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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I will be imbibing for the first time in several years.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

www.workwithindies.com?categories=a... remotegamejobs.com ymmv

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Maybe relevant. Early in Hades 2 I commented that it was a better game but that I enjoyed the first game's story better as it was more personal about a family. As I beat the game, I realized this statement was comically ignorant and the story was better that I felt this way and was proven wrong.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I've struggled with "This is bad for art" being used to indirectly say "it can do code though!" A lot of good points in this. An alternative part of "the wedge" is we (as engineers) are repeatedly asked to implement this process to take jobs/skills/fulfillment from our friends.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Pretty fun result! Great job

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"Numbers might be up.. but frowns are also up." - Rekha Shankar (Game Changer)

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

was really a breath of fresh air

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Minimal searching gives some good lists jobs.ffwd.org/jobs techjobsforgood.com I'll be keeping an eye on em and trying to figure out how to make "made it so a lot of animated guys can fight each other" applicable.... haha

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I mean... pretty fitting for twitter.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Been thinking a lot about getting out of games given the state of things. I'd love to work for some environment non-profit but my skillset is so laser focused to gameplay programming that it is less than relevant. Anyone done something like this?

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Unions are following him around like the ghost of christmas future.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I also particularly enjoy the map pixelation

A screenshot of MoteMancer showing a 6 pointed star shape on the map.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Its so cool that player builds in MoteMancer create this mandala effect due to the hex grid. Players in the discord are creating tile art. I always thought it was cool how Factorio factories end up looking like circuit boards.

A screenshot of MoteMancer showing how buildings are placed in circular patterns.

A screenshot from MoteMancer showing a 6 pointed star made of mana pools.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I miss when "sounding robotic" was dry and factual. Now it sounds like someone trying to get me to invest in their mlm scheme.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This game being Mina the Hollower

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This screen is whats going to get me to buy this game. The promise of it is so high and rad af.

The "Equip Trinkets" screen from the game Mina the Hollower.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Where is that screaming coming from? Inside?

A screen capture of Hank Green's video where he talks about Simone Giertz fears about the future. (Global Warming, AI, Rise of Fascism, Population Decline, and Epistemic Collapse).

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Excited to see them finished.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

$2.50 to unlock a simple model that you can use as many times as you want is alone pretty steep. This might be the industry standard set by the sims, but that doesn't make it ok. $2.50 per placement is insanely greedy. This definitely made me nope out of doing any other housing stuff.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Purchased ty. These are great!

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

the goofy a ai we deserved

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 19/02/2026

2022: game developers tell execs chasing fortnite wont work 2023: game develop tell execs chasing fortnite wont work 2024: game devel tell execs chasing fortnite wont work 2025: game d tell execs chasing fortnite wont work 2026: gam tell execs chasing fortnite wont work

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Is itch or the unity asset store better for you? I don't know if they take a cut.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

$50 is $50 $60 is $50 $61 is $100

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peskyplumber @peskyplumber.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

anyone want to come over? we can stand across from each other and do this

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

doesn't even have to be an ad

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Very cool. This is a great way to solve this and the results are so effective.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Let's just say... there would be no game developers employed anywhere if it was the 32 player thing

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

People Make Games is such a great look into game dev. Watch and ask yourself if you think Rockstar fired them for saying "a game with 32 players in it" or if they were participating in forming a union. For me both seem ridiculous, but one seems more likely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...

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Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Protect your god damn people so they don't have to put themselves in danger because you wont.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I do this with a private discord.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

My mom who knows nothing about video games

A crystal that has apparent hex shapes and twigs embedded in it.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I don't look at them unless I'm doing dev stuff (marketing or competitive analysis). Anecdotal but I don't think a lot of humans actually read them but the system will use them to determine if the game is worth showing to people.

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Josh Mahan @brvty.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Laughing at the reality that 4 out 7 of the people in my D&D group are unemployed and we have something like 100 years of AAA game dev experience combined. Some by choice some by layoffs, but damn.

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