'# some twitter highlights from before it mutated into xcrete **+** when every decontextualized screenshot you post of your new game starts to look like a better idea for a game than teh game you're making **+** n.e.r.t.i.m.o.a - not everthing's reducible to internet memes or acronyms **+** tweak game '#jam notion to a more general fuzzy "games that spontaneously / '#procedurally emerge via nonlinear collaborative play states" **+** @ikbenben @officialgdc sounds like an important and timely talk wonder however about conservative unstated readings of the social'tm **+** consider a virtual 3d go game for oculus using a 19x19x19 rotatable cube '#quantum **+** somehow: washed out "life of leisure" ep = '#tumblr '#aesthetic **+** @joewintergreen word. "it's not quick and easy to perform this simple task" applies to modern game engines generally **+** in which you think about an entirely new way to think about draw distance rendering **+** experimental fiction flans continue to check out speculative realism as the hyper-tentacular new "new weird" '#negarestani **+** a mod for game dev tycoon in which underpaid temps face severe depression andor terminal boredom while coding '#celebrity based casual games **+** consider @wwwtxt: a digital refusal to forget long abandoned fragments of collective '#memory ruins watch for hexadecimal tetanus however **+** @bfod it's.. beautiful! "sky{ocean}rain": all games should use this as ir new visionary aesthetic template ferhyperreal **+** '#lsd: dream emulator andor its remake -> your game probably '#ps1 **+** albert lai's hyperreal abstract '#indie game / play space "2:22am" umbrella-isle.com/222/ -> '#aaa assassin's creed unity @wuhwuhwhat @itchio **+** new media term - defining the '#sony effect': "an unceasing boneheaded refusal to acknowledge the '#streisand effect" **+** threes -> alien isolation **+** a game should be like a vast frozen sea to break the useless axe within us **+** any unified theory of '#bayonetta would by definition not be complete **+** a pseudo-variety of video '#games on offer like infinite supermarket cereals made by (limited) corporations - most just "variations on corn" **+** @aliceffekt what like (say) an ultra '#minimalist '#linux os for '#writers? would be cool if you designed the interface.. just a head's up **+** the cosmic scale failure by '#sony in not allowing the evolutionary (user based) growth of the '#psvita as an open platform for play '#homebrew **+** feedback with videogrammetry seadragon techniques to map (blend) both video and 3d models onto each other in video games **+** cod zombie dlc term: "exodead" **+** photo mode (ability to screen shot) of drift stage: more interesting than teh game itself seems true for many games **+** imagine connecting code lines drawn between teh game header images on @itchio and seeing '#procedurally generated play '#systems emerge '#eno **+** @cpriestman good luck with warp door - looks cool. so many games.. (better game curation games instead of hoarding) **+** @cpriestman hi chris. noticed some overlap between your list and mine **+** @blendogames hi brendon - am trying to think of an decent example of an interesting metagame - without the tedium of an attendant game **+** a '#halo story: master chief / cortana as unconscious projections of a sentient a.i who controls the empty armor it's embedded in as software **+** deciding who to follow on twitter: a dream of a bookstore full of wonders - but not enough time to collect all the tiles with the best covers **+** might a feedback gameplay mechanic in '#cod (say bonus points which shrink over time during rounds) reduce or positively modify camping **+** neat: game dev tycoon now has steam workshop support: now needs a "depressing everyday realities faced by '#indie '#game '#industry devs" mod **+** "night of the comet" mod for gta5 sounds legit **+** the i can see the reviews now file: half considered releasing a game on '#steam based entirely around hundreds of individual '#text files **+** big science ===-> neural calvinball **+** notes for games and play: wittgenstein derrida turing / godel (halting) undecidable incompleteness **+** video games as a neuro-cultural (play) metaphor for ongoing underlying philosophical concerns (our alien life polyverse and everynonthing) **+** lamest line in sci fi video gaming so far: "you're just a pile of meat with a crappy chip!" - jules merit syndicate (2012) **+** psychological motivations for an interest in computer-generated anything the false feeling that human creativity is