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the statues are bleeding green iggi phd student @ uni of york researching game design & player creativity sound toys & playful tools [website] fuzul.bearblog.dev [games & zines] fuzul.itch.io

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Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social · 9h
Exciting news! Myself and @bettibo.bsky.social are series editors for our UEP series on Critical Studies in Games and Culture 🥳🎮🕹♟️🥅 Feel free to reach out to us directly to have a chat about your ideas and whether they would be a good fit! More info at www.exeterpress.co.uk/collections/...
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Critical Studies in Games and Culture
Series editors: Bettina Bódi, University of Birmingham and Poppy Wilde, Birmingham City UniversityCritical Studies in Games and Culture is dedicated to exploring the political, cultural, and social si...
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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · 12h
Thrilled to see this latest special issue of Eludamos out now! Pop open some champagne and read about Party Studies in Game Studies, guest edited and introduced by Leland Masek and @jaakkostenros.bsky.social!
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doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a person with a turkish accent, meeting a person with a heavy yorkshire accent, at that point we are completely relying on gestures to understand each other
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...
"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look
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drew shapiro ✦ MUTAGEN Demo out now! @organzola.games · 28/09/2026
MENTRIS is out now! Play god with blocks. For #FallingBlockJam organzola.itch.io/mentris
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Kyle Ferrin 🧙‍♂️✍️ @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Up late doing laundry and some Arcs expansion art because I have a doc appointment tomorrow. I love when I can make myself laugh. Gotta wear PPE when handling the Psionic Auditor. #arcsboardgame #illustration
Drawing: An alien in PPE is hoisting a baby alien that seems to be draining the life force from a third alien.
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doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
big fan of how the tv license people start sending letters with different formats and colours to make you think this time you're really in trouble, real dedication to the craft
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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
long long lonnnnnnnnng spagggghetti #fallingblockjam
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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My piece "Websites From Another World" is now published in @chiselmag.bsky.social! Absolutely floored by the gorgeous art for it by Renaud Vigourt! I talked to @playthroughline.com, @stanwixbuster.co.uk + Kitty Ess about the alt reality internets they've conjured www.chiselmag.com/p/websites-f...
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Websites From Another World
When the real web gets boring, artists build stranger ones
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Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
”Israeli military officers describe hacking into young girls' phones and listening, waiting for them to exclaim with happiness that their father has returned. That moment, amid the pure and innocent joy of a child reunited with their parent after a long day, is when the airstrike happens.”
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"NAZA" could be the tipping point in the public perception of Gaza
As Gaza support builds, the film presents testimony Israel can't easily deny.
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In the '80s, some of the world's most fascinating animation was made in Uzbekistan. It was a time of "absolute creative freedom with full funding." We're looking at the story behind the scene, and at the gems it produced: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/visions-in...
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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I just released a new keepsake game- Bleed Map! You play alongside a video game of your choice, creating a map of the digital space. At the same time, you'll be prompted to record emotions and thoughts from your everyday life that bleed into the experience. florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/bleed-map
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Bleed Map by Florence Smith Nicholls
A keepsake game for materialising digital play
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doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
found this poker set box at a junkyard sale and turned it into a d.i.y. boardgame kit
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
wonderful post by @kevinbaker.bsky.social “To ask about LLMs and science is to ask what program was already running when they arrived. The program, as it turns out, had been running for decades, and it was not optimized for epistemic depth.”
artificialbureaucracy.substack.com
Context Widows
or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement
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doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
it's innocence mission on repeat season, also known as "autumn"
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metal flesh express @oma-metal-flesh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
poem story about something old glitchout.blog/2026/09/18/s...
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serlidge hedge and the red roundel
old quarry worn wall by the shaking of the earth the machines that brought down the house and left and the house was how old? we don’t know for we just placed it there, among the hedges overl…
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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 18/09/2026
I cannot get over this new Carl Stone / Arthur Fischl record, it is absolute insanity. I could not hope to describe it in words one iota, so you should just listen to it.
carlstone.bandcamp.com
Arthur Fischl Conducts the Music of Carl Stone, by Carl Stone
8 track album
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026
great art articulates eternal truths
script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
   [They do not log off]

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doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
fmv game jam using only this
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doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
tinkered a lot with my website in the last few weeks and really happy with what it's shaping up to fuzul.bearblog.dev, want to get a domain but i feel like hot.dog would be too expensive
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words and works
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 24/08/2024
My brother is in a touring hardcore band and just arrived at his venue for today
[photo of a punk venue with Statler and Waldorf puppets in their own little nook]
TEXT: I cannot mess up any songs tonight
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weapon2.bsky.social @weapon2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you make physical games, video games or other software based on modifying or reappropriating existing games or software, please consider submitting your work to be shown in the quadrennial plunderludics exhibition, to be held in New York later this year: plunderludics.github.io/misc/2026-op...
plunderludics.github.io
plunderludics wiki
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zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
omw to @tokyoindies.com to talk a little about #doodlemud & #picotron scoresub() // here's a slide showing how to extend the world by wandering into empty rooms.
