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Artean

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level 27 hobbit software developer irl he/him | en/fr mostly I love video games and learning how they are made! Myst & Witch Hat Atelier propaganda account Mastodon: retro.pizza/@artean

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Artean @artean.bsky.social · 2h
I almost renewed my ESO+ subscription to play with my brother, we enjoyed playing through the story together. Then I remembered Microsoft has a mandatory clause to train AI on VA works. French voice actors collectively said 'non' ✊, so the new seasons have no french VA. Fuck Microsoft (reason #944).
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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kuraine @lena.fyi · 29/09/2026
literally surviving primarily because of the relationships i've made with developers who thankfully want to keep me around for their next releases. no big sprawling rpg with a giant music budget in my future, likely, but a girl can still dream of an industry that wants to take risks again :-)
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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 10/09/2026
ICYMI, we're producing deluxe editions of the three Myst novels, and you can sign up to be notified when our Kickstarter launches at the link below:
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Claire Hummel @shoomlah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
had it aaaaalllll figured out back then
Photo of my Myst journal from 1993 with a page titled "Claire's Part of Journal"Close-upn photo of my childhood Myst journal highlighting "Sirrus ⬅️ Evil?"
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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have read the full quote but the headline makes it sound like he's going "You think kids are stupid as shit? I don't even know where I /live/." And then you see the full quote and it turns out, yeah, that's basically what he's saying.
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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026
33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.
The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.
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Jan Ochoa @janochoa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 23/09/2026
Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams says he has no need for GenAI, because his artists are bursting with cool, weird ideas like meat biomes and sphincter doors. "[Tolkien] didn’t have a sphincter door. I mean, I don’t think he did… Who knows what’s going on in, like, Minas Morgul though."
thisweekinvideogames.com
27 Chaotic Minutes with Dwarf Fortress Creator Tarn Adams
Tarn Adams talks about Dwarf Fortress, his favourite bugs of the last 20 years, and why it's incredibly important to have a "meat biome"
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Fireproof Games @fireproofgames.com · 24/09/2026
We are delighted to announce The Room Three & The Room 4: Old Sins are available now from the eShop for Nintendo Switch™. Buy now on Nintendo eShop! 🇪🇺 bit.ly/eshop_EU_TheRoomGames 🇺🇸 bit.ly/eshop_US_TheRoomGames 🇯🇵 bit.ly/eshop_JP_TheRoomGames #TheRoom #NintendoSwitch #eShop
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Limited Run Games @limitedrungames.com · 23/09/2026
Welcome to Myst! A starkly beautiful island tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and become part of your own surreal adventure. Now available in a Boxed Edition to add to your collection. Pre-order now through October 18 bit.ly/4y9gMk2
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Hannah Posts @hannahposts.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
A tweet from @hagfail

It was removed from Tubu. Heebee sold the IP. Poodee won't play it in your region. It's not on Dippy. You can't find it on Weeno. Gumpy lost the rights to Pheebo. Poob was removed from the app store. The FBI have issued a warning to Poob. 3 Poob executives were arrested today.
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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
say it with me now: make your own domain site for your webcomics and use any existing webcomic platforms as mirrors. never put your comics as platform exclusives.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend
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ORIGAMI 💌 Média jeu vidéo... mais pas que ! @origami.ng · 23/09/2026
On a envoyé ce matin la première édition de 🔎 Serious Gaming 🔎, notre nouvelle infolettre sur l'industrie du jeu vidéo, écrite par @gautoz.cool ! Pour la lire >>> www.origami.ng/sil-suffisai... Pour vous abonner >>> www.origami.ng/serious-gami... Et RDV sur Twitch à 11h pour le reste des news ☕
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S’il suffisait d’aimer PlayStation
Bienvenue dans Serious Gaming, l’infolettre qui prend le jeu vidéo au sérieux, pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Il y sera question de décrypter son actualité, les chiffres, les stratégies de ses entr...
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pins @pinssss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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"Quest", a 6-panel tiny & Tall comic strip.

Panel 1: tiny, a sword & board adventurer, prepares to assault a dark tower. In his speech bubble, a search icon and the keyword: "gLORY".

Panel2: He ascends a flight of stairs, fighting off skeletons that spout "...ver our excusive offers!", "sponsored conte..." and "subscribe to the newsletter to..."

Panel 3: Atop the stairs, a dragon's blazing "IT APPEARS YOU ARE USING AN AD BLOCKER." sends tiny running.

Panel 4: Undaunted, he uses a vine to climb to the tower. On its wall, the words "subscribe now or log in to continue reading (too much/month)".

Panel 5: At long last, the treasure room! Only a pool of vicious fishes separated him from the chest. The fishes all have "comment" written on them.

