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@crestofthebeast.bsky.social
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writing designing programming games. she/her. living on stolen land in naarm, sovereignty was never ceded. corunning asymptotes.au crestofthebeast.itch.io

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gertritude @gertritude.bsky.social · 6h
1. Go outside. (This is where all the interesting ideas are.)

GIANT SUN: What if you wrote your own DND inspired romantasy novel?

ME, EXITING CARTOON HOUSE: Hot dog!
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MASSIVE strike at QUT today. About 200 of us on the picket line demanding better working and learning conditions from our overpaid corporate managers. Such incredible solidarity.
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
if perfect knowledge is the death of wonder, wonder in MMOs died a long time ago, is the thing
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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Pheasants Wake digital painting
of a dead pheasant in the road
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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Many people don't understand probability very well and many of them are resistant to having it explained to them. This leads some designers to creating mechanics that work like the player's instinctive (read: fucking wrong) understanding of probability, further confusing everyone.
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avery @crestofthebeast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
watching friend play ff7 remake. why is red 13 so emaciated and small.... let him be big
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Handcoded in HTML, CSS and Javascript and running locally, Scrubjay is usable for research, collection, game-building, website construction or simply to hold little fragments of digital things, in the same way that you hold a pebble in your palm on a walk.
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scrubjay is still early, messy in some places (and not chasing seamless UI regardless) but I hope you'll enjoy playing with this very personal web gathering tool. everestpipkin.itch.io/scrubjay
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Scrubjay by Everest Pipkin
A drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool.
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avery @crestofthebeast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
in all seriousness i will be at freakon pax and maybe the interactive narrative social, depending. come say hi if u want a pint and/or coffee
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/09/2026
remember when they put master chief's digital clone of his abusive, adopted mother that helps him kill with greater efficiency and he is impossibly in love with inside everyone's windows start bar
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avery @crestofthebeast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i wish there was an easy way to chuck a reader-mode article at my kindle with just a button press... would be nice to have a low friction way to get little things on my ereader. i understand (formerly) firefox Pocket used to do this with rss feeds but um look where that got us
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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
[ Bridge to eQualia ] cyber-noir webfiction 14.1k words, CC0 1.0 Universal Maggie, a security researcher moonlighting as a internet sleuth, uses her unique set of skills to investigate a case of online vandalism. Please share with a friend if you like it ^w^ blackle.itch.io/bteq
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Bridge to eQualia by blackle
A security researcher/internet sleuth uses her unique set of skills to investigate a case of online vandalism.
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avery @crestofthebeast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this migwuh look for me in everything that surrounds you
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
oh yeah thats the good shit
Notes on Mold and floodlights
Ok, getting hang of taking notes, kinda nice to write down thoughts

-noticed different types of light changes the Mold's Growth
-did some experiments, modified our floodlights, hopefully can slow mold down w/it

notes after experiment:
-mold started growing faster and maybe stronger
-it likes the floodlights
-we fucked up
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avery @crestofthebeast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
puritan names are a really beautiful well to tap
Jackcock: Diminutive of John. Transferred use to the surname Jacox in modern times.
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avery @crestofthebeast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
hello i am on bookwyrm and storygraph. you can react to me having read a book with a variety of responses such as: 'i will start a dialogue with you about this novel and whether i agree/disagree with your review but in a manner which respects your unique subjectivity and how you came to your take'
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avery @crestofthebeast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
still thinking abt that new catamites game several weeks later. there do seem to be a lot of war criminals at this sexual wellness clinic
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grill la grill @wanderlustin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
death is only the start. BITTER FRUIT is out now on itch, kobo, and (for pre-order on) amazon! if you want a self-indulgent book about death, mechs, and agonising intimacy, check it out! bitter-fruit.carrd.co
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Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 20/11/2024
mimmihopps
Global Moderator
My advice is quit X. You'll feel much better.
Social media is full of weirdos.
You can express your passion for Oasis, exchange opinions about them and other bands with fellow members on this forum. You'll be fine.
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Welcome to AI Chat! You're chatting with Yoshi With A Gun. You: Hello Yoshi With A Gun: *idly twirling Desert Eagle by trigger guard* Yoshi!
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avery @crestofthebeast.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
well i did get a freakon ticket so i guess its a dualism situation
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Kayin @kayin.moe · 13/09/2026
The way we talk about controls would be like saying a movie needs to have "good scenes" and then praising michael bay movies because every shot is filled with stuff and motion, even if it has little motivation. And sometimes that DOES fuck, but that's also clearly a dead end!
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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I just wrote a paranormal story in the form of a fictional forum thread! A young woman discovers a video captured from inside a recurring dream. Read here: suricrasia.online/unfiction/sp...
A screenshot of the fake forum page
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avery @crestofthebeast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
come to my new event 'parallels for people too cool to get tickets' where we hang out above town hall station and play horseshoes
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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
no one should have sex with anyone at valve until they quit delisting indie games for the mildest depictions of sexuality
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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A version of the Sickos guy meme except it's been poorly edited to be in Gàidhlig, so he has been doodled with red hair, is labeled "EUSLAINTEACH" (Gaelic for someone who is ill or a patient) and he's saying "Tha... HAHAHA... THA!" which just sounds like saying "ha" five times in a row with various inflections.
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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
wrote a quick and dirty blogpost essay haraiva.bearblog.dev/stretching-d...
A popular sentiment I’ve observed consistently in discussions regarding institutional support for videogame making is the lamenting of key people in relevant decision making positions not caring about videogames because they:

    Haven’t worked in the videogames industry in any capacity, and/or

    Haven’t made a videogame in any capacity, and/or

    Don’t play videogames.

