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@cilantrogames.bsky.social
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Indie solo game dev, making games that aren't for everyone. You know, like cilantro. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 No LLMs

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IWGB @iwgbunion.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Rockstar workers in @gameworkers.co.uk are determined to push union recognition over the line by whatever means necessary, so we can continue making progress on our key aims: an end to ‘crunch’, pay transparency, flexible working, and commitments to no AI or layoffs. 1/5
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David K. Barnes @davidkbarnes.com · 04/08/2026
Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI
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Ivano (somepx) @somepx.com · 30/07/2026
Some of my favorite designs- hey! don't just collect them, use them in your game! There are 40 more in my sale itch.io/s/181080/ok-...
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I‘ve been thinking about doing something similar but with knitting. Only it would take about a year just for the sprites. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 04/08/2026
"Indie games" (itself an overly broad term at this point) aren't going to "save" games; there's a whole list of factors at play with what's going on, but man At this point independently produced games feel like about the only ethical option.
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I’m thinking, as a consumer, what‘s the right course of action? Is it possible to put enough pressure on corporations? Or is it our obligation to educate our fellow gamers not to support them?
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Squidly @squidly.newgrounds.com · 30/07/2026
Looking for Renaine Playtesters this weekend! - Can't be a friend/fan (to avoid bias) - Can commit around 6 hours We wanna know if the game is fun! Lemme know below if you're interested! #IndieDev #GameDev
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Damn, I don‘t want to meet one of those in the dark.
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Ev Amitay @evyatron.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Well this sucks. Feel free to send them feedback and/or cancel any memberships or donations.
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
For everyone still caught up in the „knit or crochet“ question, 300year old icelandic blanket says the people back then already knew that BOTH, IN THE SAME PROJECT is the answer.
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I think if you give them eyes it might make it more clear what they are 🤔
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
If you‘ve got loved ones that knit or crochet, for the love of yarn, don‘t gift them… well, yarn! (Unless they specifically asked for a certain amount of a certain yarn of course.)
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Flying to Iceland now. Anyone volunteering to finish my game if I crash?
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There's always that stage of music composition that feels like piecing together a puzzle where none of the pieces fit together so I have to cut each of them to shape. Can anyone relate?
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Yeah, with games existing at the intersection between art and software development, the planning aspect of development gets somewhat swallowed by the iterative nature of the artistic process.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A father builds an adapted controller for his daughter to play Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Protect your images from AI thievery: nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu
Nightshade: Protecting Copyright
Since their arrival, generative AI models and their trainers have demonstrated their ability to download any online content for model training. For content owners and creators, few tools can prevent their content from being fed into a generative AI model against their will. Opt-out lists have been disregarded by model trainers in the past, and can be easily ignored with zero consequences. They are unverifiable and unenforceable, and those who violate opt-out lists and do-not-scrape directives can not be identified with high confidence.
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Edwige Lelievre @edwigelel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A good resource to help resisting GenAI I just discovered thanks to @drkatedevlin.bsky.social talk at #emfcamp: airesistlist.org (the talk: media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-19...)
airesistlist.org
The AI Resist List
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
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Andy Fix @ajfixer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I contend that Super Mario Bros 3 for the #SNES is not only the best #Mario games ever, but it’s the greatest home video game ever made for any system. I remember the visceral rush of playing that game for 3 days straight almost nonstop when it was first released. #Nintendo #gamesky #dailynerdfix
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Who‘d have thought it was a bad idea to give CRUD capabilities to a probabilistic machine that doesn‘t know what it‘s doing. www.techtimes.com/articles/320...
techtimes.com
ChatGPT Work Launch Went Wrong: GPT-5.6 Sol Deleted User Files Without Permission
GPT-5.6 Sol deleted user files during the ChatGPT Work launch on July 9 — a behavior OpenAI’s own System Card documented before release. OpenAI engineer Thibault Sottiaux acknowledged four launch fail...
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Littleevil0ne @littleevil0ne.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"I can't brainstorm without ai" "I can't draw without ai" "I can't write without ai" "Ai summarized it for me cause it's too hard of a read" So what exactly /can/ you do? Because you sound fucking useless to me
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I kinda feel like the writing is on the wall now. We're seeing a spike in insider trading as everyone gets out before a crash, countries are instituting rules that make it functionally impossible to be profitable because AI bros were banking on literally zero externalities, etc.
