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Alexei Pepers

@apepers.bsky.social
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Technical system designer, proc gen ranger/druid, Roguelike Celebration MC, kaiju groupie (she/her)

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 3h
The schedule for @roguelike.club is up! We’ve got yet another stunning lineup with multiple people who are such a good fit I had assumed they’d spoken already 🤣 Time is fake and it’s just over two weeks until the con so check it out, buy a ticket, come hang out! www.roguelike.club/event2026.html
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Roguelike Celebration - Event 2026
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The schedule's out - I'm speaking at the Roguelike Celebration again this year! My talk is titled "The City, The Street, The Lens" and it's about street photography, collisions in time and space and how to think about procedural generation differently. More here: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html
A photo of a truck by the side of the road in Tokyo. The driver's leg is sticking out of the window resting on the side of the trailer. The title of the talk is written on the truck. It will happen on October 18th, online. Tickets are roguelike.club
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do feel a bit guilty to spam repost speakers talking about their RLC 2026 talks when I haven’t yet written the newsletter email about it 😅 but in my defense, only the former is something I can do on my phone during my stupidly long uni commute. I promise I’ll write words at big computer soon!
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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 28/09/2026
SUPER EXCITED to say that I'll be speaking at @roguelike.club about making HINT LINE '93, the silly game that @yarnspinner.dev, @themartianlife.com, and @firkraags.bsky.social made with talented Tasmanian actors' photos as callers for @acmimuseum.bsky.social! www.roguelike.club/event2026.ht...
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Roguelike Celebration - Event 2026
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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm speaking at Roguelike Celebration this year! Come see me talk about the only three games that matter: Blackjack, Skull, and Can't Stop
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leggy @leggystarscream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Roguelike Celebration schedule is absolutely incredible this year, and not just because I get to yap about Pokemon for 15 minutes :D www.roguelike.club/event2026.html Seriously, y'all should check this out
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Roguelike Celebration - Event 2026
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The event is over but what a good tease for what was an awesome talk, can’t wait to be able to share the recording
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Preview event is coming up soon, hope to see some familiar faces! All 3 talks are very exciting, the preview speakers are champs for letting me get away with adding more talks to the year by hustling to prepare for now instead of October. The content is just is good, and it’s early + free!
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Very forceful statement by Terry Tao about AI and math. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... Note, he is not claiming the models aren't real and powerful. He's talking about how that power should be used. This, I believe, is what all AI discussions should center.
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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The early version of this talk is one that immediately lodged in my brain and became part of how I think about game design - highly recommend!
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
hell yeah
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh hey since this is going around again - while the GDC talk is still trapped in the vault, I re-presented it at last year’s @roguelike.club preview event! So if you want the presentation instead of the paper, check it out :) m.youtube.com/watch?v=H5EU...
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Alexei Pepers - Designing for System Suspense
YouTube video by Roguelike Celebration
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve been back at uni for exactly one lecture and have already initiated a mutiny.
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 07/09/2026
Excited to see y'all in our freshly painted MUD space with preview event speakers @martinpi.bsky.social, @matronboy.bsky.social, and Greg L. who made this lovely little ad as part of a coding demo for his talk! September 13, 2026, 2PM PDT | 21:00 UTC www.roguelike.club/event2026.html
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Natalie (Tali) Vancouver era ✨ @talidev3d.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
this is a conversation I would overhear from my game designer coworkers after asking them how they want the door I just modeled to open
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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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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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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Delighted to announce I'll be one of the speakers at the preview event for the legendary @roguelike.club with a talk titled "Don't Save The @: What Roguelikes Teach Us About Story Structure" Details here: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html
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Roguelike Celebration - Event 2026
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artemis, big boss of stop caring @stopcar.ing · 26/08/2026
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I'm Going Home
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Younès ★ @pyrofoux.itch.io · 25/08/2026
The author of this article investigates the mysterious absence of couscous in London. In the process, he finds a bittersweet truth that Maghrebis like me have to live with. You should give it a read.
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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social• 3mo
Sometimes people wonder which sport has the dumbest athletes and I gotta say baseball is the only one where the guys regularly fuck up counting to three despite there being an elaborate on-field system in place to ensure they don't fuck it up.
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Chris Weisiger @byobattleship.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Climb the tower, kill the boss, and maybe make the world a better place! After three years of hard work, my cyberpunk match-3 roguelike TORMENT HEXUS is now in Early Access! Check it out, and spread the word! store.steampowered.com/app/3238420/...
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Torment Hexus on Steam
Technofascist cyberpunk CEOs must die! Charge spells with the match-3 grid, then cast them on your enemies in turn-based tactical roguelike combat. Climb the tower, kill the boss, and maybe make the w...
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Elliot 🫪 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I will be forever wistful about the Blaseball (2023) that we never got to release, and the unhinged concepts we had on deck for what to do with a game that already has like 50k active players willing to be part of explicitly gamified, explicitly evil social experiments. lmao
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you want the excuse to collect many cute little bowls and beautiful big bowls, I suggest getting into stir fry and maximizing your mise.
A row of 5 bowls of ingredients in varied patterns and sizes - one pattern is pokemon looking out cafe windows, another is monochrome dinosaurs, another a beautiful blue and black.Finished bowl of ground pork and zucchini with a chili garlic sauce
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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 12/08/2026
Due to an unexpectedly large number of submissions, we will need to close applications to the Roguelike Celebration Steam Event THIS FRIDAY, August 14th! This is your last chance to get your game considered for the event! forms.gle/Nka47iktejxp...
