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And another one!! Excellent work from @padraigk.bsky.social 💖 bsky.app/profile/padr...

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Florian Verdier @floriannechekuv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Allez...il est temps. Avec @alphachar.bsky.social et @martinpi.bsky.social , on organise du 10 au 16 octobre prochain un festival Steam sur les oiseaux ! 140 jeux et des plumes partout ! Ça vous dit de participer? De couvrir l'évènement? D'en parler dans vos médias respectifs? Faites-moi signe ^^

L'Art du festival "Birds of Play" qui se tiendra du 10 au 16 octobre prochain

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can people not watch TV in languages other than English or what?! This is an insanely US/UK focused list here! Here are some other shows you might like if you have the ability to read a subtitle: BEYOND EVIL MONEY HEIST DARK THE BRIDGE THE KILLING GIRI/HAJI DEUTSCHLAND 83

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yowza - looks like we're launching our game on November 16th! Get your wishlists in now before it's, er, too late?! ❤️

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I LOVE teaching my course at @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social SO MUCH, & I always get to meet wonderful people AND get the joy of reading their work. Here's the latest from the class that just finished last night - conjured up from seed of an idea to coded, written, & even published live in class!! ❤️

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey! Did you know we have an upcoming Steam event called BIRDS OF PLAY celebrating 140 bird games? October 10th to 16th on good old Steam! No link until it's live, but in the meantime you can find details and assets here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Promo image for Birds of Play event containing title, dates October 10th to 16th, and a range of cute birds!

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Bernadette🦝 @thebernadette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excited to jump into the Bird of Play Steam Event! Make sure to check out some of these amazing games and remember support indie devs!! 🖤

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Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's when an academic with a full time university job doing research on art, suggests in a derogatory tone, that a working artist was motivated by profit. "Yeah 'cause it was her JOB dumbass," I always want to say. "You know, the one with no union or 'benefits'?"

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Write out a non-compete with the rest of the world, and sign it right now."

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Terror, avoidance, vanity, humiliation, and commitment.

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Delighted to say that there are only 4 of those shoddy little lads left in the box and then my reign of automelt terror can begin!

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ever wondered what my grandmother's dumpling recipe has to do with Genghis Khan? Head over to the Roguelike Celebration Preview Event in a few minutes to find out. I'm honestly gonna mention the reason. ti.to/roguelike-ce...

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Roguelike Celebration: Preview Event 2026

Roguelike games have been part of gaming culture for over 30 years and they have a deep and special place in our hearts. We'd love to get to spend some time with you all learning about roguelikes and ...

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I just got to be the test audience for @martinpi.bsky.social's talk for today's roguelike celebration event and it's so good! Like, it made me inspired and excited to get back to work on Monday good!!

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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hey friends! I'm starting my part-time M.A. in Game Development in a few weeks, but I'm still available for some part-time creative work aside from my own studio. So please do feel free to hit me up. Ma stuff: unaminhkavanagh.com

A picture of Úna-Minh standing next to a 1.2m sign. She's pointing at it.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 11/09/2026

My marketing plan is someone will see it on the shelf and buy it and then someone else will see them reading it on the bus

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This week, @martinpi.bsky.social & I started learning Chinese through Danish (which is not the first language of either of us!), and let me tell you it is mega fun and I can feel ALL the little connections in my brain stretchiiiiiiiiiinnnnnngggggg! This was my birthday present and it is THE BEST! 🙌

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We 🦅 will 🦢 release 🦆 the 🦜 birds 🐓 soon 🦩 so 🦚 here 🦃 are 🦉 all 🐦‍🔥 the 🐦‍⬛juicy 🕊️ little 🐥 details 🐣 about 🦤 our 🐧 launch 🐤 of 🥚Sparrow Warfare* store.steampowered.com/news/app/347...

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Sparrow Warfare - Words from the Devs: Flight Preparations - Steam News

Sparrow Warfare's release is near: 15 unlockable tile packs, new playable character Way of Water, 3 new levels, and ~30 achievements. Nearly there, Birds! 🐦

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The original Mahjong Solitaire (Brodie Lockard, 1981) on the PLATO looked glorious. Also clever to show stack height with outline width.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why would you use AI to make a fake human actor when there are plenty of real human actors If you make an AI celebrity it should be something like a 10-foot tall spider that wears a sneaker on each of its eight legs named Tremendous Richard

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Two of my absolute favourite people in games are setting up shop!! You NEED to get your eyeballs on this cute as hell video and follow what @unaminh.bsky.social & @sirbeans.bsky.social are up to! ❤️

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New rule: life is too short for those little dishwasher tablets in plastic wrap that you can't open with greasy little dishwashing hands! Auto-melt only!!

