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Jacob Gaboury @jacobgaboury.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My department at UC Berkeley is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in "Critical/Experimental Film and Video Production." It's a wonderful and dynamic department and one of the fastest growing programs on campus. Applications are due September 30th, please share widely! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05434

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Assistant Professor - Critical/Experimental Film and Video Production - Department of Film & Media

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

going to start more star trek DS9 with the founders

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Lucas Immanuel - Buy My Game Plz @lucasimmanuel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Both my game and The Made will be at @opensaucelive.bsky.social this weekend. Come check us out (at two separate booths).

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Tomorrow night at 7PM Eastern!

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Online conference on eco-criticism and analog games happening this Wednesday and Thursday! Keynote by Alenda Chang!!

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Jordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Submission form is now open for Game Poems Magazine Issue 2! Learn more and submit your game at www.gamepoems.com/submit Submission deadline is July 1, but early submissions are welcome. Thinking of submitting something, but haven't started yet? No worries, you've still got a whole month. :-)

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is so amazing and much deserved. Congrats Tess!!

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Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com · 05/05/2026

To celebrate being shortlisted for this award I've changed the access level on my "making of Skin Deep" post from paid to free. The game is one that has been percolating for almost a year, and suddenly came together this winter in a whirlwind of inspiration. www.patreon.com/posts/145546...

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Writing: The Art of Skin Deep | Moth Mother | Tess Tanenbaum

Writing: The Art of Skin Deep by Moth Mother | Tess Tanenbaum on Patreon. Join Moth Mother | Tess Tanenbaum's community for exclusive content and updates.

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boshi's place @boshis.place · 14/04/2026

did you know that we do classes? this summer find out whether GAMES CAN CHANGE THE WORLD in this 8-week seminar & speculative game design workshop class taught by @hatimb00.itch.io more info & apply here: hatim.tips/can-games-ch...

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Such a cool way to learn how to orient yourself within the very disorienting space of the Cursed Apple

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

We don’t have a program so no admissions policy. Curious to hear if there is any language on this out there

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

You could be, according to Wikipedia, “the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I.”

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Hypnogenesis is a video synthesis arcade game using recursive video feedback where images are fed back on themselves to create emergent visual behaviors. Andy Wallace & Allen Riley talk about how it’s part of alternative history of games coming out of Nam June Paik style video art & video synthesis

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Inhuman Conditions is a Voight-Kampff, Turing Test-esque social deduction game by Tommy Maranges & Cory O’Brien. We’re getting a live performative example in their talk featuring a bureaucratic interrogator and human-machine player. Are they human or robot? (Or something in between?)

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

@hatimb00.itch.io and Hanwen Xu remark that the industry doesn’t know what to do with sex. Their game coalescent || tidal rapture presents an aquatic space for exploring queer forms of sex freed from pain and heteronormativity. Inspiration from slug sex and other forms of polymorphous pleasure

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Bjarke Larsen onTelegram from the Choir Train, it’s a Discord bot game about an inaccessible capitalist wasteland. Repetition, ritual activity and slow progression in this tamagotchi-style game about collective labor

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Mark LaCroix on Blippo+— main mechanic is attention. Navigating the menus of analog broadcast television, changing channels in a real time broadcast network from another planet.

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

@cabbibo.bsky.social notes that “all games were experimental games once” — how to hold on to that constant feeling of learning?

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

In @cabbibo.bsky.social’s Bird Game, the plane of the wing is the plane of each button which allows for emergent gameplay on the micro level with analog input. Steep learning curve but everybody flies in unique, identifiable ways! Experience the joy of failure through crashing

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Pelicans using the shape of an ocean’s wave to fly. Ravens in a state of play is one of the greatest miracles in the world. @cabbibo wants to make a game about the embodied experience of flying in their psychedelic Bird Game

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Thinking about the hyperlocal possibilities when the game is designed for a limited, trusted playgroup of loved ones. Defamiliarizes familiar domestic space and fills object with new meaning. Above all, brings much needed joy!

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

From roombas carrying secrets to locks on a fifth grade yearbook, Carol Mertz is talking about how “I made my friends cry because I built an escape room in my apartment”

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

@ellaguro.bsky.social opening things up talking about how artists are expected to contort market which seems to hav infinite money to give to worst people of the world to do crimes against humanity yet never any money for free expression and work pushing artitic boundaries

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I’m not the fastest at phone typing but will do my best to try and post from the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC 2025!

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Wow, this is so impressive! Thank you for doing this. I haven’t posted much on social media lately but you’ve inspired me to give this a shot for EGW

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 12/03/2026

I have at times live-posted GDC sessions and now I’ve picked “Teaching Games with Games” where @alt254.bsky.social & @chouxsalad.bsky.social have designated this year’s 4-person panel topic as “teaching students about generative AI” without doing what S.B. describes as “cop shit” (policing AI usage)

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Up next @pfquarta.bsky.social is playing Super Smash Melee and talking about all the twists and turns of this game's incredible history

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Decades before Slay the Spire there was the single player Magic: The Gathering (1997) computer game -- watch @toddwords.bsky.social play!

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

@chadtoprak.bsky.social is now playing one of the earliest videogame documentaries, Escape from Woomera (2003), that is based on the investigative journalism around the Woomera detention center in Australia

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

And now @alt254.bsky.social is performing a modular synth set "Home is where the House Is" -- he's using samples of "home" music from videogames set to house beats!

