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• "Experimental DM" of https://neurocracy.site
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joannes
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· Sep 19
🌐 NEUROCRACY 🌐
An episodic sci-fi hypertext game
✅ Fall into a wiki hole from the future
✅ Solve a murder across article edits
✅ Your investigation affects the outcome [citation needed]
⭐ "Ambitious" - The Guardian
⭐ "Brilliant" - Eurogamer
▶️ Dive in: omnipedia.app
▶️ More info: neurocracy.site
An episodic sci-fi hypertext game
✅ Fall into a wiki hole from the future
✅ Solve a murder across article edits
✅ Your investigation affects the outcome [citation needed]
⭐ "Ambitious" - The Guardian
⭐ "Brilliant" - Eurogamer
▶️ Dive in: omnipedia.app
▶️ More info: neurocracy.site
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Oh hey look, it's my first piece for the AV Club!
The HD-2D remakes of Dragon Quest might modernize these ancient RPGs, but could anything recreate the experience of playing them on the NES? www.avclub.com/dragon-quest...
A quest for relevance: Dragon Quest’s remakes search for the impact it had in the ‘80s
The HD-2D remakes of Dragon Quest might modernize these ancient RPGs, but could anything recreate the experience of playing Dragon Warrior on the NES?
www.avclub.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Oh hey look, it's my first piece for the AV Club!
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If you know #gamedev folks in London (or UK) I would be very thankful if you could share the post below about my #ux masterclass on Dec 12. My reach on social media is not what it used to be (ty, Elon..) and people don’t seem to get the info so reposts are much appreciated, thanks a bunch! 🙏🏼
Hi, Londoners! I'll be giving an in-person full day #gameUX masterclass on Friday Dec 12th in #London.
You can sign up here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/game-ux-co...
Let me know if you have any questions. Please share and I hope to see you there!
#UX #gamedev #training #masterclass
You can sign up here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/game-ux-co...
Let me know if you have any questions. Please share and I hope to see you there!
#UX #gamedev #training #masterclass
Game UX & Cognitive Science Masterclass (London,UK Dec 12)
Learn the cognitive science and UX practices behind successful games like Fortnite, from former Director of UX at Epic Games.
www.eventbrite.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
One of them likes to be covered, the other one hates it and also everything else
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
One of them likes to be covered, the other one hates it and also everything else
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Made my day to read this great post and see this!
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Made my day to read this great post and see this!
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Here's a reminder that I have a full asset pack, completely free for use! Featuring over 90 frames and borders!
Find it here: https://k-ramstack.itch.io/frame-asset-pack
Find it here: https://k-ramstack.itch.io/frame-asset-pack
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Here's a reminder that I have a full asset pack, completely free for use! Featuring over 90 frames and borders!
Find it here: https://k-ramstack.itch.io/frame-asset-pack
Find it here: https://k-ramstack.itch.io/frame-asset-pack
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Hey, immersive, larp, ARG, theater and game folks: I'm working on Immersipedia and I'm linking out to other design/knowledge wikis like the Puzzle Hunt wiki, Nordic Larp wiki and Game Detectives, plus the whole WikiBruce archive. Are there any others I should be including?
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Hey, immersive, larp, ARG, theater and game folks: I'm working on Immersipedia and I'm linking out to other design/knowledge wikis like the Puzzle Hunt wiki, Nordic Larp wiki and Game Detectives, plus the whole WikiBruce archive. Are there any others I should be including?
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not saying i had a hand in this but i’m not not saying that
November 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
not saying i had a hand in this but i’m not not saying that
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Did you know that big studios monitor piracy? Don't you fucking dare pirate this shit. Do not hate watch through piracy. JK Rowling is a disgusting human being that funds and encourages the hurt, pain and death of my fellow trans peers.
Support media that actually deserves our time and money.
Support media that actually deserves our time and money.
HBO CEO Casey Bloys says 'HARRY POTTER' Season 2 is already being written
"We’re going to do whatever we can to not have a huge gap, for the kids, obviously, but also for viewers"
"We’re going to do whatever we can to not have a huge gap, for the kids, obviously, but also for viewers"
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Did you know that big studios monitor piracy? Don't you fucking dare pirate this shit. Do not hate watch through piracy. JK Rowling is a disgusting human being that funds and encourages the hurt, pain and death of my fellow trans peers.
