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Using Unity's strand-based hair package - Scthe's blog A guide how to create, style, and simulate strand-based hair using "com.unity.demoteam.hair".

This blog post from Marcin Matuszczy helped a lot.
www.sctheblog.com/blog/unity-h...

Testing Unity's strand-based hair package. It works pretty well for what I want to do. One of the main systems in TORI is the characters hair getting longer and longer throughout the experience.

We are excited to share the nominees for the 2026 A MAZE. Awards! 

Congratulations to all the selected works!🦩

A huge thank you to all the incredible variety of interactive works, 435 entries from 78 countries, submitted. 🏆
 
#AMazeAwards #amaze2026 #mbbfunded #arthousegames

square thumbnails of various games.

Tomorrow I'll be sharing two curated lists for @exhibitplay.com I made focused on short form atmospheric wandering. Deserts and Winter. No objectives or goals. Wandering as the main mechanic. It's also the direction I want to go with this site more. Small group of games. Less is more approach.

Check out the Dig Deeper section for a lot of cool links including a paper by @emmavphd.bsky.social titled "Tom Nook, Capitalist or Comrade?: On Nook Discourse and the Millennial Housing Crisis"

kevin's PLAYING in berlin on Steam Release the author, who is nothing but the player. Release the player, and restore the freedom once taken away. A three-game experiment in what it means to play.

kevin’s PLAYING in berlin is out!
Play it on Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/3982990/...
Play it on itch:
kevindu.itch.io/berlin

Megastructure Parkour Games A list of megastructure parkour games focused on vertical traversal, speed-climbing, and precision platforming through monolithic architecture. Brutalist towers, industrial guts and liminal labyrinths...

New from Exhibit:Play

𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬
Curated by @farfama.bsky.social

Megastructure parkour games focused on vertical traversal, speed-climbing, and precision platforming through monolithic architecture. Filter by the aesthetics of brutalism, industrial, frutigo aero, and liminal.

Put this trailer on the Steam page! It's a strong sell.

Just finished playing Love Eternal. It's more than just a well made precision platformer. I'm not good at these games, but I happily stuck with it because of the unconventional storytelling that uses games as materials to tell an experimental narrative. I enjoyed it a lot. Very evocative atmosphere.

Not Quite A Game (Games that go beyond the need to be understood) Our digital world is a collective dream. The journey is the point.

Good companion piece by @alienmelon.bsky.social to read too.
www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/not...

I just watched this deeply personal video essay about a lot of incredible tiny experimental games. @titanomachyrpg.com talks about these games with a lot respect, reflection, and attention. ocean::ephemera is discussed in the video alongside many other incredible experiences.

TO:RI on Steam TO:RI is an atmospheric first-person experience set on an abandoned island. Explore a train station that holds dreams and memories of isolated existence. Journey through an ethereal story about the es...

Don't wishlist it here
store.steampowered.com/app/3215280/...

As of right now I have no plans on releasing on Steam or as a commercial project. For many reasons, I don't view Steam as a healthy platform to distribute art projects. More thoughts later.

Instead of drawing textures for a character model, I'm considering a workflow where I go to thrift shops and buy outfits as a photographed texture source.

Question for anyone with Blender/texturing experience. What would the workflow look like to buy actual clothes (shirt, pants, hat), take photos of them together laid out flat (as if someone was wearing an outfit), and then mapping them to a low poly 3D character model?

Also found this interesting TTRPG where you need to solve a small town mystery through a group chat. "...instead of speaking, send text messages back and forth to the other characters in a group chat, as well as individually, as though they aren’t in the same place together."
www.aliceismissing.com

A Passing in the Night on Steam In the dead of night, Kai wakes from a dream. Walk aimlessly in a surreal town among apparitions, to escape reality, to pass the time. Time only matters to the living.

One of my favourite things to do in Tokyo is to put on some headphones and a dark ambient playlist and just aimlessly walk in a far away location for hours. This game speaks to me. There's a haunting beauty in the experience of night walks. A rare feeling of tranquil detachment.

At GÆMZ Tokyo meetup tonight, @thisisdotiris.bsky.social showed this meticulously crafted, deeply atmospheric liminal exploration game based on walking through Tokyo suburbs at night. Being made with a lot of care and attention by a two person (husband and wife) studio. Really looking forward to it.

@illuminesce.net check this out

Tech-Noir Brain Hacking Games | Exhibit:Play Dive into minds and hack memories. Neural interfaces, memory manipulation, and dystopian mysteries in this curated collection of tech-noir brain hacking games.

New Exhibit:Play Curated List
Curated by @farfama.bsky.social

🧠 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡-𝐍𝐨𝐢𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 🧠
exhibitplay.com/tech-noir-ne...

Neural hacking interfaces, memory manipulation, and dystopian mysteries in this curated collection of tech-noir brain hacking games.

David Lynch in Games: The Politics of the Surreal YouTube video by Game Assist

Today’s the day!!! “David Lynch in Games: The Politics of the Surreal” going live at 6pm GMT
youtu.be/xhojVR8vRjk?...

"WELCOME TO THE GAME JAM! "

Have a good time! Can't wait to play the submissions.

Woah, that's the exact location of the first one I ever went to like 6 years ago. I remember the tiling and chairs. Same reaction. A solid itsalright/10

Why Do Terrence Malick's Movies Look Like That? YouTube video by Thomas Flight

Love his films. Always wanted to make a game that is inspired by his cinematography. Saw a good video about him recently.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=waA3...

messed with some shaders and it turned out really cool

Exhibit Play Welcome to Exhibit Play. We're dedicated to discovering and sharing hyper specific curated game lists. All human curated.Created by Farfama

My game curation project @exhibitplay.com received its first supporter! This will go towards a fund for commissioning written pieces and original micro games based on one of the current lists. A call for pitches will happen soon. If you have the means, you can support the project on buymeacoffee.

David Lynch holding a cola can, with a garland of flowers around his neck, sitting in a car. The original caption is him saying "I just had two cookies and a coke. It's phenomenal." But it's been edited to say "two cookies and a Gaza cola", and the coke has been replaced in photoshop with a can of Gaza Cola

On Monday 2 February at 6pm GMT, grab two cookies and a Gaza Cola, and join us for Game Assist’s first ever video podcast! We talk about David Lynch’s influence on games and the politics of the surreal for 3 hours, and we’ve even made some skits for you… Link to the premiere in reply!

prologue goes hard

art in the after-culture book notes

I have a lot of saved highlights from the book in my digital garden I'm building on my website. Still need to transcribe the second half of my highlights.
farfamahar.github.io/digital-gard...

Forgot to cite this quote. It's from the book 'Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy' by @benadavis.bsky.social. It's an incredible analysis of the current state of art. The quote is aptly at the very end of the 'AI Aesthetics and Capitalism' chapter.