Calligram Studio
@calligramstudio.com
Alex, Eleanor and Jigmé (hi👋). We make arthouse games. Herman Melville Award losers. Working on project #2. Phoenix Springs is out now:
🏝️ s.team/a/1973310
🐈 www.calligramstudio.com
🏝️ s.team/a/1973310
🐈 www.calligramstudio.com
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Calligram Studio
@calligramstudio.com
· Jan 24
Hi again! (new pin📌)
Our first game is out now:
“A point-and-click detective game for the 21st century"
– The Guardian
“…unsettling, smart, and emotionally cathartic”
– The Verge
“Phoenix Springs is playable art...”
– Polygon
❤️ Here to share art, words and code x
🕹️ s.team/a/1973310
Our first game is out now:
“A point-and-click detective game for the 21st century"
– The Guardian
“…unsettling, smart, and emotionally cathartic”
– The Verge
“Phoenix Springs is playable art...”
– Polygon
❤️ Here to share art, words and code x
🕹️ s.team/a/1973310
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Recently played: Jusant by @edouardcaplain.bsky.social and team. A pensive, elegant, beautiful game filled with cozy cliffside houses and creaking windmills. Some of my favorite environment design in recent memory.
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Recently played: Jusant by @edouardcaplain.bsky.social and team. A pensive, elegant, beautiful game filled with cozy cliffside houses and creaking windmills. Some of my favorite environment design in recent memory.
If you MUST consume MORE this weekend, the always excellent advX event is still on.
Phoenix Springs is 35% off.
store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
Phoenix Springs is 35% off.
store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
AdventureX 2025 Event
AdventureX - The Narrative Games Convention
store.steampowered.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
If you MUST consume MORE this weekend, the always excellent advX event is still on.
Phoenix Springs is 35% off.
store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
Phoenix Springs is 35% off.
store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
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Happy release day to Detective Instinct!
ONE DAY.
Detective Instinct will be released on Nintendo Switch and Steam in less than 24 hours 😮
Thank you all for joining us on this pre-release journey, and I hope you dig the game we made. We'll see you tomorrow!
Detective Instinct will be released on Nintendo Switch and Steam in less than 24 hours 😮
Thank you all for joining us on this pre-release journey, and I hope you dig the game we made. We'll see you tomorrow!
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Happy release day to Detective Instinct!
Pleased to reveal that Phoenix Springs was this month's game at Slow Game Club – a great charity raising funds for @intogames.bsky.social
Q&A on their podcast/stream tonight if anyone's interested.
More info: www.slowgame.club
Q&A on their podcast/stream tonight if anyone's interested.
More info: www.slowgame.club
Slow Game Club - the book club...but for videogames.
A monthly subscription game club of indie hits, raising money for Into Games - the social mobility charity for the UK videogames industry.
www.slowgame.club
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Pleased to reveal that Phoenix Springs was this month's game at Slow Game Club – a great charity raising funds for @intogames.bsky.social
Q&A on their podcast/stream tonight if anyone's interested.
More info: www.slowgame.club
Q&A on their podcast/stream tonight if anyone's interested.
More info: www.slowgame.club
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Pietro, a true auteur, is right about the potential and I think also about what's holding games back as a medium for artistic expression. There's also a long history of more radical art pieces not getting the big screen, at least not immediately.
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Pietro, a true auteur, is right about the potential and I think also about what's holding games back as a medium for artistic expression. There's also a long history of more radical art pieces not getting the big screen, at least not immediately.
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Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
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Another thing about Blippo+ that made me want to write about it: I think video games are uniquely good at preserving the experience of interfacing with old technology, and while a lot of retro tech/software in games is there for fun aesthetic reasons, this is a real strength of the medium
hey look I’m in @stephentotilo.bsky.social’s Game File with a review of Blippo+, one of my favorite games of the year that’s not really a game, more like channel surfing TV from another planet. It rules
www.gamefile.news/p/blippo-plu...
www.gamefile.news/p/blippo-plu...
A new video game that's all fake TV shows
A review of Blippo+, one of 2025's stranger new games for Switch and PC (previously on Playdate!)
www.gamefile.news
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Another thing about Blippo+ that made me want to write about it: I think video games are uniquely good at preserving the experience of interfacing with old technology, and while a lot of retro tech/software in games is there for fun aesthetic reasons, this is a real strength of the medium
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hey, i'm looking for work! full-time or freelance 💜
journalist, critic, author
proficient in features, criticism, reporting, reviews, previews, news, guides
words at lost in cult, RPS, VGC, unwinnable, gamesradar+, polygon, EDGE, PLAY
muckrack.com/ash-like-a-d...
[email protected]
journalist, critic, author
proficient in features, criticism, reporting, reviews, previews, news, guides
words at lost in cult, RPS, VGC, unwinnable, gamesradar+, polygon, EDGE, PLAY
muckrack.com/ash-like-a-d...
[email protected]
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
hey, i'm looking for work! full-time or freelance 💜
journalist, critic, author
proficient in features, criticism, reporting, reviews, previews, news, guides
words at lost in cult, RPS, VGC, unwinnable, gamesradar+, polygon, EDGE, PLAY
muckrack.com/ash-like-a-d...
[email protected]
journalist, critic, author
proficient in features, criticism, reporting, reviews, previews, news, guides
words at lost in cult, RPS, VGC, unwinnable, gamesradar+, polygon, EDGE, PLAY
muckrack.com/ash-like-a-d...
