What is Save State?

Hi! I'm Chris.

Ten years ago, I started to make mini-documentaries about videogame history called Retrohistories.

I'll probably do that again someday.

But I make other things too; things that can't be uploaded to YouTube. Like game development family trees:

An open wiki for game history research materials:

A Python application that I've used to create a searchable full-text index of over 20,000 issues of games magazines:

And scans of rare, previously unpreserved trade publications.

At a certain point, I started to feel like it made more sense to keep all these bits and pieces — past and future — in one place. I once thought that place might be my Twitter account, but social media sites have never been good archives. And then it was moot anyways, because as you know, Twitter turned into a gigantic shit-geyser.

So I rethought. Something that could work with lots of different types of media. Something where old posts would remain discoverable. Something under my control. Maybe some kind of... web site?

Anyway. At the back end of a long and intense procrastination, here's that site. It loads fast and there's an RSS feed. There's no comments, no tracking, and no ads. I'll be posting updates on the regular. Do let me know what you think, won't you? Links to my main socials can be found either in the right sidebar or at the bottom of each page.