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Tom Happ

@axiomverge.bsky.social
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Indie gamedev who made Axiom Verge. Special needs dad. Curious about everything. Likes too much stuff and tries to do it all. axiomverge.com axiomverge2.com thomashapp.com

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Yacht Club Games @yachtclubgames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You’re not ready for these un-fur-gettable bundles!🐭 Now you can grab some of the most iconic recent games in all new double-feature bundles. Mina the Hollower ropes in both Animal Well and Mouse P.I. while Treasure Trove and Axiom Verge unite to form a deal worthy of legend.💪
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Shade Aurion @shadeaurion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Recently rebought @axiomverge.bsky.social 1 & 2 for Switch 2 and am replaying 1 before 2 and damn 1 holds up so well. Axiom Verge as a series i'd consider one of the greats of Metroidvanias and highly recommend. If you haven't yet, consider checking them out!
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
People point out that AI makes slop, uses stolen assets, destroys the environment, and is super dangerous... but suppose it did none of those things and just made perfect games and art and music; is that something we even want?
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Now in Gunmetal Grey!
A person in the background carrying a bag over their shoulder. In the foreground, a large gray cat sits beside a cardboard box labeled "CATS FOR MEN." The text above reads "Introducing CATS FOR MEN™," and below the box, it says "The first feline designed for real, masculine men."
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The past couple of days a new thing needed my attention every 15 minutes. I can't even understand simple code on these days. Also I found an object called "AssetManager" that apparently only manages breakable tiles. I think I must have written that on a similar kind of day.
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I had a dream the other night that I was at some kind of E3-like event, but instead of being in a normal exhibition hall, it was in some kind of architectural marvel of a place. It was a maze and I was trying to make it on time for a presentation but couldn't find it. Also I could fly.
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Quote with a game released the year you were born
Combat for the Atari 2600 advertisement
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I'm too lazy to do steam's 2fa every time and usually I just leave
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I wonder if Gangrel clan animals can turn into humans
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
First time seeing one in the wild, I got a chuckle
F Elon bumper sticker
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Remember Java 3D? In the late 90s/early 00s I remember there being this website made by a Java 3d fanatic who espoused its virtues, with lots of graphics resembling the below. I recall him being like a zealot who loved java 3d with his whole heart. Does anyone else remember that guy?
Wikipedia image for Java 3d
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Anna @ltkerr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Today launches the game I've been working on: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced It's been an incredible experience working with such hardworking,talented & amazing people and we are very glad that players are loving it Unfortunately my whole team is being laid off so we can't fully celebrate it
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It's really fun pixeling a character attacking with a weapon. It's a bit less fun repeating this in several different directions for different weapon types over a lot of frames. #gamedev
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Hiro Ohta @xlix.me · 07/07/2026
Every shadow tells a story. Every light tells a lie.
Photo by João Cabral. A serene black-and-white photograph of a narrow, cobblestone street bathed in soft sunlight. A lone figure walks toward the light, their long shadow stretching behind. The gothic architecture surrounds the scene, with a striking arched bridge overhead. The interplay of light and shadow evokes a sense of introspection and timelessness.
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Does anyone know of any very large (48 pix or higher) pixel fonts?
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
It's been a while so I thought I'd check if anyone knows if ai is good for coding games now
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Bit Kid @bitkidgames.com · 12/06/2026
It's a thing of beauty! Great work @jparish.bsky.social!
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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 08/06/2026
This is exactly it for me. If a character is “bad” because their world has made them so, that’s implicitly hopeful; the world can also redeem. But if characters are simply good - and worse, pure - that tells us the world can be divided into deserving and damned, and that‘s the root of fascism
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
indiandefencereview.com/african-spur...
indiandefencereview.com
They Kept Planting Trees in the Sahara and Kept Failing. Then They Released 500 Tortoises, and the Desert Looked Alive From Space
They released 500 giant reptiles into a barren stretch of the Sahara. Five years later, satellites spotted green where only sand had been.
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Let's just give AI access to everything. What can go wrong?
A post on x about how an AI agent destroyed his company, while Sam Altman posts that we need to rethink the internet, operating systems, and user interfaces (for AI use, presumably)
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Evidently the blue things all over the beach are harmless jellyfish.
A beach with a lot of blue jellyfish washed up
