Eron Rauch
@eronrauch.bsky.social
Artist/Writer/Curator
🖥️🌃Weird signals from virtual worlds🌃🖥️
🎮Founder: Video Games for the Arts🎮
🍕Co-founder: Project Pizza🍕
⌨️Writer Riot Games⌨️
New photobook available: www.eronrauch.com/heartland
🖥️🌃Weird signals from virtual worlds🌃🖥️
🎮Founder: Video Games for the Arts🎮
🍕Co-founder: Project Pizza🍕
⌨️Writer Riot Games⌨️
New photobook available: www.eronrauch.com/heartland
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Fake video games, vast settings and rule sets underlying games you can’t plug a controller into and play, can be just as rich and rewarding as real games — sometimes more so. @eyepatchwolf.bsky.social, who just wrote a book about them, explains:
December 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Fake video games, vast settings and rule sets underlying games you can’t plug a controller into and play, can be just as rich and rewarding as real games — sometimes more so. @eyepatchwolf.bsky.social, who just wrote a book about them, explains:
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friday soapbox: as a designer, if you want something to be a skillful action for players, and you want growth in this skill to be very deep/meaningful, then you need to also let players be bad at it. sometimes horrendously bad. players hate this pain, and designers often want to mitigate it away.
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
friday soapbox: as a designer, if you want something to be a skillful action for players, and you want growth in this skill to be very deep/meaningful, then you need to also let players be bad at it. sometimes horrendously bad. players hate this pain, and designers often want to mitigate it away.
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In an absolutely WILD year for indie games I am honored for Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector to be among the nominees for ✨BEST INDIE✨ at the Golden Joysticks!
If you enjoyed the game, please consider giving it your vote 🙏
👉Vote here: goldenjoysticks.com
If you enjoyed the game, please consider giving it your vote 🙏
👉Vote here: goldenjoysticks.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
In an absolutely WILD year for indie games I am honored for Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector to be among the nominees for ✨BEST INDIE✨ at the Golden Joysticks!
If you enjoyed the game, please consider giving it your vote 🙏
👉Vote here: goldenjoysticks.com
If you enjoyed the game, please consider giving it your vote 🙏
👉Vote here: goldenjoysticks.com
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We've got it all, they've got it all, on BLIPPO+. See what YACHT, @telefantasytv.bsky.social, @panic.com, and more have been up to just a ways away in spacetime. New contributor @patfio.bsky.social has the review!
BLIPPO+ Asks If You Want to Get Bent — Gamers with Glasses
It’s time to tune in, turn on, and.. blipp out? Patrick Fiorilli explores the channels of BLIPPO+ and its blend of the televisual and interactive. It’s hypermediated, unabashedly queer, and remediates...
www.gamerswithglasses.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We've got it all, they've got it all, on BLIPPO+. See what YACHT, @telefantasytv.bsky.social, @panic.com, and more have been up to just a ways away in spacetime. New contributor @patfio.bsky.social has the review!
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And if youuuuuu can believe it, #45pb 's development is going very well. Here's some screenshots and a reminder to wishlist the game on Steam👇
store.steampowered.com/app/3014650/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3014650/...
August 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
And if youuuuuu can believe it, #45pb 's development is going very well. Here's some screenshots and a reminder to wishlist the game on Steam👇
store.steampowered.com/app/3014650/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3014650/...
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really good write-up of this whole situation with payment processors enabling right-wing censorship of adult games www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Visa and Mastercard pressuring Itch.io and Valve does 'nothing to protect' women, and shock games will just be 'side-stepping the ban entirely', say affected indie devs
"Cutting these women off from income streams and audiences does nothing to 'protect' them."
www.pcgamer.com
July 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
really good write-up of this whole situation with payment processors enabling right-wing censorship of adult games www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
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me when I get beaten to a wonder in Civilization: it's plain to see that someday the video game industry will soon be taken over by Emperor Qin Shi Huang
This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...
July 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
me when I get beaten to a wonder in Civilization: it's plain to see that someday the video game industry will soon be taken over by Emperor Qin Shi Huang
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Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:
www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.
www.404media.co
July 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:
www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
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Very excited and grateful to be joining @aftermath.site's stream to talk about Disability Pride Month!
On today's stream we're joined by @supercrip1994.bsky.social to discuss Disability Pride Month and accessibility in games and – because it has consumed @papapishu.bsky.social's life – the horse girl sensation that's sweeping the nation: Umamusume. We go live at 4 PM ET
www.twitch.tv/aftermathdot...
www.twitch.tv/aftermathdot...
July 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Very excited and grateful to be joining @aftermath.site's stream to talk about Disability Pride Month!
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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
June 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
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Skin Deep is an immersive sim that riffs enthusiastically on everything from Die Hard to 2001: A Space Odyssey, but it also has its own voice.
Our review: bit.ly/3ENM6hO
Our review: bit.ly/3ENM6hO
April 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Skin Deep is an immersive sim that riffs enthusiastically on everything from Die Hard to 2001: A Space Odyssey, but it also has its own voice.
Our review: bit.ly/3ENM6hO
Our review: bit.ly/3ENM6hO
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🎨Skin Deep writeup: Sketches
This week I wrote about loose sketches that eventually led to Skin Deep: blendogames.com/news/post/20...
This week I wrote about loose sketches that eventually led to Skin Deep: blendogames.com/news/post/20...
