One of the things I find interesting about sharing posts this way via the collation series is that I get to figure out how to group things best - and relatedly, whether there are any better patterns (likely different depending on posts included). This one got rearranged a bunch before posting but is hopefully easier to navigate - suggestions v. welcome as to grouping formats.
Below are posts under the following headers:
- Words and deep dives
- Art/image-focused
- Tools and resources
- Discussion/shares about/inspired by games specifically
(as always, all disclaimers in post 1. Tl;dr: running series of speckled and incomplete lists of things I've enjoyed recently that I post intermittently (but, clearly, not for a while) from drafts)
Words and deep dives
- [chess] variants: taikyoku shōgi & tamerlane by @vogon & @pikhq
- Against 'the algorithm' by @morayati
- Translating foreign names (into Latvian & Irish) by @Halceon & @nex3-reposts
- Thread: 'laundered pain' and 'targets of opportunity' (n.b. references JKR's HP) by @kayin, @virtuatelier, @Unangbangkay and @AriaSalvatrice
- NASA and the 'acceptable cost of progress' by @tef & @vogon ( branch on faulty o-rings by @exerian )
- enabling shortcuts through design (re. industrial/product design) by @tit
- Interview with creator of Cree# (programming language) {leads offsite} by @aetataureate
- Our mother, her seven arms (Experience as Inventory) by @zedecksiew
- You are a Crow: an RPG by @kindred
- 5 pieces of electronic music (listened to last week) from @mcc
- Columbo's curiosity by @v21
Art/image-focused
- (Ford) Escort in an Alleyway (photography) by @victoria-scott
- Leeds University at Night (photography) by @atomsite
- (a week's) Illustration Roundup by @SiFSweetman (I like roundup formats, and these are some great picks)
- Dungeon 23 week 6: power city (illustration) by @annabelle-lee (the whole series is great)
- Margot (35mm polaroid) (photography) by @clempics
- Vases, teapots things of that nature (illustration) by @timecowboy
- A sudden thirst for red (photography) by @cidemi
- no name® book of baby names (design) by @nonamebrands
- Industrial Landscapes (satellite imagery) by @tit
- Housebuilding for Children (book scans) by @cass (w/ reply on 'adventure playgrounds' from @jeran)
Tools and resources
- Tool: Narrat (Interactive Fiction) Engine (demo) {leads offsite} by @liananana
- Tool: image dithering {leads offsite} by @noracodes
- Pokemon data visualisations/tools {leads offsite} by @lmichet
Discussion/shares about/inspired by games specifically
- The incredibly weird world of Photo CD games {leads offsite} by @dog
- Sluiceposting: Ocarina of Time's Water Temple by @SluiceHype
- Let's talk Foliage in Sea of Thieves (image heavy) by @obscureenvironments
- Thoughts on Disco Elysium and the nature of 'RPG's by @bluesky
- (NSFW text) Inform 7 coding workarounds in 2006's 'Bob's Garage' by @morayati
- 'The Academia Explosion' (a 'descent into goblinization' playing The Barnacle Goose Experiment) by @ciswoman
- Sonic & Mario fangame iteration by @mammonmachine
closing notes:
- we're going to pretend no one saw this being posted early in its messy note stage, please
- my 'great' idea to set up RSS feeds for followed accounts needs to be revised because it has essentially hit problems identified in collation post 1 re. impossible nature of comprehensive round ups vs. the desire to attain it (Tl;dr: I need to chill)
- I tried to put a readmore cut in this and it didn't work, so automatic it'll have to be, sorry!