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Bodzin @bodzin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Just joined Bluesky and honestly hoping this is the right place to find people who actually care about indie games 🙏 We're making Bodzin — think Zelda vibes, lots of love, two devs doing their best lol. Follow along if you're into that kind of thing! 🗡️ #indiegame #unity #pixelart #gamedev #inventory
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DrSmey @drsmey.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
#pixelart #aseprite Touch the Orb? [y/n] (2024)
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Jess 🌺ΘΔ& @cyansorcery.com · 03/04/2026
🐭with every new set of sprites Marcus gets 🌸he feels more and more alive #indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker
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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
unlocking new areas in City of None (with @liamberry.ca)
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
april fools day always shows that all the corporations know what people actually want them to make, and demonstrate it as a joke before continuing to not do it
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 01/04/2026
AI-driven manipulation comes in three forms, each tested in our research: • Deepfake videos • AI-generated misinformation articles • Personality-targeted political ads We ran multiple preregistered experiments to see if warnings protect people. Spoiler: They largely don't. 2/10
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Castaway Trails | Play the Demo! @edudelm.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
#WaterSource #pixel_dailies #pixelart @pixeldailies.bsky.social
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Thought I'd repost this and see if anything bad happens to those who reply, first
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I think we need an inverse thread where we talk about things that normal intelligent people universally agree upon that are for some reason hot takes within your profession
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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Damn. A recruiter told me I have a real chance to work for Minecraft again, but Mojang changed the position at the last minute. I haven't had work in months and that would have been job security. I'm a good art director, illustrator and 2D animator for games. Hire me please
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
You might dig this spectrogram of the sounds of a 3D printer calibrating itself.
A spectrogram (sound frequency image) of a 3D printer calibrating itself.
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
It bothers me that even if you found an actually good use of LLMs, it would just piss a bunch of (most?) people off to ever talk about it.
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Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential @stuartmiller1.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Paul Kenton, #British #painter known for his dynamic cityscapes filled w/ movement, light & reflection. Using bold palette knife strokes & layers of oil paint, he captures the energy of rain-soaked streets, skylines & urban life w/ striking realism & texture @paulkenton.bsky.social #art #painting
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We're all just surfing the internet
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Gramaphone manufacturers: it already feels difficult to remember how much effort live music was
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I'm interested to see what effed up ways modders could break Nvidia's filter
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I love the look of this
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Inititives like this are a huge part of how developers in Canada, Germany, and other countries with such grants were able to wind up such flourishing indie scenes tbh
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I bet you didn't know that dinosaurs were once depicted as being scaley and lizard-like because computers weren't fast enough to render their feathery plumage.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/03/2026
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative.

The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools
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AxiomTrace @axiomtrace.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
My Axiom Verge collection from @axiomverge.bsky.social (incomplete, as the AV1 and 2 vinyls are not in the picture). Waiting/hoping for AV3, or anything else in the AV world/universe/multiverse 😁
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Interesting article about simulating living cells. phys.org/news/2026-03...
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Why simulating an entire cell cycle took years, multiple GPUs and six days per run
By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell—from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division—scientists have opened a new frontier of computer vision into the e...
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Is there an example of a video game ad or other marketing that isn't cringey?
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Scare-o-lyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
can we talk about the fetishization of military power in these games and how they function as propaganda yet or...?
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Criminalize notifications
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
3/3 added a background for visibility.
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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Writing music is such an intensely personal thing for me that it's hard to grasp how professionals feel comfortable doing it with a band. Especially for the lyricists who are making their deepest feelings and experiences vulnerable to the rest of them. That must be scary.
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Jigu (a.k.a. Pedro Giglio) @jigu.com.br · 24/02/2026
Found a common friend with @axiomverge.bsky.social last week.
A selfie of myself by a replica of a Lamassu statue. I'm wearing a Mr. Bungle t-shirt.
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