Neil
@neilisainmdom.bsky.social
Irish C/C++ programmer. Love reading and talking about games and movies mostly!
He/him, I speak English, Irish and Portuguese!
He/him, I speak English, Irish and Portuguese!
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new game release: Rainbows Are Carnivores is an experimental gay fishing romance / aquaculture management sim. Free, 10-20 min, play in mobile or desktop browser radiatoryang.itch.io/rainbows
December 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
new game release: Rainbows Are Carnivores is an experimental gay fishing romance / aquaculture management sim. Free, 10-20 min, play in mobile or desktop browser radiatoryang.itch.io/rainbows
WERWULF (Eggers, 2026)
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
WERWULF (Eggers, 2026)
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We're thrilled to be number 20 in Rolling Stone's 25 Best Video Games of 2025. 🥳
It's really been an amazing year!
It's really been an amazing year!
French RPGs, playable TV shows, and a new era of Nintendo made this year an onslaught of gaming goodness.
The 25 Best Video Games of 2025
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We're thrilled to be number 20 in Rolling Stone's 25 Best Video Games of 2025. 🥳
It's really been an amazing year!
It's really been an amazing year!
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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[no spoilers] I think it’s got one of the best stories in games this year - it’s got a very acute awareness of class stratification and is very attached to interrogating the history of ancient lands and how that gets buried or forgotten
Played through the opening of The Seance of Blake Manor this evening.
Suitably gothic, and sets up it's mystery well. Intrigued to keep playing and explore more. Has the feel of an old school point and click but with more modern sensibilities.
Suitably gothic, and sets up it's mystery well. Intrigued to keep playing and explore more. Has the feel of an old school point and click but with more modern sensibilities.
November 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
[no spoilers] I think it’s got one of the best stories in games this year - it’s got a very acute awareness of class stratification and is very attached to interrogating the history of ancient lands and how that gets buried or forgotten
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A write up on why reading other critics is worthwhile in all instances, with extensive quoting from others works I have read, and publicly sharing the very large games writing resource document I've been slowly accumulating links for these past months (years)
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
A Reading Manifesto
or a theory on how to break through circuitous discourse
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A write up on why reading other critics is worthwhile in all instances, with extensive quoting from others works I have read, and publicly sharing the very large games writing resource document I've been slowly accumulating links for these past months (years)
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
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This wasn’t about leaking GTA VI.
It was:
Rockstar illegally firing union members to stop the studio from unionizing.
it directly contradicts Rockstar’s PR narrative and confirms almost everything that people suspected was going on.
It was:
Rockstar illegally firing union members to stop the studio from unionizing.
it directly contradicts Rockstar’s PR narrative and confirms almost everything that people suspected was going on.
November 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This wasn’t about leaking GTA VI.
It was:
Rockstar illegally firing union members to stop the studio from unionizing.
it directly contradicts Rockstar’s PR narrative and confirms almost everything that people suspected was going on.
It was:
Rockstar illegally firing union members to stop the studio from unionizing.
it directly contradicts Rockstar’s PR narrative and confirms almost everything that people suspected was going on.
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Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information"
They want people to assume this means game info or assets.
But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to:
'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"
They want people to assume this means game info or assets.
But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to:
'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"
"Rockstar, Rockstar, you're disgusting, we charge you with union busting," the protesters declared.
'All you had to do was follow the damn law, Rockstar!': Workers are protesting outside Take-Two after GTA 6 dev's alleged 'brazen' union-busting
"They can get used to seeing us on their doorstep."
www.pcgamer.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information"
They want people to assume this means game info or assets.
But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to:
'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"
They want people to assume this means game info or assets.
But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to:
'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"
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Totally engrossed with The Séance of Blake Manor, 7 hrs in and it might be the best detective game I've played since Obra Dinn, maith sibh @spookydoorway.bsky.social!
store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...
store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...
Save 10% on The Séance of Blake Manor on Steam
The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurren...
store.steampowered.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Totally engrossed with The Séance of Blake Manor, 7 hrs in and it might be the best detective game I've played since Obra Dinn, maith sibh @spookydoorway.bsky.social!
store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...
store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...
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I wrote about historical fiction and romantic visions of the past in this year's videogames. Read it below!
Ghost of Yotei, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Mafia: The Old Country each, to different degrees, complicate our vision of the past.
Ghost Of Yotei And Other Historical Games Are Rewriting Old Myths
Ghost of Yotei, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Mafia: The Old Country each, to different degrees, complicate our vision of the past
kotaku.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I wrote about historical fiction and romantic visions of the past in this year's videogames. Read it below!
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The Séance of Blake Manor is OUT NOW!
Can you discover what has become of Evelyn Deane and uncover the secrets of Blake Manor itself?
store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...
Can you discover what has become of Evelyn Deane and uncover the secrets of Blake Manor itself?
store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Séance of Blake Manor is OUT NOW!
Can you discover what has become of Evelyn Deane and uncover the secrets of Blake Manor itself?
store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...
Can you discover what has become of Evelyn Deane and uncover the secrets of Blake Manor itself?
store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...
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Citizen Sleeper 2 received the "Code the Rights - Best Game 2025" award from Amnesty International earlier today, at the CEEGA Awards in Poznań 🥳
It recognizes "games that address human rights topics in an innovative way" and it's a really cool initiative:
www.amnesty.org.pl/code-the-rig...