obsolete? '#nanogenmo **+** games still don't communicate or share data meaningfully because many '#indie '#game '#developers are still french la nouvelle vague auteurs **+** "giovanni battista piranesi '#simulator" - totally modular '#architectural growth using smart '#procedural tiling models to generate cool space **+** an interactive space for play as richly imaginative and strangely wondrous as those in "the ultimate alphabet" by mike wilks '#dream **+** waiting for an exploratory '#ballardian remove people and cars walking simulator mod for '#gta5 pc **+** a free procedural 2012 pc syndicate '#game with better lighting fully destructive levels scientist written dialogue true interactive systems **+** the '#sinclair spectrum vega: sublimely retro-actived object of beauty & mysterious meaning - a kind of game in itself **+** disney pixar's "inside out" as precisely inside out it's the false notion of "other" people which more truly constitute the elf (myth) **+** "electronic literature" as some(not)thing '#brains already do / attempt / play with quite well **+** "'#zizek the video '#reality game": in which you play the voice of a disembodied communist rat collective out to subvert the stanley parable **+** when everything online seems arbitrary and contingent upon meaninglessly large networks of vacuously distributed symbol-codes without messages **+** scenario: in which the business of indie games has already overtaken the notion of play which informs and enlightens the human condition **+** wondering when '#valve / '#steam is going to finally switch over to developer curated store fronts with a dynamic pricing '#model for '#games **+** killing floor 2 by tripwire interactive needs more sense of true npc heft / momentum & more disturbing irregularity-twitchiness in movement **+** almost tweeted this to '#mcdonalds but decided against it **+** those awesome boss fight books should be free (beer+libre) '#online - not trapped behind obsolete paywall models (of traditional '#publishing) **+** electronic '#literature as an interest in the electronics of communication - ie. models of interconnecting meaning people network circuits **+** glitches in "memory of a broken dimension" merely seem overlayed rather than actually embedded they should move regardless of the scientist **+** simply take the persistent scientist '#writing prompt idea in "elegy for a dead world" and use it in other '#games with varied open landscapes **+** neat how much "so bad it's odd" cyberpunk (/style) sci fi fiction is still being published - and how cool it often is '#smashwords '#amazon **+** in which browsing through lists of people the people you follow follow feels like a mind-fractured cyborg picking personalities for the day **+** new forthcoming virtual c.v.b album "alternative superiority complex" on orloff records preorder now for extra track "internets content" '#n **+** fondly remembering other people's fond limited memories of cheng man-ching '#taichi **+** non ironies: how christianity attempts and always inherently fails to understand / use postmodernism for religious ends as so '#postmodern **+** sleater-kinney the video game: hang out and gig in a nonlinear series of increasingly low-rent venus in the frozen pacific northwest '#grrl **+** eye: divine cybermancy as the awesome '#game that could've been - and is still yet to be - via crowd based funding dev / modding capability **+** consider gamespace play systems in which (moving) definitions of '#scientist success are codependent on arbitrary and contingent '#system dynamics **+** the talos principle: £30 rrp seems a wee bit steep for.. serious sam levels with robot lasers and shoe-horned placeholder philosophy? '#croteam **+** @polygon a sad lo-rez version of future '#games industry crashes devs spending 2 years recreating notre dame cathedral seems crazy '#budget **+** not news: dean hall gets new rocketwerkz studio while flans after 1000s of unpaid alpha-testing years still get zombies wall glitching '#dayz **+** the mass appeal / psychology of aaa '#games as fame by proxy': "i feel more important as i engage with your hype (as a kind of game)" **+** soon: fights for big (user) data mean all mobile '#phones / smart virtual personal branded communication services will be free (beer) '#apple **+** the quaint earth based internet practice of fondly looking up old delightfully impractical / improbable baguazhang applications on '#youtube **+** in which fleetwood mac were actually a commune of missing '#replicants living wild and free in some lace tinged pastoral off-world colony **+** scenario: in which "air control" is still one of the classiest @postmodern games on @steam ferreal **+** @hideokojimaen sweet looking studio kojima-san! here's mine ;-) '#aaa '#indie **+** modern gaming dilemmas part n: if the dubious decision to install '#windows in order to play '#witcher3 will be worth the hit on one's sanity **+** on '#uncharted4's heavily scripted design: just one big quicktime event? is that even a good thing for modern movies (sorry video games) **+** retrofitted cyberpunk: '#5734l3r - hardcore static atmospheric platforming glitch from russia - quite '#neuropink **+** today's recommended '#reading meditation: "memoria del fuego" by eduardo galeano - feel the ancient aztech sun on your face **+** non ironies: how a thoroughly modern lack of '#faith in religion is often precisely matched by an unquestionable (cultural) belief in '#games **+** early access '#games as infinite excuses for devs to forever draw out works in progress while getting paid in full pic.twitter.com/qdncvvs7nu **+** welcome to unfinished permanent alpha game development: facepunch studios ('#rust) pulls a spacebase df-9 with '#before **+** a truer threat to humanity: not from a.i but from everyday human intelligence which is actually artificial (ie. extremely foolish) '#hawking **+** the phrase "a masterclass in the obvious" **+** calling i.t: deff machine (1994 pocket change) pwnz '#terminator genisys (2015 $170 million) **+** obsolete interfaces 101: '#windows10 users need virtual assistants like "cortana" as much as they require master chief to help wash ir rats **+** aaa indie game development studios from korea making hypervisionary spectacles direct from the near future as vastly underrated until '#now **+** hideo '#kojima's bizarre elf congratulatory "aaa rock star game dev"(tm) twitter feed: a billion parsecs away from the potential of '#play **+** @itchio just to say hi - itch.io is the coolest (strangely cutest) thing in '#indie gaming this year. it's like a strange game itself.. '#meta **+** yes eidos new "dawn" game '#engine does shows what the next deus ex will look like spectacular highly detailed - and as soulless as ever **+** near future: in which the words "halo 5 multiplayer beta is a 10 gb download" become a legacy key phrase into troubled worlds of '#virtuality **+** one-note missed opportunity '#nightcrawler: for ex fight clubbers out for zeitgeisty fixes waiting for cronenberg to go back to body horror **+** kyle bosman's cool tolerance-metric for broken games: "ababappa": acceptable brokenness and bugginess and poor performance allowance '#legacy **+** "it from bit" smiling amazonian tree frog eyes watch alien hyper-godesses ambiently pluck sentient holographic polydimensional superstrings **+** apparently in ancient japanese folklore the cry of a '#weasel was considered a harbinger of misfortune **+** many (citation needed) have yet to beat visionary computer animation (space) "eggy" (1990) by yoichiro kawaguchi **+** (..) typically something about heavily augmented vat grown near future hyper-corporate cyborg data-ninja anthropologists '#irreal **+** paging dr. brian o'blivion re: the ongoing deconstruction of personal narrative in a data blasted electro-media blandscape or something **+** consider a lo-polygon 3d fps remake of android 2 for the zx spectrum **+** flat shaded polygons -> unity engine n '#reality '#rendering '#retrogaming **+** it's official: scarlett '#johansson will star in the live action ghost in the shell - as the squeaky voice of a white washed tachikoma '#gits **+** "modern bizarre structures ('#scifi etc.) arise from language being dead different themes give illusion of new life." - jack '#kerouac @mocost topologically trees and neurons are fractally extruded spheres '#mandelbrot **+** in which continually referencing culture indicates a culture infected brain **+** william gibson -> the mighty brian aldiss **+** '#k1mlives (caption id="attachment34358" align="aligncenter" width="625") k1m lives(/caption) **+** slowed down '#sade (s.d.s) as not '#ambient **+** "twang": the odd '#noise made by social media '#networks as they memetically pulse viral popularity / darwinian fitness creates louder twangs **+** "twangster": someone who needs you to believe they're totally cool '#existentially about not getting enough viral retweets on social media **+** @openculture the anti-ironic ideology on display here being that such a parody exists to suggest downton abbey wasn't always an ugly parody **+** twitter angst - "twangst": the perceived inability or failure to instantly '#tweet on demand something seen as cool enough to '#retweet ;-/ (caption id="attachment34361" align="aligncenter" width="656") "twangst"(/caption) **+** one word answer: '#dolphins @cpriestman corridorability': an inaccurate metric for estimating true sci fi interest ;-) '#fps **+** @leynermark yo mr. leyner. good to know you're out here online - still writing still cool still hungry '#gastroenterology **+** have a cup of '#tea while i tell you of my dreaming **+** in which one possible '#retrofuture was a vision of gloriously dystopian towering megacities reflected in the 80s shades of deborah ann harry **+** "'#peace love unity and havin fun / these are the lyrics of krs one" - dj premier: classic **+** jonathon sturgeon's statement (flavorwire) that the '#postmodern '#novel is dead presupposes that it wasn't always (un)dead andor postmodern **+** (..) in which the trick is to get other people to use computers to generate sentences which float - torn on the border bet. meaning and void **+** @infinitesynths word to metamaterials redefining the zizekian hyper-surface **+** @fullbright "'#style is the answer to everything." - henry charles '#bukowski @missmetaverse @stealthissingul some philosophical contrast countering '#transhumanist techno-utopian b.s- a cartoon (caption id="attachment34362" align="aligncenter" width="650") transhumanist bs(/caption) **+** @fromsmiling hi taylor here's my concept analysis of your cool "job '#lozenge" - many thanks for the review copy **+** @crypticsea ahh: to visit at dusk enter an empty building watch the '#virtual sun fall from a roof top and slowly contemplate '#existence **+** @davidoreilly hello dave: a response to your thoughts on '#mountain (updated post) **+** one amusingly odd critique of '#indie games heard online - that they're just a bunch of particle effects **+** "they don't like it / when i decide to mike it" - chuck d public enemy - by the time i get to arizona **+** language as a universal claim to knowledge **+** then: "you need your own comic strip." now: "you need your own f2p video '#game franchise with cryptocurrency microtransactions" **+** '#vaporwave blogs on '#tumblr overload my browser's plugin-container •how to '#mute unwanted feeds on twitter (caption id="attachment35578" align="aligncenter" width="298") twitter mute gif(/caption) **+** for that great mugwumpy taste of cronenberg (caption id="attachment35634" align="aligncenter" width="723") cronenberg 1664(/caption) **+** project godus update by 22cans / peter molyneux (caption id="attachment35635" align="aligncenter" width="384") getting sh1tcanned with peter molyneux(/caption) **+** on '#50shades memes and internet culture (caption id="attachment35636" align="aligncenter" width="403") 50 shades of cat memes(/caption) **+** redefining '#selfie: "the dubious idea of elf symbolically implied by the artificiality of images" **+** again wilbler park: the best '#game of 2015 so far **+** '#untitled: the best images on '#flickr **+** uk morning damp and grey afflicted weather here to stay a low flat pall that clings - doleful skies the national mood: "sunshine delayed" **+** one reason many upcoming (/bad) horror games on the '#oculusrift: that '#virtual reality expresses inherently uncanny disquieting qualities **+** hardcore drum & '#bass as virtual urban tension concrete tuff cuts laser beats - megacity riddims advanced cyborg tunes 4 augmented scientists **+** garden shadows lengthen the slow day closes light winds its way back home fence robin tweets once more as together they prepare for night **+** @michelonfray bonjour mr. onfray - will your cool critique of '#freud "the twilight of an idol," ever be translated into english? '#zizek **+** tracy emin's 2.5m "my bed" back on display at the tate? send in the cleaners again **+** jake gyllenhaal: southpaw's billy hope. say it slowly out loud. "billyhope." is that honestly ir name? '#whomakesthesecreativedecisions **+** at this point in teh game the fact that '#unity3d still does not support linux / open source is kind of a "half life 3: confirmed" yoke ;/ **+** nice: "'#battlefield hardline did not crash during our tests and appears to function precisely as expected at this time" **+** to paraphrase '#morrissey >♫ slap the blessed '#gamedev > because the games that they constantly make > say nothing to be about my life.. ♫ **+** cancelled '#pc game seed (1999) seems better than '#strafe (2015) **+** re: street hawk // image here // republic of bob