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Weekly Links #187

Hello, everyone. I didn't have any room left in the last newsletter, but the new Escape From Cnossus has been released! It took a while, but better late than never. Even more awesome is that the original Spectrum game, along with its older brother Spectral Dungeons, can now be preordered on tape from Bumfun Gaming. The latter is only for hardcore retrogamers, of course; any profits will go to charities and/or tool developers in the scene.

In other news, Introcomp 2017 has ended, and in an unrelated but historic decision, video game writers can now be nominated for a Nebula. Last but not least, game developers might like this little case study in optimization from fluffy, my friend and frequent commenter.

And now, about the future of No Time To Play. Last week's incident shook me. We're still not out of the woods, though I'm staying on top of things for a change. But the magic has been broken. It's painfully obvious how much this site has stagnated, even as the name has spread to other places. We have all this wealth of articles, news and links, all relying for presentation on a lumbering app that's getting harder to customize as time goes by, and can't really be trusted anymore.

We need a complete revamp... and I can't see it. Not yet, anyway. But something has to give.

Thanks for staying with us through rocky times, past and coming.