@agaitcheson
🎭 Let's get creative together, on a stage! ✨ Drag clown and videogame programmer 🎈 Interactive artmaking + playful theatre http://alistair.games http://twitch.tv/agAitcheson
Really interesting talk by @josephwilk.net at @pmstudiouk.bsky.social today
www.youtube.com/live/-AUBMok...
It's about using data from RightMove to show how people with disabilities are let down by the rental market, using visualisation and game engines in creative and impactful ways
Really enjoyed listening to this. This thread of local multiplayer design was really having a moment early in my career, and was very influential to me.
Even my clown shows today are motivated by what local multiplayer taught me in 2011-2014 🧡
Still super proud of my interactive ballet act 😊
I get the audience to draw pictures on their phones during the act, which become the prompts I interpret as dance moves on stage
youtu.be/4_iVh-JQYJU
Every time I do it I'm always surprised what the audience will come up with 😄
Awesome!! Congratulations!! 🥳🎉
The point of this was just to point out you already have what you need to make your art. Just go for it 😤
Car boot casino poster. A painting of a dog who wears a poker visor and holds a hand of cards. Text reads “Car boot casino. A night of homebrew card, bluffing & betting games”
Friday 27 March your favourite Pitt Boss & croupiers will be opening to doors to the CAR BOOT CASINO once more.
This time we’re at the V&A as part of the Player/Performer Friday Late curated by @susepicious.bsky.social
Tis FREE & no tickets required
www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...
The Friday Late for March at the V&A Museum includes performances from the London Livecoding community! I’ll be there doing a half hour visual set with Magpie. Also includes Slaystation, Car Boot Casino and lots of games. Free tickets here: www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...
📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW!
www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope
100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max...
ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!
That's fair enough :) I'm still waiting for my copy to arrive but I really enjoyed Games: Agency as Art so I'm looking forward to reading this new one
The first proof of the dust jacket / hardback version of The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope has arrived! It is a thing of beauty! @jon.inkle.co
🎉SUBMISSIONS OPEN🎉
IMPACT! Indie Games is back for 2026! We're looking to showcase YOUR incredible games. For more information or to submit your game, click the Google form below! Submissions close 5pm April 10th and we’ll reach out to everyone around April 15th.
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Join the A MAZE. Fulldome Game Jam. An amazing opportunity! The games created will get presented at the A MAZE. / Berlin 2026 - 15 Years Anniversary – Positive Chaos Party on May 16 at Urban Spree.
Register until March 10: https://f.mtr.cool/laxluqqjta
#AMaze2026 #mbbfunded #playfulmedia #berlin
A clown in a french maid's outfit chews the stuffing from a dummy she has ripped open
Tomorrow I feast!
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This audience made Pierce Brosnan say he wanted me to tear him open and devour his succulent stuffing.
What will you make him say? ✨
Amazing! I think I just saw it pop up on my YouTube 😀 Well done ✨
3 days to go! 💕
last chance to get Monster Garden on the RPG Maker sale!
store.steampowered.com/app/719660/M...
In the opening the mermaid is swimming through the ocean looking for a present for her handsome prince, and she sings about the things she finds.
I'd say the average age was about 50 and they made a lot of cardboard cocks-and-balls 😂 Wye Valley, don't ever change 😊💕✨
Me, dressed as a clown mermaid, sat in front of a fireplace with my Pierce Brosnan dummy, dressed as a prince, sat on my lap 😊
Had an amazing time as a mermaid performing for Koselig Cabaret - an amazing variety night in a tent by a lake with a roaring fire!
They didn't have a projector so I got the audience to make objects with toilet roll tubes and gaffer tape to inspire my opening song 😊
One week to go!! ✨💕
I *love* this album 🧡
Meanwhile because the parents are also nostalgic for a more analogue time they see all the cardboard props and are excited by them.
The kids are more trusting of their parents' taste because games is a *shared* interest now. So they get excited too.
Ah, so today's parents are comfortable with technology so it's no longer a divide between parent and child.
Like we no longer have the parent saying "I don't understand video games but my kid loves them" and the kid saying "no, that's not the video games I like!" Yeah, I can see that :)
Thank you 😊
The Mark of Zorro
Awesome! 😀✨
I honestly don't know but I'm really curious about it. I'd love to believe that there is a growing cultural and creative openness in early years, flying totally under the radar because we always focus on teen and adult culture.
Is it real? No idea! But wouldn't it be lovely!
... but how would I know if there aren't a zillion descendants of Art Attack out there in children's media now that I just don't see because I'm not 9 anymore? Or maybe it's not specifically DIY but just a general openness to culture in that age group?
After all, Roblox is huge and doesn't that allow you to make and share your own games? Scratch has been in primary schools for over a decade. I lament that Art Attack with Neil Buchanan is no longer a thing...
Like, I often worry that culture has become more "take what you are given." That audiences want their familiar brands and recognisable genres. And maybe that's actually more the attitude of my own generation. I'm 38 - how would I know what the cultural attitudes of a child are?
... whereas now I see an apprehensive child and I'm confident: "they'll have a blast once this gets started."
But it would be nice to believe that the change is because there's an emerging DIY spirit in that age group. It's an alt-ctrl game show clearly made on a DIY budget after all!