Anna Anthropy, designer behind Dys4ia and Triad, and author of Rise of the Videogame Zinesters, just released a Halloweeny digital choose your own adventure book. It's really charming—you can go between telling jokes to skeletons to finding a Crystal City. Purchasable here. (Update: full disclosure...Anthropy was…

You can now watch the "Hotheaded Developers Rant Back" panel from the Game Developers Conference. Panelists like Eric Zimmerman, Anna Anthropy, Kellee Santiago, Anna Marsh, Naomi Clark and Mitu Khandaker all talked frankly and often rousingly about issues ranging from poor planning to crunch time to racial and gender…

Triad is a great puzzle game about fitting people (and a cat) comfortably in a bed, such that they have a good night's sleep. That's harder than it sounds. Download it here. (Update: full disclosure... the game's creator, Anna Anthropy, was housemates with me and a mutual friend in the summer of 2012.)