Support media that actually deserves our time and money.
Support media that actually deserves our time and money.
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I wonder if tech creeps are gonna do what the automotive industry did when they invented the crime of jaywalking to shift the blame for safety issues onto the public
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I wonder if tech creeps are gonna do what the automotive industry did when they invented the crime of jaywalking to shift the blame for safety issues onto the public
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The only news source I trust
November 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The only news source I trust
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📣 VIDEOVERSE is out on consoles! 📣
Set on a fictional gaming system, VIDEOVERSE is a love letter to video games. If you're looking for an emotional narrative experience, this one is for you!
PlayStation 💙 tinyurl.com/yuhzcbhc
Nintendo Switch ❤️ tinyurl.com/4cy48abw
XBOX 💚 tinyurl.com/4w636war
Set on a fictional gaming system, VIDEOVERSE is a love letter to video games. If you're looking for an emotional narrative experience, this one is for you!
PlayStation 💙 tinyurl.com/yuhzcbhc
Nintendo Switch ❤️ tinyurl.com/4cy48abw
XBOX 💚 tinyurl.com/4w636war
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
📣 VIDEOVERSE is out on consoles! 📣
Set on a fictional gaming system, VIDEOVERSE is a love letter to video games. If you're looking for an emotional narrative experience, this one is for you!
PlayStation 💙 tinyurl.com/yuhzcbhc
Nintendo Switch ❤️ tinyurl.com/4cy48abw
XBOX 💚 tinyurl.com/4w636war
Set on a fictional gaming system, VIDEOVERSE is a love letter to video games. If you're looking for an emotional narrative experience, this one is for you!
PlayStation 💙 tinyurl.com/yuhzcbhc
Nintendo Switch ❤️ tinyurl.com/4cy48abw
XBOX 💚 tinyurl.com/4w636war
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This was, well is, such a feat of storytelling and world-building, and genuinely scarily prescient. Have a look innit.
Hey so Neurocracy is still being written as we speak 👀
The Omnipedia forum remains active with players posting wild theories and debating each other 🔥
A whole new narrative layer that serves as another entry point to the near future of 2049 and a record of the three live seasons that shaped it 🌐
The Omnipedia forum remains active with players posting wild theories and debating each other 🔥
A whole new narrative layer that serves as another entry point to the near future of 2049 and a record of the three live seasons that shaped it 🌐
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This was, well is, such a feat of storytelling and world-building, and genuinely scarily prescient. Have a look innit.
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Today is the day to tell a strange story.
The long version we'll tell later, but the short version is this. In an attic, in his late great-uncle's house, @jon.inkle.co found a locked trunk. It took twenty years to open. Last summer he did.
Inside was a wiring diagram, and a stack of books.
The long version we'll tell later, but the short version is this. In an attic, in his late great-uncle's house, @jon.inkle.co found a locked trunk. It took twenty years to open. Last summer he did.
Inside was a wiring diagram, and a stack of books.
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Today is the day to tell a strange story.
The long version we'll tell later, but the short version is this. In an attic, in his late great-uncle's house, @jon.inkle.co found a locked trunk. It took twenty years to open. Last summer he did.
Inside was a wiring diagram, and a stack of books.
The long version we'll tell later, but the short version is this. In an attic, in his late great-uncle's house, @jon.inkle.co found a locked trunk. It took twenty years to open. Last summer he did.
Inside was a wiring diagram, and a stack of books.
Save me, Deus Ex news anchor
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Save me, Deus Ex news anchor
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The project I have been working on now has a name and a Steam page. :)
I’m super happy to officially announce our next project, spearheaded by @threeohfour.bsky.social!
“Gilt” is a sci-fi/fantasy game about a priest haunted by a dying God.
Learn more (and wishlist!) over here:
store.steampowered.com/app/3979770
“Gilt” is a sci-fi/fantasy game about a priest haunted by a dying God.