April 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
🎨Skin Deep writeup: Sketches
This week I wrote about loose sketches that eventually led to Skin Deep: blendogames.com/news/post/20...
This week I wrote about loose sketches that eventually led to Skin Deep: blendogames.com/news/post/20...
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Le Blanc de Blanc, by Georges Mathieu, 1987, 📸 by @catocataldo
April 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Le Blanc de Blanc, by Georges Mathieu, 1987, 📸 by @catocataldo
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we are riiiiiight on the cusp of hitting 4,475, so fuck it: inside baseball week continues tomorrow (and probably tuesday too)
as of right now, we're at 4,430 subscribers, which is great! almost 100 more than we started this week with. but we're still hoping to hit 4,500 before the end of tomorrow, so we've added a new goal: if we make it to 4,475, we'll extend inside baseball week into next week. that means more stories!
April 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
we are riiiiiight on the cusp of hitting 4,475, so fuck it: inside baseball week continues tomorrow (and probably tuesday too)
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Today is the 5th Anniversary of my first game In Other Waters! It's a project I'm still very proud of, and marks a massive change in my life as I have been a full time dev ever since 🐟
To celebrate, next Thursday I will be launching something with @lostincult.co.uk sign up here: eepurl.com/iuomJA
To celebrate, next Thursday I will be launching something with @lostincult.co.uk sign up here: eepurl.com/iuomJA
April 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Today is the 5th Anniversary of my first game In Other Waters! It's a project I'm still very proud of, and marks a massive change in my life as I have been a full time dev ever since 🐟
To celebrate, next Thursday I will be launching something with @lostincult.co.uk sign up here: eepurl.com/iuomJA
To celebrate, next Thursday I will be launching something with @lostincult.co.uk sign up here: eepurl.com/iuomJA
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Our chair Robert Houghton (@robehoughton.bsky.social) wrote about Civilization's tech trees, and their relationship to stereotypical depictions of a Medieval "Dark Ages":
www.historicalgames.net/digital-dark...
#gamingthepast #historicalgames
www.historicalgames.net/digital-dark...
#gamingthepast #historicalgames
The Digital Dark Ages and the Trouble with Tech Trees | Historical Games Network
Technology trees are everywhere.[1] They’re a really useful game design tool. But they come with a lot of baggage and often don’t align with scholarly or popular views of the past. In particular, this...
www.historicalgames.net
March 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Our chair Robert Houghton (@robehoughton.bsky.social) wrote about Civilization's tech trees, and their relationship to stereotypical depictions of a Medieval "Dark Ages":
www.historicalgames.net/digital-dark...
#gamingthepast #historicalgames
www.historicalgames.net/digital-dark...
#gamingthepast #historicalgames
Wait, Pathologic 3 is coming out this year????? store.steampowered.com/app/3199650/...
Pathologic 3 on Steam
Save a town from a mysterious plague in this narrative first-person RPG. Learn the stories of its unusual inhabitants. Shape their lives with your decrees. Diagnose patients. Face the Plague. Connect ...
store.steampowered.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Wait, Pathologic 3 is coming out this year????? store.steampowered.com/app/3199650/...
Very useful article for understanding what you're seeing online via @404media.co www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...
AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality
Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.
www.404media.co
March 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Very useful article for understanding what you're seeing online via @404media.co www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...
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NEW for @aftermath.site - i wrote about Metaphor:ReFantazio, David Lynch, and the work we need to do to defeat doomerism and manifest the world we want.
Fantasy At The End Of The World - Aftermath
A new world is possible, but only if we log off and put in the work
aftermath.site
February 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
NEW for @aftermath.site - i wrote about Metaphor:ReFantazio, David Lynch, and the work we need to do to defeat doomerism and manifest the world we want.
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If you want to get me a present, tell someone you know about @remapradio.bsky.social and @crossplayblog.bsky.social. Both of those projects make me happy, and I'd like to keep doing them for years to come.
February 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If you want to get me a present, tell someone you know about @remapradio.bsky.social and @crossplayblog.bsky.social. Both of those projects make me happy, and I'd like to keep doing them for years to come.
@patrickklepek.bsky.social Just wanted to say I really appreciated your On Loving and Leaving a Podcast article. (remapradio.com/articles/how... for anyone who wants to check it out too.)
October 29, 2023 at 11:23 PM
@patrickklepek.bsky.social Just wanted to say I really appreciated your On Loving and Leaving a Podcast article. (remapradio.com/articles/how... for anyone who wants to check it out too.)
Working on documenting the art projects I've been doing over the past few years. Here's a flip-through video of my photobook, Caught Inside: youtu.be/yRPmpKZJA34?...
September 12, 2023 at 4:24 AM
Working on documenting the art projects I've been doing over the past few years. Here's a flip-through video of my photobook, Caught Inside: youtu.be/yRPmpKZJA34?...
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Review of a lunar warehouse (in Starfield) from someone with actual warehouse expertise. afriendlywizard.tumblr.com/post/7274677...
My review of a warehouse I found on Earth's Moon in the video game Starfield
I work at a cidery in the PNW. We have a pretty hefty canning line that can handle what I like to call a Solid Chunk of Volumetric Output. Our fulfillment and warehouse team touches several hundred...
afriendlywizard.tumblr.com
September 12, 2023 at 1:53 AM
Review of a lunar warehouse (in Starfield) from someone with actual warehouse expertise. afriendlywizard.tumblr.com/post/7274677...