[email protected]
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
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journo friends: gimme your top interviewing tips and tricks, things to make interviews go smoother, ways to ask follow-ups, that kinda thing!
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
journo friends: gimme your top interviewing tips and tricks, things to make interviews go smoother, ways to ask follow-ups, that kinda thing!
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this is one of the best talks I've ever seen, and the resulting animation short 'Retirement Plan' is superb. Watch it at www.retirementplanfilm.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
this is one of the best talks I've ever seen, and the resulting animation short 'Retirement Plan' is superb. Watch it at www.retirementplanfilm.com
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Very delighted to be part of this beautifully crafted protest piece / peace
'Is This What We Want?': the silent album from more than 1,000 musicians protesting the UK government’s proposed changes to copyright law is being released on vinyl, featuring a bonus track from Paul McCartney - due for release 8th December
Pre-order LP now: 1000artists.greedbag.com
Pre-order LP now: 1000artists.greedbag.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Very delighted to be part of this beautifully crafted protest piece / peace
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YOU 🫵 LOVE ❤️ CARS
Pave paradise and wishlist Car Park Capital:
store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/...
Pave paradise and wishlist Car Park Capital:
store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/...
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
YOU 🫵 LOVE ❤️ CARS
Pave paradise and wishlist Car Park Capital:
store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/...
Pave paradise and wishlist Car Park Capital:
store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/...
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One of my favourite games — short, beautiful and effortlessly cool
Two years after its release, Mediterranea Inferno reaches 200 reviews on Steam! 98% positive.
November 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
One of my favourite games — short, beautiful and effortlessly cool
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hey
Phoenix Springs
What’s, like, your deal??
Phoenix Springs
What’s, like, your deal??
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
hey
Phoenix Springs
What’s, like, your deal??
Phoenix Springs
What’s, like, your deal??
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thank you Nicholas Quah for spelling out exactly what makes these interviews so inane. also, on SFV you're only ever catching 90 seconds of an exchange, TOPS -- so you end up with what are effectively disembodied soundbites, cut off from context. it stinks!
www.vulture.com/article/dumb...
www.vulture.com/article/dumb...
November 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
thank you Nicholas Quah for spelling out exactly what makes these interviews so inane. also, on SFV you're only ever catching 90 seconds of an exchange, TOPS -- so you end up with what are effectively disembodied soundbites, cut off from context. it stinks!
www.vulture.com/article/dumb...
www.vulture.com/article/dumb...
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re: tutorials and early game friction, here's a blog post I wrote in 2021 on why I like the social practice of game wiki'ing, and the "ludic mystery" that motivates it mixedinitiatives.net/blog/apologi...
Apologia for Game Wikis | Mixed Initiatives
mixedinitiatives.net
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
re: tutorials and early game friction, here's a blog post I wrote in 2021 on why I like the social practice of game wiki'ing, and the "ludic mystery" that motivates it mixedinitiatives.net/blog/apologi...
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LOUDER
You GOTTA stop being so desperately afraid of the audience. Look at me. Look in my eyeballs. Stop being so desperate for approval. Stop writing for the whiny babies in your audience and start writing for the freaks who like cool fucked up shit
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
LOUDER
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@amabel.bsky.social makes the most thought provoking and innovative games. Few publishers have a catalogue as rich and stacked with gems.
I've lost count of how many Hollandspiele games I've played that have floored me with their inventiveness.
I've lost count of how many Hollandspiele games I've played that have floored me with their inventiveness.
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
@amabel.bsky.social makes the most thought provoking and innovative games. Few publishers have a catalogue as rich and stacked with gems.
I've lost count of how many Hollandspiele games I've played that have floored me with their inventiveness.
I've lost count of how many Hollandspiele games I've played that have floored me with their inventiveness.
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I love a lot of things Angeline Era does, but IMO its smartest decision is understanding that Mystery and Full Knowledge Of A Game's Scope are enemies that cannot coexist and its refusal to even _imply_ what completionism looks enhances its sense of atmosphere a thousandfold
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I love a lot of things Angeline Era does, but IMO its smartest decision is understanding that Mystery and Full Knowledge Of A Game's Scope are enemies that cannot coexist and its refusal to even _imply_ what completionism looks enhances its sense of atmosphere a thousandfold
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Excellent question!
Quoting so everyone can see the answer, because this is vital for anyone playing games in a professional capacity: ALWAYS KEEP SOME GAMES FOR YOURSELF!
Have separate games that you play just for you, that aren't for streaming, aren't tied to your career, that are for you time.
Quoting so everyone can see the answer, because this is vital for anyone playing games in a professional capacity: ALWAYS KEEP SOME GAMES FOR YOURSELF!
Have separate games that you play just for you, that aren't for streaming, aren't tied to your career, that are for you time.
How do you professionally play and review games without burning out on what is a past time/stress relief for most players?
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Excellent question!
Quoting so everyone can see the answer, because this is vital for anyone playing games in a professional capacity: ALWAYS KEEP SOME GAMES FOR YOURSELF!
Have separate games that you play just for you, that aren't for streaming, aren't tied to your career, that are for you time.
Quoting so everyone can see the answer, because this is vital for anyone playing games in a professional capacity: ALWAYS KEEP SOME GAMES FOR YOURSELF!
Have separate games that you play just for you, that aren't for streaming, aren't tied to your career, that are for you time.