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Brendan Mauro

@bmauro.bsky.social
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Sr. Environment Artist at Twin Suns Corp. Past: Core, Duskers, JETT, Overgrowth, Cogs, Natural Selection 2, etc. I like LEGOs. bmauro.artstation.com

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).
There's a trap on your ballot in California. Here's how to get past it.
1. Prop 40: 250 billionaires pay with they owe so hospitals, schools, and food assistant survive the federal cuts. Vote yes.
2. Props 41 and 42: paid for by billionaires to cancel prop 40. Vote no.
3. Tell one person, because the confusion is the plan.
Yes I'm 40. No on 41 and 42.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I DESPERATELY need your help with something, even if it’s just sharing this skeet: I’m working on a piec about the evolution of video games and the KEY to my story is a guy named Oscar Munoz who worked for Sega in the early 1990s I’ve tried everything to find him and social media is my last resort
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Bera @mensha.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
sbkraft.itch.io/gravitor
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Gravitor by SBKraft
Play in your browser
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 21/07/2026
The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware.
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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
@borut.bsky.social As someone who consumes an unhealthy amount of urban planning youtube I *love* the concept of Neighborhoods. Let me know if you have art needs, would love to help out.
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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The Autodesk licensing app just had a random connection error and it *forced me to save and quit* Maya mid operation. I cannot express the degree to which I detest silicon valley 2020s corporate bullsh*t. You could not make a more effective ad for Blender.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 01/03/2026
Please make a terrible ruckus about this, if you live in Oregon
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
1/3 Massive efforts are being done to ensure states do not regulate GenAI. Regulations like CA’s AB-412. A transparency bill that terrifies Big Tech! On Dec. 8th, there is a major hearing on this bill. We need as many folks to show up! Come join in support of creatives! Rsvp link in thread!
CA
12/8 HEARING
The Al Copyright Transparency Act
URGENT! BE THERE !!
SHOW UP to support Artists & Creators NOW !!!
12/8/2025 - 10:00 AM
Stanford University - Paul Brest Hall
555 Salvatierra Walk
Stanford, CA 93405
Entrance faces Nathan Abbott Way
Parking: Parking Structure 6 (Cash/ Credit)
We want the sea of human creativity that is CA to be in the room!
Help us get a head count ...
RSVP:
https://bit.ly/44IRMsX
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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"While trying to understand why the American middle class feels poorer each year despite healthy GDP growth and low unemployment, I came across a sentence buried in a research paper: “The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the minimum food diet cost in 1963, adjusted for inflation.""
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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
they buy themselves treats because they know without drastic structural changes, those will be the only treats they get the era of delayed gratification is over: the billionaires stole the gratification part, all they’re left with is delay
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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
You can sign even if you're not from California! actionnetwork.org/petitions/le...
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Let’s Be Clear: Artists & Creators Must Have Transparency NOW!
Every single day we don’t have transparency, the value of copyright loses ground and the harms inflicted to creative industries grow. California has always been on the forefront of policies that can ...
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Tim Keenan @misfitsattic.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Watch as we flip Chess on its head by simply adding magic and dungeons and stuff. youtu.be/GYOfCM_LkyE #BelowTheCrown #indiegame #videogames #chess #Roguelike #DungeonCrawler
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Below The Crown: Gameplay Trailer 1
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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I did a lot of work on this:
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BirdiBirdson @birdibirdson.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
loading trees #pixelart
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Oh hi, I worked on this game. Hoping one day we get the funding to finish it.
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
We at United Videogame Workers-CWA condemn the studio closure of Cliffhanger Games by Electronic Arts. 

In an industry that generated over $450 billion and padded EA CEO Andrew Wilson's pockets to the tune of $25.6 million in total compensation in the year 2024, workers should not have to be subjected to this dehumanizing treatment. 

These hardworking families and industry veterans must now scramble to find new work during a time of increasing economic volatility, while the game that they worked hard on will never see the light of day. 

