Welcome aboard once again! Off we drift!

This week, Christian gets lost in the nostalgia forests, while Florence contemplates ruins under a dying sun.

The Bathysphere crew
Christian Donlan
Florence Smith Nicholls
Keith Stuart

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Delightful games

To be paired with The Book of the New Sun (see below), Ruin by Official Electric is a pixelated artefact from an era that never came to be. Or at least, that’s what it evokes to me. FSN

Are you having a bad day and need something to cheer you up? Or maybe you’re having a good day and would like to celebrate by booping the nose of a dragon? In either case, Snoot Booper is the game for you. FSN

Interesting things

Since I’m now part way through the science fantasy epic The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, I would be remiss not to recommend it. I can’t help but be reminded of the melancholic world of Elden Ring; reading this feels like dipping your feet into that world before it fell into senseless ruination. FSN

PROCJAM, the procedural generation jam, is starting on November 21st. It’s an opportunity to make something that makes something! Without generative AI! FSN

Essay: The new nostalgia frontiers

I’ve been playing Mo.co recently. If you’ve missed it, it’s the latest from Supercell. And given Supercell’s willingness to pause, rework and outright cancel games, I’ve been playing it with a weather eye on the horizon, all but certain the game would be disappearing suddenly at some point.