Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Games about revolution
@peterpunk.bsky.social
Made Roller Drama 🛼, Football Drama ⚽ , Becoming Saint 😇 (vidgms), Eutopia 🍄 The Game 🐄 Vietato Innamorarsi ❤️ (theatre), 30 applied vgs. Making Revolt!
Clueless, intense fever dreams.
I'm with the Ciompi's in Florence. He/Him 🌈
See https://open-lab.com
Clueless, intense fever dreams.
I'm with the Ciompi's in Florence. He/Him 🌈
See https://open-lab.com
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Becoming Saint is now available on Steam, with discounts, bundles, and also a *supporter edition* with high-res funny assets, some of which decorate this announcement release thread - so get that! 😝 Thank you all for playing and hopefully leaving a review on Steam! 😇
Ending the year exploring great (board) game design, quick, atmospheric, effective, simple, deep: “Blitzkrieg!: World War Two in 20 Minutes”, including an unexpected Philip K. Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle”’s like scenario! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25...
December 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Ending the year exploring great (board) game design, quick, atmospheric, effective, simple, deep: “Blitzkrieg!: World War Two in 20 Minutes”, including an unexpected Philip K. Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle”’s like scenario! boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25...
So watch this talk about easily getting rich by making games! "Delicate Art of Making Depressing Games" www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnM2... by @thepixelhunt.bsky.social @wednesdays-game.bsky.social
AdventureX 2025 – Talk: Pierre Corbinais & Florent Maurin "Delicate Art of Making Depressing Games"
YouTube video by AdventureX
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December 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
So watch this talk about easily getting rich by making games! "Delicate Art of Making Depressing Games" www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnM2... by @thepixelhunt.bsky.social @wednesdays-game.bsky.social
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Every interview with the AI shills pushing for "world models" betrays a profound lack of understanding about how games are made.
"DeepMind’s Alexandre Moufarek...said he hoped that world models would help give developers space to 'find the fun' and 'try new ideas and take risks again.'" 1/2
"DeepMind’s Alexandre Moufarek...said he hoped that world models would help give developers space to 'find the fun' and 'try new ideas and take risks again.'" 1/2
December 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Every interview with the AI shills pushing for "world models" betrays a profound lack of understanding about how games are made.
"DeepMind’s Alexandre Moufarek...said he hoped that world models would help give developers space to 'find the fun' and 'try new ideas and take risks again.'" 1/2
"DeepMind’s Alexandre Moufarek...said he hoped that world models would help give developers space to 'find the fun' and 'try new ideas and take risks again.'" 1/2
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i liked this piece on how to revitalize unions in the neoliberal era
socialistregister.com/index.php/sr...
socialistregister.com/index.php/sr...
socialistregister.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
i liked this piece on how to revitalize unions in the neoliberal era
socialistregister.com/index.php/sr...
socialistregister.com/index.php/sr...
We make weird games about rebellion.
Football Drama, Roller Drama, and Becoming Saint.
Different forms. Different mechanics. Different narratives.
All on sale now on Steam! 😇⚽🛼
#SteamSale #IndieGames #WinterSale
Football Drama, Roller Drama, and Becoming Saint.
Different forms. Different mechanics. Different narratives.
All on sale now on Steam! 😇⚽🛼
#SteamSale #IndieGames #WinterSale
December 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We make weird games about rebellion.
Football Drama, Roller Drama, and Becoming Saint.
Different forms. Different mechanics. Different narratives.
All on sale now on Steam! 😇⚽🛼
#SteamSale #IndieGames #WinterSale
Football Drama, Roller Drama, and Becoming Saint.
Different forms. Different mechanics. Different narratives.
All on sale now on Steam! 😇⚽🛼
#SteamSale #IndieGames #WinterSale
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Questa mattina abbiamo presentato Cadentia Farnese, gioco per l’ambasciata francese in Italia: 12 storie choice-based, la grafica che cresce e cambia nel corso di ogni storia, un’esperienza che abbiamo immaginato essenziale e profonda insieme.
@wearemuesli.bsky.social
wearemuesli.it/it/our-games...
