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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sthng that maybe I could get better at is teaching folks new to game design that making detailed plans or game design docs at the beginning of the process, or really anything that is more than a page is really just a waste of time. Broad strokes are fine bc no one reads and early changes are fast
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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you feel you need a better emotional handle on this shitty world i can personally recommend that you stop watching content mills with BOMBSHELL or COOKED in the title (however well meaning), and more time with history books staring the human condition in the face.
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Adam Dolin @adamdolin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Devastated for these teams. They didn’t deserve this. Please send them your support!
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Lucile Danilov @locdandloaded.net · 06/08/2026
You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))
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Causeway Studios | The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham @ PAX West @causewaystudios.com · 25/08/2026
eher owy raeu hy
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HEALTH @health.band · 15/08/2026
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Adam Dolin @adamdolin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I was at Night School from 2022-2024, and co-sign everything Anna says.
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izzy @isobel.top · 11/08/2026
logging into bluesky
chrono trigger screenshot:

Welcome to the Millennial Fair!
Have fun!
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arcadus @birdapp.rip · 29/07/2026
A scene from The Odyssey where Penelope stands before the suitors, but Tim Robinson has been added in. It’s a reference to I Think You Should Leave. Penelope says “Ronnie, I feel like you’re just here for the zip line” and Tim Robinson says “what?”
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Nessa ✨ @nessathewriter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Hi bsky! I'm looking for game writing/narrative design work, freelance or full time! I have 6+ years of experience working with both AAA and indie studios, shipping over a dozen projects like Borderlands 4 and Endoparasitic and more! You can find my website and portfolio here: www.nessacannon.com
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NESSA CANNON
Experienced game writer and narrative designer available for commissions, assignments, and contract work.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
RIP Lindsey Graham. You taught me it was okay to be a coward whose only skill is debasing myself until death for a tiny, ultimately illusionary crumb of power.
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
GAMEDEVS IN THE US AND CANADA What are you doing on Sundays? Want to come to free, virtual trainings on the basics of labor unions and organizing offered by @codecwa.bsky.social? SIGN UP HERE 👇 code-cwa.org/upcoming-tra...
The READ THIS poster from the Band Geeks episode of Spongebob that has been poorly photoshopped to say: Looking for a way to spend an hour or two on a Sunday? Angry at the state of the industry but not sure what you can do to help? Union curious but have lots of questions or feel lost? Come to free, virtual seminars held by CWA! Visit code-cwa.org/upcoming-trainings
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Adam Dolin @adamdolin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Most games, especially AAA games, look bad and are not fun to play throughout the majority of their development.
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Yarn Spinner 🔜 #MIGW26 @yarnspinner.dev · 07/07/2026
Inspired by the great @kenney.nl, if you've been hit with one of the horrendous #gamedev #layoffs, we'd love to give you things. Offer ends when form is closed. 💚 lab.to/YSClaim
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A gift from Yarn Spinner
To the game devs who have recently lost their jobs in the massive layoffs in the game industry, we would like to offer you free licenses for some of our paid products. Whether you want to polish up yo...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Microsoft is laying off 4,800 workers today. Its CEO made $96.5M in 2025, a 22% increase from the previous year. Microsoft made $101B in net income last year — and raked in up to $12.5B in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
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Adam Dolin @adamdolin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A very cute indie platformer popped up on my insta feed last night. You play as different artists, and it was called Artistry (or something like that). There’s a demo on Steam, but I wasn’t near my computer at the time.
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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Just adding up the layoffs from today is putting collective centuries of experience in AAA dev out on the street. It's not just one person's career, but teams who've worked well together. A lot of this experience can't be copied by hiring different people. None of it can be copied using GenAI.
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Adam Dolin @adamdolin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My heart breaks for the hundreds of Bungie devs who lost their job today, in large part because of C-Suite greed (3.6 billion?! Really, Pete? Seriously, Jim?!) and poor studio management. All of you deserve better.
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Shayna Moon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 25/06/2026
Hey fyi @gracklehq.com is run by one extremely good hearted guy, and it’s still the best site for games industry job listings. It has a patreon that he doesn’t advertise because he’s that selfless. You can support it on patreon and/or kofi
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Grackle HQ: A job site for the game industry - Grackle HQ
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GG TRIBUNE @ggtribune.com · 11/06/2026
Confused Gabe Newell Buys Yacht Club Games ggtribune.com/2026/06/11/c...
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🐜 🍯 Anthony @anthonybecker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Orb falls on wizard’s face in bed, like a phone
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Adam Dolin @adamdolin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
If you follow me and you haven’t read Children of Time you should bump it up to the top of your reading list
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Adam Dolin @adamdolin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
TIL my kink is “competence porn”
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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
$1 gets you access to Video Game Journalism 101. I adapted my NYU course into a 5-part video series. You'll learn the history of games media from the '80s to today. And you'll learn about writing, editing, and how the biz actually works. Plus, the rest of Post Games! Sale ends Monday at midnight.
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Video Game Journalism 101 | Collection from Post Games | 5 posts | Patreon
Get more from Post Games on Patreon
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
That’s Smee in the corner
famous music video with first mate schee in the corner
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I'm almost finished with People of Note, a new musical (!) turn-based RPG with heavy Final Fantasy vibes. Very strong combat, good puzzles, and way too many puns. It's out today - if you're into turn-based RPGs you'll probably enjoy it store.steampowered.com/app/1626170/...
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Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 06/04/2026
My last writeup from GDC! @alexaray.bsky.social and @adamdolin.bsky.social gave a great talk on how complex narrative systems can increase engagement and help your game compete in our overloaded media environment.
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Epic Games layoffs serve as a timely reminder that accountability is dead
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Epic Games layoffs serve as a timely reminder that accountability is dead
What happened to Harmonix and Mediatonic under Epic Games? Good question.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 23/03/2026
Notes towards a "Woke 2" aftermath.site/woke-2-wokenes...
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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
For those of you who didn't make it (or waited patiently in standby), the slides for @adamdolin.bsky.social and my GDC talk "Write Between the Lines: Writing Games for a Polarized, Distracted, Media-Illiterate World," are up on his website! Thank you for your interest! gamedevdolin.com/gdc2026/
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Write Between the Lines — GDC 2026 | Adam Dolin
Adam Dolin — Narrative Designer, Writer, and Game Development Consultant. Credits include God of War, God of War: Ragnarok, and Horizon Forbidden West.
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Emma Kidwell えま @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Emma Kidwell えま @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Nominations for Game Dev Heroes are open! This is a great time to nominate a writer doing the kind of work you want to celebrate (there are lotsa categories outside of leadership) gamedevheroes.co/nominations/
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2026 Nominations – Game Dev Heroes
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Adam Dolin @adamdolin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Hot damn. Actual justice being served? In this economy?? You love to see it.
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Bree, Captain of The Unreliable 🌌 @dhampirvampire.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
So @adamdolin.bsky.social created a little thoughtful self-evaluation quiz to ponder your core values. I decided to be a multitasker during the Q&A and take it. Honestly yeah... this sounds right.
What are my core values?
A Quick Game of Self-Discovery

