Hello, reader. Are you well? My sense of time is severely adrift at the moment – I keep forgetting it’s April, the weather makes it feel like June. Our downstairs neighbours are having a party, as I write. My ginger and turmeric tea’s gone cold. Here are three small pieces of news; some unaddressed post for your digital doorstep.
Way back in the summer of last year, I ran an experimental CSS-based role-playing game at the 2024 Hackers & Designers Summer Camp. I then wrote some very loose reflections on how it went, which can be found in H&D Bulletin #6, alongside lots of other good words by various lovely people.
I’d like to release something more detailed on this topic at some point but – while it was extremely cool and fun – my interests are honestly tending elsewhere right now. Still, I’d like to do so before I completely forget how everything went, so maybe some day soon.
I Dreamt of Something Lost is in issue #63 of Indiepocalypse – alongside nine (!!!) other indie games. You can buy it in physical form as a USB stick in a custom cassette case, which I think is really neat. There’s also a zine with a little one-page post-mortem I wrote.
I haven’t had a chance to check the other games out yet, but they all look amazing. Plus I just love the Indiepocalypse format so much! Massive thanks to Andrew for putting it together. So far, 2025 has been a great year for seeing people do something cool from a distance, thinking ‘wow, I love that’, and then getting to actually be involved in some capacity! I love this! I hope it continues!
Speaking of getting to be involved in things I already thought were really cool: I’m doing a digital residency at Welcome to My Home Page in July! This is also a lesson in not self-rejecting – I almost didn’t apply because I’d tried it once before and not gotten in.
I’ll be working on How to Make It Home, an interactive fiction project about navigating the city at night. At one point, my placeholder description for it was ‘walking simulator for nasty little freaks’ and honestly, yeah. I’m really looking forward to having some dedicated time to futz around and hopefully get more comfortable with Javascript!
That’s all for now; I hope your morning/day/evening/night (delete as appropriate) is good.