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@cmddx.itch.io
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makes weird horror games check out PROXIMATE store.steampowered.com/app/2957800/… cmddx.itch.io/proximate contact@cainmaddox.com melbourne. he/him 🏳️‍⚧️

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 03/10/2026
i like to joke that ive prestiged
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 03/10/2026
okay i DID score freakon tix... for anyone keeping an eye out for me, do not look for the green haired bearded man! thats old news! watch out for this quirked up bitch instead
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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 02/10/2026
A question was asked in my discord basically how to move forward when something like the Geller situation occurs and it got me to put together a little resource library. By no means fully comprehensive but these are some texts that have been helpful to me. TW: discussion of abuse and sexual violence
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️‍⚧️ @soyoudontneedto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Key Fairy is on Sale for MIGW! Get it now, while the getting is good!!! store.steampowered.com/app/2878580/...
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Save 35% on Key Fairy on Steam
Deep in an ancient forest bound by a bitter spell, a tiny fairy wanders. Wielding a spool of thread and a bladeless sword, weave through twisting paths to unearth enchanted trinkets, evading monsters ...
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NESbot @nesbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
YouTuber and MinnMax Host Jacob Geller accused of sexual abuse www.resetera.com/threads/16...
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 30/09/2026
thats very sweet of you, thank you! ive been feeling a bit disillusioned with parallels of late so i might sit it out this year, but i hope the ticket can go to someone who'll appreciate it
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 24/09/2026
so far i haven't written a single line of dialogue for my narrative game. i have, however, spent almost an hour on Memphis_Ruler.fbx
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 18/09/2026
no freakon tickets no parallels tickets.... if u wanna see me this games fest you'll have to find me at the pub 🫡
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 11/09/2026
yeah!!!! 💪
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 11/09/2026
sick of wanting a goth gf. i will become the goth gf instead
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 01/09/2026
making my own dither matrixes. suck my arse bayer
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 27/08/2026
the best thing about game development is getting to read lovely reviews about your work 💖
Positive steam review: Finished the game under two hours, issues a refund because even if it was a banger, I want my money back for more games. Uhh.... yeah. cool game, buy it.
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 25/08/2026
did you ever end up doing this? would love to hear it if so 👀
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 25/08/2026
i have such a stupid resistance to using third-party tools and always end up eating my hat when i finally get around to trying them. cinemachine is good, i guess
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 30/07/2026
holy shit
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Saxxon Fox @saxxon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
River said the airlock malfunction loop was kind of a bop so I turned it into a jam in about 90 minutes (also go check the game out) #proximate bsky.app/profile/cmdd...
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 27/07/2026
in absolute awe of this one
negative review on my game. all it says is "pattern recognition"
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Haley's Headless Mechanic 🏳️‍⚧️ @mecha-bunny.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
(meme from link)
Meme comic of a trans person coming out. "Mom… I'm trans." "Is that because of that game you made?" "Oh yeah, lemme check if I accidentally made the fucking game that makes you trans. Oh fuck" and the trans person is holding Hollow Knight: Silksong.
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 17/07/2026
(i am never vinyl wrapping anything again. this sucked)
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 17/07/2026
you are only ever a roll of aliexpress vinyl wrap and a whiteboard marker away from the luxury appliances of your dreams 😊
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Asymptotes. @asymptotes.au · 15/07/2026
🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 Asymptotes is running in 3 days. 🟠 🟠 🟠 🟠 🟠 You can check out the schedule and the games that will be on display now. 🟣 🟣 🟣 🟣 🟣 👉 asymptotes.au
A picture of the Asymptotes schedule and games.

The photo reads Asymptotes at the top.

Beneath that is a section labelled Games. The games are:
DIRTLOVE PARABLE by Siobhan Dent
BART WORLD NO MERCY (rev 1) by giwake
Beyond the Lens by Koder
Graceless by Duncan Corrigan
Poly Playground by Zac
There's a monster in my childhood home by Jake Berry

