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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍

@crawfordscat.bsky.social
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Cinephilic "gamer". Based in Naarm (Melbourne). Latest writing: umbycord.substack.com

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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍ @crawfordscat.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I had a chat with Julián Cordero and Ian Berman to discuss the creative methods behind DESPELOTE -one of the most remarkable games of recent memory. Here's the full transcript, alongside my essay about its unique, freeform spoken dialogue.
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DESPELOTE Interview: Developers Julián Cordero and Ian Berman on courting chaos to bring Ecuador to life.
"The less instructions we gave, the better performances we got from people"
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ROUGH CUT @roughcutfilm.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Introducing 'Screen Play,' a new column examining the thresholds of the cinematic and the virtual. In this first entry, Austin Lancaster explores the world of video game performance, looking at uncanny 'failures' & the desire for meaningful idiosyncrasy. tinyurl.com/45t5uzht
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Special Delivery: Acting Styles in Video Games
In the first entry of our new column about the thresholds of the cinematic and the virtual, Austin Lancaster explores the fruitfully uncanny depths of video game performances.
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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍ @crawfordscat.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I'll be writing a new column for Rough Cut, looking at resonances between video games and film. The first article looks at Oblivion's buggy NPCs, non-actor performances, System Shock, Façade, Hitman, Out for Delivery and other related topics. tinyurl.com/45t5uzht
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Special Delivery: Acting Styles in Video Games
In the first entry of our new column about the thresholds of the cinematic and the virtual, Austin Lancaster explores the fruitfully uncanny depths of video game performances.
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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍ @crawfordscat.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
STRAFTAT is suchcatnip...
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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍ @crawfordscat.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Teruo Ishii's Horrors of Malformed Men (1969) still haunts me...
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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍ @crawfordscat.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Northern Journey's one-of-a-kind artstyle is one of the most beautiful ever devised?
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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍ @crawfordscat.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍ @crawfordscat.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Be assured: the best map of the video game landscape is not the official map.
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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍ @crawfordscat.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
@radiatoryang.bsky.social Hey Robert, have you played STRAFTAT? Been wishing for some mod-literate writing on the game but haven't been able any...
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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍ @crawfordscat.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Dale and Dawson has something going for it: an Among Us-like set in a staitionery company's office. "Slackers" have to try to watch cat videos and sabotage the office without getting caught... store.steampowered.com/app/2920570/...
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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍ @crawfordscat.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Genuinely the most exciting thing to hear about a game:
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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍ @crawfordscat.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The most beautifully strange video game experiment in authenticity turns v1.0 today. Full of the simplest, most moving moments: trundling down a dirt road, wondering what's going on with a boat speeding across a lake. Not hostile, just trusting. store.steampowered.com/app/516750/M...
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Save 18% on My Summer Car on Steam
My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine...
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Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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My Summer Car trundles out of early access with version 1.0 after nine years in the chop shop
Hostile Finnish car mechanic simulator My Summer Car got a full release yesterday with version 1.0, after nine years of early access.
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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍ @crawfordscat.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I've had a lot of reasons to think about this insight from @foddy.net's Jiggly Zone review lately.
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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
greetings! just a reminder that i have an art book out! it also features a couple of essays exclusive to the book and some poetic snippets. you can purchase a copy here: www.mostancient.com/shop/great-art
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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍ @crawfordscat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Best under-the-radar game of last year: Mask Quest, a platformer by increpare and undef. Politically urgent and funny, with brilliantly constructed level design. Thoughtful writeup on @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell: www.rockpapershotgun.com/mask-quest-r...
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Mask Quest review: the cops don't have to breathe
Increpare's latest is a gripping design experiment, a brutal platformer and a calculating social commentary, all in one go.
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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍ @crawfordscat.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Thrilled to have my writing on @phoenixup.bsky.social's Time Bandit Part 1: Appendanges of the Machine featured in @unwinnable.com's Exploits! I discuss its relation to Inventing the Future, and the unique merits / challenges of adapting non-fiction into a game. shop.unwinnable.com/product/expl...
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Exploits - Current Issue and Back Issues
A collaborative cultural diary in zine form. PDF only (orders fulfilled manually, please be patient!) Issue #81 - 15 Pages - Austin Lancaster on...
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