Mysterium was in Atlanta this year. I didn't attend but I followed (some of) the streams. You can catch up on their Twitch channel; videos will be moved to Youtube once they're edited. This was not, sadly, a news-heavy year. This is because ...| Zarf Updates
Layoffs at a game studio aren't news any more, but I guess I'm on this beat. If nothing else, this blog has a longer searchable history of Cyan history than Cyan does. Yesterday Cyan posted one of those all-too-familiar dark-mode press releases: ...| Zarf Updates
A few weeks ago, Guillaume Lethuillier posted "The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst": Upon reflection, Myst has long been more analogous to a graph than a traditional linear game, owing to the relative freedom it affords players. This ...| Zarf Updates
Electron, despite its popularity with application developers and its 80,000 stars on GitHub, needs more contributors. The list of things that could be better is long; the number of people able and willing to work on them limited. If you work in Open Source, that's probably familiar| Felix Rieseberg
Building desktop apps with Electron is powerful: It enables developers to use web technologies to target all major operating systems. However, writing the app itself is only half the battle - one also has to compile binaries and create installers, packages, and bundles for the variety of distribution methods. To| Felix Rieseberg
This morning, Cyan updated Myst (the 2020 release) to include the Age of Rime. This is a free update on Steam (Mac/Win) and Quest; the Xbox update is in progress. Do I need to say more than that? Sure, why not. Context is life. Rime originally ...| Zarf Updates
From $25,000 Bloomberg Terminals to SpaceX spaceship controls, web tech is powering systems you'd never expect. Many desktop apps are built with Electron. Why build with web tech — and why bundle parts of Chromium to do so?| Felix Rieseberg
Here’s a short news update from my part of the world: «As a selected photographer you are hereby invited to participate to showcase your portfolio at Henie Onstad Art Center 11-12. May and at…| Cardinal Guzman