And for what purpose? For EA to be able to write off the cost of the studio and game production as a "business loss" on their taxes and make their stock prices go up. Making this disastrous decision following EA's previously announced RTO policies and commitment to DEI is an insult to injury to those already trying to stay afloat in the industry, particularly to the disabled, those with families, and Black and brown game workers. 

We as workers and the players who stand with us in solidarity deserve better and demand better.
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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Total deregulation of a/i where states cannot enact any guardrails of their own. That's what's in this bill. This is some real, truly awful shit for the future of all of us and everything we post online. U.S. House Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 5calls.org to get a script and quick dial to your rep.
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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
🎉 Skin Deep is RELEASED! 🎉 👉 Steam store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S... 👉 Epic Games Store store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/skin... This game was made with a crew of wonderful folks: blendogames.com/skindeep/cre... We hope you enjoy Skin Deep! ✨
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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Here it is, the Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring. You can get a print of this here - www.inprnt.com/gallery/gora... and you can support my little creative excursions here - patreon.com/gorangligovic
The Fellowship of the Ring in (a fantasy version of) Bronze Age getups.
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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Sorry I haven't been posting as much lately -- burning the midnight oil getting new pitch demos ready for #GDC next week -- drop me a line if you want to meet up and talk about NIGHTSHIFT GALAXY! #indiegamedev
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Headlocked Comics @headlockedcomic.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The media since 2015.
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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Coming out of games journalist retirement for exactly five seconds and having enough time to do a better job than that New York Times article
A scooby doo two panel meme of a villain being unmasked, asking "let's see what's making videogames unsustainable". The first panel has the mask captioned as "state of the art graphics" and the second panel had the unmasked villain captioned "ceo salaries"
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 18/12/2024
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Alex Austin @crypticsea.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
really sad that CEOs now have to live in fear of gun violence like some third-grader in a public school
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgptand i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here"

the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine

with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world

but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNEDthis kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me.

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he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood

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it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
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Turbo Button | Floor Plan: Slap Out Of It! @turbobuttoninc.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Nobody at Turbo Button could figure out how to make an AI-generated greeting card. But we heard studios like us are expected to use AI for everything now, so we commissioned some of our favorite artists to hand draw what they think those cards might have looked like. Here's what they came up with.
A collection of five hand-drawn greeting cards, each representing an artist's interpretation of AI-generated art.
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Allison J. James / NILDIGO LIST WISH @allis.ink · 03/12/2024
You can currently buy all of me and @danjohnston.uk 's fonts for $19. I have made nearly a thousand fonts. Daniel has made around 200. That's a PRICE
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Lucas Brown Eyes @lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Let me save you from asking a Native this: Yes, some Natives celebrate Thanksgiving. Which is cool. It was our holiday first. Also, some Natives don’t. Which is also cool. But what isn’t cool, is only thinking of Natives once a year.
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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Collision Stress-Testing starting to pay-off. #ScreenshotSaturday WISHLIST NIGHTSHIFT GALAXY: store.steampowered.com/app/3038700/...
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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Songs of Silence better be getting some art noms when it comes to the festival season, just saying.
A collage of art-nouveau stylized fantasy characters - sightless men in armor casting spells, a woman with a radiant bird-of-prey, all over a chilling background image of an immense, chaotic orb of dark energy dominating a natural landscape.
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voyager212 / Mac Rebisz @macspace.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Scout ship scouting some alien city ruins.
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Justin Herschel | Commissions closed @daydreamer94.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Here is a tutorial on how I make my globe drawings
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Tim Keenan @misfitsattic.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Wow, this is the coolest physical copy of Duskers I've seen 😎 www.reddit.com/r/Duskers/co...
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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Flexing the old pixel art chops for a minute. A little skyline I did this week for a game jam amongst friends.
A moody pixelated city at night, meant to evoke early 20th century New York or Chicago, cast in sepia tones. A suspension bridge spans in the middleground.
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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
The fact that *I'm* getting new followers I think really says something. Glad to see more migration here, it's really refreshing to be on a pre-enshittified platform again. Maybe I'll make an effort to post more...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 04/08/2024
Scientists believe we could be just years away from discovering the opposite of "anti-fascist".
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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 04/08/2024
@thespaceshipper.bsky.social Seen this? I think it's a much better option than a movie, would be hard to tell that story in 2 hours. deadline.com/2024/08/lege...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/05/2024
Wrote the Rot Economy just over a year ago, and it feels more accurate today than ever www.wheresyoured.at/the-rot-econ...
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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
This is so painfully true
"Yes, it’s a slow year for triple-A publishers, but that’s what happens when you spend years quietly canceling projects that you’re worried might not achieve such a spectacular liftoff as to take over the entire universe. Eventually, it catches up with you. And years from now — already a record year for layoffs — it’s gonna catch up with the video game industry again. 

