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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

everyone should watch this. nothing that works this way is conscious.

ghostGoats @ghostgoats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think I'm giving up on Linux tbh. I so badly want to be able to use it. The problem might be that I'm using it on a 2015 MacBook, but I looked online and people have said it's great? I'm not exaggerating when I say 50% of the time I click something, nothing happens.

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ghostGoats @ghostgoats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

starting to add ranged spells / attacks into this rogue-like thing i've been playing around with. kinda shocked I got aiming to work on the first try, even if I did get to reuse most of line of sight code #godot #indiedev #gamedev

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ghostGoats @ghostgoats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

i've been playing around with making an old school roguelike the last few weeks and i think i've made the combat complicated enough that i may need unit tests and MAN do i not want to do that :( :( :(

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ghostGoats @ghostgoats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I've had a 2015 MacBook for ages that can't really be used for most things. I was bored so I attempted to put Linux on it. I am no longer bored or in a good mood.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NEW ARTICLE NEW ARTICLE NEW ARTICLE! Emotions are the basic and most important part of human function, as essential as protein. So why is it that so many game designers don't design for emotion? featuring Dark Cloud and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth! docseuss.medium.com/its-not-enou...

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it’s not enough to build something, part 2: you must be aware that someone will play the video game

Years ago, a teen pitched an idea to me: “what if you wrote a story about an alien from the perspective of an alien?”

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ghostGoats @ghostgoats.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My project manager saved 90 seconds of their day today by using AI to write my jira ticket. I then spent 6 hours working on the ticket before another manager pointed out that the ticket was wrong and all my work needed to be scrapped. Yeah man, this is the future!

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!

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ghostGoats @ghostgoats.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

fixing a bug and getting to close 35 tabs is just the best

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ghostGoats @ghostgoats.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

just got banned from r/playMyGame for refusing to stop calling ai games slop. hell to the yeah.

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Alchemic Beasts: Kickstarter Campaign Funded @alchemicbeasts.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Now that the Alchemic Beasts demo has been out for a week, who did you choose as your starter? If you haven't played yet, which one would you pick based on looks alone? Let us know in the comments! Alchemic Beasts is Live on Kickstarter! kck.st/4f2xpWg

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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Hey, so, I was so angry today that, for once, I blogged it instead of posting about it. Games media, especially mainstream games media, cannot keep abdicating responsibility in how it talks about these things an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/video-game-s...

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Video Game Studios Aren't Monoliths

I'm just going to come right out and say it this time - treating video game studios like some kind of fantasy football draft, in the wake of mass layoffs no less, is sickening. The last three years, ...

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As part of the Nonbinary Coded Games event on Steam, "Purgatory Dungeoneer", "Damien Crawford's Golf Experience 2024", and "It's Six Random Characters and a Single Floor Dungeon, That's the Whole Game" are on sale so please check them out! store.steampowered.com/search/?hwty...

Four happy game mascots on a purple diagonally striped background. The text on the image says nonbinary coded games, july 13-20, 2026. Celebrating games made by nonbinary developers. Presented by NomnomNami and npckc.

An RPG party menu. The visible characters are Android Spellbow Mere, Awoken Medic Chae-Won, Gorgon Cheerleader Kostas, and Mummy Paladin Yaqoob.

A low-res first person 3D view of golf on the green. The text box asks "How will you swing?" with the choices of Cautious approach, Moderation, and Full send it.

A shop menu full of food items. Some make clear sense like A Burger, Curly Fries, and Cola Blast. The highlighted item is "The Big Fucko".

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Getting eyeballs on my YouTube channel is a bit of a struggle I've found, and I think I've narrowed the problem down to only extremely cool people have been reposting my YouTube videos. It's just been super cool, attractive, clever people, they're the only ones reposting my stuff. 🤠

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

imagine if they fired every band member every time an album came out

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Oh, you've made a video game? And you want people to play it? Well, let's talk about how to do that better. How, exactly, can you make sure people care about your game and want to tell other people about it? Check it out here: docseuss.medium.com/its-not-enou...

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it’s not enough to build something, part 1

Some years ago, before I entered the industry, I had a minute disagreement with someone in the comments section of a Kotaku article. I was…

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 04/07/2026

it is cool that maga guys won and live in the ruins of their victory, total control of government and legal system, entire wings of power bending to their will despite their galactic unpopularity and yet they aren't allowed to enjoy any movie. they have to be mad at all the movies. heartbreaking

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/07/2026

oh my god just stop you absolute babies I wanted France to lose today because it would have been very funny but I have been negatively polarized against Paraguay this is ridiculous

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ghostGoats @ghostgoats.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Kinda surprised I don't see more people talking about Abiotic Factor. Just one of the best co op games I've played. Has just a disgusting amount of content.

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ghostGoats @ghostgoats.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The world cup rules holy shit

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If you're looking for games with wild titles and/or concerningly large casts of characters and/or games that push what RPG Maker can do (like first person 3d golf) then you're in luck, as all my stuff on itchio's in the summer sale for 50% off itch.io/s/188954/sum...

