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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 17h

The schedule for @roguelike.club is up! We’ve got yet another stunning lineup with multiple people who are such a good fit I had assumed they’d spoken already 🤣 Time is fake and it’s just over two weeks until the con so check it out, buy a ticket, come hang out! www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

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Roguelike Celebration - Event 2026

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Sajan @planetsmudge.bsky.social · 20h

An absolute delight to do the cover + slipcase for this one www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/caves...

Switch cover for Caves of Qud - illustration of a sweeping landscape framed by trees, whose roots are crowded by various denizens and artefacts beneath the earth

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 21h

Men/women/folx only want one thing and it's 70+ mutations and dozens of cybernetic implants

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

taps sign again

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The schedule's out - I'm speaking at the Roguelike Celebration again this year! My talk is titled "The City, The Street, The Lens" and it's about street photography, collisions in time and space and how to think about procedural generation differently. More here: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

A photo of a truck by the side of the road in Tokyo. The driver's leg is sticking out of the window resting on the side of the trailer. The title of the talk is written on the truck. It will happen on October 18th, online. Tickets are roguelike.club

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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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Timo Mihaljov @timo.mihaljov.com · 26/09/2026

Researcher: In my paper I discuss the ways in which automation may expand rather than eliminate problems with the human operator Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Automation from classic research paper Ironies of Automation

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

caves of qud

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FluffCopter @fluffcopter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ok but hear me out tho

a beetle wings backpack design. The wings open using a zipper to reveal to compartments underneath.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

craig tore it up on an otamatone lol

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

how do you market caves of qud?

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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Liza Knipscher @lize.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Excited to check "even more unsettling animals" off the to-do list

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

deadline’s going fine, thanks for asking

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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Brutalism only good with plants" discourse is erasure of fungus brutalism. Imagine: beautiful concrete house, veiled in lichen, mushrooms erupting from the cracks like fire

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

idk

transpotting poster with the gang but they all have white beards and mustaches and blue wizard hats with stars and crescent moons. the text at top reads "choose orb. choose orb. choose orb. choose orb. see your future. but why would anyone want to do a thing like that?"

Orbpondering

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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 02/09/2026

We love him 🦈 ❤️

Open pixel art whale shark from the video game dwarf fortress.

Source: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Whale_shark

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rivers solomon @riverssolomon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sweet, strange uncitizens: ONCE I WAS MADE OF EARTH is here, an epic fantasy that's been ratling in my brain for years now and that I'm putting out into the world serially outside of the capitalist publishing apparatus. Share, and read, and comment. archiveofourown.org/works/91618061

The painting "The Moment" by James Warden, with the text "Once I Was Made of Earth" on it by Rivers Solomon. The painting is in the romantic style, quite dramatic and dark in tone if not colour, with a horse rearing with fear in its eyes as a snake launches to bite it, against a back drop of pink and blue mountains.

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Natalie (Tali) Vancouver era ✨ @talidev3d.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

this is a conversation I would overhear from my game designer coworkers after asking them how they want the door I just modeled to open

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Americans will say things like "We must starve Cuba to death with our embargo. Do not let China rescue them with food and energy" and still think people around the world hate them for their freedoms.

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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Puppy and flower

Drawing of a puppy and a flower with the caption; "You deserve a life you aren't constantly recovering from"

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etiology shrdlu @loafenson.computer · 28/08/2026

caves of qud

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

agonize means to eradicate the gon from a thing

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

caves of qud

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

i think this is a contender for the stupidest line of code i've ever written

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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 21/08/2026

I have a lot of things I want to say about this hellscape but for now I'll just say I love programming, I love talking to the computer in logical, predictable code, I love making human design decisions, I love struggling and exploring and pondering hard problems and coming up with solutions

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

i bet it feels so good to be fourier transformed

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Three panel comic. Panel 1: a man in a tie looks miserable, head in hands, while sitting at a bus stop in the city. He’s thinking, “can’t believe I have work today…” Panel 2: he looks up at the city to find it ablaze, actively being destroyed by the Cloverfield monster/kaiju. Panel 3: the man looks off to the side and makes a mildly surprised expression with a cute subtle smile.

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🍔 hAMBERger helper 🍔 @hamberger-helper.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

im trying to draw my Caves of Qud character and it has me looking up the most insane reference images like - Saguaro Cactus - Horse 3/4 view - Cactus flower - Ornate hatchet - Quartz crystal large - Centaur - Centaur lady - Human hand holding hatchet - Cactus needle - Sacred geometry

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

caves of qud

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<stellarune> @stellarune.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The pilgrim #oc

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

eugenics playing out before us

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

in fact, i'd argue the primary political purpose of this vaccine executive order and press conference is to explicitly and publicly undermine the CDC director in her first week on the job

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Mechalink @mechalink.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

it's common for platformers to have a 'here's us showing you how the mechanics work' section, then a 'now we test if you understand how the mechanics work' section. if unfair flips is the tutorial on how probability works, 500 finger fillet is the test, and i love it for that

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 05/08/2026

I'm at the tier of design problem where the solution is an empty trait called "Nominal Dogness" that you must rank up but does nothing, except contain reminder text that you are a dog in name only. After 12 hours deep in the tank, I'm convinced this is the right solution.

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Want to play Big Walk but I have to do Big Work instead

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

if you love transgender you'll love @cavesofqud.com

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Ruby Chocolate Kitsune ✨ @the.choco.one · 27/07/2026

A post that reads "be honest am I going to scale well late game?"

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Now that it is exhibited in a controlled environment, it has stopped singing" 😭

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 21/07/2026

[Intro]
Minimum wage!
HYAH!
[whip-crack]
[Instrumental]

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sam “ludonarrative disinterest” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

been thinking about Jason Grinblat's idea that the aesthetics of simulation[ism] are tied to the aesthetics of non-fiction. part of this, I think, is about like a certain "anti-Chekhov's-Gun" attitude. a certain willingness to not connect everything, not resolve everything, let things go unfinished

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bigsimple.bsky.social @bigsimple.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

helloooo! I'm streaming in 5ish minutes with @gnarf37.bsky.social and @fractrans.bsky.social we'll be looking at all the mods in the most recent Caves of Qud mod jam: burgeoning come hang out and be merry youtube.com/live/UNsplbR...

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Caves of Qud - Looking at Qudjam 2026 Submissions with Libby!

YouTube video by Big Simple

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