Spes Cawboi

Three years ago I started Other Places, my series of short films celebrating the artistry of videogame worlds.

Since then it’s been screened at film festivals, the subject of academic papers, featured on BBC News, written about in Vice, The Independent, Wired, and others, and exhibited at the German Film Museum.

Oh, and it won a Games Media Award too. And I’ve been interviewed about it twice on German radio for some reason.

But after 71 videos, 1.5 million YouTube views, and countless hours spent recording and editing footage, it’s time to call it a day.

Honestly, the passion is gone. Which is a natural part of any creative endeavour. I feel like I’ve achieved everything I wanted to with the series, and I don’t think I should keep making it—and taking people’s money—if my heart’s not in it. So it’s time to try something new.

Thanks to everyone who’s ever watched Other Places, tweeted about it, written about it, or supported it on Patreon.

And a special thanks to the incredible artists who created these amazing virtual worlds in the first place.

Cheers!

As in, rhetoric about games that is garbage, not rhetoric about garbage games. (But possibly also that.)

Obviously inspired (and based off of with permission from the lovely Ozzie) by @bikiniarmorbattledamage​, here is a bingo of terrible arguments against social justice style critiques of video games. I am clearly not an artist; if you want to pretty this up, go ahead, that would be super cool.

You can use this to your heart’s content for dealing with inane arguments.

Below the cut, a breakdown of the squares and why they’re wrong.

As in, rhetoric about games that is garbage, not rhetoric about garbage games. (But possibly also that.)

Obviously inspired (and based off of with permission from the lovely Ozzie) by @bikiniarmorbattledamage​, here is a bingo of terrible arguments against social justice style critiques of video games. I am clearly not an artist; if you want to pretty this up, go ahead, that would be super cool.

You can use this to your heart’s content for dealing with inane arguments.

Below the cut, a breakdown of the squares and why they’re wrong.

Ren'Py ships with a new default GUI. This system, used in-game to customize the main menu, game menu, and in-game screens, replaces the old themes and screens.rpy system with a new system that’s intended to be an improvement for every creator:

For new creators, the new GUI is intended to look attractive (if generic) out of the box. It is adaptable to a choice of sizes, and supports games with light and dark backgrounds.

Intermediate creators will be able to more easily customize the new GUI, without having to to work with screens and styles directly. It’s now possible to completely re-theme the GUI by changing variables in the gui namespace, and editing template images.

Advanced creators will be able to replace the new gui entirely, either piece by piece or wholesale. The new gui infrastructure resets all styles to sensible defaults, making it easier to apply customization.

Source: https://www.renpy.org/dev-doc/html/changelog.html#ren-py-6-99-11