Panel 6: Alas, in the chest, tiny finds only a jester, Tall, who says:
"were do u find **glory**???? - posted on 19/03/2011, 0 replies."
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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Artean @artean.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It basically forged near everything I love about video games; rich environments, narration, immersion...
The beginning of Myst. An old book is open. Its pages are blank, safe for a panel on the right page: an image that seems to hover on the page.
It depicts a small dock on the side of an island. The bow of an old ship can be seen on the right. Further ahead, stairs turn climb to a giant cogwheel.
The only UI element is a little hand, about to touch the picture and travel to a fantastic world.
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TheDevinTeam @thedevteam.itch.io · 20/09/2026
The best example of this still comes from Pillars of Eternity.
A dialogue box featuring a scarred monk asking, “Are you- Are you real?”

The available options are:

1. “Yes.”
2. [Lie] “No.”
3. [Lie] “Yes.”
4. “No.”
5. “Now that you ask, I’m not so sure.”
6. “There is no way to be certain.”
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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 18/09/2026
And if you're just looking to pick up Myst or Riven on PS5 or XBOX, those are available on their own, and you can pick them up here: Myst: limitedrungames.com/collections/... Riven: limitedrungames.com/collections/...
Myst and Riven on PS5 and XBOX
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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 18/09/2026
Get your Linking Books ready, as the Myst and Riven Big Box Editions are now available to for pre-order from @limitedrungames.com! Each set will contain: 🎮 Standard Edition Game (PC Edition includes Digital Steam Code) 💿 CD Soundtrack 🖼️ 2-Sided Poster limitedrungames.com/collections/...
Myst Big Box edition - including standard edition game, two-sided poster, CD soundtrack, and the big box itselfRiven Big Box edition - including standard edition game, two-sided poster, CD soundtrack, and the big box itself
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Ace Attorney @aceattorney.capcomusa.com · 20/09/2026
CELEBRATION! To commemorate the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Ace Attorney series on October 12, we're sharing a brand-new illustration by series artists Kazuya Nuri and Takuro Fuse, featuring several fan favorite characters dressed to impress for the occasion!
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Ace Attorney @aceattorney.capcomusa.com · 20/09/2026
HOLD IT! We're pleased to announce that Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy has sold over 5 million copies! We want to thank everyone who has gone through all the trials and tribulations to seek the truth and deliver justice for all! We couldn't have done it without you! 🎉
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Marine Macq @marinemacq.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Il m’a intrigué pour sa direction artistique radicale, je suis restée pour son game design intelligent ! Très heureuse de vous annoncer la parution prochaine de "Chants of Sennaar : Mémoires d’une cité en métal hurlant". Mon nouveau livre making of consacré à la pépite toulousaine de #Rundisc 🥳
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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 19/09/2026
We just hit 550K funded, so it’s time to announce our next stretch goal! At 600K, ERIKA ISHII (Ghost of Yōtei, Dropout, Dimension 20) will lend their voice talent to the winning project! 🤯 Back the campaign today: f.mtr.cool/yq0fmuz3wp
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed
Bunnies re-enact the duel between Inigo and Wesley in "The Princess Bride", with a masked bunny fighting against a dashing shaggy bunny with a gold sword. The masked bunny is cornered, near the edge of a rocky cliffside, but still has a trick up his sleeve
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Peterline6 tracks new VGM releases @nowplaying.cool · 19/09/2026
Vilma Jää on that banger she wrote for CONTROL RESONANT www.forbes.com/sites/mattga...
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‘Control Resonant’: Inside Remedy’s Unusual Approach To Its Soundtrack
Vilma Jää explains how runolaulu, folklore and creative freedom shaped her song for an eclectic 'Control Resonant' soundtrack.
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IAHFY ✦ @iahfy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Samus & Kirby
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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey @adamdolin.bsky.social and I talked about this gamedevdolin.com/gamescom2026/
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Write Between the Lines — gamescom 2026 | Adam Dolin
Adam Dolin — Narrative Designer, Writer, and Game Development Consultant. Credits include God of War, God of War: Ragnarök, and Horizon Forbidden West.
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you want to learn more about this project, we did a video about it last year! Rummaging through Cyan's storage room with Rand Miller and finding the original Myst footage was one of the highlights of my life
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The unseen history of Myst | VGHF Library Highlights
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's important to remind everyone that some absolute madlad, before LLMs ruined all mod voice acting forever, got a girl into a recording booth and redid every single voice line in Deus Ex to let you play as a girl www.moddb.com/mods/the-lay...
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The Lay D Denton Project mod for Deus Ex
The Lay D Denton project is an effort to provide a FULL seamless female JC Denton experience. Features include: -A complete female JC voiceover -Female JC model -All pronouns and gender references mod...
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Lucie Ronfaut @lucieronfaut.com · 16/09/2026
Aujourd'hui c'était la rentrée d'@origami.ng, le média qui produit Internet Exploreuses, et qui m'emploie désormais au 4/5e (la meuf est désormais : à peine pigiste !). On a annoncé plein de choses sur lesquelles j'ai bossé dans l'ombre pendant un an, j'avais donc envie d'en parler un peu plus.
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Kat Lyons @katlyyons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
btw they do this so they don’t have to hire back the same crew on a raise 🤙 (speaking from experience)
