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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Reposting so I don’t get hired by studios who crunch ✌️

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Ulysses 🦎 @ulyssesatsea.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ayo, am I connected with any Community Managers in the game space that are looking for work now or within the next 6months? Feel free to drop me a line in the comments or DM me.

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Adam Riches @supernorn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Everyone's immediate reaction to the visuals in the new Ocarina Of Time remake.

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Von Pixel @vonpixel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Words can’t describe how much I hate the idea of using ai in any part of my job.

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 07/09/2026

Took a day off to do my own projects and woke up ill 🙃

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Heknitt @heknitt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Is it Halloween season yet?? 🎃🧶🐸 #whimsical #cottagecoreaesthetic #spookyvibes #frog

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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How good could active noise canceling in headphones get?   It’s really one of the tightest time constraints in computing. Obviously, sound hits the microphone first *before* hitting your eardrum…but that’s only about 10 microseconds.

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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

friends!! if you're at gamescom make sure to check out Fool King!!!! go play and become the true Fool King!!! 👑 then u can brag about how amazing and brilliant u are for the rest of the week and nobody can tell u to stop bcos u will have earnt it 😌 also icymi i am doing the music👀

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 26/08/2026

Worms Galactic Tactics got announced yesterday at Gamescom! I've been working on the sound for this and glad I can finally say 😅 Check out the trailer! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVcm...

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Worms: Galactic Tactics | Announce Trailer

YouTube video by Team17

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 23/08/2026

Breaking out the original Xbox and pretending it’s 2003. There’s even an Xbox Live replacement service!

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Fangtopia🧛Coming Oct 26th @fangtopiagame.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Happy #ScreenshotSaturday. Here's some ghoulishly glorious screenshots of Fangtopia to celebrate this most joyous of days. #cozygames #indiegames

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 21/08/2026

My @gameworkers.co.uk pin arrived today with a hand written note 😭 Solidarity with the Rockstar gang 💜

IWGB pin with a hand written note saying,

“Thank you for your order! ❤️
We appreciate your support so much!
For confirmation your pre-order shirt will ship out separately.
In solidarity,
The former Rockstar gang”

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A Shell in the Pit @ashellinthepit.com · 18/08/2026

No middleware! Big Walk's sound is implemented using our custom tool-set @nicholaszhangaudio.bsky.social made himself, called Cuttle. We use it often so check it out if you're interested! 😉 ashellinthepit.com/content/cutt...

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Em @emaudible.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Lots of excitement about the squeaky beach sounds in Big Walk! You'll all be happy to know it's the real thing! Was absolutely giddy to get to record them on an actual Australian squeaky beach in Wilson's Promontory. Yes, if you didn't know some beaches there really do squeak. It is pure joy.

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./yemáko/badgames.zip @badgameszip.itch.io · 10/08/2026

sorry to the haters but the CORRECT order to play the series is A Short Hike Big Walk Marathon

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 11/08/2026

I’ve been trying out new mice and one of them being the Logitech Lift. I thought I’d like a vertical mouse but it doesn’t hug my hand like I wanted it to. Honestly feels less comfortable than my Logitech Pro Lightspeed. So instead I’m trying out a Kensington trackball… 🧵

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Over 150k and still 8 days to go. 🙏 Thank you everyone who has purchased the bundle. Your generosity helps us support laid off game workers who are facing eviction, have put off important medical care/treatment due to losing insurance, and the like. Your solidarity means the world.

A screenshot of the Game Industry Hardship Fund on itch that shows we have raised over 152k as of the afternoon of August 5th

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

black cat adventures 🐈‍⬛🐾

Painting of a black cat looking inquisitively at a bright red crab on a beach covered with tide pools

Drawing of a black cat strolling through a colorful early autumn landscape

a painting of a black cat with big round eyes sitting in a pumpkin patch. in the background we can see a countryside landscape with fields and a small cottage. there are chickens in the grass nearby and a wheelbarrow filled with pumpkins with a black cat sleeping on them. there's also a black cat in front of the house door in the distance. the color palette is warm oranges, pinks, yellows and muted greens.

A drawing of a floating black cat with pink eyes, surrounded by sparkly, glowing jellyfish in various pride flags colors

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Fangtopia🧛Coming Oct 26th @fangtopiagame.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Missed the first closed playtest for Fangtopia? We’re re-opening the crypt doors and welcoming in some new blood. (🧛 mmm tasty) Whether you want to join us for the relaxing pace of Fangtopia, or if your competitive streak is yearning for a new challenge – apply now. bit.ly/4wzmR8Q

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

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Game industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 others

Game industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 28/07/2026

Love the reframing of work as stewardship; cultivating a garden

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Took a little time to clip up Craig Mazin giving a shout-out to Trapped in the Network, a report from VGIM supported by @outmakinggames.bsky.social, about censorship of LGBTQ+ game content across the world. Listen below 👇

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Doing it this way has (hopefully) meant viewers have had the chance to understand this story in real-time and it's given workers the opportunity to share their own experiences outside of just the final ruling. Stories like Will's, for example, from our latest video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym4z...

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If Rockstar Meant to Kill This Union, It Didn't Work

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Jon Kelliher @jonkelliher.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This!! Everybody else is chasing trends for money and short term gains. Building your foundations on a good strong vision and growing steadily and organically is much more sustainable imo

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 21/07/2026

Implemented the ability to layer an extra sound that changes depending on the card rarity when opening a pack. Haven't made the sound yet so just pulled from some dev sounds I recorded of me counting. No need for gen AI, obviously a placeholder. Anyone else got examples of their placeholders?

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Lucy Blundell 💜💚 Wishlist Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart on Steam! @kinmoku.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Women after several years in the video game industry:

Simpsons meme. Marge: "I'm here out of spite."

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 19/07/2026

Finally got Tiny Glade 😌

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 18/07/2026

I think I just saw the epitome of a straight man at a comedy club. Guy only makes “jokes” about gay sex and then bullies an audience member for the whole show & being sexually aggressive towards him. Ends with the comedian stripping down to his underwear, rubbing his body towards the audience member

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's a common myth that "lights in computer games consume real electricity." This is technically true, but unlike real lights, they only do this when you are looking at them.

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Colin Ferguson @fearlessson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The way that reactionary players assume that sensitivity consulting agencies are something that come into a project like an invader and demand changes to some pure artistic vision, instead of being something that the developers planned for and deliberately invited in to get their feedback.

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Jameson Thatcher @sireel.itch.io · 07/07/2026

"The game engine is why the game is bad" is a myth that won't seem to go away. I'll have you know I can make a bad game in any engine.

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👁️saac 👁️o @eyesack.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The myth that it is possible to make a game. In truth no one has ever successfully made a game

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Emma Kidwell えま @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

sorry to be crass, but the notion that female devs sleep their way into a job. buddy i have news for you (that doesn't happen)

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Keith Kaisershot @blitter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

- asset reuse == lazy - that DLC comes from taking content already planned for the base game and cutting it out for a quick cash grab - perf problems are because the programmers didn’t “optimize,” whatever players think that means - that studios can freely release the code and assets to older games

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SpacePrez @spaceprez.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Most bugs you experience are known but there just wasn't time. Some bugs you experience already have a fix that just couldn't be tested in time to roll out. Rushing things risks causing more issues than it fixes. Also unless you are a programmer, you don't really know what a "game engine" is.

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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 07/07/2026

everybody thinks programming is real but actually there’s a real tiny guy moving around trapped inside the computer

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Ryan Da Fun @animationmerc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

That the devs are lazy. The devs may be idiots, ignorant, naive, or hopelessly optimistic. That totally happens. But it's very rare that something that ships in a game is bad because nobody cared to make it good.

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

game devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?

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Moo Yu (Mythmatch on Switch and Steam Now!) @oneofmoo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Mythmatch is OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch ❗❗ 20% Launch Discount ❗❗ Our narrative-rich, Greek myth, anti-capitalist merge game is available now on the eShop! Americas: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... Europe: www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/... Please repost to help spread the word!

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Mythmatch for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Mythmatch and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official Nintendo Store.

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Doot 🪲🪷 Wishlist Milki Delivery 🐮🚲 @dodoot.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

🌟MILKI DELIVERY STEAM PAGE 🌟 Our game has a steam page and a trailer, I'm so excited! 🐮 Deliver milk to friendly folks 🏔️ Explore the countryside 🚲 Upgrade your bike & dairy farm ✅ Complete quests & reconnect villagers Sharing would help us a lot 💌 #cozygames #gamedev

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 30/06/2026

I'll be going to Develop Brighton this year again, looking forward to seeing all your game dev faces!!

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 23/06/2026

Do you think the people who post no-commentary playthrough footage of video games on youtube realize how much they're load-bearing infrastructure for everyone doing UI/UX (and adjacent) game design work

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 22/06/2026

yeah the steam machine is expensive, but the good news is everyone is making so much more money thanks to our AI-enhanced productivity

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