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𝖘𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖆 𝖊 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖉 @sievish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Alex Gibney killing it again !

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Romain Macré - Wishlist Alexus 2040 on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Something about video games, that is true for all art, is that people dedicate their life to create stuff whether there is any way to earn money from it or not. People's motivations are very varied. But the side that makes us create something unique just because it's good will always remain in us.

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today is the one-year anniversary of the release of Unfair Flips!!! The game is not on sale today because I forgot. But also it's $1.99 anyways so a sale is mostly in the mind store.steampowered.com/app/3925760/...

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Unfair Flips on Steam

A non-idle clicker game about flipping a coin that hates you. Starting with just a 20% chance of getting heads, can you get ten heads in a row?

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John Weachock @scizzorz.com · 24/09/2026

Celebrating two years of Spilled Mushrooms! youtu.be/YYgWpbVPNUk

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Spilled Mushrooms two year anniversary teaser

YouTube video by John Weachock

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max turnbull @max.please.rest · 24/09/2026

"i miss when games felt like art" - guy who keeps playing the most sloppy number go up horseshit balatro skinner box rat cage survivors games possible so he can have stimulation while listening to a podcast

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 24/09/2026

Tbh I think any job that leads to a passive income source / can be infinitely sold should give residuals to everyone involved

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's cool. I'm sure all the BitReactor devs that were furloughed weeks before launch are gonna see some of that $50 million... right? Residuals are standard in other creative industries. If the people who actually made the game got their share of the profits, we wouldn't be in this mess.

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Deceiver @dmitrydeceiver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Our team created a small game. You can play it fourquarters.itch.io/how-to-crab-...

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How to Crab to Zero (GMTK 2026) by Four Quarters team

Play in your browser

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 23/09/2026

I mean it took me a really long time to... be okay with.. umm... with letting someone see that Wunder is out now on Steam in Early Access!!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 23/09/2026

I've been lamenting that I couldn't get it all week and then it pops up out of the blue! I can't wait to grab a copy!

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Jeremy // Making Star Spark @jeremyjackson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Star Spark is a roguelite, turn-based fighter in which you battle your way through a survival tournament using real time combos and a deck made of attack, defense, and support actions. Check out the trailer and Steam page! 🌟 store.steampowered.com/app/3639950/... #WishlistWednesday #GameDev

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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 23/09/2026

if you’re a games company that wants to survive it has been proven over and over again you need to do whatever it takes to stay away from being publicly traded. you’ll be turned into wood chips the moment it’s convenient.

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 22/09/2026

Work on Wunder has fallen by the wayside a bit whilst doing a contract, but I can't wait to get back on it full-time in Nov Gonna be so nice to work on it without worrying about money for a while tho!

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Charlie Wagner - Wishlist Netherspire! @ccharnul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Staying positive and not getting extremely cynical about this whole industry is getting really hard tbh

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Cogh @coghdev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

holy fricking flip we actually released a game

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 21/09/2026

100% this, every bad video game I've been involved in was down to a lack of clarity in design. It's a plague, people want to do everything so they end up doing nothing.

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Debug Magazine @debugmag.com · 19/09/2026

Are you making a game? Even if it’s very early in development… Tell our Games Editor @mostlyalright.com Follow each other. Do the DMs 😊

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So annoying in golf when you're right by the hole and have to take another swing - and that's putting it lightly.

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 17/09/2026

all my life i've dreamed of dealing +3% damage to enemies afflicted with poison

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Gareth Davies @spudonkey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Something for all the new people following me from the mecha bluesky artist pack. I swear I shall return to mechas one day, a lot of Fool King right now. 😅 If we sell enough copies maybe mecha game next!

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 16/09/2026

I've never seen crunch result in better work. Often I've seen the opposite, because management was so poor that it resulted in crunch, the work done during crunch ended up being thrown out because it was planned in an impulsive (badly managed) way it's just really dumb

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/09/2026

Make not opposing genocide hurt more than Israel works to make opposing genocide hurt. Make it hurt politicians' odds. Make it hurt artists' sales. Make it hurt medias' reputation. Make it hate platforms' revenues. Make it career-endingly devastating to stand there and "both sides" mass murder.

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 14/09/2026

I feel it's important to share this again. The internet is so hostile toward creators nowadays. I've seen people have their work stolen, and no longer feel comfortable sharing their creations. We can do better. Let's be supportive to the people that make this a better place! 💞

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Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Some of these features, holy shit. I love this.

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 14/09/2026

This is such a damn bop! I've mostly warmed to new zelda look tbh, not a massive fan still but I love zelda so damn much! www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_jM...