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Colin Hemphill @colinhemphill.com · 12/09/2026
Added some new features yesterday... timeline scrubber and markers for game start dates! But uh, you might have to hard refresh or something.
Cumulative player time chart "shows cumulative blight length over time". Three stepped line charts show Dan Ryckert, Jeff Grubb, and Mike Minotti listing hours played over time. Grubb sits comfortably on top most of the time. At the top of the chart are markers showing when each blight club game began
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
just leave me behind then! no problem! don’t let the door hit ya! www.patreon.com/raxkingisdea...
If an Al future is what I'm getting left behind from, then Christ, just leave me behind.
A girl can only pivot so much, hoss, and I hung up my pivotin' boots some time ago. I don't make videos even though that was supposedly the future of writing ten years ago — I mean, I guess I do, but they're little banjo practice videos for my friends, not expressions of a desperate careerist impulse. I use social media with the attention-crazed dopesickness of an addict, not the care and forethought of a professional, as any cursory read of my posts will confirm. I'm a writer by trade — a creative, as you might say — and here you are, running a business you don't even understand into the ground, deskilling my trade and experting a thank you when you explain how you're doing it. If I don't devalue myself the way you continually devalue me, you warn, I'll be left behind. Okay, says !! Quit making it my problem and go! The dust you leave me in will settle, and in the meantime, I will keep doing my work in much the way I've done it since I first became literate.
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Ian / Sìne @vonaether.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A red linking book with Elmo trapped inside. The caption reads "Bring Elmo the red pages!"A blue linking book with Sam the Eagle trapped inside, with the caption reading "You're all a bunch of weirdos."
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DecodeVen @decodeven.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We have all been very open about how we hate Gen AI and don't want it in the games we play. We can't give Level-5 a pass just because they made Professor Layton. The studio's are not your friend no matter what. Stand strong and say no to Generative AI.
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Léon 🧩 Looking for Fael is OUT! @leonardbertos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And we made Looking For Fael that quote Myst as first inspiration thanks to *drum rolls* PUBLIC FUNDS That's right, kids. Taxes!
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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's impossible to overstate how dire the funding situation is for games right now. The people who made Myst couldn't secure funding for a spiritual successor after searching for more than three years
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Claire Hummel @shoomlah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
An EXTREMELY selfish Kickstarter in that I'm just making the editions of these books that I've always wanted—cannot put into words how much love and care we've poured into every aspect this project!📚🩵 ...and it's no accident that @gilespink.bsky.social now has a writing credit on the Book of D'ni 👀
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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 08/09/2026
Prepare for an adventure that spans Ages with a new ultra-deluxe hardcover collection of the Myst novel trilogy - available for the first time in nearly three decades. Coming soon to Kickstarter! cyan.com/ks/trilogygow/soc0908
An illustrated rendering of a set of three deluxe Myst novels sitting on a glittering black sandy ground. Text reads: "The Myst Trilogy 'Guild of Writers' Deluxe Collection - Coming soon to Kickstarter"
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The king's adviser is actually a nice guy:
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Juin 🌞 18+ @juinreed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You know who we need most when companies overreach and desperately need reminding of their place? People who are already spending their cash on said company. I would love to start a Cancel Your Nitro Membership and Pass Along the Sentiment train. Just cancelled mine. Join me ✨ 🌹
Discord is going to reintroduce Global Age Verification, which restricts teen accounts.
Teens will face several limitations:
- Blocked access to NSFW channels and servers
- Sensitive media automatically blurred in chats and direct messages
- Mandatory message requests for incoming texts
- Restricted speaking access in Stage Channels
To lift these restrictions, unverified adults can confirm their age via one of the following options:
- Credit Card checks via k-ID x Stripe
- Official ID through k-ID
- Selfie
- Google Wallet
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Peterline6 tracks new VGM releases @nowplaying.cool · 04/09/2026
It's BANDCAMP FRIDAY! Support your favorite artists so they can continue to like eat, live under a roof, enjoy life and shit. Here's the best VGM you can grab today 👀 @bandcamp.com nowplaying.cool/bandcamp-fri...
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Bandcamp Friday is back—treat yourself with the best VGM out there
Support indie composers and upgrade your playlist with my top video game music picks for this Bandcamp Friday.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Medusa but her hair is an anaconda
Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She wears a grey chiton and stubbornly strides to the left, dragging the heavy snake, which trails sullenly along behindMedusa with a single anaconda for hair. It is completely coiled around her, leaving only her angry yellow eyes visible, and a single hand lifted to flip off the worldMedusa with a single anaconda for hair. She wears a grey towel and is scrubbing the snake. A bar of soap sits in a small puddle off to the leftMedusa with a single anaconda for hair. She sits, drumming her fingers impatiently, while in the background the anaconda digests some large prey
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026
I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Aggro Crab launches publishing label to splash that Peak cash
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Aggro Crab launches publishing label to splash that Peak cash
The studio wants to support 'intense, stylized games with an attitude'—but isn't interested in 'generative AI slop.'
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