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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION by @dayofthemutants.bsky.social - I really loved this one, it is just the right mix of near-future speculation and relatively-obscure 19th century philosophy. And the presentation is awesome. Read it!!
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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ BostonFIG @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The 6th annual Indiepocalypse Pledge Drive is live with the ever present goal of Breaking Even! (and more so supporting the whole catalog of contributors) Any support, whether it's contributing to the drive or spreading the good word, is very much appreciated! pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalyp...
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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 15/09/2026
here's a peak at what i've been doing for the past few years: building a calm, playful little space for thinking, doodling, journalling, and programming with materials like ink, paper, and… flux that spreads through your notes like a fluid wait what? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GurW...
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PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook
YouTube video by Ink & Switch
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Jeremy Couillard @jeremycouillard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
SOUL INJECTOR COMMANDO IS OUT! A chill FPS where you redistribute over 12 TRILLION dollars! Save thousands of lost souls and give them normal jobs! Hang out with FREAKS! 3 years of hard labor for 14.99. 20% for first 7 days! Steam and Itch releases so far. Links👇THX!👽
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Max Haiven @maxhaiven.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's publication day for my new book, THE PLAYER AND THE PLAYED: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st Century Fascism, now out open access (free) from @mitpress.bsky.social
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doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
new post to store my eavesdrop poems fuzul.bearblog.dev/eavesdrop-po...
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doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
fiddling with my website has introduced a very juicy source of procrastination to an already very full menu.. need to stay strong
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doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
new post to store my eavesdrop poems fuzul.bearblog.dev/eavesdrop-po...
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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today's designer diary covers the early stages of An Infamous Traffic: Second Edition, the difficulty of understanding how designs really work, and how, at least for me, coming to really dislike something is often the first step in building something new. boardgamegeek.com/thread/37682...
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Designer Diary 3 - Diagnostic Difficulties | An Infamous Traffic: Second Edition
I consider myself a pretty optimistic and joyful worker. I love getting to the office early and kicking off a new project, and I never mind staying late to talk about some little element of a design. ...
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Dean @dean-dev.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
store.steampowered.com/app/4331110
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Supr @suprsupr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yuha’s Nightmares has a release date now. I wrote about it, and about how the game is doing at the moment, in a new Steam devlog: store.steampowered.com/news/app/145...
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Logan / Tachyon @tachyonart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Unexpected maintence work on your route is causing a [3d6+15] minute delay to your next encounter. We apologize for the inconvenience!"
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doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
played rebirth and red cathedral today. with red cathedral loved how you can see the designers were experimenting with a similar design area before making white castle, feeling the lineages of ideas
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doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
new blogpost fuzul.bearblog.dev/speculations...
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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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Scooby Doo Philosopher (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
New Game: coleo_kin.itch.io/pissing-chil...
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Great recs in the comments and the addendum
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Brendan Allen @brendanallen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
something that continually touches me - every month or two, someone stumbles across CentoQuest and gently leaves the poem they created in the game's comments. and then I get to wake up to an email that another little lovely poem has been created in the system! bibliomancer.itch.io/centoquest
bibliomancer.itch.io
CentoQuest by bibliomancer
Explore a home. Write a poem.
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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I love being aware of situations. Nothing feels better than someone telling me something and I get to say "I'm aware of the situation." It rocks
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Scooby Doo Philosopher (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Very cool and interesting list of things it is/was possible to do with HTML and Browsers that we don't really think about anymore... vale.rocks/posts/html-r...
vale.rocks
Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts
Overviews of the very many snippets of code that were once commonly included on websites to address specific cases with certain technologies, browsers, operating systems, or extensions. Fragments dating back to the days of Internet Explorer and Netscape, to more modern bits that are nonetheless obsolete.
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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
enjoyed this post - even as someone who did a bunch of this kind of thing Back In The Day eg maybe 2004-2011 I have maybe *never* downloaded and played a print-and-play card game. Even though I own a printer, laminator, guillotine etc.
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 11/09/2026
A cellular automaton from Minecraft crafting recipes
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doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
new blogpost fuzul.bearblog.dev/speculations...
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This airline rules so hard
Ryanair will dispute passenger's claim he was sucked out of window
CEO Michael O'Leary tells reporters the businessman was sucked 'towards' but not out of the opening
Business live -latest updates
Gwyn Topham
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doruk balcı @dorukb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
okay i didn't care about dlss and ai graphics stuff but if it's gonna bring a sufi sort of mysticism to video games i can get behind it
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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Would YOU like to support a friendly, not-for-profit tabletop gaming event? Now in its 5th year, Trick or Retreat is open to sponsorship! ToR is a relaxed residential retreat for making friends, crafting, and a whole lot of tabletop gaming. Find out more at support.trickorretreat.uk
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Sponsorship - Trick or Retreat
Hello, friend! Would you like to sponsor Trick or Retreat 2026? Now in its fifth year, Trick or Retreat is a relaxed event where folks enjoy crafts, go for little walks, and play tabletop games. A lot...
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