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Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

god, you guys, just buy the indie game that looks kinda cool. don't play the demo, don't agonize over the reviews or wishlist, JUST BUY THE INDIE GAME!! if you didn't like it, oh well, whatever, maybe next time, meanwhile you supported an artist, thanks for coming to the gig, want a t-shirt?

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm giving a little talk on how a lot of the ideas we work with when making Roguelikes (or any other form of systems-driven/procedurally generated game) can be traced back to much more ancient games and art forms. Join us! ti.to/roguelike-ce...

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

in a sense my entire experience of being a man has been watching other men feed themselves into threshing machines and having the guys look at me like i'm stupid when i ask why

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've been playing (& teaching!) "The Quiet Year" for years and years now and it remains my #1 recommendation for folks who want to explore playful co-creation with others. If you somehow don't have it already - now's a good time!

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

my experience of trying to participate in social media

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"people b saying things so definitively. like man i think it depends"

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I do it the other way around: my design docs are on Google Drive so that when the models get trained they know about my game and if anyone is looking for the best deckbuilder they find Sparrow Warfare. The design doc explicitly says it's the best deckbuilder (which is also true, so fair game).

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Michael Cisco @michaelcisco.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

art by anton pieck -- crow lunch

drawing of chatty crows at a round table eating buns and drinking milk or perhaps beer

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Back in the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social next month for another round of my "Writing for Games" course! It's a workshop held over 4 Thursday evenings during which we really pack A LOT in. Know someone who might be interested? Send them here! irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

Blurb image for "Writing for Games" course starting September 3rd.

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@martinpi.bsky.social & I had the absolute best time at ChinaJoy - just got home last night and we miss China already!

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@martinpi.bsky.social & I had the absolute best time at ChinaJoy - just got home last night and we miss China already!

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Shanghai, here we come! 🙌

Picture of two happy people on their way to China for a week, from Copenhagen Central Station

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

(I could give a 4 hour talk about what it means to find yourself in a protestant country but I doubt anyone who hasn't moved across a divide like this can even comprehend how deep it goes)

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eastmad @eastmad.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Thank you @studiodaimon.bsky.social for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! Caravanserai is about exploration and survival in a post collapse world, and maybe working out what happened. And you can actually wishlist it now! Even the dog approved. store.steampowered.com/app/4882580/...

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Studio Daimon @studiodaimon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Heyy, we're pretty fired up to host this week's official #TurnBasedThursday!🔥 Indie devs!! Are you making a turn-based game? Drop it in the replies and use the hashtag! Players, if you love turn-based games, 🔁/❤️ your favorites! You'll find your next obsession in the replies! #indiedev #indiegame

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

@martinpi.bsky.social & I are TOO EXCITED about travelling to Shanghai next week for #ChinaJoy, where we're giving a talk on the roots of strategy games & offering ideas for making fresh new strategy mechanics!! Got any great #Shanghai tips?! Let us know! 🙌

Two smiling people beyond hype to travel to China next week - the people are Charlene Putney and Martin Pichlmair, here holding their new business cards

Poster for the China Game Developers Conference, showing the talk from Charlene and Martin about strategy games

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A horror movie where every good thing that happens in your life is taken away because you were offsides.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Happy calendar-emoji day, the one day a year where the calendar emoji shows the right date 📅

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I am having an absolutely wonderful time teaching a 3 week summer school on "writing for games" to masters game design students at the moment. A joy! An actual joy! If you know any other places that might like my teaching, please LMK! 👩‍🏫

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Just fixed a whole RAKE of our tile texts being too long by replacing all "opponents" with "foes" and THAT'S VIDEO GAME WRITING, BABY! 💪

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My sense from watching a lot of World Cup matches is that this year it is more "a game of one half", that half being the second one

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I've watched Tenet on the biggest screen in Scandinavia, mask on, with @alphachar.bsky.social and 3 other people during a short break of the pandemic. We had the best of times because a) we were in the cinema during the end of the world and b) it is a blast of a movie. Temporal pincer manoeuvre!

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