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Nathalie Lawhead

@alienmelon.bsky.social
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i make experimental games, net-art, software ~Tetrageddon, Everything is going to be OK, Electric Zine Maker, BlueSuburbia… 🔥 tetrageddon.com 🦄 unicornycopia.com 🐘 alienmelon@mastodon.social 🌈 they/them ⭐️🦜 ✅ all work completely human made

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 6h
absolutely on my particular brand of shit with the readings for this week's lecture
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Chapter 1 of "More Work For Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave" by Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Chapter 3 ("The Fun Community") from The Well Played Game by Bernie DeKoven

"Nudel's longest death" (blog post) by Lu Wilson
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 21h
this is magical 🥹
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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 11h
Last Friday, on the Konsigli segment of Radiotelevisione svizzera’s Kappa, I talked about The Zium Railway. Since 2017, @theziumsociety.itch.io has been inviting digital artists into increasingly ambitious digital galleries. Podcast online!
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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 18h
I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io
screenshot of my itchio store, showing several texture packs available for purchse
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 21h
this is magical 🥹
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so let the clean up crew just come eat me alive @terrrrrible.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I got my grandmother to use ICQ so I could talk to her when she couldn't leave the house... she passed back in 2003. I wish we could just shut the internet off, or go back to when everything started becoming about making money on the internet and not just sharing shit you loved with other people.
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Jonna Pedersen @jonnadraws.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When I was about 10, I spent a whole week's allowance to get 20 mins at an internet cafe. I wrote down websites in advance that I was excited to visit from a list of "cool sites" in a kids magazine. Half the time was spent waiting for the sites to load but it was still magical. Can we ever go back?
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Zabroglexis @zabroglexis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was just thinking about this recently. There's going to be a surge of lost media soon once discs are gone, but the emulation hasn't caught up yet. I see a lot of rom hack style indie games and de-masters getting more popular soon with the disenfranchised gamers eschewing the modern industry.
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Vesa Saarinen @vesasfi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reminds me of Lindy effect. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_e...
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Lindy effect - Wikipedia
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Matt "Kupo" Roszak 🌻🍉 Wishlist Find Matt's Cats! @kupogames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Flash is more viable now than it was a few years ago!
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Rine @rine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hell, there is still a vibrant homebrew deal for all of those, and similar engines that are designed to feel like devving for those older platforms. You can go make a gameboy game right now if you want, it'll run on gameboy emulators forever.
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i do think it’s funny that your games stand to have a longer life span if you make them in “dead” technologies, rather than using modern tools. like DOS games, Flash, gameboy, snes… all have emulation and continue on indefinitely. the lates UE games likely won’t.
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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 28/09/2026
i’ll beat this drum over & over again: game devs obsessing over Steam as if it’s the only viable platform is self-sabotaging and potentially the death of their business. case in point: rift riff was designed for Steam with $30k marketing spent. yet it makes 6X on the App Store with $0 on marketing
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Aggro Crab 💥🔪 @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
REBOUNDER. A new game developed by ThirtyThree, published by Aggro Crab. Rebounder is a hand-crafted precision platformer about a roughneck worker recruited for a hazardous job on a distant planet. Nail the run. Deliver your line. Dropping 2027.
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Danny Kodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ah, the great days of the early 2000s when software companies started going rogue with version numbering. I remember going to Macromedia's conference and everyone was asking "what does MX stand for?" and delegates would answer "it stands for an integrated suite where all the programs work together"
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
getting serious about my #gamedev by bringing out the big guns. 🔥
macromedia flash mx game development
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
"she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died" is now available on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4430780/... You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil. Explore brutalist ruins to collect memories of a dead world. 🥀 #GameDev #IndieGame
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Meanderware: Things I loved about cyberspace 💥 tetrageddon.com/meanderware/ 🔥 - A short playable essay and poetic breadcrumb trail of thoughts about cyberspace, the internet, and ephemeral digital worlds. - 🔥💀🔥💀🔥 #IndieGame #WebGame #BrowserGame #IndieWeb #IndieDev #GameDev #Cyberspace
a screenshot of columns towering over a wireframe landscape. errors dot the skyline. there's a skeleton in the corner talking about how the point is to leave something behind for others to find.a giant CRT monitor sits atop a wireframe landscape with errors dotting the sky above it.a giant skeleton towers over error signs. the sky behind it is glitching.aninated gif fire burns the wireframe landscape. the sky above is glitching. a skeleton in the corner talks about how this is a secret corner of the internet.
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
this is awesome 😎
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Itooh @itooh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
After nearly 2 years, I'm finally updating Circuit Paint Pro! - Race in your own drawings - Randomized level every time - Save your paintings - Extra levels and New Game Plus Still a free and pretty short game. But now I think it offers a satisfying experience! itooh.itch.io/circuit-pain...
itooh.itch.io
Circuit Paint Pro by Itooh
Draw your own tracks
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farfama @farfama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've started to focus on listing less games for each curation topic. I think planting a seed, and letting it grow though community contributions via some type of per page message board or dicussion system is the approach I will be taking.
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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.
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zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#pico8 now has the most officially published cartridges of any console in history. Well done everyone.
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“The more authoritative and influential the algorithm, the higher the stakes for influencing it. Additionally, the more data sources the algorithm relies on, the more it exposes itself as a potential target for obfuscation.” 👇👀
