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Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· 12d

with the steam release approaching, thecatamites is giving away his 10 Beautiful Postcards post-mortem for free this month. the best commentator on the ungodly process of game making thecatamites.itch.io/postcard-wri...

But it turns out that most of the things I liked
about this game are not actually specific to it,
or to this dismal format in general. Piling stuff up,
seeing what shape it takes, letting your eyes and
thoughts move around. The end result feels sort of
like a termite mound - a heap of raw material
marbled with the tunnels produced by these aimlessly
gnawing little impulses. But even when the termites
are gone I hope there's still some pleasure from
digging through the ruins they left behind.

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· 29d

still glowing after GIGF26 @glasgowindiegamesfest.org its heartening to see so many beautiful people exploring the potential of indie games by just following their own personal fascinations and micro obsessions my faith in the medium has been restored for another year

c.diffin doing the invisible casino (a card game with blank cards)

a wooden sound play machine of colourful shapes

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Jul 5

i’m more in this direction

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Jul 1

DASHCAM 5 minutes of high-speed narrative parenting 😳Embarassable 'Husband James' 🎶original soundtrack by Josh Reichental 💻Play in browser ComputerJames.itch.io/dassh

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Jul 1

PETER STINGER 🐸🖤 a Scorpion-and-the-Frog ethics game, help Peter Stinger (scorpion ethicist) cross the river in time for the big ethics conference Can you overcome your base nature? (no✅) computerjames.itch.io/scorpheus

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Jul 1

BLIZZ! Typing game made from scans of 90s teen-magazines💄 💫3 minutes of high-octane fashion journalism 🎶lush soundtrack by Josh Reichental 💻Play in browser computerjames.itch.io/blizz

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Jul 1

DOGMAN95 "the first game adhering to the rules of the Dogman95 movement" ⚔️ 5 minute Dog-Dungeon adventure 🐕Shonky dog drawings 💎Combat! Puzzle! Dogmen! computerjames.itch.io/dogman95

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Jul 1

STEALTH CROSSWORD "The forced stealth mission in a game that really shouldnt have one" 🧩10 mins of Stealth Crossword Action! 👑Two endings ('caught' and 'not caught') 💻Play in browser computerjames.itch.io/stealth-cw

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Jul 1

making a thread of my favourite short games ive made 🧵(so i can link to it in applications)

dogman95 (a dog knight) kneeling before a dog king in a castle

a scorpion on a frogs back, in a river, saying 'thanks for this lift'

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Jun 30

existenz poster with jude law and Jennifer Jason Leigh lying on a bed attached to a rubbery meat umbilical game 'console'

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Jun 26

i also have such love for GOLD'S ENIGMA (TheCatamites, 2012) this is the direction narrative games should've gone and what we should all strive to achieve thecatamites.itch.io/golds-enigma

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Jun 19

anytime someone asks for a game recommendation

BARBUTA, NINPEK, MAGIC GARDEN, MORTOL, AVIANOS, WALDORFS JOURNEY, PARTY HOUSE,
VALBRACE, RAKSHASA, MINI & MAX

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Jun 17

working on the zine for this years GIGF and remembered my favourite page from last year

Hey!
· i just wanna say it's never been easier
to start making games, there's lots of free
tools for folks just starting out. make weird
games, make something you want to
see! even just as a hobby, even just for yourself
or your friends, donʼt listen to the grind-set youtubers, ignore market demands,
ignore demographics, ignore payment companies,
'Good Game Design' is a myth, art can't be
made out of 'best practices', all design decisions
are specific to the game you are making.
games are a nascent art form, we've barely
scratched the surface of what they can express!
hopefully by creating more spaces like
this we can showcase the incredible things
being made and make people come away thinking
'maybe i could make a game!'

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· May 18

the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· May 13

made business cards

a heap of colourful wooden letters, one being held up that says ‘ComputerJames’

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· May 11

Ill be showing stealth crossword at A MAZE @amazefest.bsky.social this week, boop me if you wanna wax lyrical about the medium

AMAZE BERLIN 2026, STEALTH CROSSWORD, MAY 13-16. Beside a 3d smiling slice of pizza.

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Apr 26

two women about to have tea, one is about to sit into an armchair covered in traps, the other woman says wait doreen- sit there…

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Apr 2

at last a flatgame engine for making simple walkable zine-type games! muhahah

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Mar 31

this is the kind of game we should celebrate • original vision and voice • drawing from other media not just games • guys with big weird heads

guys with big weird heads in a classroom, text box says ‘you should always’ and the options are ‘look directly into the sun’ ‘sometimes looks directly not away from the sun’ ‘never look not indirectly into an area away from the sun’

a strange boardgame with a gun lying on it sits before you in a stadium, opposite sits a guy with a big strange object head.

