![]() These are tools like Fantasy Consoles ( Bitsy being a popular example), or very small personal projects like KAdventure (an adventure game engine for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive), Tuesday Visual Novel Engine (a simple web-based, free and open-source visual novel editor that can be used in a web browser), G Develop (a free and open-source, cross-platform 2D game development tool)… The list goes on. When you browse collections like my Cool Tools list, you may notice quite a number of game development tools on there. I didn’t think this is something you could keep up for so long. I’ve written these tool roundups so much that I started a “Tools” category, and my Cool Tools itch curation keeps growing. Just when you think you’ve seen it all a new take on “how to be creative on your computer” surfaces, and you fall in love with it all over again. I know I probably say this in every one of my Tool posts, but I’m constantly amazed by the breadth of work that’s out there from developers who are making independent tools. “Abusing you was by the book” (documenting two years of abuse from Game Journalism, after sharing my #metoo… the whole painful story all in one place).BlueSuburbia Progress Update (screenshots of what I’m working on).When software makes you laugh! (…creativity as a mechanic, how it exists in games, and the ethics of either empowering or exploiting creation).MoMA’s “Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design” Exhibit & The Hopeful Future of Video Game Preservation.Exploring the beautiful worlds of games made with “RPG in a Box”.The open-source no-code world of GDevelop (if you miss browser Flash games, this is keeping that dream alive!).The GDevelop Game Jam #3 is here (with prizes!) and I’m honored to be a judge….A curation of beautiful thoughtful poetic silly and queer zines made with the Electric Zine Maker.Celebrating some beautiful jam games “Death Stranding Meets Net-Art” in a poetry world (devlog update).Documenting what it’s like to be treated humanely by a journalist.Indie Games and the promise of better spaces.BlueSuburbia demo is out! (more about the project, vision, and things coming…). ![]() You scream into the void but the rate limit has been exceeded.
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