I find this a little puzzling, and frankly a little alarming. I genuinely do not think working in “the industry” or being a base-level consumer of videogames would necessarily translate to making decisions that help a given creative scene actually flourish as a cultural ecosystem in “the Arts”, beyond the profit-first framing of “industry”.
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avery @crestofthebeast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
did not get a parallels ticket despite being there on the dot. oh well
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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
IMPORTANT GAME DEV ADVICE: DELETE YOUR LINKEDIN ACCOUNT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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avery @crestofthebeast.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
catching up with my good mate clat the shamer tonight. promised he'd be on his best behaviour and there'd be absolutely ZERO psychic compulsion at the pub tonight so im pretty stoked
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ceej @ceej.online · 18/08/2026
just got a letter from a company I've never heard of letting me know a hacker got all of my genetic information. okay. thanks
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Chris Weisiger @byobattleship.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Climb the tower, kill the boss, and maybe make the world a better place! After three years of hard work, my cyberpunk match-3 roguelike TORMENT HEXUS is now in Early Access! Check it out, and spread the word! 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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avery @crestofthebeast.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
when the kinokuniya in the city opens i will be unstoppable. like my final exodia piece
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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
if i were a game journalist i'd be asking the hard hitting questions like "why is there japanese on your game logo?"
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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
What a cool title, perhaps you should wishlist this store.steampowered.com/app/2771630/...
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Project C██████ on Steam
Previously announced as Project C, PRECOGNITION is a new live-action sci-fi horror game from Sam Barlow (IMMORTALITY, Her Story) and filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg (Possessor, Infinity Pool). See the fu...
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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
(Pretty sure @ztul.bsky.social injested almost the entire Stephen King bibliography and a stack of William Gibson purely to help out on this project, his podcasts were just an added benefit)
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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
PRECOGNITION aims to do what Her Story did for Detective Games, but for (Messed Up) Time Travel After receiving an experimental implant, Diana gains the ability to see her own future. Use her precognition to navigate kaleidoscopic possibilities and change the world for the better… or for the worse
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avery @crestofthebeast.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
finally did a desert perpetual run... wow. that was probably the best raid the game has ever seen! i am deeply melancholic about the loss of more content like this. there are not many places in games where you can get that experience of doing pacific rim shit with someone else
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Pleased to finally announce... Abdication, the last Southern Reach novel! "There will come the days of the watcher, the drowned woman and the shadow of a man who keeps falling apart with each step, but first comes the moment the birds appear at night from the gaps between the stars, far from home."
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report, August 6, 2026:

Jeff Vandermeer's ABDICATION, the last novel in the Southern Reach series, in which an ornithologist exiled to a remote coast stumbles on a terrifying secret,  a self-proclaimed king pursues a mystery hidden in a strange weather station, and a man who can become a cormorant is tasked with a deadly mission through a future landscape transformed by Area X, for publication in October 2027, in a significant deal, to Jenna Johnson at Farrar, Straus, by Joseph Veltre at the Gersh Agency and Alex Kohner at Yorn Levine (world).
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avery @crestofthebeast.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
there comes a time in every woman's life where she runs out of book space and also bookshelf space. i'm in it,
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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
ever since i've been around this space there's been a narrative of "(x viral success) proves The People want innovation!" and it almost always just leads to a series of increasingly craven imitators. you can't build a whole industry out of people trying to win the lottery. it's absurd.
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"trans women like games with incredibly intricate and complex systems" trans women like-a the pizza and-a the pasta! ohhh!
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avery @crestofthebeast.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
are we all sure bruce sterling wasn't just a lesbian and really butch
a back cover photo of will gibson and bruce sterling. sterling is in a shaved sides mullet sort of deal and its giving butch realness
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Space Leech @spaceleech.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
At the Ghost in the Shell panel. Not even the screenwriter and producer have seen Shirow in the flesh. Shirow communicates only by photographing hand written notes and sending jpegs to his editor, who relays info to the staff.
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gormless tomfool bea 💗💜💙 @beesmygod.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Such a good passage.
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Will 🌱 @willmesilane.com · 29/07/2026
I'm so very grateful for PeopleMakeGames giving me a platform to speak about the impact the dismissal from Rockstar has had on my family because it has been profound. We miss our dogs more than anything in the world and would do anything to have them both back. Unfortunately that cannot happen.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
theres like multiple rabbi-werewolf tales scattered through jewish literary history apparently ingeveb.org/articles/the...
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The Writing Werewolf: Rabbinic Identity and Linguistic Understanding in the Old Yiddish Mayse-bukh (Book of Stories, 1602) | In geveb
Language politics are embodied by a rabbi-turned-werewolf in a mayse from one of the most influential and popular early modern Yiddish books.
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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 29/07/2026
There really is no one out there with quite the sense of self-promotion as thecatamites. myfriendpokey.tumblr.com/post/8232336...
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Promotional Gewgaws
I found a folder of the promotional images I used when pitching 10 Beautiful Postcards (forthcoming on Steam, already on Itch) to the zeitgeist first time around. The first batch explain the game...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’m wheezing smittenkitchen.com/2026/07/spag...
Spaghetti Aglio e Olio
SERVINGS: THIS IS A PRIVATE MATTER 
TIME: 20 MINUTES
SOURCE: SMITTEN KITCHEN
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