for a player in my biweekly B2 game. to date, Aristotle the XL Bully's achievements include tracking the scent of a village of gnomes and mangling nearly a dozen baby lizardpeople. I am observing his…

This is a continuation of my entries to the GLÅUGUST 2026 challenges. You can review all previous posts here: GLÅUGUST 2026 - 1 GLÅUGUST 2026 - 2 GLÅUGUST 2026 - 3 If you want to follow along, you…

Related Links :: Tags: < personal > · < reflections > Summary: Continuing a lifelong fondness of King Arthur’s court. For the world is only a tissue of masks and veils; And when…

While we got some more information about Evercold at the EU Fanfest, we barely scratched the surface in understanding more about the changes that I want to see. What kind of hopes do I have for the…

The constant reader of these blog posts 1 will know by now that I advise against playing sanma -- three-player Japanese mahjong -- despite being unable to heed my own advice. Let us answer the…

how we all learned to stop worrying and love the bomb... for a while

Taking on The Nothic's Eye GLÅUGUST 2026 , challenge #4 is from a list by Semiurge - "Some roadfreaks for a passage that isn't a road - canalfreaks, hyperlanefreaks, portalfreaks, etc." I have a deep…

The past is static.

My first mobile game, PatchLogic , has been a bit neglected lately. Sure, there's some behind the scenes things going on to make sure it's running well, but overall, not much has changed. Today I set…

All about an old obscure game that is dear to me.

Table of Contents The Background The Rabbit Hole Third Spaces Caveats Want to Learn More? The Background I’ve been curious about VR Chat for years now, but until a little while ago we…

 To run a Lovecraftian Sword & Sorcery adventure in Castles & Crusades, lean heavily into cosmic dread, decaying sorcery, alien geometry, and sanity-draining horrors. Use the D100 Random…

A slightly angry, deeply hopeful rant about Indonesian politics, the burden of fighting for change, and why we play TTRPGs to imagine a better world.

For my weird post-apocalyptic setting, for now called the Lakelands, there's a needle I want to thread between giving GMs ways to make the setting their own and giving them everything they need to...

Cyberia Collective - Blog 12 Cyberia Collective <-Back Blog Post 12: Sven Coop Server Date: August 21st, 2026 @ 2053 UTC-4:00 Author: lule34567 Over this past month, I have decided to work on…

It feels like the immersive sim is just about dead outside of indie games (a bunch of which I have listed below). After Arkane Austin couldn’t really get a commercial hit with the incredible…

I wrote this follow-up in case things got worse. They did.

i really really liked this VN

I am always happy to see another Rusty Lake game. It's not a high-velocity studio, but they're reliably high-quality and enjoy experimenting with their chosen form. (Co-op gameplay! Short film!) I am…

This is my attempt at explaining a solution to the prisoner’s chessboard puzzle. The puzzle itself is straightforward: encode a position on an 8x8 chessboard using the 64 squares - the catch is, you…

After 35 years of playing SimCity, I still could not say what makes a "Perfect" city. An evaluation screen displays a Score of 0 to 1000, and I struggled to reach 900 and never understood…

The 8bitdo pro 2 (top) has suffered some wear and tear Your browser does not support the audio element. After putting it off for months now, I finally got around to ordering a new controller as my…

Founders World, week in review: Flowkap forces the Black Tide off Small Island and Medium Island, roxx keeps pressure on BigChris while also striking BartigeBert and BOBYDOG, and Noob Nation scouts…

How to implement enemy dodges with GAS and behavior trees: a probability attribute per reaction type, a roll-under check in a decorator, and a stacking gameplay effect that makes enemies harder to…

(I wrote this using help of translation tools so this is no indicator of how good my italian actually is - it's really much worse.) Ho questo problemo, che volo potere parlare molte lingue, ma perché…

I had a conversation with someone earlier about configuring digital audio output in context of a stream. The question was: what kind of output levels should you aim for when outputting music to…

I’ve worked my entire career in web development. I’ve done backend work in PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, etc., and frontend browser coding in JavaScript and TypeScript. Working in just once niche…

In the last few weeks since acquiring my dream 3DS , I've been getting back into making custom themes. It's a hobby I've poked at here and there since making my first MegaMan Battle Network 2 theme…

This is a video from Beijing of a little humanoid robot practicing for the upcoming World Humanoid Robot Games (aka robot Olympics, starting August 22nd) when it crashes hard into a padded wall,…

I haven't been able to sit and write what I want at all this week! So I did a short ramble about that, also Outer Wilds.

The moons always look great in No Man’s Sky. But something with the birds flying in front of this one made me want to capture it.

Double Fine has announced a new Kickstarter starting on August 31, 2026. Amnesia Fortnight 2026 - Indie Reboot: A Double Fine Productions Game Jam, Documentary and Kickstarter Campaign launches on…

An old man (23) yells at clouds about roguelikes and accidentally ends up making some very compelling points.

Game developer , musician , and fellow Sunrise Robot alum , Echolox is making a multi-track rhythm game and the demo is out now. Beat Weaver on Steam I have put thousands of hours into rhythm games…

Months back, I began writing my first osr game, code-named Barbaria. One of the main goals of Barbaria was to have a strange post-colonial world made up of various factions vying for scraps left…

This page collects the various resources I draw from when looking for art for games of The One Ring. Table of Contents: Art by the Artist Card Art Character & NPC Art Maps Tools Related Art by…

For calibration, simulation, and ease of use in the early days of motion controls!

A world to conquer

One of my favorite things to do when playing a game is take screenshots to have mementos of the time I spent with it, much like taking photos in real life. There's some amazing virtual photography…

Video games & behavioral addiction The first truly addictive game I ever played was the original Diablo, way back in 1996. I had always liked games, but when you played Diablo you would actually lose…

A new model called Ox Alpha landed on OpenRouter last night, and you can use it for free through Monday, August 24. Today, I tested it on my HTB-Challenger BenchmarkThe HTB-Challenger Benchmark…

One of my all-time favorite video games is Opus Magnum. It’s a puzzle game about building building molecule-like shapes from atoms or smaller molecules. Each level gives the player some set of…

If you actually run a D&D campaign, Backdrops is just the sort of crunchy goodness that the doctor ordered. If you’re looking for reading material, on the other hand, give this one a pass.…

Don't mess with Ashtaroth. The post The Lamp from the Warlock’s Tomb (1988) appeared first on Vintage RPG.

In the old days, man tried to catch a glimpse of the future in the strangest of ways. they locked themselves in dark rooms not partaking of food and drink At the stroke of midnight they ventured out…

The 2026 Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix at Schenley Park delivered nearly everything we could have asked for: great racing, a fast car, plenty of visitors, and a memorable weekend with family and…

Games that play themselves are like using AI for writing, drawing, and thinking, or, at the risk of making many people angry, watching others playing with balls on TV instead of playing yourself and…

Bitcoin Runner is a challenging running game with retro music, pixel graphics, achievements and more.

EverQuest Legends disabled /follow to combat botting while permitting TrueBox and offering little evidence that legitimate players should bear the cost. Three weeks into EQL, the handling of the…

TIKI BORG is a one-page hack of MÖRK BORG by way of PIRATE BORG set in the South Seas of the late 18th century. "Civilized" Europeans have sailed to the South Seas where they encountered "Savage"…