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store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/... Oeuf demo released! Enjoy! #OeufGame
If you are in Vancouver this Friday... luma.com/zjgatp6i
Prepping this week's episode on autobiographical games, and it really is criminal that Despelote hasn't reached more people. Not just because it's important. But because it's ridiculously fun and moving.
HORSES cover with IGF Laurels
HORSES was nominated for the Grand Prize and Nuovo Award at the 2026 Independent Games Festival! What a great opportunity to give shoutouts to the incredible talent that made this production possible. Check out the following posts to find out who they are, and what else they worked on! Thread:
There are many more wonderful people that worked on HORSES! Find out more about the team and their work on www.mobygames.com/game/251019/..., currently the only hyperlinked source for game credits!
That black screen though…out of place
The Seumas McNally Grand Prize Nominees
Finally, the Seumas McNally Grand Prize nominees are:
Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, & Bennett Foddy's Baby Steps
Analgesic Productions's Angeline Era
YACHT, Telefantasy Studios, Noble Robot's Blippo+
Santa Ragione's HORSES
AP Thompson's Titanium Court
Three Bees' Perfect Tides: Station to Station
The first group of nominees for the IGF Nuovo Award.
The first group of Nuovo Award nominees are:
@gcuzzillo.bsky.social, @maxiboch.bsky.social, & @foddy.net's Baby Steps
YACHT, @telefantasytv.bsky.social, & @noblerobot.bsky.social's Blippo+
@santaragione.com's HORSES
@threemoreyears.bsky.social's Mini Mini Golf Golf
The following games have been chosen for Honorable Mentions for Excellence in Narrative:
YACHT, @telefantasytv.bsky.social, & @noblerobot.bsky.social's Blippo+
@santaragione.com's HORSES
@eviltrout.com's The Roottrees Are Dead
@alamodegames.bsky.social's Sorry We’re Closed
My game of the year for Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto is Andrea Lucco Borlera and @santaragione.com's Horses. I also think that this kind of "emersive videogames" can be important in a revolutionary perspective and I hope to explore this topic further in the future.
The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht
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At the very edge of gaming's most commercially-charged evening, we bring you @midfalutin.bsky.social's interview with the embattled developers of Horses, a game conceived and executed as a corrective to the very nature of modern gaming.
vgbees.com/in-search-of...
I was disappointed to see the store page description put his name front and center while not mentioning any of the creators of the original games. This industry’s obsession with auteurs is not healthy.
That said, I hope the game will get a more nuanced label than “new Jon Blow game”. While the creative vision is his, he didn’t make any of the original games and there are a lot of talented people at Thekla who also deserve credit.
Mirror Isles:
alan.draknek.org/games/puzzle...
Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes:
alan.draknek.org/games/puzzle...
Promesst:
silverspaceship.com/promesst/
Promesst 2:
silverspaceship.com/promesst2/
Heroes of Sokoban:
sites.math.washington.edu/~ostroff/puz...
Heroes of Sokoban II:
sites.math.washington.edu/~ostroff/puz...
Heroes of Sokoban III:
sites.math.washington.edu/~ostroff/puz...
So, “Order of the Sinking Star” by Thekla was just announced, which takes several small free games (two of which are mine) and gives them a major graphical upgrade and mashes up their rulesets. I haven’t been very involved but it’s a great concept and looks cool.
Horses key art.
Horses screenshot.
A frame of Salò.
Has the discourse moved on yet? I hope not, because this is the best thing I've written this year. For supporters, I go deep on a comparison you will have heard a few times: On Horses, Salò, and Pasolini's "indigestible art." expzine.com/2025/12/09/h...
Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/horses...
Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam
This is where we're at now.
I'm glad to see someone else talking about Vile: Exhumed, another game by an indie dev that was banned from Steam recently that deserves far more attention than it got. The creator chose to release the game for free and it's absolutely worth your time to play. Deeply affecting, raw, and unsettling
Italian art magazine @artribune.bsky.social talks about @santaragione.com's Horses and making art in a market controlled by monopolistic platforms.
Great episode with excellent HORSES segment ❤️ thank you!
When we made our systemic game MirrorMoon EP about the manipulation of systems, the play of contingency, and the brokenness of machines, you commented, “Oh, so experimental games mean Portal guns now?”
It traumatised us so much we’ve been making games exclusively about Italian politics ever since
I had to write about Horses for @aftermath.site aftermath.site/horses-indie...
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
itch once again kickin ass for the little guy; go pick up a copy here
santaragione.itch.io/horses
