali.bsky.social

Commonwealth is one of the finest and most unique games I've played. It is pushing at the boundaries of ttrpg design, it was a treat to work on. Please check it out!

michael @modality.bsky.social · 9d

COMMONWEALTH is OUT NOW.

It is a "far-future social climbing simulation" inspired by En Garde!, The Book of the New Sun, and Barry Lyndon.

@nictringali.bsky.social did the layout and graphic design and the cover and interior art is from @amandalee.bsky.social

👉 modality.itch.io/commonwealth 🍷🌹