Learn more (and wishlist!) over here:
store.steampowered.com/app/3979770
Gilt on Steam
Embark on a quest of redemption across the planet of Gilt to restore a disillusioned priest's faith, a dying God's power, and the waning hope of a people who have forgotten how to believe. A sci-fi fa...
store.steampowered.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The project I have been working on now has a name and a Steam page. :)
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Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Hey so Neurocracy is still being written as we speak 👀
The Omnipedia forum remains active with players posting wild theories and debating each other 🔥
A whole new narrative layer that serves as another entry point to the near future of 2049 and a record of the three live seasons that shaped it 🌐
The Omnipedia forum remains active with players posting wild theories and debating each other 🔥
A whole new narrative layer that serves as another entry point to the near future of 2049 and a record of the three live seasons that shaped it 🌐
November 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Hey so Neurocracy is still being written as we speak 👀
The Omnipedia forum remains active with players posting wild theories and debating each other 🔥
A whole new narrative layer that serves as another entry point to the near future of 2049 and a record of the three live seasons that shaped it 🌐
The Omnipedia forum remains active with players posting wild theories and debating each other 🔥
A whole new narrative layer that serves as another entry point to the near future of 2049 and a record of the three live seasons that shaped it 🌐
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I shared this a few weeks back - a Citizen Sleeper like, perhaps the first?
Duskpunk's been spotted in the Steam charts!
I launch in SIX HOURS. Excited!
I launch in SIX HOURS. Excited!
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I shared this a few weeks back - a Citizen Sleeper like, perhaps the first?
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Billionaires handing money back and forth, no one creating anything except carbon in the air. Anthropic buys Nvidia chips; Nvidia gives Anthropic billions to buy even more chips; Microsoft gives Anthropic billions, which Anthropic spends on Microsoft Azure, run by Nvidia, etc. An ouroboros of shit.
New @axios: Anthropic lands $15 billion investment from Microsoft, Nvidia
Anthropic lands $15 billion investment from Microsoft, Nvidia
The move is the latest in a series of deals that sees all the big players partnering with one another.
www.axios.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Billionaires handing money back and forth, no one creating anything except carbon in the air. Anthropic buys Nvidia chips; Nvidia gives Anthropic billions to buy even more chips; Microsoft gives Anthropic billions, which Anthropic spends on Microsoft Azure, run by Nvidia, etc. An ouroboros of shit.
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welp, there goes my submitting work to F&SF, Asimovs or Analog
(So very sorry for the editors who don't deserve any of this)
(So very sorry for the editors who don't deserve any of this)
I'm in the current issue of Analog. I managed to negotiate to a contract I was willing to sign. Naively, I thought that established writers giving this feedback would eventually make a dent.
It hasn't. I don't know that it will. I just wrote to Trevor withdrawing a story I'd sold to him.
It hasn't. I don't know that it will. I just wrote to Trevor withdrawing a story I'd sold to him.
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
welp, there goes my submitting work to F&SF, Asimovs or Analog
(So very sorry for the editors who don't deserve any of this)
(So very sorry for the editors who don't deserve any of this)
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I finally wrote about the big Minecraft ARG that's been making the rounds!
If it was just a King in Yellow adaptation, I probably wouldn't have spent the weekend diving in. But I'm a sucker for a story that's a matryoshka doll of unreliable narrators, with an "ARG explainer" video as top layer.
If it was just a King in Yellow adaptation, I probably wouldn't have spent the weekend diving in. But I'm a sucker for a story that's a matryoshka doll of unreliable narrators, with an "ARG explainer" video as top layer.
The King in Yellow as Found Footage Minecraft ARG | ARGNet: Alternate Reality Gaming Network
Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist is a recent Minecraft ARG loosely based on the King in Yellow mythos, in which a YouTuber pieces together found footage from a Minecraft playthrough
www.argn.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I finally wrote about the big Minecraft ARG that's been making the rounds!
If it was just a King in Yellow adaptation, I probably wouldn't have spent the weekend diving in. But I'm a sucker for a story that's a matryoshka doll of unreliable narrators, with an "ARG explainer" video as top layer.
If it was just a King in Yellow adaptation, I probably wouldn't have spent the weekend diving in. But I'm a sucker for a story that's a matryoshka doll of unreliable narrators, with an "ARG explainer" video as top layer.
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I think one reason why games people are looking forward to the collapse of the AI bubble, despite it likely triggering a massive economic crash, is that we're basically already living post-crash.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I think one reason why games people are looking forward to the collapse of the AI bubble, despite it likely triggering a massive economic crash, is that we're basically already living post-crash.
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math textbook covers for some reason:
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
math textbook covers for some reason: