The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential!
gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...
join us on friday 10/18 for an international crossover event with our friends from [[rect*]]repair in shanghai! at the same time they will be showing our games in new york, we'll have a curation of chinese games, a portal to interact with the attendees in shanghai, and a fax machine(?!!).
masahiro sakurai speaking from his desk. he says "why is making a game so hard"
opening your new game announcement with this is so fucking funny and real
Hi all, I’ve written a novel.
It is called PROCESS. It is about a Seattle tech worker and would-be entrepreneur. It is published by Dublin-based Tune & Fairweather, and it looks incredible.
www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/...
Are you a trans or nonbinary writer?
Clarion West just announced a new scholarship that covers all six weeks of tuition:
"that's not canon" I do not care
omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain
This is TODAY from 3pm–9pm ET!
Game Devs of Color Expo is hosting this livestream to fundraise grants for developers impacted by the record layoffs & other hardships in the industry.
You can get notified when @gdocexpo.com goes live here: www.youtube.com/live/FVl_xZr...
12 Questions after Bhanu Kapil Who are you and whom do you wish would text you back already? What do you remember about the umbrellas you’ve lost? How will you begin to forget the sound of your father’s sneeze, once he is gone? Can you describe a morning you woke with utmost oomph? What do you know about disregarding all the decorum of badminton? Where will you one day go/In what forms will you return? Who was responsible for the suffering of your mother’s mother? What is the shape of your booty? How would you live, if you had to live forever, as a melodramatic vampire? What are the consequences of reading the world’s saddest poems? How will you/have you prepared for your friends’ deaths? What would you keep secret if you could?
i’ve got 2 new poems in Quarterly West!!
here’s one of them, “12 Questions,” which is inspired by Bhanu Kapil’s questions from The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, a book i remain completely obsessed with
for both poems: quarterlywest.com/issue-113-chen
“i know a poem i’m working on is working (on me) when it’s not only articulating something i needed to say, but complicating the saying, the need, the me i thought i was when i started.”
-- Chen Chen
Indie devs and a major game storefront losing revenue because Funko used an AI tool to confuse a domain registrar that has no appeals process is a very 2024 enshittification stew
I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain
If you have a personal (non-business) Paypal account in the US, Paypal will be selling info on your purchases starting next summer unless you tell them to go f*** themselves.
Here's how to opt-out, since they automatically opted you in (except in CA, ND, VT where your gov't cares about privacy)
How to use the "Detach quote" feature –
@josephvlee.bsky.social's forthcoming book "Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity" is available for pre-order 💛
Link to pre-order: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nothin...
400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us
A lovely Icelandic term for pins and needles (tingling after your foot goes numb) is stjörnur í skónum, or “stars in your shoes.” A Yoruba version is pajapaja (“kill dog kill dog”). And the best one I’ve heard in German (uttered by a friend’s child) was mein Fuß glitzert. It means “my foot twinkles”
A mostly clear blue sky on a sunny November morning. The view overlooks a lake with a pool ladder to descend into the water.
Tried out vinterbad for the first time today and survived!!! Was only kind of scary.
Just saw someone pour a whole beer can into a water bottle on the subway at 10:30am 😵💫
Huge congrats Riley!! Hope you all are doing well 💖
Reposting for night-side BSky! Hoping to see some of you folks tomorrow :)
Unfortunately not this year 💔 If you go, I hope you enjoy!! Community is great there.
There is always really interesting, playful, thoughtful work at No Quarter! And tickets are free! 💖
Definitely don't miss out on No Quarter if you are in NYC!
Resharing this from earlier in the year! Useful short guide for alt text / descriptive text to make images a little more accessible.
There's now an easy way to convert a starter pack into a list (which you can then pin and check like any feed) if you want to keep up with posts in a certain area but don't want everyone in your following feed!
Please share this, because this could help some folks with worry.
For LGBT married couples, it's time to take steps to protect your marriage in case same-sex marriage is officially dissolved in the coming years. My husband and I did this when Roe V Wade was overturned, so I hope this is helpful. 👇
@woeandgrow.bsky.social @gensuta.bsky.social If you all play, may I add you both? (This is Pokémon GO right? 😅)
Submissions open November 1-30. Theme for submissions: symbiosis.
Announcing our theme for the November submission period: Symbiosis! Submissions will open on November 1 for stories <5,000 words that match the theme "symbiosis". More info on how to submit are on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
