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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 8h

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 20h

Even in our era of abundance, 'arcade puzzle' is is a truly underserved genre. Anyone working in this space is a hero.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm incredibly lucky in that I have stability thanks to my success and independence, but that is not the norm. Jobs were already scarce for composers even before everything fell apart. Now it's apocalyptic.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Currently obsessed with this incredible cover of one of my favorite tracks from one of my favorite games

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Your Name Please (cover)

YouTube video by Roel Rodriguez

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Anyone who claims to have a relationship with pop culture that doesn't resemble my own is lying for attention" is a very convoluted way of saying "I'm insecure"

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'M SORRY I SLEPT ON ALAN WAKE 2 FOR SO LONG THIS IS THE GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME

Dance sequence from Alan Wake 2: colored lights, Alan and Mr. Door dancing with spooky backup dancers, confetti everywhere

Guitarist from Old Guards of Asguard absolutely shredding

Mr. Door looking triumphant with bright lights behind him and confetti everywhere

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've always believed Monkey Island would be the easiest game to translate into film. And look at Purcell's art!! What are we even doing here, man.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thank goodness, I can barely handle having just 1 brain

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was not aware that you could contain this much great stuff in one image

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You'd think this was in response to one of my anti-capitalist rants but no

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Daggerfall turned 30 yesterday, so allow me to share a piece of music from it that kind of singlehandedly shaped my own style of writing. You can hear this one song's influence in nearly all my soundtracks: youtu.be/DUVmAUpYf50?...

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17.Fireplace - The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I almost can't believe how bizarre this is. "Now that we've fired everyone who worked on Destiny, it's time to resume development on Destiny."

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Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We don't live in slop world because of AI, we live in slop world because the purpose of everything is to generate a return on investment for capital. We evaluate everything along metrics designed to serve that purpose over any other. AI is just the best way we found of optimizing for these metrics.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Finally, a foot rest that can span the length of the universe just like I wanted

Screenshot of an Amazon ad for an under-desk foot rest that claims, "Truly Infinite Height"

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This has been super fun to be a part of! Watch! Donate to charity! It’s for school supplies, you monsters! Give a little.

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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We are at $920 and we stlil have so much cool shit coming up! - @karlgerm.com Dark Souls speed run - Cliffy B interview - @stephentotilo.bsky.social interviewing Control Resonant dev - Pokemon Champions - me interviewing Abu Salim Watch: Twitch.tv/nyvgcc Donate: t.co/K9OBOGb7HX

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"How do we help the at-risk youth with housing?!" "Well these programs where they just give them money with no strings attached while they get things together seems to help." "....If only there were a way. Let's do more research."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026

It's so funny that Mamdani is doing *exactly* what the abundance types are calling for -- competent government in service of constituents' quality of life -- but they can't embrace him because their billionaire donors hate Muslims.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've now subscribed to Aftermath, Rogue, Mothership, and Jank, and I have zero regrets.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not gonna lie, that video of McConnell sitting motionless in the van with that rictus grin and blank stare gave me the fuckin heebie jeebies

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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just looked in my crawl space and Mitch McConnell was down there butt naked and skittering? Has anyone else experienced this? Not sure who to call. To be clear he was upside down

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Lu Nascimento @lunascimento.art · 01/06/2026

I'm now available for work making key art, illustrations, concept art, commissions & pixel art I enjoy doing everything 2D in games! I've done art for Overthrown, Moonglow Bay, Loco Motive, Assemble with Care, Wargroove, etc 🖼 Portfolio: lunascimento.art ✉ E-mail: lunascimento.art@gmail.com

Pixel art of a a domed, blue cloud with a rainbown halo. Skulls shape the cloud, curtains and a windown frame the view.

Moonglow Bay's Vinyl centre folder illustration - a diorama of a boat on the sea is surrounded by a cemetery of boats and a giant dragon-like fish.

Pixel portraits of Ryota, white-haired commander from Wargroove. In The background, a faded pixel art desert.

Isometric 2D concept art/diorama of a tiny studio flat that some dogs use as their private detective office. The style is flat shaded and chunky. The interior is green, orange and medium browns.

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bplane @bplane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There's an endless mountain of peer reviewed, double-blind studies that show this shit doesn't work and *negatively impacts profits* but the facade of looking like you're a big tough special boy is more important.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm really enjoying making things in Pigments. I put this sound together from scratch in just a few minutes and I love it. (Not sponsored [Sponsor me you cowards])

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My guess is the reason they announce this stuff so comically far in advance is that announcements like these make the share price go up when they need to hit a certain target to get executive bonuses.

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Zach Soares @voxels.ca · 11/09/2026

I'm available for work! - Characters - Rigging and Animations - Environments Art I've worked on Teardown, Vampire Crawlers, Moonglow Bay and many more! Feel free to DM me or email zachary.soares@zsinked.com

Teardown Marketing screenshot showcasing the second level of the Relics of Barkuna DLC.

Vampire Crawlers screenshot from within the library. Environment art can be seen with the array of bookshelves and props

Moonglow Bay selfies screenshot from the main character. Soft and light art style

A screenshot from On The Nose, interrogating our first suspect Mr. Deerest.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026

The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

you can be arrested if you give water to people waiting on line to vote

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Maddie insists it's just coincidence that this spider plant resembles the top of a pineapple.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Every time a new console comes out, the "maybe increased visual fidelity is actually bad for games" conversation resurfaces, and this interview is a great reminder that game devs have always been talking about this. This is from 33 years ago!

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think my real problem with the Ocarina of Time remake is not the remake itself, but that you can't really remove Ocarina from its context of releasing in 1998 and expect any of it to hit the same or even similarly. There was literally nothing else like it when it released.

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 07/09/2026

I feel that if game developers cannot count on keeping a job after a game ships they should at least get residuals. To me this is a moderate position.

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

constraints CAN breed creativity, sort of, but i hate this way of phrasing it, because constraints can also hobble you - dogma can make you miserable and incapable of creating things what we really mean is that SOME constraints function as PROMPTS, specifically in the pre-hell-world sense

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.com · 05/09/2026

PS1 memory card icons 💾

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026

This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...

a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I for one love the corporate structure where talentless doofuses earn all the money off the back of genuinely talented people. Very sustainable and good and moral

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Dawn of the Machine let's goooooo

Opening level of Quake: Dawn of the Machine showing a first-person view of a large industrial bridge and leading to a fortress

"You are drained after roaming the dimensions in an endless search for a way home. Finally, some hope - rumors speak of a nightmare machine trapping you inside a world of eternal horror. Regain your strength and find the secret runes of power. Only then can you end the nightmare and escape the illusion!"

First person view of a large outdoor industrial space. An ogre is shooting a grenade at you.

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Jen Klasing, aka Questifer @questifer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Didn't like an indie game I picked up. It was 8 dollars. I am not going to refund it and I'm not going to leave a negative review. They worked hard to make the thing and I bought it and don't regret giving it a shot. Maybe the next thing they make will be more to my tastes. :)

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

More publishers not run by rich MBA weirdos please.

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