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
a bit late to the party but… wishing i knew about phoenix code sooner phcode.dev/brackets-tex... i’ve been using just the simple text based ones for html stuff, and it’s really nice to go back to something that has a quick & easy live preview feature. saves a ton of time!
phcode.dev
Brackets Text Editor — Now Phoenix Code | Free Download
Brackets text editor lives on as Phoenix Code — the open-source successor with Live Preview, Git & AI. Download free for Windows, Mac & Linux, or run in your browser.
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
thinking about… computational propaganda 👉 navigator.oii.ox.ac.uk/what-is-comp...
navigator.oii.ox.ac.uk
What is Computational Propaganda? — DemTech Navigator.
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Emi @coppolaemilio.com · 25/09/2026
Watching the video: Oh nice! Moldrise, a Godot game! Oh nice! Pathogenic, another Godot game! Oh nice! Pathogenic is being compared to Slay the Spire 2, another Godot game! Is this what world domination looks like?
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ncnvrgnt @inconvergent.net · 24/09/2026
PSA: tomorrow is bring and orb to work day!
cornell box-like cube floating in a large open room. the cube contains glass orb and magenta teapot. the box and scene has been sliced and shifted multiple times making a staircase of the floor and a stretched glass tower from the box. foggy light
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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 24/09/2026
Bjork with the indie game dev advice about not trying to appeal to a general audience.
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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm doing a little experiment with pre-rendered backgrounds. I wanted the backgrounds to look lousy as hell, btw
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
coolsong16.wav 🎶 disjointed dreams
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Computer History Museum Slovenia @racunalniskimuzej.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A new exhibition is just about ready! Source Code Exhibition will open next week, on Tuesday. If you're near Ljubljana join us for the grand opening with a guest of honor, Daniel Temkin!  www.racunalniski-muzej.si/en/event/sou...
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Belle @ autumnal wonderland! @torrentempress.neocities.org · 23/09/2026
torrent-empress.leaflet.pub/3mw5xffzfk22x ok it done go read it it's not long (I promise)
torrent-empress.leaflet.pub
Quick tips on how to code a cute lazy website from a lazy art hoe with audhd who hates math (no chatbot)
w/ pictures and gifs by a non-engineer tech person
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
coolsong16.wav 🎶 disjointed dreams
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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
godot 4.8 exposed mesh buffers to gpu compute. all sorts of cool procedural shit is possible now
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🤔💭 at this point i think companies like microsoft or adobe could make more money off AI by just making any AI feature pay to opt out. like with ads… but you pay to disable AI.
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
i told the truth www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/abu...
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“Abusing you was by the book” (documenting two years of abuse from Game Journalism, after sharing my #metoo… the whole painful story all in one place) – The Candybox Blog
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
there’s just 11 hours left to get this! all money goes to a good cause.
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
i told the truth www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/abu...
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“Abusing you was by the book” (documenting two years of abuse from Game Journalism, after sharing my #metoo… the whole painful story all in one place) – The Candybox Blog
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Towel @ studying @towelwow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
had fun playing around with the electric zine maker tonight! such a cool little tool: alienmelon.itch.io/electric-zin...
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Electric Zine Maker (a work in progress, be gentle, hug it often) by alienmelon
The Electric Zine Maker (⚡️📝✂️) is a printshop and art tool for making zines.
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StrayCatalyst @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
MODEL KOMBAT or Mixed Model Arts (MMA)
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Anjin Anhut / available for freelance @anjinanhut.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
its also just 3 bucks... like, girrrrrrrrl.....
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this game makes me glad artgames exist. it's absolutely beautiful. it's short too. you need to try it!
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Runway™ store.steampowered.com/app/3879500/... a game that merges a number of random interests with the fighting game genre and successfully makes it work as something that you (can confidently say) never played before. it's ridiculous, colorful, humorous, and hard to quit once you get into it.
store.steampowered.com
Runway™ on Steam
Dress up, kick the models off the runway, strike a pose, and be fabulous~! Runway™ is a dress-up & kick 'em out mini arcade action game. Travel around the world, and be the queen of fashion.
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
coolsong15.wav you escaped the dungeon and are in a happy forest surrounded by happy forest creatures. nothing is wrong here. you're just happy.
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Runway™ store.steampowered.com/app/3879500/... a game that merges a number of random interests with the fighting game genre and successfully makes it work as something that you (can confidently say) never played before. it's ridiculous, colorful, humorous, and hard to quit once you get into it.
store.steampowered.com
Runway™ on Steam
Dress up, kick the models off the runway, strike a pose, and be fabulous~! Runway™ is a dress-up & kick 'em out mini arcade action game. Travel around the world, and be the queen of fashion.
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
prompts and hints: sometimes it’s like modern indie games are afraid of being misunderstood. like they over-explain themselves a lot. it would be nice if they also allowed the player to figure things out. if you need to explain it this much maybe the design is too esoteric…
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Schrödinger's Call store.steampowered.com/app/2090390/... this game is an incredibly breathtaking piece of literature. it’s hard to describe, and genres or labels wouldn’t do it justice. it very much stands as something unique. you need to play it!! it’s- 🤯
store.steampowered.com
Schrödinger's Call on Steam
When the world is coming to an end, who would you want to speak to one last time? Schrödinger’s Call is a visual novel that lets you experience the pain and salvation of human connection, as if you we...
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🤯 omg this is beautiful 😍
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Schrödinger's Call store.steampowered.com/app/2090390/... this game is an incredibly breathtaking piece of literature. it’s hard to describe, and genres or labels wouldn’t do it justice. it very much stands as something unique. you need to play it!! it’s- 🤯
store.steampowered.com
Schrödinger's Call on Steam
When the world is coming to an end, who would you want to speak to one last time? Schrödinger’s Call is a visual novel that lets you experience the pain and salvation of human connection, as if you we...
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