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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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First time I really noticed these articles. One thing I think will reduce your engagement is the lack of hooks in the Lemmy post. As a first-time reader, I can't even be sure any of those links will really interest me. Now, I'm going to check it out anyway, but I'm sure others won't.
All that said, thank you for adding to the conversation here on Lemmy! I am not a creator, and my post count is still in the single digits, so I rely on people like you to make Lemmy a place worth coming to, which will help it grow. There are others doing similar work in a more weekly format, which makes it easier to get the content directly onto Lemmy, but I'm not saying that's what you should do. I want you to add your unique spin to things, not just copy someone else. If you feel the need to change your format, that's cool, too. Sometimes it takes a bit to find your style. But at least give an idea of what we have to look forward to when we click those links, and perhaps add some pictures if that makes sense for the content.
Now off I go to see what you've prepared for us.
Edit: Having read what you prepared, I'm not disappointed. I hope to see more soon.
Thanks, I get what you mean. I used to have everything in the post previously but I run out of space because my content passes the character limit of a post. So I tried this work around post links to an external blog but it's not ideal solution.
I might do it differently in the future and when I find time I will add some images that will help indicate what the links are about.
I am familiar with the similar weekly posts, it is what partially inspired me to do this but I wanted to take a different approach that resembles more a monthly gaming magazine with a lot of variety in content.
That being said I open to suggestions to changing things, trying out what works the best.