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Tucking in to watch @halfrobot.com play Cosmology of Kyoto and I'm already learning a ton about 10th century Heian-era Japan as well as game preservation from the 90s

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Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Some reflections and process on working with our Advisory Group on Design and Disability - “generative friction” and how we meet to create access and ideas. www.vam.ac.uk/blog/project...

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Design and Disability advisory group process • V&A Blog

One of the key phrases that is central to disability politics is ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’, and as an exhibition that firmly aimed to place disabled culture and identity at its core, it was...

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Currently watching @tigershungry.co.uk reveal her desktop secrets!

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

So many people I adore are showcasing some wild stuff on @romchip.bsky.social's annual Twitch charity stream today! If you want a lovely stream to chill to this Saturday or would like to support this titan of open source game histories please check it out! www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal

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[untitled games event] Amsterdam @untitledgamesevent.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Hey! Welcome to [untitled games event], a space for experimental games in Amsterdam. We organize a monthly 'book club' for games and conversation around play. Next meetup: Sunday Feb 15! Join our newsletter for all the details (also help us spread the word!): buttondown.com/untitledgame...

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[untitled games event] lives!

A recap of edition #1, Sun 18 Jan 2026

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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

new game release: Rainbows Are Carnivores is an experimental gay fishing romance / aquaculture management sim. Free, 10-20 min, play in mobile or desktop browser radiatoryang.itch.io/rainbows

game screenshot of a sexy guy getting fished out of the water

game screenshot of a sexy shirtless fisherman and behind him a rainbow-flagged Boeing CH-47 Chinook tandem-rotor transport helicopter flying in the distance dumping hundreds of fresh live sexy men into the lake, replenishing the depleted stocks for the sexy shirtless fisherman's continued enjoyment.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 07/12/2025

I got to try this at Playtopia, immediately engaging. I’m very keen to play more. Even better, I was super interested to hear how the team is adapting the videogame for live theatre. I wish I was in the Benelux region to see the performances bsky.app/profile/pepi...

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I played the demo for The Wide Open Sky is Running Out of Catfish (what a title!) and it was a magical 40 minutes — very excited for full release! youtu.be/XFxGjsomPW0?...

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The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish - Release Date Trailer

YouTube video by ZIPIT! g a m e s

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hatim @hatimb00.itch.io · 20/11/2025

starting a thread of highlights for the #gamemanualjam we are hosting on itch along with @boshis.place @spacelionz.bsky.social & @marioparty.blog

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Patrick LeMieux @alt254.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The tournament deserves a full analysis but the semifinals between @boshis.place's Little Baby Apples and @wonderville.nyc was ELECTRIC! Luckily @ma.lloc.ca clipped the final moment feat iconic commentary by @lainenooney.bsky.social: "WELCOME TO NEW YORK CITY BABY!" www.twitch.tv/nyugamecente...

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NYUGameCenter - Nail biter finish in the Hexadecipadathon semi final

Watch NYUGameCenter's clip titled

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Thanks for participating in the tournament -- your semi-final competition was my absolute favourite of the night!

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Stephanie Boluk @chouxsalad.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Although it's late in life, Deadlock is the first shooter I'm investing time in learning to play and I'm so excited that Malcolm is working on this project. The potential for both experimental play as well as training games is off the charts!

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 11/11/2025

This year we're proud to present STILL TOP SEKRIT new games from: * Julián Cordero (@despelote.game) * @alt254.bsky.social + @chouxsalad.bsky.social‬ (of the OCTOPAD, hint hint) * Jana Romanova ( janaromanova.com ) * @nicole.pizza (The Crush House) + @okremiok.bsky.social (Pikuniku)

Patrick LeMieux + Stephanie Boluk (photos)

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Patrick LeMieux @alt254.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

It’s that time again! We’re at @boshis.place for the second night of the OCTOPAD OPEN where we’re trying out the HEXADECIPAD & looking for teams to compete at No Quarter on 11/22! Wanna join us? Head over to 1002 Metropolitan Ave and follow the instructions on the door! We’re playing from 7-11PM!

A red, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at Boshi's Place. When: Friday, Nov. 7 from 7:00PM-11:00PM. Where: 1002 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211. @boshisplace https://boshis.place"

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Patrick LeMieux @alt254.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Y'all, it's time! At 5:30PM we're gonna start the first night of the OCTOPAD OPEN hosted by @nyugamecenter.bsky.social! The HEXIDECIPAD is in Room 233 at 370 Jay St. and if you want to join us check out gamecenter.nyu.edu/events/playt... Excited to see how the team vs team action plays out!

A grey, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at NYU Game Center. When: Thursday, Nov. 6 from 5:30PM-7:00PM. Where: Room 233 at 370 Jay St., Brooklyn, NY 11201. https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/events/playtest-thursdays"

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Patrick LeMieux @alt254.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Excited to be working w/ @tigershungry.co.uk & the NYU crew to make an intramural, bsports tournament for NO QUARTER 2025! To recruit teams @chouxsalad.bsky.social & I will show the HEXADECIPAD, a 16-player NES controller, at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social 11/6 @boshis.place 11/7 @wonderville.nyc 11/8

A blue, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at Wonderville. When: Saturday, Nov. 8 from 3:00PM-8:00PM. Where: 1186 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11221. https://wonderville.nyc"

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