A JRPG fight scene where the player has 99 characters. Their party has damage numbers flying off of them while the one enemy has a large column of small numbers rising from themself.

A low graphic first person golf game where the text asks "How will you swing?" with the selectable options of Cautious approach, Moderation, and Full send it.

A crafting menu where for 50 of two resource you can craft the bell Noibsionosbo with the description "A Gnoll princess once wanted a bell as delicate as her. Named for the noise she made as she used her left arm to craft this out of her right. -35% Max Hp and Mp costs."

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ghostGoats @ghostgoats.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

You can tell how AI is going in general with how all these places refuse to let you disable it. If it was a good product making money they wouldn't care. They're trying to get you dependent on it so they can turn around and sell you tokens Feel we're so close to them pulling back on the slop a bit

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Why would you pay $80 for GTA VI and get one game when you could buy UFO 50 for $25 and get fifty games

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Anton @antonhand.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Idk. People may argue over the price, but I just can't get over 1-2 billion bucks to make a 'being a piece of shit in FLORIDA' simulator?' Idk man.. is this the best we can do? Everything we can do in an infinite virtual space, and the largest budget goes to... that.

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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

every time you see a headline that begins with “we have to,” replace the “we” with “you” and you’ll immediately understand the purpose of the piece and the power dynamics at play

a screenshot of a nyt opinion piece titled: we have to stop freaking out about a.i.
published june 22, 2026 at 5am et

the image accompanying it is a (presumably ai generated) cartoon of a white bald man lying in bed terrified of pixel monsters lurking under his bed

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hey folks, my new video is live now! And if you were watching live, is secretly a TOP 13 video! I cheated. It's by far my biggest one yet, and I'm really proud of this one, so please do share it around and leave a comment on the vid if you don't mind, it really helps and I love to read 'em! 💜

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16/06/2026

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

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AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

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seeeeew @seeeeew.de · 20/06/2026

With the newly released AI warning for Steam v1.1.0 you can turn the AI disclosure on Steam store pages into an unmissable popup and blur or hide games with an AI disclosure in the search results! github.com/seeeeew/aiwa... addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addo... chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-wa...

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ghostGoats @ghostgoats.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Pretty mixed on Mina the Hollower so far. Some parts rule so much, and then others feel like it's just trying to frustrate you. I don't mind difficult games, the boss fights I've done have been fantastic. There's just some bits that are difficult and very unfun.

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ghostGoats @ghostgoats.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

decided to go with a skill tree as a way to pick rewards between maps instead of just picking 1 from a random selection of 3. i still gotta make it look.... uh.... not like that, but it works! #ScreenshotSaturday #Godot #indieDev

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ghostGoats @ghostgoats.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Just grabbed this. I've only listened to a third of them so far but man these rule. 10/10

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

indie dev who heroically does not play or study games so as to maintain their pure creativity: "once you complete the procedurally generated level you pick between one of three upgrades"

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The thing about discussions of increasing the price of games to make dev more sustainable is that we still are getting quarter after quarter of record profits from major publishers so idk seems like the layoffs have very little to do with AAA pricing and a lot to do with business strategy

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🌙 CamronJK 🐰 • Enby Bnuuy Vtuber • 🏳️‍⚧️ @camronjk.com · 15/06/2026

Hey! You know what! CALLING ALL INDIE GAME DEVS! Do you HATE genAI? Do you swear your game does not use genAI INCLUDING using genAI like Claude? SHARE IT HERE! I will share them! I will check them all out! I will definitely play some of them! Many if I can afford! SHARE! YOUR! ART!

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Hey folks, I'd like to make one more big push on my new video, I put a lot of work into it and I'm extremely proud, but it's really not getting the views I'd hoped for, so if you could please check it out, and very kindly share it around, I'd seriously appreciate it.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

if I seem militant about AI it's because a lot of my friends are writers, concept artists, QA people, etc, and they are the ones who are currently having their careers obliterated by that shit. not speculatively. happening right now. I don't see a need to be soft towards ppl who shrug at that

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kate @katbrush.art · 03/06/2026

no no you don’t understand, we only used AI for the part of the production pipeline where we didn’t want to pay employees, it’s different

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the

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tar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

some jokes write themselves

a notification from mlb that reads “alimber santa is the 2nd player in history to pitch in a no-hitter in his MLB debut, joining bumpus jones — who tossed a no-no in 1892”

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Brace Yourself Games @braceyourselfgames.com · 01/04/2026

Ok, for real now... Drift of the NecroDancer is actually officially available for players who own the SYNCHRONY DLC! It’s time to put the pedal to the metal in your speedruns 🤘

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Drawingale 💙 Creator of Aeria @drawingale.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Drawing, writing, gaming...

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ghostGoats @ghostgoats.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

been playing around with a tower defense game where you have to arpg craft all the tower mods

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ghostGoats @ghostgoats.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

first day warm enough to open my window and my neighbor has just been leaf blowing for 3 straight hours.

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ghostGoats @ghostgoats.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

If ai could do half of what they claim, that would be it. It would just print money. They wouldn't need to make shit up about it. But it can't do what they claim, so they just sit around and say stuff like this.

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