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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 15h

I still think about the conversation I had with an uber driver Him: so what do you do Me: I’m a video game writer Him: wait, video games? They have writing? What do you write? Me: you know when you open up a game and you see the words? Him: yeah? Me: those

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 18h

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

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Game Devs of Color Expo @gdocexpo.com · 17h

GDoCExpo was four days. The work is year-round. No-fee showcases. Paid speakers. No-strings grants and scholarships. Spaces to build a career. We're at $17K of our $25K goal to break even & keep it going! If the Expo meant something to you, help us close the gap. 🙌🏾 gamedevsofcolor.org/donate

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Chris Weisiger @byobattleship.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My games are on sale for the Steam Autumn Sale! Kick CEOs out of windows and kickflip over torpedoes*! * not the same game store.steampowered.com/app/3238420/... store.steampowered.com/app/1482750/...

Torment Hexus is $7.99, Waves of Steel is $13.39

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Strange Scaffold @strangescaffold.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Steam Autumn Sale is here and you can get all our games at a discount! 🫰 You can get even get every single game we've ever made for less than $65 in our Complete Collection! 14 games!! store.steampowered.com/bundle/35090...

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 05/10/2026

In our final preview event talk, Jamie Brittain talks about how roguelikes succeed as story-generating games _because_ they avoid traditional narrative structures. youtu.be/C2CzHLtt1Fw Roguelike Celebration is only 12 days away! Buy tickets at ti.to/roguelike-ce... for a whole two days of talks.

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Chris Weisiger @byobattleship.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@katietiedrich.bsky.social congrats on the big 1000! I've been following Awkward Zombie for, goodness, it has to be at least 15 years now. Thank you for giving me something to look forward to every Monday morning!

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Puppy Truck! @puppytruck.dog · 01/10/2026

Did you hear the news? You can play the Puppy Truck demo on Steam RIGHT NOW It's getting rave reviews such as: "This is a real video game" and "It has a deeper storyline than the show Chernobyl" Pretty good! 🐕 midnighte.rs/puppytruck-steam

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Puppy Truck on Steam

Puppy Truck is a puzzle-packed 3D platforming adventure about a tiny truck with the heart of a puppy! Explore Grandma’s eclectic house, filled with contraptions, challenges, and surprises as you race ...

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BOON 🍜 Wishlist Katana Punk @coolasheck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You need to try play Puppy Truck, it will make you smile. I've seen Sean put his heart and soul into his passion project for years, he always overdelivers

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Spirit Swap ON SWITCH/2 NOW✨ @softnotweak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Looking for a witchy, lighthearted adventure to start off October with? Spirit Swap is 50% off! Grab it today✨🌸 store.steampowered.com/app/1592170/...

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is an absolute gem and currently 80% off, a delightful metroidvania with a wistfully melancholic atmosphere, and a really gorgeous soundtrack. It's a little on the short side, but there's some fantastic boss battles. Can't believe it's 10 years old now!

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Save 80% on Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight on Steam

Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your...

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 04/10/2026

Been teaching myself Unreal and built this moody office scene while learning the basics of lighting, VFX, camera control, animation, cinematics, and blueprints. Wanted to make it feel convincingly cluttered and lived-in, which involved placing 600+ props by hand. Sound up for maximum atmosphere.

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Lotic @lotic-otter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It wouldn't be a proper Otter Game without a fishing minigame! So grab your fishing pole, and-- Or... do that.

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Émilie Bourgeois 🩷🤍🧡 @hellopuns.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Day 4 was favourite Fairy type! I love Sylveon’s shiny too

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Afternoon! Are you a video game developer who has been falsely accused of using generative AI? I’d love to pick your brains for a story about how those claims impact individuals, teams, and projects. Email in bio. DMs open. Signal: kerrblimey.43 Keen to hear lots of views!

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Ularis Badler @ubadler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

12 Days to go, Commanders! #Archrebel is probably the most heartfelt tribute to the classic REBELSTAR and LASER SQUAD games created by Julian Gollop. This demo is a complete short game, and you can easily put 20+ hours into it if you plan to see it all. #gamedev #Indiegamedev

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 02/10/2026

I was going over some of the trends/eras of illustration with my students today and Corporate Memphis created the most conversation. It was compared to a business man in a happy face mask, Arial & pop music. Good in contexts like brightening up a train station, bad in masking the cruelness of tech.

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JuniperTheory @bimbo.city · 20/09/2026

it's waaay late in the month so i'm way behind but i'm still gonna post about 20+ games last month that might have gotten overlooked as always i haven't played most of these, they're just cool games that i think deserve more attention; I'd love to play more when i can afford more games haha

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JuniperTheory @bimbo.city · 20/09/2026

TORMENT HEXUS is a match 3 tactical strategy game. which is wild that we got 2 of those in one year? a cyberpunk answer to titanium court's fae fantasy, it knows the best thing you can do in a video game is let the player defenestrate a rich bastard store.steampowered.com/app/3238420/...

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Torment Hexus on Steam

Technofascist cyberpunk CEOs must die! Charge spells with the match-3 grid, then cast them on your enemies in turn-based tactical roguelike combat. Climb the tower, kill the boss, and maybe make the w...

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DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

CSP being pressed to take even just /kissing/ off their asset store and FA being told that plus sized characters are considered adult should be a giant waving red flag to folks. Sex workers have /always/ been right to say these policies never stop with 1 type of content. They always wanna ban more.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Colin always does good recommendation threads, but this in particular is a real gem I gotta co-sign, absolutely one of the biggest surprises of last year for me.

