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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 16h

he did it: the most senile leader in the world officially renamed AI into Super Intelligence, must be true! 😱 Next: fuel will be renamed to Holy Oil

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Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

btw, if you haven't seen it before, i have this whole website full of adventure game illustrations called pointclicking.com! 🙌

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 26/09/2026

and if you put pasta in a supplì the law allows to have it a 4th time as a snack \o/

a carbonara supplì, aka an elongated ball of fried breadcrumbs painted in egg which contains more egg (cooked but liquid), bacon, parmesan and overall awesomeness

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 24/09/2026

on a side note, have you seen Sharp Objects? I just finished it and it's jesus fucking amazing

poster for the Sharp Objects limited series

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Mare Pan @paarsec.com · 19/09/2026

A long shot, but does anybody know of any faster (GPU please) grains and fluid meshing tools, possibly for Houdini?

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 18/09/2026

jesus christ people that use genAI gradually lose their mind worse than anti-vaxxers, huh?

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 03/09/2026

Drawings for one of those billion personal games I start and usually never finish, but we'll see

A god-dess being smug and pointing to their nipple with a magic wand

A combat android showing off their sharp knives, one in each hand. Wouldn't it be better to use them on butter rather than to cut people as?

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Mauro Vanetti @m.mastodon.maurovanetti.info.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

SIAMO GIÀ A SETTE OSPITI CONFERMATI. MA SIETE ANCORA IN TEMPO PER AGGIUNGERVI! Hai creato un videogioco indipendente, insolito, rivoluzionario, artistico, sperimentale, prototipale, artigianale, innovativo, balordo o semplicemente favoloso? Sabato […] [Original post on mastodon.maurovanetti.info]

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Lucy Blundell 💜💚 Wishlist Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart on Steam! @kinmoku.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A teaser of my next game 💜Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart 💚 Coming soon to Steam and itchio! Wishlist and follow: Steam ➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/4554030/... itchio ➡️ kinmoku.itch.io/ace-and-aro-...

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There's something delightful about teaching people how to build cities in text. Better yet, it's an effective way to get a practical intro to game urbanism & the design of game cities. Also, here's my *Create An Interactive City In Text using ink* course: www.d6learning.com/course/nov26...

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 02/08/2026

I'll admit that assigning the right unicode symbol to the logs of my main game managers is a lot of fun to me (yes, I know it's a waste of time, but also not: helps reading logs much faster 👀) (and yes: Unity's console supports almost all colored symbols) (and sure: I strip them away in builds)

A series of Unity logs that are nicely colored and with pretty symbols in front of them

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 25/07/2026

The Last of Us Serbian Edition (these are actually from a place called Niška Banja, which is very nice: nature, cats, some cool ex-communist buildings and some cursed abandoned ones)

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Happy Broccoli Games @happybroccoligames.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

🔪FULL TRAILER for our new game Apple Crumble! 🔪 It’s your grandma’s 84th birthday party and nobody is trying to murder her. Stop suspecting your family members, and don’t worry about the strange man in your bedroom. A new creepy-cozy mystery thriller from the creators of Duck Detective.

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 14/07/2026

Artists, quote-post with something that's a circle

The main Risk of Rain character walking towards the camera, with a corrupted planet/wormball/brainhole behind them

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 14/07/2026

beautiful: in Italian parliament a member of the hyperfascist party insisted on calling Anna Ascani Mr president instead of Mrs or just president, so she started calling him Mrs and he went batshit crazy because as usual these toxic males have the most fragile masculinity youtube.com/shorts/14wsv...

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Italian Deputy Speaker Corrects MP Over “Mr. President” Address | Mo of Everything

YouTube video by MO

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 13/07/2026

in Italy we thought we had it bad with the current fascists but now there's fascister fascists gathering around a party led by a kindergarten-level military bully and they started beating immigrants on the street and posting videos because they feel nobody can touch them. LET'S FUCKING TOUCH THEM

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 08/07/2026

Microsoft but also lots of other corps: "AI will help humans and make *things* better." Proceeds to lay off most humans and make *things* definitely worse

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Le Pixel Hunt - Making Games at the End of the World @thepixelhunt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Today, after a month on the road full of discoveries and amazing encounters, I finally reached Ithaca. By the way, if you'd like to join us on our Ithaca, you have 24 left to back the project on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ith...

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 02/07/2026

I worked with Damien on two of these projects and he's sooo good and sooo nice! I still miss those good ol' times ^_^

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 30/06/2026

in Italy we got this family that lived in the woods and self-poisoned by accident: for that and more the state separated them from their children, which "angered" populist politicians, and it quickly became the most boring news cycle for months. So, yes, GTA VI has now become more boring than that

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 29/06/2026

such a lovely time with Florent, just too short, sigh sigh. And yes, fuck the rich side of the fence and check Ithaca out ^_^

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 23/06/2026

once again, it's very simple: an AI is not a human ffs 👀

a screenshot of a person excusing AI theft by comparing AI (a tool that is first and foremost for the advantage of corporations) to humans

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 23/06/2026

preparing to upload an update to DOTween and discovered a new change: Unity assets min version is now 2022.3 (released May 20, 2023). I'm frankly embarrassed that us asset devs are forbidden from supporting projects older than 3 years, which is a very short time in gamedev :(

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 22/06/2026

this is beautiful and. Just. So. Fucking. Reasonable.