Underneath is a section labelled Schedule. It reads:
6:00pm - Event starts!
6:40pm - Introduction - The Asympteam
6:50pm - DIRTLOVE'S PARABLE - Siobhan Dent
7:10pm - modding panel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - brandonhare, giwake
7:30pm - Break - Chat and play some games!
8:15pm - Live Action Role-Panel - Will K, Zali, Nellie Seale
8:40pm - the writerrrrrs - Cain, Cécile Richard, Mads
9:00pm - No more talks! Chat and play some more games!
9:30pm - Event ends!
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 04/07/2026
💖
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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ BostonFIG @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Did you know that I've been spending years producing and distributing DIY physical releases for indie games? Because I have! And continue to! It's also a thing most anyone can easily do. (and I've been slowly building my own collection of others' games) pizzapranks.com/tapemarket/
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 01/07/2026
i love that each rift wizard game is exactly the same as the previous one, just a little better. those guys know exactly what they're cooking
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 01/07/2026
oh no i'm sick... guess i have no choice but to sit in bed and play rift wizard 3 all day
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 26/06/2026
i refuse the notion that you need to dumb down any parts of your game for people to get it... the ones who it's made for will know!!!
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 26/06/2026
i love it when people get it
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 26/06/2026
proximate is 20% off this season sale, the same amount off it has been every other season sale. if you would like to buy it for 20% off you can do that now, or you can wait for the next season sale, when it will be 20% off again. store.steampowered.com/app/2957800/...
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Save 20% on PROXIMATE on Steam
Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor. Use it to explore the Neuras lab and recover the staff's research. Your visor is safe, reliable, and up to 99% acc...
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🚨 cool link alert 🔔 just f***ing send it jfsendit.com “Files go straight from your browser to theirs. No upload, no server, no account.”
jfsendit.com
just f***ing send it
Peer-to-peer file transfer. Files go straight from one browser to the other — never through a server.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 22/06/2026
New blog post (and sliding into email subscribers' inboxes too, I have not forgotten about you). About "that talk" at Narrascope; the application of choice mechanics in games; trying to rescue some context. azhdarchid.com/you-must-fre...
azhdarchid.com
YOU MUST FREE YOURSELF FROM THE TYRANNY OF "MEANINGFUL CHOICES"
Not really a response to a Narrascope talk so much as the talk is an alarm letting me know it's time to have this conversation again.
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may 👑 @fawndly.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
evergreen ass message
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 20/06/2026
making paper 👀
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Asymptotes. @asymptotes.au · 18/06/2026
Announcing... Asymptotes. Asymptotes is a games event in Naarm, Australia, celebrating imperfection. On Saturday July 18th, we're running a showcase of abandoned games, with talks and panels on non-commercial and difficult to commercialise game-making. 👉 asymptotes.au
The top half of the image shows the Asymptotes logo (a stylised moth on an asymptotic graph).

Underneath, the text reads "Saturday 18 July, 6:00 - 9:30pm". There is a link to the Asymptotes website, at "asymptotes.au"
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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ BostonFIG @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
June's entry in the PIZZA PRANKS Video Game Tape Club is now out and it's PROXIMATE by @cmddx.itch.io! With only your image recognition visor, piece together the events that lead to the research team’s demise in this minimalist horror narrative. Available at pizzapranks.com/tapeclub/
photo of the physical edition of the game PROXIMATE inside cassette casescreenshot from the game proximate showing a call screenscreenshot from the game proximate with a text display showing that the player is looking at an airlockscreenshot from the game proximate showing a distorted screen and the word mouth
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 14/06/2026
wow that's an incredible compliment thank you. the buildings i modeled myself, cars are from an asset pack, the fungus i'm mostly doing with geometry nodes. most of the heavy lifting is being done by two post-process shaders: a dither shader and a sobel edge detector with / without shaders
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 14/06/2026
oh neat!!
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 14/06/2026
ok last one i'll post for a while... no idea yet what kind of fungus this'll be or why it does this. just wanted to maximise player hostility
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 12/06/2026
this is just two texture noise nodes being used to control vertex offset, so simple. reaction diffusion looks sick as hell tho i'm keen to play around with that
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 12/06/2026
petting the dog kills you instantly. 🖕
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 12/06/2026
i'm surprised that so many fungus species are so easy to generate procedurally with quite simple node systems. in the past couple days i've already made 4-5 different species through geo nodes that i can slap onto whatever model i want in the future. going to save me so much time!
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 12/06/2026
relationship with shader graph ended... now geometry nodes are my best friend
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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
a manifesto for manifesto jam 2026. for everyone who's got that dog in them. haraiva.itch.io/against-grat... #manifestojam2026
haraiva.itch.io
Against Gratitude by haraiva
Bite the Hand that feeds you!
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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I have manifested a manifesto for #manifestojam! CAN WE PLEASE HAVE BETTER VIDEOGAMES YET? trasevol-dog.itch.io/better-video...
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CAN WE PLEASE HAVE BETTER VIDEOGAMES YET? by Lorraine 🍬 Devaux
A manifesto for better games
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 11/06/2026
you can't believe how much i'm fanging to do some art after proximate lol this game is going to be so visuals-heavy
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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
new blog post: some Manifesto Jam 2026 notes + my submission for this year, "A Game Is A Knife"
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Manifesto Jam 2026 - notes and links
About Manifesto Jam 2026, a community event where everyone writes manifestos aimed at game design and culture.
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 11/06/2026
credit to this guy. this one blender sim is probably going to be the backbone of half my game's molds artsnscience.eu/slime-mold/
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Simulating Slime Mold in Blender
A tutorial about simulating slime molds on 2D and 3D surfaces from scratch.
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 11/06/2026
too many fungus-enjoyers ignore molds... not me though. i'm cool
desiccated body sitting on a bus. it's covered in pink slime mold, with some bright yellow pustules.
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 11/06/2026
alright, here's my thing for manifesto jam cmddx.itch.io/i-hate-your-...
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I Hate Your Cozy Game by cain
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isyourguy @isyourguy.com · 10/06/2026
text is the only thing in videogames that matters isyourguy.itch.io/text-fetishi...
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TEXT FETISHIST: AN AUTOPSY by isyourguy
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