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Andrew Bell

@andrewbell.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈 Midlands4Cities PhD Candidate at BCU. Studying queer game-making via playable monsters 🧟🧛🏻‍♂️🐺

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
i am glad i do not have children. every day i spend £16 to have up to 12kg of ice delivered to my house so that i can bathe in it
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 21/05/2026
The EHRC’S new code has been published. We’ll have a detailed analysis out shortly. The guidance has been toned down from the previous draft – but it still treats trans people like they’re a third sex. This pushes trans people out of public life and violates their human rights.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
most of the time you don’t want true randomness and/or simulation in a game. you think you do but you’re wrong and will get mad at us if you get it.
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Greg Pryjmachuk @minskworks.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Steam community: “Can we play as a male character?” Me (indie dev in this economy): “Best I can do is sentient tofu.”
Steam community requesting additional body types for added immersion. A large block of sentient tofu
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Any time I see an animator doing proper self-reference, the game itself looks/moves great too. This one's no exception! Knowing your own body and knowing how it felt to hold that reference gives you a lot more to work with than finding someone else doing the pose. Both are good, but self is better.
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Jay Baylis @jaybaylis.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Genuinely happy that the 7 year long development time was spent working at a leisurely pace, spending time with their families and flexing their creative muscles - with no pressure to expand their company, deliver sooner or read a single reddit post. Smartest people in our entire industry.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The replacement of everything with generative AI is NOT inevitable, but it sure is if you all shrug and say "Well, it's inevitable" like your brain was washed in bad predictive SF for decades.
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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 11/06/2025
Small update from us at Furry Studies! 🦉 The deadline for the Call for Papers has been extended until Monday 30th June to give you all a little more time to get your abstracts in! More info: furrystudies.org
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Call for Papers - Furry Studies 2025
We encourage the submission of proposals for academic papers, short workshops, practice-based activities, performances, showcases, and pre-formed panels.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
CONFIRMED: The double take voice acting mistake is in the remake.
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
SHELVE YOUR WAR SCYTHE, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE LOW SELF-ESTEEM. AND YOU WILL WIN.
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
RELISH IN THE SCREAMS OF YOUR ENEMIES! DO YOU HAVE MEDICINE YOU NEED TO TAKE?
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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
you already know what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't need the help. so, onwards!
an edited PS1 game cover, based around Elemental Gearbolt. 'Playstation' on the side has been replaced by 'Kangaroo', and the ESRB rating is now "YOU HEAR ABOUT VIDEO GAMES" with "AEIOU" underneath.

on the box art is "SPACETWINKS REC THREAD" with a black silhouette of my fursona, a kangaroo, in the middle, and japanese text above it that says "I don't speak Japanese. Sorry." behind this is doris from wild guns reloaded, tama from 428 shibuya scramble, the ILLEGAL CONTENT banner from hypnospace outlaw, a crab wielding a hammer from fight crab, and an actual forklift.

at the bottom right is the working designs logo, but it says "HONEY IT'S TIME FOR YOUR 3PM LUNAR RE-RELEASE"
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
bust a groove, print ad, imagery (cut out flip book), playstation (1999) www.mobygames.com/game/3840/bu...
title font, followed by 25 cut out pieces that shows a character named heat doing dance moves that can be cut out to form a small flip book. the last cut out squares have a picture of the playstation game case and a 989 studios logo.
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
my new answer to any question re: why i made something a certain way in one of my games that you don't like
Picture of Hayao Miyazaki smoking with (fake) caption text "To infuriate you."
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
“Young People Don’t Want Sex And Romance In Their Games” and the top 10 up and coming Steam games are stuff like anime dating sims about a werewolf woman that has sex with people and eats them.
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Haley 🖤 @absintheuse.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#CFP “Transgressive Identities & Subjectivities” Conference 17-18 June - Birmingham City Uni. Delighted to be running this event with Matt Grimes, to explore both the potentials and the limitations of transgression of selfhood in media, culture and society. bcmcr.org/event/cfp-tr... deadline 7 Feb!
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CFP: “Transgressive Identities and Subjectivities” BCMCR Conference 17th-18th June 2025 – BCMCR
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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Like monsters and #gamestudies? Have I got news for you... Our new collected volume, edited together with @sarahstang.bsky.social, @jjol33n.bsky.social, and Lobna Hassan is finally out! Big thanks to all our authors and our wonderful cover artist @dorukb.bsky.social, great job everyone ❤️
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Monstrosity in Games and Play
Monsters fascinate us. From ancient folklore to contemporary digital games, they are at the core of the stories we tell. They reflect our fears, deepest desires, and the monstrosity hidden within ours...
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Ryan Bateman @boat.horse · 30/12/2024
A short but excellent masterclass thread on knowledge graph injection - i.e. making up and propagating a word so that various AI's will happily vouch for some new bullshit definition you made up. a.k.a. 'making up your own glorbo' a.k.a meet the new SEO
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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The British DiGRA conference 2025 will take place at Birmingham City University, 20-21 May! Scholars are invited to contribute to a discussion on the theme of ‘What is British Games Research?’ and, by sharing their work, to help build up a picture of our research field. CFP: bcmcr.org/bdigra/
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British DiGRA 2025 – conference announcement and call for papers – BCMCR
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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Apropos nothing in particular, there used to be a tradition in Britain of people roleplaying Robin Hood and doing unruly things. This became so popular in the sixteenth century, the Scottish Parliament banned it. A few years later, a crowd elected a Robin, broke into a jail and freed everyone.
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Sable, Final Girl 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hey y'all, here's how to make BlueSky require alt text on your images so you don't forget, and also enable the option to show larger alt text buttons on images if needed. Alt text is an accessibility tool to describe visual media to blind and low vision people. You should always use it. 💜
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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
There's a new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES to close out the month! Drop in for our discussion of a brief but provocative read, Aaron Trammell's REPAIRING PLAY: A BLACK PHENOMENOLOGY, which puts pressure on the idea of 'play' as it's been traditionally theorized. rangedtouch.com/2024/11/30/7...
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.
“There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real human artists.”
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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hey, have you played GET IN THE CAR, LOSER!, my lesbian road trip RPG about an anxious trans lesbian going on an adventure to fight a reactionary cult summoning an ancient evil? It's currently on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/938860/G... and also available on your local Nintendo Switch eShop!
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
every academic you meet is fighting their own battle. Make it worse by asking them how the writing is going
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