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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 22h

My subtle 6-7 joke teaching Yarn Spinner variables in my technical narrative design class was barely noticed.

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 22h

My subtle 6-7 joke teaching Yarn Spinner variables in my technical narrative design class was barely noticed.

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Always a highlight to see! I really wanted to pitch a panel this year… maybe next year!

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m really glad hockey is coming back, but I’m gunna be even more excited when the PWHL comes back in December.

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s my darling boy’s birthday. He is truly a treasure and the best storyteller I’ve ever met.

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Where do I ethically source a stainless steel French press?

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The CONTROL Resonant viral marketing campaign is going well

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Congrats to GDoC Expo! So proud to be a monthly supporter of this incredible org!

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Indiepocalypse is one of THE true mainstays of (actual) independent and experimental video games. It's one of the few good game institutions we have left (though Andrew might balk at the 'institution' label). If you can, please consider supporting by sharing and/or donating to its Pledge Drive.

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trying to teach my children media history.

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We completely rearranged our apartment over the past two weekends. This includes taking down and be building a bunk bed, disassembling our bed, moving 3 dressers, and consolidating what feels like a million small bins of toys, Legos, and trinkets. My whole being hurts.

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is very niche posting but yahoo fantasy hockey admin deactivation during off-season due to inactivity is pure horseshit.

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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Our INCREDIBLE class for the @nyvgcc.bsky.social back to school charity stream ! Cliffy B, Abu Salim, Control Resonant and Dishonored level designers, speedrunners, & more. All to help provide classes, internships, and scholarships for underserved NYC kids. SEPTEMBER 19, WRITE IT DOWN.

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Did you release a Godot-made game in August/September and want to get it featured in the Nodeletter (Godot's official newsletter)? Let me know! We're also looking for any tools, open-source projects, or Godot-community efforts that you think users would want to know about.

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Unity truly is a piece of shit software.

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is such an incredibly sad story and I fear just one of many instances where using LLMs and Chatbots in place of real psychiatric help is becoming more widely adopted. CW: self-harm/ideation/suicide

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The amount of glass I found in less than 5 minutes of combing Coney Island beach.

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My eldest child: Daaad, can you pleeEease get me more Pokémon cards? Me: sure sweetheart. Kiddo: Yay! (Short pause) Kiddo: but can we only get energy cards? Me: for sure! (Long pause) Kiddo (whispers, looking wistfully into the middle distance ): I need more energy…

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Not having a book to read at night has ruined me

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'll be looking for work soon and am in the process of crafting a portfolio website for the first time in a few years, but in the meantime if you know of anyone in need of a narrative designer (or illustrator, even) please keep me in mind 🥲

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

after being a bit intimidated with revisiting the prototype I've been working on, I decided to open up the project and continue tinkering away... and things went great! The "big scary thing" I was kind of avoiding turned out to be a bit simpler than what I anticipated!

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

To all the working NYC families out there with public school kids. You made it.

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thousand Hells by @radiofreelunch.bsky.social and Future? No Thanks by @molleindustria.org coming out within the same week is like way too much for me rn.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/09/2026

“UIC estimates that Cook County retail and restaurant businesses have lost roughly $1.26 billion in commercial activity and about $107 million in tax revenue since ICE enforcement increased last year.”

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Chicago-Area Businesses Lost $1.2 Billion Because Of Immigration Crackdown, Report Says

Border Patrol's Operation Midway Blitz and ICE arrests discouraged Cook County shoppers from spending money, according to a new UIC report.

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It's Ryan! @construct.goblinmo.de · 08/09/2026

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ghoulnoise @ghoulnoise.com · 08/09/2026

"Alright"

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Respectfully, this is a garbage take. Also this is the most ratio’s post I’ve seen in a while and that makes me smile.

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Last days of summer (even though I’ve been teaching for two weeks).

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I got a chance to play a demo of this jurying NarraScope earlier this year and I genuinely went from laughing out loud to critiquing political alignments in the span of a minute. It’s so good and I’m so glad Steam finally got their act together to approve the release!

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 04/09/2026

Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Filling in my backlog of music as part of my ongoing ditching of Spotify. But what new music are yall getting for Bandcamp Friday? Reply with some recommendations plz!

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Of all the piss-poor technocrats that rose to power in the early-mid 2000s, Rahm is a strong contender for the absolute worst. Stop platforming these assholes, stop giving them any airtime/ink, stop pandering to them like they stand for anything other then self-gain.

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Been sick for a couple of days, with limited childcare, and two parents working full time with no sick days. When it rains it pours.

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

QTP with your favorite Pokémon (wrong answers only)

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 28/08/2026

It looks like Steam re-reviewed Future? No Thanks! and removed the "frequent nudity or adult content" reverting the Germany geo-ban and the age verification by credit card in the UK. It officially has only "some nudity or adult content" as every good game should.

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm sorry to keep banging this drum, but Unity is just so broken. Hub crashes/hangs during download. Can't show download updates or progress and closing "reminders" at the top also makes it unresponsive. Like. c'mon!

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Fall Semester has already started and the tasks have begun to pile up... Hoping to do a dev stream possibly later this week (I accidentally typed year, which maybe more accurate).

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Happy first back to school day to any academic / instructors/ teachers out there. Summers over, try to find sunshine in the classroom.

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 23/08/2026

so anyway I'ma try to do that. candidly speaking, I would love everyone's support on this. genuinely. read the post, share it, come hang next weekend and we'll try to make the Unemployment Day 500 happen. noescapevg.com/announcement...

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ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re Hosting a Subathon!

Hey y’all! So, as I’ve kind of been hinting at in various places and to variable degrees of coyness, I am going to be trying to make content creation work on a full-time basis. This is …

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drew shapiro ✦ MUTAGEN Demo out now! @organzola.games · 22/08/2026

The demo for MUTAGEN is out NOW! 👾 Explore a lush, interconnected alien ecosystem that reshapes itself each time you die. Absorb mutations from your fallen kin to reach new areas and adapt to your surroundings. Find your own solutions, and unearth the planet's many secrets. #gamedev #indiegame

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 22/08/2026

My @godotengine.org kits are now available on the Godot Asset Store, completely free. Use these templates as a starter for your next game, or to learn from! 🎁 store.godotengine.org/publisher/ke...

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Materialists: The Cup

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