Your core Values:
Empathy - To Understand and share the feelings of others
Humor - To see and appreciate the humorous side of life
Equality - To treat others as equal to myself and vice-versa
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
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Rav @rvbdrm.com · 27/02/2026
Wise words
A grey hoodie with text which reads:

“Buy a man eat fish,
He day, teach fish man
To a lifetime.”
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Adam Dolin @adamdolin.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
ME: (taking my wife to the airport, RE4 merchant voice) "What're ya flying?" HER: "Delta." ME: "...Got a collection of GOOD thing on sale, stranger." HER: "........what?" Happy #ResidentEvilRequiem release day!
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Lindsay @neomeruru.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I'm using my daily allowance of being gently annoying to remind you to please add this game we made to your wishlist on Steam!
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Jason Singingpigs of Pipeline @singingpigs.online · 18/02/2026
"name and shame them" so yeah the number of times I've seen multiple women come together with binders of evidence about a single man and essentially nothing happened to him kiiiinda discourages that approach
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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Do you dream of revenge on billionaires? THEN WE HAVE THE GAME FOR YOU. Back our indie game made with rage + love on Kickstarter NOW and play our BRAND NEW DEMO on Steam www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
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All Will Rise: a narrative courtroom deck-builder
A game about taking a billionaire to court for the murder of a river.
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pau @heromedley.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
i'm not scared of AI taking my job. i'm scared my parents won't be able to tell whats real or not anymore.
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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 01/02/2026
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Adam Dolin @adamdolin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
If anyone else suddenly runs into a weird google slides bug where your speaker notes suddenly disappear, this convo with @alexaray.bsky.social should help.
Adam Dolin:
	F12 to open the dev window, search for 

appsSketchyGenerativeaiNudgesCanvasNudgeSurfaceSoyContainer

Then delete it.
	Google literally choking their own tools with unwanted genai slop

Alexa Ray Corriea:
	What????
	Adam WHAT
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Adam Dolin @adamdolin.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I love video games.
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Adam Dolin @adamdolin.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
It is possible to lament the decline of authored environment art while simultaneously acknowledging the realities of modern commercial game development.
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dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com · 19/12/2025
GDC talk on the professional importance of keeping it in the group chat
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