The Virtual Moose

#bitsyjam100, the final bitsy game jam by the creator of the free bitsy game making tool, has just started and will run for the next few months.

As part of my Pinball Era I have been playing a lot of pinball video games as well, which includes both DEMON’S TILT and XENOTILT.

hotwife chronicle screenshot The anonymous collective DOMINO CLUB has just published 10 browser games for home computing devices as part of their Drive-In Jam on Itch.io.

I haven’t really posted about it on here but I’ve been playing a lot of pinball lately.

This will be a very short post but the games collection Cartomancy Anthology is now free on Steam and Itch.io.

Screenshot taken from Itch.io page The Annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival is a cute online game by the designer of another game I love, A Short Hike.

Today, October 1, is World Postcard Day!

I think it should be clear to actual readers of this site that I do not want any games sent to me that use generative AI, including code, but since it keeps happening: Please stop sending this crap to me.

GDoC is a yearly virtual conference I love to watch and I highly recommend buying a ticket to watch the talks happening and support the conference.

Turns out the main programmer heavily used AI in the hub world area and didn’t tell artists and collaborators until it was too late.

ECTOCOMP is a yearly interactive fiction game jam celebrating the month of Halloween.

Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Year: 1988 Genre: Platformer System: NES Inspired by Jeff Gerstmann’s NES games ranking, I played through all of Mega Man 2 for the first time in about 10 years or so.

Developer: DOMINO CLUB Year: 2024 Genre: Visual Novel System: Browser Screenshot of the first screen because this is a site for children and I can’t post anything later on Sometimes I go back to previous game jams run by DOMINO CLUB, the anonymous game dev

Developer: PUNKCAKE Délicieux Year: 2026 Genre: Arcade System: Browser I’ve been a fan of PUNCAKE for a while now, a collective that regularly releases smaller games in all types of genres, so it was exciting to see that their latest game was for the PICO…

Developer: The Zium Society Year: 2026 Genre: Multimedia Program System: Windows The Zium Railway is the latest in the series of virtual galleries published by The Zium Society.

My mom gifted a magazine subscription to my kids a little bit ago so I was happy to see this arrive in the mail.

Developer: Not Jam Year: 2026 Genre: Arcade System: Browser Sometimes you are just in the mood to play a short arcade puzzle game with very cute art where you make giraffe necks stretch so they can kiss another giraffe on the screen while avoiding obstacl…

Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Year: 1986 Genre: Action-Adventure System: NES Look, obviously I am not going to have any unique takes on Metroid, one of the most discussed games ever, but I just completed it and I’m pretty proud of that so into t…

Playdate just announced the 3rd season of their Playdate games and I’m very excited for it.

Developer: Mike Piontek Year: 2026 Genre: Adventure System: Macintosh Screenshot taken from Itch.io page After posting about the game in an indie game roundup early this year, I finally made the time to play through Transfer Point.

Here is a photo of a light taken a while ago at Great Wolf Lodge in Traverse City, Michigan.

Developer: Aerial_Knight Publisher: Aerial_Knight Year: 2026 Genre: Puzzle System: Windows Screenshot taken from Steam Having been a fan of Aerial_Knight’s games for a while, I was pleasantly surprised to see another game by him.

If you don’t have a library card, go get one.

Even though the general narrative online seems to be that text adventures died with Infocom (which I disagree with for many reasons of course), it’s nice to see that there’s two notable Interactive Fiction and Text Adventure events happening at the same t…

Last week on my birthday I issued a blog challenge for folks to write about an obscure game of their choice.

Developer: thecatamites Year: 2026 Genre: Platformer System: Windows There was some very silly discourse yesterday about how there are no original ideas in games anymore and that all games these days are just made by game devs who only play video games and

Developer: Coktel Vision Publisher: Findus Year: 1995 Genre: Adventure System: DOS After issuing a challenge to folks to blog about an obscure game, I figured I should probably engage with this as well so I pulled a game that has been sitting on my backlog

It is my birthday today so I am issuing a blog challenge.

A while back, Panic made a big announcement that they were banning games that used generative ai art, music, text or story elements.