“So in a few years when there’s a massive gap in the industry from all the games that were never made by the people who got laid off at the studios that were shuttered, who’s going to make your games?” wrote JC Lau, game developer at ProbablyMonsters. “Where’s ‘shareholder value’ going to come from when you’ve cut to the bone?” "
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Franken Stein-amite @sweavart.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech. CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
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🦇 Hexavier 🎃 @xavierck.com · 07/03/2024
Congratulations to PC Gamer and writer Joshua Wolens for coming up with the greatest headline in game industry news history www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
1980s techies: Imagine a World Wide Web where all human knowledge can be shared and accessed by everyone. 2020s techbros: We will steal every word you’ve ever shared, every artwork you’ve ever displayed, lock them away in datasets without your permission, then sell them all back to you, but shite.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 18/02/2024
Pitch Black -the beginnings of Riddick- was released 24 years ago today. To mark the occasion, my article on the making of the spectacular Hunter Gratzner crash, usually a Patreon exclusive, is available to all. Ten minutes behind the scenes with film wizards... => www.patreon.com/posts/89165307
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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
Helldivers 2 has a few glaring UX faux pas (hard coded hotkeys in the lobby, for shame!), but I am in love with this feature and what it allows.
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⭐️eunnie⭐️ @eunnieboo.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
every single time
minicomic drawn in dreary blue hues. page 1, panel 1: an article on a computer screen reads "[COMPANY] LAYS OFF 30% OF EMPLOYEES." the subheading under the title adds, "Hundreds scramble to pay the bills." panel 2: portrait of eunnie, an exhausted girl with glasses and shoulder-length hair. she stares at the news, leaning her head in a hand. panel 3: she sits back with the same dismal expression, typing something on her keyboard.page 2, panel 1: eunnie's search query reads "[COMPANY] ceo salary." the result below reads "$30 million a year," followed by a quote that declares, "The industry has never been more profitable!" to the right is a photo of the ceo - a nondescript man in a suit wearing a sleazy grin. panel 2: eunnie sits at her computer, face blank. panel 3: everything turns red, an abrupt zoom-in blurring eunnie's portrait as she blasts lasers from her eyes.
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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
Working on a lil' stylized planet generator to keep the chops in shape while on the job hunt...
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Victor Careil @phyronnaz.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
I'm open-sourcing Voxel Plugin's Core! This includes a lot of utilities we use to make high performance code on top of Unreal, such as a TMap alternative that's roughly 2x faster. A ton of editor helpers are also included :) github.com/VoxelPlugin/...
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Brendan Mauro @bmauro.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Hello, #PortfolioDay I'm a 15+ year Environment Art and UI/UX vet, and Art Director on a few (award-winning) Indie games. Currently looking for work. Cheers! bmauro.artstation.com www.linkedin.com/in/brendanma...
A screenshot of a woman throwing fireballs at skeletons in a gloomy cryptA screenshot of Deadmau5 destroying an industrial-themed venue in a giant mech with laser eyesA screenshot of a robotic drone exploring a derelict spaceship from the game Duskers. The video feed is distorted and grainy and there is a console for typed commands.A large, dimly lit underground room with sci-fi consoles along the walls from the game Natural Selection 2
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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
do I want to: -do some art -play a video game -do nothing and grind my brain on that indecision until 2am
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