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Hello everyone, welcome to another issue of the webzine B-side Gaming. It has been a month since the last one, and I have gathered once again lots of content to read. Doing these once a month is much more work than I thought (and the interest in these is a bit low for now), so I think I will be switching to irregular intervals between issues. Maybe even do small ones from time to time, like only news roundups. But for now, let us focus on this one. Since it's a lot of stuff, I will be linking again to my https://write.as/ so I can fit everything. Posting content in the comments that I tried initially last time did not work out well because of the character limit that comments have. Finally, I wanted to ask if there is any interest in having these in a downloadable format. At the moment, I have md files for each issue on my hard drive. There are many apps that can read md files, like the Moon Reader+ on Android. But I could also convert them into PDFs if that is preferred. I would have to check where I can host them, but I think I will find something. Maybe on Itch.io.
Enjoy reading.
News
Open Source News
News about open source games
Speed Dreams v. 2.4.1
Irrlamb v. 1.0.7
Tux release 2025-04-25
Indie Gaming News
General Indie game news. News about new games and games reviews that I have found online.
Homebrew News
New unofficial game releases for consoles
Other News
Other news related to indie gaming news that did not fit with the above news sections
Featured article: History of Adventure games
In this part we follow the rise of point and click adventure games and what came afterward.
10 Indie point-and-click adventure games
10 interesting indie point and click adventure games
Free Game
A simple game I wrote in python.
Blast from the past
Indie retro gaming
Indie Hardware Review
A look at the gamebuino meta
Top 10
Top 10 based on the community upvotes
Corner of fun
Some humor
Previous Issues
A list with links to the previous issues
B-side webzine #1
Direct Link
The first experimental issue. Not much content included.
B-side webzine #2
Direct Link
The first real issue with lots of news and content to read.
B-side webzine #3 Direct Link
The third issue
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That corner of fun was cheesy and definitely got a few scoffs out of me. Lol.
Sorry for always being so critical but I've got to say that I don't think this format looks as good, and I think it's less enticing than before. For convenience sake, I think most of the content should be here instead of the 'write as' pages (even though those pages do look and read great). Maybe the majority of content could be as a post here, like before, and then the extra content that doesn't fit could be linked in the 'write as'? I don't know what would be the best solution, but I just wanted to share my opinion on the matter.
Regardless, I'll still be excited to check out what you have next. This is good content and I appreciate you posting. It's understandable if you need to tone down the frequency too, it definitely seems like a lot of work.
Thanks, I understand that having everything together would be better, I think so too looking at the post it seems very plain in comparison with having everything together. So I am not sure what the solution is. Maybe split the post into post or mixing it up.
Having it on write.as gives me also the additional option to see what parts have more views which is helpful for to see what interests people more. And I am curious to see for example if there is any interest in the python mini games or if I am wasting my time time with these.
I could try to make a poll and see what interests the readers more but the last time I did a poll it got only 4 votes with result split 50/50 so it didn't help me at all.
Anyway I leave like that for now and I will decide on the next one what to do.