It recognizes "games that address human rights topics in an innovative way" and it's a really cool initiative:
www.amnesty.org.pl/code-the-rig...
October 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Citizen Sleeper 2 received the "Code the Rights - Best Game 2025" award from Amnesty International earlier today, at the CEEGA Awards in Poznań 🥳
It recognizes "games that address human rights topics in an innovative way" and it's a really cool initiative:
www.amnesty.org.pl/code-the-rig...
It recognizes "games that address human rights topics in an innovative way" and it's a really cool initiative:
www.amnesty.org.pl/code-the-rig...
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Once you learn that you don't need to have a take on every single thing that crosses your screen your life instantly improves 200%
October 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Once you learn that you don't need to have a take on every single thing that crosses your screen your life instantly improves 200%
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❌Proper tiling and masking for the UI sprites
✔️Convoluted ass optical illusion using a 3D camera
(Trust me, this is somehow way easier than all the other options I've tried, and more optimized too)
#gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #madewithunity
✔️Convoluted ass optical illusion using a 3D camera
(Trust me, this is somehow way easier than all the other options I've tried, and more optimized too)
#gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #madewithunity
October 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
❌Proper tiling and masking for the UI sprites
✔️Convoluted ass optical illusion using a 3D camera
(Trust me, this is somehow way easier than all the other options I've tried, and more optimized too)
#gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #madewithunity
✔️Convoluted ass optical illusion using a 3D camera
(Trust me, this is somehow way easier than all the other options I've tried, and more optimized too)
#gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #madewithunity
Could have called it tenderware smh
Realizing it's called "firmware" cause it's between "hardware" and "software"
September 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Could have called it tenderware smh
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All these games have my highest recommendation. If I haven't convinced you to play them yet, take the opportunity.
Stories of ephemeral community and flickering hope in the ruins of interstellar capitalism seems particularly on point these days.
Stories of ephemeral community and flickering hope in the ruins of interstellar capitalism seems particularly on point these days.
ALL of my games are in the Fellow Traveller sale!
🚀 Build a crew in Citizen Sleeper 2 (25% Off)
💫 Find a home in Citizen Sleeper (70% Off)
🐠 Study an Alien Ocean in In Other Waters (75% Off)
+ grab another one of my publishers excellent narrative games: store.steampowered.com/sale/fellowt...
🚀 Build a crew in Citizen Sleeper 2 (25% Off)
💫 Find a home in Citizen Sleeper (70% Off)
🐠 Study an Alien Ocean in In Other Waters (75% Off)
+ grab another one of my publishers excellent narrative games: store.steampowered.com/sale/fellowt...
September 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
All these games have my highest recommendation. If I haven't convinced you to play them yet, take the opportunity.
Stories of ephemeral community and flickering hope in the ruins of interstellar capitalism seems particularly on point these days.
Stories of ephemeral community and flickering hope in the ruins of interstellar capitalism seems particularly on point these days.
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Luis explores the spiritual connections between how games are made, what you do as a player in a game and the attitudes and beliefs of a game's characters, using Mafia as an example.
Articles like these are why we created Bullet Points. If you want to support independent criticism, links within.
Articles like these are why we created Bullet Points. If you want to support independent criticism, links within.
New this week on the site: @aguaspoints.bsky.social on Mafia: The Old Country. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/09/17/n...
New Gods, Old Enigmas
Monthly magazine for long-form articles and podcasts on videogames
bulletpointsmonthly.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Luis explores the spiritual connections between how games are made, what you do as a player in a game and the attitudes and beliefs of a game's characters, using Mafia as an example.
Articles like these are why we created Bullet Points. If you want to support independent criticism, links within.
Articles like these are why we created Bullet Points. If you want to support independent criticism, links within.
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An etymological analysis of the term "Metroidvania"
September 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
An etymological analysis of the term "Metroidvania"
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"why would labour do this?" Because they're fascists! They're a party of racist, transphobic, genocidal, corrupt, fascists! Stop balking and go DO SOMETHING
September 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"why would labour do this?" Because they're fascists! They're a party of racist, transphobic, genocidal, corrupt, fascists! Stop balking and go DO SOMETHING
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Maybe it's just shame, that they voted in a load of milquetoast nazis, but every time I see people express confusion and desperately searching for some political miscalculation as reason, it's so pathetic. The reality is so blatant and consistent. Their motives are plain as day. Come on
September 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Maybe it's just shame, that they voted in a load of milquetoast nazis, but every time I see people express confusion and desperately searching for some political miscalculation as reason, it's so pathetic. The reality is so blatant and consistent. Their motives are plain as day. Come on
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if you're confused about how labour can call a violent far right rally in London free speech while they're having the polis arrest and beat on peaceful protesters, it's because they're fascists, k thx
September 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
if you're confused about how labour can call a violent far right rally in London free speech while they're having the polis arrest and beat on peaceful protesters, it's because they're fascists, k thx
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The haters: I have to BUY a map, AND pay to put markers on it, AND use up an equip slot to show where I am?!
Me:
Me:
a man speaking into a microphone with the word good written on his face
Alt: A gif of Donal Glover holding a mic. He pauses before saying "Good" with a menacing glower
media.tenor.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The haters: I have to BUY a map, AND pay to put markers on it, AND use up an equip slot to show where I am?!
Me:
Me: