Let a billion videogames bloom

Great news, everyone! As of this writing, The Unwanted Hero is one small change away from going to beta-testers. Until launch, here's one last screenshot:

I might even have secured cover art, thanks to a generous friend who didn't ask for money. Maybe someday I'll be able to afford proper commissions again.

Until then, let's see the news, again under the cut, but without commentary.

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Let's start with a couple of forum threads, as usual lately:

• on intfiction.org, people are discussing Publishing on itch.io Pros and Cons,
• and on RPG.net, there's some amount of buzz around something called The Anti-Manifesto of No-School Roleplaying;

I commented about that on Mastodon, so I won't insist. Now in other news:

• we learn that E3 2021 Had Big Increase in Non-Violent Games, Study Shows;
• also about 6 Queer tabletop RPGs that everyone should play,
• not to mention The Death of Adventure Games that Never Was.

Last but not least, there's my own write-up that I forgot to mention in the previous newsletter: In dialog with interactive fiction, a review of a relatively young authoring system.

With that, enjoy, and see you in July.