For those that may not have been tuned in, one blessed weekend this past June the art/game/music communities joined together in celebration of Superbrothers/Jim Guthrie/Capy’s #sworcery with an all-out remix & original illustration fest.

Though the “A/V Jam” tumblr has been quiet since, new updates are freshly rolling in, and are, as witnessed with Dan Almasy‘s submission above, already as stunning as ever. [via #sworcery A/V jam]

If you’re as thrilled by the return of the cassette as ward against an all-digital future as I am (see also: Deerhoof’s latest Breakup Songs, also available as a bound & turntable-ready booklet of flexi-discs [!]), you’ll want to know that this is your absolute very last chance to pick up Jim ‘jampants’ Guthrie’s Sword & Sworcery EP on said medium, having found one last stray box. Preview the album here, if you still need convincing.

Meanwhile, to celebrate the opening of this very website, #sworcery collaborator Scntfc has made
Moon Grotto Station Four Zero Eight, a digital-only bonus track previously only available with the purchase of the Moon Grotto EP itself, free for everyone to download. Reports that the track might lead you down any sort of rabbit-hole are unsubstantiated and hardly worth mentioning. [via @jampants, @scntfc]

Every month, as part of the regular monthly meetings of the Austin, TX independent game community JUEGOS RANCHEROS, we do a very casual & chatty rundown of the ten or so games from the previous month — both local and global, and both indie and occasionally a bit-bigger-budget — for the audience, to give people — especially those curious onlookers from outside the indie community itself — a look at what they may have missed.

In keeping with the tongue-in-tobacco-packed-cheek tone, we call these run-downs A Fistful of Indies, which are be presented here on Venus Patrol for your reference, each fully-annotated, -linked, and off-the-cuff blurbed, in addition to their home on the JUEGOS RANCHEROS site.

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Every month, as part of the regular monthly meetings of the Austin, TX independent game community JUEGOS RANCHEROS, we do a very casual & chatty rundown of the ten or so games from the previous month — both local and global, and both indie and occasionally a bit-bigger-budget — for the audience, to give people — especially those curious onlookers from outside the indie community itself — a look at what they may have missed.

In keeping with the tongue-in-tobacco-packed-cheek tone, we call these run-downs A Fistful of Indies, which are be presented here on Venus Patrol for your reference, each fully-annotated, -linked, and off-the-cuff blurbed, in addition to their home on the JUEGOS RANCHEROS site.

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