Third time was indeed the charm. Wow. That was so much fun.

All thanks to everyone who came, played, brought snacks, found a pigeon soulmate, got yoked and rolled with it. Special thanks to Puck Verras for the incredible guacamole 🫶

Do it all again next month? Mark your calendars for Sunday 19 April, and read on for details on the first [uge] field trip!

As always, we’ll reach for your inbox two weeks before show date with all the details. Photographic highlights are above and below, with thanks to Yan Cong.

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The 1st [uge] field trip!

This Saturday on 28 March, some of us will be attending Indie Showcase NL at A-Lab in Noord. Looks like a good time: 10ish upcoming indie games to play plus a Rusty Lake exhibition. Tickets appear to be sold out right now, but keep an eye on Ticketswap!

We’ve reserved a big table at nearby Tolhuistuin from 1700-1900 for [uge]—if you’re at the event, or just nearby and free, swing by! It’ll be fun to debrief on the games we played or chat and catch up over drinks and snacks.

[uge] field trip to Indie Showcase NL
Saturday 28 March 2026
1700-1900 (drop in and drop out whenever!)

Meet at Tolhuistuin, IJPromenade 2
(upstairs at the bar, ask for Chris / Krish)

Works featured in edition #3

• Something to Reach For, by Outer Plays

  • Also play Joanna and Eszter’s game poem Scroll and Shine!

• Get Yoked and Please Don’t Feed Me, by Barking Dogs

  • Introduced by Jingtong Zhu, who you can follow on Bluesky

• Pigeon: A Love Story by Wristwork

• Ramon Huiskamp’s solo card games: Joker Jailbreak, Royal Execution, and the new Babel’s Tower

Community Updates

• Thijs van Loenhout (who presented Benches in edition #2) has a new game out! Remembering Pink V is a short narrative game that spans star systems and the depths of your memories.

• Our friends at the UvA GameLab are organizing a fascinating seminar on “Difficulty and Destruction in Videogames”. Friday 27 March 27, 1-3pm at the UvA’s BG1 building, room 0.16 (Turfdraagsterpad 9). Two talks plus time to play and live-analyse the games discussed.

• GodotCon Amsterdam is around the corner! Event dates are 23-24 April, and there’s still time to submit proposals for talks and workshops.

Recommendations from edition #3:

• The Ground Itself, by Everest Pipkin: “a single-session roleplaying game about how places both change and remember themselves…the echoes and traces we leave for others after we are gone.”

• This fun new collage video on “hands in videogames”

• Manifold Garden: “a stunning first-person puzzle game of impossible architecture and reimagined physics.” It’s Get Yoked for the mind.

• The Looker: a comedic puzzle solving game that parodies Jonathan Blow's The Witness.

• Universal Paperclips: legendary browser-based incremental clicker game about an AI tasked with producing paperclips.

• Tom Francis’ GridCannon, the single deck solo card game that inspired Ramon to work on Joker Jailbreak.

Thank you to everyone who left recs and notes.

Until next time,

[uge]