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Call for Steam Event Participants 2026
Roguelike Celebration is an annual festival featuring the development, history, community, and play of roguelike games, procedural generation, and related topics. Our Steam event is an extension of th...
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Kawa’s new job involves a piece of software called Splunk which, if your brain is rotted by Blaseball naming conventions like mine, is simply not a thing you should use in the workplace.
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James Wood @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Roguelike Deckbuilder
Rogue and Gambit from Xmen 97
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Pita @pita-m.com · 29/07/2026
Assets that I made for the 2024 Roguelike Celebration Steam sale page. 🧑‍🎨 The tallish tile size here I'm very fond of. I choose it because it reminds me of the tall grid often in ASCII roguelikes, but it also had some benefits when it came to actually draw the tiles & sprites.
Rogue inspired sprites/tiles. Pictured: Bat, Yeti, mango, Aquator, Ice monster, Centaur, Nymph, @, KestrelRogue inspired sprites/tiles. Pictured: Hobgoblin, @, Orc, Quagga, Phantom, Medusa, Rattlesnake, TrollRogue inspired sprites/tiles. Pictured: Ur-vile, Wraith, Zombie, Dragon, Vampire, @, EmuRogue inspired sprites/tiles. Pictured: @, Griffon, Venus flytrap, Slime, Xeroc, Jabberwock, Leprechaun
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lunari 🌙 @309x.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
yeah your card game is cool, but is it "we gave our cosplay champion a champ card" kind of cool?
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Dan Why-Ner @danweiner.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Watching baseball @jonbois.bsky.social
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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
informative & useful replies from a reddit thread re: do whales ever drown, momentarily derailed into a discussion of giant squid population numbers
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Love being far enough north that this is what 10 pm looks like 😎
Sunset light reflecting on a lake, still bright enough to see clearly
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
this is a failed Heavy Rain QTE
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I’d planned to skip Stampede this year but I woke up seized by the overwhelming urge to Yahoo
A lady in cowboy dress smiles in front of the Calgary Saddledome, a sports arena shaped like a giant saddle
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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 28/06/2026
Got an idea that just took some time to percolate? Or maybe this post is instigating some percolation. Great! We've extended the deadline for the Roguelike Celebration CFP to July 19th! www.roguelike.club/cfp.html Even if you have a vague idea, send it in and let's figure out how to flesh it out.
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Roguelike Celebration CFP
Technical talks, game design lessons, creative uses of procedural generation, interactive roguelike performances - we want to hear about it all!
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I haven’t seen it reach mainstream news much but my thoughts are with Venezuela, the more updates on these earthquakes we get the worse it looks 💙
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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 01/06/2026
After being conquered, the people of Tigana were cursed to forget the name of their land; but a courageous group sets out to reclaim their people's very identity. $2.99. Please go get it.
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Plenty of things contributed to my burn out and needing to step away from the industry, but Inflexion crediting me as “additional design” after over 4 years on Nightingale sure was a breaking point.
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I’m trying to actively practice my ability to MacGyver together random projects - biggest success are these planters with a reservoir and capillary system. I don’t have a drill so used a soldering iron to melt small holes in the bucket, then zip tied whiffle balls as spacers. Success so far!
A five gallon bucket stacked on another one, with a PVC pipe going through to the bottom and rope fed through the top. The top bucket is held up by several whiffle balls attached to the outside of the bucket 
A set of three DIY planters with small tomato plants in them
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
its called roguelike celebration because you get a little better every time you attend one
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
It’s that time of year again folks! I want a dozen submissions on my desk by Tuesday that make me say “wait you built *what*?” But seriously, if you’re doing something you think is cool and is tangentially related to roguelikes/PCG, please submit, this is the best community of likeminded weirdos.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I do think our paper on systems suspense gets at one reason this is really important
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Understanding Systems Suspense
Why is it fun to learn the rules of a videogame? Not just to play the game, but to learn it; to travel from the state of unknowing to knowing, to be surprised when a revelation subverts your expectati...
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Dr. Nic Junius @quakefultales.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
procedural generation saves neither time nor money and is not something people do to save budget on a project
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Nicole Clark @nicoleclark.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
these super low profile thumb braces are the reason i can play video games again and i did a lot of searching to find them. no provider recommended them to me for video games! none of them really knew what to do about gaming. i don't want to gatekeep! www.mothership.blog/a-thumb-brac...
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A thumb brace has let me play games pain-free for the first time in years
Finally, I have achieved my fitness goals. My thumbs grow buffer by the day.
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Not that there can’t be multiple factors but you know what’s also down by 25-40%? All Canadian travel to the USA, by land or air, for any reason. Can’t imagine it’s way better from other countries.
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Also goes without saying but, I dearly miss all my good friends gathering in SF right now! I’ve gone nearly every year since 2016, it’s strange and melancholy to not be walking those hills. Hope everyone stays safe and is rejuvenated by community, and that our paths cross sometime somewhere else!
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I’m having to miss GDC this year for Many Reasons but if anyone there can do me a solid, I’d love to know if I made it into the speaker card deck for last year! (If I did then I’d REALLY love to get my hands on a deck or at least my card, not sure if there’s a way to do that other than ask around)
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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
JANUARY is a postcard-writing game about two artists living ordinary lives over five decades, in a world besieged by giant kaiju. By Indiecade-winning, Ennie-nommed game designer and artist Shing Yin Khor, in collaboration w/ illustrator Jared Andrew Schorr. www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
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JANUARY
A postcard writing game for two people, set in a kaiju-filled alternate history, about distant but persistent friendships.
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