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i am mostly a bit put off by your weirdly exasperated way of interacting with my responses (yes, you were indeed being weird to me). i do not care to comment here on what happens on social media, though it seems you mostly got the right impression.

wishing you the best in your manifesto-writing journey, or not writing journey!

gotta build those reading muscles up 💪📖

hell yeah, so good to run into you again! i do remember ‘care’, feels like a lifetime ago.

hope you enjoyed your free days! and don’t hesitate to reach out if you’re ever in melbourne–i’d be happy to show you around :)

i see you’re mostly a TTRPG person; if you’re desperate to participate in a jam, there is an unaffiliated TTRPG manifesto jam running right now until september if you want to take part in that.

i do not understand the implication that you need this particular jam format to publish a manifesto. if, as you said, the people need to hear your thoughts, then what are you waiting for? just write it now! you don’t need this jam to do it!

personally i like the four-year interval. i won’t be running it next year but maybe someone else will?

you can write a manifesto outside the jam format by the way, nothing’s stopping you from just doing that. i’ve seen a few people who posted theirs after the jam simply because they got inspired by it.

i’m just saying everyone (including the ‘most common denominator’ people) deserves better 😎👍 sorry you’re bad at reading

thanks for participating! i’m glad it was a worthwhile exercise.

fuck i gotta watch Challengers. thank you!

ahh awesome! i had typeset the PDF as a zine so it’s cool to see it printed. i should print a copy…

wonderful. put a big ol’ smile on my face. thank you sylvie <3

the pride knows 🦁 the pride remembers 🦁

jokes aside, the last few paragraphs of this piece moved me a lot. beautiful writing as always mads, i’m proud to be your friend and co-conspirator.

it always feels a bit conceited to have the fleeting thought that someone else’s work may have been influenced by mine, but whenever i’m lucky enough to recognise the breadcrumb trail it brings me nothing but pride and joy. it’s good to steal…

i feel like we’ve had this type of convo in person before… as always ari i appreciate your insight on the goings-on of working on commercial projects with the type of corporate-style role delineation you speak of. love the story about the junior animator!

AGAINST GRATITUDE FOR REPRESENTATION!

i knew it was a good idea to deliver the essay paragraph-by-paragraph. thank you!

Une critique au service des puissants de l’industrie est un publi-reportage
Une critique qui vient de l’intérieur est un service après-vente
Une critique monnayée est une marchandise qui se déguise

merci 🔥🔥🔥

hey all, for those of you who submitted and can’t find your game on the main submission page: give it a few minutes, itch has been quite slow updating the page (might be the sheer number of submissions).

if anyone’s having trouble actually submitting and is worried about missing the deadline, don’t worry! i can always add your manifesto manually if you send me its url :)

this piece brings such clarity into a lot of frustrated contradictory thoughts i’ve been having about curation, culture and criticism, thank you for this!

on one hand, i found that straight up disclosing in events that my freeware games are made in HTML/CSS/JS has lead to really cool convos about The Browser As A Medium (these convos usually with the general public), on the other i do find a lot of typical industry-pilled game devs to be sooooo boring to talk to because of these annoying, quasi-pedantic conversation topics lol. i feel you. wish i could go up to meanjin for queensland games fest to chat to you about THE GAMES… but maybe later in the winter!

yes… hahaha… YES!!!

🏝️ hmmm what if we could ‘do our own thing’ together… a cluster of islands in an archipelago sharing a vibrant coral reef…

(reading this in complete silence) hehehe. very good

Thanks Violet! I appreciate your entries a lot.

Yeah, the success thing… I’m currently reading Art after Money, Money after Art by Max Haiven so while writing this essay I was carrying with me the thought of the Art World (itself a branch of capital/neoliberalism) always seeking out the new and edgy ideas to colonise and absorb into itself. ‘Weird’ is the new frontier for them. It’s a fun book (if a bit heady) and you could replace ‘art’ with ‘games’ in it and everything would still ring true.

So yeah, it’s this book + my frustrations with some of the attitudes I’ve seen in my vicinity that made me channel the ungrateful dog in me. I’m glad it resonates.

hmm i really should put more sex scenes in my work… great little zine, i love the way it looks too

fuck yeah

fantastic game-manifesto, love the framing device (polar expedition fans rise up).

The idea that I have to come back with a banger. Who the fuck put that idea in me?

damn. yeah…

so good… SO GOOD!

oh hell yeah

you’re so right about game horses. beautifully written!

YES!

oooh good thoughts, now to rotate these in my little head…

but emma i’m built different… i’m built different! (i dissolve into a million little triangles and the wind blows me away)

i like the way this responds to A Game Is A Knife, and entertaining the possibility of both. a game is a gift… and it can also be a knife!

stealing with intent! stealing for a purpose! capital cracking down on piracy while itself accelerating the automation of theft is DISGRACEFUL and DISHONOURABLE! good thieves always give back more than they steal!

the elusive g?rl reading this… you are welcome 🫡

EVERY MANIFESTO A BANGER

more ugly women! more old women! more women!!!

vive les perverts! <3

VERY cool presentation, beautiful writing! thank you for sharing.