Recently, we escaped the AT-Bubble to chat with some of the world's most successful game developers and publishers. The whiplash was sharp... 😅 Beyond this network, The Atmosphere is largely unknown and there's some scary risks keeping others from joining the FUN. Our reality check, in blog form:
Vibe Check: Effort, Risk, and Games in The Atmosphere
rpg.actorJun 28, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again
The triumphant return of aimless digital chatter.
The fall... and rise and rise and rise of chat networks
From CompuServe to Telegram, chat has come a long way—and it's just getting started.
Vibe Check: Effort, Risk, and Games in The Atmosphere - rpg.actor Updates
What Do "Real" Devs Think? — We left our bubble to chat with some world-class indie developers and experienced a sharp whiplash from The Atmosphere back to terra firma and developed a better understanding of the future both near and far in terms of game development on the AT Protocol.
Bridges & The Last Network Effect
We're in an exciting moment for the open social web. As Elon makes one bad decision after another on X, we've seen waves of users leave the platform for alternatives. Three obvious beneficiaries of these, ahem, lapses of judgment are Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon. What's particularly interesting about these three
Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun
We’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.
Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun
We’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.
What Makes Apex Tick: A Developer Deep Dive into Servers and Netcode
Apex Legends lead engineer Ricklesauceur explores common online issues that players face, their causes, and our efforts to address them.
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Opinion | Video Games Are Destroying the People Who Make Them (Published 2017)
The industry’s infamous “crunch” culture is taking a serious toll on workers.
Riot uses LoL chatlogs to weed out toxic employees
Riot has used the behaviour of its employees when playing League of Legends to identify potential problems in the workp…
A Lament For The LAN Party
Before broadband and the connected world of information, we found different ways to mix our social life and our games. …
Chat Bubble Blindness - Atlist
Last month we removed our live chat bubble and replaced it with a link to live chat in our navigation.
The nerds are building a new internet, and I could feel it in the room
The AT Protocol is a quiet attempt to rebuild social software the way email was built — open, portable, owned by no one. A meetup in Portland this week made the stakes feel real.
Group chats rule the world
Most of the interesting conversations in tech now happen in private group chats: Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, small invite-only Discord groups. Being part of the right group chat can feel like having a peek at the kitchen of a restaurant but instead of food, messy ideas and gossip fly about in real time, get mixed, remixed, discarded, polished before they show up in a prepared fashion in public.
The Impending Golden Age of Interactive Entertainment
The best is yet to come for the interactive entertainment industry. This is the message I’ve been shouting from the rooftops over the past…