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Mar 13

The Pizza Jam has started with 287 people joined! (The themes for this one are all Yu-gi-Oh card names)

The Weather Forecast
'And the band played on'
No Entry!!
Batteryman charger
Copycat
‘Mischief of the time goddess’
Enemy-controller
Drill Bug!
Ghost Meets Girl
Island-Turtle
*Side Effects?*
Treasure Map
Wake Up Your Elemental HERO!
Success Probability 0%
The Legendary Fisherman III

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Mar 13

i was staying in a b&b last week and i spotted this phenomenologically perfect dog in the guestbook, thats *exactly* what it feels like to be scruffle

scruffly pencil drawn dog with a little smile, thats signed 'emilie - 7'

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Mar 11

unbelievable jam idea

wiki page: List of games that Buddha would not play
XA 7 languages ~
Article Talk
Tools v
1. Games on boards with 8 or 10 rows. This is thought to refer to ashtapada and dasapada respectively; however, later Sinhala commentaries refer to these boards also being used with games involving dice. 2
2. The same games played on imaginary boards. Akasam astapadam was an ashtapada variant played with no board, literally "astapadam played in the sky". A correspondent in the American Chess Bulletin identifies this as likely the earliest literary mention of a blindfold chess variant. 5]
3. Games of marking diagrams on the floor such that the player can only walk on certain places. This is described in the Vinaya Pitaka as
"having drawn a circle with various lines on the ground, there they play avoiding the line to be avoided". Rhys Davids suggests that it may refer to parihara-patham, a form of hop-scotch.
4. Games where players either remove pieces from a pile or add pieces to it, with the loser being the one who causes the heap to shake (similar to the modern game pick-up sticks).
5. Games of throwing dice.

6. Dipping the hand with the fingers stretched out in lac, or red dye, or flour-water, and striking the wet hand on the ground or on a wall, calling out "What shall it be?" and showing the form required— elephants, horses, etc..
7. Ball games.
8. Blowing through a pat-kulal, a toy pipe made of leaves.
9. Ploughing with a toy plough.
10. Playing with toy windmills made from palm leaves.
11. Playing with toy measures made from palm leaves.
12. Playing with toy carts.
13. Playing with toy bows.
14. Guessing at letters traced with the finger in the air or on a friend's back. (letters in the Brahmi script)
15. Guessing a friend's thoughts.
16. Imitating deformities.

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Mar 7

have you played TEN BEAUTIFUL POSTCARDS? the game that made me realise ‘wait- maybe I could make a game’ it expresses so much without challenge or even collision thecatamites.itch.io/10-beautiful...

ominous painting room ‘i love to. one here and look at the ominous paintings’

a sort of boardgame grid with little guys on it saying things like ‘i’m out of mana’ and ‘it’s a great way to be confused with friends’

little mouse orchestra in a box of a room saying ‘quiet!! we’re rehearsing!’

a sort of allegorical moral painting made of symbols and corporate and religious images. a little guys saying ‘radical! i feel renewed moral purpose’

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Mar 4

if you’re looking for a reminder to *just make games for yourself* these comments are on the same game

itch comment ‘ yea....delete your game dude...and get some serious skills in making video games...’

itch comment ‘Sobbing, crying, because I will never in my life com up with something half as good as this.
This is peak in its purest form.’

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Feb 26

2120 by George Wylesol A first-person graphic novel that plays like a point and click escape room game, highly recommend if you like Type Help and its ilk. feels like youre exploring a space and solving puzzles. i would play / read hundreds of these

2 pages of a 1st person graphic novel, with page numbers attached to different directions

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Feb 26

SHRINKO 🍃🔍 by nik tesija very much in the genre of simple ideas i wish i thought of, just shrink and grow to explore a little world, no other mechanics! just small! ntesh.itch.io/growshrink

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Feb 26

BLINDSPOT ◼️ by @johnleeerg.bsky.social Relatable bitsy game about the daily witnessing of horrors. Very inspiring, i hope 'big void in the middle' catches on as an aspect ratio ergman.itch.io/cosmicbackgr...

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Feb 26

WHO IS JOHNNY SIXGUN 🦉by @siobhan.creature.love mainly this section where you wander around a level from dark souls 2 while they reminisce about dark souls 2 and this dark souls 2 / Evanescence mix plays siobhan-dent.itch.io/who-is-johnn...

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Feb 26

Roundup of the best short games i played this week 🧵 TROPIC OF DINOSAUR 🎨 by @bulboka.bsky.social a tactile physics collage, drag yourself through amazing textures, feels very Jan Svankmajer adjacent gamepoems.com/issue01

Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰@computerjames· Feb 24

every frame a painting