WILL BUTLER
@carrythezero.bsky.social
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PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | lifting my skinny fists like antennas to heaven
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Words from me! A huge thanks to @karthupial.bsky.social for the edits as well as @isaacpatmurphy.lostincult.co.uk, @philsalv.bsky.social and Prof. Newman for their time and invaluable insight.
Games preservation took steps forward in 2024 - but still has a long way to go
www.eurogamer.net/games-preser...
Stacks of old game cartridges and video game books by Lost in Cult are arranged in front of blue-shaded archive shelves.
Honoured to be asked to speak! It's going to be a great event so please register and come through
Very excited to share that on November 10 @discoxford.bsky.social are hosting a hybrid roundtable on Videogame preservation practices with @carrythezero.bsky.social, Alex Habgood, digital archivist at Rebellion studios, and @emarlow.bsky.social:

digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
Can't wait to see the first Any% Sekiro speedrun on the Gboard. I love this thing.
It's so spiritually gratifying to be able to play an album I love on vinyl. But it doesn't have to be that for you. Torrent from FLACs, rip some CDs.

Insist upon your humanity and take your music back.
The harm the streamers did by taking music - something so essential to many people's lives - devaluing it completely and then trapping it behind a wall of detritus for those who still want to access it... it's frankly cultural vandalism.
seriously

for fucks sake

cancel your spotify subscription
@PopBase on Twitter "Spotify teams up with ChatGPT to offer personalized recommendations."
Hades II got its hooks in me last night. Supergiant simply do not miss.

My hot take is this: Darren Korb is the best guitar player working in games. The riffs are sweet, sure, but there's no other composer I'm aware of that treats their guitar like a string suite as well.
If you weren't already boycotting, Microsoft have made the decision even easier for you.
BREAKING: Microsoft is announcing big changes to Xbox Game Pass today. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is getting more features, but it's going up to $29.99 a month. PC games + cloud are also coming to new Game Pass Essential + Premium plans. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/789424/...
Microsoft revamps Xbox Game Pass plans and hikes Ultimate to $29.99 a month
All Xbox Game Pass tiers are getting big changes
www.theverge.com
Watching the trailer for the original Skate and at 0:27, the player ollies onto the outside of a hip and hits the bank. It's not a lot of air, it's not even a trick. But that simple, realistic board expression feels completely absent in everything surrounding Skate 4
youtu.be/-53C6963x1M
skate. Game Trailer
YouTube video by Electronic Arts
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The AT-AT stacking it off the mountain was pretty good. I'll concede that much.
Star Wars is a franchise built on a foundation of funny little freaks. But the second you commodify them, they stop being little freaks and become mascots.

We can all still enjoy Salacious B. Crumb because Disney haven't realised how popular a disgusting little rat man would be in the right show.
Pining for the days where we all called him Baby Yoda. Before he was a mascot, he was just a funny little guy that knew Werner Herzog.
Hit Silksong credits last night and here's my experience:

When I'm getting bodied by bosses, it's over-tuned, cruel, punishing. Was this even playtested?! I'm muttering angrily. My wife is worried about me.

When I'm winning, it's incredible, an intense tribute to perseverance, what a masterpiece.
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Palestinian Voices in Games announced - a network of more than 50 industry professionals supporting Palestinian video game creators, with 4 games currently receiving help.

(Read more: Palestinian Voices in Games)
I don't think these guys understand what revolutions are. Hopefully they will soon!
This is one of the issues at the heart of my research.

When I ask devs to list the tools they use on the daily basis - ESPECIALLY live service devs - the amount of software needed to recreate their work environment is just so vast.
For my fellow game developers out there, a starter tip for preparing your games for archiving:

Write down the list of software & tool versions you use, their respective download links, and even an offline copy of the installers if possible. These are needed for reconstitution
RP the kinda guy to enter a conversation with "haha what are we laughing about?". Just sucks the vibes out of a room.
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IGN's website after 9/11 is....surreal.
Turnstile Tiny Desk just dropped and these boys are stage diving in the office!! Call HR!!
youtu.be/ylL-SSRDyJc
Turnstile: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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YES!!! Congrats pal so happy for ya :D
The Silksong discourses are whatever but my biggest takeaway from this otherwise excellent videogame is that it's showing me exactly how much my reflexes have dulled in the years since HK 😔
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"this silksong boss is so hard" and a pic is posted and this is the boss i see