The GUTSPILLs are LANDING 💛
Leaving this here for others who would also like to log off and read some Real Game Feelings: picolitre.press/shop/p/pre-o...
(especially as an antidote to all the horrifying games industry news this week 🫠)
Thank you thank you for making our dreams come true. Happy reading would love to hear your thoughts !
the postage is definitely punishment for not having a beer (but you could come pick one up from me at rmit)
Preview of the Yomi Box section with clay characters and what we’ve been into recently
Sneak preview of James O’Connor’s piece with scary illustrations
Big time hugs to everyone who came to GUTSPILL launch and ordered copies online 🥰
❗️We now have some more reveals and info on the store page, get em’ while they’re hot! 🍕
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Details of GUTSPILL zine launch 5-7pm 22nd February at Prudence
🚨GUTSPILL launch tonight 🚨
Come hang out + if you can’t, order a copy and we’ll send it to you !
a bunch of beautiful GUTSPILL zines stacked up and wrapped in fancy celo bags
GUTSPILL zine launch is fast approaching so here’s a lil sneak peak of what’s inside
📞 issue #1 RING 💍
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SUNDAY 5-7pm at Prudence !
🗓️ Add it to your calendar and (pre)order a copy here:
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+ with your support we can keep commissioning artists and writers (maybe like you 👀) to keep spilling in future issues 🩵
‘But for this you need affection, and trust? And keys’ Words by Josefina Huq Art by Hope Lumsden-Barry
+ In an attempt to rally against love after my breakup, I reluctantly express my gay feelings for Juniper the sexy witch in Fields of Mistria 🔑
‘Crossing the Screen Barrier’ Words by James O’Connor Art by Lizzi Morris
Put the phone down and take a peak behind the television screen of The Ring, Mulholland Drive, and Grand Theft Auto IV as James O’Connor documents histories of horror and mobile play 🤳
‘It just kind of ruled getting to fight for you’ Words by James Wood Art by ohokneat
James Wood falls deeper into mechanised domestic intimacy across long distances and games like Stardew Valley, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Elden Ring 🗡️
a bunch of beautiful GUTSPILL zines stacked up and wrapped in fancy celo bags
GUTSPILL zine launch is fast approaching so here’s a lil sneak peak of what’s inside
📞 issue #1 RING 💍
⬇️⬇️⬇️
+ beautiful illustrations and design by local artists.
Have adored every moment of putting this together and this will likely be the coolest thing I’ll ever do.
Pre-order at picolitre.press (we can post to those outside of Naarm) and/or come to our launch @ Prudence 5-7pm 22nd Feb!
Image of GUTSPILL #1 cover and announcement of launch
We’re launching a zine about games and play called GUTSPILL!
A place to shamelessly gush about play experiences that embed themselves in our hearts and brains and GUTS! No industry talk, no metrics ~ just SPILL!
#1 features words by me and the Jameseses: @jickle.net + @omgmorejames.bsky.social
I wrote a little something for @tier-review.com
On 24 Killers and what a home really is
Thank you to @gracemachine.bsky.social and @phoenixsimms.bsky.social for the opportunity and the great edits.
The @lil-pink-clouds.bsky.social team should feel super proud. I reckon a perfect post-MIGW game that makes you want to put down the controller and flee to the nearest body of water (in a good way!)
Super stoked to be included here (for the second time!) and would like to draw particular attention to the coverage of Palestinian Voices in Games 🍉 by @ignasvieversys.bsky.social
“Leura describes how she hates games and the people who make them. She’s just in it for the coin”
I like my game sites how I don’t like my steaks
These AI scraped summary blog posts of a recent piece are killing me dead
Respect to anyone who took time out of MIGW or Fringe to attend this week's demonstration
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+ sincerely, knowing and meeting more games people this past month is such an affirming feeling, I’m dizzy with happiness.
Small idiot stabbing a plague doctor with her new Inverted Spear of Heaven. Lady Dimitrescu is there too
Killed the final boss of PAX (the cringe that tells you not to buy a dagger)
Another lovely bunch of smart and creative people let me ask them the hard-hitting question; what if play, but not video game?!?
It's Melbourne International Games Week and @josefinahuq.bsky.social spoke to a raft of Melbourne-based developers to chat about showing up, money and vibes
Another lovely bunch of smart and creative people let me ask them the hard-hitting question; what if play, but not video game?!?
Disturbingly high levels of gratitude and affection for everyone who spoke to me 💛 I couldn’t include even 20% of what was discussed, but boy howdy did I learn a bunch!
Alongside some cool shit like Foodomina! Come have a play! Bring someone you’d like to argue with over tiny cards! 💖
My board game 📦 FRAGILE 🃏 will be playable at the next ACMI WIP night !
PLEASE
That last one is very exciting