@wearemuesli.bsky.social
wearemuesli.it/it/our-games...
Cadentia Farnese – We Are Muesli
wearemuesli.it
December 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Questa mattina abbiamo presentato Cadentia Farnese, gioco per l’ambasciata francese in Italia: 12 storie choice-based, la grafica che cresce e cambia nel corso di ogni storia, un’esperienza che abbiamo immaginato essenziale e profonda insieme.
@wearemuesli.bsky.social
wearemuesli.it/it/our-games...
@wearemuesli.bsky.social
wearemuesli.it/it/our-games...
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Valve HQ:
"AAA game about murdering a lot of Muslims and destroying their homes" "ship it"
"solo game in which you fight the IDF" "ban the savages"
"indie game that criticizes Western power dynamics with a horse metaphor" "unacceptable"
"This review hates Muslims" "ahh smell that thats freedom"
"AAA game about murdering a lot of Muslims and destroying their homes" "ship it"
"solo game in which you fight the IDF" "ban the savages"
"indie game that criticizes Western power dynamics with a horse metaphor" "unacceptable"
"This review hates Muslims" "ahh smell that thats freedom"
Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam
This is where we're at now.
This is where we're at now.
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Valve HQ:
"AAA game about murdering a lot of Muslims and destroying their homes" "ship it"
"solo game in which you fight the IDF" "ban the savages"
"indie game that criticizes Western power dynamics with a horse metaphor" "unacceptable"
"This review hates Muslims" "ahh smell that thats freedom"
"AAA game about murdering a lot of Muslims and destroying their homes" "ship it"
"solo game in which you fight the IDF" "ban the savages"
"indie game that criticizes Western power dynamics with a horse metaphor" "unacceptable"
"This review hates Muslims" "ahh smell that thats freedom"
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Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
Here you can get @santaragione.com's Horses www.gog.com/en/game/horses - banned from Steam for no sensible reason 🤷🐴
HORSES
Fourteen days, a horse farm, and a few rules to follow...
Take a break from you
www.gog.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Here you can get @santaragione.com's Horses www.gog.com/en/game/horses - banned from Steam for no sensible reason 🤷🐴
Really, really weird & cringe.
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Really, really weird & cringe.
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Becoming Saint on sale in the Firesquid sale! 😇
Our very first Firesquid Publisher Sale is live! 🎉
💰 Discounts on all Firesquid games
🚀 1.0 release of Xenopurge!
🎮 New Game Announcements for 2026:
- Ex Sanguis
- @preludethegame.bsky.social
- DLC for Reus 2: Grasslands
Check out the sale page on Steam: store.steampowered.com/sale/firesqu...
💰 Discounts on all Firesquid games
🚀 1.0 release of Xenopurge!
🎮 New Game Announcements for 2026:
- Ex Sanguis
- @preludethegame.bsky.social
- DLC for Reus 2: Grasslands
Check out the sale page on Steam: store.steampowered.com/sale/firesqu...
November 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Becoming Saint on sale in the Firesquid sale! 😇
This:
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This:
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On The Bunker Magazine and from Trieste Science+Fiction Festival and its videogame section IVIPRO Days: videogames as a sci-medium and as playable thought experiments shaping our understanding of the world. Feat Ted Chiang, @peterpunk.bsky.social, @albertbirney.bsky.social [Article in English]
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
On The Bunker Magazine and from Trieste Science+Fiction Festival and its videogame section IVIPRO Days: videogames as a sci-medium and as playable thought experiments shaping our understanding of the world. Feat Ted Chiang, @peterpunk.bsky.social, @albertbirney.bsky.social [Article in English]
So this week starting Thursday I’ll be in Trieste for “IVIPRO Days” I’ll speak about history in games and narrative design in roguelikes (Becoming Saint) on Friday. Sunday there is a PKD dedicated event, unmissable! See you there?
October 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
So this week starting Thursday I’ll be in Trieste for “IVIPRO Days” I’ll speak about history in games and narrative design in roguelikes (Becoming Saint) on Friday. Sunday there is a PKD dedicated event, unmissable! See you there?
