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Bonus Stage Toronto @bonusstageto.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

🌟Thank you to everyone for coming out to Bonus Stage this week!🌟 A huge thanks to our amazing speakers: Jeffrey Barkun - @barkunjgames.bsky.social Alex Martin - @droqen.bsky.social See you all next time on February 18th!🤩

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Photo of Alex Martin speaking at Bonus Stage

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Jeffrey B @barkunjgames.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

🎤 Thank you to @bonusstageto.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to talk about designing Dressipher! 🐸 Also, thank you to everyone in the audience that night for listening to me! I hope the talk inspired you to explore how games can encourage conversations!

A picture of me giving a talk at Bonus Stage while wearing a frog hat and pointing at someone with cue cards

A picture of me giving a talk at Bonus Stage while wearing a frog hat

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Bonus Stage Toronto @bonusstageto.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

See you tonight!

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Jeffrey B @barkunjgames.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🎤 Want to hear me give a 5-minute talk about Dressipher? Head to @bonusstageto.bsky.social next week! 🦖 Cleo will also be making a roar there in a limited-edition wrestler-inspired Kaiju outfit!

A Promotional Image for Dressipher showing Cleo dressed up with a mohawk, reptile eyes, wrestler top/bottoms, claws, and a tail.

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ROAR!!! I wore this outfit at Bonus Stage January 2025.
Get your free Limited-Edition Kaiju Outfit!

Exclusively at Bonus Stage

January 21st

Dressipher

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Audio 4n6 @audio4n6.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

RELEASING THIS MONTH! 4 albums! 27 tracks! My “Farm Punks” Soundtrack! My “Disco Is Dead” Soundtrack! My “Par For The Dungeon” Soundtrack! And my new “Deprived” EP! So much to say about these in the coming weeks. Enjoy! 🫶🏽🎧🎹🎸🎮 www.audio4n6.ca youtu.be/IKRbCifMqpQ?...

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4 New Releases This Month!

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Bonus Stage Toronto @bonusstageto.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

✨Kick-off 2025 with us on January 21st!✨ The theme is "What Do You Think" We'll see you at Taco Taco, more info here: bonusstage.carrd.co See you in two weeks!😎

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Jeffrey B @barkunjgames.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

End of the year! Thought I'd share 4 of my favorite movies I saw from last year! 🎥 (Surprisingly, I saw all 4 in theaters) Share your 4 favorite movies of 2024!

A frame from Dune Part 2 - showing the protagonist "Paul Atreides" raising a blade and shouting

A frame from Perfect Days. Shows the protagonist "Hirayama" sitting in a park with his niece Niko. Both are holding cameras and looking up smiling.

A frame from The Wild Robot. The protagonist "Roz" is looking up while surrounded by butterflies

A frame from Flow. The protagonist "Cat" is sitting on a boat

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Brandy Bryant 🏳️‍⚧️ @inkmasterbator.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Will I understand the plot of Nosferatu if I haven't seen Nosferaone?

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JD Hassel (He/Him) @jandavidhassel.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Since I got a couple of new followers I want to share this doc with game job search resources again that I'm maintaining. Just in case anyone is looking rn. Please share this around and let me know if you have any additions or feedback! docs.google.com/document/u/0... #GameJobs #GameDevJobs

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JD’s Game Jobs Search Resources

JD’s Game Jobs Search Resources The purpose of this document is to collect useful links for video game job searchers. If you have any feedback, additions or corrections please contact me on LinkedIn o...

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Jeffrey B @barkunjgames.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Let's be honest... The music just played in your head and now you're panicking 😨

A screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild where Link is running away from a Guardian shooting a Lazer

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Razbuten @razbuten.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

third space? bruh I don't even have a second space...

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Aravelle @aravelle.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

If you see a cool new game you’re interested in - ✨ WISHLIST IT. ✨ If you’ve bought a new game and you’re loving it - ✨ LEAVE A REVIEW. ✨ These are really easy and important ways to support the games you love. 🎮❤️

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Jeffrey B @barkunjgames.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

👗Cleo is all dressed up and ready for her next event! 🎤 I will be giving a talk at @bonusstageto.bsky.social on January 21st and Cleo will be joining me with a brand new Limited Edition outfit! 🤔 Can you guess the outfit she'll be wearing? Share your guesses in the comments!

Top Text: Dressipher
Middle Text: What is Cleo Wearing?
Bottom Text: Bonus Stage - January 21st

Image: Silhouette of Cleo in her new outfit

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Jeffrey B @barkunjgames.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

My Spotify Wrapped for this year! 🎶 The usual suspects are on my top 4. 😂 Hmmm... I think I'm going to try to expand what artists I listen to next year. Anyone got some suggestions based on the artists/songs you see?🤔

My Spotify Wrapped for 2024 using the green background. The top image shows the band "Ad Infinitum".

