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Joakim "konjak" Sandberg @konjak.org · 02/10/2026

and here's Pepperbee being knocked on the ass #pepperbee

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 28/09/2026

Just giving an extra shout-out for Knuckle Jet. Great, gorgeous platformer with a hand-made aesthetic. Technically part of the Teslagrad/World to the West series, but perfectly fine as a standalone thing. Also has *multiple* SatAM/pop-punk songs about punching the rich and powerful in the face.

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What's this? An off-the-wall, riveting jetpunk nose-breaking ricochet action platformer, lovingly crafted by the oddballs behind the Teslagrad series!

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Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Millennials be vaguely quirky or somewhat obsessive without invoking undiagnosed adhd or autism challenge

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Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why is everyone like "oh no the consolidated, entrenched billion dollar companies are all eroding their products and technology stacks with slop"? You should be going "hooray the consolidated, entrenched billion dollar companies are all eroding their products and technology stacks with slop!"

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

for context, this is the world sim running at 240 hz with a couple tens of thousands of entities. but moving 1 cell in the world map is moving an entire screen, and in the actual game, it runs one of these every few dozen turns.

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Vincent // HEARTWORM 📸 THE ATTIC DOOR 🚪 @adinolfi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So excited to finally share this!

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Juancho Abad🍂 @juanchoabad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’d love to bring back the visual style of this prototype for another project someday. It looked pretty cool, if you ask me (not to toot my own horn). #gamedev #indiedev

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Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Really looking forward to understanding why the AI bros are so adamant the computer is thinking and being creative, as if the distinction really matters materially. I guess it provides egoic relief, you can frame your stance as acknowledging novel intelligence rather than being tricked by pareidolia

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Puppy Truck! @puppytruck.dog · 21/09/2026

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Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

HORRIBLE REALIZATION: One of the reasons why some non-technical game designers are so absolutely fucking horrifyingly terrible at designing the mathematical/statistical parts of a game rule set is because ... ... they "learned" that shit reading Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer rule books 😭😭😭

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Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Perhaps the day will come when I will understand why a LOT of people do this: public Type VariableName => variableName; private Type variableName; instead of public Type variableName { get; private set; } Just 100% utterly and completely incomprehensible

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Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ads on your streaming service now? Cool, that's a great opportunity to cancel your sub and do something else instead 🫶

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Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Having had a bit of a thunk about it, Microsoft picking up a project dropped by Sony doesn't really bode very well for Kojima Productions, given Microsoft's track record of investing in and buying also-rans who then take too long to produce too little of note

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Benjamin Soulé @benjaminsoule.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I made a game for #pico1k ! Just click to jump on a lilypad, but time it well! :) you play here : benjamin-soul.itch.io/lily-leap #gamedev #pico8

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Ori-Warui -KNUCKLE JET out now on Steam! @oleivarrudi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

if you like level based platformers, but want to play one that breaks all the rules of traditional platformers, while still being actually quite good, you should probably check out knuckle jet store.steampowered.com/app/3199470/...

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Save 10% on Knuckle Jet on Steam

What's this? An off-the-wall, riveting jetpunk nose-breaking ricochet action platformer, lovingly crafted by the oddballs behind the Teslagrad series!

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Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dawning on me that a lot of people have somehow NOT been aware of neoreaction and rationalists and adjacent intellectual movements since ~2010 and uh Sorry you had to find out, but welcome to the invisible war!

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Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Catching up on the big "oh boy SV culture is weird" debate/lore dump, and I gotta say this whole thing is so dumb it makes me want to scream, particularly the whole pearl clutching around the social dynamics of the apocalyptic sex/death cult and the harm it apparently did to a buncha opportunists

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Joakim "konjak" Sandberg @konjak.org · 17/09/2026

Some of my best animation work! #pepperbee

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Eyecager Sketchbook @amberbladejones.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

chluaid.gumroad.com/l/bcafx?layo... FREE 2D FX Course notes by Adam Phillips/chluaid: bitey.com (I'm sure he would appreciate tips though!) Here's my notes from the lightning portion I did in Storyboard Pro

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 16/09/2026

This one completely flew under my radar. It took me an embarassingly long time to realize that not only is it by the Teslagrad developers, it's even set in the same universe. It's also a charming as hell high-speed platformer with a lot of environment smashing and a punk theme song.

