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Earlier this week Michael made a request on their blog to post about some kind of obscure game, and of course I wanted to participate.

In addition to getting the coveted Warp Door feature for my first Plano project, I recently contributed to Manifesto Jam 2026!

What a year!

This blog post is a slightly refined version of thoughts I've been feeling out in local-only posts on timetheft.social.

GIGF returned this year, bigger than before, and in a new venue, the Barras Art and Design center in the middle of the Barras market.

Wouldn’t it have been interesting if instead of delisting anything tagged “adult,” “NSFW,” or “erotic,” regardless of whether it was commercial, PWYW, or free, itch.io had decided to avoid payment processor scrutiny by pausing payments for everything that…

See, I will read your newsletter posts, if you don't use Substack!

I have been Bagenzo's guinea pig for some forthcoming features of Strawberry Starter, and now that they're all tested and ready to go this blog has some fun new parts!

I got a tattoo two weeks ago today!

Sorry that every post is my tits lately; obviously I've been feeling some sort of way about them.

I am Charles Baudelaire.

First of all, for those who have been waiting, my novel More Bugs is now available as an ebook from the publisher!

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As the new year rolls around and I’m stuck in the no-man’s-land between holiday obligations and actually going back to work, it seemed like a good idea to take stock of the past year.

It's been about three weeks now since my debut novel, More Bugs, officially "came out," though in many cases this means copies are still travelling through the postal system, making their way to smaller shops, sitting in people's to-be-read piles, etc...

I'll cut right to the chase and reveal what has been in the works for the past three years or so: my debut novel will be published by Knight Errant Press, and is now up for preorder.

Things have been quiet here, I haven't written a personal post in a few months, but mainly because I've been super busy in the new year!

2023 was a mostly internally-developing year for me.

What's wrong with art today?

Stephen was showing me some Backrooms videos earlier today, and it was interesting to me how they kind of borrow from both Unity horror games (as, I've argued, the predecessor genre to walking simulators) and found footage horror (with its deliberate blur…

This article is very stupid but I think useful in that it articulates the angle of fundamentally reactionary, sex-binary-conformist feminism in a clear way by applying its two contradictory stances on gender nonconformity... to the same person (Radclyffe…

It's that time of year again!

My partner and I came to a sort of collaborative epiphany last night.

I really liked this article.

It's been a while since I wrote, and I'm at the phase where just thinking of how long the days were for the person writing 3 months ago could make me froth with envy, lol.

1982, Janine is such a hot, tender, intense, Modernist novel because it is the rough, crass, slippery back and forth of the self turned against itself, the self with no options, or only bad options, the self that denies itself or acts against its desires.

I have mostly been enjoying the novels I've been reading alongside working on my own; standouts include Torpor, Bleeding Edge, 1982 Janine and Summer Fun.

“Well, if we ever want to know where all the bodies are buried,” Sean cut in, “We’ll ask Kathleen.

Vault 819, Underground is obviously an insane, near future sf 1982, Janine pastiche, though I appreciate it's probably not obvious if you haven't read the novel.

I suppose I didn't have a ton to say after my last post...

If there's one thing that's more irritating than being asked to write for a site for free, it's when sites that insist on going on existing, despite their fees likely coming out to an equivalent of sub-minimum wage when divided over research time, writing,

A simple one, what it says on the tin.

A lot of people who make "creative work" broadly (contemporary fine art, writing, videogames, etc), especially those operating at the highest, most extraordinary levels of success in that area, retreat to an apologetic mode either in their work itself or…

I did it!

Domino Club is back!

I've always kind of conceptualized myself as someone who has pretty obvious periods of high productivity and accompanying fallow periods.

Just what is it that makes today's wives so ubiquitous, so dead?

(Click for musical accompaniment) "I can't believe I've always had such awful taste..."

I have like a half hour of not much to do at the end of the evening now, so I suppose I'll rattle off another post.

I'm feeling a bit shy about this!

Or: first week at the new job midweek report I say this to bring it into the world.

Flickguy (warning: decidedly non 1 bit content ahead) has been a runaway success (imo) over the past few days.

It was my birthday on Friday!

April was the month of Glasgow Zine Fair!

Obviously the argument that like a lot of the recent PS1-style indie games are only working in the spirit of and not the actual limitations or material conditions of PS1 developers is fairly pointless but I think it does reveal some interesting tensions a…

I've been watching some horror films that play with the imagery of paganism/satan worship/cults recently and they're, well, as uneven as any horror genre.

I was so busy between my last post and now that I thought I might have brought burnout on myself just by thinking/posting about it. lol.

Over the past week I did a guest talk on alternative game-making (and related activity) tools for a class my friend Claire leads, and another talk and Q&A about DIY online networks and spaces for GAIA.

In the interest of speed, more consistent appearance,and just plain showing off, if you have a peek at my CSS for this site, you'll notice that all of the background textures are now generated with Base64 code rather than tiled images.

It's almost a quaint, even nostalgic detail to appear in a romance story nowadays: they email each other!