A Jamaican indie developer's game-launch newsletter covering the release of Ourlands, a cozy island-building game, with release-date announcements, wishlist and review requests, and a reflective note on the workload of making a game. Readers get launch updates and a personal look at indie development.
Website: https://grahamoflegend.com/
Killscreen covers indie games, game-adjacent art and culture, focusing on work that moves away from conventional or human-centered perspectives. Each issue profiles a single project or artist with reported detail, context and links to related reading.
A studio newsletter from the makers of the tabletop RPG Hollows, covering game design decisions, community jams and behind-the-scenes stories. Readers get design insight into tactical combat and monster building, plus personal anecdotes from the designers.
A weekly newsletter on tabletop game design that analyzes mechanics, small indie games and design concepts such as antagonistic design, bingo in TTRPGs and lookup interruptions. It also covers the author's print zine Tumulus and the wider indie RPG scene.
Stop Caring is a video game publication that examines games as artistic media, their cultural conversations, and personal lessons they offer. Its issues mix long-form interviews with indie developers and critical essays on mainstream titles and franchises.
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