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Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Robert Kraft Wikipedia page sure is some eyebrow-raise-worthy reading, just saying

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Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The transition from needing to prove to yourself that you can do something to having proven that and requiring new sources of impellation is pretty rough and feels like a bit of a no-man's-land

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Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wonder if all the hardworking trolls from all the other national intelligence services are jealous of all the attention the Russian trolls get

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Burhan @burhanplays.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This. In the prototyping stage, I tell my team to greybox features in test builds before we get into debates. Debating before prototyping means we can endlessly talk about hypotheticals. Some designers enjoy those conversations too much and it leads to the team shipping nothing.

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Kala Paint @kalapaint.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!

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DUCK_BERET @duckberet.com · 11/09/2026

The new demo of Hyper Bun Buster: Rocket Hammer Action is playable at SAGExpo 2026! sagexpo.org It's a top-down bump combat action game about a bunny girl who uses her huge hammer to send enemies flying into other enemies!

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 14/09/2026

chaos from bouncing a ball in a circle- at each point, I simulate a bunch of futures with slightly different velocities- showing how predictable the system would be with measurement error. The system seems to move between Stable Eras and Chaotic Eras, where it is hard to predict four bounces ahead

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 14/09/2026

It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA

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Steam Hype

Steam Hype is your go-to destination for discovering the latest, greatest, and most talked-about games on Steam.

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As someone who worked at a British dev studio in the north of England who made superhero games for Acclaim, this post is spot on.

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fell down a Ron Francis rabbit hole after seeing this post earlier. Sublime

Painting by Ron Francis, ‘Russell Williams’ Tree’

Painting by Ron Francis, ‘Room With a View’

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 10/09/2026

I played the first story this game presents you with (by @aaronareed.bsky.social, as it turns out) and it's nuts all of the reactivity and intricate narrative systems going on here, a real storylet sicko game

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

From "The Truth Rejects You, Cornelius", a Spanish animated short film based on Marc Torices' comic books. Directed by Khris Cembé & Marc Torices. Produced by Hampa Studio, M. Miyagi Films, Ruibarbo Films. Set to premiere at Seminci Festival.

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Aggro Crab 💥🔪 @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

REBOUNDER. A new game developed by ThirtyThree, published by Aggro Crab. Rebounder is a hand-crafted precision platformer about a roughneck worker recruited for a hazardous job on a distant planet. Nail the run. Deliver your line. Dropping 2027.

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Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

AI is forcing us to reconsider all existing notions of intellectual property rights, attribution and moral rights, copyright, fair use, probably a hundred other things a layman like me has no clue about. I humbly propose we refer to this new legal paradigm as slopyright

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Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Games biz is kinda speedrunning the whole "but who is going to pay for all the slop if there's no-one able to consume?" problematic ahead of time since there's a massive glut of product, the perceived value is very low, key audiences are broke af and there's not even affordable hardware to run it on

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Rain Games @raingames.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Knuckle jet is releasing on the 1St of September! Here is the release date trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxxR...

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Knuckle Jet Release Date Trailer

YouTube video by Rain Games

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Joakim "konjak" Sandberg @konjak.org · 25/08/2026

One of my bigges posts on Twitter was this GIF of Pepperbee stomping on a button, to show off how nice it feels. Really hope to be able to make this game in the future. #pepperbee

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Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Getting a slightly ticklish feeling that we are going to stop talking about the "mobile game industry" soon and just call it "the game industry"

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