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A Link to the Past: Enhanced Soundtrack

YouTube video by Zerethn

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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

someone casually assumed I would be using AI tools on my new game, and I didn't realize how fucking offensive that suggestion was until it was flippantly floated at me I make games; they need to be tight, performant systems. they cannot be "black box" tech. AI is meaningless in this space fuck AI

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 11/09/2026

I know it's not the same thing but every day I'm perturbed by the fact that if I had 20k - 30k a year, I could launch a decent game every 2 years forever and yet most games are somehow costing in the region of millions! and I believe there's a lot of people that would apply to

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 11/09/2026

I genuinely think games "look" bad now compared to this, not in screenshots or videos, but as games. There used to be so much charming abstraction that complex mechanics were intuitive, now you need a bucket of yellow paint to get someone to walk down a corridor 😞

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 11/09/2026

I always wondered how they made a proc gen system for placing the floating brush stroke alpha cards in Keeper, cause it seemed so authored and crafted... The secret is (as usual) they just hand-placed them, by hand, with their hands. youtu.be/1OOfRTfMnx0?...

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The Making Of Double Fine's Keeper

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 11/09/2026

Really sad to see, layoffs are brutal and I hope everyone lands on their feet. The biggest thing I have always believed in when it comes to the success of a game is residuals, so it's nice to see that's planned for team members that are let go. KO_OP still setting the standard.

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Jon Juarez @harriorrihar.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

#portfolioday, I'm trying my luck again with my very old illustrations ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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Chuck Jordan @sasquatchers.wtf · 09/09/2026

Hey, get a load of the Playdate Update this morning! Reason one billion I love the Playdate is because Panic always puts the focus on people, both inside the company and devs for the games. And my game “Sound Mind” is finally going to come out in Season 3. youtu.be/vmkhLH1xzSs

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Playdate Update 10: September 9, 2026

YouTube video by Panic

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Indiana-Jonas @indiana-jonas.com · 09/09/2026

I made a game for Playdate Season 3! It’s called Bonkhope!! (the E is silent, it’s pronouncer Bonkhop)

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LuBu @lubu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🚨 Playdate Season 3 Spoiler 🚨 I'm incredibly happy to announce that my Action-RPG/Dungeon Crawler Gloom Gate will be included in Season 3 for @play.date 💛 Honestly, it's a dream come true for me! ✨ I hope you all gonna enjoy Gloom Gate when it's out ⚔️ youtu.be/vmkhLH1xzSs #indiegames #gamedev

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Playdate Update 10: September 9, 2026

YouTube video by Panic

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

oh yeah, it's all coming together

screenshot of a rock material that looks very hand painted

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 09/09/2026

everytime I wanna post about OoT art style now, I watch this again and I get in the crystal

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Scripted a little Godot addon to semi-automate making pretty light shafts. Super versatile, and can be used for things like holograms, flashlights, treasure chests, even UI. I put it up for free here: github.com/CozyCubeGame... #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Aurora @auroraplz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

im excited to announce that im still UNEMPLOYED and if you are someone who works at an indie studio or know someone, you should recommend me as a new hire, cause im an incredibly talented and overqualified junior game art generalist

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 09/09/2026

is the x files the best show?! I just got to the virtual reality episode and it's just so good

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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Screenshot from the videogame The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Close up of Link's big head looking up to the sky. A button prompt reads: 'Let Go'

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 08/09/2026

I think this is where I sit, I think it actually looks kinda good in the way those ugly/cute blind box dolls look good to the people who like them. But it feels so... anti-nintendo, like a weekends at bernie's situation 😅

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 08/09/2026

no top down zelda in 13 years is so sad, very much hoping for one today! but I'm not holding my breath 😅 I can only hope OoT remake doesn't have emergent gameplay mechanics

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 07/09/2026

got a lot of follows from the "No AI" starter pack, thanks for being interested in my small human game dev work 💛 atm I'm working on a little game about flipping coins to learn how to make numbers & stats feel fun!

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Voxy @voxy.space · 06/09/2026

great article about the playdate community getting absolutely polluted by LLM/genAI users and evangelists it's disheartening knowing how much some prominent members of the community will defend or even use it themselves, completely missing the point of such a scrappy and open indie platform

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Indiana-Jonas @indiana-jonas.com · 06/09/2026

I tried to paint with gouache

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 06/09/2026

I ran a marathon! I mostly walked the last 15k but I did go the distance!! MVP was defo my left leg, I wore a knee brace for the first 30k to help with joint pain I usually get. Runner-up went to my right leg who was there for me every other step of the way!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 04/09/2026

I'm really happy I backed this game, it's looks fantastic!!

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