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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You guys rule so hard. Communion was a frickin BLAST thanku all so much for your hard work and big brains and hearts!!

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Auckland Makes Games 🎮 @aucklandmakes.games · 04/10/2026

Thank you for joining us for a night of rants, activities, and feeling something together 🥹

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Making Soggy Beans 🐋 | Out Now! @ratmode.games · 21/09/2026

Soggy Beans is out!! Come relax with the fish at last: store.steampowered.com/app/2636430/... 🐳 Meet friends 🌻 Decorate 📸 Take photos 📖 Fill your scrapbook And watch your friends swim by :-) #indiegame #cozygame #fishgame

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had too much fun at wireframe and now I can’t sleep aaaaaaa

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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

IRL #ManifestoJam before and after… people really got into nailing the door

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hiii I LOVED slorpfiend’s ritual!!! So much fun, huuuge thank you to everyone involved for putting it on!! 💗💗💗

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Apropos of nothing. U kno. Just sayin

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

REMEMBER TO ENROL TO VOTE IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY #nzgdc

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Francis Kirkpatrick @frakirk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

NOOOOO!! STOP IT STOP NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!! !

The classic planet of the apes film poster, lazily edited to say "LAN of the Apes"

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Alpha Beta Gamer @alphabetagamer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Your spaceship is impregnated with an alien organism and you need to use an ultrasound machine to eradicate it, in indie surgery horror game ULTRASOUND! Sign up for the Playtest on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3824290/... by indie dev @walterwoodsdev.bsky.social

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Jesse Boo-rascia 👻 @jesseguarascia.com · 16/03/2026

Wow I wish there was a collection of games that are so fundamentally raw and unique that if you tried to run them through DLSS 5 your computer would explode OH HEY WOAH WHAT'S THIS COMPUTER WORLDS SHOWCASE DOING HERE www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og6_...

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COMPUTER WORLDS - A New Showcase Celebrating Strange & Distinctive Games

YouTube video by noclip_2

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Tana ⭐ NZGDC & MIGW! @tanamakes.games · 07/03/2026

Humans are pretty sick tbh 🤙🏽

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

LMAOO literally us using that *exact* font for everything in Night Bus 😅 (we've got at least one more for NP though - sequel's gotta be 2x bigger/better in every aspect, of course)

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

welcome to part 2 of "izzie's boomer-coded UX gripes about recently-disgraced tech companies". my one-man niche dogpile. if I had a nickel I'd have two but it's weird etc etc

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I am BEGGING for discord to add something, ANYTHING that shows me where the goddamn notification noise is coming from

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

🎼 *this one's for all my mean nerrrrrds* 🎶

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I love it when Roboto shows up in expensive AAA game trailer shows

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Bees 🐝

$This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!$

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Francis Kirkpatrick @frakirk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Preproduction isn't over until the game ships.

The "Always Has Been" astronaut meme template with no text.

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Basically my same reaction 😅 I took a month off and came back to a whole new game

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

If you’re not yelling 🎬💥 CUT!! WHO LET THIS GUY ON SET?? Eyyy why you lookin at me like that WHATSTHEMATTA WITHYOUUU 📣‼️ while capturing trailer footage then you are not a true Game Director

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Tana ⭐ NZGDC & MIGW! @tanamakes.games · 03/02/2026

It's been 6 months since I struck out on my own to be come a studio director and it's about time I did a talk about it! 🫖 Wellington devs: come see me ramble next Tuesday at 6pm! www.meetup.com/game-develop...

Presentation slide: "Tana is (slowing learning to be) a Studio Director"

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Shape Sender Deluxe ⭐️ by Dead Teapot @deadteapot.games · 03/02/2026

This was an awesome event - we had way more people than computers so we will definitely try run something like this again! Thanks so much to everyone that turned up ⭐️🟡🟧

People playing Shape Sender Deluxe at an internet cafe!

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I should update this image to say ""films"" but that's more effort than ol' Daro is worth (and more than he's willing to put into his own damn work, lmao)

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I love working in games bc I learn something new every day 😊

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

AGAIN??!! Wat da helllll My birthday wish is for YOU to wishlist Night Plane (and maybe the captain will announce it over the intercom to everyone 🎙️🧑‍✈️🤩) 👉 store.steampowered.com/app/3310570/...

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Night Plane on Steam

Night Plane is a thrilling airborne hospitality simulator that costs way less than a plane ticket! It's your first night on the job: Board passengers, assist with their struggles, and resolve emergenc...