This is what turned places like Florence where I live into empty shells inhabited by tourists scams 😔
who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
October 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is what turned places like Florence where I live into empty shells inhabited by tourists scams 😔
What happens when in games we stop putting players at the centre as heroes? Rethinking heroism, control, and what winning means in games in my new Substack post:
peterpunk.substack.com/p/the-dissol...
peterpunk.substack.com/p/the-dissol...
The dissolution of the hero(ine)
Experiments with player and power representations in games.
peterpunk.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
What happens when in games we stop putting players at the centre as heroes? Rethinking heroism, control, and what winning means in games in my new Substack post:
peterpunk.substack.com/p/the-dissol...
peterpunk.substack.com/p/the-dissol...
Netflix's Six Kings Salm has such a Black Mirror aura... 😅
October 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Netflix's Six Kings Salm has such a Black Mirror aura... 😅
Imagine being so toxic on Steam to write a negative review of this: store.steampowered.com/app/1425980/... 😅
Stone Simulator – Just Be a Rock on Steam
Stone Simulator is a meditative idle game where you live as a rock enduring endless seasons and absurd events. Survive storms, unlock quirky achievements, and observe a serene, ever-changing world. Pe...
store.steampowered.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Imagine being so toxic on Steam to write a negative review of this: store.steampowered.com/app/1425980/... 😅
We got the green check on Becoming Saint for SteamDeck!!!
Becoming Saint is now playable on #SteamDeck! ✨
Convert the heretics from wherever you wish: store.steampowered.com/news/app/264...
Convert the heretics from wherever you wish: store.steampowered.com/news/app/264...
October 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
We got the green check on Becoming Saint for SteamDeck!!!
Becoming Saint now in Steam's Autumn sale 😇🚂 #SteamAutumnSale
Becoming Saint is now available on Steam, with discounts, bundles, and also a *supporter edition* with high-res funny assets, some of which decorate this announcement release thread - so get that! 😝 Thank you all for playing and hopefully leaving a review on Steam! 😇
October 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Becoming Saint now in Steam's Autumn sale 😇🚂 #SteamAutumnSale
Tonight in Palermo - a participative theatre piece I co-designed, Vietato Innamorarsi at Mercurio Festival
October 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Tonight in Palermo - a participative theatre piece I co-designed, Vietato Innamorarsi at Mercurio Festival
This is a making-of video for Becoming Saint, quite detailed and also we discuss indie game production, notions of history, and creating meaningful games, among other topics. Thanks to the amazing @d6learning.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/live/G5zYhdT... @firesquid.games
Becoming Saint: An Indie Tale of Creation with Pietro Polsinelli
YouTube video by D6 Learning
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October 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This is a making-of video for Becoming Saint, quite detailed and also we discuss indie game production, notions of history, and creating meaningful games, among other topics. Thanks to the amazing @d6learning.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/live/G5zYhdT... @firesquid.games
This! This! This is so on point and important!
(I find Nintendo shop visibility totally dysfunctional too btw)
@jon.inkle.co any suggestion for a solution?
(I find Nintendo shop visibility totally dysfunctional too btw)
@jon.inkle.co any suggestion for a solution?
Seems to me that the fact that interested people can’t find games they find interesting and maybe don’t even know they exist is (a) obvs true so dunking on it is dumb and (b) a massive fucking problem for the artform that the corporate sector of the industry has no interest *at all* in solving
September 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This! This! This is so on point and important!
(I find Nintendo shop visibility totally dysfunctional too btw)
@jon.inkle.co any suggestion for a solution?
(I find Nintendo shop visibility totally dysfunctional too btw)
@jon.inkle.co any suggestion for a solution?
Today! Making of Becoming Saint, covering research for the art, history, settings, and the evolution of mechanics, incremental narrative design, and the dissolution of the hero(ine) 😇
September 30, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Today! Making of Becoming Saint, covering research for the art, history, settings, and the evolution of mechanics, incremental narrative design, and the dissolution of the hero(ine) 😇