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Nathan Savant @baldsavant.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey look! I'm giving a talk this year! It's about Reactivity in Roguelikes, building characters that can feel alive and responsive to player action. You should come see it!

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Taylor 👻 @tayl1r.itch.io · 02/10/2026

all my games are on sale! store.steampowered.com/curator/4416...

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have a new novella out in the 20th Anniversary edition of Clarkesworld this month! "The Job" is about a woman with serious self-image issues who takes a contract to survey an alien ocean for corporate exploitation, wearing the body of a bioengineered whale. clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/

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Chris Weisiger @byobattleship.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here's every single item icon in Torment Hexus. Criminy, there's a lot of them! #pixelart My favorites are probably the abs, double teeth, cassette player, stencil, and plush puppy.

A grid of well over 200 different tiny icons, showing things such as a bow tie, various syringes, a muscular abdomen, various facial moods, genetic grafts/mutations, simple hand tools, plush toys, and many many more.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ADIOS RETURNS! At the lowest price it will ever go! That's right: it costs less than the price of an Arby's Reuben sandwich! store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/... If you like the game, please leave a review? We're only a COUPLE reviews away from OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/10/2026

Tonight's sunset: acceptable

Spoiler: the sunset is actually fucking amazing, with spectacular clouds

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Okay, Steam Sale time! Who'd like some recommendations? Let's get the ball rolling with one of my favourite games of 2025, The Séance of Blake Manor! A positively genius detective game steeped in Irish history and mythology with a striking comicbook artstyle and authentic turnip jack 'o lanterns. 🎃

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The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurren...

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Chris Weisiger @byobattleship.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Torment Hexus now has Steam achievements, and an in-game achievement viewer! Art by @wobblypython.northsky.social! It's also on sale! Go check it out! Exclamation point! store.steampowered.com/app/3238420/...

Achievement viewer, showing a large image of a muscular man with a robotic dinosaur head, and a group of smaller images on the side. Text reads "Do not feed the wildlife. Destroy a dinobot after letting it eat 7 corpses."

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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 02/10/2026

Hypnospace Outlaw is $5bux on Steam right now, half of the price of a Something Awful forums account.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 01/10/2026

WARNING! WARNING! A STEAM SALE APPROACHES! Rather than spam up all of your timelines with a gigantic recommendation thread that makes Bluesky's UI creak, I've basically got free reign to spam up Steam Hype instead! I'll be doing a sales recommendations article every day! You can find them all here:

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Steam Autumn Sale - Find Some of the Best Deals & Tips to Get the Most for Your Money

Site-wide discounts until October 8th

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 02/10/2026

Cannot recommend this highly enough. What if Phoenix Wright was cyberpunk and made no pretenses at all about being kid-friendly. Fantastically well written so far. There's a big demo that basically acts as a pilot episode, and if you're not sold after the finale, then nothing will convince you.

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Roarin' Falco @falco.works · 01/10/2026

Day 1 -- Mushroom Though a bit squishy, the naturally hollow mushrooms in the borderlands between the deep woods and Stag's Run made for a fine enough shelter from the rain, in a pinch.

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Aseprite @aseprite.org · 01/10/2026

Aseprite is 40% off during the Steam Autumn sale, until October 8th! Get it directly from our website: aseprite.org/buy/ or from Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/431730/A...

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Crucially, none of that work really involves bothering women and asking them what to do. Instead you take stock of your privilege and think “how can I upset the status quo in ways that others can’t? What discomfort can I risk for myself that would cost someone else more?”

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Aidan aka. S. Park @sparkblade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Get some Woke Gaming (tm) from a friend and ally who is awesome, and makes awesome games.

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Wobbly "Cheap Date" Python @wobblypython.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Waves of Steel is such a vibe. The USS Musashi was such a funny boat.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In Paper Mario, Mayor Penguin is found seemingly dead, with Mario being suspected of his murder. However, if a letter is delivered to him during that time, he will get up, thank Mario, and promptly go back to being dead. Unfortunately, this cannot prove Mario's innocence.

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🌕dee🌕 @deedeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

thought about this guy from dkc2 for some reason

Various sketchy paintings of Klampon from Donkey Kong Country 2, a little blue crocodile guy with a huge mouth and big sharp teeth. Yelling AUGH in one sketch. Against a volcano backdrop in another.

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Ease🔞 @easenbsquirrel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

FA is the only anti-ai, ACTUAL functional gallery site left on the internet not ruined by algorythmic bs, support if you can

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The schedule for @roguelike.club is up! We’ve got yet another stunning lineup with multiple people who are such a good fit I had assumed they’d spoken already 🤣 Time is fake and it’s just over two weeks until the con so check it out, buy a ticket, come hang out! www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

in my case when i'm making a game, i have a very different framing for this! i welcome that some accessibility options will result in a different experience. and i consider that to be something i am designing and expressing myself through. i made all the settings. they are all my "true vision".

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Hoot Patoots @hoot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Did a lil picto pic for a FF14 FC friend of mine :> #FFXIV

A picture of a Mi'qote pictomancer from Final Fantasy XIV. He's wearing overalls, a white shirt and a tool beg with a little viera plush hanging from it. There is a great colourful trail going from his palette to his brush.

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🌸Petal Crash 2 is OUT NOW!!🌸 @petalcrash.com · 29/09/2026

🌸Petal Crash 2 is OUT NOW!!🎉🌸 The freshest in arcade puzzle action blossoms again! The Early Access release has lots to enjoy, including a single-player Arcade Mode, local multiplayer, and a built-in puzzle editor! Check out the game on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2697670/...

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