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🇵🇸 cowboy bebo @hinenauhea.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

can't wait for people to play the upcoming indie game Toroa: Skycall

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Fnife Games @fnifegames.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

we fixed our girl with the power of BUCKET HAT 🪣🎩 a lil' romance option redesign for that game we're making called: 🔍 "ShelfLife: Art School Detective" 🔍 #datingsim #lgbt #indiegamedev #indiegame #gamedev #indiegames

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Wishlist NIGHT PLANE! 😱✈️ @liquidstatic.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Most airlines limit carry-on luggage so it "can't impair emergency disembarkation". Plane Airlines™ continues to put our customers first, with our policy: "If you managed to bring it on, surely you can take it off!" store.steampowered.com/app/3310570/... #indiegame #game #airplane #horrorgame

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I’ve just been told you can actually do this now?? And I didn’t know because I’m still using my iPhone 8 🫠 when she explodes is it gonna feel like teleporting into the future? What else am I totally unwary of that you all take for granted? And how many years behind the curve is my UX instinct?

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The new Katamari game is SO GOOD 😭💗 you can CUSTOMISE the cousins COLOURS. There’s an ONLINE MULTIPLAYER MODE. We were WAVING AT EACH OTHER IN THE LOBBY and then I got ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED (but not before rolling one of my opponents up) 🌈🪅✨

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NZ CODE @nz-code.nz · 06/10/2025

It's already an exciting week in the regional game industry but we couldn't resist making it more exciting. 🥝🕹️🎮 www.nz-code.nz/post/960-000...

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$960,000 boost for game developers in CODE’s third national funding round

13 studios from across Aotearoa received prototype and production funding in the third NZ CODE national funding round.

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Slightly embarrassed to admit that I am well and truly in the throes of a “novelty supermarket products” phase. Funny flavours abound and I am acting under the influence of no one but myself (and a ton of work stress). Turns out who I am when I am not my best self is a Grape Powerade fan

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deeg 🤍 @deegoo.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Pyaari is so decent 🥺

Two drawings and two small photos of the cat, Pyaari. The drawing on the left is wearing a blue dupatta. The drawing on the right is in a gold sari with a dupatta on the head.

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The best time to post this was about 96 hours ago. The second best time is… now? (Probably not, but I’m too late to change that as well lmao) For real tho - HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who came by and said hi and played the game and listened to my dumb joke about my NORMAL SIZED HAT 🧑‍✈️🫶

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

i wish i could throw my body in the washing machine

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Obvi it’s a big F.U. to sp*tify since aaaages ago, but sometimes I’m reminded just how dogshit their app/UX/general usability is. Like - wdym you CAN’T send a song to a friend directly in-app? I have to go into a menu, then a submenu, copy a link, open a COMPLETELY SEPARATE APP and send it there????

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Izzie Kirkpatrick @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Best thing I did today was eat a really good sandwich for lunch. Second best thing was recording this blood curdling scream for Night Plane

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People Against Prisons Aotearoa @papa.org.nz · 05/09/2025

Join us and our comrades @ponekeantifa.bsky.social, International Socialist Organisation Aotearoa, @peacewellington.bsky.social and Te Tai Tētēkura on Saturday 6 September at Midland Park from 1PM as we march in opposition to the new FBI base and US troops here. www.facebook.com/events/65778...

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“NO FBI COPS. NO USA TROOPS.
Stand against militarism and authoritarianism. Join the march against the increased presence of the USA military and law enforcement in Aotearoa. Date and time: 1pm, Saturday the 6th of September. Location: MIDLAND PARK. MARCHING TO USA EMBASSY.”

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“The FBI in Aotearoa?
The Trump-appointed Director of the USA Federal Bureau of Investigation recently visited Aotearoa, welcomed by New Zealand’s far-right government, with plans to establish an FBI office here.”

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“USA TROOPS ON KIWI SOIL
At the same time, the New Zealand Army is talking with its United States counterparts about having American troops train regularly in Aotearoa. This disturbing news means strengthening of authoritarianism of both governments, and a threat to safety and community for all of us.”

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“Why protest?
The director of the FBI has stated that opening an office in Aotearoa will “counter China’s influence in the Pacific”.
Law enforcement agencies in the USA are repressing the American people, cracking down on protest and resistance at the command of Trump’s authoritarian government.
By welcoming the USA military and the FBI into Aotearoa, the New Zealand government is siding with the USA in an imperialist rivalry that threatens the sovereignty and safety of peoples in the Pacific and beyond.”

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Wishlist NIGHT PLANE! 😱✈️ @liquidstatic.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

🍿Tonight’s entertainment on Plane Airlines™ is a thriller movie so iconic, you’ll know it before the seatbelt sign turns off. First to guess gets an in-flight upgrade. 📈 #indiegame #indie #horrormovies #horrorgame #gamedev #gaming

Retro-style horror parody poster titled “Night Plane.” The poster shows a man with a pixelated face staring out of an airplane window

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