2022-04-30 Assorted

Another month, another link roundup. And what a month. For one, the end of April brings up the news of the season, or possibly the year, in game development.

No comment, really. In other news, we have a couple of game-adjacent write-ups:

• Ian Bogost writing in The Atlantic about cow therapy and games.
• And then Use, participation, visibility, and anti-artificial scarcity… How small independent tools help us construct a reality that empowers us (something of a manifesto)

Yep, that's Nathalie Lawhead. In simpler news:

• Emily Short answers the question, What does your narrative system need to do?
• and Lexaloffle Game releases PICO-8 Education Edition for the Web.
• On a less pleasant note, the E3 video game expo has been completely canceled this year (again)
• and for history buffs there's Wolfenstein 3D's winding journey from pitch to release.

Before I finish, let me go back for a moment with a couple of RPG news:

• The classic Gold Box D&D games are on Steam, but what's special about them? asks PC Gamer,
• and they also point out that Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has aged like fine wine

But this got scary long already, even without commentary, so until next month!