Kara Stone

last night Landfill was exhibited at Video Game Appreciation Night at the Art Gallery of Ontario

Known Mysteries players at F(R)ICTION: Art and Games, ELEKTRA Bienniel 2026 @elektramontreal.ca 📸: Nina Gibelin Souchon

For Friday crowd: CMU Press has formally announced a new series of *peer-reviewed* tabletop games, co-edited by myself & CMU media librarian Ashley Werlinich. We have a call out for GAME SUBMISSIONS for a new anthology series called Promptuary. First volume's theme is Strange Worlds / Anthropocene!

LADYKILLER UNLEASHED, our massive DLC expansion pack to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Ladykiller in a Bind, is NOW AVAILABLE on Steam and Itch! Seduce new characters and learn new sides of old favourites! store.steampowered.com/app/5127290/... loveconquersallgames.itch.io/ladykiller-u...

could i please stop having weird dreams

Admission Included with General Ticket, which includes full-day access to the Art Gallery of Ontario. More details on our website! gameartsinternational.network/academy-of-f...

Landfill (Kara Stone) @solarserver.games

The Academy of Fun + Games takes place from October 23rd-25th, and kicks off with Video Game Appreciation Night running at the Art Gallery of Ontario from 6-9pm! Find all the details you need here! gameartsinternational.network/academy-of-f... Here's a peak at the selection of games to play...

i am too obsessed with farm girl cereal

Do you make (or have you ever made) games that are short, abrasive, experimental, or otherwise don't fit in the familiar commercial games space? Then you're in luck because Indiepocalypse is out here publishing those sorts of games! Submit here! (or email me) www.indiepocalypse.com/submit

just watched The Matrix for the first time in 20 years. cool movie but i wouldn’t base my theory of reality and any predictions for the future of human/AI relations on it

1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵

Huge props to the headline writers at The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

i quit smoking 10 years ago. which is wild because i still miss smoking at least once a week

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

last one! that’s 7 full weeks of playtesting my upcoming game Landfill every single day

My photography (shaky as it is because I was so scared) and part of my witness testimony is in @therovermedia.bsky.social today. Please help circulate this letter. What I saw last Wednesday in terms of police intervention was completely excessive and frightening. therover.ca/open-letter-...

Send us your experimental game — we wanna help you show it off! Get a chance to share your project onstage at GDC next spring, and help us inspire more people to make strange and experimental projects that change how we think about games. <3

We don't live in slop world because of AI, we live in slop world because the purpose of everything is to generate a return on investment for capital. We evaluate everything along metrics designed to serve that purpose over any other. AI is just the best way we found of optimizing for these metrics.

🏳️‍🌈Have a queer or queer-made game releasing in 2027? Our Qweerty Game Dev Microgrant is accepting applications! Recipients will receive up to $2,500 to finish funding their game. 🗓️ Apply by October 11th Thanks to zPride for helping make this possible <3

perfect pillow

a friend and i played this together and both enjoyed it. one of the characters, a weirdo theatre girl, is one of my fav game characters i’ve encountered in a long while. shout out to whoever wrote her dialogue! store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...

went to a convenience store to get two cases of pop and it was $41.

fuck Danielle Smith, fuck yeah Saddle Lake Cree Nation

week 6: Chris and Yasin share some of their process

trying to get into techno music but it’s so boring

Solidarity with my fellow games-and-politics scholars who will have to play these racist slop games because they represent some kind of landmark in the form.

Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com

week 5: oops, it’s hard to do something every single day

If you too would like to stop using increasingly shitty software made by bad people who make the world worse, I wrote a guide for how to lessen/end your small team's dependence on US-based tech services: nelsanderson.zone/a-guide-to-d...

i have kept up a daily gratitude list for 4 years and never miss a day, the secret is to write the tiniest and dumbest shit