My top artists:
1. Ad Infinitum
2. Hollywood Undead
3. Avenged Sevenfold
4. Ice Nine Kills
5. Electric Callboy

My top songs:
1. Surrender - Ad Infinitum
2. Kingslayer (feat. Babymetal) - Bring Me The Horizon
3. Abyss - from Kaiju No. 8 - Yungblood
4. Tekkno Train - Electric Callboy
5. RATATATA - Electric Callboy feat. Babymetal

Minutes listened: 3,746

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Jeffrey B @barkunjgames.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Now checking out a Candlelight Concert Tribute to Ludovico Einaudi

A church setting with candlelights around a piano

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Jeffrey B @barkunjgames.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Finally got to see The Wild Robot today! 🤖 It was such a gorgeous movie! 😭

The poster of The Wild Robot with Razz holding Brightbeak with me being silly and pretending I'm looking up at Razz

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Rasheed Abueideh - Now crowdfunding Dreams on a Pillow 🍉 @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

After years away from game dev, I couldn’t stay silent about my people’s dehumanization. I made Dreams on a Pillow 🍉a game inspired by a famous Palestinian folktale about the 1948 Nakba. I’m crowdfunding it now—please back & share! 🔗 launchgood.com/1948

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Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood

A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

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Saleem @seemo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Please help my friend Yasmein provide some warmth for her family. They need your help, even a few dollars can go a long way 🙏🏼

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Jeffrey B @barkunjgames.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I wish YouTube would take a note from Nintendo's Music app and allow users to use a filter to hide content from media you don't want spoiled for you. 😢 I'm currently 4 episodes into Arcane S2 and already I'm getting YouTube thumbnails (AND NOTIFICATIONS) spoiling the final episode.

media.tenor.com

a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a room and the man is yelling at the woman .

Alt: A scene from Brooklyn Nine-Nine in which Jake and Amy are talking and Jake is sticking his fingers in his ears yelling "La-La-La-La! No Spoilies!".

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Toronto Games Week @torontogamesweek.com · 15/11/2024

Mark your calendars! 📅 Toronto Games Week is returning once again for 2025! Catch all the action from June 11th-17th, 2025! Toronto Games Week is a collective coordination of game and arts events organized independently by dozens of organizations, curators, companies, creators, and communities 🎮

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Marie LeBlanc Flanagan @omarieclaire.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I made a tiny protest game about the terrifying reality of biking in Toronto without bike lanes marieflanagan.com/loserlane

An ASCII art image that says "I survived 18 seconds without a bike lane" with a cyclist crashing into a weed store. The cyclist is saying "please don't write this in my obit". At the bottom it says "THANKS DOUG".

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Mup.art | Webcomic Creator @mupart.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

🎮 In gaming news: A shout-out to my friend @barkunjgames.bsky.social for creating an amazing game! If you love dress up & party games, this is for you 😉 Download on Android! play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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Jeffrey B @barkunjgames.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

#dressipher is at the #tge2024!!! Swing on by to check it out, get your limited edition outfit, and see other cool indie games!!!

A table with 2 phones showing Dressipher, business cards, and a Dressipher poster

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Cess 💛 @thechaosspirit.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

mario party can either be the most fun game ever or the most excruciating experience of your life

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WISHLIST SKRUB SQUAD @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

THE SECOND CANADIAN GAME DEVS STARTER PACK IS LIVE!!! Follow and boost these excellent folks too! To join just @ me to be added and a like means you're in. go.bsky.app/KsVuaB6

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WISHLIST SKRUB SQUAD @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

Hello, I made a Starter Pack for game devs, studios, and games-adjacent people based out of Canada! Please reach out if you'd like to be added and/or removed. go.bsky.app/BdgAmaR

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Jeffrey B @barkunjgames.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

🎮 Heading to the Toronto Game Expo next Saturday? 🎸 Cleo's new limited-edition Subspace Rocker outfit takes the stage exclusively at this year's TGE!

Promo for Dressipher that has the game's protagonist/host striking a pose with her hand on her hips and a bass over her shoulder.

Text:
Cleo: I wore this outfit at the Toronto Game Expo 2024.
Get Your Free, Limited-Edition Subspace Rocker Outfit!
Exclusively at the Toronto Game Expo.
November 16th.
Dressipher

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Jeffrey B @barkunjgames.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Oh... This is a social media app... Not the studio that made Ice Age... 😅 👋 Howdy everyone! 🎮 I'm Jeffrey - a Game Designer who's currently showcasing the game Dressipher! 🍄 Most of you will know me as a Mario fanboy and a dad to an adorable cat

A picture of me standing in a Wanted sign advertising Kitchener Comic Con making a peace sign

A picture of me holding a deep fried Mac and cheese on a stick making a hilarious amazed expression

A picture of me standing next to a mural painting of a Piranha Plant while wearing a Majora's Mask shirt

A picture of my cat, Noëlle, hiding under some blankets

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Malek Teffaha (مالك) @malekawt.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

My close friends in Lebanon are organizing efforts to help displaced families that have no proper alternatives and shelters with clothing, food, accomodations, and medicine. If you can help with any amount at all, know that it will make a huge difference: www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-sup...

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Donate to Urgent Support for Displaced Families in Lebanon, organized by Ali Ayoub

Providing Essential Aid to Those in Need Our Story On 23 September,… Ali Ayoub needs your support for Urgent Support for Displaced Families in Lebanon

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