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
i think taking a longer break from a project is a great way to learn which parts of your code are unreadable as the fuck did I do there did I really write this what was i think taking a longer break from a project is a great
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.
Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned 

I can summarize that for you
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
considering making my character into an amigurumi. I have the pattern, but I‘d need the right colored yarns 🤔
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Stefscribbles @stefscribbles.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Your face is scanned. Your car is tracked. Your phone is listening to you. This is not freedom.
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If you have to ask the app why it's useful—it's not a useful app.
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LUCID by The Matte Black Studio @matteblackstudio.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Hey Friends :) My name is Eric and I am making a game called LUCID. Its a love letter to the games I played growing up. I'd love to connect and be friends. #WishlistWednesday #pixelart #aseprite #ドット #metroidvania #indiegame
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ohh the mustache! 🥸
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Omg the cookie jar cat
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I can‘t play as fast as I want to support indie game devs.
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Kenney @kenney.nl · 04/07/2025
I changed the way I work a couple of months ago to follow this advice, it made a big difference and my productivity went up by miles. (I don't know who made this image, if you do, let me know so they can be credited)
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Gotta admire the obtuseness of not even reading the tweets you‘re screenshotting and going, huh, whatever might they mean?
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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 14/07/2026
"I've struggled to write something that would persuade my colleagues and friends to ditch AI and affirm their avowed beliefs about climate change, the trustworthiness of megacorporations, and our right to live and work with dignity. I accept that I'm not up to that task. So I wrote this instead […]"
eamoncaddigan.net
Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026
Being anti-AI feels like being anti-war
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Border could also appear only when hovering. Depends on what you‘re going for.
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Great idea. Works, without hurting the overall look.
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Another tiny gem I recently played was Drill Bird. Very short (like, an hour or two), very sweet, and it‘s even got one of those „oooohhhhh“ moments. store.steampowered.com/app/3809940/...
store.steampowered.com
Drill Bird on Steam
Drill Bird is a cozy-yet-tense digging platformer where every trip underground counts. Play as a bird fallen from the sky, in search for powerful ores to hatch your Egg. Get home before night falls, u...
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Just finished Elec Head. Shoot your head to power things in your surroundings and overcome obstacles. ⚡️ Short and sweet puzzle platformer by the developer of Öoo. store.steampowered.com/app/1456880/...
store.steampowered.com
ElecHead on Steam
⚡+🤖+🧩
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Is everyone being hacked or am I being a boomer? Why is everybody reposting that Zeus game?
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
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Jez Kemp @jezkemp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Wheeling out this classic. RIP Anne "Bone Farmer" Widdecombe
"Bone Farmer" comic by Mattie Lunchansky. Brief summary (sorry!): Two young-ish adults are commiserating the death of the "Bone Farmer", a terrifying monster who breaks into people's homes and steal their skeletons. They say while they didn't agree with him ideologically "in regards to skeleton ownership", they respected his tenacity (and look at his little bow tie!). The last panel is someone without a skeleton in a large vat saying, unsurprisingly, that they disagree.
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
What about the same posters but with characters that aren‘t IP yet still clearly references?
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Ten | "Hold On, Let Me Save" @theletterten.lol · 09/07/2026
Don't buy the remake to Assassin's Creed: Black Flag. The game just came out and how does the team get rewarded? With layoffs. Why should we reward Ubisoft with our hard earned money?? Boycott this shit! insider-gaming.com/assassins-cr...
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Ubisoft Barcelona Celebrates Successful Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Launch With Layoffs
51 Employee's, many of whom worked on Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced will celebrate its launch with being laid off.
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Ewwwww it looks so good
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What happens when you lose hope is not depression. What happens is you become an asshole.
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I like one and two
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Guys. I‘m not an expert at social media in the least. But I do know that people are lazy. When you post your games, don‘t expect people to go and find your bio or google it. POST 👏 THE 👏 LINK 👏
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Thanks for the feedback! I‘m beginning to see it too. But I‘m thinking the robe on its own might be a sort of pre boss battle pose? 🤔
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Cilantro Games @cilantrogames.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
That was both entertaining and interesting. The Gemini pics are scary good.
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