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 18/06/2026

Florent (aka @thepixelhunt.bsky.social) be trippin' towards Ithaca to make Ithaca, which is a beautiful thing that should see the light of day and of that one polyphemous eye. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ith...

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Ithaca: A Narrative Road-Trip RPG About Climate Resistance

The world is burning. There’s a hostage in your trunk. How far will you go?

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 12/06/2026

the things is: quote with your yellow art

Penelope looking smug towards the camera, though smugness is always a facade and there's probably more to it. If only we could see the full picture

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 12/06/2026

yes: AI's political, economical, environmental, educative aspects are tragic. But every day it's the willingness of people to relinquish our humanity to the gluttony of generative AI, as if it was something that needed to be purged, that baffles me most

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 12/06/2026

this guy is talking as if he never heard of concept art before (he obviously did, his fake ignorance is part of the dishonesty of it all) and only AI could do something like that. Something that, previously, was made by human hands and gave us some of the most beautiful game-related art books

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Le Pixel Hunt - Making Games at the End of the World @thepixelhunt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Here's the official revel trailer for Ithaca, our road-trip RPG about climate resistance. The world is burning. There’s a hostage in your trunk. How far will you go? If you'd like to play this one day, please consider backing the project on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ith...

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Le Pixel Hunt - Making Games at the End of the World @thepixelhunt.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Absolutely over the moon to say that our next game, Ithaca, will be part of the @dayofthedevs.org Summer Game Fest edition this Friday. And we've got a TON of things to reveal, so stay tuned!

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 05/05/2026

Wax Heads! I played a prototype ages ago and it was already fantastic, and originally so. Plus, now that the digital has become deafeningly obtuse, a game about the magic of the analogue is bliss \o/ store.steampowered.com/app/2769240/...

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Save 15% on Wax Heads on Steam

Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and th...

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Ahmed Khalifa @amidos2006.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Our new game, HAMM-3R, can be played over @itch.io: amidos2006.itch.io/hamm-3r @newgrounds.com: newgrounds.com/portal/view/... An experimental short philosophical game (5-10 mins) #indiegames #IndieGameDev #experimental #indiedev #indie #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #fps #Philosophy

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 24/03/2026

Try this weird scifi thing made by very human hands

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

"she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died" is now available on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4430780/... You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil. Explore brutalist ruins to collect memories of a dead world. 🥀 #GameDev #IndieGame

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WeAreMuesli @wearemuesli.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A collection of 49 short interactive stories. A fragmented diary of modern-day Milan. A mumblecore narrative game. Call it whatever you want, but In Their Shoes is OUT NOW on Steam, with a special launch discount! store.steampowered.com/app/3608120/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #newgame

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 19/03/2026

I have a gamedev joke but nvidia would say it's no laughing matter and it doesn't change the artistic control

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 16/03/2026

I always thought that pure photorealism in games showed a depressing lack of style but I take it back, plain photorealism is stylish af compared to the mind-dumbing ex-twitter verified user on the right

A comparison between plain rendering on the left and the new DLSS5 one on the right, which looks flatter thanks to some out-of-nowhere "hello I'm an influencer" lighting and, anatomically, more generic. So that it looks like every AI generated image ever because personality is now a sin, I guess

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 11/03/2026

years ago, even before all this ai shit, I read about grammarly and thought it might help check the grammar of my non-native English writer ass. Thankfully before deciding to (not) use it I read how it worked and, let me tell you, it was already shady af

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Fer // WISHLIST TOSSDOWN! 🚀 @theferfactor.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

3 techniques I used to handle obstruction in my indie game Did you notice the 4th? 👀 Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/3241560/...

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Not a single person has yet been able to answer my fundamental question about AI “writing”: why would someone want to play a game that nobody even bothered to write?

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Michele Pirovano - making Dotage @dotage.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Join us for the #TurnBasedThursdayFest tomorrow March 9h at 1 PM EST, dotAGE will be there with an exciting announcement in an exclusive preview!

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ARTE Pro @artepro.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

👏 Le jeu vidéo @wednesdays-game.bsky.social de Pierre Corbinais reçoit les Pégases de la "Meilleure accessibilité" et "Au delà du jeu vidéo". Bravo à toutes les équipes ! @thepixelhunt.bsky.social @exaheva.bsky.social @deneosproduction.com @artefr.bsky.social @arteinteractive.bsky.social

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 02/03/2026

Wait, so I'm discovering just now that Affinity has been bought by Canva and now all of its products are merged into one that is free except for AI features? Which sounds nice aka free because fuck AI, until you realize that Canva is aaaaall about AI so I don't trust them at all? RIP Affinity? 🥲

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actezéro @actezero.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

On Tuesday 10, next week, @iamleyeti.bsky.social will be presenting his workshop about writing short stories as a way to prototype game narratives. The presentation can be access through Eventbrite here: www.eventbrite.com/e/prototypin... Presentation on March 10! Workshop starts on April 14!

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Prototyping Video Game Narratives with Short Stories - Course Presentation

Experienced game writer and narrative designer Anthony Jauneaud will introduce you to writing short stories for video games.

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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 27/02/2026

Yeah, looks like we will soon release a new experiment in playable philosophy called >> 'HAMM-3R" << (made with @amidos2006.bsky.social and @demigiant.com and others who are not on Bluesky). We will demo it and give a short talk in Valletta on March the 24th :) Come say hi!

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